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Aishwarya Rai has her hands full with great movies to come. In this post we will tell you about Aishwarya Rai’s upcoming movies and why all her projects are so great. Apart from the list below remember that Aishwarya Rai will also appear in Ben Kingsley’s ‘Taj‘ in this movie Aishwarya plays the role of Mumtaz Mahal the great Mughal queen whose husband Shah Jahan made the Taj Mahal in her memory. You think this is going to be an exciting movie well have a look below and you will find out that she has more interesting movies to come. If atleast two of these movies go well on box office, then it is certain that 2010 will be Aishwarya Rai’s year and she could even beat her male colleagues in terms of box office value

Raavan
Aishwarya Rai joins Mani Ratnaam once again for the Tamil language film Raavana which is simultaneously being made in Hindi as well. The Hindi version has a slightly different cast. As I wrote in my previously post that if any one wants to cast someone from the Bachchan family they must cast atleast two of them. For example Abhishek Bachchan is doing Paa with his father Amitabh Bachchan. In Raavan you will see Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with Abhishek Bachchan. The music of Raavan is composed by academy award winning composer A. R. Rahman.

Action Replay
Action Replay is time travel movie set in 1950s. Directed by Vipul Shah, Action Replay’s cast includes Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai and Randhir Kapoor father of Karishma and Kareena Kapoor. There is a slight confusion about the movie’s plot as Warner Bros, issued a warning in the Indian Newspapers to claim that no one has rights to remake ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ in Hindi Language. Rumors are that the warning was targeted to Vipul Shah who when contacted said that his film is not based on the Curious Case of Benjamin Button and that it is actually based on a Marathi play. Whatever the case maybe, one thing is certain that Action Replay has an interesting concept.

Endhiran
Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai work together in the science fiction Tamily Language film Endhiran. It is said that the movie has the highest ever film budget in the history of Indian cinema. The film’s story is based on a Robot who falls in love with a woman. Set to be released in 2010, Endhiran will be Aishwarya Rai’s second Tamily movie in 2010.

Guzaarish
After the disastrous failure of Saawariya, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali once again signs Aishwarya Rai for his upcoming movie Guzarish. The cast of Guzarish includes Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan, music is composed by A. R. Rahman. There are Rumors that Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan will sing a song in their own voices for the movie. The story of Guzaarish will revolve around a married nurse (Aishwarya Rai) who looks after a papaplegic patient (Hrithik Roshan).

Shilpa Shetty got married to Raj Kundra, a London based businessman. 34 year old Shilpa’s career in Bollywood wasn’t as such great. But following the controversy of Big Brother Shilpa acquired an skill to remain famous for just being famous. She hasn’t worked in any worth mentioning bollywood movie since ages. But she remained in the news and now her big fat South Indian wedding is the talk of the town.

Who is Raj Kundra? He is a young millionaire from UK. Raj Kundra had an interest in Bollywood since a long time. Previously he tried to penetrate his way into Bollywood by launching Velocity Entertainment company which aimed to redistribute Hindi movies to European and North American markets. At that time in 2004, Raj Kundra told the media that he has grown up watching Hindi movies and he dreams to make it big in Bollywood. So I guess marrying a Bollywood Heroine is the dream come true for Raj.

Shilpa’s wedding got huge press coverage. It was an expansive wedding where money was no issue at all so it was bound to get media’s attention even if there was no Shilpa in the wedding. Shilpa decided to get married in South Indian style so she was dressed as a traditional South Indian bride on her wedding day. As you can see in pictures of Shilpa’s wedding.

The couple has planned to spend their honeymoon in Paradise Islands, Bahamas. According to sources Raj Kundra has booked a Luxury Suite for the couple at the Atlantic Resort. However, before leaving for the honeymoon Shilpa and her husband Raj Kundra are going to visit Oneness University in Chennai. According to the sources Shilpa and her husband are the followers of this spirtual group.

Shilpa’s Wedding Pictures:

Shilpa Shetty with her Husband Raj Kundra

Shilpa on her wedding day

Gone are the days when Bollywood was all about fantastically choreographed dances, music, songs, romance, comedy and fun. Today’s Bollywood is becoming more and more sick and full of diseases. Every other manjor film is about the main lead actor suffering from some rare disease and the plot of these movies revolve around their hardships. Bollywood follows the trends and rare diseases are the latest trend. Bollywood’s first family the Bachchans are all about influence. And whats better way to gain influence than to win Awards? To win Awards it is important that Bachchans do projects that follow the latest trends and offer work to atleast two or members of the Bachchan family.

Paa is a the story of a 13 year old child Paa suffering from a rare genetic disorder which causes him to grow older faster than normal people. Amitabh who is 67 year old is playing the role of Paa in this movie and his son Abhishek Bachchan is playing the role of his father. The synopsis of the movie reminds me so much of Brad Pitt’s oscar winning ‘The curious case of Benjamin Button’. However, it doesn’t look like that Paa will start getting younger like Benjamin Button and I thank God for that. I can’t watch Amitabh getting younger. Forgive me but I am tired and sick of watching Amitabh in every other movie.

