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Karan Johar
Karan Johar’s managed to do what even Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan had failed to achieve – Yes he’s convinced Imran Khan to tweeze his overgrown eyebrows for Dharma productions’ forthcoming movie ‘I Hate Love Stories’.
So Imran Khan’s trademark eyebrows, which used to be bushier than a squirrel’s tail, have now been trimmed to more manageable proportions. Must say Imran’s looking more gentlemanly now as compared to his previous uncouth look.
Psst…. Wonder whether it was Karan Johar’s diktat or Imran’s recent super flops “Luck” and “Kidnap” that have prompted him to do away with the hairy beauties!!!
You decide….
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No sooner than Amitabh Bacchan start his (mis)adventures with the Tweety bird, do we get to hear how he is proud of the fact that Shah Rukh Khan’s popularity on the social networking site knows no bounds… Recently, Shah Rukh crossed the 4,00,000 followers mark on twitter and guess who was most heartily congratulating him? It was none other than gramps Bacchan.
Bacchan doesn’t stop there. Just like Karan Johar’s melodramatic family sagas, which do not know when to end, Amitabh too went on to suggest a name for a country that might one day belong to the superstar.
“How about – “KINGDOM”, taking up from your own popular and deserving epithet of KING!”
This is what Bacchan tweets happily. Well, if we didn’t know any better, we would have thought that this was really from the heart, however we are none the wiser and all we can see behind this charade, is raw animal hatred. To answer back, the witty King retorted
“I have a name for your World Mr. Bachchan. The , thanks for letting us be a part of it sir. Love & health to you.”
Keep congratulating each other men, it gives us something to laugh about. Now wait a second, while I go and throw up some.
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India is perhaps the only country in the world where the name of a city can incite riots and misgivings. Don’t be surprised. This has happened in amchi Mumbai and the person who’s on the receiving end is none other than poor Karan Johar. Apparently, Mumbaikars are not very happy with his use of the name ‘Bombay‘ instead of the more marathi ‘Mumbai’ in Wake Up Sid.
The movie that has just released and has been very well received is now centred in controversies as the members of the Raj Thackeray-led political party MNS disrupted its screening.
Poor Karan Johar just can’t catch a break. His first movie of the year, one that he’s been really banking on, may now face trouble in Maharashtra. Especially now since other political parties have seen this as a chance to jump in and gain political mileage. Even after KJo has actually gone to Raj Thackeray, apologizing for the genuine mistake, more politicians are coming out and asking Karan to apologize to the entire state and not just one person.
Poor Karan. I simply cannot sympathize with him more. What started off as an honest artistic liberty has now become a major controversy and even as people debate about whether it was alright for Karan to apologise to a few organized hoodlums, the fact of the situation is that Wake Up Sid will never remain the same.
In fact, it will now begin with a humble apology from the makers of the film, stating that it was wrong to use the term Bombay, when the city is clearly called Mumbai. What surprises me most is that KJo kneeled in front of political tyranny just to save face and to maintain the box office collections from Maharashtra.
KJo may be able to make money from the movie after posting his apology, but I don’t think people will be able to forgive him for making a common hoodlum bigger than art. I know at least I won’t.
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No prizes for guessing. And the butt of the bashing, Karan Johar, could actually ask RGV to guide Imraan Khan a bit. Ok, this is not clear to you at all, is it?
Karan Johar is on a roll… to break the mould, albeit his own. After Wake Up Sid, he’s now trying his hand with something like a self-parody in I Hate Love Stories. It’s a movie about a film director who only makes mushy movies (again, no prizes) and his two assistants, one of whom hates love stories, and hence the title.
Imraan plays the role of the assistant who hates love stories, and I think he could bring a lot more colour to his character if he had a word with Ram Gopal Verma on the nuances of how to hate love stories and their modern-day creator, KJo. RGV has made KJo-bashing a fine art, after all.
Come to think of it, if Karan had asked RGV to help out, I am sure Ramu would have done it for free, too. He’s not one to miss an opportunity to rag mush-man Karan, eh? In fact, the entire movie should have been handled by RGV, and then KJo could get back by doing a I Hate To Scream or I Don’t Like Dead People movie… Hmm, this time KJo has stolen the thunder from crusty ol’ RGV. Better spoof yourself gently than let your enemy no. 1 do it, eh KJo? You never know what kind of hard-to-take punches he might come up with to knock out your giant-sized ego.
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Given his track record of making movies inspired by real life, I had been wondering what Madhur Bhandarkar’s next movie Jail would be based on. And it now turns out that at least some of the inspiration is from the infamous BMW case of Sanjeev Nanda and Alistair Pereira.
Now, this is what I like about this guy. He has the guts and the will to handle a tough, real subject. Something, which we can never expect from the likes of Karan Johar and company. Even Ram Gopal Verma’s movies, for that matter, dish out doses of un-reality, albeit in the realm of the gory and the mysterious. He did give us some good ones like Kaun and Bhooth, for instance, and Rangeela, of course, but lately he has lost his touch, and keeps losing it more with every subsequent film.
Anyway, Bhandarkar keeps exploring the life each one of us lives, and never fails to surface with something that shakes us up. Of course, he does make it filmy, can’t blame him for that though. No one wants to watch documentaries, and everyone wants BO success in order to survive.
So, I am actually looking forward to Jail, stuffed as I am with regular Bollywood fare like Love Aaj Kal, etc. Also, in this age of ‘made-up reality’ shows, I’m choking for something that I won’t find too hard to believe.
