Archives for 27 January 2007

John, Bips to sizzle together!

27 January 2007 | Movies, Actors, Actress | No Comments

Real-life couples tend to stay as far away as possible from the screen. After the fiasco of Madhosh a few years ago, John Abraham and Bipasha Basu had decided not to work together again for a while. But now, the two will share screen space in Vivek Agnihotri's Goal. "Bipasha and […]

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Car curse on Bachchans

27 January 2007 | Actors | No Comments

Winning a tax battle over his KBC payments was easy for Amitabh Bachchan last week, but the Bollywood car curse has felled him. Big B and son Abhishek today lost a case at the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal over their Versa, joining a string of filmstars brought to grief over car taxes and duties in recent […]

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Bipasha Basu wants creative satisfaction

27 January 2007 | Actress | No Comments

India's numero uno sex symbol.. unless you're even thinking of a certain Mallika Sherawat.. has been taking on complex roles and jhatak jigs. A mystery cloaks her on-and-off relationship with John Abraham. But she insists that it's all hunky dory. Is it?
Unlike most of her peers, she relates to the media as living and […]

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Bollywood plots AIDS message despite stars’ apathy

27 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments

Four top Bollywood directors are to make short films dealing with
HIV/ AIDS that will be shown before blockbuster releases, hoping to use their stars' pulling power to spread awareness of the deadly virus in India. The low-budget, 12-minute movies will be shown at theatres ahead of full-length commercial Bollywood films that star well-known actors, said […]

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Unusual combination for a usual movie

27 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments

There's yet another couple caper movie that's coming out. But it has the advantage of sufi pop singer Rabbi Shergill making music for it. It is a coming together of unusual possibilities. A south Indian star for a producer, a medley of Bollywood actors, Sufi musician Rabbi Shergill as the music director and a film […]

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