The Shemaroo films are doing the remake of Kishore Da’s superhit ‘Padosan’. Sanjay Dutt will play the role of Kishoreda, Ritiesh Deshmukh Bhola (which was played by late Sunil Dutt), Katrina Kaif Bindu (Saira Bano) while the role of Mehmood’s Master Pillai will be played by Paresh Rawal. The shooting of the film had come to a standstill owing to his court case but the makers are planning to restart it soon.

An a unique experiment, the film is going to maintain the same evergreen songs from the original for the remake. Director Neeraj Vora states, “We will change some tracks so that it won’t look outdated but we will look to re-create melody of that songs.

It is not going to be an easy thing to do but the songs will be mixed and we might add some new songs. It’s too early to comment on these things so let’s see but yes I’m very excited to direct this film as it will have a different flavour of comedy.”

Marriage with Manyata has made Sanjay more of a free bird and he is on a joy ride now, so much so that the actor opted to do his own underwater stunts in Bangkok for his forthcoming ‘Blue’ inspite of a warning from the doctors not to do scuba diving because of his lung condition.

‘Blue’ is mostly shot underwater and as the crew is in Bangkok now, Sanjay Dutt has tried out an innovative way to mix work with pleasure. Reports have it that Dutt has hired a 40-foot luxury boat and has invited all his friends from Los Angeles to Mumbai to chill out with him, including ‘Blue’ co-star Zayed Khan and Sanju’s good friend Apoorva Lakhia . Not to mention the blast the gang is having. They go deep-sea diving, snorkeling, and have barbeque, drinks and music on board.

Well, did we forget to mention that Sanju Baba’s heartthrob Manyata is also there on board?

As Salman’s ‘Dus Ka Dum’ is all setting up to wrap up, it has a lot of guest celebrities in store for its viewers. After Jeetendra and Tushaar Kapoor, Rani Mukherji, Lara Dutta and Rakhi Sawant will be seen sharing the television screen with Salman in the show.

Salman is known to get along very well with his celebrity guests and this was evident with the way Salman was made the studio echoed with laughter and enjoyment as entertained everybody with spotty one-liners. One thing which was very very obvious was Salman’s cold behavior with Lara. He mingled quite well with Rani and Rakhi, but not with Lara Dutta.

In fact, Lara felt completely ignored as Salman gave her a cold shoulder and didn’t even speak to her much. This behavior of Salman has its roots to the time when Lara refused a role in his next ‘Main aur Mrs. Khanna’ on the plea that her role was very short. But then Sallu Mian was shocked when she went ahead and agreed to do a smaller role in Shahrukh’s ‘Billoo Barber’.

Salman made no efforts to hide the cold vibes between himself and Lara. Whether his behavior was justified or not, is up to you to decide.

The premiere of ‘Hijack’, a film revolving around a hijacked plane, took place in Mumbai on September 4. The film made under the banner of Eros international in association with Aliya Motion Magic, is an action thriller revolving around a plane hijacking and an airport officer who lays his life on the line to save the hostages from hijackers.

The story is about Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja) who is a ground maintenance officer at the Chandigarh airport. Vikram’s daughter is traveling with her teacher to a debate contest to Amritsar from Delhi. But a group of terrorists working for a man named Rasheed (KK Raina) hijack that flight. Rasheed is languishing in Indian jails and the terrorists seek his release as ransom. Esha Deol plays the air hostess in the plane.

Esha Deol revealed that she is excited about her role of an airhostess. Shiney Ahuja, the lead actor said that despite being action packed it is a family film.

Bollywood designer Rocky S designed Sarees had a distinct appeal at the start of New York’s Fashion Week as attired by glamour as and sexy Pussycat Dolls. The Models from the pussy cat crew were quite open about their projects in India and had real appreciation for Indian dress and couture. Watch the leading members of the crew dressed up in Sarees.

This is the most a director could do for his wife and that is what ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’ director Abbas Tyrewala is exactly doing for his gorgeous wife Pakhi. She was also the casting director of ‘Jaane Tu….’ But this time she is set to pair out opposite none other than the sexiest Bollywood hunk John Abraham.

Now, the flick is titled ‘1-800-Love’ and interestingly the script has also been written by Pakhi. In fact Abbas compares Pakhi to Sylvester Stallone who wrote ‘Rocky’ and casted himself in the movie. Abbas will start shooting for the movie in a couple of months, but how much the audience will accept the director’s wife as the leading lady in the flick, only time can tell.

The forthcoming comedy ’99- one short of a century’ has a unique combination of Kunal Khemu and Soha Ali Khan. Kunal is playing a young and clever man who wants to hit that century in life and the conflict that he faces to score hundred makes the story. Everyone can identify with him. On the other hand, Soha plays a Delhi girl. Each one (Soha and Kunal) has a pre-conceived notion about the other, which makes the story interesting.

The film also stars Vinod Khanna, Boman Irani, Cyrus Broacha, Mahesh Manjrekar and Simone Singh in pivotal roles.

The film’s title is very strikingly unique and different. Commenting on the title of the film, producer Shastri said, “The film is titled ‘99′ because it is set in the year 1999. Secondly, it also deals with the magical ‘one’ number that turns 99 into hundred.”

The film is budgeted at an whopping Rs.100 million, and will be directed by two America-based Indian directors - Raj Nidimuro and Krishna DK who have earlier directed movies like ‘Shor’ and ‘Flavors’.

Hard Kaur’s known for her wild party antics at all the hottest Bollywood parties and last night she took on the Tommy Hilfiger fashion show in Mumbai.  HK was showing off her brand new “bob” haircut in a strapless black dress.

The all are completely buzzed and desperate to lead ‘Rock On!’ at seventh heaven, yes we are talking about the crew of the movie headed by muscular Arjun Rampal that was hanging out at Fame Cinema hall at Andheri in Mumbai. Spot them from pictures below.

