There will be no Raajneeti sequel Prakash Jha is working in Aarakshan

Director Prakash Jha is now basking under the success of his latest movie Raajneeti. Released on June 4, 2010, the movie is still drawing audience to the theatres.

Because of the immense success of the movie, rumor spread out that the director might be making a sequel of the movie titled Raajneeti 2 but Jha denied the claim outright. He said, “I’m not even thinking of a sequel.”

The director is now working on his next project titled Aarakshan which means “Reservation of Opportunities.”

Ajay Devgan, Manoj Bajpai and Amitabh Bachchan are going to act in the movie. Ajay Devgan, who is the favorite actor of Prakash Jha, will do the lead role in the movie. Earlier, Devgan-Jha duo, gave us great movies like Gangaajal (2003) and Apaharan (2005).

Manoj Bajpai envy’s the rapport between Ajay Devgan and Prakash Jha. He jokingly said, “And there’s little I can do about this, except stand at a distance and feel envious about the chemistry they share.”

Manoj Bajpail played the antagonist, an evil politician, named Veerendra Pratap in Raajneeti. His performance had been widely appreciated both by the critics and audience. Aaraskhan will be his comeback movie.

Both Prakash Jha and Manoj Bajpai are excited to be working with Amitabh Bachchan. For a long time, Prakash Jha has been looking forward to do a movie with the megastar of Bollywood. After nine years, Manoj Bajpai will be working with Amitabh Bachchan. He worked with Amitabh Bachchan in Aks in 2001.

A Twitter message said that Katrina Kaif will play the female lead but Prakash Jha said that nothing has been finalized yet. Katrina Kaif is now busy shooting in Spain for her upcoming move.

Shahrukh Khan is the new king on Twitter

Shahrukh Khan is not only the king of Bollywood but he is also the King Of Twitter.

Recently, Shahrukh Khan’s Twitter follower crossed more than 400,000 and the first person to congratulate him on his crossing 400k mark was none other than Bollywood legend. Amitabh Bachchan.

Amitabh Bachchan wrote, "Shah Rukh congrats! You crossed 400,000... meri gaadi thoda dheeli chal rahi hai..."

Shahrukh in his Twitter wrote, “Hey thanks all 400,000 & more of you, soon we can start our own small country. Send me the name for it tomorrow...”

This was followed by many suggestions from fans and Amitabh Bachchan was also one of them. He wrote, “How about – “KINGDOM”, taking up from your own popular and deserving epithet of KING!”

Shahrukh Khan was a bit embarrassed he then wrote, “Oops how dare I, didn’t realize you would be online & reading my pretentious attempts to create a kingdom. This is embarrassing.”

Shahrukh then also came up with a name for Bachchan’s kingdom, he said, “I have a name for your World Mr. Bachchan. The United States of Great Bachchania, thanks for letting us be a part of it sir. Love & health to you.”

Though Amitabh Bachchan is not at his best shape, he is one of the most popular celebrity on Twitter of his generation. Currently, Mr. Bachchan has 1,00,240 followers. He joined Twitter only a week ago.

After Shahrukh Khan, the second most popular celebrity on Twitter is Sachin Tendulkar. He has already reached 362,650 within a few months and could surpass Shahrukh Khan pretty soon.

Salman Khan already joined Twitter and he currently has 1,53,294 followers. Though his language is not always clear but his fans are enjoying his messages.

Amitabh Bachchan Joins Twitter and Becomes Very Popular

Amitabh Bachchan has become the latest Bollywood celebrity who has joined Twitter, one of the most popular social networking sites in the net. A number of other Bollywood celebrities including his son Abhishek Bachchan already have Twitter accounts and huge fan following.

In his first Twitter update, Amitabh Bachchan says, “Yipee. . I am on Twitter. . And you can follow me on. . @srbachchan . .love as always.” The veteran actor has already been an admirer of modern technology. In fact, he was one of the first few Bollywood celebrities who started blogging to have direct interactions with his fans.

Amitabh Bachchan already has 30,491 Twitter fans and it is expected that the number will only grow day by day. Other Bollywood celebrities who have Twitter account include Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone and Hritik Roshan.

Social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter have been the recent craze among the celebrities throughout the world. Through these websites, they can interact with their fans, and more than that, they can know about their fan following.

The Bachchans will not attend Holi celebrations this year

Every year, during the Holi festival, Bollywood celebrities attend ceremonies and enjoy playing Holi with each other. This is one day when all the celebrities come together and play Holi. The Bachchans, one of the most influential families of Bollywood cinema, will not be attending Holi this year due to the death of a close relative of family friend, Amar Singh. In the Pune blast on February 14, 2010, one of the relatives of Amar Singh died.

