Priyanka wants act with Ajay Devgn

In these days of multi-starrers and remakes, there is always a tussle at the production end about choices.

All the leading actresses are much in demand and their personal rapport and box office history with the heroes plays a part in who gets chosen.

After Golmaal 3, Rohit Shetty and Ajay Devgn have begun their work on the remake of the Tamil film Singham.

And there is major speculation about who will play the female lead.

Sources inform that Rohit Shetty has zeroed on in three names.

His first choice was his lucky lady Kareena Kapoor since he has already worked with her in Golmaal Returns and Golmaal 3 and is comfortable with her.

These two films have been box office hits too. But Kareena has no dates to spare. The actress will start shooting for Bodyguard with Salman and Reema Kagti’s next with Aamir. She also has Karan Johar’s Short Term Shaadi.

“Now the director is planning to approach Priyanka Chopra and .

It remains to be seen who will finally land a role opposite Ajay in the movie.” adds our source. Singham is an action flick that starred Suriya and Anushka.

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Meet the contestants of 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 3'

One of the most awaited reality shows of the year, Khatron Ke Khiladi  is back with the 3rd season on Colors.

Priyanka Chopra as the smoldering host in her grunge avatar has already raised the hot quotient of the show and to top it all the show has an eclectic mix of contestants.

After the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) restricted the cricketers from taking part in the show for safety reasons, the producers gathered 12 new contestants to fit the bill.

Here is a sneak preview of those contestants, who have decided to take on nerve wrenching tasks in order to emerge as the bravest of them all.

Gulshan Grover- After countless films that have bombed at the box office, Grover, 55, will now be seen grappling with real danger in Khatron Ke Khiladi 3. He claims to have trained for several weeks to lose the extra weight and perform the stunts.

Abhishek Kapoor- Popularly known as 'Gattu' in the film fraternity, Abhishek Kapoor the director of Rock On will be seen performing various stunts as well.

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Priyanka takes up the role rejected by Asin, Katrina

After Asin and Katrina Kaif rejected the second female lead role in Anurag Basu’s upcoming flick ‘Silence’, National award winning actress Priyanka Chopra has chosen to take it up.

After delivering hits like ‘Fashion’, ‘Kaminey’ and ‘Krissh’, Priyanka is prepared to portray the character of a mentally ill woman in ‘Silence'.

Priyanka sacrifices her lead role for Anurag Basu

Earlier, this starlet was offered the lead role in the film opposite Ranbir, and the second female lead was offered to Kollywood actress Asin.

After the South Indian actress refused to take up the weaker role, Bollywood actress Katrina was given the role. But sooner she declined to be part of the film like Asin.

Both these actresses felt that Priyanka has a stronger role than theirs.

With other actresses refusing to take up the weaker role, Priyanka didn’t want the project to be shelved, hence she has decided to do the second female role in Anurag Basu’s ‘Silence’.

Insiders close to the actress stated that Priyanka understood that ‘Silence’ is a very powerful project that cannot be held up.

And it was due to this fact that the actress has volunteered to do, whatever is best for the project, even if it is swapping roles.

Priyanka and Ranbir enjoyed shooting in Las Vegas
Priyanka and her co-star Ranbir had a ball shooting for Siddharth Anand's ‘Anjaana Anjaani'.

Besides shooting for the film, Priyanka was seen spending time with her friends while Ranbir was entertaining himself at casinos gambling his time away.

The entire film was shot in New York and Vegas. Interestingly in ‘Anjaana Anjaani’, the lead hero Ranbir has sported the look of a superhero and Santa Claus.

About Ranbir’s look in the film sources revealed, “Ranbir's get ups are part of a song. He had fun dressing up as Batman and Santa Claus. It will be one of the highlights of the film.”

Siddharth Anand’s ‘Anjanna Anjaani’ is slated to release in theatres in September.

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Priyanka Chopra cried openly in pre-birthday party

Normally Priyanka Chopra, who just turned 28, is not the kind of girl who displays emotions, not even in front of her own family.

But when her parents threw a small pre-birthday party for her, she for the first time cried openly.

It was not the well-organised party where her mother cooked her favourite Punjabi food that made Priyanka emotional.

It was the gift that her parents bought her, a six-carat diamond ring, which made Priyanka bawl like a baby on July 16.

“The minute she saw the gift, Priyanka burst into tears. We were shocked because we had never seen her like that,” says a close friend who was at the get-together.

Apparently Priyanka, whose birthday was July 18, proudly wore the ring to her beach side holiday although her parents warned her she might drop it in the water.

Priyanka’s brother Siddharth, who celebrates his birthday a week before his sister, kept teasing her about hiding the ring before she left.

Incidentally, Priyanka had arranged a surprise birthday party at China House at the Grand Hyatt for her brother.

“It was his 21st birthday and very special. Priyanka looked into every detail personally although she was shooting for “Saat Khoon Maaf”.

Siddharth, who has just returned from a year-long course on the culinary art

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Priyanka Chopra surprised tears on her birthday

Normally Priyanka Chopra is not the kind of girl who displays emotions, not even in front of her own family.

But on the night of 16 July when her parents threw a small pre-birthday party at home for her and her close friends, Priyanka for the first time cried openly.

It was not the well-organized party where her mother cooked her favourite Punjabi dishes.

It was the gift that her parents bought her, a 6-carat diamond ring, which made Priyanka bawl like a baby.

