katrina Kaif collapses on the sets of ‘Tees Maar Khan’

his Wednesday, Katrina Kaif was to shoot at a location of Malshej Ghat for Farah Khan’s ‘Tees Maar Khan’. The actress was done with her makeup and walked on to the location, greeted her co-star Akshay Kumar and director Farah Khan and then it happened…. She collapsed in a heap…just like that!

There was panic and utter chaos at the location for the next three hours, as the medical facilities in Malshej were hardly adequate. Co-star Akshay Kumar quickly called up a doctor from Mumbai and a doctor was rushed to Malshej. However, before the doctor arrived, Katrina revived, though she was still weak. The doctor diagnosed that the collapse was due to over exertion and lack of sleep. He advised rest for Kaif.

Farah suggested they cancel her shooting for the day, but Katrina insisted on shooting in the second-half of the day’s schedule.

Ranbir Kapoor to endorse John Players

The dashing Ranbir Kapoor has been roped in as the brand ambassador of John Players, men’s apparel brand from ITC. The company has also announced the launch of new advertising campaign, ITC said in a statement which also read as, “Scheduled to be launched in April this year, the advertising campaign, which is simple and clean, captures the various moods of Ranbir.”

Speaking on the occasion, ITC’s divisional chief executive Atul Chand said, “With Ranbir, we plan to strengthen John Players’s connect with the youth and the foundation has been laid today with the launch of new brand logo.”

Check out the exclusive pics of Ranbir Kapoor for John players.

Salman Khan is interested in working with Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone debuted with SRK starrer ‘Om Shanti Om’ which was in a sort of proxy war with Salman Khan’s ‘Saawariya’ at the time of its release. As such, there was not much interaction between Sallu Bhai and Deepika. However, time and again, it was said that both the actors had expressed their desire to work with each other. Deepika had once said to BT, “Salman is one actor I’m looking forward to doing a film with.”

Now that gossip columns are going red with the rumors of Ranbir Kapoor seeing Salman’s girl Katrina Kaif, Salman seems to be more eager than ever to work with Ranbir’s ex-flame Deepika Padukone. Trade sources say that director Anees Bazmee will cast the two as the leading pair in his next project. Where Deepika said that she is unaware of these reports, sources close to Salman say that this is a definite and immediate possibility because “Bhai wants to do a movie with Deepika.”

Whether the two will get an opportunity to display sparking on-screen chemistry, only time will tell.

Miley Cyrus to Serve as Mentor to American Idol Aspirants, Perform on Results Show This Week

She might hate the Internet, her own hit Disney show and the entire country music genre, but Miley Cyrus still has plenty of passion and expertise to go around.

The teen queen will be the celebrity mentor on American Idol this week, Fox confirms. Tuesday night will reportedly feature a Billboard No. 1 hits-themed show.

Of the 11 contestants left, three are teens: last week's sensation Siobhan Magnus, 19, Aaron Kelly, 16, and Katie Stevens, 17. Tim Urban is just 20 years old.

Of course, the three teens all took on The Rolling Stones - more than triple their age - and pleased the judges with their homages to the rock gods last week.

Will Miley be able to steer them in the right direction this week? Or will the girlfriend of Liam Hemsworth act like she's better than them? We'll soon find out ...

Miley Cyrus is promoting The Last Song this week. No doubt there will be a plug - or maybe even a track - or two from that tear-jerker when she comes to American Idol.

On Wednesday’s results show, Miley will be back to perform her hit song, “When I Look At You,” while new couple Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato will duet on “Make A Wave.”

In other words, clear the space on your DVR now, because this watershed moment in teen music history may be one you hold onto and savor for many years to come.

Tiger Woods Admits "Pretty Bad Things," Living a Lie in First Interviews Since Sex Scandal

In his first two interviews since his November car crash and sordid sex scandal,Tiger Woods spoke with ESPN's Tom Rinaldi and Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman about his "transgressions," subsequent treatment and upcoming return to golf.

The most repeated sound bite: "I've done some pretty bad things in my life."

Ya think?! But to his credit, he at least took tough questions and was sober-sounding, apologetic and maybe even sincere, unlike his February apology speech.

"I was living a life of a lie, I really was. Stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be ugly," he said.

Of his public apology, "When you face it and you start conquering it and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now, I've never felt that type of strength."

Apologizing to his wife Elin and mother Kultida about his many mistresses were the "low points" for Woods, who gave five minutes to both ESPN and Golf Channel.

"I hurt them the most," he said. "Those are the two people in my life who I'm closest to – and to say the things that I've done truthfully to them was very painful."

While he wouldn't go into the post-Thanksgiving meltdown, saying it's either in the police report or between Elin Woods and himself, he was asked some hard ones.

