Put the colours on hold, says Bollywood. Still smarting from the terror attacks in Mumbai, two of the biggest stars — Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan — are skipping any Holi parties.
Bachchan’s party is usually a grand affair, but this year, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya are both likely to remain in Kolkata during Holi, shooting for Mani Ratnam’s Ravana. Big B blogs that in the past couple of years, his parents’ deaths took the colour out of Holi, and this year, “that joyous spirit has been dampened by …

New Delhi (IANS): Bollywood’s boy-next-door Shahid Kapoor, who is working on his first film under the Yash Raj banner, is all praise for his co-star in the film, Rani Mukerji.
“I’m excited to be working with Rani. I have seen so many performances of hers and actually felt – ‘Now, that’s a performance!’. So working with an actor who has done such good work can be a great learning experience,” Shahid told IANS in an interview.
The young actor, who has been riding high on his success post hit film “Jab We …

Rating: 2.5/5
Starring: Himesh Reshammiya, Urmila Matondkar, Danny, Raj Babbar and introducing Shweta Kumar.
Director: Satish Kaushik
This remake of Subhash Ghai’s 1980s super hit Karz has basically the same storyline as the original with a little twist added to it. So for all those who haven’t seen the original, the plot goes like this – Kamini (Urmila) marries Ravi Verma (Dino Morea) for his riches and bumps him off immediately after their marriage. Two decades later, the biggest music sensation in South Africa, Monty (Himesh) one day suddenly during a rehearsal starts …

Strange things happen in showbiz. And you don’t know how to explain it.
How do you explain the fact that Abhishek Bachchan’s next three films all have titles beginning with the letter ‘D’ – Drona, followed by Dostana and Delhi 6.
How do you explain the fact that last month Madhavan was shooting for two films simultaneously both beginning with the number ’3′ – 3 Patti and 3 Idiots.
How do you rationalize the revival of interest in the supernatural? Eerie-fairies are flying around filmdom. The fur hadn’t even stopped flying over Phoonk …

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Abhishek Bachchan starrer, Drona, has been insured for a whopping Rs. 50 crore. This has made Drona the biggest insured film of Bollywood till date. Directed by Abhishek’s childhood buddy, Goldie Behl and produced under Goldie’s home banner Rose Movies, Drona stars Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra and Kay Kay Menon.
The makers of the film have done the Rs. 50 crore insurance of their film with the state owned United India Insurance (UII). The reason for such high insurance amount, say Bollywood insiders is the mega budget involved in the making …

Salman Khan is back in the news. For the wrong reasons, once again!
At a packed-to-capacity press conference at his plush bungalow in Juhu on April 1, Vivek Oberoi told the media persons that Salman Khan had threatened him in the early hours of March 30.
Vivek claimed that Salman called him 41 times that night and abused him in the choicest of expletives, accusing Vivek of having “physical relationships with Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherji, Diya Mirza and Somy Ali,” Vivek revealed.
“At first, I decided to pacify things, but when his tone …