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According to reports, Anurag Basu's 'Barfi' starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra  and Ileana D'Cruz in the lead has gotten into legal trouble.

Mumbai based, Murphy Enterprises are objecting to the use of their name, 'Murphy' in the movie without getting a proper NOC from them for the use of their brand name in the film.

The name of Ranbir's character in the movie is Murphy but when he is asked of his name, he mumbles something that sounds like Barfi, as he is speech challenged.


Murphy Enterprises have complained about the use of their name at various points in the film and in the songs as well. They are planning to take legal action.

The makers of the film have not yet responded to this development.

Ileana D'Cruz is very happy with the warm response that she has received so far for her Bollywood debut 'Barfi!' directed by Anurag Basu.


The hot and sexy actor revealed that she was earlier offered an opportunity to work with Salman Khan in the Prabhu Deva directed 'Wanted  (2009)' which was the Hindi remake of the Telugu film 'Pokkiri (2006)' directed by Puri Jagannadh starring herself and Mahesh Babu in the lead.

"Albeit I was excited to work with Salman, I felt that I was not ready for Bollywood then. So I allowed the opportunity to slip through my fingers," said the goan beauty admitting that she would love to work with Salman if she's offered a chance again.

However, the 'Nanban' heroine was quick to clarify that she had no regrets about refusing the given opportunity to act with Salman Khan and was proud to make her Bollywood debut with 'Barfi!'.

The new-age Zanjeer just got a lot sexier.


Mahie Gill who plays the new-age vamp Mona Darling (which was played by Bindu in the original film), flew to Bangkok to shoot some of the funniest sex scenes of her life for the remake.

Apparently Mahie plays an extremely libidinous Mona who has the hots for the villain Teja, played by Prakash Raj.

But somehow, we hear, Mona doesn't...er get it.

When questioned about character's coitus interruptus Mahie laughs..

"That's right. I play a very horny Mona Darling. I'm constantly lusting after Prakash Raj. But every time we are close to doing 'it' something or the other happens to spoil it. So eventually, I get quite frustrated."

"Director, Apoorva Lakhia, has re-written the Mona-Teja scenes beautifully. With due respects to Binduji and Ajitji, we couldn't play the roles the way they did 40 years ago. Zamana badal gaya hai. What was seen as sexy and seductive back then may not be so now. Our characters are constantly on the edge of having sex but never quite get there. It's far more interesting than just tumbling into bed," said Mahie Gill, the sensuous actor, who has been doing torrid love-making scenes from the time she debuted in Dev D, this is quite a departure from her usual roles.

"Ironically I am playing a full-on seductress, but not doing lovemaking scenes," laughs Mahie, who is thrilled by the role's glamour quotient. Her clothes are being designed by Pria Kataria Puri .

"So far, I've never been dressed up like this. Apoorva Lakhia had a special look in mind. He didn't want it to be a just 'filmy'. He wanted me to look very different from the usual vamps and seductresses. When I got into Pria's clothes, I felt different."

"I also had a Telugu teacher, who accompanied me to Bangkok. He was there on location to make sure I got it all right. But Prakash Raj was also a big help. He told me where to take a pause while delivering my Telugu lines," said Mahie, who simultaneously shot in Hindi and Telugu for Zanjeer.

Newbie actress Parineeti Chopra, who is basking in the glory of her latest film 'Ishaqzaade' says that she is ready to don a bikini and to shoot for intimate kissing and lovemaking scenes for the film as the script demands.

"I have no limitations and that is because I believe in myself. When you finish reading a script and you still remember about that one kissing scene and think that the script is good... But just because it has a kissing scene, hence you will not do it. This means the writer must have wrote that scene with an intention and you have not understood it," said the 24 year old actor who started her career with 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011).'

"When I was reading the script for 'Ishaqzaade', I did not think of love making or kissing scene. The placement of the scene in the movie is right and it is not that it has been put for fun or for everyone to enjoy. If you like the script for what it is... if the intention of the writer is to have a lovemaking scene, or kissing scene or bikini or dance or whatever, I will do it. I feel as an actor one must have no inhibitions," said Parineeti about her intimate scenes in 'Ishaqzaade'between her and co-star Arjun Kapoor.

