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Shahid Kapoor and Nana Patekar will be seen together for the first time in Ramesh Sippy’s next film to be directed by Rohit Shetty

It may not be a Bollywood film, but it’s still Aishwarya

Australian fast bowler Brett Lee has appeared in a music video with Bollywood legend Asha Bhosle, playing the role of a foreigner who woos an Indian girl.

The video shows the guitar-playing Lee miming along to a love song from the album “Asha and Friends” which was released this week.

Lee, who has a rock band called “Six & Out” at home, shot the video during Australia`s victorious Champions Trophy campaign in India last month.

Lee, 29, is preparing to spearhead Australia`s pace attack against England in the much-awaited Ashes series starting in Brisbane on Thursday.

“Other than cricket, music is my passion. When I was told I would be singing with a legend, I was glad,” Lee was quoted as saying in the Times of India newspaper.

The 73-year-old Bhosle was a Grammy nominee in 1997 and in a career spanning six decades has sung for 965 films. She is best known for folk-pop and cabaret.

“Lee sang well, he knows a few Hindi words and is a star,” Bhosle told reporters here.

Ashok Mehrotra, who directed the video, said: “Lee is cool headed and was a very focussed artist. We wanted him because he lends charisma and energy.

“It was a great experience, all done in one take.”

Lee said he had earlier turned down an offer from another Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, made when he visited Mumbai on his way home from Australia`s tour of Bangladesh in April, to play the lead role in a movie.

“I said `mate, I`ve had no acting experience in my life` and he told me that was OK, they could sort that out,” Lee was quoted as saying.

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The appeal of Bollywood is clearly growing across the world and China is no exception.

In fact, a number of average middle-class Chinese families such as that of Hou Wei’s have grown up enjoying Indian cinema.

Twenty-four-year-old Hou Wei’s passion for Indian music has actually transformed his home into the site for a non-stop Bollywood hit parade.

Hou Wei says that she was first introduced to Bollywood at the age of four.

“I remember one very old Hindi movie called Awaara and another called Caravan made in 1971. These were the first movies for me. The first song I listened to was from Caravan. I remember Piya Tu Ab To Aaja ” said Hou Wei, Singer.

Instant attraction

Hou Wei describes her first brush with the Bollywood song as nothing short of love at first sound.

“I don’t know why, but I felt that the song was beautiful, from heaven, and I wanted to learn it,” said Hou Wei, Singer.

Hou’s father, a classical Peking opera singer, says that he tried hard to encourage his young daughter’s passion for music.

“I am a Peking opera performer. I feel for music. Even I really liked Indian songs when I heard them. So from the time she was small, I encouraged her to develop interest in all kinds of music,” said Hou Lian Ying, Hou Wei’s father.

Hou describes Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle and Jagjit Singh as her favourite singers.

And her passion for Indian music has also helped her as Hou has become quite the local celebrity performing her Bollywood hits at parties, restaurants and even on local TV.

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Bollywood’s young and talented director Karan Johar is all set to explore an untouched territory of filmmaking.

The director is planning to get into the world of animated filmmaking, which is still not much popular among the Indian audience. But at the same time Karan is taking care of the tastes of Indian cine goers.

He claims that even his animated flick will have all the ingredients like songs, emotions, drama and everything that you except from a Dharma production film. Suresh Nair is doing the writing part of the film. Karan wants to start the project early next year.

“Now, all I want is a good technical team,” says Karan.

Meanwhile, Karan is also working on his next feature film. He will also produce a romantic comedy to be directed by his assistant Tarun Manshukhani. The film is hopeful to go on the floors by June next year.

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Superstar Salman Khan is all geared up for his forthcoming film ‘Baaabul’. TIMES NOW’s Niha Siddiqui elicits Salman’s views on working with Amitabh Bachchan and also on working with John Abraham, an actor with whom Salman was rumoured to have had a tiff.

Salman also speaks about his equation with the BIg B and also his hot and cold relation with John Abraham.

Director Ravi Chopra’s ”Baabul’ boasts of a huge star cast, from superstar Amitabh Bachchan, to Rani Mukherjee, to Hema Malini, to salman khan, to John Abraham. You name them and you have all of them under one roof in this family drama.

Salman Khan who is best at emotional roles, plays the role of Amtabh Bachchan’s son. as he comes together with the Big B for the second time after ‘Baghban’. TIMES NOW finds out his views on their chemistry.

On Amitabh Bachchan, Salman said, “He is a living legend, I think he is the best to work with. Infact he’s so good that he increases the other person’s capacity, he lifts the performance of his co stars.”

It seems like things have pretty much eased out between Salman and John Abraham, the actors were rumoured to be involved in a cold war over an issue that involved actor Katrina Kaif.

But as the saying goes that time is the best healer, it definitely holds true in this case. Salman seems to have forgotten the issue and is all praise for the young actor.

“He is damn good in the film. I had just two scenes with him in the film so i couldn’t gauge his talent in those two scenes. But from what I’ve seen in the rushes, he has looked very good and has danced very well.”, averred Salman.

With most of the cast repeated from the earlier Chopra film ‘Baghban’ and with all well on the sets amongst the actors, it looks like the audience will once again connect to this emotional family drama.

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Could it be true? Could it be true? Bachchans together in one film? Recent news and rumors have been that Amitabh, Abhishek,and Jaya Bachchans will be seen in film Bhairavi scripted by Rakeysh Mehra.
“Yes Bhairavi is definitely in the pipeline. Rakeysh has already sounded us out. All three of us – Jaya, Abhishek and me are agreeable. But since it’s a very big project it requires a great deal of planning. As of now, Bhairavi is the only film bringing us together,” said Amitabh.
The film is said to be directed by Pradeep Sarkar. ? Recent news and rumors have been that Amitabh, Abhishek,and Jaya Bachchans will be seen in film Bhairavi scripted by Rakeysh Mehra.

“Yes Bhairavi is definitely in the pipeline. Rakeysh has already sounded us out. All three of us – Jaya, Abhishek and me are agreeable. But since it’s a very big project it requires a great deal of planning. As of now, Bhairavi is the only film bringing us together,” said Amitabh.

The film is said to be directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

In this reviewer’s humble opinion, there is a fine line between having your own sound and being repetitive.

A R Rahman is one of the few music directors in Bollywood — or for that matter anywhere — who can tread that line.

– rediffNews 3/5

‘Guru’ leaves quite a classy impression. On one side there are some lovable songs like ‘Barso Re’, ‘Bin Tere’ and ‘Mayya’ while on the other side there is a track like ‘Jaage Hain’. Though ‘Ay Hairathe’ would invite mixed response, ‘Ek Lo Ek Muft and ‘Baazi Laga’ would have to depend a lot on the way they are presented on screen.

– indiafm 4.5/5