2008 - Bollywood movies which top the list

Bachna Ae Haseeno

Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Siddhartha Raj Anand, this had all the magic like other Yashraj films. Ranbir Kapoor played the lead role against three co-stars Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone and Minissha Lamba in this film.

Jodhaa Akbar

Produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar and excellent scores from A.R.Rehman, this film did not fare very well at the box-office but does receive a mention here because of the superb chemistry between Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan. Jodhaa Akbar is a love story, it portrays beautifully, the defiance of Jodhaa, the Rajput girl who is asked to marry Akbar, a Muslim Emperor.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Yet another one from Yash Raj Filsm, this one marks the debut of Anushka Sharma with the superstar SRK who plays two different shades in the film as Surinder Sahni, a simple, clean hearted, honest man working for Punjab Power, and Raj, who is what one calls a flimi ‘macho’ man

Singh Is King

Produced by Vipul Shah and directed by Anees Bazmee, this is by far the biggest hit of 2008. This is a by and by masala entertainment film with Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles.

Fashion

Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, the film shows the darker aspect of World of Fashion, glamour and ramp shows. The film revolves around the life of three models played by Priyanka Chopra, Mugdha Godse and Kangana Ranaut.

Golmaal Returns

A sequel to ‘Golmaal’, this Rohit Shetty directed film is no match to its original but has some hilarious situations and commendable performances from Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade and Celina Jailtey enough to set the cash registers ringing at the box office.

Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

Directed by Abbas Tyrewala, this film has been produced by Aamir Khan to launch his nephew Imraan Khan who delivers promising performance alongwith newcomer Genelia D’souza. The film has a simple story about a group of friends and focuses on the couple that is in love.

Race

Abbas Mastaan are masters when it comes to thrillers. This thrillers of theirs was a superhit at the box office with Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif in the main roles.

Rock On

Once again the team of Dil Chahta Hai, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar is back with director Abhishek Kpoor for a suberb delivery. The film marks the debut of director Farhan Akhtar as an actor and rock star. This film is about friends and friendship and deals with the love for music in the band called ‘Magik’. As a band, Adi (Farhan), Rob (Luke Kenny), KD (Purab Kohli) and Joe (Arjun) were a treat.

Ghajini

The movie is yet to be released but the list would be incomplete without inclusion of Aamir Khan’s much awaited ‘Ghajini’ which marks the Bollywood debut of Asin and also stars Jiah Khan and Mohit Ahlawat

John and Rahul at Trident Hotel to Promote Mumbai Marathon

John Abraham and Rahul Bose being the part of creative and sensitive bollywood world was present at 26th November’s terrorist attacked hotel TRIDENT as part of press meet to promote Procam’s Mumbai Marathon 2009. They not only attended the press meet only as part of Marathon Promotion but also expressed their opinion about the future course and activities as to be operable in Mumbai.

John said to the presented press persons, “This place is very relevant. This place where you are standing is very relevant to the attacks…this is one of the places where the hostages were held…I hope this marathon gets a lot more meaning to a lot more people.”
Rahul Bose also applauded cause of Marathon and agreed with the views of John, he said, “civilian society to stay together, to challenge the government-this was a failure, what will you do? If you’re about to do something, when, where and how?”

 

Sangeeta Ghosh pictures from upcoming movie ‘Bhanvraa’

Director Dharmesh Darshan who has experience of directing the movies acted by stars like Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Abhishek Bachchan is set to produce his first movie under his banner titled as ‘Bhanvraa- Love In Aggression’. However, in this movie he has enrolled popular television artist Eijaz Khan, Manav Gohil, Sangeeta Ghosh, Shweta Salve instead of Bollywood Stars.

Amitabh Bachchan is No 1, says Aamir Khan

New Delhi, Amid the war of words between the three Khans - Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman - the "Ghajini" star Aamir has declared that it is none other than superstar Amitabh Bachchan who is still the number one in Bollywood."For me Amitabh Bachchan is No 1. Do Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan say they are number one? No one who sits on the top needs to say he is number one. Others keep claiming to be there," said Aamir.
Recently, Shah Rukh sparked a controversy by proclaiming himself the biggest brand and saying there cannot be any competition with him.
Commenting on that Aamir said: "I don't believe in competitions with others. I only compete with myself."
After a phase of cold war with his contemporary Shah Rukh, Aamir says he can't dare to fight with him.
"Do you think I could dare to fight with Shah Rukh. He is a good friend and so I can't fight with him. I respect him a lot," said Aamir, who was in capital over the weekend to promote his forthcoming film "Ghajini".
The actor, who was is town giving his fans the “Ghajini” cut at an event, was in a jovial mood but tried his best to avoid queries about his cold war with Shah Rukh.
He joked that by turning into a barber for a day, he was even promoting Shah Rukh's next venture “Billo Barber”.
His antics did not just end at that.
Aamir's forthcoming ventures is titled “Three Idiots” and the actor said the title should be rightfully given to the three Khans of Bollywood - including himself, Shah Rukh and Salman.
“My forthcoming film after 'Ghajini' is Rajkumar Hirani's 'Three Idiots' and I play the character of an idiot with R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi. But I think Shah Rukh, Salman and I are truly the three idiots of Bollywood,” Aamir said.
He also cast a dig at Salman when he asked the crowd whether they want him to flaunt his body that he has toned up especially for “Ghajini”.
"Who wants to see my eight packs?" he asked. But when there was a loud “Yes, we want to” from the audience, Aamir said: "Only Salman can show his packs. I can't do it. It's not my cup of tea.”

Yana Gupta Spotted Dancing and Singing at Bootleggers

Yana Gupta, who is the model and actress of Czech nationality, was recently seen performing at Bootleggers a hip pub in Colaba. Yana during the performance was playing flute, whereas, other members of the bands were Mikey Mclarey on guitar, Tanu on the bass, and Abhishek Arora on percussion.

Though Czech, however, Yana got her Indian sir name after being married to an Indian artist Satyakam Gupta. After three years, the marriage disengaged between and currently it is in news that she is in affair with Abhay Deol. She had worked in a number of stints in Bollywood movie as well as in leading advertising campaigns.