Akki back as Khatron Ke Khiladi host. PC, Ajay out

Akshay Kumar replaces Priyanka Chopra as reality show host, puts rival Ajay Devgn out of competition

It can be revealed now. Akshay Kumar returns as host of the next season of reality TV show Khatron Ke Khiladi, replacing Priyanka Chopra and pipping the other contender, Ajay Devgn to the post.

Khiladi Kumar is expected to fly down to Cape Town, where the fourth season will be shot in the first week of March. 

Since Priyanka Chopra's hosting of the show didn't drive up TRPs as expected, Colors (the channel the show airs on) decided to play it safe and go with a proven winner: Akki.

"However", says an insider, "Ajay Devgn was keen to host KKK4 and was in talks with the channel. Also, given the rivalry between the two actors, it would be like thumbing his nose at his rival.

The channel wanted Ajay because he's had a good year and is also a popular action hero. But what won Akki the round is his familiarity with the show and the medium. For Ajay, it would've been his first TV show.

Ultimately, the channel decided to stick with tried and tested."

AK also returned to the show because beta Aarav is a big fan. Says a source close to the actor, "His beta wanted his pa to do the thrilling action-based reality show."

The promos of the show will include high-octane, thrilling and dangerous stunts conceptualised and executed by Akshay himself. 

The actor is preparing him and toning up his physique for that currently in his hotel gym in Chandigarh where he's shooting for Joker. 

Courtesy: Mid-Day.com

Priyanka-Shahid: Why they broke up this time

Friends say this time there's no going back. Ah well, we've heard that one before

Who: Star-crossed lovers Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra have added yet another break up to their constant on-off two year relationship.

When: It happened almost two weeks ago. When the couple got into a huge argument and decided to part ways.

What happened? It was too good to last? Shaks and PC for the first time in their relationship, were close to going 'official.' Their appearance on Koffee With Karan, was the first step in that direction.

But soon after they took several steps backwards. Always a volatile couple, their fight and arguments multiplied of-late.



The last time, it was he, who called it quits, this time it was Pranks who decided she'd had enough. A source close to the duo spills the beans, "The biggest problem between them was lack of communication.

As it is things were bad, with Shahid shooting non-stop for his dad's film. He gets completely involved with his work, and forgets everything else.

Which isn't easy for any girlfriend to deal with, and it held to a lot of squabbles. What made is worse was that after every fight, he would go into a shell and refuse to talk about things.

She would try and reach out, but he would put her on ignore alert, blocking her out completely."

Finally... After their last fight he decided to end to their lovestory without even letting her know. The insider adds, "Things got really bitter.. He stopped taking her calls. It was extremely frustrating for her.

She even landed up at his doorstep but was turned away. He's asked his help to tell her that he wasn't at home.

That was the ultimate humiliation." Also their values and basic morals were constantly clashing. While Priyanka is a non-vegetarian, Shahid is a true blue vegetarian.

He trying to pressure her to follow his life style and dabble with spirituality. But she is too much of party girl to adapt to his ways.

Birthday Bash: It is now being speculated if she will attend Shahid's birthday party on Friday. He's invited everyone and wants to make it a grand affair. But PC has taken off to New York with friends. Right in time to coincide with his bash.

The common friend adds, "Staying away from the country gives a good alibi not to attend his party. She's having a good time on her own and trying to keep her chin up."

PC even attended Lady Gaga's Madison Square Garden concert in NY with some close friends. The chances of her flying down to attend his party are rare.

via:- mid-day.com

Movie Review - 7 Khoon Maaf

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj

Cast: Priyanka Chopra,Naseeruddin Shah, Irrfan Khan, Anu Kapoor, Alexandr Dyachenko, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vivaan Shah

Rating: ****

Chalk up an absolute winner for the Vishal Bhardwaj-Priyanka Chopra team. They make a coherent vision out of an inconceivable marital crises.

