1. Deepika Padukone Goes Deglam For Majid Majidi’s India-Based Film
Now this is HUGE. Deepika Padukone, in what’s surely going to be one of the great coups of her career, has been signed for her next film by award-winning Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi. Pictures of the Padmavati star doing a look test dressed as a ragpicker in a slum - a far cry from her regular glam avatar - are sending social media into a tizzy.
Casting director Honey Trehan, who has been signed up along with music director AR Rahman, told DNA the yet-untitled film would be set in India and would be shot towards the year-end or early 2017.
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2. Salman Khan To Appear In ‘Judwaa 2’ As ‘Godfather-Gunda’
Even as David Dhawan gears up to roll Judwaa 2starring son Varun Dhawan, word is that Salman Khan, who starred in the first film, would be seen in a cameo appearance in the sequel as ‘godfather-gunda’.
According to a source who spoke to Mumbai Mirror, while the casting for the two heroines opposite Varun is still on, Salman Khan has already agreed to be a part of the film.
It’s a commercial film being planned on a grand scale with beach locations in the Mediterranean. The script is generously peppered with tapori slang and a remix of the chartbuster Tan Tana Tan Tan Tan Tara from the original is in the works. The icing on the cake is that a special appearance is being written for bhaijaan. Salman has already agreed to step in as a ‘godfather-gunda’ to Varun’s twins.Source
3. ‘Just Go To Hell Dil’: Alia’s Angsty Breakup Song Hits The Heart
After Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’s peppy Breakup Song, here’s one from Gauri Shinde’s next Dear Zindagi, and this one is everything that heartbreak really feels like. Alia Bhatt makes pain look and feel real. This new mellow number from the Shah Rukh-Alia starrer nails that post breakup feeling, when all you want to tell your heart is - ‘just go to hell dil’.
Dear Zindagi hits theatres on 25 November.
4. Deepika to Play Host When Vin Diesel Visits India For the Release of 'xXx'
A rather misguided section of the American press may feel Deepika Padukone to be a “Bollywood Blunder”. But the Bajirao beauty has certainly made an impression on her xXx co-star Vin Diesel.
Diesel, we hear, is now heavily into Bollywood, India and Indian spirituality. For Diwali, he recorded a Diwali message in Hindi with Deepika for his Indian fans.
And now she has convinced her superstar co-star to come to India for the Indian premiere of xXx: Return Of Xander Cage when it opens in January 2017.
Viacom 18, the massive corporate production house which has produced the film plan an enormous Indian welcome for Diesel.
Deepika will be Vin Diesel’s unofficial host during his Indian visit, just as Anil Kapoor hosted Tom Cruise when the latter came to India for Mission Impossible.Source
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5. Sonakshi Hopes the Demonetisation Will Stop Illegal Activities
Were you stumped by the Prime Minister’s surprise announcement regarding the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes? So were Sonakshi Sinha and John Abraham, both the actors welcomed the move and didn’t think it would affect the ticket sales of their upcoming film Force 2.
Right now we need to look at the bigger picture. It is for a good cause which is to drag out all the black money and stop illegal activities from happening because of cash transactions. For such a big picture if we have to face a little problem temporarily, we will have to because it is for the betterment of everyone at the end of the day.Sonakshi Sinha, Actor
John does not see any problem in the way people would show up to watch the film as feels that the inconvenience wouldn’t last long enough to trouble anyone. Well, we hope so too.
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