Mallika Sherawat to work with Salma Hayek?

Mallika Sherawat to work with Salma Hayek?:

Seems Mallika Sherawat is on no mood to return to her desi tinsel town as Hollywood has embraced her with open arms and she has a handful of offers there. After ‘Hisss’ and ‘Love, Barack’ opposite Laz Alonso, the sexy bombshell has been offered a film with none other than Salma Hayek. The movie is supposedly based on the women abuse around the globe. Though Mallika seems eager to do the film, the formal announcement is yet to be made.

Mallika impressed many Hollywood biggies when her film ‘Hisss’ was recently screened at the Cannes Film Festival and she also got friendly with Hayek at Cannes. Even after they returned to the US, they were in constant touch and arranged to meet each other for dinner few days back. It was then when Salma narrated the script of this women centric film and suggested that Mallika play the main protagonist.

Mallika’s official spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied the news and said, “We haven’t received any such information as yet, but we will be making an announcement if anything is finalised.”

Aishwarya pays a surprise visit to hubby Abhishek

The Bachchans may be busy all the way, but the family sure knows how to value and strengthen their bonding. Of late, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have had little time to spend with each other. It has been quite a long time they had some quality time together for their short anniversary holiday. Then Abhi got busy with the shooting of Abhinay Deo’s ‘Game’ in Greece, while Aishwarya was in India for a stint of ‘Robot’. Then Ash flew to Paris to honor Gustavo Kuerten (retired former World No.1 Brazilian tennis player) for his work with disadvantaged children. She also bonded with Steffi Graf and Mary Pierce at the charity dinner that followed.

So, missing her husband badly, Aishwarya asked her driver to take her to Abhishek as soon as she landed in Mumbai on Thursday. This was for the first time Ash took a liberty to intrude her husband while he was working at the Reliance Web World doing out-of-town press interviews. She not only met him, she also joined impromptu to talk to their fans on radio in Jaipur and Ahmedabad.

Both Abhishek and Aishwarya will be seen together in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’, where Abhi plays the character of an abductor named Veera. He is busy with the promotion of the film these days. Recently, he toured the city with six dancers dressed as characters in one of the song from the movie and he greeted fans from an open bus. He also threw goodies like ‘Raavan’ key chains and T-shirts to his fans.

Check out Aishwarya and Abhishek at a promotional event…..

Bollywood beauties at the launch of Zara

The Mumbai outlet of Zara, the wildly popular Spanish fashion chain, was unveiled at the Palladium mall on Thursday night. Even though the high street brand refrained from advertising (as is its global policy) for its India launch both in Delhi and Mumbai, with tip offs from reliable sources, the brand’s many fans poured into the invite-only opening party wielding credit cards. Present at the launch were many Bollywood beauties like Kareena Kapoor, Carol Gracia and Mandira Bedi who strolled through and picked up their stuff from the store. Check them out at the event.

Bipasha Basu shoots steamy sex scene for ‘Dum Maro Dum’

Bipasha Basu is in news once again. After her topless lotto advertisement shot in the past took the web world with stirs, she is once again all set to shock everyone with her sexuality and all this for her upcoming film ‘Dum Maro Dum’. The gossip columns are abuzz about the hot and steamy sex scene which Bips has done with Hyderabad sensation Rana Daggubati. for Rohan Sippy’s film.

This Rohan Sippy film is based on the sleazy drug business prevalent in Goa and Bipasha plays a junkie in the film. The so- called scene is being described as angrily passionate and “very intimate’’.

However, Bipasha is in no mood to describe the scene as hot or raunchy and defends saying, “You decide when you see the film whether it fits the description of super-hot. The scene is all right. In fact, I think it is regular, like in all films nowadays. What is interesting is the new pairing of Rana and me.”

The scene was shot with minimum of crew around.

Bollywood stars at IIFA green carpet

Despite controversies and boycotts, the 11th edition of the IIFA Weekend kick started in Sri Lanka with the host country rolling out the red carpet for glamorous Bollywood actors. The ceremony has been boycotted by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce as a mark of protest against the alleged mistreatment of the Tamils in the country. Bollywood biggies like the Bachchans and SRK are also giving the extravaganza a miss. While Big B is currently shooting in Gujarat, Abhishek is in Istanbul for a film shoot and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai is in Paris to promote a brand. SRK is busy with the post production details of his forthcoming ‘Ra 1’.

Stars such a Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha, Lara, Neha, Kangana, Dia, Jacqueline, Riya, Sophie and many more were given a warm welcome by the Lankan fans as they arrived at the Bandarnaike International Airport.

Check out the glittering and dazzling stars as they attend IIFA red carpet on June 5, 2010.

Kareena Kapoor loves simplicity or so she says

In 2008, Kareena Kapoor had appeared on the cover of ‘People’ magazine with heavy makeup that sparked a lot of negative remarks. This time Kareena has kept it nude and de-glam for the latest issue of People magazine.

“Beauty lies in being simple and natural and this is what I believe in. This is the real me. I believe in being natural and People’s cover has given me this opportunity, ” Kareena told reporters on the sidelines of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards.

“When they came to me with the concept and said they wanted to do the ‘India’s most beautiful’ issue, I was up for it. It is ironical that the international version of the same issue features Julia Roberts on the cover,” she added..

Kareena had also avoided makeup for her roles in ‘Refugee’, ‘Dev’ and ‘Chameli’ and goes on to say, “I think a lot of it depends on roles - if it demands you to be glamorous, you be so.”

Check out Kareena on ‘People’ cover and during the photo shoot for the magazine…..

Shilpa Shetty to get a birthday surprise from her husband

Marriage is definitely turning out to be sweet surprises and mushy romance for Shilpa Shetty who is in for a surprise visit from her husband on her birthday on June 8.

An ecstatic Shilpa wrote on her blog: “Glad Raj is back to celebrate my 1st birthday after marriage on the 8th of June. He has instructed my manager to keep 7th, 8th, 9th free to surprise me with a break (Yes, he’s full of surprises! He’s made arrangements for a trip but I have no idea where to… too sweet, all very exciting).”

The actress, at prestn, is being seen on the smaller screena as the judge of the reality show ‘Zara Nachke Dikha’ where the female participants paid tribute to her by performing on the medley of some of her hit numbers.

Shilpa continued on her blog, “The girls performed on a medley of my songs for an act and in similar costumes that I wore in my songs… made me very nostalgic and brought back some beautiful memories that made me a tad bit emotional (don’t know why) in a good way.”

Bollywood stars at IIFA green carpet

Despite controversies and boycotts, the 11th edition of the IIFA Weekend kick started in Sri Lanka with the host country rolling out the red carpet for glamorous Bollywood actors. The ceremony has been boycotted by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce as a mark of protest against the alleged mistreatment of the Tamils in the country. Bollywood biggies like the Bachchans and SRK are also giving the extravaganza a miss. While Big B is currently shooting in Gujarat, Abhishek is in Istanbul for a film shoot and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai is in Paris to promote a brand. SRK is busy with the post production details of his forthcoming ‘Ra 1’.

Stars such a Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha, Lara, Neha, Kangana, Dia, Jacqueline, Riya, Sophie and many more were given a warm welcome by the Lankan fans as they arrived at the Bandarnaike International Airport.

Check out the glittering and dazzling stars as they attend IIFA red carpet on June 5, 2010.