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Karan Johar is lecturing American students about Bollywood.

Sakshi Juneja writes about Karan’s Koffee and Bitchy Bollywood.

Well its no hidden fact that I am Bollywood crazy and I (like many others) accept it for everything that it offers; good films, bad films, trashy films, Bhatt films, pakao ones - inshort the whole lot. And you would have to be one daft-bum to not knowledge the reality that if there is one man who can coerce anyone to spill out their dark-side (including the ones who dislike his type of cinema) then that man has to be Karan Johar.

Jiah Khan speaks up about her role in the Nishabd

She stresses that the characters of Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Jia (Jiah Khan) share “pure love” in the film. When asked about the promos of the film that suggest the other way Jiah says its nothing `but the power of editing`.

Priyanka Chopra Files Police complaint against her former PA Popular Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has filed a complaint with Mumbai police alleging that her former assistant had threatened her in several phone calls, police said Thursday.

An archived discussion from bollywood blitz forum, discussion of how some celebrities, directors and producers believe in astrology and numerology and how it affects their work. An old story now, but I love this topic. It shows how uncertain people in the entertainment industry are about the success of their efforts. Also check out, Whats in a Name from one India, this article also talks about how celebrities change their names, spell it differently, name their films in the light of suggestions provided by the numerologists, astrologist and palmists.

Directed by Ram Gopal Verma, the movie is based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita. This is story of an affair between a 60 year old married man and an 18 year old girl. Amitabh Bachchan is playing the lead role against the new comer Jiyah Khan. Hollywood has made lolita and there is no doubt that sex plays an important role in the story. We don’t know how Ram Gopal Varma is going to treat the movie, but still shows that we would be seeing lots fresh meat.

In a press conference after the music release of the movie, Amitabh said that the movie is not about sex:

The film dwells with the genuine emotions of the man and the effect it has on his family when confronted with such a situation and how they deal with it. The audience understand the honest and genuine feelings of my character in the film rather than sex and sensuality.

The newcomer Jiah Khan told news conference that she plays her age in the film.

My character is of different shades who is extreme in her thoughts. It was interesting to play such a role.

Jiah Khan is originally from London where she learnt acting, dancing and singing. It is rumored that she is daughter of Tahir Husein which makes her Aamir Khan’s stepsister. However, Tahir Hussain publicly accepted that Jiah Khan’s mother Rabiya is a close friend but denied that Jiah Khan is his daughter.

The Hollywood version of Lolita is a critically acclaimed movie starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith. The movie had an R rating for aberrant sexuality, a strong scene of violence, nudity and some language. I think Ram Gopal verma has shown violence in his movies, he created one of the sexiest songs ever made for a hindi movie ‘Tanha Tanha’, where he showed Urmila running on the beach wearing a shirt. But I don’t think that there would be any nudity in the movie. What I can see from the stills and posters is that Jiah is trying hard to copy Charlotte from the hollywood version.

Since Nishabd has Amitabh Bachchan, the movie is going to be a must watch for people who want to see good cinema. However I doubt that Ramu would be able to maintain balance between sexuality and romance. I also doubt that he would be able to convince the audience of the relationship, the bond and the love between the two characters.