How do you make sense of a woman who's an incorrigible potentially-loathsome serial spouse-killer who when challenged about her weird passion for changing husbands by divine decree rather than the law of the land, turns around and says, "This heart of mine, it's to blame." Wicked laughter follows. And dammit, we are amused!

How does one make head or 'tale' of such a woman? Well, the first thing a director with a canny sense and sensibility does is sign Priyanka Chopra to play the wretchedly unfulfilled, genetically incomplete woman, a living, throbbing warning against the institution of marriage!

Priyanka, not for the first time, proves she is leagues ahead of all competition. She approaches this strange and sensual creature of the night from the outside and then quietly makes inroads into the woman's heart and soul. We can actually see the character's snarled inner-world on Priyanka's face! We don't even know when and how she does it. Priyanka is that kind of a player.

Vishal Bharadwaj has earlier made films about gangs and gangsterism. Every time the dark brooding atmospheric surface seemed to suggest a life of sinister suppressions. Those unspoken, intangible thoughts and visions that often guide a human being to his or her doom are outlined in "7 Khoon Maaf" with supreme poetic elegance.

This is Bhardwaj's most fluidly-narrated film to date. Of course, having Gulzar on board helps. He pens Urdu poetry for Irrfan Khan and rock poetry for John Abraham. For Priyanka poetry is not needed. She creates a kind of indecipherable poetic statement for her deeply dysfunctional character who kills 6 husbands and moves to the 7th at the end of the film with the profound satirical grief of a woman who has discovered that this world has no true love to offer her.

True love...ah! Now that's an idea. At heart Vishal's dark elegiac film is about the search for true love. The relationship that Sussanna (Priyanka) forms with a young boy(Vivaan Shah) as she goes from one husband to another remains at the core of the film. In a macabre subversion of the almost-pure love that Susanna shares with Vivaan's character, at one point in the narration she tries to seduce the boy who's almost like a son. It's a dark ugly moment, almost repugnant in its incestuous resonances but in keeping with the character's insatiable appetite for destruction.

Vishal Bhardwaj brings to the storyboard a deep sense of tragic grandeur even as Susanna slips from self-gratification to delusional spirituality. 

Priyanka Chopra has already proved herself way ahead of her contemporaries in her earlier works notably "Fashion" and "What's Your Raashee". In "7 Khoon Maaf" she moves to another level, displaying a range of emotions and age-changes (minus prosthetics) that one last saw in Shabana Azmi's performances.

Priyanka's sequences with Irrfan Khan (playing a gentle poet who transforms into a sexual pervert in bed) are stuff poetic nightmares are made of. We can clearly see the cinematographer (Ranjan Palit) is not in love with the actress, but the character. His camera searches for intransigent images in Susanna's life, even as Priyanka's quest for the character's core takes her into areas of self-expression that are far beyond the reach of cinema acting as we know it.

A. Sreekar Prasad edits the life of Susanna with a surety that, alas,the character never comes close to achieving in her dealings with the opposite sex. Sreekar creates a symphonic seamless movement from one husband to another, sometimes joining segments in Susanna's life with visuals that would otherwise seem incompatible.

The husbands are all played by actors who have no qualms in stripping away their vanity to become the kind of suave but duplicitous untrustworthy spouses who cheat and betray for the sake of the opposite emotion to love. Irrfan Khan as a wolf in poet's clothing, Naseeruddin Shah as the affable old Bengali dietician (his Bengali accent is more dead-on than any true-blue Bengalis) and John Abraham as a stereotypical rock musician gone to poppy-seed, are pitch-perfect in their creating a drama of the callous for Priyanka's character.

But it's Neil Nitin Mukesh as her first legless army-man husband whose display of clenched menace jolts you.

As a storyteller Vishal Bhardwaj has never been more in command of his language. He punctuates Susanna's story with bouts of unexpected humour and poetry. Providentially the murders are committed in ways that appear more humorous than savage. And that's both a good and a bad thing.

