Aamir Khan Honour at the launch of Amitabh Bachchan's biography

Aamir Khan, Yash Chopra, Guests of Honour at the launch of Amitabh Bachchan’s biography, ’Bachchanalia’. How does a man as modest as Amitabh Bachchan react when someone opts to pen a ’biography’ of his? "I hate it," he says almost immediately. But the legendary actor had reason enough to give the nod to Neville Tuli, the Father of Osian’s, a pioneering arts institution founded in the year 2000, to publish and design ’Bachchanalia: The Films and Memorabilia of Amitabh Bachchan’. Osian’s already boasts of an auction house, archive and film house, its world-renowned film festival... and now with ’Bachchanalia’ it achieves one more milestone as it launches its publishing and design division.

Penned by Bhawana Somaya with the support of Osian’s Centre for Archiving, Research and Development (CARD), ’Bachchanalia’ adopts an interesting format for a biography. Amitabh tells us, "It’s not the heavy reading type of book that’s filled with words. This particular ’biography’ is very pictoral and boasts of archaic priceless poster designs. It’s very interestingly done with snippets of my films, and interesting trivia."

’Bachchanalia’ will be launched in style on January 3, 2009 at Tata Theatre, NCPA, 7:30 p.m. The grand event will include Vintage Memorabilia Exhibition from the Osian’s Collection; an Audience with Amitabh Bachchan. And while filmmaker Yash Chopra will be the Chief Guest, actor Aamir Khan will be the Guest of Honor at this exclusive do, where entry is by Invitation Only.

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John Abraham is more impressed with Aamir’s body

John Abraham had been voted as sexiest male by popular Eastern Eye magazine. People rave about his chiseled body and washboard abs but he is more impressed with Aamir’s body.

He said, “I may be fit but when I look at Aamir Khan and the way he has developed his body just for a role, it scares me,” he adds, “We actors should take a leaf out of his book and look at how he has changed cinema in this country.”

His Daniel-Craig-style-emerging-from-the-sea scene got him quite a bit of attention doubled by Dostana’s super success. His body took more of people’s attention than his acting, but he says,
“I’m never ashamed of talking about my body. Though at times I do feel like a meat shop.”

Aamir on the other hand said, that his body in Ghajini is not the center point of the film and its story. He wished that when people come out of the theatres after watching the film, his performance should take them such a way that his muscular body should be the last thing they remember.

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Aamir Khan confesses that he found his latest released film Ghajini’s director

Actor Aamir Khan confesses that he found his latest released film Ghajini’s director A R Murugadoss’s passion and energy while remaking its Tamil version amazing.

“Every film goes through its own journey and Ghajini was enriching experience. I learnt a lot from the director. It is rare that you remake a successful film and go through the same passion and energy during the process,” Aamir said at the success party of Ghajini last night.

He said that he would not be able to make Taare Zameen Par again. “Even if I make it, I don’t think that I will do it with the same passion and energy,” the actor-filmmaker said.

Aamir said the film struck a chord with the audience because of the energy infused by Murugadoss.

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Hope 2009 fights the global recession raining gold at the box-office

2008 is gone forever and 2009 has crept in with many promising films in store. 2008 was a year of Bollywood relationships going public with Saif-Kareena and Deepika-Ranbir openly admitting that they are in love. 2008 was a year with little hits and much flops. Hope 2009 fights the global recession raining gold at the box-office. Some of the films to be recently released are ‘Bad Luck Govind’, ‘Kaash….Mere Hote’, ‘The President is Coming’ on January 9. On the same date will be coming Rakesh Sarang’ directed ‘Horn Ok Pleassss’ starring Nana Patekar, Rimi Sen and Muzammil Ibrahim.

January 16 will see the release of much awaited ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ starring Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Ranvir Shorey and Mithun Chakraborty’ in lead roles.

‘The Murderer’ and ‘Firaaq’ will be released on January 23 along with ‘Raaz-The Mystery continues’ from Mohit Suri. The film has Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Adhyayan in the lead roles.

Other films to be released in Januray are ‘Victory’, ‘Luck By Chance’, ‘Mumbai Chakachak’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.

Filsm to be released in February are ‘Aloo Chat’, ‘Jugaad’, ‘Billu Barber’ starring SRK, Irrfan Khan and Lara Dutta, ‘Delhi 6’ with Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor in lead roles, ‘Rang Rasiya’, ‘Fox’ and so on.

With so many filsm in store 2009 definitely seems to be promising!!

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Saif Ali Khan is fine now

Saif Ali Khan was recently admitted at Lilavati hospital due to food poisoning. He is on his way to recovery now.

Here’s what the actor said: “It was nothing, really…I returned from Philadelphia from the shooting of Rensil d’Silva’s film on 23rd night. And since I was missing all the Mumbai ka khana, I gorged indiscriminately on local junk food, sev puri bhelpuri, paani puri….puri ki puri fauj went into my stomach.”

The doctors had almost immediately said that there was nothing to worry and that it wasn’t so serious. “It was gastroenteritis. Yes, I’ve been in hospital twice in the recent past. Once it was just appendicitis. And the other time it was far more serious. After going through what I did the last time I’m hardly going to get scared by a little stomach infection.”

For all those who seemed pretty worried, here’s what he finally added: “Actually it’s much less scary than it looks. I’ve got a drip coming out of my hand, so that makes it look kind of serious. But it’s nothing. I’m fine…just a little sleepy. In fact Kareena and I are going on our holiday to the mountains as planned.”

Happy holidays to Saif and Kareena!

How Akshay Kumar Keeps His Wife Happy?

Its one hell of big deal to keep one’s wife happy. And Akshay Kumar has become quite a pro at this.

A few days ago, we read that Akshay Kumar gifted his wife a lavish Bentley car worth 3 crore on her 35th birthday before he left for Hong Kong. And since he was absent on his wife’s birthday he made it up by taking the entire family to Goa.

He hosted a party for his wife, his mom-in-law Dimple Kapadia and his mom Aruna where he cooked them some sumptuous Gujarati delicacies.

It is known that Akshay was inspired by his role of a chef in the film Chandni Chowk to China. For those of you who forgot, Akshay Kumar is an excellent cook. He worked as a waiter in his early twenties in Bankok.

Needless to say, Twinkle was extremely happy!

Shilpa Shetty is married?

Shilpa Shetty is in London with her family. Rumors are that she got married to Raj Kundra before Christmas and she is in London as part of the wedding reception. Raj Kundra, who is a UK based NRI, is a producer and was working with Shilpa Shetty in launching her perfume brand. Raj Kundra was married, and his wife Kavita was in news, accusing Shilpa for breaking their marriage.

Shilpa had cooked dinner for Kundra's family by herself. About that, she said, "Dinner was healthy. It included Yorkshire pudding, mozzarella salad, corn pulao, roasted parsnips, organic vegetables, fruit punch, golden roasted stuffed turkey, roasted chestnuts, chocolate cake and apple crumble with ice cream. I love cooking but it was for 15 people. It was worth all when I got big compliments".