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First Name :Rani

Surname :Mukherjee

Date of Birth :21 st March 1978

Nickname :

Star Sign :Aries

Eye Colour : Light Brown

Height : 5′2″

Husband’s Name :-

Children :-

Filmography as Actor

Mere Baap Pehle Aap (2008)

Race (2008) - Rajiv

Aaja Nachley (2007)

Gandhi, My Father (2007) - Harilal Gandhi

Naqaab (2007) - Vicky Malhotra

Salaam-E-Ishq: A Tribute to Love (2007) - Shiven

Aap Ki Khatir (2006) - Aman

Shaadi Se Pehle (2006) - Ashish

36 China Town (2005)

Autograph (2005)

Deewaar (2004) - Gaurang Kaul

Hulchul (2004) - Jai

Border Hindustan Ka (2003) - Mobarak

Hungama (2003) - Jeetu

LOC Kargil (2003) - Lt. Balwan Singh

Humraaz (2002) - Karan Malhotra

Deewangee (2002) - Raj Goyal

Dil Chahta Hai (2001) - Siddharth Sinha

Taal (1999) - Manav Mehta

Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999) - Rohan Khanna

Dahek (1999) - Sameer Roshan

Laawaris (1999) - Captain Dada

Love You Hamesha (1999) - Shaurat

Kudrat (1998) - Vijay

Border (1997) - Dharamvir

Himalay Putra (1997) - Abhay

Mohabbat (1997) - Rohit Malhotra/Tony Braganza

So far, Vidya Balan’s career has been rather impressive. After hits like Bhool Bhulaiya and Heyy Babyy, she will soon be seen in Aziz Mirza’s Kismet Konnection. Considering the actress is known for her wise selections, this one just might join her kitty of hits.

“Aziz uncle’s films have a language of their own,” says Vidya, “There is a certain charm to his films.”

With Vidya and Akshay Kumar’s onscreen chemistry creating waves, we wonder if she considers Akshay to be her best co-star.

What then of rumours about her relationship with Shahid Kapur?

On being asked about her reaction to the buzz about dating Shahid Kapoor she just gave a dazzling smile and said” I have been through such situations when things have been written about me and there was no iota of truth in them. I’m not affected by all this.”

She even denied dating Shahid.

She did admit that the two get along very well with each other but strongly denied that the two were having an affair. To rumours that Shahid and Vidya went to his house after the trial show of “Jab We Met” she said “That’s rubbish. I left much before Shahid did. “

It is true that Shahid had invited her for the trial show, said Vidya with a laugh, but only as a co-actor. She also confirmed that Shahid does not discuss his personal life(read Kareena) with her.

” Neither does he discuss his personal life with me, nor has Kareena messaged me after the rumours about my relationship with Shahid began floating. Nobody has asked me anything about Shahid and Kareena’s break up. Not even the television channels. And so far no hate mails from fans who want to see Shahid and Kareena reunite.”

“Honestly, I have disconnected myself from such things. I am too involved in my work. I am not giving any time and attention to my personal life.” On the possiblity that her relationship with Shahid becomes more meaningful in the future, the actress said “I am not thinking right now about what will happen in my personal life in future.”

So here is an actress in Bollywood who is very sure of what she wants and focused on getting there.

All the Best Vidya!

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After father-daughter duo Anil and Sonam , it’s the turn of lovers Saif and Kareena to be haunted by brands.

The grapevine is abuzz with news of Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor being offered a whopping 10 crore to do commercials together. After their sky-high fee for films, they will now charge an equally huge amount for ad films.

According to reports, Saif and Bebo may do ads together for health drinks, automobiles and luxury watch brands, among others. No wonder they are now being compared to David and Victoria Beckham.

Apparently, Kareena wants a body like Posh Spice so she can model for any product in the world. It remains to be seen if India’s hottest couple can come close to the Beckhams.

Since Kareena was earlier on an extended break from work, last year she was able to spend maximum time with Saif. She visited him several times while he was shooting in Bangkok and other places for his forthcoming films. But now Kareena too has got back to working and after her hit film Jab We Met, her kitty is gradually filling up as producers and directors are now keen to sign her on.

