Desi Galaxy

Upen Patel is one of my personal favorite Indian Bollywood hunks. But, unfortunately Upen is all muscles and no brains at all. Who cares if he can not act well? At least I don’t.  As long as he is shirtless wearing swim trunks I am all OK to watch the entire movie). It seems that our sexy desi male model is having tough time getting new projects. He is capable of staying alive in the gossip columns but even then no major project or role for him. He recently had differences with the director of his upcoming movie One Two Three. It is rumored that the director Ashwin Dheer was so fed up of Upen that he completely edited out an entire item song of Upen from the movie. Now this is a really terrible news for all of us Upen Patel fans, we might have watched the movie in hope of seeing Upen Patel’s naked body. Ashwin wasn’t satisfied enough with this he took one more step and humiliated Upen publicly on the occasion of the music launch of the movie. Ashwin Dheer invited entire cast on the stage and completely ignored Upen who was standing among the crowd. Upen expressed his anger by telling that he was shell shocked and humiliated. Upen blames Ashwin’s attitude as the prejudice towards non-filmi self made new actors.


Upen also caused trouble on the sets of his another movie, Money Hai Tu Honey Hai. It is reported that Upen teared his shirt in frustration and anger over the designers assigned to dress him up for the movie. Upen said that the designer duo often picked up jeans and tshirts from cheap stalls for Upen to wear and most of the time they would simple suggest him to go shirtless (Upen baby you should have considered their advice there is not much you have to offer than your bare chest scenes). The producer then hired a new designer exclusively for Upen Patel.

It is also rumored that he has ditched girlfriend Shamita Singha and now seeing Gauhar Khan. (Who the hell is Gauhar Khan?) A simple Google search revealed that she is a famous model. Apparently Upen met her during a fashion show and then there were sparks of attraction on both ends. We wish Upen best of luck but we also think that he should concentrate more on his Hindi lessons and acting skills.

Did you look at the pictures of Bipasha Basu co hosting the new seven wonders ceremony held in Lisbon on 07-07-07? Who ever designed this dress for Bipasha must be one of the stupidiest designers ever. While every one else was dressed formally, Bipasha decided to wear this. I don’t know what this dress is, it is not a sari. The blouse is too small and the display of abs looks really odd. The pink red color of sari also doesn’t look good on Bipasha. She has a dark skin color and white or any light colors would have looked good on her. The embroidery is great but who would like to look at the embroidery when there are better things on display. Look at the pictures below and you will understand what I am talking about. She looks totally out of place among all other properly dressed Westerners.

May be she thought that by revealing the sensuous aspects of her sex appeal would help her get attention of some foreign projects. But she totally forgot that she was there to represent the beauty of something elegant, The Taj Mahal. She also forgot that she could attract more foreign attention by revealing the true colors of her country not her body. But thats show business and who cares about culture, heritage and elegance when all you want is a minor role in some B class Hollywood movie.

John Abraham says he was nervous while acting with big bollywood stars in Baabul. He definitely needs such lame excuses for his bad acting skills? I guess not, John should not worry about his acting skills because at least I don’t care about how he acts. All I care about is his body so as long as he is not wearing clothes I am more than happy to watch him.

How big of a star Shahrukh Khan really is?

Shahrukh Khan wants to do KBC as Shahrukh Khan, he is smart and so are the people at Star TV. Why would any one like to see Shahrukh Khan trying to be Amitabh Bachchan? Giving the show a pure Shahrukh touch would make it more interesting and fun to watch.

Fibre3fashion seems to be a good resource for the news on Indian Fashion scene.

There are rumors about the tension between Rani Mukherjee and Manish Malhotra. Media got the wind of it when they found that instead of Manish, Sabyasachi Mukherjee will be designing her clothes for the upcoming movie Baabul. Sabyasachi also worked with Rani in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s critically acclaimed movie ‘Black’. So it is not the first time Rani’s not working with Manish. Media is pretty good at making stories out of nothing. This story is a classic example of creating a clickable or readable news story.

For example they totally ignore the fact that Baabul is not the first movie where Rani is not wearing costumes designed by Manish. They also totally ignore the reality that Rani Mukherjee and Manish Malhotra are both professionals, they need creative freedom to present their work. I think such loyalties are good in a way that these combinations create a genre of their own. Just look at the movies where Rani and Manish worked together and Rani looked beautiful, fresh and stylish wearing all those nice costumes. Bounding in loyalties would affect the audience mostly as they wont be seeing other combinations and other styles. Stylizing characters in movies is totally different from what we see in fashion shows. The characters in movies are going to act freely, and in Indian movies they often get over excited and emotional on little things. Actors are not models you can dress them but it would work magic only if it works out well with rest of the ingredients.

Lets see how Sabyasachi presents Rani in Baabul, what I have gathered from the web it seems that he is quite good at Birdal Saarees. So may be they have some heavily embroided Wedding costumes for Rani in Baabul. Now the question that comes to my mind is that wether Sabyasachi Mukherjee would be able to deliver something as stunning as Kajol’s bridal lehnga in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai?

Links:
Sabyasachi’s work in Lakme India Fashion Week 2004