Priyanka Chopra tops Blender Hot List 2008

Blender, India’s coolest music magazine today launched its first Indian cover with Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra adorning the November 2008 issue. It may be mentioned here that Maxim, Blender’s sister publication, also featured Priyanka on the cover of its launch edition, 3 years ago and sure the lady gave her lucky charm to the mag which has not looked back since.

Speaking on the occasion, Editor, Blender India, Sam Lal said,” The USP of Blender’s take on Priyanka is that it showcases the musical side of the actress, something, which no other magazine has explored. She was the most unique yet unanimous choice for the cover. “

This 7th edition of the magazine finds Priyanka topping THE BLENDER HOT LIST 2008 surpassing big names like Metallica, Kareena Kapoor, Mariah Carey and Amy Winehouse (it’s a global compilation, you see). Check out the cover for yourself.

 

Gathering of stars at Cosmopolitan Awards

In was a great gathering of stars at Cosmopolitan Fun, Fearless, and Female Awards held in Mumbai and organized by Cosmopolitan Magazine.  At the show Ranbir Kapoor received Most Fun Actor and Bipasha Basu got the Fun and Fearless Female Actor. On the occasion and event ever daring Sushmita Sen received the Most Fearless Actresses Award. Get some glimpses from the show below:

Katrina Kaif in Vogue

Katrina Kaif features on the latest cover of Vogue in a stunning purple Versace dress. Check out the picture and do leave your comments about it.

Rock On Screenplay Makes It to Oscar Archives

After featuring on the Rolling Stones’ Cover, Rock On has scaled new heights. The movie’s screenplay has been chosen for the Oscar archives.“It’s a great high for me that the script of our first film in association with Big Pictures has found a place in the Oscar library,” “Rock On!!” producer Ritesh Sidhwani confirmed in a press release.“We got overwhelming reactions from across the board and now the news of the script going to the Oscar Library. It can’t get better than this,” Sidhwani added.According to Gregory Walsh, script librarian of Oscars, “The screenplay of Rock On will be made available for research to only actors, students, filmmakers and writers who are their regular patrons. The script will not be allowed for circulation outside the library premises and cannot even be photocopied.”Samir Karnik’s Heroes is another movie to be chosen for the Oscar Archives that already contains a few popular film screenplays like that of Gandhi My Father, Sarkar Raj, Chak De India, Kal Ho Na Ho, Munnabhai M.B.B.S., Devdas and

Bigg Boss 2’s finally ended with victory of Ashutosh Kaushik

It was the Ashutosh Kaushik, the winner of MTV show Roadies who won his second reality show ‘Bigg Boss 2’ getting prize money of Rs 1 crore.  At this ‘Jumbo Finale’ were presented host of the show Shilpa Shetty and Akshay Kumar. Akshay Kumar was at the show to promote his new animated movie ‘Jumbo’. However, scene at the Dias went complicated when a group of people tried to enter forcefully. Enjoy, below pics from the show.

Soha Ali Khan Scared of Driving Cars

Soha Ali Khan who proved that she is a brave girl by deciding to live on her own despite having her big brother in town has revealed that what scares her the most is driving cars.

In some films, where Soha was required to drive a car, she tactfully avoided it but she couldnt do that for Dil Kabaddi.Soha tells us, “I am a very bad driver. In fact I get really scared if I have to drive. I never shot driving scenes in my previous films, but then for this particular shot in Dil Kabaddi I had to drive at the marine drive 7 o clock in the morning. We had made my personal driver to sit at the back seat to instruct me while I was supposed to drive. He helped me but then I was very stressed out for the shoot.”Debutante director, Anil Senior Sharma adds, “Soha had told me she hates driving and is scared of doing that but we couldn’t avoid the scene. We had to coax her and convince her that she could do it well. I made her take eight to ten rounds just to increase her confidence before actually shooting for the scene. She did it easily but one can see the tension on her face. I must say she managed it well in the end.”I’m curious to see her expressions in that scene.

