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Tanushree Dutta in another item number
Date: 03/23/2006
The Bengali beauty Tanushree Dutta Tanushree Dutta is all set to perform another item number in her upcoming movie Bhagam Bhaag . This is to follow up on item number in Subhash Ghai’s 36 China Town .

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Rani Mukherjee turns 28th
Date: 03/23/2006
Rani Mukherjee celebrated her 28th birthday on March 21. She is currently on top of Bollywood with her excellent performance Black opposite Amitabh Bachchan . Rani's just finished shooting for Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna in New York. Rani will also be performing a semi-classical dance number at the grand finale of Commonwealth Festival held in Australia. She is trained in Odissi dance and will dance to her film music. Upon her return she will begin to shot Ravi Chopra Babul .
Miss World 1994 Aishwarya Rai will also be performaing at the 15-minute handover at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony with over 800 dancers. The green-eyed Bollywood star will will be joined by popular actor Rani Mukherjee and Saif Ali Khan when the baton is passed to New Delhi for the 2010 Games. Sunidhi Chauhan will be performing one song.

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Bollywood Stars and International Companies
Date: 03/23/2006
International companies are signing Bollywood Stars to market their products to the Indian Market. Recently it was announced that Aishwarya Rai Aishwarya Rai would be in a new Coca-Cola campaign called Thande Ka Tadka which target the younger generation. Other brand ambassadors are Abhishek Bachchan for Ford Motors to introduce Ford Fiesta, Amitabh Bachchan was seeing driving Versa and has already endored ICICI, which now has Shahrukh Khan to endorse NRI banking. Shahrukh Khan has been seeing in Hyundai's Santro and Getz and is also endorsing Himani talcum powder and Hewlett Packard’s Compaq Presario notebooks and desktops. Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee has also been signed by Chevrolet which is launchomg a new car called Aveo. Aamir Khan was endorsing Innova. John Abraham will be seen riding Yamaha or sipping diet cola while endorsing Samsung Mobiles, Fast Track Titan Eyegear and Yamaha Bikes. And has teamed up with Bipasha Basu to sell anti-dandruff shampoo. Even stars children are getting endorsements, like Hema Malini’s daughter Ahana endorsing Kent water purifier. Not to be left behind Udita Goswami is selling plywood and Katrina Kaif. selling diamonds. Hema Malini is endorsing Bank of Rajasthan. Juhi Chawla endorsing Dena Bank. Cricketer Rahul Dravid is the brand ambassador for Bank of Baroda and Max New York Life. Cricketer M S Dhoni is endorsing the Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance ADA Group, also endorsing Pepsi, Reebok, TVS Motors, Orient Fans, Mysore Soaps, British Petroleum and Videocon. Tennis star Sania Mirza endorsing Sprite and Hyundai and also GVK Industries, Sahara, Atlas Cycles, Tata Tea and Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh.

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03/23/2006:
Jennifer Lopez and Eva Longoria to team up for an upcoming movie. Jennifer Lopez has written the script for the comedy movie and is in the progress of persuading Desperate Housewives, Eva Longoria, to star in the movie opposite her.

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Oakland Arena (7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland CA)
Event Date: Saturday, 04/08/2006 At 8:00 PM
Ticket Prices: $28; $45; $75.
Contact Jinder K. Chohan for tickets/sponsorship info at (415)810-7450 or email at Jinder@SpiritOfIndia.com Oakland Arena


Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
Event Date: Sunday, 04/09/2006 At 6:30 PM
Ticket Prices: To Be Provided. Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA


The Arena At Gwinnett Center, Atlanta, GA
Event Date: Friday, 04/14/2006 At 8:30 PM
Ticket Prices: $60, $60-$161, $214-$267 The Arena At Gwinnett Center, Atlanta, GA


Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, The Meadowlands Sports Complex
Event Date: Saturday, 04/15/2006 At 7:00 PM
Ticket Prices: $35, $50, $75, $100, $125, $200
Tickets available at Ticketmaster ticket centers, phones, internet and Arena Box Office. Cash only at Arena Box Office. Continental Airlines Arena


UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL
Event Date: Friday, 04/21/2006 At 8:30 PM
Ticket Prices: US $32.00 - US $47.00, US $57.00 - US $97.00, US $72.00 - US $122.00 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL


Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
Event Date: Saturday, 04/22/2006 At 8:00 PM
Ticket Prices: $35, $45, $55, $75, $125 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY

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03/20/2006:
The Bollywood Heat 2006 Live In Concert features some of the biggest Bollywood stars like Akshay Kumar , Saif Ali Khan , Preity Zinta Sushmita Sen and Celina Jaitley .

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Amitabh Bachchan begins shooting after surgery
Date: 03/20/2006
Amitabh Bachchan has begun to shot for this movies after his surgery. He is currently shooting for Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye). This is the first time the actor has entered the studio since his stomach surgery in Dec 17, 2005. Also in the news is that Sony has acquired the music rights of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna being directed by Karan Johar and stars Amitabh Bachchan , Shahrukh Khan , Rani Mukherjee , Preity Zinta , Abhishek Bachchan and Arjun Rampal .

