Open Secret: Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi are engaged

India's tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi and Bollywood beauty Lara Dutta have made their journey afresh as they got engaged each other.

Bhupathi has announced this on Twitter saying, "So Lara and me got engaged in NY last week, " a published report said on Sunday.

As Bhupthai posted this online, he was flooded with congratulatory wishes. The couple had been in New York since August for the US Open and Davis cup, and also because Lara had to attend a photo shoot for a magazine.

Bhupathi was claimed to be the apparent reason behind Lara dumping Dino Morea. The lady has been held responsible for the divorce between Bhupathi and Shwetha Jaishankar, said the Times of India.

The couple has of late given ample indications of their closeness, including hand-in-hand appearances at many award shows. But rumours of them living in were subsequently rubbished. Though the industry has been anxiously waiting for a confirmation on their alleged romantic relationship, both remained coy... but things have clearly changed now.

Mahesh is now in Chennai playing Davis Cup for the country.

Katrina and Akshay Kumar get into a verbal spat

Akshay Kumar got into a verbal spat with his Tees Maar Khan co-star Katrina Kaif over her being unable to shoot for a music video

Tees Maar Khan co-producer and lead actor Akshay Kumar recently had a verbal argument with his co-star Katrina Kaif. He needed dates from her to shoot a music video for TMK and she flatly refused.

Sources reveal that the actress's dates were blocked for her Yash Raj film with Imran Khan and she was unable to change her schedule.

Says a source, "This is the first time Akki and Kat got into an actual fight. Her saying no got him all worked up. He reminded her of past adjustments he had made for her. Kat, on her part, said that she wouldn't be able to share dates till mid-October as the YRF banner was important to her and that the schedule was locked."

Moreover, Farah Khan is in a hurry to wrap the film in time for a Christmas Day release. She has managed a smooth schedule so far. Akshay, meanwhile, wants Kat to complete the music video before she busies herself with other commitments.

Adds the source, "Things really soured between Kat and Akshay over the date imbroglio. They stopped talking to each other for a while. But then, Farah stepped in. The duo is shooting a qawalli in Mumbai with Salman Khan and FK didn't want their cold vibes to spoil the song."

The director spoke to her heroine and everything has been sorted out. "The video will be shot on October 15. Katrina managed to get YRF to allow her to shoot for the title track video featuring the entire star cast. In any case, Kat is very fond of Akshay and will not allow their relationship to sour."

Can't let Saif down: Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor will go through with her plans of celebrating her birthday with her beau despite falling ill due to punishing work schedule

An extremely unwell Kareena Kapoor almost considered missing her flight to Paris via London and her birthday celebration today with beau Saif Ali Khan.

The actress is in Mumbai for three days to shoot for her shampoo, soap and face cream commercials. She even found some time to throw a party for Malaika Arora Khan and attend Tusshar Kapoor's party in Juhu but fell seriously ill on Saturday.

Talking to us last night before her departure, Kareena said, "It's been a very hectic schedule. I left Latvia to shoot for my endorsements in Mumbai. They had wanted me to shoot in Thailand but I couldn't because of lack of time. So they flew down an entire team of 40 Malaysian and Thai make-up artistes to Mumbai for the shoot.

But since I was shooting continuously in water for my shampoo and soap ads which included bathing in the tub scene, I developed severe cold, a bad throat and high fever."

As a result, Bebo's birthday plans (carefully organised by her man) almost went for a toss. Kareena added, "Mom (Babita Kapoor) has been firing me since Saturday about working so hard and falling so ill.

She's very worried that I'll be travelling alone to Paris via London as I might not be able to cope on my own. She thinks I have been pushing myself too hard and neglecting my health but I had no choice but to complete this schedule."

Saifoo's girlfriend was on injections, medicines and taking lots of rest throughout the day to make sure that she could travel in the night. She told us, "Mom is not very keen that I travel when I am so ill but I am going because Saif has planned a very special birthday night for me and I can't let him down by not going... so come what may I will go! This is one time I can't listen to mom."

For my Bebo!

Apart from a special dinner at Johnny Depp's Ritz Hotel in Paris, Saif Ali Khan will also spend four days in the French capital with Kareena. While Saif had given his gal a huge diamond ring a couple of years ago on her birthday, this time too, the buzz is that he has another very expensive gift, along similar lines planned for his Bebo.

Sonam Kapoor will be bedridden for 20 days

A typhoid-affected Sonam Kapoor will be bedridden for 20 days

Sonam Kapoor has been hit by typhoid. She will be out of action for around three weeks.

