Bhatts sign Mrinalini Sharma for a 3 film deal

Bhatts sign Mrinalini Sharma for a 3 film deal

Continuing their trend of introducing new talents, the next one on the Bhatt’s list is Mrinalini Sharma who marks her debut with Mohit Suri’s Awarapan. However the actress has already starred in Prakash Jha’s Apaharan. “Yes, that’ true”, confirms Mrinalini “But that was just a cameo in an item song. I agreed to do that because I wanted to work with Prakash Jha. He is such an esteemed director. Sadly, though as per the placement of the film the entire cameo and half the song had to be cut out because the pre climax situation killed the base of the film. So for me Awarapan is my launch film.” So how does it feel making a start with the Bhatts? “Oh, I feel extremely lucky. They are fabulous people to work with. It’s such a big banner who gives great opportunities to newcomers. I don’t know if any other banner has that courage to take newcomers and make them stars. For them, script is always bigger than actors and that is what I like about them. Vishesh Films doesn’t fear taking newcomers in fact they show lot of confidence in them. I really don’t know many people in this industry who have power to do that. I think I am really lucky that I am working with an excellent production house on a brilliant script.” And what’s so brilliant about the script? “Basically it’s based on the theme of freedom. I play a Pakistani girl called Reema. She gets trapped into human trafficking trade, which is very prevalent currently in the Southeast Asian market. Her journey thereafter and how Emraan eventually helps her to attain her ultimate mission of freedom in life is shown in the film.” So with Emraan at the helm of affairs, the next question becomes quite obvious. And Mrinalini is smart enough to get the hint. “No, the script doesn’t demand any kissing scene. Emraan’s love interest in the film is played by Shreya Sharan but even between the two it is a very clean love story. Basically, his character and mine don’t have a romantic angle. He becomes my friend and eventually takes me to my destination which also becomes his final destination.” So what next after Awarapan? “Well, there’s Showbiz directed by popular choreographer Raju Khan.” That’s going pretty fast in Bollywood. “That’s true. In fact Showbiz went on floors even before Awarapan, though the latter will release first”. But isn’t Showbiz, again, produced by Bhatts? “Well, I have signed a three film contract with Bhatts”, explains the actress. “I have done two films with them and there is one pending. They haven’t started the third film as yet. They are perpetually working on the script and I am sure it won’t be too long before we start”. So what’s she doing in Showbiz? “I play Shikha Verma. She is the chief head of a channel. It deals with the media at large. It talks about the good side and the bad side of glamour world. It says people from the entertainment industry also have right to privacy. They are just like any normal person.” Showbiz has another newcomer who is paired opposite Mrinalini. “His name is Tushar and he’s an excellent costar. He will have a brilliant future in the industry. He is very good looking and extremely talented. He is also very well versed with the technique of filmmaking because he has assisted in Vishesh Films for five years prior to this film”.

Madhuri, finally made her Bollywood comeback

Mumbai, May 5: Bollywood's heroine number one is back with her 1000-watt smile in Aaja Nach Le, The actress who is not talking about her comeback film Dixit still knows how to stay in the news.
Madhuri was in Kohlapur a few days ago for the Maratha Film Awards where she presented director Yash Chopra with the Life Time Achievement award. The she rushed back to Mumbai and came over to cheer painter Purunendu Mandal at his exhibition at the Nehru Centre. A fan of M.F. Husain after he made Gajagamini with her, Madhuri is now taking an avid interest in art stating that the surreality of the artist made her love his work.
Back to her film Aaj Nachle, she says that this was the right film to do. "It was indeed the best film for me to stage a comeback," she says of the Anil Mehta film which is being produced by Yashraj.

