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Friday, 22 February 2013
It was love at first sight with Priya: John Abraham
Instead of the regular interview, the makers of I, Me Aur Main organised for a special date with John at a popular fine dining joint in Bandra.
John breezed in looking dapper in a blue shirt with beige pants. As he entered, he instructed, “No men and cameras allowed and no questions related to my film.” Did he just say NO questions related to my film!!! “I just want to have a normal conversation. You can ask me personal questions but be ready to be questioned by me too”, He added.
For the next two hours John became a friend, philosopher and relationship advisor. He spoke on various topics including his love life, dealing with controversies, etc. Here is what he had to say on…
Working with an all women’s team
“My team is an all women’s team. I work only with women as I feel they are more loyal, hardworking and comprehensive. I know that they generally won’t take a shortcut. They are more sincere. Women handle my production, my office and my life.”
Being grounded
“I know actors who are acting 24 hours a day. If my behaviour in public is consistent with my behaviour with my friends that means I have found my personal space, then I only have to be different when I go on sets to play a certain role. But if an actor takes that larger than life image too seriously and comes home with that, then that is a problem.
I am still rooted because I have my family and school friends who keep me grounded. But there are actors who are living in the air. They are not bad people, in fact they are wonderful, but they are stuck in a trap. If an actor has a certain image then he has to maintain that image and have that lifestyle. This becomes a regiment. The actor becomes more guarded and starts living in isolation of his own world. Female actresses get into this trap far more.”
Dealing with Controversies
“When I came into the industry, they said that John Abraham is a model and models can’t act. He is so wooden. Now there are two ways to go about this, one is that you get very angry and say ‘How dare they say that!’, and the other is that you say ‘Theek hai. What is said about me is said about me. I have to work and prove myself and I have to do better.’ People have realized over a period of time that I am a no nonsense person and there is no point in taking a panga with me as I am not going to react, so they just let me do my work.
Aditya Chopra once told me ‘John you are the smartest because you have chosen all the best films in your career.’ When I asked him which films he was talking about, he said those are all your films which have failed like Water, No Smoking, Kabul Express and Zinda. These are films that have not worked but you have made it very clear to your audience that you are willing to take the risk by doing offbeat roles too.
I will do a Housefull 2 and Race 2 but along with that I will also do a No Smoking 2, that is how I like it.”
Past Relationships
“I don’t speak negative about my past relationships. I don’t pay attention to what is written. After a while, it stops affecting you.”
Break ups
“For each relationship and each person the breaking point is different. There are some people who can tolerate and hold on forever. Especially women, they can somehow hold on and I really admire that about them.
The problem now days is that we don’t spend enough time with our loved ones. How difficult is it to make a relationship work? A girl just wants her man to give her a hug and say ‘I love you’.”
On his girlfriend Priya
“I am in a very happy phase now because the person my life is very supportive. I met her through a common friend. There was a lot of attraction. It was pretty much love at first sight.
She is very smart and mature. If she calls me at 11:30 in the night and I am caught up with something or am tired, she asks me to take rest and go to sleep once I am done with work. This kind of support is very rare. She gives me space and I give her space. I feel I am blessed and very fortunate.
Ours is a long distance relationship. She is currently doing her two-year full time MBA course at London Business School. I want her to study very hard so that may be one day I can retire and relax (laughs).”
Long distant relationships
“Long distance relationships are a bigger challenge. The most important thing in a long distant relationship is to be loyal. I am one of those men who are looking for something deeper and more emotional. I really believe that sex is highly overrated. Most men measure their self worth on the amount of money they have and the size of their…shoes.( laughs)”
Loyalty
“It is very important to be loyal in a relationship. Loyalty, to me, means being with the one person that you are in love with. You should be committed to her and be completed devoted to her. You need to give each other their space but that does not mean that you cheat.”
Being Possessive
“I am not possessive at all. I think I have grown out of it. In college, I was possessive about my girlfriend, but my girlfriend was more possessive about me. I don’t think anyone likes a possessive partner.”
