The ‘Ghajini’ gal Asin is going to replace one of the leading ladies of Bollywood, Katrina Kaif in the Yashraj project. Asin after playing the ladylove of Aamir Khan is getting ready to play Shahrukh Khan’s darling in the upcoming Yashraj's untitled project. Initially, Katrina was to play the lead but her name was dropped due to the on-going tussle between Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan. King Khan does not want to connect with anything which is directly or indirectly related to Salman Khan and so he has withheld Katrina’s name.
Luck favored Asin and she got to sign Yashraj project as her Priyadarshan project with Akshay Kumar postponed to March 2010. It was Akki who suggested Priyan to cast Asin opposite him. As the project dates back to March next year, the south sensation got free dates to sign Yashraj project. Post 'Ghajini' success, Asin has become the most demanding actress of Bollywood. Not only films but she has also in her kitty some fabulous product to endorse.
Today, she is looking forward to ‘London Dreams’ opposite Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan.
Perfectionist Aamir Khan had once made up his mind to kick the butt post the release of ‘Taare Zameen Par’ but due to work stress, he failed to walk on his own decision. Soon after TZP, he started brainstorming for Ghajini and the work pressure compelled him to continue the bad habit. But Aamir apart from an actor is a loving father, caring for his son Junaid, he has finally decided to kick the butt.
The actor has decided to kick the cigarette soon after he returns from the vacation with his kids. Junaid reads out Aamir’s blog regularly and when he come across any comments of his fans criticizing Aamir for smoking, Junaid feels bad and often requested his father to give up smoking.
Aamir had the feeling in his mind that Junaid is grown up now and his smoking habit may have bad influence on his kids and so for the sake of his children, he will bid good-bye to smoking.
This one looks like it has a lot of scope for controversy. It has been more than a week since a Muthu Kumar, one of actress Asin’s helper has been missing. Reports now suggest that Mr. Kumar has been spotted in Andra Pradesh.
So why was he missing?
This is how the story goes. It is reported that Muthu Kumar, who is physically handicapped, had been black mailing the actress on grounds that are not yet very clear. From the reports flowing in it looks like he came in contact with some family secret of the actress and has been taking her for a ride since then.
A police official has confirmed that Kumar was spotted near Puttaparthi in Andra Pradesh. The culprit has also admitted to blackmailing the actress. Asin whose career is at its pinnacle right now is not in India at the moment. Her ‘Ghajini’ opposite Aamir Khan did a wonderful job at the box office there by fetching a good spot for the actress in the Bollywood industry.
The pretty actress is currently shooting for Vipul Shah’s ‘London Dreams’ with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan in the lead roles.
Asin we suggest that such mundane issues don’t upset you, and that you keep giving us good films back to back!
In the first week of April, Bollywood star Aamir Khan will launch a campaign, where he will exhort young Indian voters to exercise their franchise and to exercise it prudently. He is doing it jointly with the Association for Democratic Reforms, an NGO.
In the first phase of the campaign, SMSes and voice messages from Aamir will be sent out. In the second phase, Aamir's recorded calls will be made to people across the country asking them to vote for the right candidate, someone without a criminal background, someone with some record of genuine public service.
The voice messages will initially be in Hindi, but soon Aamir will dub his voice in 18 languages including English. Incidentally, Aamir mooted the campaign when he was in Bangalore shooting for Three Idiots movie.
The brain behind this campaign, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore professor and dean who is also founder and director of Election Watch, Trilochan Sastry said, "Aamir is the hero of the campaign and has also shot promotional films on the need to vote."
"Aamir got this idea while he was shooting for Rajkumar Hirani's Three Idiots in IIM-B campus. During his month-long stay, he used to interact with many students." says Sastry.
Sastry continues to say, "In fact, the Bollywood star never missed a chance to play badminton and tennis with the students. The youths sort of looked up to him and he felt he had to do something to bolster their hopes, to translate it into some kind of action."
Aamir then reportedly got in touch with Association for Democratic Reforms and agreed to be part of their Election Watch campaign. His brief was to focus on young voters.
"The concept and other things are done and work is in the final stages. We are sure Aamir will do wonders and has the capacity to impact the youth of this country," said Anil Bairwal, national coordinator, Association for Democratic Reforms.
Aamir has foregone any kind of remuneration for the campaign. Promos to highlight the campaign have already been made with Aamir and his creative team themselves getting involved to make it slick and professional.
Munch, munch
Morning my mushroom quiches! How is the day treating you? I’m up and about, having finished soaking in my bubble bath. I’m starving, but breakfast will hold. I have to tell you about hurry-scurry Aamir Khan first.
I was sipping my Oolong green tea when a birdy dropped by to update me on her Bandra buddy. Tweety spotted the actor-filmmaker driving out of his building on Wednesday subah subah at 9:30 sharp.
No sooner had his Audi SUV crossed the gates, Khan was munching on his breakfast. Looks like he had no time for chai-naashta at home. Of course, since he’s so courteous, he offered to share the breakfast with his chauffeur and the security guards travelling with him.. but they politely declined. So Aamir munched alone.
Tweety’s wondering what’s eating into Aamir’s time at home considering he’s acting in just one movie. Just imagine what would happen if he had two or more films under production simultaneously. Then he’d most probably have his lunch, dinner and snacks in his car. Shudder!
Producer’s specialMust say I was glad to hear that Saif Ali Khan is taking his role as a producer really seriously these days.
Another parinda from Andheri called to express surprise at sighting the Chhota Nawab at the producers and distributors meeting held at The Club the other day. Yeah, we know that the top three Khans — Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman — are believed to have issued letters of support to the association, for a fair revenue-sharing system with the multiplex owners.
Now that he’s turned nirmata and his maiden venture, Love Aaj Kal, is scheduled for release in July.. I’m told Saif was quite vocal and aired his opinions with his trademark assertiveness. Chalo, badhiya hai.
Table for fourAlrite.. after 15 odd minutes, I’ve had enough of chai-naashta. But one can’t say the same for Anurag Kashyap and his French girlfriend Kalki Koechlin.
The DevD maker and his muse were seen at Soul Fry in Bandra, in the company of another firang couple.
The foursome seemed to be having a blast and lingered over their khaana-peena.. they didn’t budge from their seats for a good three hours.
In fact, only, after about an hour or so, Kashyap, Koechlin and their friends seemed to focus on the food and wine. Hic hoc hooray or what!
Look, who’s changing!Mottu is finally here.. with some chatpata news on Shweta Bharadwaj. Who is she now? I’m told she’s an aspiring actress who debuted in Misshun Istanbhool or something such. So?
So this Ms Bharadwaj has signed a French movie, says Mots.. adding that she’s not willing to reveal anything more than that she’s donning 60 different looks.
Shweta claims that the filmmakers chose her because she looks alag alag from every angle. If Mots doesn’t leave this minute I’m going to scream. Par kya karen, such is life dearies!
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire may have failed to impress perfectionist actor Aamir Khan but that did not stop him from bonding with the Hollywood director. The two recently met during the success party of the Slumdog Millionaire and spent a long time chatting with each other. The Hollywood director had sent a special invitation to the Ghajini star for the event.
Danny Boyle had recently said that he was impressed with Aamir's acting and direction in Taare Zameen Par. The director is planning to make a hard core thriller out of Mumbai and there are rumours that he plans to cast Aamir in the movie. Well only time will say if the combination of Danny and Aamir can bring home some more Oscar Awards.
Aamir Khan, who started smoking during the making of his directorial debut Taare Zameen Par, has been struggling to kick the habit.The actor promised to kick the butt after the release of TZP, but fell back into the habit during Ghajini.