Pakistani Hero Col.Sher Khan Honored by Indian Army

Theme retro: Farah's TEES MAAR KHAN gets hotter!

Although most women directors (barring a few) in Bollywood have failed to make much of a mark, one name that has stood tall is undoubtedly that of choreographer turned director Farah Khan. Her only two films as director, both starring Shah Rukh Khan, MAIN HOON NA and OM SHANTI OM, have turned out to be super duper hits. So, naturally her next, this time with 'Khiladi' Akshay Kumar and numero-uno actress Katrina Kaif too is being rated very high by the trade and the audience alike, and is awaiting it's Christmas release eagerly.



The film is getting hot and hotter with each passing day. And the news that Farah Khan is going retro(via the much talked about Katrina's "Sheela Ki Jawani" item number) is another plus because when it comes to a cinematic representation of Bollywood of the 70's nobody knows it better than her.

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Even though retro has become a fashion statement in today's times and makers like Vipul Shah with ACTION REPLAYY and Milan Luthria's ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI are making it the USP of their films, director Farah Khan did it years ago via MAIN HOON NA. Who can forget the superbly crafted rickshaw chase sequence (a tribute to the Basanti-Dhanno tonga chase of SHOLAY) in MHN. Her second film, OM SHANTI OM, too was a wholesome entertainer which was a hilarious but stunning summation of the seventies and a tribute to Subhash Ghai's reincarnation revenge drama, KARZ and Dilip Kumar's MADHUMATI. In fact in one of it's light scenes there was a Sooraj Barjatya look-alike who was jotting down ideas to implement it in his film, like "Dosti mein sorry-thank you nahin hota hai" (MAINE PYAAR KIYA)!

Well, we have enough reasons to believe that TEES MAAR KHAN will be another treat for the lovers ofBollywood who are still nostalgic about the bygone era!

Karan Johar delays DOSTANA 2

The sequel to the hit film DOSTANA titled DOSTANA 2 has run into trouble. Apparently, creative differences between the director and the producer are delaying this project.

It's learnt that Karan Johar is unhappy with the way the story of DOSTANA 2 has shaped up. He wants changes in the script which the director is not ready to do.

Keeping this in mind, Karan Johar has postponed the shoot of the film till the changes are made and the script gets okayed by him.

DOSTANA 2 has been getting delayed for one or the other reason constantly. Now, the creative differences seem to have stalled the shoot. Hope the producer and the director sort their differences soon.

Kareena Kapoor is numero uno again!

Sitting cozily on her number one position, Kareena Kapoor makes it to the Filmfare Power List 2009. Taking into account the ability to bankroll projects, pack in theatres and be seen and heard on mediums, the magazine drew out their list of Bollywood's most powerful.




Her strong presence on the male dominated list for two consecutive years in a row proves yet again that she is Bollywood's Czarina. Moving two places higher on the list this year Kareena Kapoor made it to the 8th spot from the 10th spot she occupied in 2008.

Brand Bebo has much reason to celebrate this year as she was also titled "Best Ambassador", crowned highest paid actress and bagged the most brand endorsements. She was also the sole Indian ambassador for the international leg of the Global Campaign for education - 1Goal.


Says a trade analyst, "Only the best feature in the list and its Kareena's sheer talent, beauty and hard work that got her here. She is reigning steady and has featured on power lists for 2 consecutive years. In the year 2009 she worked with all the Khans of the industry as well as Akshay Kumar. She's the only actress to have had that honor."

Slowly but steadily changing the dynamics of a Bollywood's male dominated industry the celebrated fashionista and leading actress Kareena Kapoor is taking the business by storm.

New logo for KBC with Rupee symbol

Neha Dhupia goes nude for Go Green Calendar Shoot

Here is the latest Calendar photo shoot from India Shot by Jatin Kampani, it has the Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia make a green statement through the elements of nature. This is part of a Go Green initiative launched by Franchise India Holdings Ltd, an integrated franchise solution company.

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Heart Breaking Decade In Pictures

A hearth breaking decade. Few captured moments from history will never forgotten for centuries.