Bollywood actress Poonam Jhawer who herself is known as Poo by her friends haling from a business family and being a daughter of a well know poetess it is natural for her to be creative. Thus she has produced a big film like ‘Aanch’ along with B.L Saboo. She has also played an important role in the movie along with other stars Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Ayesha Jhulka, Introducing Vyajyanti Mala Bali’s son Suchindra Bali, Sharbani Mukherjee, Raghuveer Yadav, Nirmal Pandey, Akhilendra Mishra, Arun Bakshi etc.

Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma along with Yash Chopra recently visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab recently for the success of their forthcoming movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Directed by Aditya Chopra. Film that is in suiting stages expected to do well like other Aditya Chopra movies like DDLG and Mohabbatein. Model-turned-actress Anushka Sharma was lucky to get selected for 100 girls for the female lead role in the movie.

Sushmita Sen was seen along someoneat the launch party of Cornerstone Sports and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai. She herself is one of the clients of the company and that is one of the reason she had her gracious presence at the party along with other celebrities and one who is holding her hand.

Hmmmm… perfectionist as he is, Aamir Khan took a long time in zeroing in for the leading man of his home production ‘Delhi Belly’ and I bet it doesn’t come as a surprise that the lucky boy is none other than Bollywood’s latest heartthrob Imran Khan, given that the boy gave a huge hit to mama Aamir with ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’.

While the rumors have been going around for a long time that Imran had signed the film, it’s only recently that the actor has finally given his nod. And why did Imran take such a long time to give a final yes to ‘Mamu’? It was the very old Bollywood date problem. Apparently, Imran’s dates were booked with Soham’s ‘Luck’ but then the dates of ‘Luck’ got preponed and then Imran could give his dates for ‘Delhi Belly’.

The movie to be directed by noted ad filmmaker Abhinay Deo is a sex comedy where Imran will be seen playing a young foreign returned guy. Way to go, Imran…

Shilpa Shetty is going places these days. Winning the celebrity ‘Big Brother’ gave such a big push to her career that it is reaching higher heights each day. Shilpa has successfully launched her Yoga DVD in India and abroad, she is hosting the second season of ‘Big Boss’, she has recently joined in the ‘Unforgettable Tour’ of the Bachchan and also she is playing a small role in next Hollywood Film JAMES BOND series. Phew! That is indeed something!

About her Hollywood flick, Shilpa Shetty will be playing an Indian woman in the film ‘Quantum Of Science’ starring Daniel Craig and Mathieu Amalric. Check out some pics of Shilpa where she looks gorgeous as ever as she came to promote her Yoga DVD at Radio Mirchi station.

It once again made memories of one reality show fresh where a girl committed suicide after being failed to won the show, in terms, the ugly content and culture they are providing to the audience is proving antisocial and against civilized society. The present blatant example of degraded morals on the reality shows is recent episode of ‘Dadagiri’- the ugliest reality show in India where the host and the contestant both went on to physical attack. Host of the show known as “Esha-the Godess’ was slapped by contestant Ravi Bhatia on some verbal duel. The show which to an extent of 70 percent is improvised exercise and at a point when Esha went out of the witty words and slapped the contestant and in return Ravi Bhatia replied back with slap yelling “How  can she slap?” And made the name of the show exactly true to its meaning ‘Dadagiri.’

This is blazing example of insensitive attitude and profit making mentality of reality show owners even poses question on integrity of celebrities that participate in these reality shows as judges. These types of reality shows either should be banned completely or least there should be some regulation on their content.

Check out video here: Dadagiri

She was at the epitome of her career on the small screen as the hot favourite bahu ‘Bani’ in ‘Kasam Se’ when she said adieu to the smaller screen and took a jump to the bigger screen. And it was not a wrong decision for Prachi Desai after all. Her performance in ‘Rock On’ has received rave reviews and Prachi has already signed her next with Vishesh Films for their next project titled ‘Jashn’, where she is paired opposite Adhyayan Suman.

Chirpy as ever, Prachi confirmed this news saying, “Yes, I am doing Jashn with the Bhatts. I have Adhyayan as my co-star. The film is directed by Raksha and Hasain (who earlier directed The Train).I was signed for this film before Rock On released. I can’t disclose much at this point of time about the film or my role. All I can say is that I am excited to do the film.”

Seems this newbie is here to stay!

As soon as the Kapoor kid Ranbir Kapoor stepped into the industry, there were many producers who were keen on signing the father-son jodi Rishi and Ranbir Kapoor together on the screen, but due to some hesitations it was papa Rishi who held back and never gave the nod.

Finally, Vashu Bhagnani has managed to convince Rishi and so, we now have Ranbir Kapoor all set to star with father Rishi Kapoor in his next film. Though the details of the project have yet to be finalized, the movie is set to roll out early next year and will hit the screens by late 2009.

So, after Deols and the Bachchans, the next would be Kapoors rocking the screens with the father-son chemistry.

Raveena Tandon seems to be enjoying her motherhood completely since the actress does not seem to be in a hurry to make a comeback on the silver screen. However, she is definitely in the limelight on the smaller screen, first as a judge on the kids’ reality show ‘Chak De bachche’ and now she dons the judge’s hat again with the show tilted ‘Chak De Shaher Di Kudiya Gali Ke Goonde’. This is a performance based show which would see young girls from big cities competing against small town boys. Not only the judge, the hosts have also been repeated with the fabulous duo of Manoj Tiwari and Roshni Chopra, who earlier hosted ‘Chak De Bachche’. Giving Raveena company on the judge’s seat would be music director Jodi Salim-Sulaiman and choreographer Sandip Sopparkar. The show airs on 9x channel from Sept 6th.