Aishwarya Rai Shah Rukh Kahn Reunion On The Horizon; Rohit Shetty Discusses Screenplay With `Devdas’ Stars

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Bollywood Legend, may reunite with Shah Rukh Khan for the first time since they burned up the screen in "Devdas."

Absolute India reported that Shah Rukh Khan approached Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to play a role in the director Rohit Shetty's next project. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will star alongside Shah Rukh Khan. Based on their past pairing Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan promise to sizzle together in Rohit Shetty's next movie.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play the heroine in the new movie. According to rumors, Rohit met with Aishwarya to discuss the script. Aishwarya and Shah Rukh Khan haven't been paired together since Sanjay Leela Bhansali's blockbuster "Devdas." The news joins reports that  the new Shah Rukh Khan film will also star Kajol in Rohit Shetty's upcoming film.

In 2000, Shah Rukh and Aishwarya were featured together as siblings in the film "Josh." Aishwarya put in a cameo appearance in Shah Rukh Khan's film "Mohabbatein," which co-starred Amitabh Bachchan. Rai also appeared in Shah Rukh Khan' film "Shakti."

Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were a Bollywood phenomenon after they played together in  Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 magnum opus "Devdas." The have not been seen together onscreen since.

The new movie will be Shah Rukh and Rohit's second project. In 2013 Rohit starred in the superhit "Chennai Express," which starred Deepika Padukone.

After a sabbatical of four years, Aishwarya Rai will next be seen on the big screen in Sanjay Gupta's film "Jazbaa" which also stars Irrfan Khan.

Aishwarya Rai is internationally known as "most beautiful woman in the world." She is best known to American audiences for the films "The Last Legion" with Colin Firth, "Bride and Prejudice" and "Mistress of Spices." Her husband Abishek Bachan is a star on the rise. His latest film, "Dhoom 3" hit theaters this weekend and is on the way to becoming a box office smash. 

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Singham returns to box office with roaring success

Ajay Devgn-starrer Singham Returns, which raked in Rs 32 crore on its opening day on August 15, upstaged Salman Khan’s Kick, which was the highest opening day grosser for 2014 at Rs 26 crore.

Rohit Shetty, who directed and co-produced the movie, now has two films with more than Rs 30 crore opening day collection — the second one being last year’s Eid release Chennai Express. Singham Returns joins Salman Khan’s 2012 Independence Day release Ek Tha Tiger, Hrithik Roshan’s Krissh 3 and Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3 to be in the top five opening day collections by a Bollywood movie.

The film is a sequel to the 2011 film Singham, which starred Ajay Devgn in the titular role, and did very well at the box office raking in Rs 100 crore. Devgn returns as police officer Bajirao Singham in the sequel with Kareena Kapoor playing the female lead and a supporting cast that includes Amol Gupte, Anupam Kher, Dayanand Shetty and Mahesh Manjrekar.

Many factors worked in favour of Singham Returns, say analysts. While the franchise is popular with the masses, thanks to the success of Singham, releasing the movie on a public holiday (Independence Day) has also helped improve footfall. The movie was released in nearly 3,500 screens across India, 500 shy of the 4,000 screens that Kick was released in.

However, Singham Returns, with an average occupancy of 80 per cent on the opening day pan-India, has trumped Kick’s opening day collection. “While Kick missed out on a huge movie going to audience in UP, as it was released on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramzan. In the case of Singham Returns, there was no such barrier and single screens and multiplexes across the country showed healthy occupancy,” say trade pundits.

The movie is expected to continue doing well, as many schools, colleges and offices are closed on Monday on account of Dahi Handi. Singham Returns is a popular movie among the kids as well, which is further expected to drive collections. It should be able to cross the Rs 100-crore mark by Monday night, feel distributors.

Often referred to as the Rs 100-crore director, this could be Shetty’s fifth movie to cross the box office milestone. The other movies include Chennai Express, Singham, Bol Bachchan and Golmaal 3. Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer Chennai Express, in fact, kicked off the festive season at the box office last year breaking records and chugging to the Rs 200-crore mark as well.

