Bollywood Actress Katrina Kaif, The Good and The Bad

While Mallika Sherawat seems to be conquering Hollywood, Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif seems to be conquering everything else.
Katrina has been honored with the Rajiv Gandhi Award under the Best Actress category in Hindi cinema.
Katrina is also being listed as the most "Googled" actress in Bollywood cinema and she was voted "The Sexiest Woman in India" by FHM.

But despite all that, everything isn't coming up roses for Katrina.
Actor Jackie Shroff’s wife, Ayesha Shroff has come forth and announced that Katrina Kaif's real name is Katrina Turquotte.
Katrina has always maintained that her Kaif surname was due to her Kashmiri father, but Ayesha says that the name on Katrina's passport when she came to India was Katrina Turquotte.

StarBoxOffice.com has more info on this including....
“She used to work to support her huge family and she didn’t have a very respectable job in London. Kaizad Gustad picked up the very attractive lass off the streets of London. The makers of Boom concocted the Kashmir father-Brit mother story so that Indian audiences would accept her."
You can read the full write up here

Now the question is, is Katrina really Indian at all?


posted to http://bollywoodwomen.blogspot.com/ on August 20th, 2009

The Top Ten Bollywood Actresses Last Month

Amrita Arora, Number One in June.

I haven't done this in awhile, so here is a list of the top ten Bollywood actresses on this blog for June.....

1. Amrita Arora
The beautiful Bollywood actress born in Mumbai, India blew away all the competition and came in at number one.
Amrita has three movies in 2009, Kambakth Ishq (with Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Aftab Shivdasani) , Team - The Force and Season's Greetings (with Sohail Khan, Tabu and Shreyas Talpade) .

2. Koena Mitra
Number two on the list is Indian actress and former model Koena Mitra.
The Bengali beauty hasn't had many successes in Bollywood lately, with only Ayan coming out this year.

3. Katrina Kaif
Coming in at number three is the Hong Kong-born British-Indian actress and model, Katrina Kaif.
Katrina not only has 2009 releases (New York, Blue, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, De Dana Dan), but even releases planed into 2010 (Rajneeti and a Padosan Remake) .
And she is one of my personal favorites.

4. Twinkle Khanna
Twinkle was very popular in the 90s in Hindi and Telugu films, and now she is an interior designer (she did the interiors for Rani Mukerji's new house) and co-owner of The White Window store.
Her last film was Love Ke Liye Kuchh Bhi Karega in 2001.

5. Rani Mukherjee
Rani Mukerji (Mukherjee) has two movies this year (Luck by Chance and Dil Bole Hadippa) and one set for 2010 ( the animated Koochie Koochie Hota Hain).

6. Deepika Padukone
Deepika was recently diagnosed with malaria after becoming ill during a shoot in London. But she'll get better and shooting on Sajid Nadiadwala's Housefull will continue.

7. Mallika Sherawat
Mallika Sherawat is getting a lot of press for her upcoming movie "Hisss". And a lot of attention on Twitter.

8. Preity Zinta
This honest and outspoken Bollywood beauty has two movies this year, Main Aur Mrs. Khanna and Har Pall.

9. Shilpa Shetty
The Indian film actress and model has two movies coming out this year, The Man and The Desire.

10. Bipasha Basu
Another Bengali beauty with five movies this year, including her first Hollywood movie co-starring with Billy Zane.


posted by Sabre to http://bollywoodwomen.blogspot.com/ on July 30th, 2009

Neha Dhupia "Bollywood Hero" Updates

Back in May I posted an entry about Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia being in an upcoming comedy miniseries titled "Bollywood Hero" for the Independent Film Channel starring Chris Kattan (Corky Romano).
Well from the looks of it, everyone else has caught up and announced it in the past few days...LOL

But the update part of this is that

1. Neha's character will be called "Lalima", and as Neha puts it herself, "My character is overbearing, typical Bollywood heroine who is known more for controversies than her acting skills."
"overbearing, typical Bollywood heroine"...that might not set too well with other Bollywood actresses!

