Sunday, February 28, 2010

Priyanka Chopra to do an animation video for Greenathon campaign

The concept of the video goes as Priyanka looks for a solution to a polluted, dry and barren landscape. She finds a green sapling sprouting from the cracked earth and hands the sapling to a little girl who I turn gives it carefree young people. The chain continues and the earth survives.

Last year had been great for Priyanka Chopra and the actress has decided to thank God’s grace by doing her bit for the environment. She is all set to appear in an animated video in order to raise environment consciousness.
The video is a part of the NDTV-Toyota Greenathon campaign and produced by Red Dot Productions, it will inspire people to take action such as saving water and electricity, planting trees and reducing pollution.
Priyanka is very excited about her first animation project and says, “It was the first time I shot for an animated video and I had to imagine everything as I was standing against a chroma screen… We were very sure about the fact that it had to appeal and connect with the audience and not be boring and preachy. The animation has made it visually appealing and interesting.”
The video which is aptly titled “Hawaaein, patte, paani” has been written by Gulzar and composed by musician trio Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy.

Neil Nitin Mukesh to play Priyanka’s one of the seven husbands

Priyanka Chopra is on a high these days with having a spectacular 2009 with quite a few hits and many awards. Though her ‘Pyaar Impossible’ bombed at the box office, its failure did not deter the actress in any way. She is not set to play a unique role in ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’ where she will be seen with seven husbands. While Naseeruddin Shah will be her oldest husband, Neil Nitin Mukesh will play the youngest husband and is apparently quite excited and keen about the role.

He said, “When I heard the script, I was zapped. This was something I had to do. I play one of Priyanka’s husbands, the youngest of the lot. The fact that I get to be in the same film as actors like Naseeruddin Shah and Mohanlalji was incentive enough.”

“I’ve a somewhat crowded date diary this year. I join Abbas-Mustan from June to December for Italian Job,” he added.

Neil has recently shifted to Powai so that he is close to Yash Raj Studios and saves the commuting time owing to heavy traffic.

“The traffic on that side of town is just as bad. It’s excruciating to travel even from Powai to Yash Raj Studios. On Thursday I had a day off and I invited my mom over to do up my new home the way I wanted it,” Neil explains.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Katrina Hot Pairing In The Offing

Kangana Ranaut is gearing up to showcase her next screen avatar with a project that will be directed by Tanvir Khan. The untitled film is said to be a love story which will be bannered under Maverick Productions, produced by Anuj Saxena. Here our slim beauty will be paired up with newcomer Chirag, who is in fact the son of former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

Coming to the juicy part of the khabhar… Ms. Ranaut said to have signed on the doted line for this one, after she demanded a whopping amount of Rs 5 crore. After proving her talent by bagging a National Award for Fashion, Kangana seems to have come in terms with her capability and decided to raise her brand value

Many feel that Kangana has come a long way from the days of her debut film Gangster. And directors have realised her potential and have no qualms in giving her the fee she deserves. Hmmmm, with this Kangana has indeed joined the line of beauties like Kareena and Priyanka who enjoy delicious pay packages

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Vidya, Pratik and Konkona To be a Trio

Sounds strange, eh? But, we tell you, this three might soon be making their rounds together through headlines.

Khabhar hai ki eminent fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee will be soon taking on the camera to venture into his own directorial. And for this, it is heard that, the designer will rope in his close buddy and actress Vidya Balan. It can be recalled that Sabyasachi and Vidya’s dosti developed during the making of ‘Paa’, for which the designer had styled for the actress.

While Pratik Babbar has been signed on, talks are on for pulling in Konkona Sen Sharma as well.

Sharing titbits about the film, sources said that it is going to be an out-and-out romantic comedy and it is based on NRIs. The film will be shot in the locales of London and Punjab. While Sabyasachi is well into the scripting work, he is also looking out for prospective producers.

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