Tanushree Dutta Controversy
Date:
03/31/2008:
Tanushree Dutta
has been caught up into a controversy of sort. It's a case of "he said she said".
She was recently at a shot for an item number for a song the movie,
Horn Ok Please (2008)
with choreographer Ganesh Acharya and actor Nana Patekar when she objected to
some dance steps and/or the customs that she had to wear. Tanushree has filed a complaint with
the Cine and Television Artistes Association (CINTAA). Tanushree was later replaced by
Rakhi Sawant
, the well known item girl in Bollywood. Rakhi may also get into trouble for
not get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from Tanushree before shoting for the
item number.
Rani Mukherjee Losses Land
Date:
03/28/2008:
The Maharashtra government took over the land
Rani Mukherjee
had purchased near Shirdi after the official determined that the purchase was
illegal. Rani has paid Rs 33 lakh in December 2005 for the land, but the land could not be
transferred to her name as it was owned by the government and leased out to a farmer.
Rakhi Sawant Replaces Tanushree Dutta
Date:
03/27/2008:
Rakhi Sawant
has been signed to perform an item number in forthcoming movie
Horn Ok Please (2008)
being directed by Rakesh Sarang starring Muzzamil Ibrahim and
Rimi Sen
. This happended after the
Tanushree Dutta
, use was to do this item number, acted unprofessionally after she found out
that her session with choreographer Ganesh Acharya
was a rehearse for the dance steps vs the real shot. Tanushree was also upset
after we began shooting and she stated to object to certain dance moves that
involved the dancers to touch her. She locked herself in makeup van for many hours
and hence the producers decided to replace her with Queen of Item Numbers,
Rakhi Sawant
.
Harman Baweja And Priyanka Chopra Love Story 2050
Date:
03/21/2008:
Another father trying to launch his son into the Bollywood film industry.
When director Harry Baweja releases is long awaited movie
Love Story 2050 (2008)
, it will mark the debut of his son
Harman Baweja
.
Harman Baweja
is going to play a role opposite former Miss World
Priyanka Chopra
in the film title
Love Story 2050 (2008)
. The movie will be the first Bollywood scifi movie and has been a budget of
over of Rs 60 crores. The movie contains a lot of special effects and will be
in line with many Hollywood movies. Will Harry have the same success as Rakesh Roshan did for his son
Hrithik Roshan
when he released Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai?
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Going On World Tour
Date:
03/21/2008:
There is no vacation for
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
this summer. She has been busy the last six months finish her movies and now
she will be travling on a world tour called Unforgettables along with her
husband,
Abhishek Bachchan
, and father in law,
Amitabh Bachchan
.
Jodha Akbar A Big Success
Date:
03/20/2008:
Jodha Akbar (2008)
has had a great start for the movie as well as for Bollywood in 2008.
The movie has grossed over Rs 120 crore worldwide since its release one month ago.
Of that Rs 90 crores from within India and the remaining from the rest of the world.
The movie stars the Dhoom 2 pair of
Hrithik Roshan
and
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
and the Oscar nominated director
Ashutosh Gowariker
. Ashutosh has previosly directed Lagaan and Swades. Even with the bans in several
Indian states that was faced by the movie, the movie did very well in the
opening weeks. The film was released on 1000 screens of which 400 were through
digital cinemas within India. The movie was dubbed in Hindi, Telegu, and Tamil
and released in 25 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and West Asia.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Highest Paid Actress In Bollywood
Date:
03/19/2008:
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
is setting new records, this time for the proposed pay check that she will take home for her role opposite
Rajnikanth
's in Shankar's
Robot (2008)
. Aishwarya will be paid a whopping Rs 4 crores (Rs.40 million) following her
Bollywood movie success hat trick with
Guru (2007)
,
Dhoom 2 (2007)
and
Jodha Akbar (2008)
. In comparision Rajnikanth will be paid Rs 15 crores.
Soha Ali Khan In Legal Trouble
Date:
03/18/2008:
Soha Ali Khan
has found herself faced with legal trouble. The trouble started in regrads to
her father, former cricketer Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, allegedly using a gun
issued in her name to kill a black buck Jhajjar district. The gun licence was
issued to Soha in November 1996, when she was only 18 years and 1 month old,
and the minimum age limit for getting a gun license is 21 years.
Katrina Kaif On Cover Of March 2008 Maxim India
Date:
03/15/2008:
Katrina Kaif
will be featured on the March 2008 cover of
Maxim India
. The magazine will also feature a interview with the Bollywood star Katrina.
Deepika Padukone On A Role
Date:
03/14/2008:
Deepika Padukone
has been choosen by Pepsi to be their new brand ambassador.
Deepika Padukone
will replace the current brand ambassador
Priyanka Chopra
. Just recently Deepika shot for an advertisement for Pepsi with
Shah Rukh Khan (SRK)
and her boyfriend
Ranbir Kapoor
. And now it seems that
Priyanka Chopra
is also making news about her relationship with cricketer Sreesanth. So whatever
happened to Harmaan Baweja?
Ranbir Kapoor Opposite Katrina Kaif
Date:
03/06/2008:
Ranbir Kapoor
has been signed by Raj Kumar Santoshi for his next film.
Ranbir made way in Bollywood with his performance in his debut film
Saawariya
. Now he will play the lead opposite
Katrina Kaif
.
