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Harman Baweja, who is debuting with the much talked about Love Story 2050, has been taking the comparisons with Hrithik Roshan on his chin.
At his music launch last week when someone shouted ‘Hey Hrithik’ at him from the crowds, Harman smiled and said, ‘Can’t help the way I look. It’s what my parents gave me.’
But Harman and his father Harry Baweja have decided to avert any more comparisons with the Krrish star and also curb the unnecessary digs about Harman’s glamorous girlfriend Priyanka Chopra.
Since it was felt that Harman even sounded like Hrithik, Harman’s dubbing for Love Story 2050 is being done under strict supervision by a female voice expert who sits with Harman. The film is releasing in July.
‘She listens to every word that Harman dubs. And if anywhere he sounds like anyone else, she immediately corrects him and makes him redo the dialogues. For this reason, Harman’s dubbing in Love Story 2050 has taken a painfully long time. No actor has taken so long to complete his dubbing. A month away from release and Harman is still dubbing!’
Says a source close to the Bawejas, ‘Harman is not the least conscious or worried about all the comparisons with Hrithik. They started when Harry Baweja decided to launch his son in a futuristic film.
‘Everyone jumped to the conclusion that it was another Krrish. Then to make the comparisons even stronger there was the Kareena Kapoor factor. She had opted out of Hrithik Roshan’s Kaho Na…Pyar Hai after a few days of shooting. The same happened with Harman’s Love Story 2050.’
More worrisome to Harman is the way Priyanka Chopra’s presence in his life is being seen as a calculated move to gain mileage for the film.
Says the source, ‘Harman has a great deal of self-respect. He’d never want to be known by being associated with anyone else more famous and recognisable than him. In fact Kajol and Ajay Devgan were supposed to launch the music of Love Story 2050. Harman’s father decided against it at the last minute.
‘Harry Baweja in fact rang up his colleague Kumar Mangat and advised him not to allow Kajol and Ajay’s presence to overshadow his daughter at the music launch of Haal-e-Dil. That’s how self-respecting the Bawejas are.’
It hurts Harman to have his name being constantly mentioned with Priyanka.
Says a source, ‘He has now decided to seriously cut down, if not entirely do away with, public appearances with Priyanka. Of course, she will be part of all the Love Story 2050 promotion. But Harman is refusing offers for magazine covers and guest appearances on reality shows with Priyanka.’
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Yet another awards ceremony this one being help this year April 26th or something right? here are the nominations and most of use know who all are gonna win..but ssshh act surprised ok?
Best Film
Chak De! India - Aditya Chopra, Yash Raj Films
Guru - Mani Ratnam, G. Srinivasan
Jab We Met - Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Pvt. Ltd.
Life in a Metro - Ronnie Screwvalla, UTV Motion Pictures
Om Shanti Om - Shah Rukh Khan, Red Chillies Entertainment
Taare Zameen Par - Aamir Khan, Aamir Khan Productions
Best Director
Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
Anurag Basu - Life in a Metro
Farah Khan - Om Shanti Om
Imtiaz Ali - Jab We Met
Mani Ratnam - Guru
Shamit Amin - Chak De! India
Best Actor (Male)
Abhishek Bachchan - Guru
Akshay Kumar - Namastey London
Amitabh Bachchan - Cheeni Kum
Shah Rukh Khan - Chak De! India
Shah Rukh Khan - Om Shanti Om
Shahid Kapur - Jab We Met
Best Actor (Female)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan- Guru
Deepika Padukone - Om Shanti Om
Kareena Kapoor - Jab We Met
Katrina Kaif - Namaste London
Tabu - Cheeni Kum
Vidya Balan - Bhool Bhulaiyya
Most Popular Track Of The Year
Barso Re - Guru
Dard-E-Disco- Om Shanti Om
Do You Wanna Partner - Partner
Hare Ram Hare Krishna - Bhool Bhulaiya
In Dino - Life In A Metro
Mauja Hi Mauja - Jab We Met
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)
Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par
Bobby Deol - Naqaab
Irrfan Khan Life In A.. Metro
Mithun Chakraborty - Guru
Shreyas Talpade - Om Shanti Om
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)
Chitrashi - Chak De! India
Konkona Sen Sharma - Life In A.. Metro