Katrina Kaif reveals how to win Salman

Katrina Kaif has always been supported by Salman Khan. The actress got a strong foothold in the industry thanks to the generous Khan.And now she reveals how she won him over, she says, “He (Salman) likes to act tough but it is so easy to win him over. Anyone who wants to get close to him only has to act defenceless, play the underdog and say, ‘I have no friends and no one loves me’. Bas, Salman will adopt that person.”I hope other young actresses are not reading this.

Yet another lip lock from Hrithik Roshan

Who can ever forget the sensuous lip lock between Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan in ‘Dhoom 2’? Now, the history is going to repeat itself with much more passion it seems.

Much is being said about Hrithik’s chemistry with hot actress Barbara Mori amidst the shooting of ‘Kites’. Now the bonding is getting better each day for this The Mexican bombshell has gotten so comfortable working with Hrithik, director Anurag Basu and producer Rakesh Roshan , that she has been giving suggestions to make certain scenes look better. As a result what was initially planned as just a peck on the cheek was modified into a full-blown smooch after actress Barbara Mori insisted.

The scene we are talking about has Hrithik and Barbara jumping from a great height. Before the deadly jump, Hrithik was supposed to kiss Barbara on her cheek. It was a crucial kiss, but Barbara felt a smooch would look better, considering the chemistry between the lead characters in the film.

After some deliberation, Barbara’s suggestion has been incorporated into the scene. And instead of a kiss, Hrithik smooched her before the two did the stunt. What say Papa Roshan?

Deepika Padukone MTV Roadies as a Part of Promotional Exercise

At a recently held MTV second season launch Deepika Padukone was seen in totally different style and dress up with long hair almost reaching up to her waist while promoting her movie ‘Chandini Chowk to China’. MTV roadies is a reality show in which participants on “Hero Honda Karizma” travel through the different destinations on predetermined routes accomplishing various tasks and a person who till survives with a voting process till the end of the race is declared as winner possessing a 1 million rupee and a bike.

Saira Mohan shoots for ‘Teen Patti’

Saira Mohan is not a new name in the arena of International modeling. Canadian born Saira Mohan has been hailed the ‘perfect face’ as the NewsWeek Cover Girl.

At present this hot gal is shooting in Mumbai for Serendipity Films’ ‘Teen Patti’. This Ambika Hinduja’s project stars Amitabh Bachchan, Madhavan, Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher and Vaibhav Talwar. The film is supposed to be a thriller set in an engineering college with all the elements of peril, fraud and drama. An emotionally moving voyage of a Mathematics professor played by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan realizing his full potential in spite of extraordinary set backs.

Saira is elated to be a part of this important project. She tells, “This is the first Indian movie that I am working in and it is indeed an honour to be a part of a project that has Mr. Amitabh Bachchan as its lead. The producer has left no stone unturned in organising and aligning schedules and I am mighty impressed with how well orchestrated the entire shoot is. It is really like being anywhere else in the world”.

Saira was prior seen in a cameo role in Karan Johar’s ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’ (2006). She had played Abhishek Bachchan’s second wife and was in the scene where Rani goes to meet Abhishek and he meets her with his new wife at the wedding hall during the climax scenes.

Ambika A Hinduja is all praises for Saira and says, ” Saira is not only stunning but also has great confidence and a personality to complement her beauty. Her attitude made her the perfect choice for Teen Patti and we are more than pleased that we could work out dates and have her on board”.

Mumbai under Attack by Terrorists

The movie and commercial capital of India, Mumbai came under severe terrorist attack by a hardly heard Islamist Group the Deccan Mujahideen that opened discriminate fire and bombs at several places in Mumbai including prestigious five star hotels The Taj and The Oberoi. In the incident to the latest update 101 people have been killed and 250 injured. The firing incident first started at CST Railway terminal and BMC (Bombay Municipal Corporation) office and soon to other places on Wednesday night and firing is still continuing even today on Thursday. They also targeted Cama Hospital and GT hospital.

In the attacks 11 police personnel has also been killed including Maharastra ATS chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salskar and SP Ashok Kamte near Metro Cinema. As upto the latest news 4 terrorists has been killed and 9 others has been arrested.