Ranbir Kapoor
will also be working with director Siddharth Anand in a film opposite
Bipasha Basu
. In the movie Ranbir will have three different looks since be seen in three
different ages 17 to 28 to 35. The movie is titled
Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008)
.
Malaika Arora and Amrita Arora In An Item Number For Movie Kidnap
Date:
03/03/2008:
The Arora sisters will be seen together in an item number in the upcoming movie
being directed by Sanjay Gadhvi’s titled
Kidnap
.
Malaika Arora Khan
and
Amrita Arora
will shot the song along with Sanjay Dutt during March 08, the song has been choreographed by Remo.
Malaika has appeared in many items numbers in movies like Bichoo, Maa Tujhe Salaam,
Kaante, Kaal,
Heyy Babyy
and
Welcome
.
03/25/2008:
Tata and Ford are all set to ink the deal on the future of Land Rover and Jaguar.
The first part of the agreement would be the signing of the
memorandum of understanding, or MoU, which is expected to be done in London
Tuesday and then followed by an official announcement on Wednesday. The
acquistion will probably be low key and is expected to fetch USD 2-3 billion
for Ford. This will mark a new future for Tata, who recently announced the
people's
car
, the Tata Nano. Tata's
Ratan Tata
will be at the signing.
03/24/2008:
Blackberry service providers must work with licensor Research in Motion (RIM)
of Canada to provide full proof security system in the country by March 31, 2008
or must stop the services. The Blackberry service is currently being
used by over four lakh users and stopping the service will not allow these users
to access email in form of SMS. The service is currently provided by AirTel,
Reliance and Vodafone. The major issue seems to be that the encryption process
applied to email utilizes servers that are located in Russia, United States or Canada,
but no servers in India. The Indian security agencies feels that messages
through the service cannot be accessed by local security authorities and hence
may affect the national security of India.
03/21/2008:
Microsoft's Open XML document standard not approved by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
ISO member-countries had eceived request for recommendation from ECMA
six months ago and ISO will take a final decision based on global response on March 29.
Given that more than 95% of Office applications are Microsoft products, this
will be a big blow to Microsoft. Now will have to see how this effects the
rival ODF format has been developed by a consortium called the
Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
which has been supported by IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and others.
03/06/2008:
Forbes list of worlds billionaires includes some with an Indian background.
While the top stop is now taken up by
Warren Buffett
(American investor),
followed by Carlos Slim Helu (Mexican telecom) and
William Gates III
(Microsoft cofounder). The next three spots belong to
Lakshmi Mittal
(owner of the world’s largest steel maker),
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
,
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani
(Reliance Industries Chairman) and then at number eight we have KP Singh (DLF Chairman).
Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe in "The Last Sitting"
Date:
03/24/2008
Back in 1962, Marilyn Monroe posed for photographer Bert Stern for a series of shots
that are now known as "The Last Sitting." The photos were taken over a few
session at the Hotel Bel Air and are are amoung the most famous photos of
one of Hollywood's most famous actress, Marilyn Monroe. Now Stern has attempted
to repeat of famous shots with
Lindsay Lohan
.
Money, Finance, Technology News:
03/27/2008:
Comcast and BitTorrent have agreed to become collaborators. A while back
Comcast admitted to disrupting file sharing traffic based on the BitTorrent protocol
which has caused some stir in what constitutes appropriate "network management" by
Internet service providers. Comcast will no reconfiguring its networks to be
manage data in a "protocol agnostic" manner.
03/14/2008:
Acer announced the avaliability of Acer Aspire 5315 in India. The new laptop will
be priced at Rs 22,219 and is powered by Intel Celeron M550 and comes with the
features like Linux operating system, built-in CrystalEye Webcam, Intel Wireless WiFi,
3D Sonic Sound System, 15.4-inches WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD display,
120GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD super multi 8x double layer and ePowerManagement.
World News:
03/06/2008:
The fight is on. Two brothers in Calcutta named Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla
have developed a online game named Scrabulous. And now the companies, Hasbro and Mattel,
that own the board game Scrabble are fighting to get Scrabulous shutdown.
Scrabulous
is a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game and this is not
goning well with the companies. Hasbro and Mattel seem to be have been caught
sleeping at the wheel. They had their chances to get their games online long time
back, but they waited and now some smart enterprenues beat them to the punch. Now
the two companies are negotiating with two brothers. Only time will tell how much
the two will get, hope it worth their trouble.
Sania Mirza Move Into Pre Quarterfinal At Pacific Life Open 03/17/2008:
Sania Mirza
advanced to the pre quarterfinal at the Pacific Life Open being played at Indian Wells, California.
Sania beat Shahar Peer (Israel) 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-3 in the third round match.
The 21 year old Hyderabadi will now face Slovak Daniela Hantuchova.
02/19/2008:
India beat Sri Lanka to win the match by 2 wickets in the 49th over to
keep their hope alive for a berth in the final. Sri Lanka had a rocky start
but a 153 run third wicket partnership between Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara
helped Sri Lanka post a competitive 238 for 6.
Sachin Tendulkar
was out for 0 in the 2nd over but India pulled together and came
out ahead with a 76 off 70 balls by
Yuvraj Singh
and 50 not out by
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
.
02/18/2008:
All the Indian cricketers, contracted to the Cricket Board have signed into the
Indian Premier League (IPL), which is promoted by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India).
The
IPL
is set to begin play on April 18 at Bangalore and has scheduled for
59 match event including two semi finals and a grand final.