2. The mini series will have cameos by Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore.

3. The show will be aired on IFC, an independent film channel from August 6 onwards.

And riding the hopefully good reviews of the mini series, Neha will have six movies coming out, "Paying Guest", "Pappu Can't Dance Sala", "Raftaar","Raat gayi baat gayi", "I'm 24" and "De Dhanadhan".



Posted by Sabre on http://bollywoodwomen.blogspot.com/, July 23rd, 2009

Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra and Rani Mukherjee

One of the most successful female filmstars in the history of Indian cinema, Hema Malini, has said that the only Bollywood actress that deserves the title "Dream Girl" is the beautiful and talented Aishwarya Rai.
High praise indeed coming from a lady thats made a name for herself as not only an Indian actress, director and producer but as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer as well.
The lovely Ash is keeping herself busy, with four movies coming out in 2010.
First up is Endhiran, a science-fiction Tamil language film being directed by S. Shankar.
Then Ashokavanam, also a Tamil film, directed, written and produced by Mani Ratnam.
Next up are two Hindi movies, Raavan, also being directed by Mani Ratnam, and Action Replay directed by Vipul Shah.


There is a rumor going around that Priyanka Chopra is going to work with UK-based pop star Jay Sean on his new album.
Priyanka big fan of Jay Sean’s music and it's rumored that she will appear in at least one music video for him.
This isn't Jay Sean’s first Bollywood connection.
The lovely Bipasha Basu worked with him on his music video "Stolen".


And the bad feelings between Salman Khan and Aditya Chopra have been healed thanks to Rani Mukherjee.
Evidently the love of Salman's life and the friend of Aditya has been working behind the scenes to get the two back on speaking terms.
So I guess you can add "peacemaker" to Rani's list of credits.
BTW, you can get a lot more info on Rani at this great site I found (no, it's not mine...LOL)
Rani Mukherjee Saree

Kareena Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit and Mallika Sherawat

Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor is featured on Maxim magazine on it's cover.
Kareena is getting a lot of press lately, including the fact that she was on Filmfare Magazine’s “most powerful women” list.
Kareena has also told the press that she's putting marriage on the back burner to pursue her career.


And Madhuri Dixit has sparked a controversy, but not intentionally.
There's a lake in Arunachal Pradesh called Tsho-nga Tser that the locals began to refer to as " Madhuri " after Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit shot Koyla there.
The locals seem to be more than a little upset that their lake is being renamed by outsiders.


And finally, Bollywood beauty Mallika Sherawat has signed to make a film called “Female Barack Obama”, which is based on San Francisco Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Mallika is in LA of the post production of her film "Hisss" and has been burning up Twitter while shes been there.
Mallika is one of the most followed Bollywood personalities on Twitter with over 6000 fans.
She's even set to make a side trip to Twitter HQ on July 14th.
You can follow her as well here:
http://twitter.com/MallikaLA

Bollywood Actress Raveena Tandon News

34 year old Raveena Tandon is looking as good as ever, and starting to show up more too.

The Bollywood actress, producer, and former model showed up recently at a Sunday afternoon Tinker Bell book reading for children at Crossword, Juhu, Mumbai on May 17.
By all accounts the beautiful actress had a great time and so did the kids.
Raveena made sure to pay attention to the kids, sitting and talking to them after she finished the reading.

Also, along with Jaya Bachchan, Suniel Shetty, Ayesha Takia and Urvashi Sharma, Raveena is set to star in the new Bollywood movie by Revathy Varma called Chassni.
Chassni is a remake of the Tamil film June R.

At Karan Johar's 37th birthday party, Raveena showed up with just about every other actor and actress in Bollywood including Kareena Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Karisma and Shah Rukh Khan among the over 100 guests.


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Juhi Chawla News

Bollywood producer, singer, actress and former Miss India 1984, Juhi Chawla, is certainly getting around these days.

She is being profiled on " Superstars Superlives" this week on ZoOM along with other Bollywood beauties Madhuri Dixit, Kajol Devgan and Rani Mukherjee.

Juhi was a judge on the reality dance show Jhalak Dikkhla Jha along with Saroj Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant.