Settling Down
“As and when I get a break, I would like to get married.”
Murder 3 First Week Collections
It collected Rs 13.31 crores at the desi collection centres in the first weekend. Its breakup is Rs 4.52 cr on Fri, Rs 4.01 cr on Sat and Rs 4.78 cr on Sun. The Vishesh Bhatt directed flick showed 50% drop in its business on Monday, when compared to its first day collection. It fared reasonably well on other weekdays. Murder 3 has collected Rs 7.55 crores at the domestic Box Office, taking its first week total to Rs 20.86 crores nett.
Its breakup is Rs 2.25 cr on Mon, Rs 2.05 cr on Tue, Rs 1.75 cr on Wed and Rs 1.50 cr on Thu. However, Murder 3 has been made with a budget of Rs 18 crore and it had already recovered Rs 15 crores from satellite and music rights.
The film has recovered its production cost on the first day and rest of the money collected from its theatrical run is its nett profit. But it has failed to beat the record of Murder 2, which had collected Rs 36.5 crores nett at the desi Box Office in the first week.
Krishnudu’s Vasthavam 3D Movie
The Executive producer of the movie, S.Pavan Kumar Reddy, says, “There are three pairs in this movie, which is going to be a family entertainer mixed with fantasy. We have done the first schedule from Jan 28th to Feb 20th in the locations near Hyderabad. The next schedule will be from March 1st and will be done for 20 days. Except songs, the talkie part will be completed with this schedule.
There are 5 songs in the movie, out of which, 3 songs will be shot overseas. This will be a 3d movie”.Krishnudu – ‘Arundhathi’ fame Divya, Rishi-Gurlin Chopra and Bhushan- Anjana are the pairs in this movie.
Posani Krishna Murali, Chandhra mohan, Koteswara Rao, M.S.Narayana, Nalla Venu, Satthena, Rajitha, Snighdha etc are the other cast.
Music: Praveen Immadi, Art: D.Gopi, Cinematography: Mujeer Malik, Editing: Nandamuri Hari, Co-Director: Puvvada Hemanth, Pro. Controller: Degala Ramanaji, Executive producer: S. Pavan Kumar Reddy, Producer: V Srinivasa Reddy, Screenplay- Direction: Satya Reddy. V.
Nani Paisa Movie First Look on Feb 24
Nani has wrapped up the title song shooting of the film canned recently in Malaysia in a pub and other locales, and the unit members are back in Hyderabad. Major schedules of the shooting have been wrapped up and makers are planning for a release shortly.
Set in the political drama backdrop, Paisa is directed by Creative genius Krishna Vamsi and produced by Ramesh Puppala under Yellow Flowers banner. Catherine Tresa played the female lead in Paisa.
Shankar’s I Movie in Trouble
According to sources from Tollywood it is heard that Shankar’s new movie I is not getting any buyers from Andhra Pradesh. Sources say there are few reasons for this to happen.
Firstly, the hero Vikram has been going through continuous flops so the buyers don’t want to risk. Secondly, the craze for dubbed movies has come down a lot in Telugu. Let us see how Shankar will handle this.
Santhanam to Remake Maryada Ramanna
Initially Kannan was selected as director for this film but later he stepped down due to some last moment changes in the movie production. Muthiraj director Srinath will wield the megaphone instead of Kannan.
Santhanam has signed 22 movies officially in the year 2013. Santhanam also plays a lead role along with Aarya, Premji Amaran in Settai under Kannan’s direction. More details about Maryada Ramanna remake will be out very soon
Parvathi Menon gives her best in Mariyaan
As per reports, Parvathi Menon is giving her best performance as fisherwoman and, her chemistry in few scenes with Dhanush are outstanding. She is also busy with Chennaiyil Oru Naal in Tamil.
