Bappi Lahiri set to rock Big Boss’house on New Year’s eve

With over 40years as a composer in the film industry, he is the Big Boss of Bollywoodmusic. Bappi Lahiri’s uncanny ability to reinvent himself from time to time hasflummoxed even music composers who are half his age. Trust him to take thenation by storm once again with this year’s chartbuster Ooh La La from TheDirty Picture and Walking On Love Street his latest international jazz album.
Not onlythat! He even had some of the country’s most beautiful women walking the rampto his composition at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show! As if that was notenough proof of his popularity with the GenNext, his latest song, Boka Chor,for Dhumketu Punatar’s soon-to-release movie, It’s Rocking Dard-E-Disco isalready a rage on YouTube.
And now, itis the turn of the participants of Bigg Boss 5 to be regaled by the undisputedking of disco. Yes, the New Year celebrations in the house are set take on aretro hue on the eve of 2011. Bappida has been specially invited for theoccasion to bring cheer to the proceedings inside the house. And he is quiteexcited about it. “I have been invited to the Big Boss house to perform on theNew Year eve and it will be great to perform for the participants and theviewers of the show,” Bappida said.
 “I will sing songs like ‘Bambai Se Aaya Mera’Dost from the 70's, ‘Disco Dancer’ from the 80's, ‘Tamma Tamma Loge’ from the90's and ‘ Ooh La La’ from this year's hits among others,” he said when askedabout the songs he would sing that evening. Apart from the string of performancesacross the globe, Bappida is known to celebrate every New Year in grand stylewith his family. And this new year will be no different. “My family is alreadyin Europe. I too will leave after my new year eve performance and join them,”he reveals, with a thousand-watt smile.

Tigmanshu directs On Location - PRANAM WALEKUM for debut director Sanjay Mishra

For the first time in Bollywood, Tigmanshu Dhulia has directed two scenes forSanjay Mishra’s directorial debut film ‘PRANAM-WALEKUM’ which has been acceptedby the debutant director Sanjay Mishra. When Tigmanshu saw the film, heimmediately fell in love with it. This is when Sanjay asked him to direct twoscenes for him as a ‘good-luck charm’ and Tigmanshu agreed. “We had some scenesleft that were to be shot in Mumbai and Tigmanshu immediately grabbed thisoffer. Sanjay and Tigmanshu are very good friends and he is doing this forSanjay. In fact he will be directing Irrfan Khan”, comments the producerSandiip Kapoor. Except for these two scenes that will be shot on the weekend,PRANAM-WALEKUM has moved into post production. First copy is expected to be outin January 2012. 
Says Tigmanshu “Sanjay is very goodfriend and it’s not from now, in fact, we know each other from our dramaschooling days. We are from the same batch of NSD. When I heard the script andso the rough copy of PRANAM WALEKUM I fell in love immediately and offered myfull support and encouragement. PRANAM WALEKUM is Sanjay’s debut as a directorso I am present here for my buddy. I am just directing 2 scenes for Sanjay.” 
Says Irrfan “Being a senior toSanjay at NSD, I am very happy to hear that Sanjay has moved into direction.For a debut film, Sanjay has done excellent work and I am happy to be a part ofSanjay’s debut and assist him in every way I can.” 
 Asthe title suggests, ‘PRANAM-WALEKUM’, with its tongue in cheek humor, is afunny and satirical poke at life. 
 Producedby Sandiip Kapur and co-produced by Bhushan Sharma , star cast of the film isGiselli Monteiro, Vijay Raaz, Manu Rishi, Shilpa Shukla, Manoj Pahwa, SanjayMishra, Vindu Dara Singh and others. Irrfan Khan is in guest appearance. 
Producedunder the banner of Promodome Films, it is co-produced by Bhushan Sharma whilemusic is given by Amit Mishra.

Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi's Grazing Goat is all set to start shooting their first film, OMG (oh my god) in second week of Jan.

 Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi's Grazing Goat pictures is all set to start shooting their first film, OMG (oh my god) in second week of Jan.
Keeping everything under wraps and hush hush, the production house has not only finished pre production is all set to start the shooting in a week's time.
Adapted from the critically acclaimed and commercial success full Gujarati play, Kanji Virrudh Kanji, tells a story of an atheist who incurs huge loses, when his antique shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

OMG is also special as it further strengthens the Hera Pheri jodi of Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal. When Paresh Rawal wanted to do the adaptation he couldn't think of anyone else than his long term friend Akshay Kumar.
Its an extremely popular play, seen by the top brass of entertainment and politicians, the gujarati play " kanji vs kanji" was instant hit for the audience when released in December 2009, it has performed more then 400 shows till now, it was then  launched in Hindi with title " kishen vs kaniya".
Show opened to a packed houses in new york in 2010 and after that performing more then 100 shows all over united states.
Also a whole of actors and producers have been eying the rights of the play which were quickly bagged by Grazing Goat Pictures.

Grazing Goat is very keen to make films that deal with subjects that are affecting society (a trend followed by Ashivini Yardi in her television career).
After a very successful tour of the play in the united states Paresh's is getting pressured by organizers across the world to showcase the play in their countries. Paresh's however is now committed to making the film.

Ek main aur ekk tu -- on Kareena and Imran

Ask Imran Khan his strongest memory while shooting in Las Vegas for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu is and you get a shocked expression.
Reason, a very funny and shocking incident that happened to the unit while shooting in Las Vegas.
Entire unit decided to go to strip club for some fun after a long day of shooting. Imran Khan went along too to give company and since he had never been to a strip club in Las Vegas before and the idea sounded quite exciting.
Says a source," After a long tiring day of shooting, someone on the sets suggested to go to a strip club since soon they were supposed to return to Mumbai after finishing the schedule of Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu. Everyone thought it would be fun and a different experience all together. Later when they all left from the strip club, Imran realised that they were being followed and had been followed all the way to the hotel."
Apparently, a young pole dancer found Imran Khan so cute that she decided to follow him all the way to the hotel. Sometime after reaching the hotel, the hotel authorities informed Imran about a young girl wanting to meet him.
Imran was quite shocked that the girl from a stripclub had followed him. Infact, next day when they began shooting she landed on the sets too.
And when she found out that Imran is a star in India, she insisted that she wanted a picture with him. Sources say that only after she got a pic from Imran did she decided to leave the sets.

Ek Deewana Tha Story on AR.Rahman and Prateik

It seems like music maestro AR Rahman’s good luck is rubbing off on to Prateik too.How else would you explain the actor’s reluctance to part with Rahman’s film trophy, insisting that it’s a good-luck charm for him?
The story goes like this: during Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (2008), Prateik had gone on to win a number of Best Newcomer awards. But since Rahman wasn’t present at the dos to receive his own trophies, and Aamir doesn’t attend award functions on principle, Prateik ended up collecting all their trophies.
“Later, of course, he handed them over to the rightful winners. Though, he didn’t manage to give Rahman one of his awards, because they didn’t meet after the film released,” says the insider from the entourage.
On Wednesday, when the Dhobi Ghat (2010) actor met Rahman at the Taj Mahal, Agra, for the music release function of Ek Deewana Tha, he was carrying the trophy with him. But even before Prateik handed over the trophy to Rahman, the actor told the maestro that his trophy was a good luck charm, as things had been going really well for him ever since it came into his possession.
“Rahman then said that Prateik could keep it,” reveals the insider. When contacted, Prateik — who plays the male lead opposite British model-actor Amy Jackson in the film — says, “I feel extremely blessed to work in a film, which features the work of a maestro like Rahman. I have learnt so much from him, and he is really an inspiration.”