Madhuri is working out like a new comer

It was a heart-warming scene to begin a day. I saw Madhuri Dixit returning home at nine in the morning. She was back after a grueling session at the gym. It has been a regular routine and a must for her every morning since he returned to Mumbai on December 6, with the determination to come back as an actress with dignity, a comeback to prove what she could not but always wanted to during all the years she ruled Hindi films as a superstar. She has taken to the gym seriously and has already lost five kilos in fifteen days and hopes to loose some more to keep her self fit to taken on the rough and tumble of every day life as an actress. Madhuri has taken her decision to work in film against very sincerely. She working on her physique, looks and personality like a new comer who is just about to start work on her first film. Yash Chopra, the man who is launching the new Madhuri says : 'it is amazing how she has taken up the challenge. I saw her yesterday and believe me she was looking much better and more beautiful than she look when she was doing 'Dil To Paagal Hain' with me which was more than ten years ago. No one can say she is a married woman now and a mother of two boys. I am also amazed to see the seriousness with which she has decided to start work again,' Yash Chopra, under whose banner she is returning to film, says.Madhuri is also getting ready to face the camera again. She has gone on a strict diet. She has taken to her dancing practice, specially Kathak and spends time working on her diction, her dialogue delivery and body language. She knows what is expected of her to play the role she is playing and is going out of her way to reach a stage of perfection. 'I know I have to be very careful. It is my responsibility more than the responsibility of any one else. I know the kinds of expectations but I have greater expectation from my self. I have asked Yash Raj Film for time before they start the film because I want to re-discover the actress in me. I can not go on the sets thinking that I am an experience actress and I don't have to work hard on anything. I am aware of all the changes in the making of films. I know there has been so much progress made in technology and in every sphere of filmmaking. I have so much to know and get ready for before the film takes off,' Madhuri, looking stunningly beautiful without any make-up says. She knows she has to make all kind of adjustments in life, as a wife and a mother specially. Her husband, Dr.Shriram Nene who came to Mumbai with their children and had planned to stay at least till Madhuri started work but had to rush back because of some emergency. The boys, Arrin and Ryan will be in Mumbai for some time but will leave for Denver when it will be time for them to go to school. Madhuri will make adjustments according to the needs of her family and she has made it very clear that it will always be her family first for her.She will seriously consider some films it have already been offered to her and make her major plan about her career only after she has spent some time in the industry. The film with which she is returning will go on the floors some time in January according to plans made by Yash Raj Films.The only things known about the film as of now is that Madhuri is playing the center character. The story revolved around her with a whole lot of children. There will be no romantic hero in the film but there will be several character associated with her character. According to a very reliable source it is the story of an actress and will have a number of highly dramatic and emotional scenes. Music will certainly be a major highlight of the film.The film as is known by now is being directed by Anil Mehta, the cinematographer of films like 'Lagaan' and 'Devdas'. Anil says that he always wanted to be a director and he knew that he would make his first film with Madhuri and no one else. 'I was very unhappy when she left but somewhere I new that my dream would be fulfilled and now that I can see my dream being fulfilled I am going to take all the care to take care of my dreams and give it a powerful persona and a meaning. I don't want to say anything more. Let my work began. I am anxiously waiting for that day, that first shot,' Mehta says.Yash Raj Films, Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra have promised Anil all the cooperation to fulfilled his dreams. Madhuri doesn't know much about Anil's prowess as a director but is very keen to know and the way the preparation are being made for the launch, it looks like preparing for a festival, a wedding or a major happening in a family. Madhuri wonders why so much 'fuss' is being made about her coming back and she says she is not being modest, she really means it. She doesn't know her own importance, it seems.

Jessica Simpson

she took her love life off tv and is getting it out of the tabs, but jessica simpson let andrew goldman into her parlor for some straight talk.