Lara Dutta - Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Shilpa Shetty - Life In A.. Metro
Tisca Chopra - Taare Zameen Par
Best Actor In A Comic Role (Male/Female)
Anil Kapoor - Welcome
Nana Patekar - Welcome
Riteish Deshmukh - Heyy Baby
Tusshar Kapoor - Dhol
Vinay Pathak - Bheja Fry
Best Actor In A Negative Role (Male/Female)
Arjun Rampal - Om Shanti Om
Neil Nitin Mukesh - Johnny Gaddar
Pawan Malhotra - Black Friday
Shilpa Shukla - Chak De! India
Viveik Oberoi - Shootout At Lokhandwala
Most Popular Track Of The Year
Barso Re - Guru
Dard-E-Disco- Om Shanti Om
Do You Wanna Partner - Partner
Hare Ram Hare Krishna - Bhool Bhulaiya
In Dino - Life In A Metro
Mauja Hi Mauja - Jab We Met
Best Playback Singer (Male)
KK - Aankhon Mein Teri (Om Shanti Om)
Shaan - Jab Se Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Soham - In Dino (Life In A.. Metro)
Sukhwinder Singh, Salim Merchant & Marianna D’Cruz - Kuchh Kariye (Chak De India)
Sonu Nigam - Main Agar Kahoon (Om Shanti Om)
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Mahalaxmi Iyer - Bolna Halke (Jhoom Barabar Jhoom)
Mahalaxmi Iyer - Salaam-e-Ishq (Salaam-e-Ishq)
Shreya Ghosal - Barso Re Megha (Guru)
Shreya Ghosal - Yeh Ishq Haaye (Jab We Met)
Sunidhi Chauhan - Sajnaji Vaari Vaari (Honeymoon Travels P Ltd)
Best Lyrics
Gulzar - Tere Bina (Guru)
Javed Akhtar - Main Agar Kahoon (Om Shanti Om)
Prasoon Joshi - Maa (Taare Zameen Par)
Sameer - Jab Se Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Sayeed Quadri - In Dino (Life In A.. Metro)
Best Music
A R Rahman - Guru
Pritam - Life in a Metro
Pritam, Sandesh Shandilya - Jab We Met
Sajid-Wajid - Partner
Vishal-Shekhar - Om Shanti Om
Most Promising Debut Director
Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par
Feroz Abbas Khan - Gandhi My Father
R Balakrishna - Cheeni Kum
Reema Kagti - Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd
Sajid Khan - Heyy Babyy
Most Promising Debut (Male)
Himesh Reshammiya - Aap Ka Suroor
Neil Nitin Mukesh - Johnny Gaddar
Ranbir Kapoor - Saawariya
Most Promising Debut (Female)
Deepika Padukone - Om Shanti Om
Jiah Khan - Nishabd
Sonam Kapoor - Saawariya
Most Promising Debut (Child Artiste)
Darsheel Safary - Taare Zameen Par
Druv Piyush Panjuani - Apna Aasmaan
Swini Khera - Cheeni Kum
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- Anamika Choudhury has been aanounced as the winner of SRGMP little Champ and walked away with the winners’ title and Trophy.
- Anamika Chaudhury, is contestant from Mariani Assam. Rohanpreet is the first runner-up, while Tanmay came third.
- Ajay Devgan and Kajol were the special celebrity guests. The couple also confirmed the International votes where it was Rohanpreet who got the highest. India votes showed Anamika to be leading in almost all the zones
- The Grand Finale was made excessive remarkable with lot of extravaganza and great performances.. Both the Judges Sonu Nigam and Suresh Wadekar gave luminous performances.
- Tele stars Smriti Irani, Rajshree Thakur and Divyanka Tripathy,gave positive performance.
- Aditya Narayan too gave away breathtaking performance. The three finalists of L’il Champ 2006 welcomed the new L’il Champs of SaReGaMaPa by giving wonderful performances.
- Anamika walks home with a huge amount of Rs. 20 lakhs in cash prize and a Hyundai car.
- Well done Anamika (my favourite always right from the beginning of the show) and both the runners-up, Rohanpreet and Tanmay Chaturvedi!!
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The long journey of Saif Ali Khan- from the soiled bud of a nawab family to one of Bollywood’s largely multitalented actors and a serious challenger for the No.1 dot, he has truly emerged successful at the turnstiles.
After Saif’s debut in Umesh Mehra’s “Aashiq Awara” a well-known columnist wrote, “Put a dupatta on Saif’s head and he looks like Sharmila Tagore.”
But reacting to comments of that sort Saif said recently, “My detractors and their harsh comments have been my greatest incentive to prove myself.”
Saif almost always ends every scrutiny cautiously. No wonder it took him so long to appreciate his importance. “But do I really know my worth today?”
Yes, Saif has his mother Sharmila Tagore. But moms, as experience tells us, don’t count in Bollywood. If they did, Nutan’s son Mohnish Behl would’ve been the hugest superstar on the block.