In the case of Singham Returns, the analysts are not sure if it will cross the 200-crore mark. After the long weekend, the movie will need to sustain collections through the week before it can take advantage of the weekend once again. The current trend in Bollywood is that the first weekend (in this case it is almost four- day long) is the most voluminous in terms of collections and the following weekdays can see a drop of as much as 70 per cent in terms of box office collections. Kick defied this trend earlier last month with steady collections throughout the first week. However, the second week saw a significant dip in revenue.

Singham Returns has been made with a budget of Rs 110-115 crore (including production, prints and advertising). The broadcast rights of the movie have been sold to STAR India under a deal between Devgn and the channel network. The deal, valued at approximately Rs 400 crore, is similar to the network’s agreement with Salman Khan, and gives it the telecast rights to all of Devgn’s movies released between 2013 and 2017. Devgn is also a co-producer on the film along with Reliance Entertainment.

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Shell out a little more for Salman Khan's Kick

Every Salman Khan fan is waiting for this Friday when Kick will hit the theatres. But there is a bad news for the audiences who are planning to watch the film.

It is being said that the cost of tickets for Kick will go up by 15 to 20 percent. There is a trend nowadays of hiking the ticket prices for big ticket films and then Kick is a festive release with Eid around the corner. So exhibitors are aiming to gain from the hype.

Releasing on 25th July, Kick also stars Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

As per the buzz ticket prices for the morning shows may not go up.

In the past, films like Salman Khan's Ek Tha Tiger, Shah Rukh Khan's Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Chennai Express, Ajay Devgn's Son Of Sardaar, and Aamir Khan's Talaash and Dhoom 3 have seen higher ticket prices.

Releasing on 25th July, Kick also stars Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

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Honey Singh Joins Devil Salman Khan to Woo Nargis Fakhri

Salman Khan and Honey Singh will feature together in the song Devil from Kick Fans of superstar Salman Khan and rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh are in for a double bonanza.

After the release of peppy tracks Jumme Ki Raat and Hangover from the film Kick, director Sajid Nadiadwala has roped in popular singer Honey Singh to ensure a complete musical treat for movie-goers. 

Popular by his stage name Yo Yo Honey Singh, the singer will be seen rapping to the movie's theme song Devil, which happens to be Salman's screen name in Kick. After featuring in the entertaining video of Lungi Dance from Chennai Express with Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, Honey Singh will now feature in the video of Devil with Salman Khan and Nargis Fakhri. 

The soon-to-be-released song has been choreographed by Ahmed Khan.

But for fans who can't wait to have a glimpse of the stars in the video, here's revealing Nargis Fakhri's look

This picture was posted on Twitter by @NargisFakhri

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Shah Rukh Khan delighted at southern honour

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was honoured with an Entertainer of Indian Cinema award here at the 8th Annual Vijay Awards, was happy to meet some of the talented people from the southern film industry.

He was handed over the award at the ceremony Saturday, which was also attended by stars like Kamal Haasan, A.R. Rahman, Surya and Vikram Prabhu.

“Happy to be with such talented & humble artistes at Vijay. Now match in room which is as big as a football field!!!!” the “Chennai Express” star tweeted.

Shah Rukh had received Chevalier Sivaji Ganeshan award at the same event last year. 

“In Chennai to share back the love that has always been given to me at Vijay Awards. Love you all & thanks,” he tweeted.

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Sandalwood actresses who get sexier this year

Despite the monsoon, the temperature in the city was scorching recently when Bangalore Times announced its Most Desirable Women list for the year 2013. The yearly lineup gives you the top 25 beauties in the city and this year, many Sandalwood hotties made an impressive jump.



Kriti Kharbanda has reason to cheer. The leggy lass who was ranked second last year, piped Ramya to clinch the top spot.