Something big is happening," Jessica Simpson declares, opening her eyes so wide that it seems as if she's about to announce something earth-shattering, like that she's decided to shave her head and start work on a death metal album. After a long pause, she comes out with it: "I am so happy right now."Happy?In light of what Simpson has experienced recently, her declaration is no less surprising than if she'd actually pulled out a pair of shears and started hacking away at her curls. The world fell head over heels for Simpson during her rocketlike professional ascent as a young bride. How cruel would it be to turn its back on her during the traumatic upheaval she's faced since the ending of her fairy-tale marriage to Nick Lachey? What Grinch-like heart would hold it against Simpson if, rather than put on a good face, she wanted to plunk down a bottle of Jack Daniel's, dissolve into a puddle of drunken tears, and warble a few Hank Williams tunes, her only accompaniment the occasional cymbal crash of her wedding china smashing against the wall? The newly divorced deserve a wide berth for their emotions, and Simpson espe­cially so, considering that on the heels of her split, she hit another snag. Billboard, upon hearing the title track from last summer's A Public Affair, her postdivorce album, pronounced the Madonna-reminiscent single "perfect" and predicted the song was good enough to make "habitual Simpson detractors see her in a new light." But the album, for whatever reason these things happen, hasn't sold as well as might be expected for a performer whose face moved tabloids from the newsstands week after week. Health problems? There was that internal bleeding discovered last year around the time she was filming Employee of the Month; doctors found the presence of the little bugger thought to cause ulcers. Recently, Simpson tells me, after she was still feeling not quite right, an allergist delivered news that would chill the heart of anyone reared on Texan cuisine: She's allergic to cheese. And wheat. Oh, and tomatoes, hot peppers, coffee, corn, and chocolate.So what could convince us that all is butterflies and buttercups in the world of Jessica Simpson right now? Perhaps a new romance, with, as the gossips have been speculating, shaggy-haired singer John Mayer? "I want to tell you everything, but I have to sew my lips together," she says of her dating life. "It's hurt me in the past. I really hope you understand." Apparently, we've just got to take her word for it. "People don't need to know why," she says. "They just need to experience it."

MANDY MOORE

MANDY MOORE IS DONE BEING A POP MUSIC ALSO-RAN AND SOMEBODY'S GIRLFRIEND। NOW—WITH ANOTHER BIG PUSH AT FILM STARDOM AND A BRAVE NEW ALBUM—CAN SHE CONVINCE ALL THOSE DOUBTERS? ANDREW GOLDMAN THINKS SO.

Mandy Moore's shiny black Prius whirs through slow lunchtime traffic on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, her speakers thumping the loping bass line of "Extraordinary," a track from her first album in four years, next month's Wild Hope। "Sorry it's so loud," she says sheepishly, her thin eyebrows raised into a contrite scrunch, an expression you see a lot since Moore's big on making unnecessary apologies for stuff like having to run to the bathroom, talking too much, or her entire pre-2003 musical oeuvre। And though the girl does have a remarkable capacity for breathless chatting, as the song kicks in, she falls completely silent। She grips the wheel tightly with both hands, rocks out not one little bit, and even when stopped in traffic, keeps her eyes glued to the road, which seems to provide an excuse to avoid gauging her passenger's reaction, good or bad। Moore's sensitivity is understandable. Though it's gotten to the point now where you want to plunge a Drano-filled syringe into your neck if you hear another comely pop star utter the words, "This is my most personal album yet," you'd have to forgive Moore if she said it. (Thankfully, she doesn't.) She cowrote every song on the album—and not in the sense that she showed up in a studio, changed an "ooh" to an "ahh" on some producer's verse, then slapped her name on it. "It was 50/50 or more on her end with me," says Rachael Yamagata, the indie troubadour of heartbreak, about the songs she wrote with Moore. "Mandy's not trying to be a singer-songwriter. She is a singer-songwriter." Moore spilled her guts into a Moleskine notebook. (Getting your heart stomped on by a schnozzy TV actor would seem to lend itself to journaling.) Then, in modest kitchens, home studios, and hotel rooms with some respected but little-known artists, converted those feeling into songs.Her label, Warner Bros., wasn't grooving on the organic direction she was taking. Executives were insistent that if she wanted to write, why not give it a go with the type of proven commodities who had written megahits with, say, Ashlee Simpson and Kelly Clarkson? Moore tried it. It didn't work for her. "What's the point of getting onstage and singing music my heart wasn't behind anymore?" she'd said earlier. "I might as well sing karaoke in a hotel bar. I'd actually be more content doing that." So she left Warner Bros. and decided to allow her management company, the Firm, to release the album on its record label so that she could stick with her ragtaggier crew, which included Yamagata, twangy Boston singer Lori McKenna, and the husband-and-wife folk duo the Weepies, who collaborated on five of the album's songs, including "Extraordinary," the track we're listening to in her car right now.

