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When Isha Koppikar was unrecognizable

When Isha Koppikar shed her glamorous image for a forthcoming Ram Gopal Varma movie, she was unrecognizable on the film抯 shooting sets.

In Ramu抯 movie Shabri , Isha plays a woman who runs a crime racket from a Mumbai chawl. In accordance with her character, Isha sports a non-glamorized look in the film and even speaks foul language.

In fact, while shooting for the movie Isha looked so convincing in her new look that crewmembers on the sets often failed to recognize her.

A media report quotes Isha as saying: 揙ne time, my production controller refused to get me in on set, as he couldn抰 recognise me. Even executive producers get confused and fail to identify me in my get-up. Later on they抎 come and apologise and I would say, 慡uperb!

Akshaye抯 missing year and a half

Akshaye Khanna has been secretly working on a project that no one knows about.

The vague details known are this, that for the past eighteen months, Akshaye Khanna has been acting in a production for unknown Producers. The film is top secret and Akshaye has had to sign a non-disclosure thing.

It is a known fact that Akshaye has been AWOL for most of last year, but what is not known is what he has been up to. Akshaye himself has refused to answer questions in relation to this project.

Does anyone else know?

Manoj Bajpai is a maharajah again

Nanda Anand grew up in Kolkata, reading Russian literature

Sunny and Viveik on an adventure ride

After some lousy films, our action king Sunny Deol will get back to form in his upcoming film Naksha. Naksha meaning 憁ap

Shahid Kapoor : I have found my true love in Bebo

Kapoor met Kapoor. And they fell in love. From karmic connections to each other抯 kinks, Afsana Ahmed gets actors Shahid and Kareena to share their modern-day love story...

FOR me, love is eternal. I believe that true love happens just once - the others, though beautiful and pleasant, are just a part of growing up. When true love comes your way, God gives you a signal.

I may sound filmi, but fact is that at that particular moment, you get a feeling from the bottom of your heart. There are no two ways about that! Yes, I have found my true love in Bebo, my girlfriend.

She is my every woman. I can never be distracted by anybody; not even a purer and more beautiful girl than Bebo!

Apart from work, she is the most important aspect of my life, at this point. You know, at times work keeps people apart to the extent that you lose emotional contact with your partner.

That抯 why I make a conscious effort to be with Bebo mentally, if not physically, all the time. I firmly believe that to cement a relationship, it抯 important to really be with the other person, at least for the first few years as that抯 the period when your relationship is growing roots.

No, I don抰 believe in love at first sight. It抯 too big and deep an emotion to take shape so suddenly. It抯 a strong sentiment that develops and increases with time. Yes, there抯 a certain chemistry, an instant attraction and a connection that follows the first meeting.

Like, when I first met Bebo through a common friend in a hotel lobby, I quite liked her. But it was only on our second meeting at a preview theatre that we really hit it off.

At that time, I didn抰 know anything about her, except that she was a superstar and a damn good actress.

I had seen some of her films. But what struck me about her, when I met her was that she was completely unaware of her stardom and her success. I was drawn to her primarily because of her honest and real self.

You know when Bebo looks her best? When she is clad in a simple salwar kameez, devoid of any make-up

Kareena Kapoor: 慒or me, it was love at first sight

Hrithk Roshan: Ready to rock Pak!

Papa the great Hrithik Roshan is on cloud nine, both on the professional and the personal front. His forthcoming film Krrish seems to be the hottest film on the movie marquee and his recently acquired status of a father has added new spice in his life. Besides that, the family man is keen to help promote wife Suzanne抯 uncle Akbar Khan's movie Taj Mahal - An Eternal Love Story in Pakistan. So, along with his brother-in-law Fardeen, Hrithik will travel to Pakistan where they are likely to meet Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. With Hrithik and Fardeen in Pakistan the film we're sure is going to be a hit among the junta!  

Dia is there for Subi!  

It's always good to stand by your friends, as it quite often happens in Bollywood. Ace lensman Subi Samuel is known to have clicked some superb photographs of actress Dia Mirza in the past and the two have developed a professional relationship based on respect and trust over the years. So it was not surprising that when Subi wanted Dia to star in his debut production Alag, she immediately agreed. And now that the film is complete, Dia feels that her gut feeling to do the role has been justified since the film has shaped out beautifully, according to her. Some more eye-candy for us, what?  

