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Recently I had a discussion with a friend about who is better Aishwarya Rai or Kareena Kapoor. I will not tell you which side I was on. But I will tell you that some really good points were raised in favor of and against both actresses. Certainly we agree that both Kareena and Aishwarya are fine actresses and has done some really good movies. However, Kareena has failed to get roles that would get her more critical acclaim. On the other hand Aishwarya Rai had been very successful in getting roles that won her praise from critics and masses. Aishwarya’s roles in the movies like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Jodha Akbar, and Umrao Jaan were well written and had a lot more room for her to show her talents.

Kareena’s performances are appreciated by critics in movies like Chambeli, Om Kara, and Jab We Met. But none of her roles were as strong as Paroo or Princess Jodha. Kareena is more famous among the young audiences. Her zero size figure and her styles are followed by many around the globe. She is always in the news, the media covers her love life more enthusiastically than her professional life.

Aishwarya on the other hand is married to Abhishek Bachchan. So their is no more juicy love affairs for the press anymore however things might get exciting if Aishwarya and Abhishek get divorced, Aishwarya would be really dumb to do that. She has done powerful roles in good movies and has some brilliant movies to come. She is trying hard to make her way into the Hollywood as well. Though she hasn’t had much success there but whatever she has done is more than any other Indian actress. While Kareena is cute and attractive in a generic way, Aishwarya is considered outstandingly and amazingly beautiful.

So what you guys think who is your favorite Aishwarya or Kareena?

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.

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.

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.

Tashan is one of the most awaited films of 2008. Starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Anil Kapoor. This movie is directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya. Mr. Acharya, who wrote screenplay for the Dhoom and Dhoom 2, is debuting his career as a director with this movie. Produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. We don’t know much about the story and plot of Tashan yet. But rumors are that Kareena will be seen wearing a bikini in this movie, Akshay will be playing the main character as Bachchan Panday, and Anil Kapoor is playing the negative role as Bhaiya ji. Music and songs of Tashan are composed by Vishal Shekhar.

Check out Music Review of Tashan

Trailers and Songs of Tashan

Rediff.com recently held a survery where they asked the readers to name Bollywood’s most over rated actors. Guess what? Shahrukh Khan has won the title. There is no doubt that he is the King of Bollywood but also there is no doubt that he is not such a great actor. He had been lucky with all the Yash Raj/Karan Johar camp’s romantic comedies. Some voters mentioned that he displayed fairly good acting skills in movies like Swades and Chak De. I don’t agree with them, I think Swades didn’t work just because of his over acting. Same goes for Paheli where he and Rani Mukherjee over acted through out the movie.

In the same survey we have Kareena Kapoor as the third most over rated actress and Aishwarya Rai at number four. I totally agree with every one who voted. However I would like to remind myself once again that it is not about acting its about how entertaining they are. I particularly enjoyed Aishwarya’s pathetic attempt to portray Umrao Jaan and failing miserably and in Joodha Akbar where she looked more Umrao Jaan than Joodha.

Priyanka Chopra is going to sing an ad jingle. Unlike some other actresses it is said that Priyanka has real talent for singing. You may have seen her singing live at KBC with Shahrukh Khan.

Shobha De, talks about scandals, sex and Bollywood

Kareena has refused a film with Abhishek Bachchan. She said she wont feel comfortable working with him. How so unprofessional. But this similar not so professional attitude and flame war was actually initiated by Abhishek Bachchan who refused to work with Kareena in a Karan Johar production (many actors in the industry would do any thing to get one such movie). If I were Kareena I might have told Abhishek that he is a lousy actor and that who needs Abhishek when we have Karan in our pocket?