Bollywood Movies: Latest Movies News, 2007, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone

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Bollywood News:
	Saawariya Screening Held Oct 28 Date: 10/30/2007: The first movie screening for Saanvariya, Saawariya (2006) was held Sunday night Oct 28, 2007. The movie received rave reviews and is set for a great opening when it is released next Friday. The movie is about 2 hours and 8 mins long and contains about 8 songs, which is make it a short film per Sanjay Leela Bhansali 's standards. The film stars two new comers, Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor , from two of the biggest Bollywood families.
	Kajol and Ajay Together Date: 09/28/2007: Kajol Mukherjee and Ajay Devgan will be together in 3D animation film named Toonpur Ka Super Hero. Ajay is currently busy with the shooting of You, Me and Hum (2008) , which will his first directorial debut.
	Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Spotted In Boston Date: 09/26/2007: Abhishek Bachchan recently flew from India to Boston, USA to join his bride Aishwarya Rai were she is busy shooting for The Next Pink Panther (2009) . Aish has been in Boston for the last couple of weeks working on with director Harald Zwart. The Bollywood couple were spotted walking together on the street of Boston enjoying the life. Soon Abhishek will be heading to Namibia for shooting of Drona (2007) . Aishwarya is playing the role of Sophie Solandres, a criminal expert, opposite Steve Martin (Inspector Jacques Clouseau).
	Celina Jaitley In Hollywood Movie Date: 09/25/2007: Celina Jaitley has been signed to star in Hollywood movies. The movies that she will star is are Love has no Language and The Quest of Sheherzade.
	Malaika Arora Khan On Cover Of Maxim India Date: 09/18/2007: Malaika Arora Khan will be featured on the upcoming issue of Maxim India. She is married to Bollywood actor Arbaaz Khan and is a Mother of one. She was made famous within Bollywood by her dance in the song chaiyaa chaiyaa.
	Deepika Padukone And Akshay Kumar In Made In China Date: 09/05/2007: Akshay Kumar and . Deepika Padukone will be seen together in a new Bollywood movie named Made in China (2009) . The film is being directed by Nikhil Advani and is an action packed film to be shot in China starting in early 2008. During the shooting the film stars will stay in Shanghai and Beijing.
	Salman Khan Sentenced To 5 years Imprisonment Date: 08/24/2007: Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by the Session�s Court in Jodhpur for his role in the Chinkara poaching case of which he was convicted on April 10, 2006. The case involves hunting of two black bucks back in September 28, 1998 while he was shooting for Hum Saath Saath Hain.
	Celina Jaitley Featured On Maxim India August 2007 Date: 08/20/2007: Celina Jaitley was again featured on the cover of August 2007 issues of magazine Maxim India. She was previously on the cover back in 2006. This time she in on the cover because of her love for animals and to support PETA India with their campaign 'Sexy for a Cause'. Mumbai recently banned captive elephants within the city limits after pressure from PETA India which has backing of many Bollywood celebrites and politician.
	Bollywood Stars In New York Date: 08/20/2007: This past weekend Amitabh Bachchan was present at the Lincoln Center to recites poem's written by his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai were also present at the event. The following day, Indian's had organized a parade to celebrate India's 60th independence anniversary. Priyanka Chopra was the grand marshal for the parade. Astronaut Sunita Williams, comedian Johnny Lever were also present at the parade that was organized by Federation of Indian Associations (FIA). The parade was held along Madison Avenue from 41st Street to 23th Street in Manhattan.
	Saif Ali Khan Could Be Desi Bond? Date: 08/15/2007 Saif Ali Khan will get a chance to play a role of secret agent similar to James Bond. Director of Ek Haseena Thi will direct Saif in this new film to be product by Saif's new banner.
	Aishwarya Rai In Pink Panther 2 Date: 08/14/2007: Aishwarya Rai has been singed to star in the Hollywood movie Pink Panther 2 (2009) . The Indian Bollywood star and former Miss World will star opposite Hollywood stars Steve Martin, Andy Garcia, John Cleese and Alfred Molina. The movie is slated to be released sometime in early 2009.
	Bollywood Stars Win Rajiv Gandhi Award Date: 08/13/2007: Bollywood star Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty won the Rajiv Gandhi award along with journalist Shekhar Gupta and Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams. The awards were presented by Sushilkumar Shinde and Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. Others winners include Veerendra Heggade, D Y Patil, Swati Piramal, Sir Gulam Noon, Khushagra Bajaj, Tulsi Tanti, and Pooja Bhangira.
	Aishwarya Rai Wax Statue In New York Date: 08/08/2007: Aishwarya Rai's wax statue will be added to the Madame Tussauds museum at Times Square, New York on August 15 which is the day India will celebrate it's 60th year of independence. The statue is borrowed from the London museum, which also has other was models of Bollywood star like Amitabh Bachchan , Shahrukh Khan (SRK) and Tamil superstar Rajnikanth. The Madame Tussauds museum has locations in London, Amsterdam, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Shanghai and are soon opening one in Washington, DC.
	Mallika Sherawat In Remake of Qurbani Date: 08/08/2007: Mallika Sherawat will be playing the role played by Zeenat Aman in the remake of Feroz Khan�s Qurbani (2007) . Earlier talked had Priyanka Chopra slated for the role but seems that Mallika might have gotten the role instead. Mallika will be paired opposite with Fardeen Khan.

