Director Prabhu Deva Gets Shruti on-Board

The news is official! Shruti Haasan has signed a Bollywood flick. There was a buzz that the pretty actress may join the star cast of Prabhu Deva’s next. It has now been confirmed that she will play the female in the film to be directed by Prabhu.

Shruti will be paired opposite Girish Taurani, a debutant. The film, which has not been titled yet, will be produced by Tips Kumar Taurani.

Shruti’s foray into Bollywood was with the Bollywood film Luck and she has been successfully concentrating in the regional languages as well. With Prabhu Deva having back-to-back hits in Hindi – Wanted and Rowdy Rathore – movie buffs are expecting a lot more from him!

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Actor Rajesh Khanna No More

It is indeed a saddest day in the history of Indian cinema with Bollywood’s first Superstar Rajesh Khanna passing away today. The end of this 69-year-old came at his residence. Rajesh Khanna has been suffering from health issues for long and was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai for treatment. He was discharged from the hospital recently after his health condition improved. Unfortunately, Rakesh Khanna’s health suffered a major setback today morning and his end came.

Rajesh Khanna leaves behind his estranged wife and actress Dimple Kapadia , whom he divorced in 1984, and the couple has two daughters Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna out of the wedlock.

The entire film industry is bereaving his death and film personalities are making a beeline to his residence to pay their last respects.

Top10cinema extends its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. May his soul rest in peace.

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Actor Prabhu Dheva gets Sonakshi drunk!

Everyone might be raving about the way Sonakshi Sinha has presented herself in the song, Govinda… for Akshay Kumar’s Oh My God!, but there’s a little secret behind that ‘uninhibited me’ look of hers!

We hear that Sonakshi was able to flaunt her dabangg self onscreen, all thanks to Prabhu Dheva.

A little birdie tells us, “Even though Sona was brilliant when it came to dancing, she was a little withdrawn with her expressions. And Prabhu Dheva, who choreographed the song, was not too pleased with it. So, to get the jhakas Sonakshi on screen, he mixed bhaang to her drink. And needless to say, the Shotgun Jr shed her inhibition and danced like never before. When PD told her later about what he’d done, Sona didn’t know how to react!”

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Actor Dara Singh Passes Away

Wrestler and popular actor Dara Singh passed away at his residence in Mumbai today morning. He was 84. Dara Singh, who owns the Dara Studio at Mohali, has also directed a number of films. Some of the films that he had directed included Unkhilli Muttiar, Rustom, and Mera Desh Mera Dharam. He has acted in several films like Jab We Met, Dillagi, Guru Gobind Singh, and Ramu Ustad.

For many, Dara Singh is the real-life Hanuman as he became immensely popular among kids for his role as Lord Hanuman in the television series Mahabharat telecast in 1988 and in Ramayan.

Top10cinema offers its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. May his soul rest in peace.

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Actor Ajith’s Billa 2 beats Ranbir Kapoor’s Barfi on YouTube!

Ajith Kumar has proved his star power again, as his latest trailer of his upcoming movie Billa 2 has garnered more attention than a much-awaited Bollywood film. Well, the new teaser of the Tamil movie has got more hits on video-sharing site YouTube than Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D’Cruz starrer Barfi.

Billa 2 and Barfi trailers were released on July 2 evening and both the trailers have been overwhelmingly welcomed by fans. But the interesting part of the story is that the teaser of Tamil film got more views than the Bollywood movie. While the Ajith Kumar’s film managed to cross five-lakh mark in 48 hours, the Ranbir Kapoor’s movie could only manage to cross 4.75 lakh hits.

At the end of second day, Ajith Kumar’s Billa 2 trailer had got 522,452, whereas Barfi had received 482,254 hits. However, the current views stand at 662,030 and 595,765, which clearly shows that Billa 2 is way ahead of Barfi.

Barfi is a romantic comedy film directed by Anurag Basu. It is a heart-warming tale of Murphy (a deaf and dumb boy) and Jhilmil (a mentally challenged girl) and Ileana D’Cruz. The film talks about the prankster Murphy, whose bitter-sweet relationships with Illeana and Priyanka would lead to twists and turns in their respective lives.

On the other end, Billa 2, which is a sequel to Billa, is a gangster-thriller starring Ajith Kumar, Parvathy Omanakuttan and Bruna Abdullah in the leads. It is about David Billa’s transformation from an ordinary man to underworld kingpin. It is directed by Chakri Toleti.

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Actor Aamir Khan at the Rajya Sabha

Aamir Khan exposed the medical malpractice prevalent in the country and how the lifesaving drugs are overpriced in his television sow Satyameva Jayate telecast on May 27th. The star came under heavy criticism and the Indian Medial Association sought an apology from him but he refused citing his research on the issue.

Following this, a Parliamentary Panel has invited Aamir Khan to deliver a lecture and an interaction on Foreign Direct Investment in the pharmaceutical sector. The star will take part in this interaction tomorrow, June 21st, 2012 along with his Satyameva Jayate team.

The invitation for this lecture was from Shanta Kumar, Rajya Sabha MP belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party, who heads the parliamentary standing committee on commerce.

