Jacqueline Fernandez is someone who can be aptly termed as 'Beauty with brains'. Well, she is definitely beautiful, and as far as brains are concerned, what more proof do you need than the fact that she was planning to become a journalist!
Well, Jacqueline, who made her debut in Bollywood with Aladin and followed it up with Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai has proved by now that she is not yet any other actress and that she is definitely here to stay. The news is that this doe-eyed beauty has now been chosen as the brand ambassador of MTV travel gear, according to the sources close to Bollywood Hungama.
Our sources also add that she has been selected based on her free-spirit nature and the light hearted roles that she has done so far, something that was a requisite for the right candidate to shoulder the responsibility of being a brand ambassador of the said brand. Way to go, Jacky!]]>" target=_new> by Satish Sundaresan
As the gangster movie Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai hits theatres on July 30, the audience will also get to see a glimpse of Aakrosh directed by Priyadarshan.
The theatrical promo of the film Aakrosh will be shown on the same day along with OUATIM. Aakrosh is a hard-hitting film about love across caste barriers and honour killing set in Bihar.
Starring Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Raima Sen, Amita Pathak, and Paresh Rawal, the movie is produced by Kumar Mangat under the banner of 'Big Screen Entertainer'.
The soundtrack of the movie has been composed by Pritam and the lyricist is Irshad Kamil.
The film is slated for release on October 1, 2010.]]>" target=_new> by Bollywood Hungama News Network
Having born in a small village in Haryana, this dude did his schooling from Delhi Public School before moving to Australia for higher studies, and further on, he went to earn his Bachelors in Marketing & Human Resource Management. Well, we are indeed talking about Randeep Hooda!
Having made his sparkling debut in Monsoon Wedding, Randeep went onto become the darling of millions instantly. Post this film, Randeep went onto do D, a film that once again proved to be a turning point in his life. He will now be seen in Milan Luthria's Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai which releases this week. Randeep Hooda will be live on Celebrity Video Chat on Monday, August 2 at 1300 hrs IST. ]]>" target=_new> by Bollywood Hungama News Network
Shahid Rafi, the son of the legendary singer late Mohd. Rafi is all set to launch 'Mohammed Rafi Academy' in a high-profile event on the 31st of this month, in accordance with the legendary singer Mohammed Rafi's 30th death anniversary.
There are many USPs and firsts that the said academy will boast of. The most prominent of them all is the fact that, its for the first time that prolific singer-sisters Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle will be imparting their musical knowledge to the students of the academy. The academy also boasts of having on board many talented names like
Raju Naushad (Naushad's son), Andalib Majrooh Sultanpuri (Majrooh Sultanpuri's son), Ruhan Mahendra Kapoor (Mahendra Kapoor's son) and Firdaus Shahid Rafi (Rafi's grandson) in it.
Bollywood Hungama wishes Shahid Rafi all the very best for the launch of Rafi Academy.]]>" target=_new> by Bollywood Hungama News Network
Birthdays are very special days, they mark the day we came into existence, and so celebrating them isn't a question... it's a must. Today is special for this Bollywood star better know for his films like Rocky, Vidhata, Jeeva, and more recent films like Lamhaa, Luck and Blue. He is none other than Sanjay Dutt.
Sanju baba ( as he is fondly called), who has been in the news for quite some time now, turns 51 today, and Bollywood Hungama takes this opportunity to wish him a very Happy Birthday and many more to come. You too can send in your birthday wish by just posting them in below:]]>" target=_new> by Bollywood Hungama News Network
Rumours seem to be following Vivek Oberoi month after month. Even as the actor is neck deep into working with Ram Gopal Varma and ensuring that his next release Rakta Charitra gets just the right release and promotion, there have been new found rumours around him making a big splash on TV. Believe it or not but after the name Shah Rukh Khan was spoken about in hush hush tone, the newest entrant is Vivek Oberoi who has apparently been approached to host the new season of Big Boss.
"Of late there has been some buzz surrounding how Vivek too has come close to biting the television bug. Earlier there were talks about being approached to participate in the new season of 'Swayamvar' after Rakhi Sawant and Rahul Mahajan. Now there is a buzz in the air that he could well be hosting the new season of 'Big Boss' too as well", says an insider from the television industry who wished to be unnamed.
However, the truth is that as of now Vivek has no plan of doing Big Boss or any other television show.
