Desi Galaxy

This week had been a little less eventful for the Bollywood as all the major releases are moved up to be released in the last of this month. We saw lots of Kareena and Saif together promoting their upcoming movie Kurbaan. We saw Aamir Khan talking about his upcoming idiotic adventure ‘3 idiots’ where Aamir Khan who is currently 44 years old is playing a 22 year old college student.

Now confirmed: Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone Breakup
According to Indiatimes Ranbir Kapoor’s good relations with Katrina Kaif was decessive turning point in the relationship. Deepika wanted Ranbir to put more effort in their relationship to succeed and Ranbir was unable to do that. Ranbir who was praised by critics after his first movie Saawariya has failed to maintain the success. Now his movie with Katrina Kaif ‘Ajab prem ki Ghazab Kahani’ is doing an average business and is expected to become a hit. Perhaps this was the time for Ranbir to change things in life to focus more on his career.

Kurbaan movie posters spark controversy:
Kareena’s pictures from Kurbaan has sparked the controversy. These images are used in the publicity posters for the movie showing Saif Ali Khan shirtless and Kareena Kapoor’s back. Shiv Sena spoke out against the posters…

Madhuri Dixit is offered a role to play Indira Gandhi
Krishna Shah has offered Maduri Dixit to play Indira Gandhi’s role in a project he is currently researching. Madhuri has not said yes to him as yet, but if she does this is going to be one hell of a movie. Madhuri is a living legend and since she got married she has strived to achieve balance between her family life and her film career. So much has been speculated about her next moves since Aaja Nachle. We at Desi Galaxy personally believe that Madhuri owes it to her fans to do more great films and a Bio pic on the India’s only ever to be elected woman Prime minister is definitely an interesting oppurtunity.

Mumbai terror suspects had links to Bollywood Stars
David Headley, one of the suspects in the Mumbai terror attacks met bollywood actors, worked out with them and even visited the targetted locations with them. Rahul Bhatt, Emran Hashmi and some other Bollywood names get involved in the ongoing investigation. Of course, all of the linked stars has denied their association. But it seems like there is a big mess that is going to uncovered really soon.

Kareena’s pictures from Kurbaan has sparked the controversy. These images are used in the publicity posters for the movie showing Saif Ali Khan shirtless and Kareena Kapoor’s back. Shiv Sena spoke out against the posters claiming that the pictures of Kareena Kapoor are nudes and hence obscene and offensive to Indian people. Shiv Sena spokesperson offered to send Kareena a Sari to cover up her naked back. In response to the sari comment Kareena retaliated by demanding a ‘Good One’.

The movie’s posters were released almost two weeks ago and they went almost completely unnoticed, until Shiv Sena pointed them out. Allegedly some of their activists took to the streets of Mumbai and teared down the posters. The controversy has developed immense public interest in the posters and now ever one wants to see them. The publicity had been beneficial for both the Shiv Sena and the movie Kurbaan. Providing them with free air time on news tv channels all over the country.

The real life couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor’s upcoming movie Kurbaan is among one of the most highly anticipated projects in Bollywood. But the silly stunts to gain publicity are now making people think that the actual movie wont be as good and entertaining as the controversies surrounding it. First there were news items detailing a hot bed scene between Kareena and Saif, and now the poster controversy. Already there are pictures of a kissing scene between Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor circulating all over the web. Kurbaan which is expected to be released on 27 November will surely gain a good headstart at the box office after all this free publicity earned by controversies and rumors.

Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan working together in a movie? Well yes, there is a very good chance that we will soon be able to see the greatest Hindi movie stars of our times together on the screen in Danny Boyle’s upcoming movie. Entertainment media is being informed by reliable sources that Aamir Khan has already signed and Shahrukh Khan is seriously considering the role offered to him. As you all Know that the role played by Anil Kapoor in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was first offered to Shahrukh Khan but at that time Shahrukh Khan was busy with ‘Rab ne Bana Di Jodi’ and ‘My name is Khan’.

