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Madhuri Dixit received the Padma Shri for her contribution to Indian cinema and the ex- Bollywood diva says the credit is the result of her hard work and integrity.

“It’s always a wonderful feeling to have your work honored. One has worked so hard for so many years. The Padma Shri is a culmination of all my hard work and honesty. I think I’m being honored for doing my work sincerely,” said the delightful Madhuri . 
 
 
 
 

On the question whether she felt was it a right time to quit films when she was in the peak, Madhuri reacted: “What’s the right time? If you mean the right time to have kids then let me remind you a 63-year-old woman had twins. Nothing is impossible at any age any more.

As for me, I had always said if I meet the right person I wouldn’t think twice about giving up my career. And that’s exactly what I did. I never planned anything in life.” 

Major hits

She ruled the Hindi film industry in 1980s and 90s and gave hits like Tezaab, Ram Lakhan, Beta, Dil, Saajan, Khalnayak, Dil To Pagal Hai and Devdas.  Madhuri says the fact that back home people still want to see her on screen makes her happy.

“It is wonderful to know that people still think about me in my home country, although I don’t live here any more. That they still want me back, it makes me feel very wanted.” 

Earlier Madhuri was in the country, it was for the release of her riposte film Aaja Nachle. The film didn’t work, but she says its in wasn’t a propel to her.

“I did my part genuinely. And I did everything I could. So did the whole team. I’ve worked in this field long enough to know you win some, you lose some. Sometimes you feel everything is going right and the end product still falls apart. It’s okay.”

Shri.” 

After the Padma Shri, Madhuri is staying back in Mumbai to grab hold of up with family friends and a whole lot of personal work.

“I do have a life beyond movies,” she laughed.

To conclude, is Madhuri Dixit’s sensation undiminished by time, marriage, motherhood and the disastrous riposte vehicle?

“I never thought of what you call an sensation. For me this life as a wife and mother was what I dreamt of almost all my life.”

And now the hunt for the leading lady is over, ramp model Anushka Sharma, 21, standing tall with a height of 5.9” from Bangalore will make her silver screen debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Yashraj movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. She has also promoted hair products in television commercials, and not to forget the Fiat Palio Stile ‘Meri Sapno Ki Rani’ ad. Making an announcement in Mumbai today, Yash Chopra, Chairman of Yashraj Films said the 19-year-old has been recognized to play the female lead. 

“Hopefully, the announcement will end all the speculation and conjecture that had started about the identity of the female lead ever since the film was announced,” he alleged. 

With Rab Ne.., Aditya Chopra takes the directorial baton after eight years. Anushka has no acting experience except ramp modelling in Bangalore, Chopra said.

Earlier, it was reported that Sonam Kapoor, daughter of Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor would be cast opposite SRK.  Yash Chopra said, “We were looking first and foremost for someone who could truly embody the spirit of small town Punjab and we know we have found her in Anushka. And while she has no previous acting experience, we have seen that unique spark in her that makes us confident that she will be a standout even opposite Shah Rukh.” 

Rab ne Bana di Jodi will go on the floors on May 16 and will hit theatres worldwide in December 2008. 

PS: Whenever King Khan acts opposite a tall leading lady, the film is a super duper hit. Preceding examples are Mein Hoo Na (Sushmita Sen), OSO(Deepika) and now Anushka. So all the best King Khan agin!

The new age bracket of Indian movie stars is whirling consumerist much before the glare of publicity dim.  

Many are into retail, fashion and the hotel industry - and now into the world of cricket, as exemplified by Shah Rukh and Preity Zinta, who have heavily invested in the Indian Premier League (IPL), the richest domestic cricket tournament in the world. 

It is understood that Khan has already got the biggest knock out of each money that he has so far downcast into IPL. Apart from this, Khan’s production house - Red Chilies - is motivated to come forward as the best in animation and special sound effects.

He is, perhaps, vigilant after India’s biggest star Amitabh Bachchan’s production house folded with sufferers of Dh81.5 million. 

One of the first actors to embark on investing in business from the film industry was Mithun Chakraborty who started his own hotel business in south India. Since then, many have followed, together with actors like Suniel Shetty and Bobby Deol. 