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Actor Aamir Khan Teams Up With Prakash Raj

Prakash Raj may soon wield the megaphone for a Hindi flick that will have Aamir Khan in the lead role. This film will be the remake of Abhiyum Naanum which Prakash Raj had produced with Radha Mohan helming as the director.

It may be worth mentioning here that Prakash Raj had directed the Kannada version of this film and also played an important role in it. The buzz now is that Boney Kapoor will produce the Hindi version of Abhiyum Naanum and Prakash Raj, apart from directing it, will also play an important role. Wonder who will bag Trisha’s role in this remake!

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Actor Dhanush’s Raanjhnaa with Sonam Kapoor !

After 3 with Shruti Haasan, Dhanush is all set to act in Tanu Weds Manu director Aanand L Rai’s Raanjhana.
The film will have Dhanush playing a character called Kundan and is partially set in Benaras. Meawhile the buzz is that Sonam Kapoor is all set to play Dhanush’s ladylove in the film.

She has been offered this film opposite Dhanush,’ says a source.
Meanwhile it is confirmed that Dhanush’s 3 will hit the screens on 30 March. With Kolaveri Di making it big, expectations are high on the film.

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Krish 2 in Hyderabad city

Unlike other actors of Bollywood, Hrithik Roshan doesn’t love sticking to usual cinema and instead always strives to do something different. Although his recent release Agneepath was an usual commercial drama style, it boasted of his herculean performance that no other actor to compete with.

While films were little mediocre before few years, his father Rakesh Roshan gave couple of consecutive hits = Koi Mil Gaya and its sequel Krrish. With the latter one re-establishing Hrithik Roshan as the most prominent superhero actor, his father Rakesh is now shooting the Krrish-2 that will have more bonanzas in technical and narrative aspects. The film has promising star-casts like Priyanka Chopra and Vivek Oberoi, who plays negative role.

Major portions of the films are shot in Hyderabad Film City.

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Ko movie Hindi Remake Team Finalized

Tamil blockbusters carrying themselves to the lanes of B-town have become the recent formula of success. While most of the films are either based on gangsters or love story in foreign locales, our films have been providing them wide range of entertainments with mixed ingredients of love, action, glamour, sentiment, etc…

While lots of Tamil projects are on cards, Ko will be the next flick to be remade. According to the recent reports, Akshay Kumar has been signed for the lead role that was essayed by Jiiva while Karthika’s characterization will be picked up by Katrina Kaif. Prakash Raj has been not considered for his reprisal, but instead Nana Patekar will be signed.

Rest of the details will be unveiled shortly while Prakash Jha is wielding megaphone for the movie.

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Asin Eyes Shahrukh khan After Salman

Actress Asin, who has grabbed all the golden opportunities to work with the Bollywood biggies has revealed her deep hidden desire. Asin admitted that she desires to work with the Baadshah Shahrukh Khan. Reportedly, Asin has grabbed a meaty role opposite to SRK in Sajid Nadiawala’s 2 States.

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Top Heroine’s love for south Indian actors!!

She is called the angel of beauty and there are countless hearts that die to see her onscreen and offer prayers to her posters and pictures in their rooms. While that is their admiration, it is heard that this beauty has a strong respect and affection for south Indian men, especially four of them.

We are talking about Katrina Kaif and the four men in discussion are superstar Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal and Mammootty. Apparently, sources close to her reveal Kats has tremendous respect for these superstars and has a desire to pair with them onscreen someday.
Incidentally, Kats just missed a chance to pair with Rajini for his film ‘Kochadaiyaan’ as her place has been taken by Deepika Padukone. So far, she has not signed any south film though she keeps getting flooded with offers.

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AR Rahman at Filmfare Awards

AR Rahman has received the 29th Filmfare Award for the Film Rockstar held at Mumbai and interestingly it’s 25th Award given. The award is been designed with diamonds on the crown and bottom of the award…
The list of Filmfare awards AR Rahman received so far…
List of A R Rahman filmfare awards:
1992 – Roja
1993 – Gentleman
1994 – Kaadhalan
1994 – R D Burman award
1995 – Bombay
1995 – Rangeela
1996 – Kaadhal desam
1997 – Minsarakanavu
1998 – Dil Se
1998 – Jeans
1999 – Taal
1999 – Mudhalvan
2000 – Alaipayuthe
2001 – Lagaan
2002 – The legend of Bhagat singh (background score)
2002 – Saathiya
2004 – Swades
2006 – Rang de basanti
2006 – Sillunnu oru kaadhal
2007 – Guru
2007 – Guru (background score)
2007 – Sivaji
2008 – Jaane tu ya jaane na
2008 – Jodha akbar (background score)
2009 – Delhi 6
2010 – Vinnaithandi varuvaya (VTV)
2010 – VTV (telugu)
2011 – Rockstar

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Karan says Kareena’s Tamil is bad

Even as Kollywood filmmakers failed to lure the Bollywood hottie Kareena Kapoor to Tamil films, here is our own K’town actor Karan who is lucky enough to share screen-space for a scooter commercial with the Ra.One star.
Looks like Karan, who has till now turned down branding any product, has finally given up his policy- thanks to the star power of Kareena!
In this regional ad, Kareena, who is the pan-India brand ambassador for the product, plays a sales girl and instigates the customer (Karan) to take the scooter for a test drive — with the actress parked on the pillion.
At the end of the tough ride, Karan says, ‘The scooter is good, but your Tamil is bad’.