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Revealed: Nagma抯 real Dad

Film actress Nagma, never too far from limelight or controversy, has now revealed that she is the heir to one of the most respected textile families in India: the Morarjis.
  
Nagma, who made her debut in Bollywood opposite Salman Khan in Baghi, and has been more recently in the news for her dalliance with Sourav Ganguly and the Mumbai underworld, is actually the daughter of industrialist Sri Arvind Pratapsinh Morarji who passed away on January 1 this year (see accompanying obituary notice).

The reason her pedigree has remained a closely guarded secret is because of the question mark over the relationship between Arvind Morarji and the actress's mother Seema. However, in an interview to this newspaper, Nagma said that Arvind Morarji and Seema, a Muslim by birth, were married in 1972.

"I am proud of the fact that I belong to the respectable Dharamsinh Morarji family. My mother was legally married to Arvind Morarji at a public function at Radio Club at Colaba. Due to some family problems my mother had to separate from my father," she disclosed but refused to elaborate what these problems were.

When she was born Nagma was given the name Nandita and that is the name given in her passport as well. In the actress's passport, which this reporter has seen, and which was reissued on April 10,2003, her parents' names are mentioned as Arvind Pratapsinh Morarji and Seema Sadanah.

The illustrious Morarji family till not long ago owned some of the biggest textile mills in western India--chunks of the business was subsequently sold to the Piramals. But in the last two decades the two branches of the family: Goculdas Morarji and Dharamsinh Morarji have kept a relatively low profile. "Very little is known about them," says business historian Gita Piramal.

According to Nagma, after leaving her father, Seema remarried a certain Chander Sadanah about 30 years ago and the southern film star Jyotika is her step-sister.

It was Seema who encouraged Nagma to join the film industry and for several years was her constant companion on film sets, including Yalgaar, where Nagma was reportedly first introduced to Anis Ibrahim.

Nagma was recently mired in a controversy with the underworld when last year Anis Ibrahim's aide, Jamiruddin alias Jammo told Mumbai police that he had gone to Nagma's Bandra flat to deliver Rs 10 lakh to her at the instance of Anis Ibrahim, something the actress has consistently denied.

Through all these turbulent years Nagma says she remained close to her biological father. Though Arvind Morarji remarried and sired two sons, Dharaj and Yuvaraj, the actress says she was by her father's bedside when he died after a prolonged illness. Her name (Nandita) was also prominently mentioned in the obituary notices in newspapers.

Nagma refused to discuss the issue of Arvind Morarji's will saying it was "personal matter," and no one from the Morarji family was available for comment.

Commenting on her future, the actress, who harbours political aspirations, said: 揗y dad was a Hindu, my mom is a Muslim and I was born on Christmas day. I am secular and that's the kind of politics I wish to propagate." She also has a slew of regional movies lined up for release including a Bhojpuri film with Amitabh Bachchan.

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SUARA KEKASIH

Sekiranya selama ini pelakon terkemuka dari seberang, Zamarul Hisham, sekadar memerhatikan dari jauh kemelut yang melanda kekasihnya, Diana Rafar, dan Mawi, kini Zamarul akhirnya bersuara.

Pelakon Lelaki Terbaik Festival Filem Malaysia 2005 yang menjalin hubungan kasih selama lima tahun dengan pelakon, pengacara dan penyanyi itu mendedahkan Mawi menghubungi Diana seawal 4 pagi.

'Diana menceritakan kepada saya sejak hari pertama beliau dan Mawi mula berhubungan melalui telefon bimbit. Saya tidak cemburu kerana anggap persahabatan perkara biasa, cuma selepas beberapa kejadian, saya mula tidak senang,' kata Zamarul dalam akhbar Metro Ahad.

Zamarul, yang kurang selesa campur tangan dalam permasalahan itu memandangkan beliau mengenali kedua-duanya, mengakui berasa simpati pada kekasihnya, Diana.

Menurut Zamarul, beliau mengenali Mawi buat pertama kali semasa mereka berkunjung ke rumah keluarga Diana pada majlis hari raya.

Beliau menganggap Mawi, juara pertandingan Akademi Fantasia 3 dan merupakan penyanyi kegilaan ramai masa kini, sebagai adik dalam industri seni.

