Best Actress Award for Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta is overwhelmed on receiving the best actress award at the Chicago International Film Festival for her performance as the battered Punjabi wife facing domestic violence in Deepa Mehta’s ‘Heaven On Earth’.

“I am so happy and excited. It was my director Deepa Mehta who informed me on Saturday afternoon that I had won. I couldn’t go to Chicago, and neither could Deepa. Without any lobbying I’ve done it,” beams Preity. She has other reasons to celebrate too. Her film ‘Heroes’ is doing pretty well on the domestic front.

Preity is immensely thankful to Anupam Kher. “I attended his acting school to get my Punjabi right for both the roles. He taught me how to pronounce the words properly. He has been a blessing.”

Deepa Mehta expresses her sincere joy on Preity’s success and says, “It’s amazing, isn’t it? I’m so happy for Preity. She’s luminous in ‘Heaven On Earth’…just like Shabana Azmi in ‘Fire’. Coincidentally, Shabana was the other actress to win the Best Actress Award at Chicago. I don’t think any other Indian actress has won this award. I’m happy Preity is getting rave reviews for Heroes. I’ve seen bits of her performance in ‘Heroes’. And in fact it was that performance which reassured me that I had made the right choice for Heaven On Earth.”

Aamir Khan unveils promo of his upcoming flick

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan unveiled one-minute promo of his much talked about film, 'Ghajini' on the festival day of Diwali, considered to be auspicious for all new ventures, in entertainment capital Mumbai on Tuesday.

'Ghajini', directed by A. R. Murugadoss, also stars actress Asin Thottumkal, and second leading lady Jiah Khan. A. R. Rahman is scoring the music for the film.

It is a Hindi remake of Murugadoss's Tamil film with the same title.

Khan said that the film, which was supposed to hit theatres on Diwali, now would be released during Christmas.

"The film would be released on December 25, and we felt that we should reveal the promo on Diwali (festival of lights), which is why we invited all of you to see the promo on Diwali. I hope that you all liked it. This is my first action film in real sense, it is out and out a mainstream entertainer, which I am doing after a long gap. I hope that people like it, we've really worked hard on the film and on this auspicious day I'd like to wish you a very happy Diwali," he said.

Aamir is seen with his new six-pack abs in the promo, for which the talented actor has worked very hard.

The film is said to be inspired by Christopher Nolan's much acclaimed movie "Memento", where the protagonist suffers from anterograde amnesia (short term memory loss) and seeks revenge for his wife's murder.

Khan was in news recently for his successful directorial debut with 'Taare Zameen Par' (Stars on Earth).

His first appearance on the silver screen was as a child actor in his Uncle Nasir Hussain's film 'Yaadon Ki Baaraat' way back in 1973.

Khan's career started eleven years later with the film, 'Holi' in1984. But his first commercial success came with his cousin Mansoor Khan's film 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' in 1988.

Saif loves playing the dog - for Roadside Romeo!

There is some serious heavy petting going on, and Bebo’s not the only one poochie-cooing. Roadside Romeo is out, and we believe, Saif Ali Khan’s quite a bow wow factor in it. The star has given the voice over for the animated character, Romeo, and he’s loved the dub-a-dub. Here’s more:
Q. What made you do this animation?

The idea of doing an animation film was exciting. In fact, of lately, I’ve been hooked to a lot of animation myself. Shrek, for example has mainstream commercial American actors lending their voice to characters, and it sounded like an interestingly creative thing to do, to just act with your voice for a film where animators would create the character. That enthused me.

Q. Which is your favorite all-time animation character?

I think Shrek would be pretty high up there.
Q. What was it like rapping for Cool Cool?

Putting your voice to a track is quite exciting and Salim (of the Salim Sulaiman duo) made me feel very comfortable and explained it to me. Again it’s another side to acting, of being creative, and I really enjoyed it.

Q. Tell us about Romeo

He is very young, energetic, slightly foolish and very pure hearted. He’s just totally driven by love and having fun.

Q What according to you can the audiences look forward to in this film?

I think the quality of animation is really top class as compared to some of the big animated kind of comics and cartoons that we have seen internationally, I think that’s the USP. It’s not everyday that you get mainstream actors to do voice overs that too for dog, in Bombay for a love story! It’s extremely well told and beautifully drawn. Jugal’s done a great job.

Urmila Matondkar addressing to media on her new Movie 'EMI'

Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar addresses the media on her upcoming film 'EMI' in New Delhi.

How cunning she is about promoting her new movie before launch!

Spice girl Victoria Beckham in India

Spice girl Victoria Beckham is now performing for indian fashion designers. And having traditional saree. Although she is wearning saree first time but she looks Gorgeous in this sexy dress.

Spice girl Victoria Beckham is hot topic now a days in Fashion industry of India. She has to perform in Vogue in India.

Imran helped me in losing weight: Minissha Lamba

Indian Actress Minissha Lamba worked really hard to shape up to carry off a bikini with panache in Sanjay Gadhvi’s “Kidnap”, but she credits co-star Imran Khan for helping her maintain her weight.“Imran helped me in my weight loss regime,”.

“During the shootings, I was on a high-protein diet. …

Aishwarya Rai Blues!

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hot might prefer sticking to Black, White and Pink for most of her social outings but of late the lady seems to have been smitten by blue. 

By sporting a lovely blue Roberto Cavalli outfit at one of her Cannes appearance she made blue look stylish. Her gorgeous blue outfit at the Drona premiere too turned heads and Ash has put the colour blue on the red carpet with panache.