SRK loses out to Aamir on promos

It doesn't happen anywhere else in Asian Film Industry other than Bollywood. Yup! Actors don't step out from the project just as they complete their schedules. Perhaps, they are up with high-spirited moods in promoting their flicks. It's been a great challenge between Khans in promoting their flicks to great extent.

Well, it was SRK's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Aamir Khan's Ghajini hitting headlines in the recent times. So, who wins the race of promoting their respective flicks? It's Aamir Khan who has been striding all the way across media channels. Being a brand ambassador for Tata Sky, it does work wonders for him. Uh-huh, the help guide channel where commercials for Tata Sky are aired round the clock has kick-started featuring promos for Ghajini.

It goes inclusive of making of 'Guzarish' and 'Bekha' featuring visuals from scratch where Rahman tunes 'Bekha' on his keyboard, Aamir learning dance steps, entire cast and crew speaking about these songs…

Apart from this, there is exclusive game 'Ghajini Contest' where viewers have to answer simple questions and win tickets for premiere show.

Fine! What stopped SRK and Yash Raj Films from promoting 'RNBDJ' was the Mumbai Terror attack. As there wasn't enough time to gear up for promos, they had to remain Chup Chap…

The tale of two songs

A reputed advertisement film maker was roped in by Aamir Khan to direct two songs in his forthcoming movie 'Ghajini'.
The two tracks- 'Aye Bachoo' and 'Lattoo' were included as Aamir felt that the movie with all its raw and powerful action scenes need to be mellowed down with some groovy music.

Thus Ravi Udyawar who had worked before with the star for the Samsung 'Next is What?' campaign was selected as the right man to do the job after being recommended by ace cinematographer Ravi K Chandran who knows his style of working well and the producers getting fully satisfied after watching the various commercials that he had made before including the ones for Chevrolet and Limca.

The ad man's job was to visualize and direct two songs in a stylish manner.

Ravi Udyawar says that 'Aye Bachoo' is the song through which Asin is introduced in the movie and the paparazzi is shown getting wild as she appears and walks the red carpet. She is also shown waking the ramp like a supermodel.

A photo shoot session of the actress with men styled up as mafia gang members surrounding her is also there in the song.
The track was shot at the Film City in Goregaon and Mukesh Mills in Lower Parel.

Jiah who plays a college student in 'Ghajini' is the main element of the song 'Lattoo'.

This song is shown happening in Jiah's college.

Each song took more than a week to get completely canned.
Listen to Songs from GHAJINI on Raaga.com

After Ghajini, is it Ghilli?

It's an era of remaking South Indian films in Bollywood and looks like they're endless. With Aamir Khan's 'Ghajini' is all set for release on Christmas Day, Salman Khan's 'Wanted Live or Dead' remake of Telugu movie 'Pokkiri' is close on heels of completion.

And here goes another talk in town. 'Ghilli' – a tremendous blockbuster in Telugu and Tamil is being remade in Malayalam now. Buzzes are that the film would be soon remade in Hindi and if it is believed to be true, discussions are going about finalizing casts and crew.

The Tamil version had Vijay and Trisha donning lead roles with the song 'Appadi Podu' turning to be its limelight. If you are still guessing what's this song all about? Well, Abhishek Bachchan danced for this song in commercial advertisement of 'Motorola'. The fame soon spread across towns and cities as it was repeatedly aired in music channels, reality dance shows and more.

Buzzes have also stated that Deepika Padukone would play the female lead role enacted by Trisha in both Telugu and Tamil version. Since, her characterization is about being bubbly all throughout the show, Deepika seems to be watching the film's DVD repeatedly.

Shipa starts a blog

Taking the clue from the group of active blog keepers of Bollywood, Shilpa Shetty too has decided that it is very vital and satisfying to have a medium to interact directly with the fans around the world.
During the recently concluded reality show "Big Boss" in which Shilpa was the host, she used to term her appearance by calling it as "Shilpa Channel".
Retaining this particular title now the sultry B-Town heroine has made up her mind to start her blog titled as "Shilpa Channel".
Shilpa also intends to use to use the interactive medium to communicate with the media personalities.
The blog can be accessed through the personal web site of the actress.

source: glitz

"I would love to work with SRK" – Asin

It's all about mania of South Indian Actress Asin across the town. With her debut flick 'Ghajini' hitting screens universally on December 25, the missy seems to be more excited. Of course, it's the first time she speaks directly to media channels about the projects as well her life in Bollywood.

The actress was a part of original version 'Ghajini' in Tamil starring opposite Surya. As Murugadoss approached Mr. Perfectionist with a special screening in Oct 2005, the actor was quite impressed with Asin's performance and roped her in for remake.

So, how about Aamir playing pranks on her? "No, I was quite surprised that he didn't take on pranks while filming. Instead, he was so serious discussing every shots with his co-stars", says Asin. And on her characterization from original version and its remake, there's nothing such big difference apart from new settings and language.

Ask her about Aamir giving Hindi tuitions that happens to be 'Talk of the town'? Well, the actress utters she's perfectly fluent with Hindi as she studied in Naval Public School. So there was no need for tuitions…

After working with all Khans (Aamir, Salman and Saif), her only desire is all about joining hands with King Khan and she is hoping for a good offer.

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Shilpa Shetty Dating Raj Kundra

Shilpa Shetty’s publicist Dale Bhagwagar has said that the actress has admitted that she is dating the UK-based NRI entrepreneur Raj Kundra. "I'm not denying it's him (Raj) but I hope when this comes out, it doesn't frighten him off," is all she reveals for now.

Raj, who is a leading businessman in Britain, is also responsible for the launch of Shilpa's perfume S2, which recently topped the charts in UK as well as her new DVD on Yoga. He is also a force behind her super-successful musical tour of Miss Bollywood shows. Raj has recently produced the Jimmy Sheirgill-Kay Kay Menon film Strangers that released a few weeks ago.

When the news of their relationship broke out six months ago, Shilpa and Raj had denied it stating the couple was "just friends". "Things between them have changed since then. The relationship has blossomed and matured with time. They were friends before. Now they make a lovely couple," says Shilpa's publicist Dale Bhagwagar.

Raj Kundra's former wife Kavita had also made accusations that Shilpa broke her marriage by having an affair with him. "Those were incorrect claims. Shilpa came to know Raj only post-Celebrity Big Brother and four months after his wife had parted with Raj," Dale points out.

So is Shilpa planning to settle down in matrimony? The publicist states, "It's too early to speculate marriage. All I can say is that Shilpa is dating Raj. She's just started to know him better. So let's give her some time and not jump to conclusions. But their affair could just turn out to be the biggest love story of 2008.”

Shilpa Shetty has ended a boom year that was replete with the Celebrity Big Brother win, a successful charity drive, an Honorary Doctorate from the Leeds Metropolitan University, the Rajiv Gandhi award and finally two successful films (Life In A…Metro and Apne) in addition to an offer from Hollywood that she turned down for the second film in the new Pink Panther series.
Meanwhile, the actress has decided to bring in the New Year abroad with her family. "Currently, she is on a money splurging spree in Las Vegas and is going berserk with obsessive shopping," laughs Dale. No prizes for guessing whether Raj is accompanying the Shettys.

source: himal