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	Alicia Silverstone Naked for PETA Date: 09/21/2007 Alicia Silverstone Naked for PETA to promote go vegetrain. This is not the first time that movie stars have appeared naked in a PETA ad.
Jenna Bush Engaged Date: 08/16/2007 Jenna Bush, one of President Bush's twin daughters, is engaged to Henry Hager. Does this mean that there will be a White House wedding before President Bush's Presidential term ends? Jenna and Henry having been dating for a while and Henry was present at White House dinner for Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall back on November 2005. He has an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University and will soon be returning to college to pruse a business administration at the University of Virginia.

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08/27/2007:
US computer maker Gateway to be acquired by Taiwan personal computer supplier, Acer, for $710 million. This will put Acer past the Lenovo Group Ltd. as the world's third-biggest PC maker.

08/27/2007:
Google maybe close to the launch of it's phone service. The mobile phone is called gPhone and is awaiting final ok and carrier agreement before it launch. Recently there was news that Google may be interested in bidding on spectrum. Lets see if Google will lauch the gPhone?

08/08/2007:
Amazon launches a payment service to compete with PayPal and Google Checkout. The service is named Flexible Payment Service (FPS) and likly to give PayPal some good competition.

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08/22/2007:
Dubai World, investment holding firm of the Dubai government, announced that it has agreed to invest up to $5.2 billion in MGM Mirage. The deal will involve Dubai World purchasing 9.5 percent stake in MGM for about $2.4 billion and will invest about $2.7 billion, a 50 percent stake in MGM's CityCenter project. Which is a 76-acre Las Vegas development project that includes hotels, condos and retail outlets and s due to open in 2009.

08/20/2007:
Hurricane Dean is heading towards Tulum, Mexico which has forced many tourists to flee the vacation location and beaches of the Mayan Riviera. Petroleos de Mexico, a Mexico's state oil company, will be evacuating more then 14,000 offshore workers. Cancun's international airport was busy with many tourists waiting to get flights to head out.

08/17/2007:
Google Pack will now include Sun Microsystems StarOffice suite as part of the freely downloadable collection of productivity software. Google pack currently includes such software as Google Earth, Google Desktop, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Adobe Reader, Skype, RealPlayer, Norton Security Scan and other Google software.

08/08/2007:
Wipro, an India-based software company, has expanded it's wings through a $600 million acquisition of Infocrossing, United States based infrastructure management services provider based in Leonia, N.J. This will give Wipro presence in the US to allow it to meet customers needs for data center that must be located within US. The acquisition is one of the largest by an Indian IT company in the USA.