A source close to Sonam says, "After she came back from her US holiday and her Thank You shoot, Sonam became extremely unwell. She was diagnosed as having typhoid and was advised complete bed rest for 20 days by her doctor."

Apparently, Sonam was asked to walk the ramp for Manish Malhotra (she had acted in his nephew's directorial debut I Hate Luv Storys) during the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) but had to cancel because of her illness.

The source retorts, "Sonam was not to walk the ramp but simply attend LFW. In fact, she had to cancel a few work commitments including an endorsement event because of her ailment. She couldn't go to Delhi or shoot for Thank You. She's resting at home and can't attend anything."

Sonam says, "I was never going to walk the ramp for Manish. I was down with typhoid but am better now."

'Munni' rocks to Munni Badnaam, Big B-Shatru patch up

This has got to be the most rocking birthday party in living history. To say the ageless Shabana Azmi turned 60 with a bang on Saturday at the lounge Trilogy, would be an understatement.

Real- life Munni (Shabana's pet name) rocked to the pounding sound of the new dance hit Munni badnaam.

Shabana chortled the next morning, “Everybody was very amused to see Jaya and me flaunt our ambiguous dancing skills. Ash couldn't stop explaining that her ma-in-law was on a roll….My sister-in-law Tanvi and brother Baba wouldn't leave the dance floor.

He's such a fabulous dancer, very heavily influenced by Shammi Kapoor. Zara socho, bhai itna achcha dancer aur bahen has two left feet! Everybody danced to songs from yesteryears and of course Munni badnaam was a favourite.”

'Munni' Shabana Azmi welcomed the biggest star turn-out at her birthday. Guests included the entire Bachchan parivar with family-friend Tina Ambani in tow. Tina's sister-in-law Nita Ambani who generally avoids attending the same parties as Tina also attended.

So did Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha, Parmeshwar Godrej, Anil Kapoor, Ayaan Mukerjee, Neeta Goyal, Ashutosh Gowariker, Sudhir Mishra, Zeenat Aman, Urmila Matondkar, Vidya Balan, Boman Irani, Sandhya Mridul, Vipul and Shefali Shah.

Quips Shabana, “Why are you only mentioning the glamorous brigade from Bollywood? My entire family was there. My acting professor Roshan Taneja, my classmates from the film institute Kanwaljeet, Zarina Wahab, Rita Bhaduri came to the party. All my activist friends were also there. I missed Shyam Benegal and Mahesh Bhatt who are out of the country.”

Dance Of The Evening: Shabana and Jaya dancing to Munni badnaam

Quip of the Evening: “People around her can hardly bear her for 60 years. How will they bear her that long?” Javed Akhtar when someone sang Tum jiyo hazaaron saal for his wife.

Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha Patch Up On Shabana's 60th Birthday!

Even though Shabana Azmi was the star attraction of the day, two other stars took the limelight.

Big B Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha had a cold vibe since 2008 when the latter commented that certain film awards had been partial to Mr. Bachchan and his family and Big B also lashed out at Sinha in his blog. Since then, both of them were never seen together and if they met accidentally then the hardly said hello before their own way.

However, on Shabana's birthday party, both the veterans were seen having a long conversation with each other and they were together almost the entire evening.

One of the invitees was quoted saying that Mr. Bachchan and Sinha saab were involved in a deep discussion throughout the evening.

Shatrughan Sinha was quoted saying that the duo was sharing their old memories. He added that there were no personal problems between them and all that happened in past was totally at professional level.

Sinha added that he was feeling very happy for Amitabh, who won the National Awards for Paa. He said that National Awards were controversial every year but this time it has done a fair job.

It seems time has acted as a healer between the two veteran stars and they are reviving their old friendship again!

Hurricane Kareena sweeps city

Friends and colleagues who presumed Kareena Kapoor is shooting with Saif Ali Khan in Latvia for espionage action-drama Agent Vinod, were surprised to see the actress in Mumbai on Thursday.

It turns out she was in Mumbai to accomplish a new world record of sorts. In three days, Kapoor shot three back-to-back ads that were initially supposed to be shot in different parts of Hong Kong, Mumbai and Malaysia.

Known to juggle impossible deadlines, Kapoor rushed through two shampoo and one soap ad with international directors, who gawked as she changed into five different costumes in no time.

Kapoor reasoned, "The three ads would normally have taken nine to 10 days to shoot. I had no choice but to shoot them all together in one place. I couldn't fly to three different countries from Latvia."