Amar Singh is a very close family friend of the Bachchans for a long time he has been seen with the Bachchans in many occassions and they share a great relationship. Regarding the absence, Amitabh Bachchan said:

“We do not celebrate again this year. Primarily because of the death of a close relative of our family friend Amar Singhji, but also we do not feel comfortable in celebrating when our own have lost lives in the Pune blast recently,”

In 2008, the Bachchans also skipped the Holi celebration due to the death of Teji Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan’s mother. Then in 2009, the Bachchans skipped the Holi celebration due to the November terrorist attack that took place in Mumbai. They felt that they should not be celebrating while people have suffered great losses. This year also they would not be celebrating Holi. However, the 67-year-old actor greeted his fans for the festival.

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Poonam Dhillon or Vindu Dara Singh: Who Will be the Winner of Big Boss 3?

Today is the BIG day for the TV reality game show, Big Boss 3 as the champion of the show will be revealed today. This is the third season of the show running on Hindi Entertainment channel, Colors. Hosted by Amitabh Bachchan, the winner of the show will be announced on December 26, 2009. The show has been inspired from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984.” In that novel, there is a character named “Big Brother” who is watching over every one. In this season, fifteen contestants took part in the show: Ismail Darbar, Sherlyn Chopra, Kamal Rashid Khan, Poonam Dhillon, Bhakhtiyaar M Irani, Tanaaz B Irani, Vindu Dara Singh, Aditi Govitrikar, Jaya Sawant, Shamita Shetty, Claudia Ciesla, Rohit Verma, Raju Srivastav, Pravesh Rana and Vinod Kambli.

In the final episode, there were four inmates in the house- Bakhtiyaar M Irani, Poonam Dhilon, Vindu Dara Singh and Pravesh Rana. Bakhtiyaar M Irani went out of the show accepting Rs. 1 million as he knew that he will not be the winner. Now, there are three contestants and the Internet is abuzz with various assumptions about the winner of Big Boss 3.

Vindu Dara Singh is the son of wrestler and actor Dara Singh. In the beginning he was not much popular but then with his talkative personality he turned the tide to his favor. He was nominated to go out of the house six times but everytime the people voted for him.

Poonam Dhillon also became very popular for her graceful nature in the show. She never misguided anyone. For this reason, she gained immense popularity in the

show.

Pravesh Rana, model and anchor is also another popular contender. However, I did not see much support for him.

Slumdog Millionaire: Bollywood from a Westerner’s point of view

“Slumdog Millionaire” the name might have “dog” in it but the movie came out to be a dark horse. When released, nobody thought that Slumdog Millionaire would be so well received by both audience and critics all over the world. It won some of the top movie awards as well. The movie is based on the first novel of Vikas Swarup named “Q and A.” Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of Jamal Malik, a Muslim boy who grew up in Dharavi slums. Jamal Malik is uneducated. Yet, he becomes a contestant in “Kaun Banega Crorepati,” the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Luckily, he answers all the questions and makes it to the final round. However, the host of the show, Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor), suspects him of cheating. Jamal was then arrested by the police. The story of the movie then unfolds and shows what happened before.

Slumdog Millionaire was first shown at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2008. The movie got positive response in the ceremony. Then it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won the People’s Choice Award.

Slumdog Millionaire is just another example of a movie with great story. It does not matter whether a movie has heavyweight stars, great locations, or beautiful songs. All you need is actors who can truly portray the characters and a good story. The story of Slumdog Millionaire is a fairytale story but it is said in a way that people would not feel anything absurd about it. Slumdog Millionaire shows how the luck of a poor Muslim boy, who grew up in slums without any family, turns around. The story has lots of similarities to those of the mainstream Bollywood commercial movies where the unrealistic and unbelievable are a regular happening- rich girl falling in love with poor boy and turning against her parents and vice versa or a poor man becoming rich overnight, which was a major theme of many of the hit Hindi movies of the 80s. It is another reason why Indian movie goers find the movie very enjoying. Slumdog Millionaire is like a Bollywood movie made from the viewpoint of a western movie maker.

Many people are saying that Slumdog Millionaire gives the audience a peek into Indian poverty. Yes, it is true that poverty is very much there in India. However, it is not only India that bears this burden of poverty. Poverty is very much of a problem in all the South Asian countries and even China has high rate poverty. It is true that Indian economy observed a steady economic growth over the last two decades but that economic growth was not evenly spread. Only few Indian provinces reaped the benefit of this economic growth. The other provinces are still the same. Even in ultra-modern cities like Mumbai there are poor people. Poverty is very much of a reality in India but it would be totally unfair to judge the country by its poverty. India, despite its poverty, has many great things to offer to the world and it is one of the powerful countries in Asia.

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