A Kenyan boy screams as he sees Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 Jan. 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protesters. (Walter Astrada, AFP / Getty Images)

A hijacked commercial plane approaches the World Trade Center shortly before crashing into the landmark skyscraper 11 Sept. 2001 in New York. (Seth McAlisster, AFP / Getty Images)

A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (Richard Drew, AP)

Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. A Japanese businessman took this photo from inside another plane while he was on a business trip and offered it to a Japanese newspaper after returning home. (Toshihiko Sato, AP)

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is seen in this picture sent to news media organizations by his kidnappers. Pearl, a 38-year-old American, was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan Jan. 23, 2002 by a group calling itself "The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty." U.S. President George W. Bush said Feb. 1, 2002 that his administration will follow all leads that may lead to the Pearl's rescue. (CNN, Getty Images)

Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Feb. 1, 2003. Pieces of the shuttle were scattered over East Texas with some debris falling in downtown Nacogdoches, Texas. Columbia disintegrated 39 miles over Texas as it returned from a 16-day mission. (Dr. Scott Lieberman, AP)

An Iraqi man, bottom right, looks at Cpl. Edward Chin, of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Bagdhad, April 9, 2003. Moments later the American flag was removed. (Jerome Delay, AP)

Pfc. Lynndie England holds a leash attached to a detainee in late 2003 at the Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)

Abu Gharib Jail in Iraq & US forces

An Iraqi prisoner of war conforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, in this March 31, 2003 photo. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son and the U.S. military did not want to separate father and son. (Jean-Marc Bouju, AP)

US President George W. Bush meets pilots and crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as they return to the US after being deployed in the Gulf region 01 May 2003. (Hector Mata, AFP / Getty Images)

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is being dragged out of his hiding following his capture by US troops 13 Dec. 2003 in an underground hole at a farm in the village of ad-Dawr, near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq. The picture is one of a series of images of the deposed dictator unauthorized for release by the US army that has been circulating in recent days on the internet. (AFP / Getty Images)

Children attend ballet lessons wearing masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, in Hong Kong, April 27, 2003. (Vincent Yu, AP)

Members of the military honor guard stand on duty by the casket of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, June 10, 2004 in Washington, DC. (Stephan Savoia, AP)

Local girls look at a U.N. workers unloading ballot kits from a U.N. helicopter in Ghumaipayan Mahnow village, some 256 miles northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 4, 2004. By air is the only way to deliver the electoral material in the inaccessible areas of the Badakhshan province. (Emilio Morenatti, AP)

A 9-year-old Iraqi girl recovers from a skull fracture and two broken legs in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004, as hospital staff x-ray a Marine injured in Fallujah in the background. A U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicle crashed into her family's car, according to her parents. The hospital is considered the busiest American combat trauma hospital in the world. (John Moore, AP)

An Iraqi man celebrates atop a burning U.S. Army Humvee in the northern part of Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2004. An explosion leveled a building in northern Baghdad, setting four U.S. Humvees nearby on fire. At least one U.S. soldier and several Iraqis were wounded. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. (Muhammed Muheisen, AP)

World Press Photo of the year 2004 by Indian photographer Arko Datta of the Reuters news agency showing an Indian woman in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, Dec. 28, 2004, mourning the death of a relative who was killed in the Asian tsunami catastrophe. (Arko Datta, Reuters / AP)

Bodies of adults and children lie in mass grave near Wat Bang Muang, Jan. 7, 2005, in Takuapa, Thailand. More than 5,000 people are listed dead in Thailand following a massive tsunami that struck the popular tourist area in southern Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004. (David Longstreath, AP)

From left, US President George W. Bush, his wife Laura, his father former US President George H.W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, kneel by the body of late Pope John Paul II inside St. Peter's Baslica, at the Vatican, April 6, 2005. (Danilo Schiavella, AP)

Paul Dadge, right, helps injured tube passenger Davinia Turrell away from Edgware Road tube station in London following an explosion, July 7, 2005. A series of deadly explosions in London claimed 52 lives and injured hundreds of others. The woman wears a special dressing for the treatment of burns. The dressing is coated with a special gel which is designed to prevent infection and reduce skin temperature from the burn. (Jane Mingay, AP)

The body of a victim of Hurricane Katrina floats in flood-waters in New Orleans 01 Sept., 2005. (James Nielsen, AFP / Getty Images)

A British soldier makes his way out of a burning Warrior fighting vehicle in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Sept. 19, 2005. British forces and demonstrators exchanged gunfire in the southern city of Basra leaving two civilians dead after two British men were arrested for allegedly gunning down an Iraqi police officer. (Nabil al-Jurani, AP)

A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, Feb. 1, 2006. Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up behind barbed wire and on rooftops in this illegal West Bank settlement outpost, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes at the site. (Oded Balilty, AP)

A photo taken 09 July 2006 shows French midfielder Zinedine Zidane (L) gesturing after head-butting Italian defender Marco Materazzi during the World Cup 2006 final football match between Italy and France at Berlin's Olympic Stadium. (John Macdougall, AFP / Getty Images)