Namun, Mawi - yang sudah bertunang - dan Diana kini menjadi perbualan hangat apabila Mawi mengajak Diana memancing tetapi memberikan kenyataan bercanggah tentang kekerapannya ke rumah Diana.

'Saya sedar Diana dan Mawi berhubungan kerana Diana sering memaklumkan saya setiap perkembangan.

'Apabila famili Diana ingin bekerjasama dengan Mawi membuat filem, saya kira ia sudah bagus. Lalu Diana dan Mawi sering bertemu untuk mesyuarat, yang turut dihadiri orang lain.

'Cuma timbul persoalan di sini, di mana kejujuran dalam berkawan? Kejujuran, maksud saya, berterus terang sepenuhnya, bukan separuh jalan kerana ia boleh menimbulkan prasangka di kalangan orang lain.

'Saya hairan konsep berkawan itu telah bertukar kepada keraguan. Ya, saya mula ragu apabila Mawi menghubungi Diana walaupun jam sudah 4 pagi, Mawi menghantar ikan ke rumah Diana jam 6 pagi. Kenapa?' luah Zamarul.

Pelakon filem Di Ambang Misteri itu mengakui Diana meminta pendapatnya dalam hal ini. Namun, katanya, ia tidak salah. Padanya, Mawi mungkin selesa dengan Diana dan keluarganya dan menghormatinya sebagai teman rapat Diana.

'Namun, yang tidak sedapnya apabila timbul cerita yang menyalahkan Diana saja, seolah-olah hidung tak mancung, pipi tersorong-sorong. Saya simpati dengan hal ini dan nama Diana pula semakin buruk, sedangkan saya tahu hal sebenarnya.

'Saya tidak berniat memburukkannya (Mawi). Namun, saya perlu jelaskan apa yang saya tahu. Seperti yang saya katakan tadi, kenapa hantar ikan ke rumah Diana, bukan ke rumah tunangnya? Telefon Diana jam 4 pagi, kenapa?

'Saya ikhlas, sebagai orang yang lebih tua, berkawanlah. Cuma jangan hilangkan rasa kepercayaan keluarga yang sudah menerima kita dan, yang penting, kejujuran kerana setiap gerak-geri kita boleh melukakan hati orang tersayang,' tambah
Zamarul.



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Juliana kecewa difitnah
Oleh Raja Nurfatimah Mawar Mohamed

juliana semakin bahagia

SERI pada wajahnya itu cukup menggambarkan penyanyi dan pelakon Juliana Banos sedang bahagia dengan perkahwinannya.

Dengan susuk tubuh agak tembam tetapi masih jelita, Juliana yang berdandan ala funky ketika sesi fotografi bersama Bintang Popular, tidak segan menceritakan pengalamannya bergelar isteri dan menempuh alam rumah tangga.

揝aya memang bahagia dengan kehidupan saya sekarang. Kadang-kadang rasa macam tak percaya saya sudah berkahwin. Masa bujang saya terlalu cepat berlalu.

揗asa yang paling menyenangkan saya ialah ketika bersama suami.

Kami semakin memahami hati budi masing-masing. Insya-Allah, kalau ada rezeki, saya harap kami akan mendapat anak cepat supaya kehidupan menjadi lebih sempurna,

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A week after daughter's birth, Tom Cruise launches movie in Rome
Now, my Mission Impossible is...  


LEAVING my newborn little girl.


Tom Cruise arriving on top of a car at the world premiere of his new film, Mission Impossible III, in Rome. --Pics/AFP,REUTERS
That's what action actor Tom Cruise told reporters in Rome yesterday as the launch of his new film, Mission: Impossible III.

Cruise bounced on stage in the middle of a media conference that he hadn't been expected to attend.

'Sorry to interrupt,' he said as wild cheers drowned out costar Philip Seymour Hoffman's comments to reporters.

'I just got off an airplane, so I'm way too tired.'

He added quickly that he hadn't slept for a week - not since he and fiancee Katie Holme's daughter Suri was born last Tuesday in Los Angeles.

'My mission impossible was to be here today,' said the 43-year-old.

'I didn't want to come. My daughter was just born and I didn't want to leave her and her mother.'

But Cruise said it was Holmes who had convinced him to return to the promotional tour so soon after the birth.

'We discussed it... She said, 'You know, things change',' Cruise said.

