Kajol favourite Bollywood daughter-in-law, says poll

Acclaimed Bollywood actress Kajol who is married to actor Ajay Devgn for 11 years now, was voted the favourite ‘bahu’ (daughter-in law) in a poll conducted by matrimonial site shaadi.com.

As part of the upcoming International Women’s Day celebrations on Monday, shaadi.com conducted a poll in which 250,000 women participated.

In the poll, 43.08 percent women said Kajol was their favourite Bollywood daughter-in-law.

Besides Kajol, others vying for the position were Aishwarya Rai, Gauri Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Malaika Arora, Twinkle Khanna and Kiran Rao.

“The women’s day poll is part of the constant research that shaadi.com conducts in its attempt to gauge the preferences of its members. The results show that today the women are looking to be more independent and are willing to adopt stronger roles in their life. They believe in themselves and aspire to emulate top achievers in their field,” said Gourav Rakshit, business head, shaadi.com.

Salman gets a kiss from hot model!

The German model, Claudia Ciesla who was once in news with a link up with Super star Salman Khan is again in news now. Claudia was recently seen in charity event at Mumbai where Salman also attended it.

Claudia went to Salman on the event and congratulated him for his support to the noble cause and Salman also greeted her with an open heart. And while leaving the place, Claudia has surprised every one over there by giving the super star a peck on his left cheek. Claudia left with a joy meeting his old friend while, Salman has no words on this, but left blushing.

Well, Is Kat reading this?

RAMBABU GADI PELLAM

Allari Naresh's new movie "Rambabu Gaadi Pellam" with a tagline ‘Vadiki Aa Feelinge Ledhu’ featuring Allari Naresh and Gajala rested in cans for quite some time before finding its way out now.

The movie taken in Naresh’s earlier days featured Gajala opposite him is a full fledged comedy entertainer. Directed by Kapuganti Rajendra and produced by Venkateswara Rao under Sitara Art Creations banner, ‘Rambabu Gaadi Pellam’.

Movie contains all elements pertaining to youth and a right subject for the image of Allari Naresh. The concept of the movie is that the hero wants to be away from girls till he gets married and the way he ensures that will certainly make every one laugh to the maximum.

Director:   Kapuganti Rajendra
Producer:   M Venkateswara Rao
Music Director:   Kamalakar
Cast: Allari Naresh, Gajala, Sonali Joshi
Release Date: 26 Feb 2010
Genre: Comedy - Romance
Language: Telugu

Naga Chaitanya’s next with Sukumar

Naga Chaitanya’s ‘Ye Maaya Chesave’ under the direction of Gowtham Menon is gearing up for its release and now the joshful hero is getting ready for two more films for this year. While the D. SivaPrasad Reddy’s film under the Kamakshi film movies banner is going on floors in the month of March, Naga Chaitanya has signed another film under the direction of Sukumar now.

Geetha Arts will present this film. Although Sukumar has earlier planned Varun Sandesh for the film, he has now changed his mind and roped in Naga Chaitanya.

More details of the movie are yet to be revealed.

Saif Ali Khan looks forward to spy thriller, 'Race 2'

With a Padma Shri and quite a few hits tucked under his belt, Saif Ali Khan is set to launch his second production venture and spy thriller Agent Vinod and says the delayed project is very much on.

"A lot has been said about Agent Vinod, but we are very much on track. Final touches are being given to the script and at the end of March we should have the film on the floors," Saif, 39, told IANS in an interview.

After Love Aaj Kal, this will be his second production, Agent Vinod. It will be directed by Sriram Raghavan.

"Meanwhile, I definitely want to work on Race 2. To do a romantic comedy is also something that stands high up in my list, but then I am just waiting for a great script to come my way."

Taking a trip down memory lane, he said it was superhit Hum Tum that bailed him out during trying times.

"I would think that Hum Tum was a definite milestone film in my career. Yes, there was Kal Ho Na Ho which was a good success as well, but then I was a second lead there. Hum Tum was a solo hit and had the momentum going for me," Saif told IANS.

