Ash, Kareena, Priyanka in run for fun, fearless award

Hi-Fi (Hindi Film Industry) beauties Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra are in the run for Cosmopolitan Magazine's fun, fearless awards, to be held in Mumbai. The three actresses are competing in Fun, Fearless Female All Time Reader's Choice Award this year.

Other categories include - Fun, Fearless Power Couple award, for which the nominees are - Kareena Kapoor-Saif Ali Khan; Hrithik Roshan-Sussanne Khan and Arbaaz Khan-Malaika Arora Khan. There is also a Fun, Fearless Male 2010 Reader's Choice Award, and Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Salman Khan, and Arjun Rampal are competing for the title in this category.

The event, in its third edition now, takes place annually in India, Britain and the US. 'The Fun, Fearless Female Awards is a cult, one-of-its-kind event that celebrates all that's iconic of the Cosmo woman - her attitude, drive, and the never-say-never spirit,' Nandini Bhalla, editor of Cosmopolitan, said in a press statement.

The organisers are expecting a star-studded turnout at the event at the Taj Land's End, Mumbai. 'The response has been tremendous - from readers, Hi-Fi favourites, and the industry. The Fun Fearless Awards are a pat on the back to women (and some special men) from different areas of life-acting, music, theatre, and more.

'Last year's awards saw a great turnout - Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, and more. And this year's awards promise to be bigger, better, and more Cosmo than ever,' said Mala Sekhri, chief operating officer, Lifestyle Magazines, India Today Group.
Source:IANS

Bebo can’t part with Saif’s private number

Saif Ali Khan has put one of his cellphones into a drawer and thrown the key away. That’s right! The Junior Nawab of Pataudi usually gets grouchy and out of reach when he is shooting a film. The actor, as everyone knows is on a start-to-finish schedule of Aarakshan in Bhopal. And, he doesn’t wish to be disturbed. Of course, he still has another cellphone number on which he stays connected with his girlfriend Kareena Kapoor, his children-Sarah and Ibrahim and his parents. Now Bebo is in a dilemma because people who cannot reach Saif are constantly calling her. They want her to part with Saif ’s private number. The actress knows she can hardly say that she doesn’t have Saif ’s number. Yet at the same time she has been asked by Saif not to give his number away! What will she do?
Source:TOI

Aamir, Kareena, Rani attended acting workshops

Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji have started attending workshops for their next outing together Reema Kagti's film.

The project is yet untitled but the working title is The Act of Murder.

Though all those associated with the movie have been made to sign a non-disclosure pact, we've sourced out that the stars along with the supporting cast attended a recent script-reading session at a hotel in Bandra.

Says a source, "Reema's conducting the workshops. Producer Ritesh Sidhwani attends some of the workshops. Aamir, who essays a cop in the movie, attended a session before leaving for the Berlin film festival and is expected to continue once he returns."

Adds the source, "The complete cast gathers and reads out their dialogues. This is being done to facilitate the actual shoot so that everyone knows what is to be done and perfection is achieved."

Even though the three leading stars are present, things are conducted in an extremely professional way without any starry tantrums as each one waits for his/her turn to read their lines. A look test has also been done with the cast. "The stars have been describing the atmosphere on the sets to be fantastic and they can't wait for the shoot to begin. Things have been planned to the minutest details. Everyone has been told not to reveal the storyline," informs the source. Reema's film is slated to go on the floors in the second week of March.

Shoot schedules have been planned in Mumbai and later Pondicherry. The itinerary has already been chalked till April and the dates of the stars have been blocked. The film is being produced by Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, under whose banner Reema made her directorial debut with Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.

Source:Mid-Day

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Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Jackie Shroff and Vidya Balan

Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan

Manish Malhotra, Preity Zinta, Karan Johar and Kareena Kapoor 

Tusshar, Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor with Shammi Kapoor, Aditya Raj Kapoor and Neela Devi

Hrithik and Sussanne Roshan

Nita and Mukesh Ambani