With three films under her belt, Anjana Sukhani is hardly a newcomer to Bollywood. But with her fourth release Salaam-e-Ishq, the pretty actor hopes to get noticed. And a hot onscreen kiss with Anil Kapoor is going to make sure that audiences won't miss this live-wire in the multi-starrer melee. "It's just a peck on the lips. People are making a big deal out of it," asserts Sukhani, who plays a Bollywood dancer. Fame comes to those who kiss and tell, eh?
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Ameira Punvani just got "two days to do four decades of research" when she met filmmaker Mani Ratnam to design costumes for the principal leads of his opus Guru. "I used my grandfather's clothes and photographs from family friends as reference," says the 28-year-old who has a fashion label Shunya. Having designed for Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai and with films like Zinda, Benaras and Bunty Aur Babli in her kitty, Punwani is fast becoming a force to reckon with.
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This is the other Gandhigiri movie India is yet to see but the world has acknowledged with an Oscar nomination. Water, the Hindi movie that Toronto-based Deepa Mehta almost did not get to make, is in the running for Best Foreign Film. Delhi's very own Mehta, who heard the announcement live from Beverly Hills, cracked open a bottle of champagne and cheered. The hard work begins now.
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Ab Tak Chhappan was loosely based on his life. And now Daya Nayak has found yet another Bollywood connection. The cop has trained actor Randeep Hooda for his role as a police official in the film Risk. "Randeep would come and sit with me at the police station once or twice a week," says Nayak. But Hooda didn't just learn how to pull the trigger from Nayak. He observed how constables and officers spoke and how they dressed. "I also taught him to salute properly, and every time he'd come to the station he'd salute me," says Nayak. An officer and a gentleman. .
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