Shahrukh Khan hasn’t had any major movie release since ‘Rab ne Bana di Jodi’. His next major release would be ‘My name is Khan’ which is still on the sets and is expected to be released next year. But you know Shahrukh, he is not just an actor. In his own words he is an entertainer whose job is to entertain people and make money from it. So he is making money other ways. He appears in advertisements of countless products, has a cricket team of his own, he is also trying to mentor a team in Dance Premier League. At the age of 43 he is more energetic that teenagers, a true workaholic and an Indian icon that Newsweek ranked as one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.

We hope that Shahrukh Khan agrees to work in Danny Boyle’s movie. It will be like a dream come true for the audiences of the Hindi Cinema who has waited so long for this great moment. Not only it would be great fun to see this movie starring two greatest actors, it will be also a historical moment in the history of Hindi Cinema.

Shahid Kapoor is everywhere once again and this time Kareena is not the reason. I have always believed that he is a really talented actor. With his cute boy nextdoor charm, brilliant acting skills and his beautifully sculpted body he is going to rule the Hindi cinema. I am really impressed by his performance in ‘Kaminey’. Reviewers and critics has praised Kaminey for brilliant direction from Vishal Bhardwaj but I think that without the perfection and the charm that Shahid brought to the characters it was not possible for Bhardwaj to do this movie. In CNN-IBN’s movie review for Kaminey, Rajeev Masand writes: “Shahid Kapur rises to the challenge of creating two entirely different characters out of Charlie and Guddu, and delivers a credible performance as each.”

Kaminey is not the only wonderful thing that Shahid brought us. We are also thankful for his new look. I lack the words to describe it, its macho with boyish cute looks and its just so wonderful. You love him shirtless but you can’t stop loving him when he is fully dressed. Even though gone are the days when we had heroes that were not able to dance (Sunny Deol, Jackie Sheroff or Dharmendra), but Shahid dances so well sometimes even better than Hrithik Roshan. No offense to Hrithik fans but he is like the Greek God that we all could only dream of but Shahid is something that looks ordinarily beautiful.

This year has been very good for Shahid so far. Even his love life is shifting gears. It is rumored that Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra are seeing eachother. Officially neither Shahid nor Priyanka has confirmed it yet. But Shahid’s father Pankaj Kapoor has signed Priyanka with Shahid in his upcoming movie. So it would be a family production.Just like Shahid, I feel that Priyanka also belongs to the lot of the under-appreciated young talents of Hindi film industry. Its good that the two get together as we hope to see some great performances from both of them in the future.

You must be living in a cave if you haven’t yet heard about Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan’s spicy bed scene in the upcoming movie Kurbaan. The news are a great publicity tool and Bebo surely knows how to use this tool. She also knows how to use boyfriends as a tool too. She often combines boyfriends with juicy gossip and gets great publicity, gossip and media interest in herself. You might remember her MMS clips with her then boyfriend Shahid Kapoor. Doing bold scenes in a movie does not make any one a better actress; and Kareena is a good actress. Such a waste that in crazy publicity driven world a fine actress had to use cheap gossip stunts to remain in the news. This is not even something that Kareena hasn’t done before. She already did a similar scene in her critically acclaimed movie ‘Om Kara’. So basically she is using her trustworthy publicity stunts to remain a hot property among film producers.

Kurbaan is produced by Karan Johar. Sex is a great seller and adding bed or shower scenes in a movie where film’s lead characters are shown making out is an old bollywood trend to spice up the box office value of a movie. Kareena and Saif together in a movie already makes the movie a great sell. But most probably the producers were not confident about movie earning them better returns, even though Karan wrote the story of the movie himself. So he asked the director Rensil D’Silva to add more ingredients into it. We have found out that the movie is about terrorists. Kareena and Saif Ali Khan are playing the roles of terrorists.

Kissing, bed or shower scenes are a taboo in Hindi movies. Most major actors refuse to perform such scenes in their movies worrying about their public image. However, these bold scenes are nothing new and some of the greatest actresses has done them before. I left it for you the readers to mention in comments the actresses that has already done similar scenes. Kurbaan is expected to be released during the last week of November this year. The cast also includes Vivek Oberoi, Diya Mirza and Om Puri.

