Salman Khan is a man of his word. At the altar of the season 8 of the reality show ‘Bigg Boss’, Salman Khan, being the host of the show, promised to the TV watching ‘janta’ that if given a chance, he would definitely want to promote Shah Rukh Khan’s soon-to-be released movie ‘Happy New Year’ on the show.

Now, Salman’s equation with Shah Rukh Khan hasn’t been all that hunky dory and that’s why this statement of his grabs the attention of many. However, as expected, Salman Khan didn’t get a chance to honour his word, because reportedly, SRK didn’t approach the producers of the show for the movie promotions.

But make no mistake! Salman is Salman. He went ahead and kept his word.

n the latest weekend episodes of ‘Bigg Boss’, Salman Khan talked about the ‘silly’ quizzes people take on social networking sites to know more about themselves. One of the quizzes is ‘Which Khan are you?’ and quite expectedly one of the options is Salman Khan. So, Salman Khan took the personality test himself to check the authenticity of the quiz.

What do ya know? Salman Khan is not Salman Khan anymore. He was, instead, declared to be Shah Rukh Khan by the quiz. We are not sure about how genuine the answer was, but Salman took it in the lighter vein and imitated SRK’s trademark ‘K K K Kiran’ tone and said, “Kaha thha humne… Happy New Year ko promote karenge!”

Now that’s called ‘killing two birds with one stone,’ and the ‘Dabanng’ Khan is quite a pro at it, we must say.

Kudos to the brotherhood!

Actress Bipasha Basu, who is currently filming supernatural thriller ‘Alone’, continued shooting despite suffering from a swollen ankle.

The 35-year-old actress will be seen alongside TV actor Karan Singh Grover in the Bhushan Patel-directed film. “Ankle swollen! On ‘Alone’ set! Climax shoot going on and me in pain. Don’t like,” Bipasha posted on Instagram alongside a photo of her bandaged ankle.

Actress Sunny Leone, who’s co-hosting and mentoring the contestants on TV show ‘Splitsvilla’, found herself at the receiving end of a contestant’s outburst. Shravan Reddy lost his cool and hurled a heavy Rajasthani jewellery box at a fellow contestant, but ended up hurting Sunny instead.

The shocked actress hurled abuses at the unruly guy and was in no mood to relent even after Shravan apologises. Says a source, “Sunny had briefed the contestants in the beginning not to get aggressive. The production team had to intervene and sort it out.”

Actor Akshay Kumar, who is known to deliver comedy with as much ease as action, says when he was starting out, he didn’t think he’d become the big star that he is today. But now, he is in a comfortable position, where he doesn’t need to work for money. “I never thought I would reach here, never,” says Akshay.

Despite the ­stardom, nothing has changed, he says. “Nothing has changed. I am still the same person. I still work equally hard. There’s no change, expect for the ­balance in my account, which has increased,” he says. And what else has changed is the fact that now he doesn’t have to work for money, as he says he works because he wants to. “I am at that stage in life where I don’t need to work. I work because I want to, because I like working,” says Akshay, who still calls himself a ‘proud Delhi boy
The actor, who often visits the bylanes of Old Delhi in the wee hours, says, “I probably had the most adventurous ­childhood, thanks to the Capital,” says Akshay, adding, “When my family moved to Mumbai from Delhi when I was a kid, I would count days until I could visit my grandma in Chandni Chowk. I learnt – See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/i-work-because-i-want-to-not-because-i-need-to-says-akshay-kumar/article1-1276187.aspx#sthash.94p7gcFw.dpuf

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The 42-year-old actress said she had to overcome her fear of singing in front of people for her part as Miss Hannigan in Will Gluck’s modern adaptation of the musical, reported Digital Spy.

“It’s not very often you get to do a musical. Even though I was terrified of doing it, I kind of had to. The two things I’m most terrified of are heights and singing in front of people.

“I’ve jumped out of airplanes and scaled sides of cliffs – not to get over my fears, but to address them. I just felt like this is something that needed to be addressed. I cried uncontrollably.

Everybody was so supportive and having fun with it because I was so pathetic, but the only way to get through scary things is to have a sense of humour about it,” she said.

After starting her career with Farah-Shah Rukh Khan‘s joint production ‘Om Shanti Om’ seven years ago, actress Deepika Padukone feels her upcoming project ‘Happy New Year’ is like a homecoming.

‘Happy New Year’, releasing this Diwali, is again co-produced by Farah and Shah Rukh and the actor will be seen romancing Deepika in it.

“‘Happy New Year’ is a homecoming for me. The way they (Shah Rukh and Farah) made me feel has brought back the memories of ‘Om Shanti Om’. Even the way she calls me ‘Baby’ and I call her ‘Maa’.

“Farah takes certain liberty with me and so do I. The way we talk to each other is special. In fact, a lot of time we would sit together and remember old times. They are family,” Deepika said in a group interview.

The film is directed by Farah and has ensemble cast of Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Viaan Shah apart from Shah Rukh and Deepika.

Deepika says she feels her career is safe in the hands of the choreographer-filmmaker and SRK, both 49.

“They gave me such a beautiful launch in the industry and presented me so well. They took the responsibility and understood that this girl’s career is in our hand,” she said.
Deepika, 28, said she was the last one to join the multi-starrer.

“When I just finished ‘Chennai Express’ I got a call from Farah Khan and she asked me for ‘Happy New Year’. The film happened at the last moment and my dates were free I am happy that I fit because at that time even Imtiaz Ali’s film also shifted,” she said, adding that she is happy to be a part of ‘Happy New Year’ even though the role was initially not offered to her.