While Vivek was unavailable for comment, a source close to him said, "What? Vivek is hosting 'Big Boss'? Now that's some news because Vivek is definitely not doing the show. Yes, there have been some murmurs around him hosting the show but none of that is true."
There can't be any smoke without fire though. It is hard to imagine that the news would have originated out of nowhere.
"Well, one can't be too sure", says the source in a careful tone, "However, it can be stated with confidence that Vivek is not even remotely contemplating getting into television. He has things to look forward to in the world of movies. There is Rakta Charitra getting ready for release. Also, there is a film happening with Mani Ratnam. He would like to totally concentrate on that rather than getting his attention diverted to other mediums."
Well, for all the late night television addicts out there who could have hoped for Vivek to be entering their living rooms on a daily basis and bring to fore the inside gossips of the 'Big Boss' inmates, there is going to be some wait for sure.]]>" target=_new> by Joginder Tuteja
The buzz about Milan Luthria's Haji Mastan bio-pic Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai is that Amitabh Bachchan makes a guest appearance in a very unexpected way.
When asked about the Bachchan presence in the film, director Milan Luthria says, "I don't know where you heard this. But it's true. In the course of the film Ajay's character's girlfriend played by Kangna Ranaut mentions to him that there should be a film made on his life. To this Ajay replies, 'Now you want me to turn into an actor?' Kangna then tells Ajay about this young intense actor named 'Ami' who is just right to play Haji Mastan."
The Big B had played Haji Mastan in Yash Chopra's Deewaar which was released in 1975. Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai is set in the 1970s. Interestingly Devgn, who plays Mastan in Milan Luthria's film was often compared to the Big B when he started his career, even by Jaya Bachchan.
Luthria says the Big B is not mentioned by name.
Says the director, "I'd never make any reference to Mr. Bachchan that can be considered even remotely disrespectful. But yes, Kangna refers to him as 'the young intense actor'.
Besides the fact that they both play characters inspired by the same real-life character, the interesting part of the Bachchan reference in Devgn's context is that the younger actor has perpetually been compared with the Big B's for the dark and brooding intensity.
In fact, Jaya Bachchan had long ago singled out Devgn as the successor to her husband.]]>" target=_new> by Subhash K. Jha
Two times National Award winning actor, director, producer Ajay Devgn, has someone who has broken clichés time and again. From being touted as an action hero, to being unbeatable at comedy, carrying strong characters in drama genre to reinventing himself for every role, Devgn has outdone himself time and again.
With Milan Luthria's Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, Ajay is all set to show once again his ability to shine as an actor. From donning the role of a Don to enacting a character from an era gone by, Ajay is simply unstoppable.
Join Ajay Devgn on Bollywood Hungama's Celebrity Video Chat exclusively on Thursday, July 29 at 1530 hrs IST. ]]>" target=_new> by Bollywood Hungama News Network
What's common to the films Chasme Budoor, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, Lucky-No Time For Love, Bunty Aur Babli, Pyar Tune Kya Kiya and terms like 'comedy', 'class acting' etc... Well, we would have loved to say that the common factor that 'connects' all of the above is 'Ravi Baswani'. The sad news is that Baswani who redefined comedy in his own way in Indian films passed away yesterday.
It is indeed a tragic loss not just to Bollywood, but also to mankind, he was also known to be a simple and down to earth man. Ravi suffered a massive heart attack. We at Bollywood Hungama pray for the departed soul, thus wishing that may His soul rest in eternal peace.]]>" target=_new> by Bollywood Hungama News Network
After a relatively quieter first half of 2010, prolific composer Pritam is back in the limelight yet again. He has just delivered a chartbuster soundtrack in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, the songs of which can be heard from all nooks and corners. Moreover, he has a jam packed second half of the year ahead, what with biggies like Action Replayy, Golmaal 3 and Crook: It's Good To Be Bad in the offing.
While it is a given that there would be at the least a couple of chartbusters in each of his forthcoming films (well unless law of averages proves otherwise), there also has been a strong buzz around him doing a few promotional music videos. This is not something new for him though since in the past, he has faced the camera while shooting songs for films like Life In A Metro and Mukhbir.
No wonder, it didn't sound improbable when news started making the rounds that he, along with one of his favourite singers Neeraj Sridhar, was roped in for promotional tracks of Action Replayy and Golmaal 3. While Pritam is working for the first time with Vipul Shah - the maker of Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai starrer Action Replayy - he has been a constant fixture with Rohit Shetty after Golmaal Returns and All The Best.
