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Katrina Kaif is a total workaholic. The actress does not like a single minute going waste when it comes to work. So imagine Katrina’s disgust when the director is compelled to cancel the day’s shooting due to reasons beyond his control.

A unit member revealed, “The incident occurred on the sets of ‘Ajab Pyar Ki Ghazab Kahaani’. It was raining cats and dogs that day. Rajkumar Santoshi had no choice but cancel the shooting of the film. While the lead star Ranbir Kapoor and the entire unit rejoiced at the thought of having an entire day off, Katrina was saddened by it.”

Via Bollywood Buzz.

After doing “Cheeni Kum”, a contemporary take on relationships, Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu are teaming up again for period film “The Legend Of Kunal”.
The film, to be directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi and produced by Amitabh’s company AB Corp Ltd, has the Big B playing emperor Ashoka and Tabu his wife Tishyarakshitra.
This would be the first film Tabu is signing after R. Balki’s “Cheeni Kum” last year.
“Tabu had not a moment’s hesitation in saying yes to the role of emperor Ashoka’s powerful wife Tishyarakshitra, so powerful she swayed the entire Mauryan empire with her politics and aura. We needed an actress with the strength of conviction,” Dwivedi, who has earlier made period film “Pinjar”, told IANS.

Continue Reading via Bollywood Buzz.

The 2008 River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival will hold a retrospective on the great filmmaker Raj Kapoor, on the occasion of his 20th death anniversary, and screen a rich selection of the latest Indian films, as well as new special sections.

The eighth River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival, completely devoted to Indian cinema and directed by Selvaggia Velo, will take place in Florence, Italy, from December 5 to 11, 2008.

The festival will feature a retrospective on Raj Kapoor. “Awara” (1951), “Shree 420” (1955) and “Bobby” (1973), three of his masterpieces, will be screened, in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festivals of New Delhi.

Paul Schrader is taking a taxi to Bollywood.

Saying he feels the U.S. film market has become “barren,” the writer of classics “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” is packing his bags for Mumbai to write and direct the Bollywood action movie “Extreme City.”

“I’ve been getting indie movies made for 20 years,” he said. “But I take a good look around and what I see is a barren, barren place — in terms of the financial community, in terms of audiences, in terms of distribution. It’s cold out there.”

In India, on the other hand, he says there are ways to gain both creative freedom and audiences.

Continue reading via THR.

Mallika Sherawat is a recipient of the US-based Multicultural Motion Picture Association’s Diversity Awards and is flying to attend a star-studded gala dinner this Sunday in California.
Mallika, who will be presented the 2008 Renaissance Artist Award — given to artists of diverse creative talents worldwide, will join other international celebs from the film and television industry at the Universal Studios’ Global Theatre for the presentation ceremony.
The citation behind the award states it is bestowed for the recipients’ “distinctive on-screen persona that is uniquely their own and allows their character depictions to bring audiences from laughter to tears”.

Continue reading via Bollywood Buzz.

Veteran Indian film star MN Nambiar has died at home in the southern city of Madras (Chennai) after a brief illness.
Nambiar, who was 89, was frequently cast as a villain during his career which spanned six decades.
He made his screen debut in 1935 and went on to act in more than 1,000 films in Tamil, Hindi and several other languages.
Nambiar was deeply religious and loved to keep fit. His discipline made him a role model for many Indian actors.
Correspondents say he was also free from the scandals and rumours which are common in the Indian film industry.

Her car has more baggage in it than a mini department store.

But that’s home on the go for Katrina Kaif, who occupies the topmost echelon in Bollywood today. She’s just back from Goa where she was up all night shooting. “The best part of my day is when I’m alone in the car and I switch on my iPod and just chill out,” she reveals.

“I don’t take any calls. If I really like a song, I’ll hear that and only that for a week. Then the next week, what I’ll listen to will be light years away. The music of Yuvvraaj is like that. When Subhashji came into my van and gave me the album, I heard a song and my instant reaction was to hear it again. Rahmansaab has that quality in his music; it has many layers to it.”

Continue reading via Bollywood Buzz.

2008 has been a great year for Arjun Rampal. He’s had two hits this year and he will be rubbing shoulders with Holly-wood stars, Robert Di Niro, Charlize Theron, Denzel Washington and Oprah Winfrey at the launch party of the Atlantis, The Palm hotel in Dubai on November 20. The cherry on the cake? He has snapped up the title of India’s Sexiest Dad by Ok! magazine, from right under the nose of Hrithik Roshan.

How does it feel to win the title of India’s Sexiest Dad?
It feels great! If people think I am that, then I would like to thank them.

Read the full interview via Bollywood Buzz.