Along with other Bollywood stars Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty, Arjun Rampal and Shahrukh Khan she is involved in the IPL (The Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket competition).

And Juhi was in this years Luck By Chance, an Indian drama film written and directed by Zoya Akhtar.
Although critics mainly liked it, it didn't do too well at the box office.

But since 1986, she has been in almost 90 films. So I dont think one performing badly is going to hurt her much.
Besides the almost 90 films, she has produced three films, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000), Asoka (2001) and Chalte Chalte (2003).

Sushmita Sen and "Do Not Disturb"

The actresses in Bollywood must really be competitive.
I keep reading about their Diva like behavior and catty remarks to other actresses.
And they seem to be threatened very easily.
Even actresses that are famous for getting along with other stars are affected.
Case in point.....

"Inside sources from Do Knot Disturb claim Sushmita Sen is having sleepless nights over her role in her upcoming David Dhawan comedy Do Knot Disturb. It is a multi star cast film starring Govinda, Lara Dutta, Ritesh Deshmukh and Sohail Khan along with her.
Our sources reveal, “The film for the first time brings together two former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta. But Sush is not really insecure about her role being shortened as compared to a much younger and hotter Lara."

Full article here

Of course it's not just Sushmita.
If you read this blog you've seen several similar stories about other Bollywood stars.

But it appears their fears are not unfounded.
Just recently Pantene ended a long relationship with Sushmita in favor of South Indian actress Asin.

Besides "Do Not Disturb", Sushmita is working on a Tamil film "Marmayogi" this year.

Neha Dhupia

“Bollywood Hero,” is an upcoming comedy miniseries for the Independent Film Channel starring Chris Kattan (Corky Romano).
But also in the miniseries will be Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia.
Neha may not be a huge hit in India, but her work ethic has brought praise from her America cast and crew.
Initial viewing of the films trailer by critics has lead to the idea that this just may be a sleeper hit, and that will look very good not only on the career of Chris Kattan but Neha as well.

Neha has several movies coming out in 2009 including "Paying Guest", "Pappu can't dance sala", "Raftaar","Raat gayi baat gayi", "I'm 24" and "De Dhanadhan".

Hopefully good reviews for "Bollywood Hero" will boost Neha's career.

Minissha Lamba News

Bollywood actress Minissha Lamba (born on January 18, 1985 in New Delhi) has two movies coming out this year.
Or she did.
Reports say that Minissha has pulled out of the Karan Johar Production "Jihaad".
At first, reports said that it was because of scenes with co-star Vivek Oberoi.
But now it is said that it was because of passport issues (The film is being shot in New York).
Either way, Dia Mirza who has stepped in to replace her.

It appears filming on "Abba Ka Kaun" is going well though.
The upcoming film has Boman Irani playing the title role of ‘Abba’ and Minissha as his daughter.
It also stars Sameer Dattani, Ravi Kishan, Ila Arun, Salim Ghouse, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajit Kapoor, Yashpal Sharma and Ravi Jhankal.

Lara Dutta Updates

It looks like Lara Dutta and Dino Morea's relationship is back on again.
The pair has been seen walking their dogs at at Bandra sea face, and attending the screening of Vin Diesel’s movie ‘Fast and Furious 4’.
A few weeks backs, the tabloids said that Lara was tired of Dino’s womanizing and his renewed closeness to ex girlfriend Nandita Mahtani and had called off the relationship.
But now reports say that Dino is planning to move into Lara’s house.

And Lara may be having a hard time with her Bollywood movie "Blue".
Reports say that Laura feels threatened over the beautiful Katrina Kaif's special appearance in the film.
Who can blame her?
Rumors say that Katrina's role in the movie is expanding and that bothers Lara.
"Blue" also stars Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Zayed Khan.
Kylie Minogue will sing two songs along with Sonu Nigam for the movie soundtrack.

Manisha Koirala Comback

Manisha Koirala was born on August 16, 1970 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
She is a Nepali actress who works in Indian films, although she has appeared in a number of Tamil films.
Manisha is also an accomplished Bharatnatyam and Manipuri dancer.