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Anirudh in KSR Bollywood film?

The director K.S Ravikumar who successfully completed 20 years in South is now going to Bollywood. KSR will soon be remake the Tamil super hit film ‘Saamy’.
Latest buzz is that the high riding composer Anirudh Ravichander of “Kolaveri Di” song is going to score music for the film.
KSR says that “He will be directing his first Hindi film with Sanjay Dutt in lead role and it will be remake of Vikram starrer ‘Saamy’. He is also plans to cast Amitabh Bachchan in an important role, but they are yet to approach him.”
He adds that “He is in talks with Anirudh to score music for the film. We had an informal chat about this film, but nothing has been finalized yet.”
The Hindi flicks will go on floors in April 2012.

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Ajith & Vijay in Sholay Remake

Combination of top most blockbuster heroes will be a great feast for the respective fans. Even the common audience will be taken aback for this move. It has been in the practice for so many decades that top heroes coming together in the same movie.
During the days of MGR and Sivaji, it was claimed that they paired for a film Koondukkili, the only film. The subsequent heroes too followed this as we had the combinations of Sivaji – SSR, Sivaji – Muthuraman; Kamal – Rajini in Ilamai Oonjal Aadukirathu, Ninaithale Inikkum, 16 Vayathinile; combination of Prabu-Karthik as in Agni Natchathiram, Rajini – Prabu in Guru Sishyan.
These are samples of dual hero projects which proved a rare and rewarding attempts. Now there are longing talks for brining together Thala Ajith and Ilayathalapathy Vijay. Sources which draw attention to the producers suggest that they can take up the record breaking Hindi film Sholay. This film created history in the then Bombay screens by running for years together.
Dharmendra and Amitabh executed such an awesome roles in the movie. Quoting this success formula, some circles in Kollywood have suggested to some of the mega producers to think of remaking Sholay. In that event Ajith and Vijay could be ideal pairs, claim the sources, which will be the hottest thunder in Kollywood.

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Missing Veena Malik Secretly reaches Pakistan

'Missing' Pak actress Veena Malik is back in her country for visa renewal to Lahore via Wagha border, where her friend Ashmit Patel had come to drop her. She had mysteriously disappeared from Mumbai where she was shooting for a film. Actress was in the heat of a storm for posing nude in the Indian edition of FHM magazine with only an ISI tattoo on her arm. She alleged that the magazine airbrushed out the thong she was wearing during the shoot. Earlier, A missing person's case has been registered at the Bandra police station in Mumbai.

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FIR against Vidya Balan for 'indecnet' Exposure

Hyderabad Police have registered a FIR against actor Vidya Balan, following a complaint by an advocate, who alleged that she had posed for indecent photographs on the posters and promos of the film The Dirty Picture. The complainant, Sai Krishna Azad, a practicing advocate, had last month approached the Nampally court here and filed a petition, in which, he had alleged that the posters and promos of the film were "obscene" and were "causing inconvenience to women" in the Nallakunta area and other parts of Hyderabad. Following a court directive, a case was booked against Vidya Balan under Section 294 (Obscene acts and songs) and relevant sections under the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, Nallakunta Inspector of Police M Suman Kumar said.

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Ram Gopal Varma's Unusual 26/11

Maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma always sticks to the unorthodox style of filmmaking. His voracious attraction to real life incidents marks his uniqueness. The director is all set to make a film based on 26/11. The incident will remain undiminished in the hearts of every Indian as the three day live telecast of the ‘Terrorist-Hostages-Police Forces’ drama.

But don’t predict the film to be travelling on the same lines of an action packed thriller drama as Ram Gopal Varma says, “ My attempt now would be not only to capture on film the physical aspect but also the behind the scenes aspect of what exactly happened from the time Kasab and rest of the team landed on Amar Singh Solanki’s trawler in the high seas, till kasab’s heroic capture by the late Tukaram Ombale at Girgaum chowpatty. This will be intercut with what the various gallant police officers did in their attempt to get the situation under control.

Rommel Rodrigues, author of “Kasab the face of 26/11”, who has an extensive and encyclopedic knowledge of the event will be a helping hand to Ram Gopal Varma.

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KV Anand signs up a Bollywood star!

Despite being busy directing the Suriya starrer Matraan, KV Anand is focused on remaking Ko in Hindi. Producers RS Infotainment were in talks with a leading star in Bollywood to play the lead role in this remake but that did not materialize.
Following this, Ranbir Kapoor was approached for the role essayed by Jiiva in the original and he had agreed to join hands with KV Anand. Ranbir understands that Tamil remakes are selling like hot cakes in Bollywood and it would be a good idea to star in a remake.

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