A Sticky Wicket for Aarti Chhabria

Former Miss India Worldwide, Aarti Chhabria has been chosen as the new face of IPL cricket for its second year. She's very excited by the development: "I'm totally fascinated by the game. Over the years, the game of cricket has changed. I would call it cricket-cum-entertainment now, or cricketainment." Aarti is having to make a lot of changes in her style as she moves from being Bollywood actress on the big screen to Sports-host on the small screen and is having to rapidly develop a new set of skills. What made her choose to get involved? "The basic reason that I agreed to do this was because the image of cricket has changed. The opportunity was a good one. I'll be hosting the show from October 10, along with former cricketer Atul Wassan. The show will be about cricket, but I will be concentrating my role more as the host of the show and will not get involved in the technicalities of the game." Aarti's Bollywood career encompasses movies such as Shaadi No.1, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Partner and Heyy Baby. "For me, this will be a very big challenge. Ever since I've got this offer, I've been a little more alert and have been reading up a lot on cricket. Yes, I'm a little nervous, but I'm ready. I'm really looking forward to getting on the show".

Adah Sharma is gorgeous but crazy

There are few people who love trying their hands in crazy acts. Adah Sharma too seems to be one of them.The gorgeous babe has some desires which a normal person could hardly think of.“Whenever I watch the performers in circus I feel like aping them. Once when I saw a man climbing a coconut tree I felt that even I should learn the same.Since my childhood I had a desire to write with both my right and left hand and I am practicing it since 6-7 months. I hope within next 2-3 weeks my desire is fulfilled,” speaks Adah Sharma.Well, we have heard that creative people are a little bit abnormal and listening to Adah surely proves it to be right.

Hrithik in holly race

Hrithik roshan who is overwhelmed with the success of Jodhaa akbar has something really interesting in his pocket for his fans and cinema lovers. Hrithik is starring opposite to Latin actress “Barbara Mori”in Rakesh Roshan’s next film “kites”. The girl’s role in the film is extremely bold and that’s the reason for signing Barbara said Anuraag Basu who is directing the film. Rakesh Roshan’s first choice for the film was Anil kpoor’s daughter Sonam. But when Anil came to know about the role he asked Rakesh that how could he even think about Sonam in such a role and that also after seeing her in a film like Saawariya in which she was fully covered from head to toe.Till now there was no hot and sizzling bed scene he had done but this time hrithik apparently has a lot of roll-in-the-hay scenes. According to sources hrithik will be seen in a totally different role as he has never done before.Kangana Ranaut is also in a sensuous role in the movie and playing hrithik’s wife. Hrithik and Barbara are flying high with ‘kites’.I am sure hrithik gonna outperform Barbara with his talent in the movie and we hope this film may prove to be a milestone in hrithik’s carrier as it can open Hollywood doors for him.

Sunny, Bobby again play brothers in 'Heroes'

After "Dillagi" and "Apne", real life brothers Sunny and Bobby Deol are back playing reel life siblings in Samir Karnik's episodic flick "Heroes".
The film is about an India tour involving three stories. While one story features Salman Khan and Preity Zinta, another brings together the odd pair of Mithun Chakraborty and Dino Morea.
And the third episode that has been kept under wraps brings together the real-life brothers Sunny and Bobby.
Karnik and Bobby teamed up for "Nanhe Jaisalmer". But this is Karnik's first film with Sunny.
However, from the sensitive "Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee" to the hard-hitting "Darna Zaroori Hai" to "Salaam-e-Ishq" - the films telling various segmented stories in an assorted bouquet - have crashed unceremoniously.
The only episodic film that did well at the box office is "Life... In a Metro".
Preity is positive about "Heroes" and said: "You watch, 'Heroes' will change the course of episodic films. I've just 20 minutes of playing time with Salman. But whatever we have, we had a blast shooting it."

Prithviraj in ” Nandanam” -Tamil Remake.

Director Ranjith's Malayalam super hit Nandanam (2002), which was the debut film of both Prithviraj and Navya Nair, will soon be remade in Tamil by Ranjith himself. This will be the Tamil directorial debut of Ranjith, who was recently in the news for making Prithviraj-starrer Thirakkatha, reportedly a romantic film based on the life of late actress Srividya. Produced by veteran producer Shogun Mohan, the Tamil version of Nandanam will have Prithviraj reprising his original role; it is most likely that Priyamani will be his heroine in this musical love story. The surprise element is a cameo by Dhanush as a human avatar of Lord Krishna. The Tamil screenplay is being written by writer-director Viji, who wrote the screenplay of Mozhi and also wrote and directed Vellithirai. The shooting will start in January 2009, after Prithviraj and Priyamani complete the shooting of Mani Ratnam’s Ravana.

