In continuation of the previous post of Chotte Ustad
There is no second judgment that Anwesha is the unsurpassed candidate for the Chotte Ustad title. Howsoever, even Star Plus is bountiful by giving more exposure for Aishwariya, the end result has to be that Anwesha of Kolkatta will bag the crown. Her code number is 9 for the voting lines, which itself is a unambiguous clue that she is the obvious winner, as numerologically 9 is a very powerful number compared to 11 of Aishwsariya. The precise talent, correct aptitude, flair, endowment and above all, the right contestant has to win ,and that is Anwesha.
The pre-eminent and the most greatest part I like about Anwesha is that all along with persuasive and credible singing, she possess down to earth intrinsic worth, a quality which is personified in her body language, perhaps she got it genetically from her mother who always keeps a optimistic, buoyant and positive smiling face even when Aishwariya is being praised ;dissimilar to Aishwairya’s mother who makes unconcerned and undaunted facial expressions when Anwesha is praised. What I mean to communicate is that Anwesha’s naive and raw qualities are too personified in her singing capabilities. I am stressing the point again that Anwesha is the best gifted sweet melodious singer and so please help her win the title.
A talent contest Mr. and Ms Television specially designed for Indian television’s small screen attraction contingent has been launched by Sony TV. The show is the vital hunt for India’s most brilliant and versatile TV personality.
The contest will have 6 female and 6 male celebrities challenging athwart assorted categories viz singing, dancing, acting etc. to win the title of Mr. and Ms. Television. The show opens with 12 well known celebrities (6 female and 6 male) whom we see almost everyday on the TV screens. In fact most of them have become a part of our families too. They are: Aashka Goradia (Naina of Virrudh) Jasveer Kaur ( Kajri of Ghar Ki Laxshmi Betiyaan) Nausheen Ali Sardar (Kkusum) Purbi Joshi (Great Indian Laughter Challenge) Priyanka Bassi (Naina of Left Right Left) Shilpa Sakhlani (Ganga of Kyuniki…) Chetan Hansraj (Sasha of Kahani Ghar…) Kushal Punjabi (Aditya Jaiswal of Santaan) Karan Wahi (Ranveer of Remix) Karnvir Bohra (Prem of Kasautii Zindagi Ki) Swapnil Joshi (Comedy Circus) Sanjit Bedi(Siddharth of Virrudh)
Star Plus has premeditated another reality show. This show will be replacing Chhote Ustaad on the same time slot.
It’s once again going to be a singing reality show where we can see the winners and runners- up of Indian Idol, Zee’s Sa Re Ga Ma and Star’s Voice of India.
The show will be judged by the famous music director duo Vishal and Shekhar and director Farah Khan. The participants include Ishmit, Himani and Vineet from Zee, Rahul Vaidya from Indian Idol.
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
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
Madhuri Dixit is to emerge with the Bachchans during the North American leg of The Unforgettable Tour that kicks off at The Rogers Centre in Toronto on July 18, 2008.
“For Madhuri, it’d be the easiest thing in the world for her to join the concerts in the US as she is based there,” revealed a close friend of the Bachchans .
Besides the Bachchans (Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai) other Bollywood faculty that will be a part of the whole expedition includes Bipasha Basu, Ritesh Deshmukh and the duo of Vishal-Shekhar.
Regardless of plunging the tour as a brain child of Amitabh Bachchan, Wizcraft, which is supervising the the tour, is not ready to jeopardy relying on just the Bachchans, Bipasha and Ritesh to drag in the crowds, sentient of their boundaries as live entertainers.
Other Bollywood stars who have been roped in to dapper up the tour contribution at other chosen places include Kareena’s beaus, Shahid Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan(past and present..lol..)
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan received the best actor award for his recital in the Yash Raj Films’ super hit film “Chak De! India”.
Film and Television Producers’ Guild of India (FTPGI) honoured veteran Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra with its top award for “outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema”.
