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Genelia D”souza has never believed in coincidence. She’s fine even if the spot light isn’t on her as long as she gets the scope to perform. After conquering Tamil and Telugu industries she has entered Kannada industry too. Her latest hit with Shivraj Kumar Satya In love is a super hit. Genelia has got 2 new movies one with Aamir Khan and the other Priyadarshan’s movie opposite Akshay Khanna lined up.

Ok guys, here’s the latest update on the cold war brewing up between Chopras and Akshay Kumar.It all started with Akshay getting upset with Aditya Chopra, the producer of Tashan for not giving in to his demand and airing his sols promos. And now we hear Akshay has even refused to support the tie up between the Tashan team and the recently organized cricket match by Mukesh Ambani. ‘The entire star cast of the film right from Anil Kapok, Said Ali Khan and Kareena came but Akshay didn’t since he had a tie up with a rival group.’ Says a friend of the Chopras.And we hear that as a result Chopras decided to hit back by not signing him for any of their future films.

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43 degrees in Delhi where Manoj Bajpai was shooting for Jugaad did nothing to the star who was as cool as a cucumber. When asked what went wrong with the career of a National Award winner, he smiled and said ‘I was confined to my house for almost a year’ due to shoulder injury after which he had an eye infection. ‘I have to put my surgery on hold till I complete my impending projects’ says the professional, whose character Bhiku Maatre has been etched in the history of Bollywood forever. Once on the cover of every magazine now one hardly gets to read about him.

The year 2007 has not been favorable to him as most of his films got shelved. ‘Two of my English films also didn’t see the light of the day. 1971 and Swami which were ready in 2007 finally got released on 2008.’says the actor who is now doing Sanddeep Kapur’s Jugaad and Ganesh Acharya’s Money Hai Toh Honey Hai.While Jugad is based on the life of producer Sanddeep Kapur, Money Hai .. sees him sharing screen space with Govinda another brilliant actor who ,made a super comeback.

Film maker Nageesh Kukunoor hates hard selling his films but today you can’t make a film and leave it at that. ‘Selling is an unavoidable part though it is a huge distraction and takes away most of my time’ he quips, even though he continues to sell his films. ‘Having called it both unavoidable and horrible, I put on a mental cap during the time I have to sell my films. I don’t like it and don’t endorse the concept even in my personal life I don’t sell anything to anybody’ he says.

But in the midst of all this what makes him happy? ‘ That I can make my kind of movies’ says the director who did a years research on Bollywood before concluding that he couldn’t make films that would work in here. ‘A film maker can’t change his or her style. I can’t wake up one fine morning and make a film like Karan Johar.My instincts are my instincts. Yes one only gets smarter and works towards getting more attention that’s all.’ he quotes. He has worked with John Abraham in No Smoking and Aashayein and is currently working with Akshay in Eight By Ten.

Guess what the Big B’s latest obsession is? Playing online games. He says this is something he loves and enjoys doing with his grand children and is busy learning new tricks and games with his competitors being a bunch of kids who love to play with their Boothnath. ‘I’m glad I got to play with kids and am looking forward to play with them. But off late it’s the Big B’s turn to turn his wrath on Union Health Minister A. Ramadoss who recently commented about film actors being shown consuming liquor on the screen. After Sharmila Tagore, is was the Big B’s suggestion that the minister should back his bark by law to banish drinking scenes from films, whose portrayal of the drunk is part of the industry legend.

Though not aggressive sounding, Bach Chan’s blog fully brings out his resentment at the health minister trying to foist a to-do code on the country. ‘First smoking and then drinking’ he took a dig at the generous funds the government gets from the powerful liquor lobby. The sarcasm gets fully evident when the ‘angry young man’ of yore says politicians are also engaged in acting to get votes to enter the Parliament. He adds ‘we fake it on the screen, diluted tea, honeyed water, aerated drink, soda water, to match the color of champagne. I applaud your concern and your choice of your example in dear friend and colleague Rajnikanth, but Honored Sir, could we perhaps dare to inquire whether you have considered first to ban this dreaded habit from all government servants’ Bachchan signs off.

The British Government has launched a bid in order to prevent Rapper Snoop Dogg from entering the country- after a judge over turned two previous attempts to ban him from UK. The star whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr.was probhibited from entering Britain after he was involved in a brawl at the Heathrow airport in April 2006.

The ruling was overturned earlier this year and Britian’s Border Agency had a subsequent appeal against the ruling turned down by an immigration judge last month. However the British Home Office has now filed a second appeal to challenge the decision, putting the star’s proposed UK tour later this year into jeopardy; and a spokesman of the agency insists ‘we will continue to oppose the entry into UK of individuals where we believe there may be a risk to the public’.