But Bhandarkar is snipping Jail ruthlessly here and there to appease the dreadful Indian Censor Board. After doing away with a nude scene of Neil Nitin Mukesh, he’s also left a masturbation scene out, it seems. Let’s pray that in his efforts to compromise, we don’t end up with something that looks like it’s a hybrid between KJo and RGV’s creations. Argh!
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Seems as if ‘Katrina Kaif‘ has been twittering away merrily discussing scripts with fans and even promising to consider future projects with people from the industry. Problem is…. this is not the real Katrina Kaif but an impersonator who has set up a Twitter account using Kat’s identity. When Katrina (the real one) came to know about it, she was shocked. She has officially released a statement declaring that she does not have any account on Twitter and there is someone else who is using her identity and creating all the confusion.
Now we wonder who might be the culprit? An unknown fan perhaps or maybe a Bollywood insider who has a Twitter fixation and lots of time on his/her hands? (Did Priyanka, Karan Johar, Gul Panag and Mallika Sherawat just log off very quickly?).
Much as we empathize, we hope that Kat and her handlers won’t make too much of this incident and squeeze it dry for every iota of cheap publicity and fan sympathy it can generate. We’re so tired of the Bollywood bratpack and their followers blowing every little teacup storm out of proportion, trying to create big empty dramas out of frivolous, non-events. Spare us the ‘”breaking news repetitious nausea” on this one okay people?
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Bollywood hypocrisy, male chauvinism and a fast fading Preity Zinta
Filed under : Akshay Kumar, Bipasha Basu, Bitchiest, Karan Johar, Priety Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan
Faced with the onslaught of the twenty-something brigade, another top actress bites the dust. This time it’s pretty, the dimpled lass- Preity Zinta. Poor Preity has no films in hand other than the mediocre Heaven And Earth. Even good friend Karan Johar, with whom she did Kal Ho Na Ho and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, has stopped casting her in his films. So what does an out of work, aging actress do? Elementary, my dear Watson. She simply jumps onto the item number bandwagon. Yes, Preity’s doing an item number in Salman Khan’s Main Aur Mrs Khanna. The bitter truth is that it’s a man’s world and Bollywood is a cruel extension of the truism. Grrr, it gets my blood to boiling point that the aging Khan Quartet and the equally aging Akshay Kumar are still going great guns, running around trees with girls half their age, while great actresses of the calibre of Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Bipasha Basu have fallen by the wayside. Oh, the injustice of it all…… Bollywood is still light years from Hollywood where older actresses like Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston get to sink their teeth into meaty roles. And till we get there, if we ever do, our actresses will have to make do with ‘Main Aayee Hoon UP Bihar Lootne’ and other nonsensical numbers……grrrrr!
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Arjun Rampal may have met little success at the Bollywood Box office, but he learnt a little something about marketing and how to use the star power of his more successful bigwig pals to further his own ambitions.
He recently inaugurated his much talked about lounge LAP.
Now, Arjun the cool dude wants to make it exclusive by opening it ‘for members only.’
Now, let us explain the smart business moves of Arjun. First, he roped in Gauri Khan, Tarun Tahilani and Rohit Bal to design a table at the lounge. By doing so, he got free publicity which he would not have otherwise generated. Next, he waits for a month till Shah Rukh is available to attend the opening. Everybody knows that Shah Rukh has a big lobby of friends in Bollywood. So, Arjun automatically earned support from bigwigs like Farah Khan, Karan Johar and many more.
Further, he is allowing only members. After all the hype, I am sure, there would be hundreds of thousands willing to be members at the lounge. So, Arjun will lap up the money upfront, irrespective of how the lounge fares.
Now, this is called killing three birds with one stone. Who would have thought this hunky Bollywood dud actually knew how to count…and even more shocking…. that he had the acumen to put together such a $weet deal for himself?
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Ram Gopal Verma was recently reported to have said that Karan Johar’s movies are quite realistic.
Yes, you heard me right. That was RGV talking about KJo’s movies.
No, he’s fine, thank you. (We act this way sometimes on the eve of a movie release. You have to do and say outrageous things, even hang corpses, when there’s a Friday glaring at you.)
And, apparently, RGV’s change of heart about KJo’s films happened after he attended Abhi and Aish’s wedding. He says,
“For a long time I detested Karan’s larger-than-life, feel-good, glossy movies. I found them too ostentatious, coming as I did from a lower middle-class background. I found all the razzmatazz and the shoo-shaa all very unrealistic. But I was forced to change my viewpoint after I attended the Abhishek-Aishwarya shaadi. I saw exactly the same grand visual and a larger-than-life event at their wedding, that’s when I realised that Karan is far closer to reality than I am (at least in portraying the upper-middle class society).”
Hmm, I’d love to believe RGV, but it’s hard to take his words at face value. Was he still being his snide self in implying that KJo’s movies are meant only for a niche audience? (Oh God, writing about celebs makes you such a non-believer?!)
*Wink* KJo, you better return the love and have nice things to say about Agyaat. *Wink*
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Well, well, well….Shahrukh and KJo’s friendship (???) has finally borne them the fruits of their labour. The 98 Crore deal with Fox Studios for My Name Is Khan is the icing on the cake of their coupling, that goes back to the ninety’s.
Looks like it certainly pays to stick together in these tough times. And these two have vowed to be together till death does them apart. Or maybe till Karan finds a nice, homely girl and settles down to marital bliss, hmm?
Psst, if Gauri has no problem, who am I to complain?
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