Rann is now India 24/7

    

Last week Bollywood has been into speculation with news that Amitabh Bachchan was all set to launch his own news channel, INDIA 24/7. But the shahenshah has now clarified that INDIA 24/7 isn’t name for any news channel but instead it’s the film’s title which he is doing with Ram Gopal Verma. The flick was previously titled Rann.

"The title is no longer ‘RANN’, as in a battle or a war, but ‘INDIA 24/7′. And ever since I have been reporting on set, the media laugh riot has been in unabated operation," says Bachchan.

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SRK takes on cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar

    
Shah Rukh Khan at the Nokia - Kolkata Knight Riders tie up press conference held at Grand Hyatt, Santacruz, Mumbai on Sunday April 5th evening took on Sunil Gavaskar head on. The cricketing legend Gavaskar had criticised KKR coach John Buchanan over their team strategies including the possibility of multiple captains for the team.

When asked about his reaction over Gavaskar’s comments in his column in Hindustan Times about KKR, the King Khan his typical sarcastic style replied, “I have tremendous respect for Mr. Sunil Gavaskar. He was a great player of his times.  But T20 is a new type of game. Since he hasn’t ever played this game he has no right to comment on it. If he is still so interested then he should buy an IPL team for himself and implement his game tactics. We know what is good for us and good for cricket.”

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Interesting Facts and Figures: Aishwarya Rai

    
Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan born 1 November 1973 is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994.

Rai was born in Mangalore to Krishnaraj Rai and Vrinda Rai. 

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Big B - Nana together?

Mehul Kumar made a couple of films with Nana Patekar [TIRANGAA, KRANTIVEER, KOHRAM]. This guru of Abbas-Mustan [yes, the director duo assisted Mehulbhai for couple of years before they turned independent] has also made a few films with Amitabh Bachchan. Now Mehul is making the sequel to KRANTIVEER, called KRANTIVEER - THE REVOLUTION.

Why did he opt for new names this time? “Because the subject deals with youth. I could’ve cast established actors, but they would’ve come with the baggage of a fixed image. As for newcomers, you can mould them the way you wish to,” the veteran film-maker says.

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Shiamak Davar and Reebok come together

    

When the event ended yesterday, dated the 26th of March, 2009, all I could say was ‘wow’ and all night what I could just think of was the Shiamak Davar and his new line of collection of Reebok.

What a night it was. The best I have attended till date. The event was sexy, glamorous, cool, fantastic, mind blowing and the adjectives continue to flow in favor of the greatest dance guru on Earth, Shiamak Davar.

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Nokia 15th Annual STAR Screen Awards Red Carpet

    

To catch this action, tune in to STAR Plus on Jan 25 at 8 pm
 
Mumbai, January 14:- The Nokia 15th (is it 15th) Annual Star Screen Awards is the first Awards ceremony in India in the year 2009. The biggest night for honouring excellence in cinema is here and the film fraternity is all set to celebrate it in grand style. The Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Awards    commemorates and rewards the people behind putting the biggest and the most remarkable pieces of cinematic entertainment in the year 2008.  This will be aired exclusively on India’s leading Hindi General Entertainment Channel, Star Plus on January 25 at….pm. The hosts for the evening are Farah Khan, Sajid Khan & Shreyas Talpade.

The Red Carpet is decked up to witness the most spectacular Awards nite. This year, the Red Carpet is designed as a Box Office Hall of Fame.  All the stars walked the RED Carpet before the inauguration of the final awards night. The red carpet had the entire film fraternity grace it including  Akshay Kumar, Ranbir Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan,  Prateek Babbar, Tushar Kapoor, Jitendra, Bipasha Basu, Mughda Godse, Kangna Ranaut, Sonali Kulkarna, Tanushree Dutta, Koena Mitra,  Anupam & Kiron Kher, Genellia D’Souze, Asin, Katrina Kaif, Hard Kaur, Zayed Khan, Rakhi Sawant, Prachi Desai, Tabu, Aishwarya Rai, Gul Panag, Jimmy Shergil, Amir Bashir and Sahana Goswami, Chunky and Bhavna Pandey to name a few.

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Big B proud of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

    
Last year it was dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit-Nene who received the prestigious award Padma Shri from the President of India and now this time around its going to be Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who would be honoured with this award.

Amitabh Bachchan speaks on this eve and feels proud of her bahu Aishwarya

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Big B fan of ex-captain Rahul Dravid

    
Its rare to know that even Shahenshah of Bollywood loves cricket as this legendary actor was watching India vs New Zealand match at his Prateeksha house on Sunday and was not happy when Rahul Dravid was given out.

Big B’s comments on the Rahul Dravid,

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Chenab Gandhi to shoot in May

    
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Chenab Gandhi’, based on the life of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, will go on floors in May.

A few weeks back, there was news that Hurman Baweja was replaced by John Abraham in this period film. The reason being cited was that John was too busy working on ‘Hook Ya Crook’ to spare time for ‘Chenab Gandhi, which has superstar Amitabh Bachchan playing the lead role.

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Chenab Gandhi to shoot in May

    
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Chenab Gandhi’, based on the life of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, will go on floors in May.

A few weeks back, there was news that Hurman Baweja was replaced by John Abraham in this period film. The reason being cited was that John was too busy working on ‘Hook Ya Crook’ to spare time for ‘Chenab Gandhi, which has superstar Amitabh Bachchan playing the lead role.

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