Each product's crew got only one day to shoot, because Saif was waiting in Latvia for her to resume shooting. "It's madness! On one end of the world, I have Saif and his crew to return to. Down here, there are three teams waiting to complete the shoots, no matter how, " said Kareena.

Last seen, Kareena's mom Babita and sister Karisma were rushing to the venue of the ad shoots to meet Hurricane Kareena. Apparently, Kareena didn't even have time to go home and change!

Brindavanam Release Date October 8?

Young Tiger Junior NTR’s romantic, family entertainer ‘Brindavanam’ directed by Vamshi Paidipally might hit the screens on 8th of October. Filmmakers are yet to confirm this. Post-production works are currently going on. Filmmakers are planning for a big release.

‘Brindavanam’ is coming with the sub title ‘Govindhudu Andari Vadele.’ Kajal Agarwal and Samantha Ruth Prabhu are heroines. Real Star Sri Hari and National Award winner Prakash Raj played key roles. Kota Srinivasa Rao, Raghu Babu, Ahuthi Prasad, Brahmaji, Sana and Surekha Vani include among the other star cast.

The film is produced by Dil Raju, Sireesh and Laxman on Sri Venkateswara Creations banner. Music is composed by Thaman.

Sakshi Gulati is Appalaraju’s Heroine

It is known that Swathi is the heroine of Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalaraju.’ But who is going to be the heroine for Appalraju?

Sunil is playing an aspiring director (Appalraju) in the film who dreams of doing a better film than leading directors like K Raghavender Rao, Ram Gopal Varma etc. Appalraju succeeds in his attempts to direct a film. He names his film as ‘Nayaki’. Then who is the heroine of ‘Nayaki’? 

Sakshi Gulati, a Mumbai based model is Appalraju’s ‘Nayaki’ heroine. Appalraju has a strong reason for selecting Sakshi, and that is just like Urmila Matondkar for Ramgopal Varma and Ramya Krishna for K.Raghavendra Rao, he also intends to have a trademark heroine for himself.

‘Katha Screenplay Darsakathvam Appal Raju’ is Ram Gopal Varma’s direct Telugu film after about 12 long years. Koneru Kiran Kumar is producing this flick on Shreya Productions banner. Koti is composing music while Sudhakar Reddy handles camera. Shooting of the film is currently progressing in Hyderabad.

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King Nagarjuna’s upcoming bilingual ‘Gaganam’ directed by Radha Mohan (director of Aakasamantha) is going to be a variety film in his career. The film is set in the backdrop of a hijack drama. Major part of the film will be in the sky (Hence the title Gaganam). 

‘Gaganam’ is said to be a good amalgamation of thrill and entertainment. Telugu version of the film is being produced by Dil Raju.

Speaking about the film Dil Raju said “Gaganam is going to be a new experiment in Tollywood. I am sure that it will impress audience very much, especially the scenes involving Nagarjuna and Prakash Raj. Shooting part is almost completed and we are planning to release it for Diwali.’

Films other star cast includes Brahmanandam, Sana Khan, Poonam Kaur, Bharath Reddy and Rishi.

Dil Raju’s Next Film with Siddharth Narayan

Dil Raju and Siddharth Narayan’s combination simply reminds of the highly successful family entertainer ‘Bommarillu.’ In fact, it was one of the biggest hits in Siddharth’s career. The duo is going to work together again. This time a new director Venu Sriram will be joining them. 
         Dil Raju had himself announced this. Film launch is expected after the completion of his forthcoming production with Prabhas directed by Dasarath.

Balayya Missed A Wonderful Film

Nandamuri Balakrishna missed a wonderful film. The makers have wrongly approached some other hero instead of approaching Balayya.

This is the opinion of many those watched ‘Puli’.

Many say that the story, direction and scene conception aptly fits Balayya but not Pawan Kalyan. Helicopter chases, human bomber chases, lengthy dialogues, much ado about nothing are all the factors closely associated with Balayya’s action films. Audience also will have certain level of tolerance as it fits only for Balayya’s films. But this time the buck was passed to Pawan Kalyan.

Many say that Pawan Kalyan wrongly wore Balayya’s shirt.

Photo Feature: Mrs. Mahesh In Sexy Hot Look

She is hot, she is classy and she is also the most sought after in the Bollywood circuit. She is none other than Lara Dutta and right now, she is being called as Mrs Mahesh. Well, that’s obvious since she has reportedly got engaged to the tennis player Mahesh Bhupati after having her own share of relationships and love affairs. Here she is, in a rather eye popping outfit that shows her bare shoulders and the elegant cleavage. As for her face, she looks all lit up thanks to her recent engagement and is oozing the required appeal for the viewers.

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