Deepika turns daredevil for Lafange Parindey

It seems that Deepika Padukone is highly influenced by Akshay Kumar. Recently, the actress performed some high action stunts without using body double in Pradeep Sarkar’s ‘Lafange Parindey’.

In the movie, Deepika plays a tomboy, who will be seen donning leather jackets and performing some adrenaline rushing bike feats. Deepika’s co-actor Neil Nitin Mukesh is finding it hard to match up to her passion. Last week, Neil refused when he was told to jump into a deep mud pit and asked for a body double. However, Deepika showed resilience and went ahead with the daredevil stunt.

Everyone in the unit thought it was too dangerous as Deepika had to walk straight into the pit and fall into the swirling muddy water. Once she fell in the pit professional divers had to help her come out.

Sonam Kapoor plays Sania Mirza

Filmmaker Anees Bazmee’s who is known for some of the biggest hits in Bollywood, has found an apt subject in Sania Mirza for his next film.

The ace tennis sensation, surrounded by much controversy will be soon be portrayed by Sonam Kapoor in Bazmee’s next ‘Thank You’. The film is set to be a romantic comedy.

It is to hit floor in mid April and shoots are to be done in Canada. Even though the director is denying that Sania is the subject of his film, the striking similarities between Sonam’s role and Mirza’s life make Bazmee’s assertions tough to believe.

Just like Sania, Sonam plays a young, attractive tennis champ and falls in love with a guy, who is completely wrong for her. She soon realizes her mistake and turns back before it’s too late. Remember Sania calling off her engagement to Sohrab Mirza earlier this year before news of her impending marriage to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik?

Talking about the news, director Bazmee said, “Sonam does play a tennis champ, and Akshay Kumar plays a guy who’s seeing 30-35 girls at the same time, until he meets Sonam. Though he gives up flirting, he’s not particularly serious about Sonam too. It’s a funny take on courtship.”

Katrina Kaif injured on the sets of Tees Maar Khan

Accidents often happen but it is rare with the Action King of Bollywood, but this has happened. Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar were shooting a romantic song sequence of ‘Tees Maar Khan’. As the lady jigged towards onscreen love Akshay Kumar, the actor’s jaw-struck Katrina’s head and she started to bleed.

Co-star Akshay said that she would now need a minimum of 4 stitches on her head. Kat on rearing this became tensed. However, when a scared Katrina started to cry, Akshay laughingly said that he was pulling her leg. The injury was a minor one and it didn’t stall the shoot but the actress was shaken.

Katrina did injure herself on the head, but she’s fine now and has resumed shooting. Katrina has been a bundle of nerves for quite some time now and has been falling ill frequently. Recently, she passed off on a film set and accused the media for pestering her.

Here is a hope that the fragile beauty regains her strength and keeps delivering hits one after the other.

Lara Dutta–Mahesh Bhupathi come closer

After going public with their relationship, ace couple Lara Dutta and her latest beau Mahesh Bhupathi have decided to take their affair to an all-new level.

Ditching the age-old adage of ‘distance makes the heart grow fonder’, Bhupathi has decided to shift his base from Bangalore to Mumbai to be close to his babe i.e. Lara. Bhupathi has rented a flat in Nibbana building (Pali Hill), which is about ten minutes from his lady’s residence at St Paul’s Road, Bandra.

After this the couple sure seems to be moving up the commitment ladder. What’s interesting is that Lara had even accompanied her beau to Nibbana when he took the final decision. That flat belongs to Jaya Jhaveri.

There are rumours that Lara might move in with Mahesh but official confirmation is awaited.

Court summons Preity Zinta

A court issued summons to Bollywood actor Preity Zinta and co-owner Ness Wadia on Monday for using pictures of freedom fighters in their Indian Premier League advertisements. Zinta and Wadia are summoned on April 2.

The summons were issued by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anshul Berry on a complaint filed by city-based NGO Global Human Rights Council (GHRC). GHRC had objected on the use of pictures of freedom fighters, including of Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, in the advertisements of Kings XI Punjab.

"Earlier summons could not reach the accused as they were traveling at various match venues in the country. Now I will personally go to hand over the summons to Preity Zinta and others at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium," said Arvind Thakur, president of GHRC.

No Shahrukh in Bollywood film fest in Poland

The fourth Bollywood film festival in Poland opens Monday but this time there won’t be any movies of superstar Shah Rukh Khan.This is the first time this has happened. Though the distributors were keen to organise a special show of "My Name Is Khan", they could not persuade the 20th Century Fox, distributor of the movie, to agree.

Shah Rukh’s popularity in Poland is amazing and every Bollywood buff knows him. His biography has been translated into Polish.King Khan is being replaced by "Singh Is Kinng" (Akshay Kumar). It is a great opportunity for Akshay Kumar to make a place in Polish psyche with his masala dances.

Apart from the Akshay starrer, films selected for screening include "Laaga Chunari Mein Daag", "Tandoori Love", "Amal", "Dulha Mil Gaya", "Jannat", "Blue" and "Videsh".

The festival is being organised by EPLPOL, a prominent distributor of Hindi films, along with Multikino, a chain of multiplexes in Poland. The organisers this time selected cities like Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Gdynia, Szczecin and Zabrze apart from capital Warsaw to screen the movies.

Bollywood films have become a regular diet for Poles. Bollywood has raised the profile of India throughout Poland.

Freida Pinto all set to become the next Bond babe

Dream has come true for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star Freida Pinto. The hot lady is all set to turn hotter as she is to become the next Bond babe. This will come by as part of a multi-million pound deal with Hollywood studios. With this deal, Freida will play the suave British secret agent’s love interest in the 23rd James Bond flick.

Sam Mendes has been talking about Bond for months now . The project has been in the pipeline for months and Freida was always the dream Bond girl, but initially she was circumspect about accepting it. But finally she accepted. This could be one of the most ambitious 007 till date. Sam plans to reinvent the genre. Peter Morgan, who wrote ‘The Queen’, has penned the first draft of the script and it promises to be visually stunning.

It will be a typically glamorous and raunchy role and Pinto’s beau Dev has been joking to friends he is cool with seeing Freida rolling around with 007." Dev Patel seems to be thrilled about his girlfriend’s high-profile role.

The 23rd installment of James Bond movie is set in Afghanistan.