Mr Bachchan Sponsors Coaching/Training of 2 women Athletes for Commonwealth, World Championship and Asian Games ’14!

Global cinema icon and champion of various social causes, Mr Amitabh Bachchan has often sparked laudatory initiatives towards the betterment of society, such Polio Eradication and his critical work as the UN Ambassador for the Girl Child to rid the country of the malaise of discrimination against women.

We now hear from close sources that the acting stalwart has sponsored the training and coaching of two talented female athletes for the upcoming Commonwealth, World Championship, and Asian Games in 2014!

The superstar has sponsored women athletes Ayonika Paul,Pooja Ghatkar (both Rifle Shooting) as part of the Medals4India campaign initiated by the NGO Olympic Gold Quest. Olympic Gold Quest is a program of the Foundation of Sports And Games (founded in 2001), started by Indian sporting icons  to identify and support Indian athletes with a proven track record and who have the potential to win Olympic gold medals.

These athletes will be participating in the upcoming Commonwealth, World Championship, and Asian Games in 2014, the main goal being to help them win at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The funds will help with their training and equipment in preparation for their respective competitions.

 We hope this inspires personalities with resources to follow Big B in this landmark enterprise!

Argentina And Messi Find Support In Bollywood

The 2014 FIFA World Cup has gripped India and the entire world with audiences running into the billions by the time tournament is over mid July.

India, in recent times, has developed into a ‘football-mad’ country with support for ‘English Premier League’, ‘Spanish La Liga’ and ‘Italian Serie A’ growing by the day. But the fan following that has been witnessed this time around in the international edition of the tournament has been unprecedented. 

From Amitabh Bachchan to Shah Rukh Khan to Bipasha Basu,  all  the Bollywood  Celebs are openly messaging about the tournament, the games and their teams through Twitter and Facebook.

Of all the teams, Argentina and their  talisman  Lionel  Messi  are the favourites of many celebrities. Shah Rukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Tiger Shroff, Prachi Desai, Bipasha Basu, Saqib Saleem & singer Sumeet Tappoo have all openly declared their passion for the South Americans to win the World Cup! 

Football is definitely the flavour of the month!

Priyanka Chopra's “I Can't Make You Love Me” debuts on #Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs at No. 28.

Not too long ago, Priyanka Chopra's I Can't Make You Love Me made it to the number 1 spot on Itunes India in less than 72 hours of its launch and  climbed to #3 on the iTunes India overall `singles’ chart within 3 hours of its release.

Priyanka Chopra's third international single "I Can't Make You Love Me",a unique dance cover of the Bonnie Raitt's 1991 song that made it to Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, this time around debuted on #Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs at No. 28.

Elated with the news Priyanka took to a popular micro blogging site to tweet “Woah ! Happy and Blessed”.

All praise for the actress and international recording actress , One of New York's most celebrated personalities, Sergio Kletnoy ,Executive Assistant to Cosmopolitan Editor Joanna Colles said , “It’s a bit of a stretch since there isn’t a human on this planet who would be dumb enough to not love Priyanka Chopra! But the song and the video are the right step into what will bound to be worldwide domination and adoration for one of the most stunning women in the world.”

Rahman to rock Mumbai with a live performance !!

The music maestro AR Rahman has lent a young and fresh feel to the music of Lekar Hum Deewana Dil, directed by debutant Arif Ali.

The songs which deal with emotions of thrill, passion, heartbreak and love, depict the roller coaster journey of the film’s lead pair- Armaan and Deeksha!

To launch the two newbies of B-town to the media and audiences, the composer is flying down to Mumbai from LA for live gig in Mumbai today!

 

The music launch is expected to see names like Karan Johar, Imtiaz Ali, Homi Adjania, Saket Chaudhary, Kunal Deshmukh, Sachin JIgar, Pritam,Kareena Kapoor and Karishma Kapoor in attendance.

One of the most popular songs of the film, Khalifa will be one of the highlights of the gig tonight!

Lekar Hum Deewana Dil is produced by Eros International and Illuminati Films, releases on 4^th July!!

Sonakshi does action scenes for her next!!

Gone are the times when only the heroes used to do action packed sequences in the films! Today's dynamic actresses with their 'can-do' attitude show no hesitation to explore new avenues and a shining example of this is Sonakshi Sinha!

Sona who is playing a college student in AR Murugadoss’ film, will be seen doing some high octane action scene in the movie. We also hear that, Sonakshi will undergo a 30-day martial arts workshop under the guidance of experts from Thailand!

“Murugadoss has said a lot of times that Sonakshi is the ‘hero’ of his film. And this movie is a completely heroine oriented script with hardcore action scenes. Hence she has to go through an extensive 30 day workshop and martial arts experts will be flying down to Mumbai,” says a source.

“Sonakshi has also lost a lot of weight and have a fitter body now. While the actresses have been known to do lot of action oriented scenes in the films, this will have Sonakshi actually fighting with the villains and fending them off with martial arts technique,” adds the source.

Well, looks like the versatile actress, Sonakshi Sinha, is again going to impress us with something new soon!