Recently, lead actor Dhanush completed his shooting part for Mariyaan and shifted to his another flick Naiyaandi under Sarkunam’s direction. Mariyaan will have music by A.R.Rahman and cinematography will be handled by Marc Koninck. Venu Ravichanadran is producing this film under Aascar Films.
Ethir Neechal shooting completed
R.S. Durai Senthilkumar is working on Ethir Neechal’s post production. He is planning to release it by the end of March. The expectations on Ethir Neechal are very high and the music composed by Anirudh Ravichander is rocking the chartbusters.
Siva Karthikeyan tweeted,” Ethirneechal shoot completed..Happy tat I ve been a part of a good movie..post production work in full swing.” Priya Anand, Nanditha are playing the female leads. Velraj is working on cinematography and Dhanush is producing this film under Wunderbar Films.
Rendavathu Padam audio release details
Director C.S.Amudhan clarified the rumors on making spoof film for second time. Arvind Akash, Richard and Vimal are playing the main leads. Kannan is composing tunes for this film.
Madan Karky penned the lyrics and seems so happy with the outcome. He tweeted, “RendaavathuPadam trailer is one of the craziest ones i’ve seen. csamudhan has done total damage to my lyrics. audio & trailer launch will happen in early March.”
Vijayalakshmi, Sanjana Singh were selected as female leads and Vijay Ulaganathan works as cinematographer. Rendavathu Padam is produced by Dharani under Screen Crafts Entertainment.
Baadshah East Godavari rights sold for whopping price
Even though running bad time with a string flops, Jr.ntr’s movie has been sold out to a high price and which in turn indicates his real box office potentiality.
Cute actress Kajal Aggarwal is doing opposite to Jr.ntr in this film. SS Thaman is scoring the music of the film.
Srinu Vaitla is directing the movie. Bandla Ganesh Babu is producing the movie on Parameswara Art Productions. The movie is gearing up for release on 5th April.
Nicole Scherzinger & ‘We Found Love’: Pussycat dolls singer passed on big hits
In an interview with Notion magazine, Scherzinger confessed that she was given the opportunity to record some of music’s biggest hits, but passed on the tracks. “I passed on ‘We Found Love.’” she said.
“I’ve got the demo of that song and I was busy at the time.”
The song was instead recorded by Rihanna with Calvin Harris, topping charts worldwide and going multi-platinum. It was recently revealed that Leona Lewis also passed on “We Found Love,” saying, “It was the same version and production but mine’s better.”
“They’d sent me a few dance tracks and I wasn’t able to get to them and I was like, ‘Oh there’s so much dance and I want to take a break from it,’” Scherzinger continued. “That was my fault. I slept on it.”
It wasn’t just RiRi’s hit that she skipped, however — Scherzinger also told Notion that she passed on “Crazy,” which was then recorded by Gnarls Barkley, and that the Pussycat Dolls turned down “Just
Dance,” which served as Lady Gaga’s breakout hit.
The last time Scherzinger had a single that broke that top ten in the U.S. was in 2006 when her song “Come to Me” with Diddy reached No. 9.
Ajith’s boat stunts with Hollywood stunt director
This scedhule also has the other leads of the untitled movie Nayanthara and Arya.
Ajith is said to be shooting an important boat action sequence in Dubai. Lee Whittaker is a known Hollywood’s stunt director who has choreographed stunts for films like ‘Abraham Lincoln:’, Vampire Hunter’, ‘Live Free or Die Hard’, ‘Jurassic Park III’, ‘Pearl Harbour’ and ‘Fast Five. He has recently even worked with Ulaganayagan Kamal Hassan in Vishwaroopam.
Lee Whittaker who was all praise for Ajith tweeted, “Finished amazing boat sequence here in Dubai! Ajith was absolutely amazing! Couldn’t have done it without his skills!”
The film also stars Tapasee Pannu in an important role, while Rana Daggubati makes a special appearance. The film is almost nearing completion with one more schedule after the Dubai session.
