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Shahid Kapur will play Romeo. Our source says, “Vishal has wanted to adapt Romeo and Juliet for a long time, even before Maqbool and Omkara. Yet he ended up making Maqbool first, then Omkara.” Incidentally, after Omkara, Vishal launched Julia, based on the life of actress Mary Evans, better known as Fearless Nadia, the yesteryear stunt queen. He had even screen-tested German actress Franka Potente for the title role of Julia. The film, however, was shelved. “Vishal and UTV had a fallout over the budget of the film. He had no option but to abandon the film. With Julia being shelved, Vishal has thought of beginning work on Romeo and Juliet once again. Vishal has seen Buz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet starring Leonoardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes, set in modern times. Vishal too plans to set his film in modern times,” the source said. While Shahid Kapur has been roped in to play Romeo, Vishal is yet to zero in on his Juliet. Our source, however, says, “Priyanka Chopra is being considered to play Juliet’s role.”Vishal Bhardwaj was unavailable for comment. Interestingly, there have been 32 adaptations of Romeo and Juliet to date, Buz Luhrmann’s film being the last one.
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Two of Bollywood’s bigger stars – Miss Universe Lara Dutta and box office winner Kunal Kapoor – will be in Auckland this month to teach people how to live without stress – by correcting breathing.
They’ll be here linked to one of India’s leading spiritualists Sri Ravi Shankar whose Art of Living Foundation courses focus on eliminating stress in life.
Kapoor, 32, has a host of movie credits to his name including Rang De Basanti. As well as promoting Art of Living he is known for Goju-Ryu karate.
Dutta won the Miss Universe title in 2000 and has become one of Bollywood’s most recognised stars.
She starred in a comedy Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and is now doing a remake of an
Yet another year and Tarun has made it again, this time with Bollywood jhatkas. When everyone was feeling that second day was dull, it was designer Tarun Tahiliani whose show brought back the energy.
As usual the show was packed with buyers, guests, journos and not to mention our page3 socialites.
Ramp was done all in red with a combination of gold colour. The Bollywood music added that zing to the vibrant décor.
Collection started from wine reds and moved beautifully to greys, blacks to pinks and again to warm and rich reds.
The collection saw lehengas, eveing gowns, full gowns, dresses, cigarette pants with fitted jackets, anarkali suits, elaborately done sarees in colours like pink, charcoal black in combination of grey.
Tarun displayed an exquisite range of sherwanis and jodhpuris for men in bright colours. Ensembles were elaborately accessorised with jadau belts and dresses.
Belts with a digital display were of the interesting things of the show.
India’s top court suspended an arrest warrant Friday against Hollywood star Richard Gere, wanted for allegedly breaking public obscenity laws by kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at a public AIDS awareness event last year, an attorney said.
“Gere is allowed to come and leave. He can’t be arrested,” said Anil Grover, an attorney for Shetty, after attending the Supreme Court proceedings.
Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and Justice R. V. Raveendran indefinitely stayed the arrest warrant issued against Gere last year by a court in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur, Grover told The Associated Press.
Gere embraced and kissed Shetty on her cheek at the public AIDS awareness event in New Delhi on April 15 last year, prompting Hindu hard-liners to allege the pair had offended the sensibilities of India’s traditionally conservative culture.
Hindu activists filed three cases against the pair last year, including one in Jaipur.
The allegations of obscenity against Gere and Shetty have failed to stir wider outrage among Indians, most of whom have responded with utter indifference.
Grover called the cases “frivolous” and “a total misuse of the legal process.”
Shortly after the cases were filed by Hindu activists, Gere apologized for any offense he may have caused. But he also said the whole controversy was manufactured by a small hard-line political party.
Gere, 58, is a frequent visitor to India, promoting health issues and the cause of Tibetan exiles, tens of thousands of whom live in India. His screen credits include “Chicago,” “Pretty Woman” and “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
Shetty, a well-known actress in India, became an international star after her appearance on the British reality show “Celebrity Big Brother.”
There’s more to the Indian film industry than Bollywood, as a special screening in Wales is about to prove. Mike Smith reports
THINK about Indian film and all the glamour, music, dancing and paper-thin plots of Bollywood spring to mind.
But there is another Indian film industry that serves both the vast domestic market and offers its skills to film makers from the West.
And Indian film-makers are also establishing their credentials beyond the Subcontinent with successes such as of Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth and Manoj Night Shyamalan’s Sixth Sense.
On Thursday Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff will be screening Before Midnight – A Portrait of India on Film which offers highlights from the BFI National Archive’s unparalleled collection of films exploring life in India during the early 20th century.