A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy's ten-year old brother, Qusay, was injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year. (Adem Hadei, AP)

Survivors flee a bomb blast attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 following a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader died from wounds to the neck and head after speaking at an election rally in the northern city where an estimated 15 people were left dead by the explosion, party officials have been quoted as saying. (John Moore, Getty Images)

A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers outside the residence of the country's deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 9, 2008. (Emilio Morenatti, AP)

A grieving mother looks back at the body of her child as she is escorted away from a temporary morgue after identifying the body at a sports center, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Hanwang in Sichuan Province, on May 15, 2008. China's biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under the rubble of crushed communities, plunging the nation into an all-out aid effort. Troops and rescue teams struggled by air, land and water to reach areas of southwestern China stricken by the huge quake that demolished schools, homes and factories. (Mark Ralston, AFP / Getty Images)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., center, is covered in the hands of supporters after his primary election night speech in St Paul, Minn., June 3, 2008. (Chris Carlson, AP)

Artists perform during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Aug. 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Clive Rose, Getty Images)

In this handout image provided by NASA, Hurricane Ike is seen on Sept. 10, 2008 from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The center of the hurricane was near 23.8 degrees north latitude and 85.3 degrees west longitude, moving 300 degrees at 7 nautical miles per hour. The sustained winds were 80 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 100 nautical miles per hour and forecast to intensify, according to NASA. The eye of the hurricane is expected to make landfall at Galveston Island early on Sept. 13 morning. (NASA via Getty Images)

Fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike recede, in West Orange, Texas, Sept. 15, 2008. (Eric Gay, AP)

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard S. Fuld Jr., wearing tie, is heckled by protesters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. (Susan Walsh, AP)

Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 6, 2008. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east. (Jerome Delay, AP)

Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel continues to burn in Mumbai, India, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks. (Gautam Singh, AP)

A gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India, Nov. 26, 2008. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. The militant group suspected in the Mumbai attacks is widely believed to have been established by Pakistan's military two decades ago to fight India in the disputed region of Kashmir. (Sebastian D'souza, Mumbai Mirror / AP)

Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines, Jan. 15, 2009. The audio recordings of US Airways Flight 1549, released on Feb 5, 2009 by the Federal Aviation Administration, reflect the initial tension between tower controllers and the cockpit and then confusion about whether the passenger jet went into the river. (Steven Day, AP)

Barack Obama stands for a moment in a crowded hallway at the U.S. Capitol moments before walking out to be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. (Charles Ommanney, Getty Images)

Pakistani men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the compound of radical Lal Masjid or Red mosque as the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, not seen, talks to his supporters during Friday prayers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 17, 2009. (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Seven-month-old Alexa Zuniga wears a surgical mask at the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, April 28, 2009. In Mexico, more than 150 deaths were believed to have been caused by swine flu. (Guillermo Arias, AP)

A demonstrator climbs the Freedom Tower, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in the presidential election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2009. (Vahid Salemi, AP)

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson is comforted by the brothers and sisters of Michael Jackson including Marlon and Randy Jackson at the memorial service for the King of Pop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009. (Gabriel Bouys, AFP / Getty Images)

U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, July 8, 2009. (David Guttenfelder / AP)

A US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan on July 13, 2009. Two US Marine soldiers were killed when the explosion occured as they tried to clear a route into the Taliban heartland of southern Helmand province. About 4,000 US Marines are battling insurgents in a massive offensive launched in the south early July to clear Taliban militants out of strongholds ahead of presidential and provincial council elections scheduled for Aug. 20. (Manpreet Romana, AFP / Getty Images)

Palestinian bride Kholood Al Zaaneen sits inside a tent built after her family's house was destroyed during Israel's latest military offensive in Gaza, during her wedding ceremony in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2009. (Adel Hana, AP)

Aerial view of an area deforested for cattle ranching within the "Legal Amazon", the name given to the area originally covered by the rainforest, seen on Sept. 2, 2009 in the northern region of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Deforestation and forest fires are responsible for 75 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil. (Rodrigo Baleia, LatinContent / Getty Images)

This photo provided by the French Army shows French soldiers arresting suspected pirates off Somalia, in this Nov.12, 2009 file photo. (French Army, ECPAD / AP)

A young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a town on edge of the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in Waziristan, a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border in an operation, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country's battle against extremism. (Ijaz Muhammad, AP)

Freedom flotilla a peaceful aid to Gaza was attacked by Israeli Commandos & Snatched the Aid & many killed at ship