Mindy McCready’s autopsy confirms death was a suicide
The Cleburne County sheriff said in a statement Wednesday that preliminary autopsy results from Arkansas’ state crime lab show McCready’s death was a suicide from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Investigators have said McCready apparently shot and killed her late boyfriend’s dog before she turned the gun on herself Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities found McCready’s body and
the dog on the front porch where her longtime boyfriend, musician David Wilson, died last month of a gunshot wound to the head.
Authorities are investigating Wilson’s death as a suicide but they haven’t determined an official cause of death yet.
Asin to pair with Vijay again?
Kaavalan which had Vijay was an exception.
Now there is news that Asin has been signed for a Tamil film which will have Vijay in the lead role. This film is being produced by AGS Creations. Few days’ back AGS have signed director K V Anand to
direct a film that would have Rajnikanth in the lead role but this did not materialize. Hence AGS has decided to produce a film that will have the combination of Vijay and K V Anand. Asin will be pairing with Vijay in this film.
Hansika receives ‘Women Achievers award’
She has been busy acting in Tamil and Telugu movies with over 7 films in Tamil. Her last film in Telugu is ‘Dhenikaina Ready’ and her film,Naughty Boys, with Aarya will be released in Telugu soon.
JFW Women Magazine director, Mr.BIna Sujith, has announced the award and she will receive it in Chennai on March 1st.
Hansikha has been the top actress in Tamil now and she is also acting in Singham-2.
Sonakshi Sinha to give live performance on Thank God It’s Friday
According to a source close to the project, Sajid has planned a gala event to launch the song and he wanted Sonakshi to perform live during the event. When he asked Sonakshi about his idea, she happily agreed to it and now the fans will get to see Sonakshi’s live performance on the song.
Interestingly, Sajid who used to be a disc jockey before joining the film industry will play the role of DJ again for Sonakshi Sinha’s perfromance.
“Sajid will do his homework and get a hang of the equipment. Sonakshi will be the centre of attraction at this promotional event, and it will be an evening to remember,” informs the source.
When contacted, Sajid also confirmed the reports of him and Sonakshi performing live at the night club.
‘Himmatwala’, a remake of superhit 1983 film of the same name, stars Ajay Devn and Tamannaah Bhatia in the leading roles. The film is slated to release on March 29.
Amal Fashanu has Nip Slip on ‘Arbitrage’ Red Carpet (PHOTOS)
In our experience, there are two types of wardrobe malfunctions: those that happen to a person through no fault of her own, and those that are brought upon by gross oversight of the wearer herself. (Ahem, Brittny Gastineau.)
We’re pretty sure Amal Fashanu falls into the latter category.
To attend the London premiere of “Arbitrage,” the aspiring model opted for a long-sleeved leopard print gown with a thigh-high slit and — wait for it — an off-center boob window. So it was no surprise when the 24-year-old suffered a nip slip right there on the red carpet. What was she thinking? And where was the double-stick tape?
We want to feel bad for Amal, but we just can’t seem to muster any pity for a woman who chose to wear an off-center boob window in front of flashing cameras. But hey, if she’s planning on launching a career as a model, she’ll have to get used to showing some skin…
Check out the photos below and tell us: Do you think she could’ve avoided this wardrobe malfunction?
Akshay Kumar And Karan Johar’s Co-production may be titled Gutka
Although the co-producers revealed that their film will be a commercial affair with underlying social message, they refused to divulge any further details regarding the project.
However, if the rumors are to be believed, the film may get titled as ‘Gutka’. The title was apparently registered with Madhur Bhandarkar, but a call from Karan was enough to convince the national award winning director to give away his title.
The film’s script is written by ‘I Hate Love Storys’ director Punit Malhotra and he is also captaining the ship.
Interestingly, there also reports doing around of Emraan Hashmi playing a parallel lead to Akshay Kumar in the film.
