For Indophiles and Those Who Crave Bollywood

The judging panel for the new reality show on 9X, the new general entertainment channel in India, will be of the Bollywood kind. The show is called Chak De Bachche and it’s a talent show for kids between the ages of 8 and 14. Its judges will be actress Raveena Tandon, music director duo Salim-Suleiman and choreographer Ganesh Acharya.
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Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan) and Aqua (Kiely Williams), are getting ready for college and dance camp when aspiring Bollywood movie director, Vik Bhatia (Michael Steger), offers them roles in his movie, Namaste Bombay. The girls make the decision to go for it and journey to India.
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The son of legendary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema Mehboob Khan, Ayub Memboob Khan, died Friday at his Bandra house in north-west Mumbai. He was a trustee of the Mehboob Studio at Bandra, founded by Mehboob Khan in late 1940s.
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It seems during their eight weeks of shooting in India, between Mumbai and Udaipur, the Cheetah girls have noticed the many hoardings with King Khan on them. Kiely Williams remarks, “What’s his name — Shah Rukh Khan? — we see his face everywhere. We are trying to get him in the film!” Read the rest of this entry »

Neetu Chandra was the latest victim of wardrobe malfunction while she was shooting on the set of Ashwani Dheer’s One Two Three. Her role as a Jat cop required her to do some high flying kicks but she wasn’t told this until just before the shoot. The pants she was wearing fit her just so and she knew what would happen. So to prepare for the inevitable, she went back to her trailer and added tights to her outfit.
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Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze who essayed the role of Max Lowe in City of Joy (1992, Best Picture of the year), in the best performance of his life, has sadly been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He is only fifty-five years old and is currently undergoing chemotherapy and resting at his ranch in New Mexico.
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Thankfully after starting to smoke during the filming of Kismet Connection, due to his breakup with Bebo, Shahid Kapur aka Sha-K has decided to kick the habit for good! Realizing how harmful it was for him and the negative message it was sending out to all his fans, especailly the young ones, he promised to quit … and quit he has.
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Needing to get into some serious shape, Sanjay Dutt has decided to outdo SRK’s 6-pack abs which he flexed in Om Shanti Om and hired an American trainer for his next action flick Blue, which he will begin shooting in June.
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Working diligently on their new Disney film The Cheetah Girls 3 - One World, Sabrina Bryan, Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams are in India and loving it. Yesterday, (March 3) they shot the finale (out of sync with the order of the script) dancing in the palace of a prince.
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Distraught at the idea that he will not be able to work with Amitabh Bachchan this time around, Arshad Warsi is excited at the same time to debuting as a producer. His dates for Teen Patti clash with his own production which he starts in July.
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