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Off Again, On Again
Date: 06/28/2006
It was reported a couple of months ago that Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan were no longer going out together but recently the two made a couple of public appearances together in Chennai where they are shooting for Mani Ratnam's Guru . They were seen together at the cancer ward of a local hospital where they spent time with the children. They were also spotted together in a cinemas in Chennai, where they watched Mission Impossible 3 and X-Men III back-to-back. The couple were also spotted partying at a nightclub and dancing to their hit song from Bunty Aur Babli , Kajra Re.

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Urmila in Ramu's Badla
Date: 06/28/2006
Rangeela girl Urmila Matondkar has been confirmed by Ram Gopal Varma to star in his next film Badla , which he plans to start shooting before undertaking his remake of Sholay . Urmila Matondkar has also been assigned to play an item number in the remake of Sholay . Rumors have it that Ramu has assigned Urmila Matondkar to play the character of Helen who danced in the original Sholay on the song Mehbooba O Mehbooba… which will be sung by Himesh Reshammiya .

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2006 IIFA Award Winners
Date: 06/21/2006
Best Picture: Black
Direction: Sanjay Leela Bhansali : Black
Performance in a Leading Role (Male): Amitabh Bachchan : Black
Performance in a Leading Role (Female): Rani Mukherjee : Black
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male): Abhishek Bachchan : Sarkar
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female): Ayesha Kapoor: Black
Performance in a Comic Role: Javed Jaffery: Salaam Namaste
Performance in a Negative Role: Nana Patekar: Bluffmaster
Music Direction: Shankar Ehsaan Loy: Bunty Aur Babli
Best Story: Nagesh Kukunoor: Iqbal
Lyrics: Gulzar: Kajra Re
Playback Singer (Male): Himesh Reshammiya : Aashiq Banaya Aapne: Aashiq Banaya Aapne
Playback Singer (Female): Alisha Chinai: Kajra Re

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Bollywood, Hollywood, Cinema, Forthcoming, 2006:
Rocky The Rebel (2006) Cast: Zayed Khan , Minissha Lamba	Pyaar Ke Side Effects (2006) Cast: Rahul Bose , Mallika Sherawat
Apne (2006) Cast: Sunny Deol , Shilpa Shetty	Partner (2006) Cast: Salman Khan , Lara Dutta
Dil Diya Hai (2006) Cast: Emran Hashmi , Ashmit Patel	Karma Confessions and Holi (2006) Cast: Sushmita Sen
The Namesake (2006) Cast: Kal Penn , Tabu	London Dreams (2007) Cast: Ajay Devgan , Urmila Matondkar
The Killer (2006) Cast: Emraan Hashmi , Nisha Kothari	Benaam (2006) Cast: Ajay Devgan , Bhoomika Chawla

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06/26/2006
Hrithik Roshan to make a guest appearance in the first home production of Arjun Rampal titled I See You . The movie will be directed Vivek Agarwal and will be shot in London.

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Krrish To Be Released On June 23, 2006
Date: 06/21/2006
The follow on to Rakesh Roshan's Koi... Mil Gaya, Krrish will be release world wide this weekend. The film marks the return of Hrithik Roshan with his dad Rakesh Roshan. The film also stars Priyanka Chopra and the music is provided by music composer Rajesh Roshan, brother of Rakesh Roshan. The film was premiered in Singapore Tuesday, where most of the shooting was also done. Will this mark Bollywood entrance into film that have heroes like Superman or Spiderman ? Priyanka Chopra is playing the role of a STAR News journalist. Naseeruddin Shah will be seen in a negative role in the sci-fi thriller.

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06/19/2006
Minissha Lamba will be seen opposite Arsha Warsi in Anthony Kaun Hai . She made her filmi career debut Yahaan last year.

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06/16/2006
International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) event has officially begun in Dubai from 14 June and will continue till 17 June. IIFA awards which are deemed as the Indian equivalent of Oscars will showcase 32 Indian feature films including sixteen Hindi films, fourteen south Indian films, one Bengali, one Marathi and six short films. The IIFA awards were started back in 2000 and it was first held in London. Since then it has been held twice in South Africa and once in Malaysia, Singapore and the Netherlands and now in Dubai.

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06/14/2006
Neha Dhupia has been signed by Rajat Kapoor’s for his upcoming film titled Mithiya to play opposite Naseeruddin Shah. Neha Dhupia will play the role of a mole for a gangster in the film. Neha Dhupia has also been signed by Apoorva Lakhia’s as a replacement for Urmila Matondkar role in Shootout At Lokhandwala to play Sanjay Dutt ’s wife in the movie. Sanjay Gupta has also signed Neha Dhupia for Dus Kahaniyan .

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06/12/2006
Mallika Sherawat to be in a movie with Rahul Bose. She will be playing a role of a strong, sensuous and independent woman in a romantic comedy called Pyaar Ke Side Effects . Rumors have it that Sophie Choudhary will be performaing an item number in the movie.

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06/12/2006
Priyanka Chopra will play a role of a singer in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s London Dreams which is scheduled to release in 2007. Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan are in the lead and music is composed by A.R. Rehman.

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06/11/2006
Indian animation filmmaker Gitanjali Rao's Printed Rainbow bagged three awards at the International Critics week, a day before Cannes came to a close. Her 15-minute long animation film Printed Rainbow got standing ovations at all the seven screenings.

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06/11/2006
Celina Jaitley is currently busy shooting for of Vikram Bhatt's Red. She was busy the last two months with her overseas Heat World Tour. She has been given a role of a lifetime in the movie.

