Shah Rukh or Aamir – who gets the national award?

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Though both Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have proved themselves to be great actors with a huge fan following, the two have never won a national award for the Best Actor category.

This year could prove to be lucky to one of the actors as both have been nominated for the best actor category. While SRK has been nominated for his role in Chak De India, Aamir has been selected for playing the lead character in Taare Zameen Par.

The Information & Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni is expected to announce the National Awards in the forthcoming week. The distribution ceremony will take place in Delhi where President Pratibha Patil will hand over the coveted award.

 

Aishwarya Rai files for Divorce

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The Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie of Bollywood have run their race – the marriage that grabbed the most headlines in the history of Indian media has broken up!

Aishwarya Rai has filed for divorce on grounds of irreconcilable differences. But insiders say that Aishwarya had been talking to Abhishek for long time regarding kids and Abhi wasn’t too keen on the idea to begin with. The sparks had begun almost two years ago when Ash attended a screening of Aamir Khan’s ‘Taare Zameen Par’ and expressed a wish to have at least two kids, before she gets too old.

But Abhishek, who is younger than Ash, disagreed and stormed off in a cab leaving Ash heartbroken. This was reportedly just the start of the long, sad history of fights between the couple. There were reports of friction between Ash and Abhi on the sets of ‘Sarkar Raj’, and also on the sets of ‘Laga chunari me daag’ where Abhishek had to hurry back home after arguments over the phone with Ash.

Aishwarya, who is the highest paid Bollywood actress ever, plans to move out of the Bachchan house and stay with her mother. Amitabh Bachchan, her father in law is quite upset with the news. “I am devastated,” Big B said to reporters, “Ash is our ‘Bahu’ and there is still some hope of salvaging the marriage.”

The Ash-Abhi divorce will jeopardize a number of films where they appear together – Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’ which nears completion has been put on hold due to this unexpected news. ‘Abhimaan’ which was to begin shooting this May has been canceled, and the production house has reported a loss of Rs 120 Crore. A third installment in the ‘Sarkar’ series is under threat, due to Ash’s disinterest in working with the Bachchans.

Madhuri-Ash together again

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It's the ultimate coup on television. According to the Bombay Times, a TV channel is trying to rope in Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to judge a dance reality show.

Apparently talks are progressing smoothly, but their dates have to match. Both Madhuri and Ash have been among Bollywood's most gorgeous and popular dancing stars.

The last time the two shared screen space was in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas. Their number Dola Re Dola was among the high points of the film.

Madhuri who has been making frequent trips to India is reportedly very keen on accepting the offer.

But it remains to be seen if any other actress would be ready to match step with the original dancing queen.

Abishek turns politician!

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It’s time for Abhishek Bachchan to change roles. The actor will be donning a Neta’s role soon; however it’s only for the silver screen. Abhishek Bachchan is all set play a politician in his next film with filmmaker R Balki’s ‘Paa’.

However, it’s not Paa Bachchan Amitabh who inspired Abhishek for his look of a neta in the film, instead its real life politician Sachin Pilot whose look Abhishek will be sporting. And if reports are to be believed then the character is based on Milind Deora. So we will soon see Abhishek sport crisp white kurta-pyjamas and rimless spectacles.

That’s not it! Abhishek will also be playing a politician in his next film with Ashutosh Gowariker. Ashutosh will be working on his next project with Aishwarya’s Rai’s husband after having worked with Ash in ‘Jodha Akbar’. Gowariker’s next is a period film based on Chittagong uprising and is based on journalist Manini Chatterjee’s book titled ‘Do or Die’. Abhishek will play the lead as Surjya Sen fondly referred as Masterda. Well looks like politics just suits Abhi fine.

Fardeen enjoys holiday with wife Natasha

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Fardeen Khan has taken the title of his forthcoming romantic comedy, Life Partner, quite seriously.While the Abbas-Mustan/Studio 18 co-production releases worldwide next week, Fardeen airdashed to London last week to spend time with his real life partner, Natasha, and enjoy a quiet holiday with her.


Remarked a source, "Fardeen hadn't seen his wife for over two and a half months as he has been shooting non-stop in Goa for Ajay Devgan's home production. He has been missing her. Also, the unfortunate demise of his father has deeply affected him. He needed to escape from Mumbai and unwind."


Natasha Madhvani is the daughter of London-based businessman Mayur and yesteryear's actress Mumtaz. Natasha and Fardeen have been friends since childhood.
The couple will return to Mumbai in the week of release of Life Partner.

Katrina Kaif basks in sunny Spain

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The stunning Katrina Kaif has no doubt broken a few hearts in Marbella, Spain, where she just spent a long awaited vacation with her family.

Katrina was accompanied by her only brother Michael and the other Kaif sisters who all share the same amazing genes.

"It was quite a sight to see six similar-looking women accompanied by one 30-year-old handsome guy (my brother Michael) into restaurants in Spain. We formed a secret society that excluded everyone around. We were just happy being one family."