Hence now Kareena and Saif are planning ahead and trying to co-ordinate their schedules. Kareena came up with the idea of doing brand endorsements as a couple so that they can spend maximum time with each other and Saif readily agreed. A source says “Saif and Kareena are like a new couple who want to be together all the time.”

While both Saif and Kareena are being selective about the films they do, they will have to consider the script carefully even if they are offered other films together. But they have a wider choice with brand endorsements and hence they have put out feelers that they are ready to endorse good products as a couple.

So it seems that Saif-Kareena are going the John-Bipasha way of endorsing brands as a couple. Saif already endorses several brands and Kareena too has recently jumped on the brand endorsement band wagon.

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Event: The 16th Annual Conference of the Indian National Association for Study of Liver (INASL). Organised by the Army Medical Corp, the inaugural function saw Priyanka turn up because she is the daughter of army personnel.

However, Priyanka  Chopra not only graced the event but also pledged to donate her organs for the service of humanity. Apparently, the actress realised the importance of organ donation when her father was ill recently.

She has proved that she is not just a pretty face and gorgeous figure but also a beautiful person.The beauty has touched hearts off screen with this noble gesture. Former cricketer and MP Navjot Singh Sidhu also pledged to donate his organs.

First Name :Priyanka

Surname :Chopra

Date of Birth : 18th July 1982

Nickname :

Star Sign :Cancer

Eye Colour : Light Brown

Height : 5′7 & 1/2″

Husband’s Name :–

Children :–

Item girl Rakhi Sawant is all set to enter the A league of Bollywood with her item song for Rakesh Roshan’s “Krazzy 4″.

It is directed by Jaideep Sen and he is all praise for Rakhi, who is always in a controversy for something or the other.

He said: “Rakhi Sawant is professionalism personified. She danced for almost 12 hours with just a two-hour break in between. She was very happy to be part of the film and we are very impressed with her dance performance in this song.”

The trailers of her song “Dekhta hai tu kya” have hit the screens and the item queen is back to what she does best - scintillating songs.

Apparently Rakhi was thrilled to be approached by Rakesh Roshan since it was for such a prestigious cinema house like FilmKraft Productions

“Krazzy 4″ stars Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Suresh Menon, Rajpal Yadav and Juhi Chawla and is due for release April 11.

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After his much talked about marriage to Manyata, Sanjay Dutt is in the news once again.

Six days after starting his rigorous fitness schedule with US trainer Lawrence to develop his 8-pack, Sanjay Dutt collapsed on Saturday. Dutt is getting himself ready for his next action flick, Blue.

A Mumbai tabloid reported, “On Saturday evening, Sanju baba collapsed while exercising and was asked to immediately stop his workouts.”

Baba had pulled his muscles badly while working on a particularly strenuous exercise. It was so painful that Sanju couldn’t even move his limbs.

The doctor was summoned immediately and Sanju was advised complete bedrest for a week. His wife Maanayata has been attending to him and seeing that Sanju doesn’t strain himself too much.

Since he’s not exercising for a few days, Maanayata makes sure he doesn’t put on weight and takes care of his diet as well. Currently, Sanju is on soups and salads.

Dutt confirmed, “Yes, it’s true that I injured myself while working out. I started working out after two years and pushed myself too hard. I just got too excited being in the gym after such a long time. It is extremely painful but if I want a fit body, I must be prepared to pay the price for it.

The muscles in my biceps, triceps and back are very swollen and sore but I am sure I will be fine soon, by the grace of God. I am already a bit better now.”

Though in pain, the actor says he would continue with his regime. “I will start working out from today but slowly. Though I have three months, I have to keep working out.

If I stop now, I won’t be able to start again. I have taken it a bit easy for the last year. It’s time I got back into my groove. Now that I am doing a kick-ass action film like Blue I want to be supremely fit by the time we start in June,” the actor said.

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Black & White: What does “Black & White” mean? Two colors? Two extremes? Two polarities? Obviously about contrasts, this movie epitomises the Black and White psyche - a psyche that refuses to see shades beyond the two. A mind that is literally color blind.

