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Via Bollywood Buzz.
“To start with, lets us tell you that she is hot, so much so that people just pause when they look at her as they just can’t get their eyes off her! She is none other than the Om Shanti Om girl, Deepika Padukone, who also happens to be the cover-girl of the newly launched magazine called ‘Jade’! That she looks a million bucks on the cover will be an understatement. Instead let us tell you that the publishers of ‘Jade’ did not go wrong by choosing her to be the cover-girl of their launch issue! Poetically put, will launching a magazine be tough for a face that launched a thousand ships (read ‘products’)!”

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Sushmita Sen has been recently offered the role of Pakistan’s former lady Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by two prominent Pakistani producers Zaid Aziz and Henna Rai.This film would be a bilingual film made in both English and Urdu and would be shot lavishly in Pakistan and England.

Apparently, Sushmita is working hard for her character. She is reading up extensively on the life of Benzir Bhutto and also working on her Urdu diction.

Sushmita earlier declared her love for historical character and period films.

Its been a popular trend inspired from Hollywood flicks like Bond series to have a super sexy actress emerging out of the sea in a bikini. Most filmmakers promote this as the USP of the film.

Priyanka Chopra walking in a golden swimsuit in Dostana’s first promos, Minissha Lamba sizzling down in her pearly white bikini swimming carelessly in the Ocean or Kareena Kapoor flaunting her zero size figure in a electric green bikini in Tashan… Bollywood sure knows how to flaunt their leading ladies to grab eye-balls.

But how far does this tactic help in pulling crowds to the cinema hall? Can a bikini clad Kareena Kapoor, Mallika Sherawat or Bipasha Basu evoke so much interest and curiosity.

What do you think? Do Bikini scenes evoke your curiosity? Would you be interested to watch a film if the promos show the leading lady in a Bikini?

Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC will soon take place from November 13 through November 16. The opening night film is none other than Rock On!! Director Abhishek Kapoor will be attending the opening night to present his film and to interact with the DC audiences.

“I’m sure DC film enthusiasts will enjoy viewing Rock On!! at the Indian Visions Film Festival,” says Amanda Sodhi, Program Coordinator of Indian Visions. “And…” Amanda adds with a smile, “…the fact that Abhishek is attending will bring that extra bit of magik to our festival.”

Looks like DC film enthusiasts are going to have a magik-filled and rocking time at the film festival!

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Reena Bhardwaj is a British born singer of Indian origin. She is the first British Asian (Indian) Artist to win nominations for the Zee Zine Award for Best Playback Singer and nomination for the MTV India Award for best new talent. Her work has appeared on various Bollywood films. In 2005 Reena Bhardwaj appeared live on the presentation of Nitin Sawhney’s albums Philtre in Germany (Berlin), Spain and other countries; In 2007 at the Womad festival and with the Trilok Gurtu band on 25 July, 2007 at Festival Músicas do Mundo in Sines, Portugal and with Nitin Sawhney & friends incl. Natacha Atlas, Akram Khan, & Anoushka Shankar on 10 Aug 2007, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Reena Bhardwaj sings on the Nitin Sawhney’s albums Human and Philtre. She has performed on several Ministry of Sound CDs: Indian Sunset, Angel Beach, Kula Karma.

On the soundtrack of the film “Mangal Pandey: The Rising” she sings on “Main Vari Vari” together with Kavita Krishnamurthy (Kavita Subramaniam). She is the solo singer in the track “Yeh Rishta” composed by A.R. Rahman for the Hindi movie Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004) for which she got nominated for a couple of awards. She also sings a song each for the films “Baba” and “Tehzeeb”, both composed by A.R. Rahman. She has also sung for Basement Jaxx.

The actor speaks up about laughing through his first such role in a fun, non-offensive film.

Three days to Dostana, John Abraham is chilling at his sea-facing home dressed in a white vest and blue jeans.

The buffed-up actor asks his Man Friday to serve us, “mere wali chai.’ It arrives shortly, and it’s light and sweet. Just like his upcoming release promises to be. Here, John talks about playing his first gay character, his gay friends and what his girlfriend Bipasha Basu thinks about him cosying up with another man. Read on…

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Via BBC.
An 817-second burn from the probe’s engine on Saturday slowed Chandrayaan sufficiently for it to be captured by the lunar body’s gravity.
The craft is now in an 11-hour polar ellipse that goes out to 7,502km from the Moon and comes as close as 504km.
Further brakings will bring the Indian satellite down to a near-circular, 100km orbit from where it can begin its two-year mapping mission.
Launched on 22 October, Chandrayaan is India’s first satellite to break away from the Earth’s gravitational field and reach the lunar body.
The mission will compile a 3D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals.
Powered by a single solar panel generating about 700 Watts, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) probe carries five Indian-built instruments and six constructed in other countries, including the US, Britain and Germany.
The Indian experiments include a 30kg probe that will be released from the mothership to slam into the lunar surface.
The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) will record video footage on the way down and measure the composition of the Moon’s tenuous atmosphere.
It will also drop the Indian flag on the surface of the Moon.

In this making watch Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham in the rocking item song ‘Desi Girl’ from the movie ‘Dostana’.

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Preity Zinta has turned to be the favorite Punjabi-girl of Bollywood. Recently, the actress leaped with laurels as a Punjabi girl in ‘Heroes’. Style of articulating dialogues in Punjabi style could fix us adhered to the characterization. And now, it’s time to take on with a role with different dimension. Deepa Mehta’s recent movie ‘Heaven and Earth’ was screened at Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York. The film features Preity Zinta as a woman belonging immigrant family in Toronto.

The film’s sole theme of domestic violence was so close to everyone’s heart and indeed won grand applause for entire team. Precisely, Preity Zinta for her top-notching spell as a distressed woman fetched best credits. So, how come Deepa Mehta zeroed down on Preity while casting actors? “While penning script for Heaven and Earth, I remember I was there in England. As I met Preity Zinta we started discussing about many issues, but not about my film. Out of spark, I could just perceive that she has the ability to perform the role with extreme brightness”.

Shilpa Shetty and John Abraham’s Shut Up And Bounce song in Dostana is the hottest track these days. But what no-one knows is that Shilpa fell and almost bounced while shooting the song in Miami.

John had applied so much sunblock on his body that Shilpa who had to put her arms around him kept slipping and falling!

Director Tarun Mansukhani says, “We all put on lots of sun block on because it was sunny and we didn’t want to tan too much. One day, John put on so much sunblock that in the shot where he’s taking pictures of Shilpa on the bike, Shilpa couldn’t put her arms around him. She kept slipping and falling!” John plays a photographer in Dostana.