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Sushmita Sen in Karma, Confessions and Holi
Date: 06/18/2006
Sushmita Sen will next been seen in Karma, Confessions and Holi . Karma, Confessions and Holi happens to be the first Bollywood and Hollywood joint production with mainstream stars from both the film industry. Sushmita Sen , Randeep Hooda, Deepal Shaw and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi represent Bollywood while Drena De Niro world renowned supermodel and actress Naomi Campbell represent Hollywood . The movie will also feature a steamy shower scene between Sushmita Sen and Randeep Hooda follows with a smooches. This will mark the first kissing scene for Sushmita Sen , the other was with Anuj Sahney in Chingari , but was later edited out. The movie's format reminds of Mira Nair's internationally acclaimed Monsoon Wedding with different stories of different people converge together on a marriage setting.

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Aishwarya Rai Leaves Her Handprint
Date: 06/15/2006
Aishwarya Rai became the first Bollywood star to leave her handprint on the Dubai Studio City's Hall of Fame during the film festival this year. Remember last year she was honoured with a Tulip named after her in Amsterdam. She has being called the most beautiful woman in the world with more than 17,000 websites dedicated to her name.

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Sonali Bendre Signed by Marico For Baby Products
Date: 06/13/2006
Sonali Bendre has been signed by Marico to endorse their baby products under the brand name Sparsh. This would mark a comeback into the limelight after her marriage to filmmaker Goldie Behl and taking care of their ten month old baby boy named Ranbeer.

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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Will Be Launch at I.I.F.A.
Date: 06/09/2006
The music for the most awaited movie of the year, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (KANK) , will be launched at the I.I.F.A. weekend, on June 16. Karan along with Amitabh Bachchan , Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee will be present to launch the music. Rani Mukherjee is also in the news since she recently signed up as the brand ambassador for Titan Raga, a watch brand which is designed and crafted exclusively for women.

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06/09/2006
Madhuri Dixit , the Dhak Dhak girl, who currently resides in US with her husband, NRI Dr Nene, and her two children was recently honored on her birthday with a calendar providing her glimpses.

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06/08/2006
Bollywood comes out to help social causes. The stars from the film industry recently showed their support for AIDS awareness program by launching a music album Haath Se Haath Milaa, named after the awareness program. With music from Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy and lyrics are by Javed Akhtar. The songs are sung by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal and features 50 Bollywood stars and TV actors including John Abraham , Bipasha Basu , Shilpa Shetty , Fardeen Khan, Tabu and Lara Dutta .

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06/08/2006
Lisa Ray may play a lesbian character in Can’t Think Straight being directed by Shamim Sarif. Other films that have tackeled controversial themes are Girlfriend and My Brother Nikhil.

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06/08/2006
Desi version of Sesame Street ropes in Bollywood stars like Amjad Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Sivamani, Neha Dhupia and Daler Mehndi. The Indian version will be named Galli Galli Sim Sim and have four lovable muppets, named Chamki, Aanchoo, Googly and Boombah. The show will be shown on Cartoon Network and POGO.

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Priyanka Chopra and Akshaye Khanna In Aap Ki Khatir
Date: 06/05/2006
Priyanka Chopra and Akshaye Khanna will be seen in Aap Ki Khatir being directed by Dharmesh Darshan. The film is currently in post production and is scheduled for release in the next 2 months. This will mark the first time Priyanka Chopra and Akshaye Khanna has starred in a movie together and the rumors have it that they have a great sizzling chemistry on screen. Other stars include Amisha Patel , Dino Morea , Suniel Shetty and Anupam Kher and the music is being provided by the hottest music director Himesh Reshammiya .

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Bipasha Basu To In Double Role
Date: 06/05/2006
Bipasha Basu for first time in her career will be playing double role in the Abbas-Mustan’s next untitled currently being shot in London. The comedy film also stars Ajay Devgan and Sanjay Dutt .

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Amitabh Bachchan finishes shooting for Nishabd
Date: 06/01/2006
Amitabh Bachchan has just finished shooting for Ram Gopal Varma's Nishabd with Revathy, Rukhsar, Jiah Khan and Aftab Shivdasani. The film is scheduled for a September release. Amitabh Bachchan will also be starring in Balakrishnan's Chini Kum opposite Tabu . The movie has Amitabh Bachchan flirting with a much younger Tabu . The movie will be shot in London, Delhi and Mumbai.

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06/07/2006
Sameera Reddy will become the first Indian actress to be featured in a video game. Sameera will be shown as a warrior princess who fights savage warriors in a game designed for mobile phones. The game resolves around ancient Indian city where she fights the tribes trying to attack her father’s kingdom, which may lead Sameera to become the Indian Lara Croft.

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06/05/2006
Fanaah to be now seen in Gujarat. After making big headlines for the past month Fanaah now will be allowed to be shown in Gujarat as ordered by the Supreme Court.

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06/05/2006
Abhishek Bachchan will endorse Motorola in India. He was officially declared as the Motostar for Motorola cell phones. He has also endorsed Ford Fiesta and LG in the past and is currently shooting for Mani Ratnam’s Guru . His next big release include Dhoom 2 , Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK) and Umrao Jaan .

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06/02/2006
Bollywood stars and their pets. Shahrukh Khan has 2 dogs named Chewbecca and Rebecca. Salman Khan has two French mastiffs, Myson and Myjaan. Arjun Rampal dogs are named Tyson and Demi. Bipasha Basu has dogs named Chihuahua, Poshto. Aishwarya Rai has a huge female dog boxer named Sunshine. Hrithik Roshan who has a cat named Pearl. Sameera Reddy has turtles as pets.

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Movie Releasing June 09, 2006:

Chup Chup Ke (2006) Cast: Shahid Kapoor , Kareena Kapoor Phir Hera Pheri (2006) Cast: Akshay Kumar , Bipasha Basu

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