Subhash Ghai’s ‘Black And White’ is different from his previous movies in regard to its budget and paraphernalia. As he is known for big budget and usually high profile movies under his banner, this doesn’t match with his image. Besides, films made by him are based on popular subjects unlike the one in the movie under review. So, you might be anxious to know the reason behind this sudden change in his attitude? Well, there is indeed something behind it that doesn’t meet the eye.

A standing ovation for Subhash Ghai for venturing into a territory that would be considered uninviting for an escapist entertainer. But “Black & White” doesn’t impress you merely because it’s a daring deviation for the showman.

It’s a well crafted, finely written and packaged piece of cinema done with more heartfelt Gandhian articulations than most films in recent times that have merchandized Mahatma Gandhi in Munna Bhai tones of bubblegum philosophy.

You don’t often come away from a film disturbed yet hopeful about the distending dimensions of modern day violence and terrorism. We did it in Mani Ratnam’s “Dil Se”, Gulzar’s “Maachis” and Santosh Sivan’s “Terrorist”. Now we feel a genuine concern for the collapse of Gandhi’s secular dream in India as Chandni Chowk, rapidly becoming a favorite haunting-ground for Hindi moviemakers, turns into a bustling hotbed of terrorist activities.

Into this arena of imposed constitutional caprices comes Numer Qazi (Anurag Sinha), a victim of atrocities in Afghanistan posing as a casualty of the Gujarat riots. After a stage-managed gun battle in the toasted-brown hinterland of Delhi, the seething simmering silent Numer wins over the super-secular Professor Mathur (Anil Kapoor) and his feisty wife Roma (Shefali Shah) and gets himself a pass into the VIP enclave for the Republic Day parade.

The movie’s story revolves around Rajan Mathur played by Anil Kapoor who resides in Chandni Chowk with his activist wife Roma played by Shefali Shah. Mathur, a professor in Urdu literature, meets Numair played by Anurag Sinha. Though the latter is a suicide bomber commissioned by a Muslim fundamentalist group to detonate a bomb near Red Fort on August 15th, he claims to be a victim of Gujarat communal riots. The professor trusts Numair and provides him shelter in his house. While helping Numair to get an entry pass for 15th August celebrations at Red Fort, Mathur introduces Numair to his Chandni Chowk friends. Luckily, the warmth and colorful lives of Old Dilliwallahs prevails on the suicide bomber and he has second thought on his mission but in vain. However, the young man remains confused now. Thus, Ghai looks deep into the psyche of a human bomb and a fanatic missionary who listens to his inner conscience, telling him to revolt against his ‘masters’. This transformation is very well depicted on screen under the guidance of the showman that Subhash Ghai is par excellence.

Luckily, the warmth and colorful lives of Old Dilliwallahs prevails on the suicide bomber and he has second thought on his mission but in vain. However, the young man remains confused now. Thus, Ghai looks deep into the psyche of a human bomb and a fanatic missionary who listens to his inner conscience, telling him to revolt against his ‘masters’. This transformation is very well depicted on screen under the guidance of the showman that Subhash Ghai is par excellence.

But ‘Black & White’ is not without its weak spots. Not every detail by Ghai is a masterpiece by the master showman, some bits in fact seem very amateur but some really stand out as master strokes.

The romantic track comes like a sore thumb. Besides, the reasons that change the fanatic’s thinking aren’t too convincing. Apart from this, from Shefali’s brutal murder to her last rites coupled with Anil and Anurag’s entry into the Red Fort, aren’t dramatic enough to attract the viewer’s attention. We wish Ghai had paid a little more attention to this. Among the strong points are the events leading to Anurag’s confronting Milind Gunaji and assaulting him brutally. Here, Ghai rises beyond the script. Most of all, Sukhwinder Singh’s music has a soothing effect. Jogi Aaya and Main Chala are melodious compositions. Somak Mukherjee’s camera captures the bylanes of Delhi excellently. Dialogues are well worded in the Old Delhi style.