Says a close friend who was at the get-together. "The minute she saw the gift Priyanka burst into tears.

We were shocked because we had never seen her like that." Apparently, Priyanka proudly wore the ring to her beach side holiday although her parents warned her she might drop it in the water.

Priyanka's brother Siddharth who celebrates his birthday a week before his sister kept teasing her about hiding the ring before she left.

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Katrina, Priyanka, Deepika in Milap's movie

Katrina, Priyanka, Deepika Vidya, Anushka Sharma to be added on in Milap Zaveri’s Film

March 5, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): After getting Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Farah Khan, Sajid Khan, Amrita Rao and Boman Irani to make guest appearances in his film-about-films ‘Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai’ writer-director Milap Zaveri feels the star line-up is just not strong enough.

With the help of producer Nikhil Advani, Milap has roped in some more A-listers at the last minute.

Glam queens Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma and Vidya Balan will make cameo appearances in Milap’s film and thereby add to the film’s commercial value.

The cameos with these five ladies are expected to be shot next week, just three weeks ahead of the film’s release creating a major last-minute pre-release situation.

Says Milap, “That’s true. I’m roping in the names you’ve mentioned. Shooting at the last minute would be no problem because all of the star appearances are in the first reel, so I just have to re-edit the initial reel. Also, I’ve kept slates in the pre-final print announcing the various star cameos which I’ve filled up as and when they’ve been available.”

Milap is candid enough to admit his film has no big star value. “The only star is Ritesh Deshmukh. Jacqueline Fernandez and Ruslaan Mumtaz will become stars after the film is released. Until they do I need to get audiences into theatres. That’s why we need to rope in more stars in cameos.”

Besides his own clout in the industry as a long-standing and very successful writer-director Milap Zaveri ‘s producer Nikhil is also using his good wishes to rope in the glam-queens to add a dash of allure to ‘Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai’.

Nikhil has apparently sent out messages to Deepika, Priyanka, Anushka, Vidya and Katrina who have all agreed.

While Anushka will shoot her portion on the sets of Nikhil Advani’s ‘Patiala House’, the other ladies will touch base next week and do the needful.

Says Milap, “Vidya would be slightly difficult since she’s shooting in Delhi. But we’ll manage.”

Milap is expected to fly down to Delhi to get Vidya’s cameo in place.

Making a film about the film industry is not easy. The director is expected to rope in all the stars that can be crammed in the film. Luckily for Milap Zaveri he has a producer who can get his friends to do the needful.

Says Milap, “The stars making special appearances have been absolutely wonderful. Akshay Kumar insisted on seeing a part of the film before doing his cameo. Akshay speaks about Ruslaan Mumtaz’s character in the camera. Sajid Khan left the shooting of his ‘Housefull’ and drove down to our location. In fact he saw Jacqueline dancing and decided to rope in for the item song in Housefull. And do you know, Karan Johar actually agreed to be snubbed by Ruslaan Mumtaz! Ruslaan plays a superstar and in the film he refuses to take Karan’s calls.”

Farah Khan has a full-fledged role as a film director. But the biggest sport so far seems to be Boman Irani who shot for just the trailer of ‘Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai’.

Says Milap emotionally, “That’s true. Boman is not in the film, only in the trailer. Everyone who has made an appearance in my film has been wonderful. I guess it comes from being around for so long.”

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Priyanka Chopra returns ‘Don 2’

No more speculations. Priyanka Chopra returns as the feisty butt-kicker for Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don 2’. The National Award winning actress has confirmed the news.

Priyanka tells a tabloid, “Yes, I am doing ‘Don 2’. Ever since I worked in the first movie, I was looking forward to being on board for the sequel as well. It would be good to be a part of ‘Don 2’ as it is an action thriller.”

Farhan, who is busy with other projects, was planning ‘Don 2’ ever since he made the ‘Don’ remake with Shahrukh Khan. Though SRK’s presence was confirmed, it was doubtful whether Priyanka will feature in the sequel. She acted well and looked stunning as Roma, the character originally played by Zeenat Aman. In fact, Priyanka even learnt martial arts for it.

On the other hand, Priyanka is not doing Dostana sequel. The original desi girl will be missing from the movie. “No, I am not the leading lady of ‘Dostana 2’. My story had ended in ‘Dostana’ and there was no point being paired with any of the boys (Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham) in the sequel.”

We prefer wild cat than desi girl.

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First Look: Anjaana Anjaani

Producer Sajid Nadiadwala can’t meet Sylvester Stallone without Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor.

It appears that both the stars are not ready to take ‘no’ for an answer. Sajid, who is producing Anjaana Anjaani (starring Ranbir and PC) is quoted as saying, “I think Ranbir and Priyanka will kill me if I go without them to see Sly. We’ll all be driving down from Las Vegas, where Ranbir and Priyanka are shooting, to Los Angeles to meet Stallone.”

Sajid has been a good friend of Sly ever since he worked with the Hollywood star in his Kambakkth Ishq. Earlier he even took Saif Ali Khan to meet him. According to reports, Sajid was supposed to meet Stallone during the New Year, along with his son. But the actor injured his neck and the meeting got cancelled. Now a new date is proposed and both Priyanka and Ranbir insist on accompanying Sajid for the meeting.

Ranbir, who is a big Sly fan, in fact, has Rocky T-shirts and plans to get Sylvester’s autograph on some of them.

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