Movie Releasing June 15, 2007:

Jhoom Baraabar Jhoom (2006)
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan , Preity Zinta

Movie Releases June 2007:

Aap Kaa Surroor The Moviee (2007)
Cast: Himesh Reshammiya , Mallika Sherawat

Awaarapan (2007)
Cast: Emraan Hashmi , Shreya Saran

Jhoom Baraabar Jhoom (2006)
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan , Preity Zinta

Speed (2007)
Cast: Zayed Khan , Urmila Matondkar

The Train (2007)
Cast: Emraan Hashmi , Geeta Basra

Forthcoming Movie Releases For 2007:

Aaja Naachley (2007)
Cast: Akshaye Khanna , Madhuri Dixit

Aashayien (2007)
Cast: John Abraham

Aap Kaa Surroor The Moviee (2007)
Cast: Himesh Reshammiya , Mallika Sherawat

Cash (2007)
Cast: Ajay Devgan , Esha Deol

Chak De India (2007)
Cast: Shahrukh Khan , Vidya Malvade

Kajri (2007)
Cast: Aamir Khan , Ayesha Takia

Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007)
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan , Rani Mukherjee

Mera Bharat Mahaan (2007)
Cast: Salman Khan , Preity Zinta

Mr Mehta and Mrs Singh (2008)
Cast: Saif Ali Khan , Kareena Kapoor

Speed (2007)
Cast: Zayed Khan , Urmila Matondkar

Unveiled (2007)
Cast: Mallika Sherawat

Tennis News

09/26/2007:
Indian hockey players to go on hunger strike after the announcement that the Indian Team Cricket players will receive cash awards from central and four state governments of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Karnataka for winning the Twenty20 World Cup. Their contention is that why was not a similar genture announced when the hockey team won the Asian Continental Championship early this month without lossing a match.
The other question here would be that, who's money is being used to pay the players who are already paid well by the cricket board? I just hope that this money is not the tax payers and could be better used somewhere less.

09/02/2007:
Sania Mirza 's prusit for a grand slam title was stopped by 6th seed Russian Anna Chakvetadze at the U.S. Open being played in New York. Anna defeated the Indian ace 6-2, 6-3.

Sania Mirza Beats Laura Granville To Advance To 3rd Round At US Open
08/31/2007:
Sania Mirza defeated Laura Granville 6-3, 7-5 in the 2nd round at the US open to advance. Sania will now face sixth seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze. Anna has defeated Sania 3 times already this year at the Hobart semi-final, Cincinnati semi-final and final at Stanford respectivily and has already won four tournaments this year. This will be a good test for Sania.

08/28/2007:
Sania Mirza won her first round match against Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1 to advance to the second round at the US Open tennis championships being played in Flushing Meadows, New York. Sania will face 60th ranked American Laura Granville in the second round. Sania had her best Grand Slam showing back in 2006 US Open where she advanced to round of 16 and was defeated by Maria Sharapova of Russia.

Sania Mirza Ranked 26th for US Open
08/24/2007:
Sania Mirza to meet Estonia�s Kaia Kanepi in the first round of U.S. Open tennis championship which will be starting next week in New York. Sania is ranked 26th for the US Open, making her the first Indian woman player to be seeded in the singles event of a Grand Slam.

Early Exit For Sania Mirza
08/23/2007:
Sania Mirza is had a disappointing outing at the Pilot Pen tennis tournament at New Haven, USA. She lost to Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko in the second round 3-6, 6-0, 3-6. Sania and her Italian partner Mara Santagelo won their doubles match to advance to quarterfinals in women's doubles after defeating American Corina Morariu and Meghann Shaughnessy 6-4, 7-5.

Sania Mirza Ranked 28th in the WTA
08/21/2007:
Sania Mirza is now ranked 28th in the WTA singles rankings and has been seeded 26th at the US Open. The US Open will start next week in New York and will have Indian tennis player Sania Mirza ranked 26th at the US Open. The top male seed is Roger Federer and top female seed is Justine Henin, who are both also ranked No 1 in the world.

Sania Mirza Beats Martina Hingis
08/09/2007:
Sania Mirza upset Martina Hingis by defeating her in the second round of the EastWest Bank Classic 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. She will now face France's Virginie Razzano.

Sania Mirza Ranked 30 and To Second Round At East West Bank Classic
08/07/2007:
Sania Mirza beat Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak 6-3, 6-2. Sania will now face Martina Hingis. Sania moved up in ranks after having a nice performance at the Cincinnati and San Diego. She will play with her partner Bethanie Mattek of the USA against Janette Husarova of Slovakia and Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands in the doubles match.

