SoggyCornflakes - Bollywood

Ok, part 2 of our latest feature and let’s see if more of you guys see the resemblance this time around.

In the ring this week is Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress and Cobie Smulders, Canadian television-show star.

Katrina is best known for her inexplicable hits, the latest being Singh is Kinng (it was quite hilarious that Yuvraaj flopped, adding to the point that people who are dating shouldn’t be acting together, they have no chemistry). She’s also known as Salman Khan’s girlfriend, which has definitely been a factor in her success, since the first movie she ever did had a play a character named ‘Popdi Chinchpokli’. She has definitely taken a step up in the industry and now plays characters with stereotypical Indian names like Sonia and Priya…isn’t she lucky?!

Cobie, or Jacoba (yup, it’s the female equivalent of Jacob, bet you didn’t know that) is a Canadian actress best known for playing Robin Scherbatsky in the TV-series How I Met Your Mother.

I don’t know if the pictures highlight the resemblance quite as much, but the first time I watched HIMYM, I couldn’t believe how similar Kat and Cobie looked. Even if they aren’t exactly twins, they could pass off as sisters. Or it is just me?

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But his area of expertise isn’t really academic. We still don’t know much about Hrithik Roshan’s new movie Kites, but I’m guessing Rakesh Roshan is carefully leaking out bits of information to the press to make sure that no one loses complete interest in the movie. A smart publicity move really.

So, the latest bit that we’ve found out about the film that Hrithik’s character will be a salsa teacher and Kangana Ranaut plays a rich socialite who falls in love with him. Reports suggest that Hrithik has become so involved in getting his moves right that he barely meets anyone, which would explain his lack of public appearances.

I’m not sure if they’ve set a release date on the movie yet, but I don’t know why Hrithik’s movies always take so long!

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No, no one stole his songs, he just doesn’t trust his own composing talent.

Wow, it was just raining cats and dogs over here and now it’s almost sunset…it looks so pretty, like the world just changed into a sepia tone. Yeah I know, that was random, but you’ll have to excuse the personal bits I put into the site sometimes.

Pritam Chakraborty wrote a few songs for Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, the Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif starrer but now he feels like they don’t really work for the movie and has asked Raj Kumar Santoshi to delay the filming while he comes up with two new compositions for the film.

He also talks about the risks that were taken with the songs of Jab We Met,

“In Jab We Met I sent Imtiaz Ali a substitute tune for the hit Yeh ishq haye at the last minute. And I never liked Nagara in the same film.

I tried to stop it. But everyone was adamant. Later it turned out to be the biggest hit of the Jab We Met soundtrack. So I may be wrong about changing my mind.

But in Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani I don’t want to take a chance. I’ll scrap the two songs and give new tunes. I hope the director Raj Santoshi doesn’t mind.”

I’m glad we still got Yeh Ishq…Nagada wasn’t one of my favourite songs though, honestly.

I guess Pritam knows best.

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I can’t believe it’s Monday again. Where is the time going? I have less than a month of holidays left. Oh well, enough whining, Bollywood time.

Kajol is gearing up to act in her new movie, My Name is Khan, but because Karan Johar has never seen a chubby Muslim, she has to lose a lot of weight for the role. Shah Rukh Khan will be continuing with his lean look from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Kajol has to match up with him.

Someone from the set reports,

“She couldn’t say no as she plays an NRI woman in the film and as per the look of her character she has to look thin. Hence she had to forego her bingeing habit and start with a special diet. She is currently in Los Angeles shooting for the film with her two good friends, Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan,”

Bingeing is fun…unfortuantely, the after-effects make you wonder whether it’s worth it all. I think more exercise is one of my new year’s resolutions…

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New Year has completely thrown me off track, today feels like a Monday. But it’s Friday, and luckily there’s lots of Shahid-related news around.

Firstly, Shahid and his Hindi lessons. I don’t know what it is about languages, but for some reason, when someone is learning a new language, they always want to know the swear words first. Marty Kudelka, Shahid’s new choreographer, has tried speaking Hindi to fit in around his new surroundings. Ken Ghosh and Shahid were more than willing to help Marty out and apparently, Marty now has a nice big vocabulary of Hindi swear words. Well, he could have just watched any old Indian gangster movie, but I guess learning from Shahid must be more fun.

Second story. Shahid is ready to work with his dad Pankaj Kapoor, as soon as he finishes all his current projects. We all know how many projects Shahid is doing, but hopefully they’ll all be wrapped up by the middle of the year and Pankaj hopes that they’ll begin filming by the end of May. The story, contrary to some rumours, is not based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but is a love story (how shocking to find that in Bollywood, hehe).

Lastly, Shahid gave an interview (you can read the entire thing here) but I’ll just pick up some of the interesting questions.

Did the irony of your breakup with Kareena and the film’s success strike you?
It’s too glaring for me to not notice it. But that’s life for you. You can’t fight it. I’ve always accepted what life gives you. I think what defines my life is not what happens to me but how I deal with it.

Do questions on Kareena make you uncomfortable?
No. It’s been a year now. The pain has receded. See, I know that as an actor I’m not allowed to have my complete privacy even if I wanted to. I try to keep my personal life to myself.

I want to stay connected with the person I am. I want to be in a real world. Sometimes in our world we’re pulled into an illusory state. I want to stay normal. I’ll do as much as possible to uphold my privacy.