The narrative shows a rare understanding of the gender dynamics and the sexual tensions between men and women. Priyanka Chopra's interaction with the unctuous and closet-horny police officer Anu Kapoor delectably illustrates the fable of the Temptress & The Besotted. And by the way Viagara never seemed funnier.

Priyanka Chopra goes from husband-to-husband with a mocking sigh of resigned surrender. She is not a victim. But neither is she the hero of the bizarre web of destruction and delusion that her character weaves around her.

Courtesy :santabanta.com

Cartoon of The DAY

Kareena Kapoor declares that Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif are not actors at all, and her competition is with Rani Mukherjee!

I have no unaccounted money...!!!!

katrina kaif

Actor Katrina Kaif on Thursday abandoned media reports about possessing ' unaccounted money," issuing a statement 3 days after the Income Tax sleuths raided her homes for alleged tax evasion. 

The reports about Katrina's "unaccounted income" were false, as she said. 

Whist admitting a search was conducted by the IT department at her house, Katrina Kaif's chartered firm said: "My client is disturbed by the speculative reports circulating in the media that she has disclosed (to the department) unaccounted income running into crores, and unaccounted lockers were found." 

"Katrina is fully cooperating with the IT Department, whom she holds in high regard." 

Besides the house of Katrina, IT officials searched the houses of Priyanka Chopra, premises of Chopra's father, Matrix, a celeb management company that handles Kaif's endorsement, photographer Atul Kasbekar, and Chand Misra, Chopra's personal assistant.

Priyanka out, Kareena in , in Dostana 2

According to our UNOFFICIAL Source,

Kareena Kapoor has supposedly replaced Priyanka Chopra in the forth coming film Dostana-2 where she is cast opposite Abhishek Bachchan. Priyanka who was previously cast for the project has apparently lost it out to Kareena Kapoor. 

Kareena Kapoor had debuted with Bachchan junior in 2000 in J.P Dutta's 'Refugee', where she sashayed the role of a village belle.

After that she had developed inhibitions to work with Abhishek Bachchan due to her sister Karisma Kapoor's broken connection with him. 

However now since things have cooled down noticeably with Abhishek happily married and Karisma settled into her own world, Kareena and Abhishek have again decided to give their careers a different path and shed all inhibitions for professional reasons.

Reports doing the rounds suggest that the two are also going to be paired in another film which will be directed by Abbas Mastaan(“Rase”). Kareena Kapoor has previously worked with the directors in 2001 in the flick Ajnabi with Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol and Bipasha Basu in pivotal roles.

Kareena Kapoor appeared in a whole load of movies after that with films like Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai, Asoka, Yaadein, Khusi, Mein Prem Ki Deewani Hun etc. But she was recognized for her talent after she appeared as the oh...So stylish Poo in KJO's Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and then her very strong role in 'Chameli' as the prostitute where she won the Filmfare award for Special Award. She also won a Film fare award for her role in Omkara. 

Kareena's super hit films like 'Jab We Met' and '3 Idiots' followed by the recent 'Golmaal 3' sensation hit has made her one of the topmost actresses in Bollywood.

Her forthcoming films are RA.ONE opposite Shahrukh Khan and Agent Vinod opposite Saif Ali Khan.

Income Tax Raids on Priyanka & Katrina

Income Tax sleuths swooped on the office and home of Bollywood megastars Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra Monday morning in connection with suspected tax evasion cases, an official said. 

The raids started around 7.30 a.m. at the same time at 12 sites, as well as the residences of the two actresses in the western suburbs. Priyanka's home in Versova, Andheri West, was raided.

Also raided were the homes of their secretaries, their respective office premises and other locations, the authorized said.

The IT branch is investigating whether the two actresses have paid taxes proportionate to their known sources of income during the past year. 

Both Katrina and Priyanka are high ranking Bollywood actresses who work with top stars and leading film banners, moreover endorsing top brands and participating in the major stage shows in India and abroad. 

The raids are still ongoing…