However, when enquired, Rohit dismissed the theory about Pritam being used as a face of the music as well. "No, he is not doing any music video of Golmaal 3. There was never even a plan for this so it is surprising that such a piece of news has actually floated around. In fact I am hearing it for the first time", he says.
On the other hand Vipul couldn't hide his amusement when 'informed' about the presence of Pritam in his upcoming film.
"Now this is really funny", he says in amazement, "How could this be even a possibility? Especially so when I have Akshay and Aishwarya in my film. They are enough to be the face of the videos here. Pritam has done well in the studio while recording music and that's good enough for me."
Well, further investigation reveals that Pritam has indeed done a music video along with Neeraj but that's neither for Action Replayy nor Golmaal 3. It is in fact for 'not so usual suspect' Aashayein (starring John Abraham), the music of which has just hit the stands. The song in question is 'Mera Jeena Hai Kya' which features both Pritam along with Neeraj in a specially designed music video. This is not all as there is another song in the album as well that has a promotional music video made around it. Titled 'Dilkash Dildaar Duniya', it features Shaan.
Incidentally, Pritam is the guest composer of the film and has contributed only two songs in an album that mainly has Salim-Suleiman as the prime composers. Pritam was unavailable for comment.]]>" target=_new> by Joginder Tuteja
Release Date : August 1, 2008 Banner : Color Chips Entertainment and Media Limited Director : Mani Shankar Creative Producer : Sudhish Rambhotla Music : Kartik Raja, Pritam Chakraborty, Shashi Pritam, Sandeep Chowta Writer : Mani Shankar Starring : Sameer Dattani, Sunil Shetty, Om Puri, Rahul Dev, Jackie Shroff (in Guest appearance), Raima Sen, Sushant Singh, Alok Nath, Raj Zutshi, Kelly Dorjee.
Preview : The film shows the secret world of terror in which a spy lives and gathers the sensitive information. This is a story about a man who lives many faced life and has to live many lives and has to die many times. The story shows light on the life of an informer who faces many dangers and troubles to protect the society from the cruel underworld. Further the movie will disclose the hidden techniques and methods used by underworld. So a movie disclosing a lot about the world of crime is on the threshold.
Ugli Aur Pagli
Release Date : August 1, 2008 Banner : Pritish Nandy Communications Director : Sachin Khot Producer : Rangita Pritish Nandy, Pritish Nandy Music : Anu Malik Background Music : Sameeruddin Writer : Anil Pandey Starring : Mallika Sherawat…… Kuhu
Ranvir Shorey…… Kabir
Tinu Anand
Sushmita Mukherjee
Vihang Nayak
Bharti Achrekar
Payal Rohatgi…… Guest Appearance
Sapna Bhavnani…… Guest Appearance
Zeenat Aman…… Special Appearance
Manish Anand
Preview : Kabir a.k.a. ugli is a boring, monotonous guy who has been studying engineering for last 10 years now. He always wanted a girlfriend and when he meets one at V.T. Station in one cold night his entire life changes upside down. The girl Kuhu a.k.a. Pagli makes him fall in love with her madly. She is an obnoxious, strong and withy gill who is entirely out of control and irresistible. In fact, Pagli herself is undergoing a personal crisis. And, she feels that the only way out that problem is to put someone else into it. So, do watch how Kabir’s life is altered altogether by kuhu putting him into different kinds of funny and comic troubles. Let’s watch how everything ends up finally.