An unfortunate incident in 'Krishnaleelai' shoot

‘Krishnaleelai’ directed by Selvan, stars Jeevan and Meghna in the lead roles.
An unfortunate incident happened when the shooting for the film was going on in the location of Super Good White house in Saligramam, Chennai. A scene involving Karunas, Ganja Karupu, Sarath Babu, Jeevan and Meghna was being shot. As the scene next to it demanded to be shot from a crane, an operator was bringing it to the required spot on the location.
Unexpectedly, as the crane fell down while was being moved on the jagged spots of the way, the operator Karunakaran got severely injured and was rushed right away to a nearby hospital in Vadapalani, by the director and other members of the crew and now he is undergoing medical treatment.
Shooting for the film was postponed for some hours later following this incident.

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Aegan audio launch on October 9th

There is every need for Ajith fans to rejoice. The long wait is over. Fans can get ready to celebrate Thalai’s Aegan audio release. The audio launch will be held on 9th of October. October 9th is an auspicious day since it Vijayadasami. This was officially confirmed by Ayngaran International. Choreographer cum actor turned Director Raju Sundaram make his maiden movie with Ajith. Ajith looks like a cool dude in stylish costumes with a killing look. The hypnotic Nayanthara has excelled one step more than Billa. Yuvan Shankar Raja has composed mind blowing songs which will keep the feet of the youth to tap. Apart from a song that is expected to be filmed in location exotica, Aegan is in process with post production. This movie also stars Suman and Jeyaram. The film is slated for Diwali release

Pyramid Saimira plans to invest Rs 200 crores

In the next 18 months Pyramid Saimira Theatre plans to invest Rs 200 crores to modernise 250 theatres. This is across the four southern states, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

The renovation will start with Jyothi Theatre in Tamil Nadu which seats 550.
Pyramid Saimira Group Chairman P S Saminathan said “Till now, we have been focusing on expanding our network and increasing our points of presence. Today, we enjoy significant penetration geographically and our focus will henceforth be on enhancing the quality of experience that we offer our customers and branding,” Source: business-standard

The title of Mani Ratnam's film

It is well known that Mani Ratnam is producing his next film simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil. The story of Ramayana is the basis of this film.
The title of the film in Hindi is 'Ravanan' and 'Asokavanam' in Tamil. According to the epic, Ravanan abducted Seetha and imprisoned her in Asokavanam.
In Hindi the role made after Ravana will be done by Vikram. Prithviraj will do the same role in Tamil.

The role of Hanuman will be done by Govinda in Hindi. Abhishek Bachchan will do the role of Rama and Ashwarya as Seetha in Hindi.Vikram will do the role of Rama in Tamil.
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http://www.cinesouth.com

Run the torture ‘Race’ all over again!

‘Race’ was one of the first surprise blockbuster hits of the year. And that has made the makers over enthusiastic. So much so that they are set to make a sequel to the same!
Can’t blame them fully too! After all, it’s the viewers who make super confusing ( thanks to far too many twists, turns, climaxes and anti climaxes) and bizarre thrillers like that hits!
After the movie made money, Ramesh Taurani of TIPS had announced his plan to make the sequel with Abbas-Mastan as its director. Now Saif Ali Khan has confirmed his participation in the sequel and that makes the plan more concrete.
Saif’s desperation to make the sequel is understandable, since after ‘Race’ both his big Yash Raj movies ‘Tashan’ and ‘Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic’ failed miserably at the BO!
Bipasha Basu, Sameera Reddy and Anil Kapoor are likely to be considered. But nothing has been confirmed yet. But Katrina Kaif and Akshaye Khanna’s inclusion is ruled out since their characters died in the climax of the film. Instead two new actors are likely to be signed on. So the mad race is on. Time to run for cover, all you sane people out there!

‘Parthan’, ‘Gulmohur’ releases

Jayaram's long pending movie 'Parthan Kanda Paralokam' got released today in 36 centers. The movie which was completed by February was waiting for the right time to get into theatres.

Long enmeshed with clearance problems from labs due to some financial difficulties, the recent popularity of Jayaram after the super hit of ‘Veruthe Oru Bharya', prompted the producers to take a calculated risk to anyhow present the movie for the season.

The movie with Mukesh and all the comedy team of Mollywood is planned as a hilarious entertainer by the director Anil.

Also opening in the theatres today is 'Gulmohur' directed by award winning filmmaker Jayaraj. A low key release, the movie opened only in 12 centers all across Kerala. Director Renjith is appearing in the lead of this movie as a former naxalite. The preview shows of the film have already garnered the best reviews from all over Kerala.

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indiaglitz.com