I blushed like a schoolgirl: Sonam Kapoor

MUMBAI: Sonam Kapoor reminisces about meeting with first crush Tom Cruise at premiere of Mission Impossible 4, raves about how Beautiful he is at 50-plus. Sonam Kapoor’s first crush was Tom Cruise. The actor admits that she had a poster of him and the late Jude Phoenix on her bedroom wall. “Of course, after Titanic (1996) my heart belonged to Leo (Leonardo DiCaprio) but I remeamber Tom and Brad Pitt in Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Two hot hunky vampires, long before Robert Pattinson and Twilight came on the scene… It was the stuff of teenage wet dreams,” she sighs. She met her idol at the Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol premiere last Sunday. In a slinky dress, Jimmy Choo sandals, emerald...

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Vidya-Emraan set to team up again

MUMBAI: They have been appreciated as Silk and Abraham in the recent release, The Dirty Picture (TDP). And now, Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi are set to share screen space again in yet another Ekta Kapoor production. “Ekta is very happy with the response that the film and Emraan and Vidya have received as an on-screen couple. So, she is toying with the idea of repeating them in one of her upcoming films,” says an insider from the producer’s team. However, no details have been fixed yet. When contacted, Tanuj Garg, CEO of Balaji Motion Pictures confirms, “Yes, it’s an idea we are playing around with. Emraan and Vidya’s pairing has been widely appreciated in TDP. And since, it’s an interesting combination, why not? Right...

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There’s an audience for adult content today: Tusshar Kapoor

MUMBAI: The first Announcement promo of the Kya Kool Hain Hum (2005) sequel released last Friday along with The Dirty Picture barely a fortnight since the film went on the floors. The five-second teaser includes clippings of reviews of the previous film, running it down with the promise that Kya Super Kool Hain Hum would be as Shameless as ever. Tusshar Kapoor who returns with Riteish Deshmukh to take the Kool brand further, insists that despite the change in director (Sachin Yardi takes over from Sangeeth Sivan) and cast (Bipasha Basu, Neha Sharma and Sarah Jane Dias are his female co-stars this time), it felt like they were continuing with the same shoot. “The six years just fell away and it was like a blast from the past,”...

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'After Agent Vinod, we'll fix wedding date'

MUMBAI: Kareena Kapoor has been making news about her impending marriage with boyfriend-actor Saif Ali Khan for a while now. But of late, she has been insisting on not talking about it. Says Kareena, “Of course, marriage will happen. But we are waiting for Agent Vinod to release first. Once it does, we will be able to lock a date.” For some time now, reports have been rife about their wedding being planned in March next year in Pataudi. A few days ago, even Saif mentioned that marriage was on the cards in the first half of 2012. But Kareena deflects, as she feels that marriage talk might affect the film’s prospects. “Saif has invested a lot of time and effort into making this film, and talking about the marriage takes...

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Imran Khan is an item ‘bum’ for Kareena Kapoor

MUMBAI: In a sequence in the theatrical promo of the Imran Khan-Kareena Kapoor starrer Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu, Kareena unabashedly gives Imran’s bum a rating of 8/10, and also comments on how she finds his derrière ‘cute’. Interestingly, the inspiration for this scene came from a real life incident. Apparently, during the film’s shooting, a joke was doing the rounds about a random remark made by Kareena, where she casually implied that she really likes Imran’s posterior. So everyone on the sets advised Shakun Batra (director) to include the joke in the film. “Her (Kareena) character is known to flirt, and Imran essays the role of one of her close friends, who she flirts with,” says a unit member. When contacted, Shakun laughs:...

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Dev Anand's funeral probably over weekend

MUMBAI: Dev Anand's wife and daughter will be leaving for London on Tuesday night but the funeral will take place only December 9 or 10, his close associate said. "Dev saab died on Dec 3 and his body was taken to a morgue. There is a rule according to which the body is released after seven days. So most probably his funeral will take place on Dec 9 or Dec 10," Mohan Churiwala, who had been with the legendary actor for two decades, told IANS. Dev Anand died of cardiac arrest Dec 3 in London. He was 88. His son Suniel Anand was with him. Dev Anand's wife Mona Anand (screen name Kalpana Kartik) and daughter Devina are flying to London from Mumbai for the last rites. Devina's daughter Gina is staying back in Mumbai. "After...

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RGV picks Rakta Charitra actor as lead for Department

MUMBAI: Director Ram Gopal Varma offers role in his next to Abhimanyu Singh, whose character, Bukka Reddy was widely acclaimed despite the film’s box office dud. Ram Gopal Varma, who has a reputation for hiring actors who’ve worked with him previously, has done it yet again. This time it’s Abhimanyu Singh, who had played the role of Bukka Reddy in his box office disaster, Rakta Charitra. Says Abhimanyu, “After completing Rakta Charitra, I spoke to Ramu and he brought up the topic of Department. He said, ‘I am casting you and you don’t have to do much because your real life is much like the character in the film.’. He adds, “But when we started shooting, he took my character’s role much further and to a different level altogether. Although...

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