SoggyCornflakes - Bollywood

Ah, one of those slow news days where I have to resort to cricket to eke out any Bollywood news. Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta, both big owners of their Indian Premier League teams are trying to garner support...Bollywood-style. Well, Shah Rukh is pulling Bipasha Basu and Rani Mukherji into his promo video and reports suggest that Preity was trying to get Sunny and Bobby Deol with dad Dharmendra. She denies this though (good choice, who'd want to support a team with the Deol's as spokespersons?) and insists that she'll let her cricketers speak for themselves.

"The playing field when the matches start in April will be filled with star-cricketers. That takes care of the glam-element. As for the music video we feel it should represent the earthy feel of Punjab and Chandigarh. We feel we can't capture the flamboyant and vigorous flavour of if we bring in film stars into the video."

Ouch SRK, she dissed you! And that's it for today...until tomorrow.

Kangana Ranaut recently gave an interview where she came of...well, not that great. She's pretty judgmental and boring actually. Yes, I'm judgmental too, but I'm not boring...at least, off the blog I'm not boring.

Many Bollywood heroines are game to the surgeon's knife for silicone boobs. Your take on that? They are also going in for silicone hips, and not to forget, collagen lips. These girls feel that this is the best way to attract men and become a sex symbol. Little do they realise that it has an adverse effect on health. I have heard men talking about big boobs and big ass. I want to ask men. What matters to them- a nice pair of boobs or a girl with a nice nature? I will never get carried away.

Meaning you'll do some subtle work?

Shiney gave you acting tips in Woh Lamhe and Gangster, and you got pissed off? No, Shiney did not give me any acting tips. There was an uncomfortable silence between you and him on the sets? I told you that I don't mix up with anybody. I don't have not only Shiney's number but also Emraan, Bobby and Upen's. I am game to doing another film with Shiney. If he has a problem with me, I am not aware of it.

Well, of course he didn't give you tips...you're a brilliant actress, I doubt you needed them. It's called sarcasm people.

Shakalaka Boom Boom was a mistake? I wouldn't put it that way. I tried something different. It didn't click, that's another story. If you ask me, the film failed on many levels. Mainly, it went wrong in screenplay.

Never take the blame girl, never. Its always someone else's fault that your movie sucked ass.

Katrina Kaif is really missing her family after working with family groups in her latest movies. The actress worked with the Deol's in Apne and with the Khan's in Partner and that totally screwed with her head as it reminds her of her own family and how much she misses them.

"The Deols in Apne and the Khans, Salman and Sohail (who've produced during the film) during Partner bonded so beautifully on the sets, I'd invariably miss my own family." "It was such a pleasure to just do a film with the Deols Dharamji, Sunny and Bobby. I'd look at them together on the sets and miss my sisters and mom so much…I come from a large family. But I'm in Mumbai alone. And when I saw how beautifully the Deols bonded I felt….sad and happy…they were having so much fun. Made me wish I had my sisters around. It's unfortunate that my work has taken me away from my family."

Yeah I get you Kat. It's hard being away from your family. When you just want that person there so much that it hurts and still you can't get them. It feels like someone's ripped out your heart and left it with them and all you got was the left ventrical, so it really hurts when anyone moves. Yeah, that didn't make much sense. Yeah, I live with my parents...but I totally get what you're going through Kat!

Yes, that's a big duh, but Kangana couldn't get any songs shot in the hills of Manali (which I have no clue where they are) because of the rain.

"But our joy was soon gone when it began to rain. Bobby Deol and I were stuck in a tent in the middle of nowhere for almost a week. We'd rush out as soon as the rain stopped. But as soon the camera was set up and we got into position we'd have to rush back into the tent. I must've lost at least four kgs just running back and forth to beat the rains. "

So the director decided to stop trying his luck with the rain and decided that a song in the rain would work...good idea, except then it stopped raining and started drizzling instead, which doesn't look that great on camera. Kangana will be flying to Mauritius in the hope that no rain will follow them there. Just sun, beaches and cold, cold water...sounds like fun.

As ANOTHER no-talent kid gets launched by daddy (or mummy). Ravi Chopra's sons, Abhay and Kapil, are the set to be the new additions to the (in)famous train of youngsters entering Bollywood mainstream. Ravi Chopra says,

"My younger son Abhay is planning to direct a film titled Mitthi and will launch it by January. My elder son Kapil is going to make his debut as an actor. I am planning to launch him in my next film titled Kohinoor."