'I realise the fans are going to be there in London and Paris and you know, everything is cool.'


Above, costar Maggie Q.
Once he returns to the US after the Paris launch tomorrow, Cruise said he planned to talk to Holmes about marriage.

'We are going to decide where and when and how,' Cruise said.

'Really, whatever Katie wants, you know.'

Cruise has two older children that he adopted during his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman - 13-year-old Isabella and 11-year-old Connor - who are accompanying him on his European tour. Suri is his first biological child.

He said Suri's birth last week was 'everything we wanted it to be and more. It was really very spiritual.'

He added that he he was a hands-on doting dad.

'I changed her first,' he said.

'I change diapers all the time. I have to tell you I love it.

'We have a whole system worked out.

'It's the 'B and B' - she does the breastfeeding and I do the burping and changing the diapers. It's teamwork.'

Mission: Impossible III sees Cruise leaping from Shanghai skyscrapers and breaking into the Vatican.

Part of the film was shot in Rome, the city where Cruise and Holmes first made their romance public exactly a year ago.

The following month, the twice-divorced Cruise made his infamously manic couch-hopping profession of love for Holmes on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

He proposed in Paris in June.

Cruise was gushing about Holmes again in Rome, saying childbirth had deepened his love for her.

'I look at Katie and my admiration and love and respect for her, although I didn't think it could get any more, it became more,' he said.

'It was very beautiful.

'The next time I go to Paris (after the promotional tour) - that's where I asked Katie to marry me - I want to go with her and my family.' - Wire services.

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PAPA ROK KETUAI AF4
PROGRAM realiti popular Akademi Fantasia (AF), yang melahirkan penyanyi seperti Mawi, mungkin lebih popular di negara seberang.

Namun, penglibatan artis asal Singapura tetap tidak dilupakan.

Papa rok, Ramli Sarip, khabarnya dipilih AF musim keempat (AF4), sekali gus mengakhiri spekulasi siapa akan menduduki kerusi paling panas itu.

'Selain Ramli sebagai pengetua, AF4 juga akan diterajui beberapa muka baru,' kata sumber kepada pihak akhbar Berita Harian Malaysia.

Ramli antara nama yang dikatakan bakal mengetuai AF4, selain Datuk Wah Idris serta dua bekas pengetua AF iaitu Ramli MS dan M. Nasir yang menjadi pilihan ramai.

Melengkapkan senarai tenaga pengajar AF4 ialah komposer dan penyanyi terkenal, Mohd Faizal Maas atau Ajai, serta aktivis teater dan pelakon terkenal, Fauziah Nawi.

AF4 akan memulakan siaran pertamanya Jun ini.

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ANUAR CARI CALON ISTERI
PENYANYI Anuar Zain selalu disebut peminat wanita. Ada yang tidak segan memeluk dan menciumnya.

Tidakkah beliau teringin mempunyai teman wanita istimewa sendiri, atau berumah tangga memandangkan usianya menjangkau 36 tahun?

Dalam diam-diam, rupa-rupanya Anuar memang sedang mencari calon sesuai. Ha, siapa yang minat sangat kepada Anuar, dengar sini:

Kata Anuar: 'Sebenarnya, saya bersedia berumah tangga, cuma calonnya sahaja belum ada. Saya bukannya terdesak untuk berumah tangga kerana soal jodoh ini perkara serius.

'Saya juga tidak meletakkan sebarang kriteria mencari teman wanita kerana jika ada kriteria tertentu sudah lain pula jadinya. Saya juga tidak kisah jika jodoh saya dengan orang biasa atau daripada kalangan peminat saya sendiri.'

Penyanyi yang pernah dikaitkan ada hubungan dengan Siti Nurhaliza ini juga menegaskan beliau dan Siti sekadar rakan artis.

'Secara peribadi, saya memang tidak kenal siapa Siti. Saya berasa lega apabila keluar gosip hubungan Siti dengan Datuk K. Kini, bagi saya semua nya selesai dan kebenaran sudah terbukti. Saya harap selepas ini tiada lagi orang mengaitkan saya dengan Siti,' kata Anuar, lapor Harian Metro.

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SALEEM NAFI ABAIKAN ANAK DI KAMPUNG
KUALA LUMPUR - Bekas penyanyi kumpulan Iklim, Saleem, menafikan telah mengabaikan tanggung jawabnya sebagai seorang bapa.

