New Delhi(IANS): With several Bollywood projects in hand, southern beauty Asin Thottumkal moved to Mumbai from Chennai but says she has no plans to stay in the city permanently.
“This is not a permanent shift from south Indian film industry to Bollywood, it’s just that I had two exciting projects, so I came here,”Asin, who was adjudged the best newcomer at Nokia Star Screen Awards for her performance in Aamir Khan starrer “Ghajini”, told IANS.
The 23-year-old actress, who was also in the Tamil version of “Ghajini”, will be next seen in …

Bangalore (IANS): He doesn’t have to travel so he gets enough time to play and sleep. Bollywood perfectionist Aamir Khan says he is having the time of his life while shooting for Rajkumar Hirani’s “Three Idiots” at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) campus here.
“I am having a great time shooting at IIM Bangalore (IIMB). Since, I am staying on the campus, I save on travel time and as a result I am finally getting to sleep. I can’t tell how happy I am,” Aamir posted on his blog.
“Raju is …

In a surprising revelation, martial arts-trained number one film star of the country Akshay Kumar said here last night that matching the Chinese fighters in his new blockbuster ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ was hard for him.
”The Chinese dudes are moulded for martial arts. Our bodies are not made like that. It was hard to match them.
I had to keep on practising and practising till I could reach a point where I could match them,” Akshay told mediapersons after landing in a hot balloon accompanied with actress Deepika Padukone at the …

Aamir Khan-starrer ‘Ghajini’ has become the first film to gross Rs 200 crores
worldwide.
The mark has been achieved by the film in little less than two weeks. The film has grossed Rs 162 crores in domestic market and Rs 39 crores have come from overseas market till the end of second week.
Priti Sahani, senior vice-president of Indian film Company, the all India distributors, said “the movie has appealed both rural and urban audience. Moreover, we had a wide release with 1,200 prints which was backed by aggressive marketing,” she said.
The film …

Ghajini girl Asin may have found success, but she is still searching for love. She is a beautiful 23-year-old actress and yet, love has somehow eluded her. When asked if she has a boyfriend, Asin says she has never fallen in love with anyone. “No, I don’t have any boyfriend right now. In fact I haven’t fallen in love till now. So I was never engaged to anyone in the past,” she said.
So what about the present? “Of course, I am searching. But it’s not like I am leaving all …

Panaji (IANS): Director A.R. Murgadoss and actor Aamir Khan, who are riding on the success of “Ghajini”, are being lauded by National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) for cinematically endorsing and propagating the no-smoking ban in the action thriller.
The scene in “Ghajini”, which has drawn accolades from the anti-smoking lobby, shows Aamir, who is prodded on by his girlfriend into beating up hooligans who insist on smoking in a public place.
“We thank Murugadoss and Aamir Khan for highlighting such an important fact even though we certainly do not favour any …

The infamous rivalry between the two superstars of Bollywood, Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan is once again hogging the limelight with the former revealing that the King Khan is “scared” to work with him.
On the eve of the release of Ghajini, starring Aamir Khan, the actor said he has no qualms about working with Shahrukh, however, SRK keeps saying no. “SRK is scared to work with me what to do,” said Aamir in an
interview to a popular news channel. The channel had also asked the actor on whether the audiences …

2008 wasn’t perhaps the best year when it comes to storytelling but it still had at least a few films that managed to work well with the audience. If there was an intense ‘A Wednesday’ bringing in wonderful results during those ’90 minutes’, there was also a no-brainer like ‘Singh Is Kinng’ that went on to be one of the biggest grosser at the box office. Joginder Tuteja brings to you some of the best films that Bollywood saw in the year gone by.
10 – Jodhaa Akbar
After a false start …

A.R. Rahman turned 43 on Tuesday as television and FM channels played special programmes to mark the day but the music maestro said the celebrations were low key due to Muharram. Speaking at the South India launch of a mobile phone, Rahman said the day was usual for him and there were not much celebrations as the Muslims mourn during the month of Muharram.
Many radio and television channels played his hits from films that included “Roja”, “Bombay”, “Dil Se”, “Rangeela”, “Taal”, “Lagaan”, “Rang De Basanti”, and the more recent “Jaane …

After being relegated to screaming ‘Sanjaaaaaaaay’ in one of the shots from the Ghajini promos, Jiah Khan has finally moved up the ladder. She has been ‘rewarded’ with the song promo of ‘Lattoo’ which is completely centered on her and has now been unleashed across all music channels.
Says a source from the marketing team of Ghajini, ‘It was all designed this way due to which Jiah too wasn’t overtly worried about her not been too prominent in Ghajini promos. We wanted to start off with songs centered on Aamir and …