After being out of the spotlight for awhile, Manisha is trying for a comeback in Bollywood.
She is making the rounds, and she got some good press when designer Maheka Mirpuri announced at the unveiling of her new fashion collection ‘Pure Optimism’, that Manisha had been her "muse".

And this year she will be appearing in Deepti Naval's "Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Char Aane Ki Barish", Jahnu Barua's new movie and Mani Ratnam's "Raavan" (set for release in 2010).

Riya Sen in Zor Laga ke Haiya

Bollywood actress Riya Sen is getting a lot of press for her new role in the upcoming Hindi film "Zor Laga ke Haiya".
Riya has discarded her sultry glamorous look to take on the role of a construction worker named Chamki.
The movie is directed by Girish Joshi and is about an egotistical award winning sculptor (played by Mithun Chakraborthy) who can not adjust to the times he is living in.
Riya plays a Marathi girl that works as a construction worker.
Besides Riya and Mithun, the movie also stars Mahesh Manjrekar, Seema Biswas, Megan, Ayesha Kaduskar, Hardik Thakkar, Ritvik Tyagi and Ashwin Chitale.
"Zor Laga ke Haiya" will be released sometime in May of this year.

Bollywood Actress Bipasha Basu News

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu is all over the news these days.

First, she seems to be starting a trend by not wearing make up.
Actually Ameesha Patel started it first, but you know, I wonder how many Hollywood actresses could pull off the no make up look?

And Bipasha is playing Diva again.
At Thursday night's launch of Shiamak Davar's sports wear collection, she was a no show.
Even though Bipasha is the company's brand ambassador and she was in Mumbai.
Rumor has it that she didnt attend because Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan were also invited to the event, so she was afraid she wouldn't get solo media coverage there.
Of course Bipasha's spokesperson denied this.

Bipasha has several movies coming out this year including Aa Dekhen Zara (a romantic sci-fi action thriller movie), Pankh, Lamhaa, Sob Choritro Kalponik and Chaimera.

Here is a video from Aa Dekhen Zara:

Bollywood Actress Shilpa Shetty News

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty will be marrying her fiance Raj Kumdra in October of this year, but until then, they are renovating a 5 million pound Surrey home at St George's Hill.
Shilpa seems to be getting into the country life, saying that she can't wait to start raising a family there.

The home isn't the only thing Shilpa and Raj co-own.
They are also co-owners of the Rajasthan Royals, a franchise cricket team that represents the state of Rajasthan in the IPL (Indian Premier League).
Last year, the Royals won the inaugural DLF IPL T-20 Tournament.
Of course Shilpa isn't the only Bollywood celeb to invest in the Twenty20 format of the game.
Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Preity Zinta also have interests in the Twenty20 format.

Shilpa also has two movies coming out this year, "The Man" and "The Desire".

Preity Zinta News

Preity Zinta has several films coming out this year, but one, Deepa Mehta's Videsh, is already stirring up some controversy.
The film tackles the issue of domestic violence and has raised some concern with the Censor Board in India.
http://news.sawf.org/Bollywood/57318.aspx

Preity will also be appearing in Har Pall with Isha Koppikar and Main Aur Mrs Khanna with Kareena Kapoor.
In Main Aur Mrs Khanna, Preity will be making a special appearance in a item number.
Although it's been rumored that her role has been beefed up a bit more.

Sonam Kapoor News

Sonam Kapoor was born on June 9, 1985 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
She is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies.

Considered by many to be a talented and upcoming actress, Sonam may have been in the right place at the right time.
She appeared with Abhishek Bachchan in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6.
The movie was released on February 20, 2009 and did well at the box office, but the film got generally mixed reception from the Indian critics.
However, after the Oscar performance of the Mumbai-set "Slumdog Millionaire" world critics have gotten behind the movie.
The Bollywood film was praised by the Los Angeles Times and the Village Voice in New York City.
Of course it hasn't hurt that the movies music was composed by Oscar winner A.R. Rahman.
And even better is the fact that Sonam's father Anil Kapoor was also in Slumdog Millionaire.

Sonam is now set to star in Anil Kapoor’s newest production, ‘Ayesha’, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel ‘Emma’.