Friday, July 4, 2008
Rakhi Sawant - ‘Kashmera Shah made me famous by playing my role'
Bollywood's celebrated item girl Rakhi Sawant loves publicity of all kinds - positive or negative. And she doesn't mind even if it comes from her rival Kashmera Shah."Whether she loves me or hates me, she has made me famous by playing my role," Sawant told IANS on telephone from Mumbai.
Shah apparently played an item girl named Rakhi who aspires to become an actress in a musical called ‘City of Dreams' held in Mumbai recently.
But the ‘Jungle' girl maintained that her role had no resemblance to Sawant.
Sawant, however, asserts that it was undoubtedly a character inspired by her life.
"Kashmera definitely played Rakhi Sawant's role in that play. It was entirely based on me," said Sawant, who has just won a reality dance contest, ‘Yeh Hai Jalwa'.
"But even if it wasn't Kashmera, somebody else would have surely played the role," Sawant added.
Asked if she would ever play a role based on Shah's life, she remarked, "No, never! I would never play any such role."
She added, "Kashmera is such a girl that you befriend her and then she would backstab you.
She never talks anything positive. I associate only negativity with her."
Sawant's remarks are a continuation of the war of words between the two Bollywood item girls.
Shah had recently said of Sawant, "I love to hate her and I hate to love her."
Sawant and Shah's rivalry goes back to Sony TV's reality show ‘Big Boss', where the two were participants. They started off as good pals but their relations soured during the show. The duo accused each other of maligning their image to gain sympathy votes.
Their relationship only worsened during reality dance show ‘Nach Baliye 3', in which they even took personal potshots at each other.
Rivalry apart, Sawant is currently basking in the happiness of finally winning ‘Yeh Hai Jalwa'.
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Labels: Big Boss, Bollywood, Bollywood Item girl, famous, Kashmera Shah, mumbai, Nach Baliye 3, publicity, Rakhi Sawant, reality dance contest, Sony TV's reality show, Yeh Hai Jalwa
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Anil Ambani group close to deal with Spielberg's studio
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is close to clinching a deal with the Steven Spielberg-founded Hollywood studio Dream Works to invest $500-600 million towards equity, a leading business paper has said.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the cash from the Indian group would allow Spielberg and his associates to end their existing pact with Paramount Pictures, which is owned by Viacom's Sumner Redstone.
The agreement is expected to result in a new company that will make six-seven movies every year and give Ambani a foothold in Hollywood, which his group is strongly seeking, the paper reported.
"I would not like to comment on this," an official with Reliance's entertainment division told IANS from Mumbai, when asked about the reported talks.
Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment had announced in Cannes last month it would make a major foray into Hollywood and fund production houses run by actors like Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey and George Clooney.
This marked the biggest foray of an Indian entity in Hollywood's motion picture industry.
Thirty films are likely to emanate from Reliance's co-financing and 10 will go into production, company officials had said.
Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Big Entertainment, is leading the group's Hollywood foray. He was chief operating officer at Times Internet Ltd, part of the Times of India group.
The Anil Ambani group, with interests in telecom, financial services, media and entertainment, is expected to get a large stake in the new company once the deal with Spielberg and associates is finalized.
DreamWorks, which made action films like ‘Blades of Glory' last year and ‘Dreamgirls' in 2006, would seek another $500 million in debt elsewhere to give its new venture enough operating money to make half a dozen films a year.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the cash from the Indian group would allow Spielberg and his associates to end their existing pact with Paramount Pictures, which is owned by Viacom's Sumner Redstone.
The agreement is expected to result in a new company that will make six-seven movies every year and give Ambani a foothold in Hollywood, which his group is strongly seeking, the paper reported.
"I would not like to comment on this," an official with Reliance's entertainment division told IANS from Mumbai, when asked about the reported talks.
Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment had announced in Cannes last month it would make a major foray into Hollywood and fund production houses run by actors like Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey and George Clooney.
This marked the biggest foray of an Indian entity in Hollywood's motion picture industry.
Thirty films are likely to emanate from Reliance's co-financing and 10 will go into production, company officials had said.
Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Big Entertainment, is leading the group's Hollywood foray. He was chief operating officer at Times Internet Ltd, part of the Times of India group.
The Anil Ambani group, with interests in telecom, financial services, media and entertainment, is expected to get a large stake in the new company once the deal with Spielberg and associates is finalized.
DreamWorks, which made action films like ‘Blades of Glory' last year and ‘Dreamgirls' in 2006, would seek another $500 million in debt elsewhere to give its new venture enough operating money to make half a dozen films a year.
To read the full article, click here....
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Labels: Anil Ambani, Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood studio Dream Works, invest, mumbai, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Reliance Big Entertainment, Steven Speilberg, telecom, Wall Street Journal
Friday, November 2, 2007
Dutt returns to jail
Actor Sanjay Dutt was sent to jail after being given a copy on Oct. 22 of his judgement for illegal possession of guns, resolving a legal technicality, court officials said.Dutt was convicted of getting an AK-47 rifle and a pistol from gangsters involved in bombings that killed 257 people in 1993, but he was absolved of conspiracy in that attack in the country's financial capital.He appealed against his six-year sentence in the Supreme Court and was allowed bail until he was served a copy of the more than 4,300page judgement for the entire 1993 case by the special Mumbai court that sentenced him.His lawyers contended that they could not argue his case in the absence of a copy of the judgement, 86 pages of which concerned Dutt.The actor began serving his sentence on July 31 and spent 24 days in jail before being bailed by the Supreme Court.
Dutt, 48, was taken to a prison in Mumbai on Oct.22 , but was expected to be transferred later in the day to one in Pune.Dressed in a blue shirt and jeans, Dutt spoke on the telephone with his daughter in the United States before being led away by half a dozen police officials.
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Labels: bail, jail, mumbai, police officials, sanjay dutt, tada court
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