Bollywood Actress Katrina Kaif Tops FHM Sexiest Woman!

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif tops Sexiest Women of 2011 list of men's lifestyle magazine FHM, overboard Deepika Padukone, who won last year. Katrina had won the title in 2008 and 2009 too.The FHM 100 Sexiest Women list is based on online voting and SMS and a great love of 35,000 responses to this year. We would say 2011 was a close race, Sheila just made sure it was far away.

A feat that becomes even more significant because no woman in the world across all 28 editions of FHM has ever won the Sexiest Woman in the World title three times in the last 17 years that we've been making the list. Her average is higher than Sachin Tendulkar's and she replaces Deepika Padukone who won the crown in 2010," said Kabeer Sharma, executive editor FHM India, in a statement.

Katrina seems to be the toast of the season she was the only Bollywood actress to feature on the India Today's Elite Power list and is also the most Google-searched Indian celebrity.

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Stardust Awards 2011 Album!

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Rahman in Oscar Run for 127 Hours

After sweeping the maximum nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, royal drama 127 Hours The King's Speech stars Colin Firth as King George VI and actor Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped George VI overcome a stammer. The film traces the journey of the British monarch.

The nominations for The King's Speech
It has been nominated in best motion picture, best actor (Colin Firth), director (Tom Hooper), supporting actor (Geoffrey Rush), supporting actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and original music (Alexandre Desplat) categories.

Other categories where it has been included are original screenplay (David Seidler), cinematography (Danny Cohen), editing (Tariq Anwar), costume design (Jenny Beavan) apart from sound mixing and art direction.

True Grit is giving neck-to-neck competition to the The King's Speech with 10 nominations, followed by Inception and The Social Network with eight nominations each.

Best films
This is the first time that as many as 10 films have been nominated in best motion picture category. Apart from I, the list of competitors includes Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter's Bone.

Rahman does it again
Indian music maestro A.R. Rahman has done it again! He received two nominations Tuesday for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards for the original score in Danny Boyle's 127 Hours as well as original song If I Rise for the same movie.

In a recent interview with IANS, Rahman had said he would be happy to receive a nomination, but isn't expecting an award this time.

"I'll be happy if I get nominations but I've got enough Oscars already for one lifetime. I don't think I'll get an Oscar. I'll enjoy the function and see it, but I don't think I'll be getting it," he said.

Best actor
Those vying for the best actor in a leading role trophy are Javier Bardem (Biutiful), Jeff Bridges (True Grit), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), and James Franco 127 Hours, other than Colin Firth.

Best actress
The actresses in the run for the golden statuette this year include Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) and Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine).

Best director
Apart from Tom Hooper, the directors who have been considered for the best director Oscar are Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), David Fincher (The Social Network), David O. Russell ("The Fighter") as well as Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit).

Best foreign language film
Among the foreign language films competing for the prestigious honour are Biutiful (Mexico), Dogtooth (Greece), In A Better World (Denmark), Incendies (Canada) and Outside The Law (Algeria).

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Mahesh Babu's New Movie 'Dhookudu'

Prince Mahesh Babu’s new film under the direction of Sreenu Vaitla, was launched with a puja ceremony this morning at Ramanaidu Studios. Cute Samantha is playing the female lead role. Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta and Anil Sunkara are producing this film under 14 Reels Entertainment Pvt. Ltd banner.

The regular shooting of the film will starts from July 15th and it will be released during Sankranthi. As per the reports “Dhookudu” is the title under consideration.

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Sonma Kapoor Rejected Maniratnam

Sonam Kapoor got a chance to work in Mani Ratnam’s next film recently, but she says no to Mani Ratnam because that film is not directing by Mani Ratnam. That film will be directed by his long time associate Shiva.
 

The film stars Vivek Oberoi. Mani and Shiva felt Sonam was the apt choice and Mani even had a meeting with Sonam about the same. After a couple of more meetings, Sonam politely declined the offer, stating date problems as an issue,” said a source. However, a close friend of Sonam said, “Sonam wanted to work with Mani Ratnam and was excited when she went to meet him. But she was disappointed when she learnt that Mani was offering her Shiva’s film and not his.”
 
Interestingly, Sonam’s ex-boy friend and co-star of her debut film Saawariya, Ranbir Kapoor, also opted out of Shiva’s film citing the same reasons.

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Hrithik To Play As Roman Emperor

He’s played the role of Mughal ruler Akbar in Jodhaa Akbar, and now the Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan is all set to play a Roman emperor in a new TV commercial.
 
Directed by Indrajit Nattoji, the ad is for cookie brand Milano for which Hrithik is the brand ambassador.
 
"Set against a background of 10,000 warriors, we are almost filming a Gladiator (movie) in 30 seconds… We’ll be going the way of the Hollywood hit 300… 20 extra warriors are going to multiply into 10,000 (and) putting Hrithik in an uber cool period, packaging in 30 seconds was a high," Nattoji said in a statement.
 
"I was also influenced by his classical good looks reminiscent of a Greek god," added the director who admits Hrithik’s regal bearing as a Mughal emperor in Jodhaa Akbar helped in determining his new avatar.
 
The first phase of the ad has been shot in Mehboob Studios in Mumbai and the second phase that involves a war scene is scheduled to begin in Gran Sasso Campo, 150 km from Rome, around mid May.
 
Hrithik’s costume for ad has been designed by Sanjeev Mulchandani.
 
The post-production of the ad will be done in Malaysia.

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