Sania Mirza To Face Maria Sharapova In Acura Classic
08/03/2007:
Sania Mirza beat eight seeded Dinara Safina of Russia, 6-1, 6-2 to continue her great run. The 20-year-old Hyderabadi girl has won 10 of last 12 matches and now will face top seed and world no. 2 Maria Sharapova in the Acura Classic in San Diego, California. Others who advanced are Russia's Maria Kirilenko, ninth seeded Elena Dementieva, Anna Chakvetadze, fourth seed Nadia Petrova and no. 11 Patty Schnyder beat Martina Hingis.

Sania Mirza Moves On In Acura Classic
08/01/2007:
Sania Mirza beat 18th-ranked Shahar Peer of Israel in the first round of the Acura Classic, being played in San Diego, CA. Shahar Peer was her doubles partner during Wimbledon and West Bank Classic. Sania will now face Eleni Daniilidou of Greece.

Sania Mirza Now Ranked 31
07/30/2007:
Sania Mirza jumped four places to 31 in the latest world rankings. Sanai was defeated by Russian Anna Chakvetadze 6-3, 6-2 in the $600,000 West Bank Classic WTA being played in Stanford, USA. But she did manage to upset Patty Schnyder and Tatiana Golovin on her way to the final. Sanai won the doubles title with her partner Shahar Peer of Israel.

Sania Mirza Out Of Cincinnati Open
07/22/2007:
Sania Mirza lost to top seed Anna Chakvetadze of Russia 2-6, 7-5, 3-6 to end her run at the women's open in Cincinnati. Anna Chekvetadze willl play Akiko Morigami in the finals.

Sania Mirza Moves To Quarter Finals
07/20/2007:
Sania Mirza beat Varvara Lepchenko from Uzbekistan 6-2, 6-2 in the Cincinnati hardcourt tournament. Russian Anna Chakvetadze also reached the quarter-finals by defeating Anda Perianu of Romanian.

Sania Mirza Out Of Wimbledon Championship
07/11/2007:
Sania Mirza and winner of Wimbledon singles title, Venus Williams both moved up in ranking. Sania is now ranked 38th in the singles rankings as well as doubles rankings, while Venus moved to No. 17. For Venus, 2007 Wimbledon marked her forth Wimbledon singles title, her previous titles were in 2000, 2001 and 2005, and she was ranked num 1 in 2002. Currently the top three ranking are as follows Justine Henin as num 1, followed by Maria Sharapova and then Jelena Jankovic.

07/06/2007:
Venus Williams beat 6th seed Ana Ivanovic Friday to move to her sixth Wimbledon final. Venus has already won three Wimbledon title and will either play top seed Justine Henin or Marion Bartoli. Venus had already beaten 2004 winner Maria Sharapova in the fourth round and Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach here.

Sania Mirza Defeated In Second Round At DFS Classic
06/14/2007:
Sania Mirza out of the DFS Classic. Sania , in her second round match, was defeated by eighth seeded Mara Santangelo of Italy 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6). Sania, 20-year-old Hyderabadi, will now team up with Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova to play Tiantian Sun of China and Meilen Tu of USA in the first round of the doubles match.

Sania Mirza Into Second Round At DFS Classic
06/11/2007:
Sania Mirza beat Maria Elena Camerin of Italy 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the second round at the DFS Classic in Birmingham. Sania will now face No.8 seed Mara Santangelo. Sania winning some matches at the recently completed, French Open, has helped her climb 8 spot in the WTA rankings, and clain spot 42.

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Maria Sharapova Out Of French Open
06/06/2007:
Maria Sharapova , world number two from Russia, was beaten by Ana Ivanovic of Serbia. Ana beat Maria 6-2, 6-1 to advance to her first grand slam tournament and will face world number one Justine Henin.

Maria Sharapova Moves Onto Semi Finals At French Open
06/06/2007:
Maria Sharapova beat Anna Chakvetadze to advance to the French Open semi-finals for the first time. Maria beat Anna, also from Russia, 6-3 6-4 to advance, and will not face Ana Ivanovic.

06/03/2007:
Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Fabrice Santoro were defeated by Katernia Srebotnik of Slovakia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia at the French Open.

