Bollywood beauties turn item girls

NEW DELHI: Item song queens Mallika Sherawat, Malaika Arora Khan, Yaana Gupta and Rakhi Sawant, kindly step aside as a host of leading Bollywood ladies are stepping into your domain with their first item songs in the coming months. From Ooh La La’s ‘boombat’ Vidya Balan to the arty Chitrangda Singh, watch out for these actors who are all set to be the next big item queen.

Chitrangda Singh
Film: Joker

Actor Chitrangda Singh, 35, will be flaunting her curves in a tiny red choli and green sari wearing a traditional Maharashtrian nath in her first item song titled Kaafirana in Akshay Kumar-Sonakshi Sinha starrer Joker. Talking about the same, she said, “I love dancing. It was so much fun and hard work working on Kaafirana. My choreographer, Farah Khan, said that she’s gifting me my Munni.”

Karisma Kapur
Film: Rowdy Rathore

If reports are to be believed, actor Karisma Kapur, 37, will be performing an item song in filmmaker Prabhudeva’s film Rowdy Rathore. The song, reportedly to be filmed in the villain’s den, will be choreographed by Prabhudeva.

According to the sources, final talks about the song are on with Karisma, who is making her comeback in Bollywood with filmmaker Vikram Bhatt’s Dangerous Ishq after a hiatus of almost six years.

Vidya Balan
Film: Ferrari Ki Sawaari

Though she has been in the industry since 2005 but this is the first time that actor Vidya Balan will be doing an item song.

The 34-year-old actor will be giving competition to actor Katrina’s Kaif’s lavani act in Agneepath’s Chikni Chameli as Vidya’s item song in Ferrari Ki Sawaari will also be in lavani style. However, if sources are to be believed, the item song featuring Ooh La La girl will be more aesthetic and less sexy than Kaif’s item dance.

Geeta Basra
Film: Zilla Ghaziabad

Actor Geeta Basra, who’s more in news due to her rumoured relationship with Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh instead of her acting skills, will be seeing in a rustic number titled Ghaziabad Ki Rani Hoon Main in Zilla Ghaziabad. Geeta, 27, said, “The song has loads of latkas and jhatkas. I always wanted to do a full-on item song and I’m glad that finally I got this amazing opportunity through this great song.”

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Bipasha Basu loses sleep over Raaz 3

MUMBAI: Bipasha Basu has become a ‘sleepless’ beauty. Ever since the actor started shooting for Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz 3 with Emraan Hashmi, she hasn’t had any time for rest, due to a continuous shooting schedule for the 3D film. Until a few days ago, she was down with a viral fever and conjunctivitis, so she couldn’t fulfill her professional commitments (including media interviews) for almost a week. As a result, all the film shoots — including Raaz 3 — were on hold.

“All her projects had to be shifted. And once she started work a few days later, she had to push hard to clear all the backlog by working continuously for a couple of days,” says an insider close to Bipasha.

The actor confirms her chaotic schedule, saying, “Raaz 3, besides being a fantastic 3D horror film, is also an emotionally-taxing drama. In fact, for a couple of days, I hardly slept at all because of the workload. But I am enjoying the experience because it’s a new thrill to work on 3D.”

Interestingly, thanks to her choc-a-bloc shooting schedule, Bipasha couldn’t even go and receive NDTV’s ‘Fittest Bollywood Celebrity’ award personally. The actor had to be content with a video call from the sets of Raaz 3 at Panvel.

“I just didn’t have the time to make it,” she rues, adding, “But, it’s a great achievement especially since I have been awarded for my passion, fitness, rather than professional reasons. It’s fantastic if they believe that I am championing the cause of health and fitness among my fraternity.” The actor’s next release, Jodi Breakers, will hit theatres soon, and she’s confident the year is shaping up well: “2012 looks great. I am confident that people will appreciate my part in it (Jodi Breakers).”

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Ileana D’Cruz delays Barfi!’s shooting

NEW DELHI: Barfi!’s shooting stint surely hasn’t left a sweet aftertaste in the makers’ palate. In the latest twist, the team was left to dismantle a set at Film City that was built to shoot a few sequences with Ileana D’Cruz. The reason being south actor’s illness, following a severe bout of food poisoning.

“A set was erected, but since she cancelled the last two days of the schedule, it had to be dismantled since we didn’t have further permission at the venue. Once Ileana is fine, she will inform us and we will build it again. Fortunately, it wasn’t a very costly set, so we haven’t been set back by a huge sum,” reveals a unit insider.

Apparently, since Ileana doesn’t have a place in Mumbai, the production house UTV Motion Pictures had made arrangements for her in the city but she chose to recuperate in Hyderabad.

However, once she recovers, the actor is expected to give a few extra days for Barfi! in the next schedule. “Anurag (Basu; director) isn’t worried because he can make it up,” says the insider.

When contacted, the actor’s spokesperson, Payal, confirms: “Yes, Ileana has been down with stomach infection, so she had to cancel the shoot for Barfi!. In fact, her ill heath has affected other projects too. She is in Hyderabad right now, but couldn’t shoot for Trivirkam, Allu Arjun’s (Telugu) film on the first day of its shoot.”

Barfi!, which also stars Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor, has apparently been delayed by a few month due to difficulties in finding a suitable dates between the lead pair.

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