Much of Ghai’s newspaper-generated politics is amateurish and simplistic. The terrorists and the intelligence wing look as terrifying and intelligent as an episode of the long-running TV serial “CID”. And Anil-Shefali’s little daughter is mute….shades of Black??

Everyone bustles around looking brilliantly self-absorbed while pretending to be wedded to a greater cause of which they seem to know as little as the director.

However, what makes “Black & White” special are the bonds, brittle or beefy, that form out of the sketchy political backdrop.

Ghai fills the centre of the plot with people who have the ability to reach out to each other within a social framework that is rapidly romancing dementia.

Most memorable of all is the old but fiery Muslim poet-professor, played with hungering humility by veteran actor Habib Tanvir. The film’s best and most moving lines are rightfully written for him.

In one sequence a young musician gifts the old man with a sherwani after having sold his poetry for a song. Habib recalls how in all his years no one, not even his own sons, had gifted him anything. In another sequence, a callow news anchor approaches Habib for a byte and he wonders, “Ab mujhe kisse bite karna hoga?” (Whom would I have to bite now?)
This interesting character’s sense of betrayal for having unknowingly harbored a hardcore terrorist in his house never comes through.
The screenplay is littered with limp and half-finished loops of storytelling where the director seems to have lost his way, only to quickly get his plot back on its foot through some sharp lines. Ghai’s dialogues are spicy and hard-hitting, and Somak Mukherjee’s cinematography captures the tragic decadence and teeming colours of Old Delhi to create both romance and intrigue.

The interplay of relationships is restrained most of the time. Anil and Shefali look more like a couple than she and Darshan Jariwala did in “Gandhi My Father”. Her excessively enthusiastic activism and his chronic embarrassment at his wife’s overzealous flag-waving provide the lighter moments in this distinctly dark drama of secular devaluation in a society with complexities due to differences between various religious groups.

Ghai doesn’t delve deeply into those complexities. Whether it is out of choice or because he cannot, we do not know. But the lightness of treatment and the overt filminess of certain interludes lends a tangy vigour to what would otherwise have been a drab prosaic and polemical tale of strife during times of mordant cynicism.

Among the performers, Habib with his emotional patriotic poetry and jovial optimism scores the highest marks, followed by Shefali who furnishes a feisty positivism to her role. Anil, last seen donning the buffoon’s mask in “Welcome”, does a complete somersault. His character of a supremely secular Hindu devoting himself to teaching Urdu is wildly idealistic. He plays the role of Mathur at a high pitch.

As for debutant Anurag, in the central role of the closet-terrorist, he wears the sullen scowl as a passionate statement from the first frame to last. To see what else he is capable of, we shall have to wait till another Friday.

Incidentally, Ghai had planned to return to filmdom with a bang and via ‘Yuvraj’, but changed his mind in favor of ‘Black And White’. So, he decided to rush the movie even if he had to convert this into a small budget and with less paraphernalia though unusual in Mukta banner movies.

In spite of a new genre of a movie coupled with a meager budget and newcomers’ cast, Subhash’s direction and production did lend the movie the high prestige and excellence that could be the envy of any of today’s filmmakers. ‘Black & White’ has proved the versatility of the showman in handling the subject with maturity. A critic colleague says that some of the scenes leave an indelible impression.

Anil Kapoor proves his versatility again. Ghai has made several newcomers as stars, not in the distant past. Now, Anurag is another addition to the long list. Shifaali Shah is excellent despite her brief role. Aditi doesn’t get much scope. The senior citizen is first-rate. Aroon Bakshi is efficient. Milind Gunaji does a good job.

On the whole, ‘Black & White’ is a laudable work of an ever-successful director. He needs word of mouth publicity, though. Then, the movie would attract its target audience at multiplexes, in particular.

First Name :Aishwarya

Surname :Rai/Bachchan

Date of Birth : 1st November 1973

Nickname : Aishu

Star Sign :Scorpio

Eye Colour :Green/Blue

Height : 5′7″

Husband’s Name : Abhishek Bachchan

Children : -