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Aishwarya is the new brand ambassador for Coca Cola
Date: 03/20/2006
Aishwarya Rai has been signed and will be featured in a new commercial in the lead with a new slogan 'Coca-Cola Thande Ka Tadka' targetted at the youth. The campaign will be in all leading channels from next week

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Vivek opt out of Mani Ratnam’s Guru While Mallika Sherawat opts in
Date: 03/16/2006
Vivek Oberoi recently opted out of Mani Ratnam’s Guru . Vivek was to star opposite Vidya Balan with the lead role being played by Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai . Mallika Sherawat has been signed by Mani Ratnam to play a cameo role in his next venture Guru. Sherawat's soon to be movie is Subhash Ghai's Shaadi Se Pehle , which is directed by Satish Kaushik and stars Akshaye Khanna and Ayesha Takia . Maniratnam will be shooting his movie, Guru, this month in London, Yemen and Peru with Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai and hope to finish the shooting in about 20 days.

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Being Cyrus (2006)
Cast: Saif Ali Khan , Dimple Kapadia
Souten The Other Woman (2006)
Cast: Shakti Kapoor , Mahima Chaudhary

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Umar (2006)
Cast: Jimmy Shergill , Shenaz Treasurywala

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Salman’s Marigold
Date: 03/15/2006
Marigold An Adventure in India is Salman Khan 's first Hollywood movie. It has been ready for a while and is in the process of finalizing the international sales. From the reports it looks like the film will not release until late summer.

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Priyanka and Amisha Get A New Look
Date: 03/06/2006
Priyanka Chopra and Amisha Patel have been given a new look for their role in the movie Aap Ki Khatir currently being shot in London.

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Celina Jaitley Works Through Illness
Date: 03/06/2006
Recently Celina Jaitley was shooting Subhash Ghai's Apna Sapna Money Money when she suddenly suffered from a stomach ailment, but continued to work through the shooting to insure that the producer did not incur any losses. Celina Jaitley will next be seen in a sex comedy of Deepak Tizori's Tom Dick and Harry . Celina plays a pole dancer in this movie.

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Amitabh to play a psychiatrist in Chandramukhi remake
Date: 03/03/2006
Amitabh Bachchan will be playing the role of an psychiatrist in the remake of Chandramukhi . The film will be directed by Telegu filemaker V Naren Aditya.

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Aishwarya Rai Get A Call From The Ministry
Date: 03/02/2006
Aishwarya Rai got a last minute call from the ministry for an invitation for lunch with the visiting US president to India. President Bush requested that he would like to meet the world famous Bollywood movie star Aishwarya but she had left just hours before on a flight to Brazil with co-star Hrithik Roshan to shoot Dhoom 2 .

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Aamir Khan shooting in Portugal
Date: 02/15/2006
Aamir Khan is currently shooting for his Aditya Chopra's Fanaah Fanaah in Portugal, which also stars Kajol .

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Aishwarya Rai's Provoked to be screened at Cannes
Date: 02/07/2006
Aishwarya Rai will make another appearance at the Cannes film festival in May, this time for her role of a woman struggling for dignity in the film Provoked . The film is directed by Jag Mundhra and stars Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews. Ash has also being a jury member at the Cannes and four years ago her film Devdas was screened at the Cannes. The film is produced by Dr. J Murli Manohar, who will have another film, Infinite Justice, also screened at Cannes. Provoked is being distributed by an American company – Lee Daniel's Entertainment which also distributed a Halle Berry starrer, Monster's Ball.

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Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif together in a movie
Date: 02/07/2006
Director Raj Kanwar has announced that he is currently shooting his next film Humko Deewanaa Kar Gaye in Himachal Pradesh's resort Manali with Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. with a expected April 2006 release date. The film is based on a true love story and also stars Bipasha Basu .

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Abhishek celebrates his birthdate with the stars
Date: 02/06/2006
Abhishek Bachchan’s turned a year older and moves closer to being the next superstar. His birthday party was celebrated at Bachchan residence Pratiksha with all the Bollywood stars making an appearances. The guest list included Aishwarya Rai , Rani Mukherjee , Preity Zinta , Urmila Matondkar , Saif Ali Khan , Ajay Devgan to mention a few of the star that came to wish the junior Bachchan the best wishes of the day and a succesfull 2006.

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Preity Zinta turns 32
Date: 02/06/2006
Preity Zinta turned 32 on January 31st and hopes year 2006 bring her great success like her past year. In year 2006 Preity will be seening in Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna , Rakesh Roshan's Krrish and Shirish Kunder's Janeman . Preity Preity hopes that there releases bring her as much success as Dil Se and Kal Ho Naa Ho and Veer Zaara.

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Krrish to release in early summer
Date: 02/06/2006
The release date for Krrish is set for the month of June, much before the other two anticipated movies of 2006, Don and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna . Krrish stars Hrithik Roshan , Priyanka Chopra and Preity Zinta in special appearance.

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