'Ishaqzaade' is a romantic drama directed by Habib Faisal and produced by Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films. While the film is the launch pad for Arjun, it is the second outing for Faisal as a director after 'Do Dooni Chaar'. The film released on May 11 and is doing well at the box office collecting over Rs 16 crores in its first weekend.

The rustic love story has turned out to be fifth biggest first day opener after 'Agneepath', 'Housefull 2', 'Agent Vinod' and 'Jannat 2.'

Almost all the actors in the film industry get tattooed these days and find pride in showing it off to people.

It can to be recalled that south Indian actor Nayantara made tongues wagging with her tattoo reading the name of her then boy friend Prabhu Deva.

The actor that would soon be joining the list of actors getting tattooed is none other than Priyanka Chopra, who revealed that she is going to get a name tattooed, but it is not going to be her boy friend’s.

Everybody knows that Priyanka Chopra is also a fabulous singer.

The sexy lass has done an album with an American Band. She has said that she's to get its name tattooed once the name is finalized.

It's probably old news that Shankar and Vikram will be coming together for a new movie, tentatively titled Therdal (election), that is to be based on the Indian Electoral System and its corrupted practises in the process of election.

Director Shankar, after the success of his blockbuster 'Endhiran' with Superstar Rajinikanth has completed the scripting work for his next project and is scouting for producers.

Rumor has it that Aascar Ravichandran just might take the project up in his hands. But the next big thing would be the hunt for a heroine to be cast opposite Chiyan Vikram, who is currently shooting for A.L Vijay's Thaandavam with Anushka Shetty and Amy Jackson.

Actress Priyanka Chopra says her cousin actress Parineeti Chopra deserves a slap for saying that she finds it awkward to stand next to a fit and sexy Priyanka

"She needs a slap. I will throw her into the gym right now. I never heard her say something like that, but she is someone who is effervesent, energetic and beautiful. I guess it runs in the family," said Priyanka.

Parineeti lost oodles of weight for her debut film "Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl". Her next, "Ishaqzaade" will hit theatres May 18. It features Boney Kapoor's son Arjun as her co-star.

Okay, so we know that Nargis Fakhri has been confirmed to play Akshay Kumar's heroine in his next film, which he's co-producing with Himesh Reshammiya.

Interestingly, the model who made her debut opposite Ranbir Kapoor wasn’t the first choice for the Ashish R. Mohan directed film.

Reportedly, South Indian starlet Ileana D’Cruz was initially confirmed for the part. Seems there’s more buzz about Ranbir and Priyanka Chopra, her co-stars in her upcoming maiden Hindi release.

So turning apprehensive about how she turns out in her Bollywood debut, the makers of the Akshay-Himesh joint production decided to rope in Nargis instead, considering that her film has released… never mind if her performance has been panned.

Yash Raj Films released the first trailer of Ishaqzaade introdicing Boney Kapoor's son Arjun Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra's cousin Parineeti Chopra, who was last seen opposite Ranveer Singhin YRF's Ladies vs Ricky Bahl.

Ishaqzaade directed by directed by Habib Faisal has now peaked the interest in the film billed as a "love story of a passion ignited by hatred".

Sonam Kapoor presented the trailer of her cousin's debut film and she tweeted:


Meanwhile, Arjun Kapoor's mother, Mona Kapoor, first wife of producer Boney Kapoor is in hospital being treated for cancer tweeted:


On a happier note, Ishaqzaade appears to have caught the fancy of Twitterati with many posting praise for the film's first look and its lead actors.

A look at the film's trailer.

Leave the moving and grooving to Katrina Kaif for she knows her job best.

After a sizzling Sheila, bindass Bodyguard and Chikni Chameli, Katrina's only gotten better at it. But fame, as always, comes at a price.

Sources from Bollywood recently revealed that the shooting schedule for Katrina's Chikni Chameli song for Agneepath was rather demanding and stretched over long hours. So much so, that while shooting for the song, Katrina got blisters and her feet started bleeding. Worried about her condition, her staff asked the choreographer to stop the shoot.

Packing up for the day would have meant sending Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt home, too. But Katrina proved to be a thorough professional and insisted that the actors needn't worry about her.

Katrina resumed her dance in no time, and completed the shoot as planned. Looks like this Chameli gave it her 100 per cent, no aadha, pahua here!