The Kaif girls scared away any potential Spanish suitors though as they were always with a guy (Michael) and as Katrina pointed out, “They couldn't make out what the man's connection with these women was."

We bet Salman wasn’t so upset about that!

The vacation comes after the actress flew to London to spend her 25th birthday with her family, a reunion, which was well overdue as their earlier get-togethers always had someone or another missing.

Now back in London, Kat wants to get back to Mumbai and back to Salman Khan too, especially as their relationship appears to be moving into a new phase with Katrina admitting her feelings for him publicly for the first time only last month.

However, sadly love will just have to wait as Katrina heads first to Chicago where she will take part in the Independence Day celebrations.

Mallika Sherawat Attends Her First Rock’n Roll Show

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Los Angeles – Mallika Sherawat continues to take Hollywood by storm, recently hanging out with rock stars at the famed Sunset Strip music venue The House Of Blues. As a special guest of Donovan Leitch (son of legendary musician Donovan) at his Camp Freddy gig, Mallika met and hobnobbed with Ace Frehely of the band KISS, Duff McKagan of GUNSnROSES, Dave Navarro of JANES ADDICTION, Billy Duffy of THE CULT and Ozzy Ozbourne.

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Accompanied by her Los Angeles entourage, Mallika hung out backstage before the show, then enjoyed her very first rock concert down front of the stage for the full experience. She “tweeted” throughout the night on her Twitter social networking account, saying to her followers “OMG! Ozzy’s on right now! I have no eardrums left!” and that notorious rake of rock Dave Navarro was “very charming and a perfect gentlemen.”

When asked what she thought of the concert, she replied, “Please speak up, I really can’t hear anything at all.” When the question was loudly repeated, Mallika said she “had great fun. Donovan was the perfect host. For my first rock concert, it couldn’t have been better!”

Abhishek & Aishwarya hide in the jungles of Kerala

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Bollywood’s celebrity couple Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hardly get to spend some romantic time alone given their busy schedules but then this was the last thing they wanted as having to spend time alone in this manner.

It all happened on Wednesday in the jungles of Athirapilly in Kerala where they were shooting for Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’. Abhi-Ash along with Mani Ratnam had gone to check out an elephant which was supposed to participate in the shooting from next week.

The elephant went out of control killing the mahout and taking off on a stampede. As a result, Abhishek, Aishwarya and Mani had to spend their time hiding in the jungles until people who could control the elephant and rescue the couple could reach.

They had to spend around ten hours without food or water until they were rescued late at night. But until then there was no news of their safety and wellbeing and not to mention here that Bachchan family and Aishwarya’s parents were very worried.

Given the amount of pains the unit has taken to shoot ‘Raavan’ right from director’s health scare to an elephant out on stampede to severe viral infections and malaria, this film, when released, will definitely make up for the efforts put in.

Rakhi Sawant's fiance is busy in arranging Canadian visa for her!

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Instead of hosting a grand party following his win on “Rakhi Ka Swayamvar”, 30-year-old Elesh Parujanwala is busy arranging a Canadian visa for his fianceĆ© Rakhi Sawant, so that they can attend his sister's wedding together in Toronto.
"I'm heading back to Toronto soon. As of now, I am busy trying to arrange a visa for Rakhi. My sister is getting married on August 16 and it would be really great if both of us would be there. It would be like twin celebration for my family,” Elesh, who was the only NRI contestant on Rakhi's 'swayamvar', told IANS over phone from Mumbai.

Last year Elesh set up an acting academy with his business partner in Kandivali, Mumbai. But soon “Rakhi Ka Swayamvar” came up and he decided to “probe into the real Rakhi Sawant” through the show.

“Nothing was planned about coming on the show. I guess, I happened to be at the right place at the right time -- that's all. Everyone had an opinion about her and I wanted to find out who she really is,” said Elesh, a Gujarati settled in Toronto.

So what did he find out?

"Rakhi aces all the categories that I ever wanted in my woman. She is simply genuine and I love that about her. When I saw her first, she looked stunning and gorgeous,” he said.

Elesh, who was among 16 aspirants who came to court Rakhi on NDTV Imagine's reality show, says it feels “amazing” to have been chosen as the “ideal groom”. But he wants to wait before he ties the nuptial knot with Rakhi.

"We have decided to spend sometime together off the camera and know each other better. We have gotten engaged as of now, but there's still time before we get married," he said.

And before the bride and groom do that, they need to brush up their English and Hindi language skills respectively. While Elesh manages to speak broken Hindi and a bit of Gujarati, Rakhi doesn't have a good grip on English.

Won't communicating be a problem?

"I can understand a bit of Hindi. And I mix up the vocabulary a bit, besides stumbling upon certain words, I'll get a hang of it soon. As far as Rakhi is concerned, I can help her with her English -- she can help me with Hindi -- and it would be a team effort. Together, I think we would make a good 'Team Toronto',” he quipped.

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