I despise all these "filmi kids", as far as I'm concerned, over the last 10 years only three of these kids have earnt the right to call themselves actors (Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Abhishek Bachchan), the rest keep producing the same drivel. I'm looking at you Bobby Deol... and you Sunny Deol... and you Esha Deol... and you Abhay Deol... and you Kareena Kapoor... and you Zayed Khan... and you Fardeen Khan... and... and... I'm bored. So, to sum up. Filmi kids suck.

By mistake, I'm sure. Why would anyone want to waste their time on Bobby Deol? It must have been a dare. But apparently, Bobby was followed by a female fan...who traced his steps everywhere, except for the men's toilets.

The girl approached Bobby at the movie’s premiere and asked him for autograph. She then asked him to pose with her for photos. Like a good star, Bobby obliged the fan. But soon he noticed that the girl kept hanging around near him. After the premiere, when Bobby went to a shopping mall, he saw the same girl chasing him a little distance away. And when a family approached Bobby and his brother Sunny Deol and dad Dharmendra in the mall, the girl came and stood close to Bobby. Bobby says after a while he began to get annoyed by the stalking fan. In fact, at one point, Bobby became so desperate to get her off his back that he went to the men’s loo. The girl still followed him but she did not enter the lavatory.

For all he knows, she could have been a killer, out to get all the ugly and untalented actors she can find. Wow, phew that Bobby got away. I don't know what I'd do without his hamming on screen!

Wow, two C-grade actors have a tiff. How very sparklingly interesting. Co-stars Kangana Ranaut and Bobby Deol (from Shakalaka Boom Boom) had a bit of a problem on set, regarding Kangana's dancing skills or lack thereof. I don't know how Kangana dances, but I know Bobby can't dance for toffee. So it's a bit rich coming from him that Kangana can't dance...and get this Bobby. A gal just has to show some skin and most people (usually boys) don't care how she dances. A guy can't get away with bad dancing...because then...well, he'd just look like me...and you activate my retch reflex pretty well. Guys who I can watch happily dancing...Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor...that's it. Everyone else should not dance! And maybe SRK...but that's really it! But Kangana felt that Bobby was right in critisizing her, so she enrolled for dance classes, yippee for her.

Meaning that she didn't wanna throw up when she saw him dancing, like the rest of us did. I haven't watched it yet, but with a cast consisting of Abhishek Bachchan and Bobby Deol...I pass. And it got mostly crap ratings, so I really pass. But Abhishek is trying to change my mind.

"Even while we were shooting Jhoom..we knew the humour, being so unprecedented, would take time to find its groove among the audiences. Shaad and we all knew a lot of the audience wouldn't get the point. But we were sure Jhoom would find its level. If you remenber, Bunty Aur Babli too unsettled the audience initially."

I would like to point out that BaB was entertaining and no-one came to see you in it. And apparently new wifey Aishwarya thought Abhi was really good in the movie, yeah, who cares what she says?

Well, the war against the Bachchan's continues at is was reported that they weren't invited to Shilpa Shetty's birthday party in Yorkshire that took place after the IIFA awards. In the guest list was Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Karan Johar. You see what happens when you're stingy with the wedding food? Another example of Bachchan exclusion was during Salman Khan's London premiere of Marigold. Gauri Khan was there, along with Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Shilpa Shetty and Bobby and Tanya Deol. Wow, the cold war just keeps getting colder. In fact, I'm feeling the chill right here...oh wait, my heater just went off. What's wrong with the weather!?!

Well, I guess there'll always be a difference between actresses who've been in the industry for a while and new-comers. The new ones are big-mouthed bitches who think they're more important than they are. Shaka Laka Boom Boom has had a few kinks during production, mostly from actress Kangana Ranaut, who refused to learn English for the role and them moaned when she was dubbed by another actress (who could have been co-star Celina Jaitley). The next problem arose since Kangana thinks that Celina was given more preferential treatment on set. The cold-war comes from Kangana's side only apparently, because she resents Celina and the attention she gets from their other co-stars (Bobby Deol, Upen Patel).

Kangana and her hairdresser would talk and bitch about Celina in Himachali language saying ‘billi aa gayi’ etc, under the impression that Celina wasn’t familiar with the language. But Celina is the daughter of an army man, has lived all over the country and understands many local languages. However she chose to maintain a dignified silence.”

I'm not suer what Himachali langauge is, but it sounds like hindi/urdu, "Billi aa gayi" means "the cat is here"...so not only is Kangana a witch, she's also stupid, since anyone can understand that. Oh well, I guess this is what happens when you have a pretty successful girl like Celina and a mop-headed average-looking actress like Kangana.