“The audience will be spellbound by Katrina as Chikni Chameli. She is outstanding.” said Hrithik about Katrina's performance as Chikni Chameli in the item song for the upcoming Hrithik starrer Agneepath.

The teaser was just 19 seconds and it was such a tease that it only proved what Hrithik had said about the item song. We now have the full 2 minutes and 13 seconds of Chikni Chameli's gyrating moves and man She defines her hotness as HOT!



Chikni Chameli features Katrina like never seen before! All that we can say is just hit play you have to see it for yourself!!

Sung by the ever fabulous Shreya Ghoshal, the song, the moves, the music combine to make Chikni Chameli a hit in our books!

Agneepath, starring Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt and Rishi Kapoor is set to release on January 26th and is a new version of a classic with a different take on the tale of revenge.

Katrina Kaif features in an item number as Chikni Chameli in Karan Johar's new-age Agneepath. But her item number in the film moves away from the hip-swaying Sheila, as Katrina will be dancing the Lavani, Maharashtra's groovy folk dance. She has to match steps with dancing divas Helen (Mungda mungda main gur ki dali) and Madhuri Dixit (Humko aaj kal in Sailaab) both of whom gave a sexy makeover to the Lavani.

‘Chikni Chameli’ is her first official item number in ‘Agneepath’ and the above seen first look image has gone viral on the net with her fans going frantic in the lines of Dhanush's Tanglish song ‘Why this Kolaveri Di?’

Katrina Kaif’s sultry sexy avatar has given her fans all the more reasons to admire her versatile image. However the same can’t be said about her contemporaries and rival actresses as this gives them another feature to envy Katrina.

However Katrina like other stars too has learnt the style to be diplomatic with each of her statement and carefully forms one when it comes to controversies. The actress was recently quizzed over her item number in the film starring Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra in lead. It was rumored that Priyanka unlike others was not too happy with Katrina’s special item number that was injected in her film at the last minute.

When Katrina was asked to put some light over this, the actress was quick to confirm that her item number would not affect Priyanka’s star value or her screen presence in the film.

Hrithik Roshan, who plays a superhero in 'Krrish II, has decided to help his father Rakesh Roshan in the direction department.

Hrithik is now going to be the associate director for the sequel to Krish that started rolling December 1st at Filmistan Studios with Vivek Oberoi, Kangna Ranaut and Priyanka Chopra.

This is not the first time that the actor has stepped behind the camera for his father. Hrithik was an assistant director to Roshan Sr. for his films like 'Koyla' and 'Karan Arjun'. Apart from this, he has helped his father out whenever the two have made a film together.

The first schedule of the film started on December 1st and Hrithik was not a part of the first schedule but has come on the sets to take part in the direction process.

Hrithik will join the cast in front of the camera from the second schedule.

Priyanka Chopra was recently approached for a special item number in Rohit Dhawan’s upcoming film 'Desi Boyz' starring Akshay Kumar and John Abraham. According to an insider, apparently Priyanka was one of the topmost on the list of preferred actors for a special song in the film that was to be shot with the lead actors.

“The filmmakers were keen on having Priyanka on board, as they felt that her tag of Desi Girl went with the film’s name and theme and even approached her for it,” reveals a source.

It still remains unknown if Akshay or John were aware of Priyanka being approached for a song that was finally shot with Bruna Abdullah. An insider insists that it would have made no difference to Akshay, even if he had known that Priyanka had been approached for the song.

“Akshay is very professional and we don’t think he would’ve objected to Priyanka doing the song,” adds the insider.

However, matters didn’t come to it, as Priyanka politely turned down the offer citing date trouble. “But this also led to speculation that Priyanka would be reluctant to do the song as she was she was linked with Akshay in the past. So, the filmmakers even offered her a song where she would not be required to shoot with either John or Akshay,” informs the source.

The shooting of the song would have required only two days time. “It’s certainly not something that could not be worked out, but apparently Priyanka was too busy with her own music album. Though she did take time out for promotional activities with actor Shah Rukh Khan, there was no confirmation forthcoming for the song fuelling speculation that maybe the past rumours had something to do with it,” says another source, adding that “The filmmakers are happy with the way the song has finally turned out.”

A production hand says, “It would’ve been nice to have Desi Girl for this movie, but we are happy with what Bruna has done.”