Why is Kareena still part of the discussion? She’s ancient history as far as we’re concerned and seems like Shahid also thinks that.

You’ve become secluded?
Secluded is too strong a word. It isn’t as if I don’t have friends and a family. My father lives just a floor below. And I’ve a set of friends I’m very close to. I’ve people in my space. But not outside it. I’m not from a filmi background. So naturally my friends are from outside the industry.

A refreshing change.

New younger talent has come in after you. Do you still feel like a new kid on the block?
Not so new. In comparison to people who’ve started two Fridays back I am more experienced. But I hope to play ‘boy’ roles until I am 40. Others actors are doing it. So why not me?

I’m very happy being young. I started at 23. I couldn’t have asked for more. I’m quite happy playing the college student. As an actor I’m looking for good actors…boy or man is secondary. I don’t have any agendas.

So that means we’ll be seeing Shahid in fluffy roles for a while yet, yay! It’s hard to imagine him as a 40-year-old though. When asked about Rani and their apparent age difference, he said,

Wouldn’t you look mismatched with her ?
That’s what I was told when I did Kismat Connection with Vidya Balan. But if the film and characters work the doubts will disappear.

On the other hand, Rani is showing her age much more than Vidya is…but we’ll see how it turns out.

And that’s it, bring on the weekend!

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Except for Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan seems to charm every other person he comes across. Despite the flops that he’s making, his fan base is growing and his newest fan is 14-year-old Azaan from Karachi. No, he’s not some random kid, he’s singer Adnan Sami’s oldest son.

Adnan and Sallu are good friends, so it would make sense that when Azaan came to visit his dad in Mumbai, he also got to meet Salman. Sallu was apparently very sweet to the kid, trying to make him as comfortable as possible.

Adnan tells the story about Salman’s birthday party,

“Later I came to know that Salman took Azaan for a ride on his buggy scooter on the beach. My boy was simply blown way. He says it was one of the best experiences of his life.

His hair was windswept when he came back with Salman and he had that far-away look in his eyes that I hadn’t seen while Azaan did the other fun things in Mumbai with me.

Salman is a very dear friend. And although he had hordes of birthday guests to look after he made my boy feel special and comfortable. I’ll never forget that.”

Even I have to say that that’s so sweet.

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Man, it’s boiling today. Hey everyone, hope you had a great New Year’s day. Welcome back to SC and the first post of the year…or was that the post that said Happy New Year…ok, so here’s the second post of the new year.

There still isn’t any official confirmation that Lara Dutta and Dino Morea are dating, but I guess the events of a New Year’s party would indicate that they are. Shah Rukh threw a party at his bungalow where Dino and Lara arrived together.

The problem was the attendance of Dino’s ex-girlfriend, designer Nandita Mahtani, who was getting a bit too close to Dino for Lara’s comfort. According to a source, Lara and Dino were chatting with Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia when Nandita joined them and once Ness and Preity had moved away, became extremely friendly with Dino.

Lara didn’t say anything until Nandita ended up in Dino’s lap, at which she stormed out of the party. At least Dino tried then, when he quickly excused himself and went after Lara to try and placate her. The source confirms that they’re still together…I guess a little jealousy never hurt a relationship.

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Happy 2009 everyone!

I set this post to publish on the stroke of midnight (South African time of course), but I just wanted to thank all our readers and commenters for hanging around here. 2008 has been an awesome year (minus the credit crunch and recession and terrorist attacks and the crap that Israel is doing in Gaza right now) and let’s hope 2009 is better. There’s lots of things to be thankful for and we should count our blessings.

Wishing you all a joyous and peaceful 2009,

Best Wishes,
Tigger

P.S. Happy Birthday Roxtar! Hope you have a brilliant day!

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Has it really been 13 years since Jimmy Shergill acted in Mohabbatein? Wow, so it has. Jimmy has always struck me as one of those pseudo-intellectual actors who doesn’t do a lot of mainsteam movies because he doesn’t want to the atypical Bollywood hero.

While that wasn’t really working for him, it finally paid off when he was nominated and won the award for Best Supporting Artist in a Supporting Role for his role in A Wednesday.

Jimmy says,

“Yeah, it’s a proud moment for me, since I had never been nominated earlier. Even though I started out 13 years back, awards were always elusive. This is why, even when I was nominated for the V. Shantaram Awards that by itself was a great moment for me. I was shooting in Punjab for my Punjabi film Munde UK De when I was informed about my nomination. I just flew down to Mumbai on Friday for the award ceremony and was pleasantly shocked when my name was announced as a winner”

Well, good for him. Another actor ends off the year on a good note. Ok, now I’m done for today. See you all next year!

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The year is almost over and since New Year’s eve is always hectic, some quick and early posts today.

Firstly, Tabu is starting off the new year well by appearing on the cover of India Vogue. Actually, you could say she ended 2008 well by posing for the cover and started 2009 well by appearing on the January issue. Ok, I’m just waffling, a bit lost on what I could possibly say about this cover. I’m not a fashionista, I don’t know or care about what she’s wearing.

Supposedly Tabu gives a long and insightful interview, which is pretty rare for her so if you’re a Tabu fan, I guess that issue is for you, especially since she didn’t act in any Bollywood films this year. She does supposedly have a cameo in Rani and Shahid’s new film…

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