There’re stories about how insecure he would get on the sets of Karan Johar’s “Kal Ho Naa Ho”. But Saif denies them.
saif says, “You know I get paranoid about every movie. I knew from the start that Shah Rukh would be the pivot of the film. But I knew I had great lines and a great role. I was never made to feel Shah Rukh was more important to the project. I went with very clear expectations. It was a civilised unit. Everyone was young and fun. I didn’t feel like an outsider at all. I never did, though I was from outside Mumbai.”
Now, the actor seems to be enjoying his newfound status as a leading man to the hilt.
“Omkara” was definitely a new beginning. When Vishal Bahradwaj zeroed in on him to play the Indian Iago, Saif was, as usual, unsure. He never says an outright yes to any role, not even when it comes to a film like Farhan Akhtar’s “Dil Chahta Hai”. That film clearly was the turning point in his career.
Siddharth Anand, Saif’s good friend, gave Saif’s career as a leading man a extra enhance with “Salaam Namaste”. Siddharth thinks Saif is continuously doing roles that confront him to make his existence felt.
Living in the moment he is more peaceful than ever before and hogging the public interest for his suspected issue with Kareena Kapoor.
“On the sets of ‘Omkara’ people would say there were four National Award winners. My first impulse would be to wonder who was the fourth after Vishal, Ajay Devgan and Konkona Sen. Then I’d realise, ‘Oh shit, the fourth National Award winner is actually me!’”
Saif has the final word. “I may seem like a bundle of contradictions most of the time. But there’s a method to my madness which is apparent only to me a lot of times.”
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Kareena thrilled about jump from gloomy to smirk
Critics are rampant about her new film “Jab We Met”, a full-on comedy, but Kareena Kapoor is looking self-assured to another laughton “Phir Golmaal”.
“I guess I didn’t have the chance to have fun with my roles before ‘Jab We Met’. That’s why I’m looking forward to ‘Phir Golmaal’. It’s my chance to pull out all stops.”
After playing the free-spirited sardarni (Sikh woman) from Bathinda, Punjab, in “Jab We Met”, she’s all set to do a comedy in the “Golmaal - Fun Unlimited” sequel entitled “Phir Golmaal” where she teams up with Ajay Devgan after the very serious Shakespearean tragedy “Omkara”
The reaction to her performance in comedy film “Jab We Met” has been unique.
“The only other film I’ve felt so good about in recent times is ‘Omkara’. The director Imtiaz Ali has brought out the playful, extroverted side of me. While I was quiet, subdued and withdrawn in ‘Omkara’, in ‘Jab We Met’ I’m in my full elements. This character is really close to my heart. I think from my heart and like to speak my mind openly. And what I liked about this role was the amount of fun we had while travelling and shooting.”
“I think that enjoyment during shooting has shown up on screen. Everyone who has seen ‘Jab We Met’ has been appreciative,” says Kareena.
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Preity Zinta: gritty by all means
Preity Zinta is one of the heroine in the Bollywood who has played the unwed mom twice, once at the beginning of her career in “Kya Kehna” and then again in the middle of her career.cheeky “Salaam Namaste” and “Jhoom Barabaar Jhoom” are the midriff of her body of work.
Is Preity seeing Ness Wadia? Of course she is! And she’s certainly not hiding her love under demure pretences. She loves to be in love. And she doesn’t need to hide it. But there’s just that diminutive bit of aloofness and moderation about her personal life.
“It isn’t right for me to let the world know what I’m doing every minute ofthe day. Every human being is entitled to a space where no one comes between me and myself, not even a spouse,” says Preity.
Preity impulsively makes all the right choices in life without compromising with her ideology.
For five years after Mani Ratnam’s “Dil Se†Preity and Shah Rukh didn’t star together because of a difference of opinion.
“My first release ‘Dil Se’ was with him. We didn’t work together thereafter. There was a bit of misapprehension. We weren’t aggressive or anything. We both stood our ground. I think we just let each other be,” Preity told me after she signed “Kal Ho Naa Ho” with Shah Rukh.
Actor, campaigner and newspaper columnist (she was writing a column on the film industry for BBC.com), Preity waltzes through all her roles in life artlessly. Whether playing the martyr in “The Hero” or the vamp in “Armaan”, she seems to enjoy every minute of her character’s survival.
Repressed (”Kal Ho Naa Ho”) or boisterous (”Salaam Namaste”), here’s an actress who knows her mind and workout it constantly to improve herself.
“I love to live for the moment. But I don’t let the moment take over my life. I love a clean city, home and heart, not automatically in that order,” says the bubbly Preity.
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