Khan’s latest lead actress in his magnum opus Veer – Zarine Khan was spotted promoting her debut flick.
Actor turns designer to beat expensive habit
After winning the hearts of the audience and critical acclaim with a mixed bag of films like AAMIR, WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR and DEV D, UTV Spot Boy is all set to pull yet another rabbit from its hat. MAIN AUR MRS KHANNA which is all set to release on 3rd July 2009 stars Salman Khan; Kareena Kapoor & Sohail Khan is a co-production with Sohail Khan Productions.
MAIN AUR MRS KHANNA is story about Samir and Raina who have a fairy tale marriage, Samir gets his dream job and they both have a great life… and everything they could ever want! Until one wrong decision leads to them parting ways, maybe forever!
Katrina said, “Salman is unpredictable, while Shahrukh is intelligent and Akshay is a blast.” She adjoins, “Salman always does hins that he feels right and only he knows why he feels that particular thing is right… you can’t track his mood. As for me, I really don’t get into those things nor spend too much time trying to understand him because the entire process is too lengthy and complicated.”
The sexy starlet, who always remained tight-lipped about her personal life, for the first time spills the beans on the much talked about love-relation with bad boy Salman.
Huh! Seems like there’s another Bollywood split on the anvil
The latest big rumour churned out from the ever-busy rumour mills in Mumbai is that Asin, the beautiful import from South, is having a clandestine affair with her London Dreams co-star Salman Khan and tabloids have even alleged that she has the walls of her bedroom covered with the pin-ups of the 43-year-old ‘hunk’.
Asin found herself bombarded with questions about this alleged affair with Salman when she recently walked the ramp in Mumbai as the brand ambassador of a new clothing line from a leading supermarket chain.
When faced with one such question, Asin’s reply was straight and terse: “We are together in a movie. Nothing more than that, nothing less than that.”
Asked if Salman’s presence had made it to her bedroom, the Ghajini girl responded: “No one has access to my room.”
Well, that lays the rumour to rest.
It is often observed that Bollywood always associates the women folk to beauty, charisma and style. There’s hardly any mention of their acting prowess. It’s not because they don’t possess the ability to emote perfectly, but because they were never thought anything more than glamour dolls. And this phenomenon is nothing new to this industry.
Say for example, Aishwarya Rai who was equally good as Jodha in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodhaa Akbar, but it was Hrithik Roshan who walked away with the Best Actor trophy in almost all the award ceremonies.
The past comes calling
There were random instances of stalwarts like Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, Mehboob Khan and Raj Kapoor making an exception with their brilliant presentation of women excelling as a wife, mother and beloved. Bimal Roy’s Bandini, Sujata, had women taking centre stage in the film with powerful performances by Nutan. But unfortunately, the films got tagged as art cinema, thereby alienating it from the mainstream Hindi movies.
The poetically beautiful, scintillating, and mesmerizing Madhubala too fell prey to this trend until Mughal-E-Azam came along to prove her worth as a fine actress. Not only her touch-me-not beauty enthralled the audiences, but also her superb portrayal of forlorn courtesan in love with the heir to the throne of Hindustan, Salim. Before she got immortalised by Mughal-E-Azam , she was often seen doing little to minute roles in films like Chalti Ka Naam Gaddi, Kalapani, Mr. And Mrs. 55, etc. Same goes for Nargis, who though was a quintessential element in all Raj Kapoor movies and was equally wonderful as the showman himself, remained just heroes’ love-interest. In films like Shree 420, Awaara and others, she was just Raj Kapoor’s heroine who gets him back on track when he goes astray. It took Mehboob Khan’s Mother India to bring out the actress in her and bag an Academy Award nomination.
However, there was an exception in the form of Meena Kumari who was one actress for whom roles were
But other actresses like Sadhna, Nanda, Saira Banu, Sharmila Tagore, though were iconic, their presence in the films used to just add on to the glamour quotient. Even actresses like Vyajanthimala, Hema Malini and others were just dancing divas which used to eclipse their acting prowess.
The worst 90’s
This trend took a turn for the worse with the advent of 90s. It was an era of actions films and required well-built actors who could bash up 10-20 goons singlehandedly. So while actors like Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan. Suniel Shetty, and other did the beating up parts, actresses like Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor were just their muses. Being confined to sing and dance routines, actresses took more interest on the way they dressed than the way they act. Even a brilliant actress Tabu did films which couldn’t prove the brilliance of this actress. She debuted in a commercial flick Prem and did many such films like Ek Chor Ek Sipahi, Vijaypath, and others, which confined her to the glam doll image. Then came the hard-hitting Astitva and Chandni Bar, which not only bagged her two National Awards each, but also an identity of a talented actress. Same goes for Madhuri Dixit (Mrityudand), Raveena Tandon (Daman) and Karisma Kapoor (Fiza, Zubeida).
However, Sridevi is one actress who not only managed to get author-backed roles in majority of her films but also excelled in it. She started her career with Solva Saawan after doing loads of south Indian films. Her second film Himmatwala was a big success and she also got recognized but she kept on getting same kind of roles and even
Apart from her, no one was as lucky to go anywhere near to her. And with such movies in circulation, the female audiences always felt left out or cheated to see the state of girls being so weak and demoralizing in films. The wardrobe exhibition which the heroines took to towards the end of the 20th century made them more prone to being just a glamour doll.
The Present
Amrita Arora's Wedding with Kareena Kapoor and Malaika Arora as bridesmaids was held at Olive Bar and Kitchen in Mumbai recently. The guests included Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif ( separately) and Karisma Kapoor with Saif Ali Khan amongst many others. Amrita married Shkeel Ladakh.
Amrita Arora - Ladak nikaah,Post Wedding Party photos and also wedding reception photos- they were separate parties.
The grapevine says that Salman Khan became really moody when Shahrukh Khan walked in, he started pacing up and down and even took off his shirt in anger. He became even more riled up when reporters asked him about a patch up with SRK.
Unable to take it anymore and without word to anyone, he took off in an auto rickshaw leaving his Benz behind.