Now actresses too are blurring the lines between the worlds of Bollywood and business.

Stars like Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Preity Zinta are giving some strong competition.  Sushmita was probably the first to turn industrialist when she placed up her company Sensazione in 2006. Through her company, she plans to open a chain of hotels, lounges and spas.   She has also acquired 12,000 sq ft of space in Kolkata for a “lifestyle zone”, which apart from a huge open space will house a nightclub, a restaurant and a cigar lounge.  She has a jewelry retail show room in Dubai which her mother manages. 
 

Preity Zinta has become co-owner of the Mohali cricket team of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with partner Ness Wadia and two others. She is indomitable to make a go of it and says: “When I do anything in life for the first time, I want to succeed.

“It’s 2008! Women should get more active in business. It’s very different from working on a film where you’re on your own when ‘action’ is called on camera. In a boardroom, there’s constant conference and multi-tasking. The creative process is different in both the spheres.” 

Aishwarya Rai, has moved in to revive father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan’s company AB Corp and is negotiating with filmmakers to regenerate production work. Ayesha Takia, who with restaurateur boyfriend Farhan Azmi is set to launch their first boutique hotel in Goa. 

The couple has acquired a 200-year-old Portuguese bungalow in Candolim, which is just 10 minutes away from the beach. They plan to build a luxurious swimming pool, a lounge area and are working out details on how to entertain guests with good music and superb cuisine.

“Each of our boutique hotels will have 20 rooms,” Ayesha says.

Her enthusiastic boyfriend adds: “Ayesha is interested in doing other things rather than just acting, which is so great.” 

In 1940, celebrated actress Devika Rani tried her hand at business by captivating the indict of Bombay Talkies after her husband’s death, but she had to countenance disappointment. 

With a bit of luck, the fresh contingent is in a position to rephrase the convention.

Banner: B R Films
Producer: Ravi Chopra
Director: Vivek Sharma
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Shahrukh Khan, Aman Siddiqui, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rajpal Yadav, Satish Shah
Music Director: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani, Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant

The movie “Boothnath” is aimed at children audience on vacation. The movie is about a friendly spirit, family generations, school pranks and relationships. The script of the movie is clear and performance of Amitabh Bachchan is extremely perfect. Though the film shows Ghosts, it is not a horror movie and it just tries to get spirituality in theme.

The movie starts off as a perfect entertainer for kids. There is even a song sung by the kids Hum to Hain Aandhi dancing adult style, which borrows heavily from Westside Story the cult Hollywood film of the ’60s. Banku (Aman) has just shifted with his parents (Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla) to this huge house in Goa. But the house is haunted by an angry ghost (Bhoothnath) whose sole aim in life is to rid the house of its inhabitants. And the ghost can be vengeful.
But the ghost is no match for Banku’s charm and innocence. Soon they develop a rapport and the two of them create a magical world of their own. Some very good special effects as Amitabh appears and disappears at will. And Aman is a fairly spontaneous actor. He should have been given better dialogues instead of the stilted dialogues he is now busy mouthing. 
Aman insists he has a special friend who is not visible to anybody else. But his mother does not believe him. Then suddenly one day Juhi Chawla realizes his her son is telling the truth. So Bhootnath is forced to appear in a human ‘avatar’ in front of Juhi too.

Chopra was very forthright and honest in admitting that Big B and SRK will not be seen sharing the same frame in Bhoothnath. He elaborates that this is so as it is the demand of the script.

Final verdict:

A summer vacation movie for the kids

Rating: 2/5

In a courtesy act, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will enchant the spectators at the Eden Gardens here Thursday with a 20-minute performance ahead of his Kolkata Knight Riders team’s Indian Premier League (IPL) match with Bangalore Royal Challengers. 

“Shah Rukh will be performing with his troupe for about 20 minutes before Thursday’s match starts. We will put up a makeshift 30 ft x 20 ft stage just outside the boundary near F or J block in the gallery,” Red Chillies event manager Mohammad Morani informed on Tuesay. 

Sources at Red Chillies, a firm floated by the star, said Shah Rukh was besieged with the shore up his team was being paid in Kolkata though they had suffered four defeats in a row. “So this performance is to thank the KKR supporters in Bollywood style,” revealed a close source. 