Director A.R Murugadoss is gearing up for his next project with Ilayathalapathy Vijay. The filmmaker, who received mixed response from both audience and the critics for his recently released 7am Arivu, is all set to start his next biggie in Thiruchendur, Thoothukudi district.

The makers of the film have decided to launch the forthcoming multilingual movie at the Thiruchendur Murugan temple, one of the six abodes of Lord Muruga.

The story of the movie will start from the seaside and then moves on to Mumbai, where the major part of the movie will be shot. It is said to be a gangster film and is touted to be an action-packed film.

Sources say that the movie will have two female leads.

Kingfisher model Angela Johnson has been signed to be one of the leading ladies and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is being considered to be the other. The movie is produced by Vijay's father S.A Chandrasekhar and Santosh Sivan is reported to have signed as the cinematographer of this upcoming movie that is still under wraps.

Shahrukh Khan looks squeaky clean in a black suit throwing a sullen expression at the camera while Priyanka strikes a subtly sensuous pose as she shows a bit of skin from under a gorgeous black gown.

Flashing a mild smile even as she wields a smoking gun in one hand, Priyanka looks every bit of a femme fatale, the kind of women that Don loves to play around with.

Don 2 is set to release on Christmas this year. The film will be released in both 2D and 3D versions.

Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor, who is currently promoting Rockstar, clears the air about his next venture Barfee, saying it is a romantic-comedy set in 1970s and not a serious film.

"It is not a special character, people are just blowing it out of proportion. The treatment to the character and film is not serious at all. It is a romantic-comedy which has been set in 1970s. My character is very fun-loving (awaara types)," said Ranbir.

The actor plays a deaf and dumb person, Priyanka will be seen as a mentally-challenged girl and Ileana D'Cruz will be seen as a narrator.

Ranbir says "People are perceiving Barfee as a serious film because Anurag Basu is helming it. But he is completely a child at heart and it has been fun working with him teaming up with Priyanka Chopra after Anjaana Anjaani," and added that "Ileana is very fun loving and is professional at the same time. She's amazing and its a treat to work with her."

Shah Rukh Khan’s over-ambitious superhero project RA.One received quite a few negative reviews in India. Talking from Los Angeles, where the actor was on tour with his film team until Saturday, he says, seeming rather upset, “I was reading some reviews and they were silly. They are looking into some other aspect of filmmaking.”

Internationally, he claims that the Anubhav Sinha directorial got a great response. “LA Times has carried a fantastic movie review,” he insists, before adding, “We presented the film to a lot of people from Fox (Fox Studios, US) and we spoke to the foreign press on the technical aspect of RA.One. It’s important that we promote this ideology and explain to the world that we can do it.”

Within this week, the actor has travelled to Dubai, London and Toronto, before arriving in the US. His promotional rampage in India too made headlines. But the real challenge he claims to face is “showing the world that India too can make high-tech films.”

And to facilitate the same, he has set up a technically advanced studio in the city, which he used for the postproduction of RA.One. “The good news is that the studio is two or three years ahead of any other. This is the first step in that direction,” says the actor-producer, adding, “This is the time to bring this genre to India. And I have started it. Instead of cribbing, if you want to modernise and make different movies, you have to use this technology.”

Till Friday, RA.One had collected over Rs 60 cr at the box office in India, the film’s spokesperson claims. “I feel relieved to see it open well. I’ve been travelling, so I wasn’t able to follow the figures much. All my partners now feel that they’ll be able to recover their money.”

The film, which also stars Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor, released on Diwali, October 26 and was made for a reported budget of Rs 150 crore. Ask him about the sequel, and he says he’s leaving it all to time: “Let’s see how it fares. It’s lot of hard work. I’m happy how people have responded, despite mixed reports. Once it has come to the fore, I’ll give it a thought.”

Khan will be seen in Farhan Akhtar’s next directorial Don 2 in December, and will start shooting for Yash Chopra’s film in January 2012.

It is a common trend to see that two well known heroines working in the same film end up having a cat fight or a cold war.

Well, something of this sort has been reportedly happening between the pout lipped beauty Priyanka Chopra and the sexy hip beauty Ileana on the sets of Barfee.

Grapevine is strong that both have not been gelling that well. However, this was quashed as a rumour by Priyanka Chopra's sources and they maintain that she is totally into her role that's why she is keeping to herself.