Nidhi Subbaiah, who is now trying her luck in Bollywood, jumped two spots — from number four last year to number six this year. Then there's the Chennai Express sizzler Priya Mani, who was ranked seven last year but rose to number five this year. Rukmini Vijaykumar sure is doing something right as the curly haired hottie, who was at number 11 last year, is ranked at number seven this time. Last, but not least, is Govindaya Namaha siren Parul Yadav. The screen scorcher was at number 24 last year and has now clinched the 22nd position.


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Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn hug and make up

Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn recently patched up on the sets of Rohit Shetty’s 'Singham Returns’.

Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn, who have not been on very good terms over the years, recently patched up on the sets of Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham Returns’.

According to a report published in Times Of India, Shah Rukh Khan was driving around Bandra and came to know of Rohit Shetty filming for his upcoming flm along with lead actors, Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor at a nearby school.

Being a close friend of Rohit Shetty, especially after working together on ‘Chennai Express’, SRK decided to pay them a visit. Apparently, the actor walked up to Ajay Devgn and embraced him warmly, leaving both Rohit and Kareena pleasantly surprised.

The relationship between Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn went sour when their respective films, ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ and ‘Son of Sardaar’ clashed at the box office in 2012.

Actor-producer Ajay Devgn had served a legal notice to Yash Raj Films for “unfairly” using their dominant position in the industry and putting exhibitors to give prominence to ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ over ‘Son of Sardar’.

We’re sure Ajay’s wife Kajol , who has worked with Shah Rukh Khan in various hits and is a very close friend of SRK, must be breathing a sigh of relief!

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Shah Rukh Khan gifts black SUV to Farah Khan, bike to Abhishek

Choreographer-turned-filmmaker Farah Khan said she was deeply moved after receiving a brand new black SUV from her superstar friend Shah Rukh Khan.

Farah, 49, and SRK have been keeping busy with the filming of her upcoming action-comedy Happy New Year, which reunites the actor with his Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express co-star Deepika Padukone.

"Look what I got!!!! Thank you... Touched and beyond," Farah tweeted along with a picture of the car.

In the picture Farah and SRK are all smiles while leaning against the brand new SUV. 

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Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone’s ‘Happy New Year’ earns Rs. 200 crores before release?

'Happy New Year' is already started to prove to be a proverbial goldmine, even before its release.

After the success of Chennai Express, Shah Rukh Khan’s next big release ‘Happy New Year’ is already started to prove to be a proverbial goldmine, even before its release.

If reports are to be believed, then, the multi-starrer film directed by Farah Khan has been committed a Minimum Guarantee (MG) of a whopping Rs. 125 crores towards the worldwide theatrical release by YRF, whereas the satellite rights have been purchased by Zee for a wholesome amount of Rs. 65 crores and the music rights being sold off to T-Series for Rs. 12 crores.

Attempts to establish contacts with the spokesperson of Red Chillies to confirm this news did not yield any results.

‘Happy New Year’ stars Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood, Vivaan Shah and Deepika Padukone in lead roles.

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Nominations for the Best Film for the year 2013

2013 celebrated 100 years of Indian cinema and broke years of box office records with back-to-back blockbusters. To honour and celebrate Bollywood's best, Zee is back with Zee Cine Awards 2014. Here is a look at the nominations:

Nominations for the Best Film for the year 2013

Aashiqui 2

Aashiqui 2 is a musical love story of two lovers who go through love and hate, fame and failure in their lives. The film starring Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor was directed by Mohit Suri.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is based on the truth behind the ascension of Milkha Singh "The Flying Sikh", who was scarred because of the India-Pakistan partition. The film has Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor in the lead and is directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.

Chennai Express

Chennai Express, from director Rohit Shetty's stable, starred Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles. The film revolved around their journey together.

Dhoom 3

Dhoom 3 is a 2013 Hindi action thriller film, written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Aditya Chopra. It has Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Uday Chopra and Jackie Shroff in lead roles.

Ramleela

Ramleela is a modern adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. It has Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles and has been directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is the story of the relationship between two characters, Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor) & Naina (Deepika Padukone), at two separate but defining times in their lives. The film has been directed by Ayan Mukherjee.

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