"Soon followed Salaam Namaste, which further set the pace in my career. In the earlier years, Yeh Dillagi was definitely a landmark movie. Then came Main Khiladi Tu Anari, which again worked quite well for me," added Saif who is one of the top actors today and a successful producer also.

Success came to him after a lean patch where nothing seemed to be working for him. With many of his films belonging to diverse genres failing at the box office, Saif was pretty much looking at the bottom of the barrel.

If one goes into flashback mode and takes a journey back in time, it wasn't too far back when he was dancing to the tune of Main hoon aashiq awara (Aashiq Awara) and Ole, Ole (Yeh Dillagi). Today, with Saif named for a Padma Sri, he has come a long way.

"Yeah, it was a disastrous patch and this is where Hum Saath Saath Hai came in handy. There were also Kachche Dhaage and Kya Kehna which were decent successes and then of course Dil Chahta Hai which was another landmark film," said Saif.

Is there any other film that he believes brought a complete turnaround in the way he was looked at as an actor?

"Other than the aforementioned films like Hum Tum, Salaam Namaste and Kal Ho Naa Ho, diverse films like Parineeta and Ek Haseena Thi brought in further recognition.

" Being Cyrus was nice and offbeat too and then considering the kind of perception that people had for me, Omkara turned out to be huge as it showed quite some range. And now as we stand, I have a production like Love Aaj Kal. So, yeah, it's not that bad after all."

Tejam to release on Feb 12th

Cast: 
Sardar Patel, Jayavardhan & Mounisha

Crew:
Director:   Raj KS Gopi
Producer:   Rajashekar
Music Director:   Gana
Lyricst: Shiva Ganesh,  Sriram
Singers : S P Balasubramaniam, Deepu, K.S. Chitra, L R Eswari & Priya

Siddharth in Hindi movie ‘Striker’

It is a story of a man's passion for a game that gave him strength to triumph over all those who took the easier path.

Siddharth, Aditya Panscholi, Vidya Malvade and Padmapriya will be seen in the lead role.

Jr.NTR new film ‘Brindavanam’

Jr.NTR new film ‘Brindavanam’ with a tagline ‘Govindhudu Andhari Vaadele’ under the banner ‘Sri Venkateshwara Creations’ will be moving to Pollachi, TamilNadu from February 19th for shooting some parts of the film.

The film stars NRT, Trisha and Kajal Agarwal in the leads.Kajal plays a role by name Bhoomi and is one of the female leads. 
The film has cinematography by Chota K Naidu and music by Thaman S of Kick fame.  NTR's film after Adhurs will definitely have a good market.  Let's see if the film becomes a success this summer.

Prakash Raj to tie-knot with Pony Verma

Actor, Prakash Raj is all set to tie the knot with the ace choreographer Pony Verma. Both of them have been dating from a couple of years. Prakash raj has received the divorce with Laithakumari few months back and now they have decided to enter the wed-lock.

According to Sources, “Pony and Prakash have been dating for some time now, but they have always denied it and kept their relationship under wraps. The biggest hitch was that his divorce hadn’t come through, but now that he is officially single again, both of them are keen on tying the knot soon.”

The source also added that, “Pony wanted to wait till she got into the big league and now that she’s almost signed Priyadarshan’s film and also done a couple of songs for Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Guzarish. So she has finally made up her mind to tie the knot with Prakash.”

The wedding bells might ring in the middle of this year.

Aamir Khan gets Padma Bhushan amid public acclaim

Bollywood star Aamir Khan, enjoying unprecedented public acclaim with his hit film “3 Idiots”, has been conferred with Padma Bhushan, the nation’s third highest civilian honour.

Amayakudu begins shooting

Starring: Krishnudu, Ananya, Geeta Singh

Director: Bharathi Ganesh

Producer: Balamurugan M, Anil S Nayar, Sudharshan Sharma

The cast includes; Alekhya Rao, Prakash Raj, Raksha, Rao Ramesh, Gita Singh, Melkote, Amit, Jaspar, Meka Ramakrishna, Padma Jayanti and others.

Camera is by Uma Shankar, editing is by Marthand K Venkatesh, music is by Manikant Quadri, dialogues are by Ghatikachalam and lyrics are by Vanamali.