Abhishek Bachchan, playing the role of Paa’s father Amol Arte. Mr. Arte is an ambitious politician with a mission to save the universe. Vidya Balan plays Paa’s mother and Paresh Rawal plays the Grand father. The film’s music score is composed by Illayaraja.

I personally think that Paa the movie is a silly attempt to gain critical acclaim and emotionally blackmail the audiences into liking the sad story. Paa is also an attempt to build further upon Amitabh Bachchan’s legendary status. If the film succeeds on the box office then we will have to watch him in television ads and see him in movies like Aladin for another decade or so.

3 Idiots aka Three Idiots is Aamir Khan’s upcoming movie which is produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani the duo has worked together in the akha Mumbai me world famous series of Munna Bhai. So the expectations from the movie are great and since it has Aamir Khan playing one of the lead roles the expectations are even greater. 3 Idiots is based upon Chetan Bhagat’s novel “Five point someone” which was the highest selling English novel in India. The movie has an amazing star cast, starring Amir khan as Rancho, Madhavan as Hari, Sharman as Alok, Kareena Kapoor as Neha kurien and Boman Irani as professor Kurien.

Story of Three idiots revolves around the lives of three students (Three Idiots) at IIT Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. The movie depicts the lives of young students in universities. The younger audience is the prime target audience of the movie. Aamir Khan has previously played the role of a college student in “Dil chata hai” and “Rang De Basanti”. Both did amazingly well at the box office.

When offered the role Amir Khan was worried to be part of this film because he did not fit into the age group. Aamir initially reluctant to play a 20 something at the age of 44. But Aamir is one of those actors who are good to get make overs for their movies to fit into roles so he worked hard to make sure that he looks younger than what he looked in “Dil Chahta hai” and “Rang De Basanti”.

Director Rajkumar Hirani has said, that he was unable to find the perfect younger combination for the three lead chracters so instead he decided to go with more experienced actors like Aamir khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi to do the job.

Kareena kapoor plays Aamir khan’s love interest in the movie. This is Aamir and Kareena’s first time together in a movie. Aamir Khan has done “Raja hindustani” with Kareena Kapoor’s elder sister Karishma Kapoor and the chemistry between the two looked magical on the silver screen. Today the same Aamir is coming with BeBo and audiences are curious to know if they could create the magic again. Director Rajkumar Hirani understood the need to create magic on screen so according to some sources there are three lip to lip kissing scenes between Kareena and Aamir Khan. Kajol will appear in guest role and T.V. actress Mona singh is also playing a small roll in the film.

The music of 3 Idiots is average. Song “Zoobi Doobi” is a nice song.The song video is amazing and kareena, Aamir khan look good together. Release date for the movie is December 25.Now, lets see if the movie becomes a box office hit or a flop.

With ‘My Name is Khan’, Karan Johar is trying to break free from his usual romantic comedies to step into more serious film-making. Scheduled to be released in February 2010, My Name is Khan is the story of Rizwan Khan who is detained by the U.S. authorities after 9/11/. Rizwan Khan (played by Shahrukh Khan) is a patient of Autism. It is an uncommon disease and one of the characteristics of this disease include difficulties with social interactions. The signs of Shahrukh Khan’s disease are considered by authorities as suspicious behavior.

My Name is Khan is the most anticipated movie since Devdas in 2002. Karan Johar is very careful about not leaking much of the plot details. Film’s cast and crew are also very careful when talking about the movie. Shahrukh Khan has expressed many times that ‘My Name is Khan’ is a different kind of a movie. According to Shahrukh ‘My name is Khan’ is not about terrorism. It is about relationship of an individual with the State, with a religion and with a disease. What I didn’t like about My Name is Khan’s speculated plot is that the main character Rizwan Khan attempts to meet President Barack Obama to clear his name. I can imagine that the typical Hindi movie Formula mind of Karan Johar preparing an emotional and irrational rhetoric for that moment. Karan please don’t do that, let this one be a different movie.

So there will be the usual Karan Johar style of melodrama in the movie. This movie is also highly anticipated because it brings back one of the most loved on-screen couple in Hindi Cinema, Kajol and Shahrukh. Kajol plays the role of Shahrukh Khan’s love interest Mandira Khan, a Hindu Single mom living in San Francisco.

My name is Khan’s music is composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. Who has worked with Karan Johar before and has also worked in projects produced by Karan Johar’s company Dharma Productions. The music release date is still unknown but we can be sure that its gonna be an instant hit. Despite the storyline of the movie the soundtrack would consist of songs for all moods. There will be Bhangra pop, a romantic tune, one theme song in sad and happy versions.

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.