Good Luck
Release Date : August 8 2008 Banner : Om Films Pvt. Ltd, J.K.Films Director : Aditya Datt Producer : Jagdish Sharma, Karan Music : Anu Malik Writer : Rajan Agarwal, Aditya Datt Starring : Aryeman…… Vicky
Sayali Bhagat…… Saba
Ranvir Shorey…… Jiglo
Lucky Ali…… Tarun Chopra
Archana Puran Singh…… Tarot Card Reader
Sharat Saxena…… Apolice Officer
Mushtaq Khan
Nazneen Patel…… Ruthless Boss
Pubali Sanyal
Preview : Vicky (Aryeman) is an aspiring singer and Saba (Sayali Bhagat) is a PR head of an ad agency. Vicky is an unfortunate guy whose success runs away from him every time. On the other hand, success always waits for Saba as she had the good luck charm sealed in her kiss. One day Saba kisses Vicky in a party and departs her success forever. However, Vicky turns to be a lucky guy whose life changes for good and he is signed by a music baron Tarun Chopra (Lucky Ali). Saba, on other hand looses her job and comes almost on the streets.She visits a tarot card reader (Archana Puran Sing) who tells Saba that she can become lucky again if she kisses Vicky back. It is the catch here; Vicky was wearing a mask when she kissed him in the party. Fortunately, she meets Vicky again and falls in love with him without realizing that Vicky is the guy who can give her good luck charm back. And, the day she comes to know the truth she selfishly takes her kiss back leaving Vicky in misery again.Later, love overpowers Saba’s selfishness and she decides to pass the kiss on to Vicky again. But this time, there are lots of hurdles as now there are four other contenders for the kiss. A police officer (Sharad Saxena), A jiglo (Ranveer Shorey), Saba’s ruthless boss (Nazeen Patel) and the Tarot card reader itself. So let’s watch the final race for the good luck.
Singh Is Kinng
Release Date : August 8, 2008 Banner : Studio 18, Blockbuster Movie Entertainers Director : Anees Bazmee Producer : Vipul Shah Music : Pritam Chakraborty Writer : Anees Bazmee Starring : Akshay Kumar…… Happy Singh
Katrina Kaif…… Sonia
Neha Dhupia…… Julie
Javed Jaffrey…… Pappi
Ranvir Shorey…… Aryan Barjatya
Kamal Chopra…… Guruji Gurbaksh Singh
Om Puri…… Rangeela
Sudhanshu Pandey…… Raftaar
Sonu Sood…… Lucky Singh
Kirron Kher…… Rose Lady
Yashpal Sharma…… Pankaj Udaas
Manoj Pahwa…… Dilbag Singh
Chayan Sarkar…… Man at Airport
Brad McMurray…… Gangster
Preview : Akshay Kumar as Happy Singh is king by heart, a brave, helpful and compassionate village boy. He always intends to do good but circumstances often get reverted resulting into opposite effects. So, whenever he sets up to help somebody, his entire village starts shuddering for impending disaster. Lakhan Singh aka Lucky (Sonu Sood) is an Australian Gangster who belongs to the same village where Happy was living. The villagers send him on an apparently impossible mission to bring Lucky back to the village for the insult and damage he has done to the village. And, then he meets Sonia (Katrina kaif) and falls in love with her on the way to his mission. But here the story takes a precarious turn leaving Happy penniless. What happens then let’s watch the romantic saga clad with fun and find if Singh of Punjab is able to accomplish his mission.
Bachna Ae Haseeno
Release Date : August 15, 2008 – Announced Banner : Yash Raj Films Director : Siddharth Anand Producer : Aditya Chopra Music : Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani Starring : Ranbir Kapoor
Katrina Kaif
Deepika Padukone
Bipasha Basu
Minissha Lamba
Preview : Bachna Ae Haseeno is a movie about a young guy Raj who has an amazing sex appeal and he falls in love as many times as he can. It is his nature to break the heart of his lovers and then proceed to the next girl waiting for him somewhere else. So, come and enjoy three love stories, Raj and Mahi, Raj and Radhika, Raj and Gayatri. Mahi is a beautiful girl from an affluent family staying in Amritsar who has a good sense of humour. Radhika is a confident sexy girl living in Mumbai and she is a modern girl who believes in doing what she feels. Gayatri is girl living abroad who knows what she wants out of life including love. All these three different ladies he fell in love with at different times of his life taught him something about love and life.
God Tussi Great Ho
Release Date : August 15, 2008 Banner : Shabbo Arts Director : Rumi Jaffery Producer : Afzal Khan Music : Sajid, Wajid Writer : Rumi Jaffery Starring : Salman Khan…… Arun Prajapati
Priyanka Chopra…… Alia Kapoor
Amitabh Bachchan…… God
Manisha Koirala…… Sheetal
Anupam Kher
Beena Kak
Rukhsar
Dilip Tahil
Sohail Khan…… Rocky
Satish Kaushik
Sanjay Mishra
Preview : After the worst day in his life Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan) angrily rages against god for making his life a hell. The God (Amitabh Bachchan) appears before him and endows all his divine powers to Arun and challenges him to do better than god himself. Arun responds childish to his newly found powers and makes some disastrous decisions one after another.His love Alia (Priyanka Chopra) is astonished to find the all new decisive and confident Arun. He wants to make the world a better place and hence he grants everybody with desired wishes. And to his surprise, his decisions result in some unprecedented disastrous outcomes. And, finally Arun realizes the truth that being God is tougher than he imagined.
