Sonakshi Sinha pairs up with Kamal Hassan

If the buzz is to be believed, Sonakshi Sinha and Kamal Hassan are going to pair up soon. This movie will be made under Selva Raghavan’s direction. This film is a thriller based on the popular Hollywood character, Hannibal says the reports. Kamal will play South Indian Hannibal in it!

Media circles are abuzz that Selva Raghavan is seriously trying to rope in Sonakshi Sinha as the female lead Kamal Hassan's flick. Rumor has it that Selva has approached Sonakshi regarding this movie and the actress is yet to let out her decision.

Sonakshi Sinha who shot to fame with Salman Khan’s Dabangg is currently making waves in Bollywood. Only time will tell if Shotgun’s daughter has time to explore Southern waters or not?

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Salman Khan to romance beauty queen Navarrete in Partner 2

Mumbai: The latest buzz in tinsel town is that Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete, who is a die hard fan of Salman Khan will make her debut opposite Salman in David Dhawan’s upcoming film “Partner 2”.

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The Mexican model who has come to India for a noble cause to promote designer Sanjana Jon’s Celebrate The Girl Child Campaign stated in an interview her desire to act in Bollywood movies.

A reliable source from the industry stated “Ximena will romance Salman Khan in the Partner sequel. The makers were looking for the female lead in the film and felt that Ximena fits the bill but she will have to learn Hindi and some Bollywood dance moves for her role.”

The source said further, “The model recently met Salman and has already started taking lessons in Hindi.”

Source said, “The New York-based fashion designer Sanjana Jon will style her clothes for the film. Sanjana, who is close to both Salman and Ximena, has been instrumental in making this happen.”

Salman Khan and David Dhawan were both however unavailable for any comments.

Review: Patiala House

Patiala House is the best work director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar have done recently. It is an old-fashioned Hindi movie with big drama, solid dialogue-baazi and moments that are genuinely moving and rousing.
 
Akshay as Gattu, a forlorn man who has watched his dreams die, is effectively restrained and refreshingly sincere. But all of this is servicing a story that is so silly and strained that it’s hard to get swept up in the histrionics.
 
The central conflict in the film is between Gattu and his father, Bauji, played by Rishi Kapoor. Bauji seems like a long-lost sibling of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, the stern patriarch from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jeyenge.
 
Bauji also lives in London’s Southall area and has never assimilated into his adopted country. He suffered racial attacks, was jailed for violence against ‘goras’ and now hates them with such a passion that he prefers that his son, who is a cricket prodigy waste his life running a convenience store than play for the English team.
 
Honestly, I couldn’t make sense of this. If Bauji dislikes everything English, why doesn’t he move back to the motherland? And if he persists in such borderline-psychotic behavior, why doesn’t the gigantic joint family of Patiala House, which includes his wife, played by Dimple Kapadia, various aunts, nephews and nieces, stop him.
Instead everybody in the family follows Gattu’s dreary example and throttles their desires.
 
Each one has ambitions to be something suitably different – chef, filmmaker, rapper – but each one stays quiet until the fiery Simran, played by a hyper Anushka Sharma, prods Gattu and eventually the family into rebellion.
Advani who co-wrote the screenplay with Anvita Dutt, works hard to invest plausibility and emotional heft into the tale. But the plot just gets more and more far-fetched.
 
At one point, Gattu is the cricket team’s most valuable player – a man celebrated by the entire country but Bauji or the Sarpanch of Southall, as Gattu calls him, doesn’t have a clue. These gigantic loopholes hobble Patiala House.
As does the lazy writing – none of the other family members make an impression and Bauji is such an exasperating character that even Rishi Kapoor can’t humanise him.
 
As a result of which, Patiala House never soars but it is a notch better than the mediocre fare that we see every week. If you have patience and not much else going on, check it out.

Revealed: SRK's Don 2 look

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's guarded look for his much-awaited Don 2 has been revealed. According to reports his look was leaked on internet by people in the production.

King Khan is set to surprise his fans by a macho and rough look in the film.

The film's lead pair have already shot a part of their film in Berlin and are currently shooting in Malaysia.  Hope his fans like SRK's new look.

Unknown: A conspiracy plot more baffling than thrilling

In Unknown, Liam Neeson plays Dr. Martin Harris, a botanist who arrives in Berlin with his wife (January Jones) to attend a biotech conference. When he realizes he has left his briefcase back at the airport, he leaves her at the hotel’s reception desk and hops in a taxi. En route to the airport the taxi crashes.

When he awakes from a coma four days later, he discovers that no one, including his pretty wife, knows who he is. Worse, another man (Aidan Quinn) seems to have taken his place, both as scientist and husband. Stuck in wintry Berlin, without identification papers or his hotel suite, the doctor has to win back his life.

So far, so good – even if Unknown feels paradoxically familiar. There have been a few major political and psychological thrillers over the years featuring amnesia, conspiracy and an attractive female sidekick (Diane Kruger in this case) and Unknown manages to borrow from several of them. Catalan director Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan), working from a script based on a French novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert, keeps true to the hero’s point-of-view and, for the first third, makes the film feel like a modest throwback to a Cold War-style thriller – well-suited to Neeson, with his noble, bewildered face and slow-burn hesitancy. Though the film offers fewer opportunities for him to beat up Euro-baddies than his missing-daughter hit, Taken, there’s a similar vibe here.