“Actors Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have given their verbal consent to be part of the show. Besides, famous WWE wrestler Khali may also make a brief appearance at the show,”the sources added. 

Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) joint secretary Amitabha Banerjee said: “We don’t have a problem with Shah Rukh’s performance if the arrangements don’t interrupt ours.”  But West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty said: “Thursday is Pochishe Boishakh - the birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore. Kolkatans celebrate this day with Tagore’s songs and poems. Shah Rukh’s performance that day will not be in tune with the mood of Rabindra Jayanti.”

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According to grapevine, King Khan will be seen with Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor in the forthcoming movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi by Yash Raj Films directed by Aditya Chopra. Deepika’s love interest will be  SRK, but SRK’s heart has been stolen by a village belly Sonam. SRK will enact the role of an NRI who returns to his country wherein he find the village girl.  Since both girls are not in best of their terms {following the Ranbir Kapoor breakups), the off-screen sparks will be more interesting to watch than the onscreen ones.

Aamir Khan got hurt seriously when a tough stunt for his forthcoming movie Ghajini went haywire.

A witness of the set clarified Aamir was required to pull up a very heavy wrestler and hit him against the wall. While giving the shots, Aamir broke his hamstring muscle and the intensity of the pain was such that Amir could not stand on his legs.

An ortho Dr attended Aamir and when the pain could not be bore, the star was hospitalized. His new wife Kiran  flew down to Hyderabad to be beside her hubby who is in vain and pain.

The Ghajini’s shooting has been stand stilled and will continue after the actor becomes fit and fine.

Spinning money is not the only intention of great King Khan. The actor, who already has helped set up a children’s ward at a hospital in the city now wants to set up a ward for cancer patients also. “

He is very humiliated to say that the paediatric ward has been named after his mother. He hopes to set up a centre for cancer patients later this year, he made known.  But to set6 up a hospital is his final dream. 
“That’s my final dream. Though I don’t know when that will be possible. I keep telling my wife about this and she tells me that I can do it only when I stop doing the other things,” says the King Khan..
His two films this year are Billoo Barber and Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. But we cant deny that we are seeing a lot of SRK on the small screen than the big one. “It’s just that there’s lot of TV happening these days. We are talking about watching films on mobile phones. Five years from now, I may be doing a movie that may be released on cellphones. Does that mean I become smaller or has the reach increased,” he asked. 
As a matter of fact, whether it is films, TV or cricket, SRK has subjugated every terrain.  The name SRK is currently tantamount with triumph. “For success you need to know that you can go wrong and yet go ahead and do it. People who do wrong things, have overcome the thought that this is wrong. They have found their justification. Positively, if we apply the same, it will work. As soon as you accept that this can go wrong, the fear of failure decreases. If tomorrow I face failure, I hope I can say I enjoyed failure too,” he fortified.

Mallu superstar Mohanlal is to perform the stunt ahead of an international magicians meet.

Malayalam superstar Mohanlal’s campaign to perform a stunt called ‘Burning Illusion’ in Thiruvananthapuram on April 27 has ripped the magician community in Kerala as they believe it could be really hazardous. 

Mohanlal is to execute the daredevil act ahead of an international magicians meet and he has been under guidance for the past 18 months under the instructions of Gopinath Muthukad, who heads the Magic Academy. The superstar says he wants to inspire the Kerala youth by his act. 

Conversely another leading magician Samrat on Monday advised Mohanlal against it, saying it was a complicated inhibit and that Muthukad had once unsuccessful in his endeavour to carry it out . 

“Burning Illusion is one item that can be performed only after years of experience and Muthukad himself failed in his attempt at a show in Bahrain a few years back, he is now using Mohanlal for cheap publicity and this should not happen,” Samrat told reporters.

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The open-air flee feat, to be held at the Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, is a curtain raiser for the four-day ‘Vismayam 2008′, a programme in which nearly 1,000 magicians from across the world are expected to take part. The meet starts on May 1. 

Samrat said he would approach the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) with a message signed by 300 magicians, requesting it to advising Mohanlal to leave from the show.