Karela juice ka kamaal!

The crew of Percept Pictures' Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal, directed by Priyadarshan, sure knows how to live up to its name. The latest of the pranksters who succeeded in pulling fast one on the unit members was Shreyas Talpade. Taking Nana Patekar and a sporting Shailendra Singh into confidence (Priyan stays out of these pranks unless it disturbs his shoot), Shreyas Talpade set about making karela juice for the cast. Calling it his morning ritual for radiant mind and an equally radiant skin, he made the unit come 30 minutes in advance an go through laughter therapy followed by karela juice ritual.
The unsuspecting unit members drank the juice only to realise that Shreyas had pulled a fast one on them. When Shreyas grinned ear to ear, and went back to his cup of coffee, someone had cleverly switched it with karela juice.No one to be perturbed, Shreyas drank the juice with a straight expression only to have everyone laughing.
When the unit discussed the joke with Priyan, he only had one thing to say, "if they have guts, tell them to pull it on Paresh!"
Need we say, the crew quietly went back to shoot!

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Korea’s Finecut is teaming with the UK’s Rook Films andIndia’s Reel Illusion Films to co-produce Indian horror title The Profane,written and directed by Sidharth Srinivasan.
Indian filmmaker Sidharth Srinivasan’s horror flickTraas being picked up by two international producers at Cannes.
Korea’s Finecut is teaming with the UK’s Rook Filmsand India’s Reel Illusion Films to co-produce  Indian horror film The Profane त्रास, written and directed by Sidharth Srinivasan.
This association marks an unusual collaboration of sorts withFinecut also acquiring the  internationalrights excluding India to the film.
Previously called The Penance (Samaadhi), Srinivasan's film waspresented at the HongKong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) 香港亞洲電影投資會 and LocarnoFilm Festival's Open Doorsproject markets last year. He describes his film as a "truly Indian horrorfilm" that fulfils his desire to "explore the dynamics of a family incrisis through a minimalist chamber drama."
Srinivasan will produce through his ReelIllusion Films with Pete Tombs and Andy Starke of the UK’s Rook Films andFinecut’s Youngjoo Suh as co-producer.
Rook is a co-producer on UK director Ben Wheatley’s KillList (2011) and Sightseers,which is screening in this year’s Directors Fortnight. Wheatley will executiveproduce The Profane for Rook.
Benoît Debie (Irreversible)is on board as DoP, Dan Martin (TheWolfman) as SFX supervisor and Adil Hussain (Life Of Pi) to play apivotal character.
“Traas [the original Sanskrit title meaningdread] is the realisation of a long-cherished dream of mine – to make a trulyoriginal Indian genre film that is steeped in my own context yet has stronguniversal appeal owing to its emphasis on character and familial relationships,”adds Srinivasan.
Thefilm is indeed original, following the story of siblings who are with theirmother who wants to meet her end in the banks of Ganga at Varanasi. But onarrival, the mother falls into a coma sparking a deadly conflict between thedaughter, who wants to help her mother get to the other side, and the son, whosinks to grisly depths to keep her alive.
Avers Starke, “Traas is totally unique. Andy Starke says, "We're hoping for a film that will be asmuch of a stab in the heart for the genre movie as The Ring リング (1998) and Audition オーディション (1999)werein the late 90's and Old Boy 올드보이 (2003) and I Sawthe Devil 악마를 보았다(2010) have become. Finecut is the perfectpartner for Sidharth's incredible movie.” 
Finecut’s Youngjoo Suh says: “This is exactly the kind ofproject that we’ve been looking out for. This oriental edgy gory horror willevoke sorrow and fear from within the deepest part of one’s mind. And I amcertain that this will become one of a kind genre film that embraces both westand east.”
Srinivasanhas previously directed drama Soul Of Sand, whichpremiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010 and was laterpicked up by Global Film Initiative for North American release.