Salman Khan has appeared on Farah Khan’s Television show ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein’ with his mother. You can watch a preview of the show on youtube. The series itself is premiering from Salman Khan episode which is going to be aired tomorrow (23 August 2009) at 9pm. Farah Khan’s show strives to be different from shows like ‘Koffee with Karan’, ‘Oye! its Friday’ and ‘Rendezvous with Simi Garwal’. Farah promises that in her show she will show the non glamorous side of the celebrities and she will try to make them talk about the issues of their lives that are very similar to their fans.

I think this is a lame idea but even then show is going to be a big success as Farah would pull a few strings and no one can deny to be her on show. Even Salman Khan’s mother Salma who had never given an interview and never been on television before. Farah will end the season by inviting Shahrukh Khan and you can see Shahrukh Khan telling that he is a ‘Joro ka Ghulam’. Farah is making the same mistake she made in her amazingly disappointing movie ‘Om Shanti Om’, she is trying too hard to entertain.

Still I believe that the Salman Khan episode would be a must watch to any one who has ever loved any Hindi movie. You can hear Salman, his mother and his father talking about his love life, controversies and how they affected the family and of course about movies. Don’t forget to check out the official website of the show ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein‘, it has more photos of Salman Khan and other stars with Farah, videos and much more.

I don’t know if it is just a rumor or a fact but it seems like the web is booming about the news of Aishwarya Rai getting infected with Swine Flu virus. We tried to dig the source of this rumor and we found out that these rumors are based on a blog entry by Amitabh Bachchan on his blog. Mr. Bachchan wrote:

Aishwarya has taken ill and is down with chest infection and flu like symptoms. Had a high fever yesterday but is settling down today. Its worrying to be so far away from children and not be there to look after them.

Mr. Bachchan has never said that Aishwarya is infected by Swine Flu virus. So we hope that it is just some ordinary flu that would eventually go away with little rest. But how could she rest now when she has an important project at hand. Yes we are talking about Ravaan in which she is working with her husband Abhishek Bachchan. However Abhishek is not her love interest in the movie.

Hrithik Roshan has won Filmfare award for best actor 2008 for the movie Jodha Akbar. However, Aamir Khan’s fans are disappointed by jury’s decission. There was debate going on between Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan’s fans about who will win the award this year. But jury’s decission to pick up Hrithik Roshan has surprised many. I think that Hrithik deserved the award for his role as Akbar the great in Jodha Akbar, but even I am surprised. I didn’t thought that the judges will ignore the popular opinion and would instead pick up the better actor.

Aamir Khan’s performance in Ghajini is been lauded by critics and masses alike. I personally don’t think that it was an out standing performance. It was good but not amazingly well done. In fact when I saw Ghajini I was kind of surprised that how stereo typical Aamir acted in the movie. The stories of revenge, obsessive lovers and violence are nothing new to viewers. We have seen such roles before and even though Aamir peformed extremely good in his role still it was a story told many times before. Some people are also blaming Aamir’s attitude towards awards specially Filmfare. He once even sued Filmfare for using pictures for award ceremony promotions.

Shahrukh Khan’s Rab ne Bana di Jodi was a light romantic movie. King Khan surely knows how to charm the audiences but it was not the kind of role that people will never forget. It was good but not one of his best performances. He has previously acted much better than that for example in Paheli, Swades, Don, etc.

On the other hand Hrithik was playing a real person from the pages of history, Akbar The Great. This historic love epic provided him a great room and a much bigger canvas to perform. He had to work on his Urdu, to carry on the costumes, to be as impressive as people could imagine that Akbar was. It was a story that was never told before. Critics and masses were comparing his performance with that of Prithvi Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar in Mughal-e-Azam. He comes with his own memorable performance. From walking to sitting, from dialogue delivery to war scenes, he had to perform extremely great in every scene. I think he did justice to his character.

What is your opinion, please feel free to disagree. But I would love to hear what you think about Best Male Actor award for the 54th filmfare awards and who you think actually deserved the award.