Priyanka Chopra turns 31; wishing her happy birthday and success

Actress Priyanka Chopra had turned 31 today – July 18. Bollywood wished her happy birthday and success and more success to follow. Amongst those who wished were her friends from Bollywood.

Priyanka has been having a great time ever since her film Barfi was a hit last year. She also had international success with “In My City” and the more recent “Exotic”. Her latest film is about Mary Kom, the Olympian boxer from India.

One of the unhappy moments for Priyanka came last month when she lost her father, Dr. Ashok Chopra. He was suffering from cancer and lost the battle of his life in a Mumbai hospital.

However, the death of her father didn’t put Priyanka out of work for a long time. She came back to her normal ways and started training for the Mary Kom bio-pic as early as she could.

Don, Krrish, Fashion and Agneepath are some of the films that she has done excellently well and has been appreciated by her fans. She has also won a National Award for her role in Fashion.

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Ranveer Singh doesn’t give importance to box office collections

Lootera is the latest film starring Ranveer Singh, who said that box office collections weren’t important to him. The film has been critically acclaimed by people around and the ticket window has seen a mixed response. He gives importance to the memories of the film. 

For Ranveer Singh the box office collections come later. But first there are the memories of the film that he likes to carry with him. The film released on July 5 and it has almost been two weeks since and the leading pair of Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh have been appreciated a lot.

Ranveer was speaking to the reports during a party thrown for the success of the film. This is when he said that the film’s collections are secondary to him. Taking a dig at Rs. 100 crores film, Ranveer said that people say that the film wasn’t that good.

The Bollywood actor’s emphasis was on the love for the film. He said that people should like your film the way they have liked Lootera. Interestingly, Sonakshi Sinha, his co-star, has been a part of Rs. 100 crores films like Dabangg, Son of Sardar and Rowdy Rathore.

Poonam Pandey feels sex is fine when in relationship

Poonam Pandey has said that when in relationship, sex is fine; there’s no big deal in it. The model-turned-actress is receiving reviews about her debut film Nasha. In the film Poonam Pandey will be seen indulging herself in some hot and intimate scenes on screen. And by the way, being naughty on screen isn’t new to the model.

She expressed confidence that she would be able to perform her role to perfection, which is an exotic character. Talking in an interview Poonam Pandey also spoke about her co-star in the film, Shivam. Poonam said Shivam plays the role of a college-going student and added that he had got a bit nervous when shooting hot scenes.

However, she said that she actually enjoyed all the shoots in the film. (Well, we wonder what Poonam has to convey with this statement.) However, being on a diplomatic front, she said that it was her work and if she didn’t do her work being comfortable, that would reflect on the screen and would look unnatural.

As far as doing steamy scenes are concerned, Poonam Pandey said that as an individual she didn’t think those things were wrong. Sex is fine when one is in relationship, Poonam added.

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Salman Khan helping Bruna Abdalah brush up her Hindi

Salman Khan is yet again in the news for someone. This time around he has turned a Hindi tutor for Bruna Abdalah. Salman Khan is helping the Brazilian actress Bruna Abdalah brush up her Hindi and be more fluent in her language and diction. She will be seen in Mental along with Salman Khan.

According to sources, the foreign actress got a call from the director Sohail Khan, Salman’s elder brother. He is known to have offered her a small part in the film. Even if the role that Bruna dons isn’t that big, she saw it as an opportunity to work with the Khan family.

Bruna Abdalah nodded in the affirmative without delay. She said that working with someone like Salman Khan has been a sort of a learning curve for her. And the way he helped her brush up her Hindi skills was even a warmer experience.

Speaking about Salman, Bruna said before taking any shot, he will have his own ideas and will improvise things at the drop of a hat. Apart from Salman a lady named Ujjwala, who happens to be a professor teaches Bruna Hindi. Bruna says though she cannot converse in Hindi yet, she can dub and read it apart from understanding the language now.

Katrina Kaif turns 29; Happy birthday

One of the heartthrobs of Bollywood, Katrina Kaif has turned 29 years old today and we wish her a very happy birthday. Katrina was born on this day – July 16 1984. Her first film was when she was just 19 years old, 10 years back in 2003. The title of the film was Boom.

Sarkar followed by Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya were two of her early films for which Katrina is still remembered. She was born in Hong Kong. However, she travelled to various countries in Europe and her upbringing wasn’t limited to one place. The countries include France, Switzerland and Germany. She is also closely related to England where her family stays at the moment.

She saw India as a potential destination to give wings to her modeling and acting career. Bollywood didn’t disappoint her as she is now one of the top actresses today. Salman Khan is known to have worked for her to give her a break in Bollywood as he has helped so many people in the industry.

Partner, Race and Welcome were some of the films that were hugely popular in the audience. And Katrina did never look back since then.

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Katrina Kaif in Nakshatra ad

Katrina Kaif on the GQ Cover

Sahil Shroff and Ameesha Patel to sizzle in Desi Magic

Sahil Shroff and Ameesha Patel will be seen sharing screen space in Desi Magic, their upcoming film. Sahil Shroff will play the love interest of Ameesha Patel. He will be playing the character of a businessman who is based in Venice. Ameesha will be seen in a double role.

In one of the roles she will play a Punjabi sweet girl, while in the other, she plays a spoiled brat. However, according to the script and the story of the film, it has to be decided with whom Sahil will be romancing.

The shooting of the film has yet to get underway. But still the leading pair has got going excellently. They even did a photoshoot and their chemistry was looking right on the mark. The two were having excellent communication and the same reflected through the shoot.

Kunal Goomer, who is producing the film, has said that film is full of youth and color and of course comes with lots of entertainment. Both Sahil Shroff and Ameesha Patel have done some workshops with each other and are performing well.

Amisha Patel seducing in black

Amisha Patel hot in red saree

Shruti Haasan doesn’t have time for her father

Shruti Haasan is a busy actress these days. But do you know how busy she is. Well, she doesn’t even have time to work with her dad, that busy. Yes, she had a chance to work on screen with her own father. But the busy schedule of Shruti isn’t permitting her to work with the veteran Kamal Haasan.

Bitter Chocolate was the film that would have given her the opportunity to work with her father. However, Shruti has as many as six films under her belt and there is no way she can spare time for her father.

Speaking about Bitter Chocolate, Shruti said that she had mixed emotions about the film. She felt happy as well as sad, Shruti said. The reason for happiness is that she has some films to do and the sad part is that she won’t be getting to work with her father.

Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya and D-Day are the two Bollywood films for which she just finished the shooting.

Amitabh Bachchan to be honored at Melbourne International Film Festival

There is yet another honor in store for Amitabh Bachchan who will be honored at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Amitabh Bachchan is presently shooting for his next film Satyagraph by Prakash Jha. There will also be a retrospective of the actor.

He will immediately return to India as he is busy shooting. The shooting will go on probably until the end of April. After that Big B will be traveling to the US, to New York. There he will be with The Great Gatsby. There will be the premier on May 1.

The 70-year old Amitabh Bachchan posted all this on his blog.