In the film, Deepika plays a Marathi bar dancer in the film.”Mohini Joshi is the character’s name who is a bar dancer. She enjoys dancing and she worships dance. She and Abhishek’s character Nandu have grown up together. I become the teacher of the gang and I teach them to dance once they come together. Mohini is the only member of her family who earns,” she said.

We had almost forgotten that Anushka Sharma is also a part of PK for the male lead Aamir Khan has been hogging all the limelight in the posters that are coming in at irregular intervals. It is after we came across this leaked picture of Anushka’s look from the film, we remembered that even she has a role in the Rajkumar Hirani directorial, which also stars Sanjay Dutt and Sushant Singh Rajput.

Anushka will be sporting a short crop for the film. Since the Jab Tak Hai Jaan actress had to shoot for Bombay Velvet, and NH10 simultaneously, she couldn’t get her hair cut, so this look is all thanks to a wig. Reportedly, this completely new look for Anushka was finalised by Hirani after much deliberation.

Aushka’s look from PK has already got a lot of positive feedback and has sent social media ablaze with comments. We absolutely love it, do you BollywoodLifers?

Siddharth Anand’s latest directorial venture Bang Bang has stormed the box office literally. We say so coz his film, which stars Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif in the lead, is already set to enter the Rs 100 crore club. Bang Bang, which is the official remake of Knight and Day, hit the hit screens on October 2 and got off to a flying start. Within two days, the action flick minted Rs 51.62 crore nett at the Indian box office. Impressive, hai na? On Saturday and Sunday too the film’s collections were over Rs 20 crore nett and that’s the reason Bang Bang’s opening weekend collection now stands at Rs 94.13 crore nett.

Hrithik and Kat’s film is expected to cross Rs 100 crore mark at the ticket windows by today afternoon. Also, since its a holiday in some parts of the country, chances are that Bang Bang will gross big amount even today and pass Monday test quite easily.

Well, if Bang Bang continues its dream run at the box office then we are pretty sure many more records will be broken and re-written.

The 15 finalists of the second edition of the Miss Diva Universe beauty pageant were unveiled in Mumbai this week. The event was held at a Sundowner party at Palladium Hotel in Mumbai.
Lara Dutta
Lara Dutta performed in “Aisa Jadoo” in “Khakee” (2005). Recently she was also in a song in “Don 2 – The King is Back” (2011). Reuters

Miss Diva is a part of Miss India beauty pageant. The winner of Miss Diva beauty contest will represent India at the global platform – Miss Universe.

Unlike Miss India, the Miss Diva pageant will be held as a TV series. In each episode celebrity judges will give the contestants some tasks.

“Each episode will see the girls prove their mettle on tasks set by celebrity judges, who will test them on different attributes. Full of twists and turns, surprise tasks and innovative challenges, every episode will end in elimination, with three divas being crowned in the finale,” the Facebook page of Miss Diva said.

Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta will monitor the 15 contestants throughout the series and the Bollywood actress will also host the show.

The series will start on 6 October and will be aired on Zee Café at 8.30 pm and the repeat telecast will be aired on Zoom at 11.30 pm.

Here is the list of top 15 contestants who will fight to win the Miss Diva Universe 2014 crown.

Karanveer Kaur from Jalandhar, Punjab
Asha Bhat from Bhadravathi, Karnataka
Aishwarya Vhatkar from Mumbai, Maharashtra
Shreeradhe Kanduja from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Alankrita Sahai from Delhi
Niddhi Agerwal from Bangalore, Karnataka
Shruti Iyer from Kerala
Monisha Ramesh from Bangalore, Karnataka
Chahat Dalal from Mumbai, Maharashtra
Minash Ravuthar from Mumbai, Maharashtra
Hida Siddique from Delhi
Lopamudra Raut Nagpur from Maharashtra
Vartika Singh from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Shivani Singh from Udaipur, Rajasthan
Noyonita Lodh from Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu

Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj whose next ‘Haider’ has been written by Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer, says the movie is set in the year 1995, which was the peak of militancy in the Valley.

The 49-year-old director says it was with the help of Mr. Basharat, the author of Curfewed Night, an eyewitness account of the Kashmir conflict that he could manage to complete his Shakespearean trilogy.

The director has set his adaptation of ‘Hamlet’ against the unrest in the Valley.

“I had a great working experience with Basharat, who is the writer of ‘Haider’. This is the first time I have worked with a journalist. I have imagined a lot about Kashmir, but the Kashmir of 95 I could only see through Basharat’s eyes,” said Bhardwaj at the launch of his three books ‘Maqbool’, ‘Omkara’ and ‘Haider’ based on his movie adaptations.

The director also thanked his past script collaborators Abbas Tyrewala, who penned ‘Maqbool’ and Robin Bhatt and Abhishek Chaubey, co-writers of ‘Omkara’.

Bhardwaj revealed that he struggled for more than a year to raise money for ‘Maqbool’, his first movie based on Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’

“I roamed around with the script of ‘Maqbool’ for one and a half years. Tabu was the only person who had said yes to the film at that time. I met many producers and none of them acknowledged the script. One of them asked me not to go ahead with the film as Shakespeare’s stories were boring,” he said.

The filmmaker said that despite the producer’s advice, he went on to complete the trilogy in the past 10 years.

“I feel very emotional to get so much love and respect. Money, I have never earned. The grass is always greener on the other side. But I am happy that I started my journey with ‘Maqbool’ At that point of time I was a student and working with Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Piyush Mishra was unbelievable,” he said.

‘Haider’ stars Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon and will hit theatres on Thursday.