Kareena Kapoor walked away with the best actress trophy for the film “Jab We Met” at a scintillating presentation ceremony at the MMRDA Ground in the Bandra-Kurla Complex in northwest Mumbai Sunday. FTPGI hosts its own award ceremony to honour Indian artistes as well as creative and technical personalities from the film industry every year. The trophies are known as “Apsara” awards. While “Chak De! India” was chosen the best movie of 2007, its director Shimit Amin bagged the trophy for the best director. A Pakistani television channel, ARY Gold, also honoured actor Hrithik Roshan as the Best Male Style Icon of the year at the ceremony. Katrina Kaif bagged the Best Female Style Icon ARY Gold trophy. Akshay Kumar, who churned out the maximum number of hits last year, was adjudged the “Entertainer of the Year” by the FTPGI jury. NDTV Imagine honoured Deepika Pudokone and Ranbir Kapoor as the year’s best new faces, respectively. Salman Khan and Govinda received the hit pair NDTV Imagine trophy for their breezy performances in producer Sohail Khan’s hit movie last year, “Partner”. Salman Khan, Bipasha Basu, Kareena and Riteish Deshmukh performed on the stage. The awards presentation ceremony was put together by Wizcraft.
An unfortunately managed photo-shoot at the Bowmanville Zoo, Toronto to erect circulation by presenting how bizarre ancient Indian martial arts can be, turned out to be very fatal for Indian Martial Art Trainer Gitanjali of Kerala .
The Indian trainer was knocked over by a lion during the photo shoot at the Zoo . She broke four ribs and a bloodied lung.
“To be honest, the sensation I have is a great deal of gratitude to be alive,� Gitanjali Kolanad said the bedridden trainer.
Since the commencement, the 180 kilogram beast proved mischievous and not completely in command of of its two minders.
Kolanad, 54, practices the ancient, and perceptibly feeble, Indian martial art of Kalaripayat, formed after the actions of such animals as the lion, elephant, wild boar and peacock. The magazine opted she pose with a lion. Next time, she might just tell them where to get off, and choose a peacock instead!
A video of the session shows Leo first knocking over editor Sonia Verma. She picks herself up and smiles. He next paws the legs of photographer Richard Lautens. Off-camera, he also took a swipe at the legs of art director Spencer Wynn.
The 3-year-old lion was two-faced in close proximity when an unmindful Kolanad was reaching into her actions. Still imperfect to leap, the animal jumped up and fell on her, knocking the breath out of her, injuring her left lung and infringing four left ribs.
It was not an assail, the witnesses said. The lion’s mouth was not open and Kolanad was not dented. The Bowmanville Zoo had no comment on the incident.
Focus is key in Kalaripayat, which bases its movements on the graceful control of animals. It’s a constant lesson in focal point. When you lose your focus, you instantaneously get hit.
In the video, one attendant kicks the otherwise obedient beast in the neck while the other pulls on Leo’s chain. The lion takes a second, abortive attack at Kolanad as she lies breathless, before he is escorted out the door.
Incapable to work for the past month and still in pain, Kolanad said she feels on the road to recovery.
This shows that there are no limits to human stupidity like performing before a dangerous beast at the cost of one’s life!!!
When Deepika Padukone met her idol, Rishi Kapoor not as a fan but Rishi’s son’s girlfriend she was flabbergasted and said “It’s amazing. But in his younger days my dad (badminton champ Prakash Padukone) was often told that he resembled Rishi Uncle. I grew up as his big fan, have seen Karz and Kabhi Kabhie number of times. When Ranbir took me to meet his parents, I was re-living my childhood images of the most compatible couple I’ve ever seen on screen.” Even the Kapoors has welcomed their would be daughter in law that’s why Deepika feels “Rishi Uncle is so warm. As for Neetu Aunty, she has an aura of natural grace and charm about her. She’s very poised and articulate. I’ve met her more than I’ve met Uncle. Me and Rishi uncle are going to be working toge
ther. We had a reading together recently. He’s so passionate about cinema. I’ve so much to learn from him.”