Meanwhile, Akshay Kumar is extremely busy this year with films like ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2’, ‘Boss’, ‘Thuppakki’ remake and ‘Ramana’ remake. He will start working on the Punit Malhotra film only by the early next year.
Maruthi is the actual director of PKC: Sudheer Babu
Sudheer Babu has confirmed it. He said that for some reasons, the name of Maruthi has not been revealed as director and kept as direction supervision. Nanditha is the female lead in the film. This is going to be a love thriller.
Previously, J.Prabhakar Reddy has been said as the director. It is to be produced by Maruthi and P Sudharshan Reddy. Maruthi has also penned the story and dialogues for the movie.
It is also said before that the song ‘Vennelaina Cheekataina’ from Krishna and Sridevi’s movie, ‘Pacchani Samsaram’ is being remixed for the film.
JB is the music director.
Kate Upton’s Favorite Body Part Is Her… Eyes?
But yesterday, Kate straight-up lied to our faces. The swimsuit model stopped by “Ellen” to talk about her new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover (you know, the one where she’s shivering in Antarctica wearing nothing but a puffer coat and a bikini bottom). After chatting about the penguins and the freezing weather, Ellen DeGeneres got down to the good stuff: “Do you have a favorite body part of yours, that you like?”
And then the lying begins.
Kate: “I think it’s… my eyes. Because when I’m shooting, I change expression all the time. It’s like…” Then she starts fidgeting in her chair and making eyes at Ellen. “It’s like Tourette’s,” she giggles.
OK, no. There is no way that Kate’s favorite body part is her eyes. In fact, we know for a fact there is another important body part that the 20-year-old is quite proud of. As Upton once told GQ, “My one wish… I would have smaller boobs. Just kidding! Hahaha.”
That’s more like it.
Brother Saif upset with Soha’s bold scenes
B-town is abuzz with rumours that brother Saif is upset with the bold scenes of sister Soha with co-actor Irfan Khan in their upcoming movie.
Soha Ali Khan will be seen setting the screen on fire with Irfan Khan in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s ‘Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns’.
It is reported that during the shooting of ‘Bullet Raja’, director Tigmanshu Dhulia showed Saif flashes of the movie and that’s when the actor totally disapproved of the intimate scenes between Soha and Irfan.
Sources say this is the reason why Soha is not seen promoting the film.
As per reports, Nawab Khan has totally disapproved the rumours saying he is not at all upset with any scenes in the movie.
Rani Mukerji steps-in in place of Aishwarya Rai for Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The ace director wanted his muse Aishwarya Rai to launch the first look of his debut TV show ‘Saraswatichandra’. But the lady couldn’t make it. And hence Bhansali had to ask Rani if she could do the honours.
Talking to DNA, a source said, “Having done three films with Aishwarya and two films with Rani, Sanjay is extremely close to both of them. However, since Aishwarya and he go back a longer way to the time he shot ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’, it was only befitting that Sanjay invite Aishwarya for the launch of his first serial.”
“The two (Rani and SLB) got along like old times. Nothing had changed. They were soon laughing at the whole world, including themselves,” the source added.
That’s like a good friend…Rani.
Rajasekhar is very good natured but lacks Discipline: Director
‘As a person, Rajasekhar is very good natured. But, he lacks in discipline and that is the reason why, he is not able to come out of many problems. This quality has become a big minus factor hindering his growth else Rajasekhar could have joined the list of Big Star Heroes long time ago,’ Tammareddy explained. Wish that, ‘mahankali’ will bail out all the troubles of Rajasekhar and his family.
Tabu in Salman Khan’s Mental Movie
Their new project which will go on sets very soon is titled as ‘Mental’ to be directed by Sohail Khan. The major attraction of movie is going to be the presence of sexy actress tabu doing the elder sister role to Salman Khan. Very recently, tabu was seen in Oscar nominated flick ‘Life Of Pi’ and she is no selective even for Sallu. Both of these actors have worked together earlier for ‘Jeet,’ ‘Biwi No 1′ and ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain.’
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