05/30/2007:
Sania Mirza won againt Alberta Branti in the first round of the French Open, being played at Roland Garros, Paris, to advance to the second round. This is mark a great vicitory for Sania since being upset in her previous two apperances at the Morocco Open and Istanbul Cup. Hyderabadi girl beat out Alberta Brianti of Italy in just under an hour at the score of 6-1, 6-1. Now Sania will take on seventh seed Ana Ivanovic in the second round.
The second-ranked Russian, Maria Sharapova , beat out Emilie Loit of France 6-3, 7-6 (4) to advance to the second round at the French Open.

05/29/2007:
Sania Mirza world rank improved to 50th after her play at the Morocco Open and Istanbul Cup. She did not do well in the singles competition but won the doubles title at Morocco Open and reached the doubles final at the Istanbul Cup. Sania is next due to play Italian Alberta Brianti in the French Open and will be partnered with Eva Birnerova of Czech Republic for the doubles matches.

05/26/2007:
Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Y-J Chan were upset in the finals by the Polish pair in the Istanbul Cup women's tennis tournament in Turkey. Sania Mirza and her first time partner Yung-Jan Chan of Taiwan were beaten by Agnieszka Radwanska and Urszula Radwanska. Sania had previsoly won the doubles crown at Morocco Open.

05/25/2007:
Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Y-J Chan were able to move into the final round of the doubles at the Istanbul Cup. She has eariler won the doubles title at the Morocco Open. They beat Kloesel-Koumantou in the Quarterfinals to enter the final round.

05/22/2007:
Sania Mirza is having some difficulty upon her return from knee injury. She was knocked out by Meghann Shaughnessy from the $200,000 Istanbul Cup tennis tournament during the 1st round. She also lost in the 1st round in the Morocco Open, but did win the doubles crown at the Morocco Open.

05/16/2007:
Top seeded Sania Mirza did not have a great return. She was defected by Maria Emilia Salerni in the first round of the Morocco Open. Sania was playing after two months of being away from tennis due to her injury. Sania did advance into the second round with her doubles teamat Vania King.

05/14/2007:
Sania Mirza is seeded number one in a WTA event making her the first Indian tennis star to have such a seeding. She has been out with a knee injury, which she suffered a ligament injury while playing in the Qatar Open in Doha back in , in February 2007. She is making a comeback at the Morroco Open. She has teamed up with American Vania King for the doubles competition. Her next stop will be playing in Istanbul, followed by Birmingham, and Holland to get her prepared for Wimbledon.
Neha Uberoi is another Indian who is taking part in the open and will play with Italian Silvia Disderi in the doubles competition.

05/02/2007:
Sania Mirza unveils a giant hoarding of Sprite, brand of Coca Cola at Park Street Rawdon Street crossing in central Kolkata to launch the soft drink. Sania will next been seen playing in the German Open in Berlin, Germany. She has been sidelined with a knee injury but hopes to recover and play in the German Open which is scheduled to start May 7, 2007.

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09/20/2007:
India wins a thrilling match to knock the home team South Africa out of the Twenty20 tournment. India won the toss and elected to bat, India's starting was not good with 61 for four in the 11th over, but with help from Rohit Sharma (50 not out, 40 balls, seven fours, two sixes) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni's (45, 33 balls, four four, one six) lead India to a defended total of 153 for five in 20 overs. Now it was up to the Indian bowler to show there stuff and they did. RP Singh led the way with terrific fielding and even more terrific bowling. He finished with four for 13 in four overs, while Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh grabbed two wickets each. South Africa never had a chance with lossing early wickets and never able to get things under control. Now India will face Australia on Sep 22.

09/11/2007:
Today marked a new beginning in the world of cricket. The Twenty20 cricket format will be used during the ICC World Twenty20 tournament being held in South Africa. The tournament will have 12 teams divided into 4 group play the 1st round. The teams are Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and Zimbabwe.

India Win In Thrilling Fashion At The Oval
09/06/2007:
Sachin Tendulkar , Saurav Ganguly , and Robin Uthappa lead India to a thriling victory over England in the 6th ODI played at the Oval. England batted first and set a big total of 317 runs for India to chase. India came out hitting with Sachin and Saurav partnering for 150 runs for the opening stand. They both was dismissed within a short time there after the run rate climbed. Sachin again was left short by 6 runs to get yet another century. The middle order played well but quick outs left the total out of sight. Dhoni and Uthappa played well and until Dhoni was dismissed with 2 overs left and Uthappa made some great stoke to get India the win with 2 balls to spare.

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