But why not seek help sooner? "I didn't know I was that bad."

On why he had so many affairs? "Just one is enough."

While we would have preferred he comment on his Joslyn James sexting, Tiger did have a great line about fans' reaction to his comeback, saying "It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there ... I hope they clap for birdies too."

'Alice in Wonderland' 

Nearly a century and a half after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland first acquainted readers with the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the rest of the peculiar inhabitants of author Lewis Carroll’s fertile imagination, filmmaking technology has finally developed the tools capable of properly rendering Carroll's exquisitely twisted world on the big screen. And who better to oversee the translation than Tim Burton, Hollywood’s foremost mass-market purveyor of dark, quirky fantasy? If there’s any director working today who can lay claim to Carroll’s creative inheritance, surely it is him.

His creation, Alice in Wonderland, is fashioned not as an adaptation of Carroll’s two Alice-centered books but rather a kind of sequel to them, its titular heroine (Mia Wasikowska) redrawn as the mischievous 19-year-old daughter of English aristocrats. Given more to chasing small animals than attending society functions, Alice is the kind of adventurous, free-thinking Victorian renegade who thinks nothing of drinking suspicious beverages found at the bottom of rabbit holes.

If only she were more interesting. Burton’s Alice isn’t so much a character as she is a tour guide, leading us through the director’s $150 million museum of digital delights. Virtually everything on display in the film, from the giant mushrooms of the Underland forest to the bulging eyes of Johnny Depp’s (literally) mercurial Hatter, was either created or enhanced inside a computer, presumably one with a direct connection to Burton’s cerebral cortex. (Interestingly, the enhanced Depp bears a more than passing resemblance to Elijah Wood, who the producers could have gotten for a lot less money.) Much like Alice herself, it’s gorgeous to look at but never particularly  engaging.

Were he alive today — and reasonably coherent — Carroll himself would no doubt marvel at the visual grandeur of Alice in Wonderland, its CGI world as detailed and immersive as the most vivid of his migraine-induced hallucinations. But he might frown at the short thrift given to his characters. Esteemed cast members like Anne Hathaway (The White Queen), Crispin Glover (The Knave of Hearts), and even the mighty Depp can’t hope to compete with the beauty of their surroundings — instead of actors chewing the scenery, the scenery devours the actors. (A notable exception is Helena Bonham Carter, the cast’s lone standout as the screeching, acerbic Red Queen.)

Alice in Wonderland is really designed to function as an inoffensive family flick, and in that regard, it boasts more than enough pretty fluff to keep the minds of most pre-teens occupied for the duration of a Saturday matinee. But afterward they might be hard-pressed to recount details of the story, which involves Alice having to find a magic sword so she can slay a giant dragon and unlock the Legend of Zelda. Or something like that.

Filled with moments of fleeting exhilaration and empty whimsy, Alice in Wonderland never really grabs the viewer in any meaningful way, its overall experience more akin to that of a theme park ride than a movie. Which I half suspect was Disney’s intention all along.

Film ‘Prince’ will prevail despite IPL – Kumar Taurani

Mumbai, Producer Kumar Taurani is pulling out all stops for his next film, the Vivek Oberoi-starrer “Prince”. He is releasing it simultaneously in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, not taking the IPL threat seriously.

“According to my report, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has not had the same craze this year as it had enjoyed in the last two seasons,” Taurani told IANS.

“The second thing is our film is coming in the middle of the series. What we calculated is that the IPL craze is at its peak in the first two weeks and during finals; so there will be a dull period in between when we will release our film.

“We started the promotional work much earlier. We showed the first promo during ‘Ajab Prem…’ so that we and the audience could connect with ‘Prince’ when it is released,” he said.

“I think we will cross 1,000-plus prints and we are releasing the film across the globe. We are going big time.

Directed by Kookie V. Gulati, the film is releasing April 9.

It narrates the story of a thief who wakes up one morning to realise that he has lost his memory and his life is at stake. Apart from Vivek, it also features Nandana Sen, Aruna Shields and Neeru Singh.

“We are dubbing the film in Tamil and Telugu and we are really going for a very good quality. We are working hard on it. Every thing, be it music or songs, we are releasing simultaneously and we are also promoting it well in those territories,” Kumar told IANS.

Talking about the title of the movie, he said: “The name ‘Prince’ was not available with me, it was with Eagle Films. I repeatedly pleaded with them to give me the rights. My lead character’s name is Prince and so I couldn’t leave the title.

” ‘It’s Show Time’ was my tag line and it’s still there. So I released the first promo as ‘Prince – It’s Show Time’. Ultimately we were able to convince them and got the rights for this name,” said Kumar.

This is the first time that Kumar is associating his name with a film.