Classic beauty Vidya Balan and today’s most sought after actor Abhishek Bachchan might just get paired opposite each other, if things go all right.

After the success of Parineeta, the actress is on every director’s most-wanted list, so much so that Parineeta director Pradeep Sarkar does not want to loose her. He went far enough to say, “I would love to work with her in all my projects”. Apparently Sarkar has been approached by Yash Chopra to direct a film for his banner, and Sarkar wants Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan in the lead.

Sarkar recently worked with Abhishek in an ad and was impressed by him. On the other hand Yash Chopra also is very keen on casting Vidya in his film. Therefore it is quite possible we see both together on screen soon. (more…)

March 4, LIC-Zee Cine Awards 2006 function is being held in Mauritius, telecast live on Zee TV from 7pm and who is who of Bollywood is attending it. Are u Game?

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The oomph girl Mallika Sherawat and the known director Karan Johar are hosting the Awards. Mallika is known for her peppy tongue and this time she will be unstoppable. Another interesting thing to look forward is her dressing which always creates shock. Karan who has hosted such events two times before will be a delight to look at. Those who have seen Karan’s hit TV talk show ‘Koffee with Karan’ know how naughty he is and if one remembers Mallika was the hot topic of discussion in more than one episode. It will be so much fun to watch them together. Arjun Rampal, Konkona SenSharma and Gulshan Grover are the other celebrity to hosts for the show. (more…)

Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan may emulate Dav Anand and Waheeda Rehman in Pritish Nandy and Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Rahgir’ (traveller or wanderer), a repeat of Vijay Anand’s ‘Guide’ (1965).

The project is still to be finalized and its makers are working on the details. They have approached Akshay and Vidya and if everything work out well Akshay will play the traveller and Vidya might play Rosie. The film will start in the next few months so that it gets released this year. (more…)

A cold war is going on, on the sets of Munnabhai M.B.B.S sequel between producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and director Raj Kumar Hirani regarding the title of the film. While Chopra is adamant on the working title ‘Mahatma Versus Gandhi’, Hirani would prefer the more breezy title ‘Lage Raho’.

The sequel features the good old Munnabhai pair Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi with the banner’s favourite Vidya Balan. Though a large chunk of the film is ready, the makers are still undecided about what to call this eagerly awaited sequel.

“Hopefully”, says a member of the cast, “Vinod Chopra will see the logic of using ‘Lage Raho’ instead of his chosen title. Until then we can only keep our fingers crossed.”

While Konkona Sen Sharma left Farhan Akhtar’s produced, multi-strarrer project ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd’ to be directed by Farhan’s assistant Reema Kagdi, Raima Sen has been added to the list, in her place.

The film also stars Amisha Patel, Shabana Azmi, Abhay Deol, Minisha Lamba, Kay Kay Menon, Karan Khanna, Ranveer Shourie, Sandhya Mridul and Boman Irani.

Reema confirmed Raima addition, “This film has various important characters and I thought the Raima suited one of the roles best. She is a sensitive actress.” Raima is cast opposite Kay Kay Menon in the film. (more…)