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT REIGNS AT THE 2012 BILLBOARD AWARDS

~ Ahead of all other music labels, Sony Music bags 22 Awards~
~ Adele (US only), Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Foster The People, Pitbull, Romeo Santos, Shakira and Whitney Houston took the top honors!~
Sony Music Entertainment, swept the maximum awards at the 2012 Billboard Awards thanks to Adele's (US Only) dominance of the evening's proceedings with the labels artist roster racking up 22 versus the others. Of Sony's final count, Sony's Adele (US only) doubled the six awards picked up by LMFAO.
It was one of the most touching moments of the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, in Las Vegas. The legendary, Whitney Houston, was honored posthumously with the Billboard Millennium Award in a tribute performance by Jordin Sparks andJohn Legend. After the tribute, Houston's sister-in-law, Pat Houston, and Bobbi Kristina joined Legend and Sparks to accept the Billboard Millennium Award in Houston's behalf. This gesture got the entire crowd in tears.
Chris Brown was a clear winner in the Top R&B artist category while the latino Shakira for the Top Latin Awards. Beyonce was applauded for her entire Album “4” along with Romeo Santos "Formula: Vol. 1" for Top Latin Album.
While in the song awards category, top radio song was won by Pitbull Feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer "Give Me Everything" and for the top rock song it wasFoster The People "Pumped Up Kicks"
Congratulations to all artists and kudos to the label!

Poet-painter gets Sohail Khan's support, gives proceeds for charity

Nature has always intrigued Dr.Nandita Desai, a painter-poet-educationist rolled into one. In her current series, the inspiration has been the greens, something that Dr.Desai worries will be extinct if we do not take steps to preserve it today. Hence, Nandita has captured all that she loves in various shadows of Green. Whether it be the vales, the flowers, the trees, the plants, the shrubs or the occasional creeper that tries to attract your attention with its curves, Nandita has used the brush as a magic wand to preserve those moments of time in frozen frames.
What happens when Desai and the benevolent Sohail Khan chance to meet? If Salman Khan chooses to paint, Sohail Khan, who confesses that "I cannot even draw a straight line" more than did his bit when he along with sufi singers Mudasir Ali and Victoria Polyakova, actor Vaishali Desai,artists Prafulla Dahanukar and Varsha Vyas, Aashish Vyas and Anusha Srinivasan Iyer of Art Buy Appointment Gallery, helped sell paintings for charity at Gallery Art Buy Appointment, and initiative to help young artists achieve their dreams.
In a simple event where Sohail managed to take out time between his shoot,the actor spent time talking to media and helping Nandita move her art for charity.
Said Nandita, "Earth,to me, is a living organism... ever changing,ever colourful and embodying the celebration of life. Nature vows me and inspires my creative spirit.Its energy leads me on an artistic journey.The idea is to look at what we see as nomal today may not be there at all tomorrow. If we need to have a tomorrow, we must protect our environment today," she reasons. The proceeds  go to  charity towards Save Earth NGO and the elderly.

Evelyn Sharma gets a VidyaBalan connect with Euphoria!

 
Even before actress Vidya Balan made it big in Bollywood,she was a known face in the industry, thanks to her association with the bandEuphoria. Now, newbie Evelyn Sharma is hoping, the same magic will rub on heras well. 
The half-German-half-Indian international supermodel, who isworking in a couple of Hindi flicks, including the Ranbir Kapoor-DeepikaPadukone-starrer Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, says, “When I was approached toperform for a Euphoria video opposite Palash Sen, I was very excited.”

 

“They've introduced many popular actresses, including VidyaBalan and Neha Dhupia. Moreover, I'm a huge fan of rock music, so I was morethan thrilled to do a slow rock song video with them,” she adds. Like mostEuphoria numbers earlier, the recently released video is also getting ravereviews. 
Meanwhile, apart from Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani underKaran Johar's banner Dharma Productions, Evelyn’s is also gearing up for ManishTiwary's Issaq opposite Prateik Babbar and veteran filmmaker PramodChakravorty's grandson Prateek Chakravorty’s debut film From Sydney With Love.