Kerala government stops Mani Ratnam's shooting!

The Kerala Forest Department has stopped the shoot of Mani Ratnam’s Ravana in Hindi and Tamil in the forest areas of Mulankuzhi in Malayatoor forest range near Kochi in Kerala.

The beautiful green Mulankuzhi forest in Malayatoor where film shooting has not been allowed so far is a prime spot for eco-tourism. Mani it seems due to his political connections with the CPI (M) government in Kerala was given special permission to shoot in this virgin forest area.

However the forest officials found that Mani had constructed temporary thatched huts in prohibited areas inside the forest, after five days of shoot. So on Friday (Oct 10) evening after the forest department found the violation, they immediately ordered the shooting to be stopped. The film unit claim that they had put up the temporary huts to put their costly equipments from the incessant rains in the area.

Mani was given special permission to shoot for 25 days, and he had only shot five days for the Tamil version with Vikram, Pritviraj, Priyamani and others. Now since the unit has been found to violate forest laws, the special sanction has been withdrawn and Mani has been asked to vacate from the forest land.

Meanwhile the environmentalist in Kerala has also been up in arms, and they are asking uncomfortable question on why Mani was given special permission to shoot in Mulankuzhi forest area?

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Kangana gets steamy with her boyfriend

From the beginning of her career Kangana Ranaut has seemed to be comfortable with exposing, steamy scenes and playing troubled characters. In all her films from Gangster, Woh Lamhe, Shaka Laka Boom Boom to Life in a Metro and the upcoming Fashion she’s repeatedly done things of that kind!

This time it’s being said that her lovemaking scene in Raaz 2 gets steamier than ever. That’s quite natural. The guy with whom she’s filmed it is none other than Adhyayan Suman, her real-life boyfriend.

Yes, Kangana has been seeing him after she walked out of her long term relationship with Aditya Panscholi and was done using him as accused by the jilted Panscholi!Reportedly Kangana and Adhyayan play a madly-in-love couple in the Vishesh Films’ movie. Since the two are shown to be a live-in couple in the film, director Mohit Suri thought of shoot a lovemaking scene between them. The scene required the two actors to get cozy and even share a passionate kiss.

As expected the real life lovers were game for it. The buzz is that everything was very spontaneous and they didn’t even rehearse before shooting the scene. With an expert like Kangana around, it must have been very simple indeed!

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Katrina Kaif-" I go blindly into films that feature him"

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif, who has given many hits with Akshay Kumar, says she trusts the star’s script sense and often follows him into projects. Katrina’s last hit with Akshay was Singh is Kinng.

Katrina voted sexiest woman in the world "He has a fantastic script sense. And you know, when he’s doing it, it will work. Not that I go blindly into films that feature him. But, yes, he does have a fantastic knowledge of what works at the box office. That explains our success ratio together," Katrina said.

Interestingly, in Vipul Shah’s Namastey London, Katrina had the main role while Akshay played the supporting part. The tables were turned in Singh Is Kinng. But Katrina says she wasn’t allowed to complain.

"Every time I’d start complaining about the size of my role, Akshay would order me to go and stand in a corner and repeat Namastey London five times and be quiet. He’s right. He needn’t have done Namastey London, which was the girl’s story," said Katrina who teamed up with Akshay in Welcome as well.

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Neetu Chandra as a Glam-Doll

Neetu Chandra is busy dubbing for her three forthcoming ventures- Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Kusarprasad Ka Bhoot and The films are Flat No. 13 B. Coincidently the dubbings are being recorded in the same studio almost simultaneously thus much of her time being spent in the same studio. Fans of Neetu Chandra have a lot to look forward to and so the coming weeks are quite exciting for Neetu herself.

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