I'm sure all you people remember the box office potboiler "Maine Pyaar Kyu Kiya" that had the vivacious Sushmita Sen and Sensuous Katrina Kaif setting the screen ablaze with their hour glass figures… and do you remember the first song of that flick 'I wanna spend the rest of my life with you'??? It was not just Katrina which caught our attention with moves, but also the scenic beauty behind her…
The paradise that the song was shot in was the place many have reckoned as heaven on earth – Maldives! And since then, there's been no looking back for the country of islands… with several tourists and films reaching the place in huge numbers, the Maldivian Govt. plans to open its own studio island!
With over a hundred resorts to attract tourists already, the Minister of State for arts, Hussain Shihab has announced the allocation of one island solely to cater to the needs of the film industry, thus giving them multiplied facilities… and to them, multiplied profits
Salman Khan: But I am just an actor!
Seventeen years in the industry and the Salman Khan enigma endures...
It's my fate. I would not credit it to hard work as I believe people in different fields work 10 times harder than me. I'm just a regular guy who goes to work, and somewhere destiny plays a big role. The fact that I was born to my parents, and that my father was a scriptwriter, and his father was a DIG, who came from Indore to become an actor – is all a matter of fate. I'm one of the first stars to belong to a father who is a star – not as an actor, but as a writer. All this is sheer luck and destiny.
You call yourself a regular guy. A rather modest superstar, might we say?
But I'm just an actor. I'm not a scientist. I haven't reached the moon; I don't work for the NASA. How difficult is acting, after all? Whatever our emotions in real life – laughing, crying, loving – we just emote the same in front of the camera. It's not rocket science!
Salman foils Ash-Abhishek's plan! | |
It is learnt that as part of his act, Bachchan Jr had planned that he would step down from the stage to Ash, who was seated in the front row, and lead her onto the stage for a shimmy at last weekend's Zee Cine Awards in Malaysia. |
Salman's Hollywood project, Marigold, to see the light of the day | |
Salman Khan's first international project 'Marigold' is finally gearing up for release. The film which pits the Bollywood superstar opposite Hollywood beauty Ali Larter was shot in India in early 2005. It'slikely to have a grand premiere both in India and the US. |
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SRK's girl says no to Salman | |
Model-turned-actress Deepika Padukone, has politely declined playing Salman Khan's love interest in Boney Kapoor's next film (a remake of the Telegu hit Pokhiri). "The screening was supposed to happen provided both parties agreed on a time and date. Later, they themselves told me that there was no point in arranging a screening if I wasn't doing the film. Mr Kapoor's secretary Shyam coordinated the entire thing. If there was a miscommunication from his end, I don't know." http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=14264 |
Former Rajasthan Tourism Minister and chairperson of the school Bina Kak also accompanied Khan.
Is Salman simply using Katrina Kaif? | |
It's nothing new. When Katrina Kaif was just his drop-dead beautiful squeeze, they said Salman Khan was squeezing her into ramp shows and also helped to get her some roles in good Hindi movies. That time, he perhaps had another agenda too, just to spite Aishwarya Rai. |
Thanks to friend Sallu, Saif Ali Khan has taken up painting. In fact, he has already completed a painting
Trust Salman Khan to add colour to his friends' lives. The magnanimous actor has come up with a novel way of helping friend Saif Ali Khan to use his time while recuperating at home. Thanks to Sallu, Saif has taken up painting.
What's more, Sallu has apparently been supervising Saif's work and Saif, under the former's tutelage has already completed a painting. A source close to the Khans says, "Salman has encouraged Saif to paint. In fact, Saif has completed a painting recently."
Painting is Salman's newfound passion and he seems to be advocating it strongly amongst his friends from Bollywood. And just to get the filmi janta started, the actor has been gifting them with painting kits, complete with brushes and colours. "Salman has been gifting canvases bought specially from the UK to his near and dear ones. He feels that canvases purchased from UK are of a superior quality and are just right for beginners," our source says.
"Salman is seen devoting as much time to his new-found skill and passion as he can. He is pursuing it rather seriously," says a source.
Saif, our source says, is so happy with the way that the painting has turned out that he has already made up his mind to gift it to someone. Who? We're still wondering.
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