C Kkompany
Release Date : August 22, 2008 Banner : Balaji Motion Pictures Director : Sachin Yardi Producer : Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor Music : Anand Raj Anand, Bappi Lahri Starring : Tusshar Kapoor
Anupam Kher
Rajpal Yadav
Raima Sen
Mithun Chakraborty
Mahesh Bhatt…… special appearance
Ekta Kapoor…… special appearance
Karan Johar…… special appearance
Dilip Prabhawalkar…… special appearance
Sakshi Tanwar…… special appearance
Sanjay Dutt…… special appearance
Preview : The film is based in Mumbai and revolves around three ambitious underdog friends of different age groups who belong to middle class families. Akshay Kumar is a crime reporter, Mr. Joshi is a retired accountant trying to deal with his unappreciative son and Lambodar. All these friends share each other’s feelings and find solace in their own company. One fine day, they venture to solve their problems and things get on happening one after another and before they could realize the incident become news. They use their new founded fame for good causes and sooner they become talk of the nation. The journey from their 300 sq. ft. flats to the corridors of the parliament makes them national heroes. So do watch the journey of these friends and find what happens finally.
Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam
Release Date : August 22, 2008 Banner : Venus Records & Tapes Director : Sanjay Chhel Producer : Champak Jain, Ganesh Jain, Ratan Jain Music : Anu Malik Writer : Sanjay Chhel Starring : Rahul Bose
Mallika Sherawat…… Shabnam
Paresh Rawal
Kay Kay Menon
Preview : There is a theatre group – Kalakar Natak Company that produces socially relevant and thought-provoking plays. These plays are hardly understood by anyone and hence hardly get the audience. However, the actors of the company believe that one day they will change the society and then people will admit, ‘Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam’. Meanwhile, the group gets occupied with an undercover agent who is trying to save the country from a bomb blast. One by one they start helping him and finally they make a fatal game plan to save the world. This movie is a mad contemporary comedy. So, do visit the theatre to enjoy the mad comedy.
Maharathi
Release Date : August 22, 2008 Banner : Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd Director : Shivam Nair Screenplay : Uttam Gada Starring : Naseruddin Shah
Om Puri
Paresh Rawal
Boman Irani
Neha Dhupia
Preview : The movie is based upon Paresh Rawal’s Gujarati drama Maharathi. The story is about a murder mystry where a wife hires a hit man to kill her husband. But, after the mission the killer puts life of the wife into more trouble. So, let’s watch the on-screen drama to know the outcome of the incidents.
Mumbai Meri Jaan
Release Date : August 22, 2008 Banner : UTV Motion Pictures Director : Nishikant Kamat Producer : Ronnie Screwvala Starring : Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Paresh Rawal, Vijay Maurya
Preview : The story of the movie is based upon the terrorist attack in Mumbai and its effect on the common man. It portrays the suffering of the people who lost their earning heads, who lost single child and who got handicapped in the attack. The people presented in the movie are the common men like daily vendor, a retired man, a corporate man and a reporter. The movie sends a message across to the audience that how the common people fight with the terror forces by adapting to the new situations after the attack.
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4 Responses to “Bollywood Releases In August 2008”
[...] Sherawat is playing wife to Paresh Rawal who owns a small theatre group in the movie, Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam. Mallika is playing Shabnam, a sensual young girl from a small town, who is passionate about having [...]
[...] and TV Channels for her impressive chemistry with Ranbir Kapoor. Bips is also impressed by her Bachna Ae Haseeno co-star and hence thinks the chemistry is the hottest in the movie. Talking about Ranbir, she said, [...]
August 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
hmm.. thank you very much. usefull information
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
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August 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
[...] Sherawat is playing wife to Paresh Rawal who owns a small theatre group in the movie, Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam. Mallika is playing Shabnam, a sensual young girl from a small town, who is passionate about having [...]
August 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
[...] and TV Channels for her impressive chemistry with Ranbir Kapoor. Bips is also impressed by her Bachna Ae Haseeno co-star and hence thinks the chemistry is the hottest in the movie. Talking about Ranbir, she said, [...]