Bollywood Gossip

It was a touching moment for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan this Saturday when she was awarded with the Teacher`s People Achiever Award on Saturday at Hotel Taj Lands End and since the day happened to be her father’s birthday, she dedicated the award to her father Krishnaraj Rai.

“Mine was people`s choice award and that`s always special for me. It really reflects what I always said, that my greatest strength and inspiring force has been the audience, my fans world over, that`s what makes it particularly special,” Rai told adding, “Today is my father`s birthday, so I dedicate this award to my dad.”

Other actors to receive the honors were Ranbir Kapoor for Teacher’s Achievement Award for Entertainment, Boman Irani as the achiever of the decade award while actress Shabana Azmi with the lifetime achievement award at the 10th edition of the Teacher`s Achievement Awards. Instituted in 2001, the awards are organised by liquor company Beam Global Spirits and Wine, owner of the Teacher`s brand.

Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor are rivals as both of them entered the industry at the same time. However, when they both appeared together on ‘Koffee With Karan, the two got along like a house on fire revealing their secrets. Both of them confessed that they found married men hot and sexy. The two actresses named who according to them makes the hottest married man in town. While Deepika Padukone named Arjun Rampal, Sonam opted for Farhan Akhtar. Deepika revealed that she’s had a secret crush on Arjun ever since she was in college.

While Deepika looked red hot in her gown, Sonam looked dazzling in her golden dress. Check out the two ladies on the 3rd season of ‘Koffee With Karan’.

Chetan Bhagat’s novels have already been made into successful movies earlier with like Hello (”One Night At The Call Centre”) and 3 Idiots (”5 Point Someone”). However, Bhagat was not so keen into personal involvement in both these flicks but since Siddhartha Anand’s ‘2 States’, a film adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s book, based on his own real-life experience, of a Punjabi boy who wants to marry his Tamil sweetheart but only with the consent of both their parents, is closer to his heart, he is taking keen interest in the film.

Saif Ali Khan has been chosen to play the lead and the actor plans to spend time with Chetan Bhagat to understand his character, Krish, and get into Krish’s mind. Says Bhagat on the film, “It is not important for Krish to be played by a Punjabi or Ananya to be played by a Tamilian. I’m aware Saif is not a Punjabi. To me that serves the story’s purpose even better. The whole idea of 2 States is to convey a pan-India appeal. The novel is about an inter-state union. What better way to show this than to have a non-Punjabi actor playing my Punjabi protagonist?”

Bhagat admits that 2 States is his most personal novel to date and the screen adaptation most precious to him. “Like Krish in my novel I fell in love with a Tamil girl and we decided to marry only with the parents’ consent. In the film Ek Duuje Ke Liye when the Tamil boy decides to marry the Punjabi girl, their parents slap and beat up their respective offsprings. Aaj ke din kaun bachche maar khayenge? (Which children will submit to that today?) So you could say 2 States is like Ek Duuje Ke Liye meeting Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,” he says.

King Khan of Bollywood has been ‘crowned’ as India’s Sexiest Dad, by the OK magazine.

Well, before I go in detail about it, I must tell you that all the pictures in this mag are nothing short of a sheer visual treat!
In the inner pages, you will find SRK confessing, “I would love to have more children.”
He goes on to say “My son has learnt how to edit and my daughter loves to act, so I try to make films all the time.”
When asked as to who’s a stricter parent between him and Gauri, he says “Gauri is. I think I am strict too, but Gauri thinks that I am very lenient.”

Bollywood actress Gul Panag experienced sumthing very horrible recently. Thanks to the Delhi Marathon 2010, which took place on Sunday, 21st November.

At the event, Gul was one among the participants. she was groped by the men standing at the starting point. They took advantage of the crowd to feel her up and the actress was obviously quite taken aback by the whole indecent act.
Since there was pushing and shoving going on, Gul couldn’t spot exactly who the gropers were.

“It’s the women-in-crowded-place syndrome and typical of Delhi – grope,” Gul is quoted as saying by a tabloid.

Inspite of all this, Gul didn’t back out of the event and completed the marathon in 2 hours 20 minutes. She also did not file any police complaint since she had no idea who had misbehaved with her.

Gul said she has participated in other marathons as well, but this has happened to her for the first time, that too in Delhi.

Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and now, yet another newbie and a youthful vivacious maiden falls on Akshay’s laps!

After a huge success of the movie ‘Dabangg’ actress Sonakshi Sinha is being considered for Shirish Kunder’s 3D film, Joker, opposite Akshay Kumar.

Shirish Kunder tweeted: “Its finally official. Sonakshi is the heroine opposite Akshay in JOKER.”

Sonakshi is naturally elated and content with the way her career is shaping up. Besides ‘Joker’, she has also signed ‘Kick’ that would again team her up with her mentor cum Dabangg co-star Salman Khan.

Salman Khan was present at the special screening of Guzaarish. He attended it not because of Aish but for good friend Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He not only attended the screening, but also invited a lot of people to the event.

Buzz is that Bhansali, who is very fond of Salman, willingly sent the actor a print of Guzaarish. He wanted to know what Salman thought of the film.

Besides the entire Khan family, a lot of people from the industry were also spotted at the movie’s screening.

Though Salman is reported to have liked the movie a lot, he’s avoiding to make a statement in the media because of Ash’s association with the film that stars Hrithik Roshan in the lead role.

Bollywood beauty, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, was honoured with Teacher’s People Achiever Award at the 10th edition of the awards in Mumbai over the weekend.

Ash dedicated it to her father, Krishnaraj Rai.
“Today is my father’s birthday, so I dedicate this award to my dad,”Rai told reporters after receiving the award at Hotel Taj Lands End.

She went on to add, “Mine was people’s choice award and that’s always special for me. It really reflects what I always said, that my greatest strength and inspiring force has been the audience, my fans world over, that’s what makes it particularly special,”

The Teacher’s Achievement Awards were instituted in 2001, and reward individual excellence in diverse fields under the categories of business, communications, sports, entertainment and lifetime achievement.

We love when Bollywood focuses on charity work and Rani Mukherjee did just that on Thursday as she handed the coveted award to the Dalai Lama in honor of his work to promote human rights in Tiber and elsewhere, as well as inter-religious dialogue.

This is not the first time the Dalai Lama rubs elbows with Hollywood or Bollywood celebrities. Earlier in January, Richard Gere’s spirituality took him to India where he prayed with fellow Buddhists alongside the Tibetan spiritual leader.