The first sign of slipping credibility occurs when Martin finds he’s being chased by a mysterious bespectacled man. (Why chase when he could have walked up to him?) Then he suddenly remembers the number of the taxi, and seeks out the driver, Gina (Kruger), who saved his life. She turns out to be an illegal Bosnian immigrant who doesn’t want any police problems. In another improbable bit of luck, Martin also gets a tip that takes him to an East German Stasi agent, who does some freelance detective work.

The retired agent is played by the great Bruno Ganz (Nosferatu the Vampyre, Wings of Desire), who is mordantly funny. (His coughing fit might even be the highlight of the movie.) He also has the movie’s best scene – with Frank Langella, a colleague of Martin’s who comes to Berlin for his own reasons.

The art of the classic Hitchcockian thriller is about style, pace and misdirection – and though Unknown is occasionally baffling and involves running and car chases, the film rarely manages to thrill. Martin and Gina keep dodging mysterious assassins on a race through the Berlin night (illegal squats, rave nightclubs, art galleries), surviving more crashes and some loopy, subjective camera work designed to cast doubts about Martin’s sanity.

There are scenes here both intentionally and unintentionally funny, including one where Martin and his impersonator (Quinn) simultaneously recite identical stories to a mystified scientist (Sebastien Koch), each claiming to be his American colleague. However, amusement turns to increasing glumness as the plot of Unknown digs itself so deeply into improbabilities that the solution, inevitably, feels absurd, second-hand and second-rate.

7 Khoon Maaf premieres at Berlin Film Fest

 At the press conference, Bhardwaj was all praise for Chopra. "When I cast her in Kaminey, I didn't know her work that well," the director said. "But soon I realised that she is a very intelligent person, she has talent and the hunger to work. So when I was looking for an actor for the role of Susanna, I wanted to work with someone who was hard working but would also let the Bollywood people who surround her, be away for some time."

"Priyanka wanted to take chances, otherwise it would have been very difficult for another mainstream actor to play this role," he added.

The Berlinale is the first major international festival of the year and a good indication of the films to open during the year.  This year's festival featured nearly 300 films in three major sections -- Competition, Panorama and Forum, plus a complete retrospective of works by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman, as well as a special presentation: the 35th anniversary restored version of Martin Scorsese's 1976 classic Taxi Driver, shown in 4K digital projection.

Priyanka Chopra not in Dhoom 3

Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has shot down rumours that she will be working opposite Aamir Khan in Dhoom 3. 

The actress, whow ill be next seen in Vishal Bhardwaj's 7 Khoon Maaf, says she has not been approached for the Yashraj film. 

"I have not been approached for Dhoom 3 till now. If anything happens I would definitely let everyone know," said the actress, who was in the city to promote her film. Priyanka, however, confirmed that she is part of Karan Johar's Agneepath remake. 

"I am very much part of the remake but I am not playing a prostitute in the movie," she said in reply of a question. "I am playing a prostitute's daughter in the movie," the actress added.

Her latest film 7 Khoon Maaf is the big screen adaptation of renowned writer Ruskin Bond's short story Susanne's Seven Husbands, where Priyanka plays the protagonist and her seven husbands are played by Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Irrfan Khan, Russian actor Aleksandr Dyachenko, Annu Kapoor, Nasseruddin Shah and his son Vivaan. 

Priyanka says she enjoying being a "serial husband killer" in the movie, where she kills her seven husbands in her eternal quest for love.

"I like the fact that she is a killer in the movie. It was one of the most difficult characters of my life and I thouroughly enjoyed killing all my husbands," she said.

Pix:Priyanka Chopra's lethal V-Day!

Priyanka Chopra kicked off Bollywood's most 'lethal' Valentine's Day celebration, as she enumerated seven ways to lose one's Valentine.

"There are seven ways to lose your Valentine, in this box," Priyanka said, after unveiling the press kit, which contained a rope, a syringe, a knife, a bottle of 'poison', a sachet of 'potassium cyanide', an ice pick and a strip of Viagra tablets, used for treating male erectile dysfunction.

"This is a gift, which you, as a boyfriend, can give your girlfriend, if you want to," the sultry actress said at a promotional event for Vishal Bhardwaj's 7 Khoon Maaf.

7 Khoon Maaf is based on Ruskin Bond's short story Susanna's Seven Husbands and releases this Friday.

Steamy scenes in Indian films scandalise Malaysian group

Kuala Lumpur: The Consumer Association of Penang state has complained that Tamil and Hindi movies screened in Malaysian theatres showed "violent and steamy scenes" although the films were vetted by the censorship board, a media report said Monday.

The association`s education officer N.V. Subbarow expressed doubts if the board had carried out its job thoroughly, suggesting that some of the committee members "could be unsure of their responsibilities", Tamil language daily Malaysia Nanban reported.

"It is a fact that some Tamil and Hindi movies had given rise to many social problems among the younger generation in the country," he said, commenting on board secretary S.Thanasegaran`s statement that the committee was very strict in editing violent and steamy scenes in films.

Subbarow said he is surprised that there are 11 members in the committee but still there are films shown in theatres with violent and vulgar scenes.

He suggested the censor board should have standard guidelines on violent and vulgar scenes so that all the members are aware of their roles and uniformity is ensured.

Tamil language films, as also Hindi films and their actors, are popular in Malaysia that is home to 2.1 million ethnic Indians.