I’m talking to Hrithik for my next film: Vishal Bhardwaj (Interview)

NEW DELHI - He carved a niche for himself in filmdom with non-starrers like “Makdee” and “Maqbool”. But composer filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj now says star presence is extremely important for a film’s box office success and that he is trying to rope in Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan for his next movie.

Eeram Aadhi out of RGVs Raktha Charithra

‘Eeram’ Aadhi was very much gleeful over Ram Gopal Varma offering him to enact the lead role in his upcoming film ‘Raktha Charithra’. But now, he looks disappointed as the filmmaker has eliminated him from the project.

Prince Its Showtime shifted to January 2010

Kumar Taurani’s film Prince– Its Showtime, which was earlier to be released in the second week of December, is now scheduled for release in January 2010. The exact date will be announced shortly.

Vivek Oberoi’s ‘Prince’ pushed to 2010

LONDON - Action thriller “Prince”, which has Vivek Oberoi in the lead, will now be released in January 2010, owing to delays in the post production stage of the movie.

I had cast Amitabh when he was down and out Sanjay Gupta

SANJAY GUPTA tells JYOTHI VENKATESH that though Bipasha Basu was the original choice for the role of Dia Mirza in Acid Factory, Dia will be the surprise packet of the film

Eeram Aadhi in Suryas next with Ram Gopal Varma

This would be an unexpected surprise unlooked by actor Aadhi. The actor made his debut with ‘Mirugam’ and eventually shot to fame with his recent release ‘Eeram’. The film has won him laurels all over and indeed big offers. One amongst them was Ram Gopal Varma who had signed him up for one of his upcoming film.

Shotgun to play NT Rama Rao in Ramus next

Ram Gopal Varma’s Rakta Charitra is making news. The director has roped in Shatrughan Sinha to play NT Rama Rao in the movie after announcing that Vivek Oberoi will play the lead role, based on Paritala Ravindra who had a serious criminal record, but still contested and won elections after getting a ticket from the Telugu Desam Party.

Vivek Oberoi gets serious!

Vivek Oberoi is preparing well for his role in Ram Gopal Varma’s upcoming film, Rakta Charitra, which will have Vivek playing Paritala Ravi. The role requires him to grow his hair and beard. He plans to step out of the house only when his beard is all grown to see if people recognize him. Vivek is so serious about his role that he is planning to meet Naxalites in Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Judging by Ramu and Vivek’s past record, let’s see how well that movie turns out!

I play terror mastermind in ‘Kurbaan’: Om Puri

MUMBAI - Veteran actor Om Puri plays a terrorist who masterminds a massive attack in the US in Rensil d’Silva’s “Kurbaan” and says he has no reservations about playing a ‘jehaadi’ as audiences are mature enough to differentiate between an actor and a film character.

Ash just wants to move on man

Aishwarya Rai is tired of the past that Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi keep digging up. The actress, who is married now, wants to forget her relationships with them, move on and stay happy with her husband, Abhishek Bachchan. But the two gentlemen don’t seem to want to let go so easily.

Vivek Oberoi learnt it the hard way!

Vivek Oberoi is no more a risk taker. He can’t trust people around anymore and does not hold a good opinion about industrywallas. In-fact, he recently accused B-town celebs for the apparent fake attitudes and labeled them to be made of plastic (heartless) and added- industry has more quantity of plastic than the brand Tupperware itself!

Vivek enters Kannada films

Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi is on the brink of making his debut in Kannada films. He will star in cinematographer-director Ashok Kashyap’s film Sihi Muthu. Other details about the film are awaited. Ram Gopal Varma’s Raktha Charitra will also star Vivek.

Ritesh Deshmukh Apologizes: I am sorry to all I hurt

Mumbai / Kolkata, Sept 8 (IBNS) The topic for this Sunday episode of Star Plus’ popular chat show Tere Mere Baech Mein is Socha Na Tha. All the three guests who came on the show hosted by Farah Khan are Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Sreesanth were chosen as all the three had committed mistakes which they never thought would have such a huge impact in their lives and would create some major controversies.

Vivek Oberoi visits ashram, cancer patients on 33rd birthday

MUMBAI - Instead of ringing in his 33rd year with parties, Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi chose to spend his birthday Thursday at an ashram here and with cancer patients, says a source close to the actor.

Akshay To Play Super-Hero