Deepika cannot go on without appreciating the Kapoors, she has lot of regard to both of them which is apparent from her statement which says “Both Ranbir and his sister Ridhima have been brought up with the right values. They come from such an illustrious family. And yet they’re so down-to-earth. I see many similarities between their upbringing and mine. Though both Ranbir and I were exposed to celebrity situations from childhood, our parents have made sure we’re firmly rooted to reality.” When asked about their marriage, Deepika expressed that “we’re both very comfortable in our relationship. Now that we’ve come out in the open about our relationship, our parents are very happy. Beyond that it’s too early to talk about marriage.” About her affair with Yuvraj and on the impressionable comment made by Yuvraj, Deepika says confidently that “I really don’t think she said anything against me. If she had a grudge she’d call me up and talk to me. I always say that no outside source can know what kind of a relationship two people share. I spoke to her after the statements attributed to her came out. I’ve always shared a fantastic rapport with her. She’s a wonderful and strong person. I’ve learnt a lot from her. As a woman and mother, I look up to Yuvraaj’s mother. She’s a multi-tasking mother. She has single-handedly brought up her two children. Yuvraaj is doing extremely well for himself. And his younger brother who has just started out is also doing very well himself. I wish the family all the best.”
King Khan today launched his cricket team under the banner Knightriders in Kolkatta. The name of the site is www.kolkataknightriders.com/home.html. The team activities and actions are towards sports strength and courage of children and youth of the country. The joint owners of the team are the great SRK and actress Juhi Chawla and her business mind husband Jay Mehta.
Sourav Ganguli has been named as the Captain along with tough players like Shoiab Akthar and Ricky Ponting. John Bucanen will be the coach of the team.
The theme song for the team has been composed by multitalented Vishal-Shekhar and the song has been sung by Vishal. The jingle for the song is something like Korbo,lodbo,jeethore in Bangla. More songs will be composed by Pritam and to be sung by Usha Uthup the Kolkata much-loved.
The official clothes has been sponsored by Belmonte, designed flamboyant Manish Malhotra. The colour of the T-shirt is gold and black, SRK feels gold is lucky for him. SRK himself has chosen Jersey No.12 and says he will be the waterman for the team in an athletic spirit.
A golden helmet as musket of the team, enclosed in glass was offered to Saurav and certain other members of the organisation.
SRK also unveiled the team’s logo Hoog-lee shown as a cartoon character, the surprise members’ name will be announced later.
SRK disclosed that he does not anything much about cricket on a funny message. He stated that a sum of INR 80,000/- crores will be the expected annual turnover, out of which 80% money will be dispersed to the players.
Sony Max will be official broadcaster of the matches which will begin from March 18 onwards.
Well whatever King Khan does, he steals the thunder as ever. Good luck King Khan!
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Zeenat Aman, yesteryear glamour doll has signed together with Raj Babbar in “Dil to Diwana Hai” and says that it would be motivating to work with him again.
Incidentally, Zeenat is an ex-Miss India and Raj Babbar, these days is in the politics.
They were seen together for the first time in “Insaaf Ka Tarazu”, in which Zeenat played a model and Raj Babbar a rapist. To be produced by D.S. Productions, the film is being directed actor Raja Bundela.
“When Raja Bundela approached me for this role I just thought that it would certainly be interesting to work with Raj Babbar again,” said Zeenat who is in mid fifties now.
Apart from these two seasoned actors, there are two newcomers in the film — Aamir Khan’s brother Hyder Ali and popular Tamil and Telugu actress Sadaa.
Zeenat plays Hyder’s mother and Raj Babbar will be seen as Sadaa’s father. “Dil to Diwana Hai”, explores the changing mentality of the new generation, their attitude towards family values, traditions and the requirements of a bridge that can hold them between ethics and modern culture.