Jessica Biel Wants Respect As an Actress

Jessica Biel says she still struggles to get respect in Hollywood। ``Parts that I really want aren't going to me,'' the 25-year-old actress says in Elle magazine's June issue, on newsstands Tuesday.

``Like `The Other Boleyn Girl' with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I don't want to say that there's nothing I love that I can have. But there's still the occasional script that the director doesn't want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls.''
Biel, who began her career on the family-friendly TV series ``7th Heaven,'' has starred in such movies as ``The Illusionist,'' ``Home of the Brave'' and ``Next.'' In July, she can be seen with Adam Sandler and Kevin James in ``I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.''
Lately, she has been a fixture in the tabloids and on red carpets, sitting front row at Paris fashion week and sending celeb gawkers into a tizzy over her alleged fling with Justin Timberlake।

``The scary thing about having this opportunity is that if it's `your moment,' that eventually disappears,'' says Biel। ``I think about reaching for `the moment' but never really achieving it. That way, I'm always striving.''

Asked if media attention makes dating hard, she says, ``It makes everything hard because you can't even go to pick up a prescription without somebody trying to snap a photo of what you have in your Longs Drugs bag।

``Thank goodness I'm a nice person.''

Paris Hilton better like chicken। The hotel heiress was sentenced Friday to 45 days at the Century Regional Detention Center, Los Angeles County's jailhouse for women just south of downtown in Lynwood.

Inmates get three low-sodium meals a day, with dinner the only hot meal। Beef and pork aren't permitted - ``it's all poultry-based,'' said Capt. Alice Scott, who oversees the 2,200-inmate facility she describes as ``a very nice place.''

Like other high-profile Los Angeles County inmates - O।J. Simpson, Robert Blake, Robert Mitchum, Sirhan Sirhan and Charles Manson - Hilton will be segregated from the general population for her own safety, living in a one- or two-person cell.

Her cell will be Spartan: 12-by-8 feet with a toilet, sink and a window 6 inches wide। She'll comb her blonde locks in a mirror made of polished metal.

Breakfast is served between 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., hours when Hilton sometimes gets in after a night of partying.
Inmates in segregation are allowed outside their cells for at least an hour each day to shower, watch television in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone, Scott said. There are a bank of phones that use prepaid phone cards - cellular telephones and Blackberries aren't allowed.
There have been other celebrities at the women's jail. Actress Daryl Hannah, arrested last year for failing to leave a 14-acre inner-city garden where farmers were being evicted, spent a few hours there.
A year ago, former ``Lost'' actress Michelle Rodriguez showed up to serve a 60-day jail sentence for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding.
Sometimes stars are allowed to do their time in a jail of their choosing. In such cases celebrities pay a daily room-and-board fee to the smaller jails, which afford them more privacy and comfort.
Sean Penn found a jail in Bridgeport, a remote town on the eastern flank of the Sierra, to serve a 60-day sentence in 1987 for fighting with a photographer in violation of his probation for a barroom brawl.
Cop-slapping actress Zsa Zsa Gabor served three days behind bars in 1990 at the El Segundo jail near the Los Angeles International Airport. She paid $85 a day.
But the judge in Hilton's case wouldn't allow such an arrangement, so she'll head to Lynwood on June 5.

Liv Tyler to be the Hulk's new love interest

American actress Liv Tyler is reportedly lined up for the new Hulk flick.
The Lord of the Rings actress will be playing Hulk's co-researcher and love interest Dr। Betty Ross in the film.

Earlier, the role was played by Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Connelly.
Universal Pictures new superhero film will begin shooting in summer in Toronto, Moviehole reports।

The film which is based on the fictional Marvel Comics character the Hulk, will be directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, the scientist who transforms into the Hulk.