Kelmarin, Harian Metro melaporkan rintihan anak-anak Saleem di Kuala Terengganu yang rindukan bapa mereka selepas empat tahun tidak bertemu dengannya.

Bagaimanapun, mereka memberikan syarat supaya Saleem menjauhi tabiat lamanya sebelum bertemu mereka.

'Abah rela bertemu dengan kamu semua tetapi janganlah meletakkan syarat seolah-olah abah ini terlalu jahat dan tidak pernah insaf dengan apa yang berlaku.

'Abah tetap sayangkan kamu semua dan perasaan ini tidak pernah berubah dari dulu hingga kini,' katanya.

Saleem mempunyai lima anak hasil perkahwinan terdahulu.

Beliau kini telah berumahtangga lagi dengan Cik Juniah Bachok, 40 tahun, yang juga pengurus peribadinya.

'Kenapa sekarang baru nak bangkitkan hal ini, bila susah tidak ada sesiapa yang datang menjenguk saya. Masa di penjara, tiada sesiapa membawa mereka untuk memberi semangat dan menjenguk saya,' katanya kelmarin.

Menurut Saleem, kali terakhir beliau berjumpa anaknya dua tahun lalu ialah ketika pulang ke kampung.

Saleem yang bakal merakamkan album terbaru turut memaklumkan beliau tidak pernah sesekali melupakan anaknya dengan bekas isteri.

'Saya bersumpah tidak ambil dadah lagi, apa yang berlaku adalah kisah sejarah hitam hidup saya. Cukuplah apa yang saya dah lalui, ini pengalaman yang tidak perlu diingatkan lagi,' katanya. - Harian Metro.

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INFO JULIANA:


Juliana atau nama sebenarnya Juliana Azman Banos. Di lahir di Jerantut, Pahang pada 26 Mac 1979, bagaimanapun dibesarkan di Hong Kong dan Singapura.


Berdarah kacukan Sepanyol, Perancis, Melayu dan Indonesia.


Penyanyi dan pelakon berusia 27 tahun mendapat pendidikan O-Level dan A-Level di International School & Overseas Family, Singapura dan mula beraksi di depan lensa kamera sebagai model pada usia 16 tahun di Singapura.


Namanya melonjak selepas dinobatkan sebagai Dewi Remaja 98/99 dan dilamar KRU Records sebagai artis rakaman.


Album pertamanya berjudul Juliana Banos diterbitkan awal 1999. Beliau popularmenerusi lagu Mana Satu dan Sehidup Semati. Albumitu dijual melebihi 25,000 unit dan album keduamenyusul pada April 2001.


Pembabitan awal dalam lakonanmenerusi drama Shiver, Growing Up dan Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu, diikuti filem Gerak Khas TheMovie II,MX3, Gila-Gila Pengantin Remaja, Gila Gila Pengantin, Sembilu 2005 dan Pontianak Menjerit.


Juliana pernah dinobatkan Artis Baru Popular Anugerah Bintang Popular 1999

Erm sekolah ni kan kat daerah blakang orchard sana kan? Near borders ke apa kalau tak silap..tapi tot nama sekolah ni Overseas Family School?

Amrita Rao has a twin sister?

Oh, all the things these poor stars have to suffer, not to mention the gossip that swirls around them. But for Amrita Rao this was the weirdest thing she's ever heard that she has a twin sister and she and her parents have tucked her away somewhere since they don't want any competition in the family. May be she lost her in a Manmohan Desai 'Mela', and doesn't know it still?

揂fter Madhuri and Ash I see the dancer抯 grace in Priyanka

Ash resumed shooting!

Ash injured her hand in a freak accident in Bangalore, when she was shooting on the sets of Mani Ratnam's 'Guru'. As per reports, while riding a bi-cycle, she fell from it, and hence sustained abrasion in her hand, however she's now doing fine.

But the industry circle certainly went abuzz with the rumour that due to the accident her shooting schedule has been postponed.

However negating all the rumours, Ash recently got back to her feet and resumed work in Badami, Bangalore for Mani's 'Guru'.

Ash has to complete the month-long schedule in due time because on May 15 she will have to fly off to Cannes for the opening of the 59th Cannes Film Festival.

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Originally posted by skgerl at 27-4-2006 12:34 PM


Erm sekolah ni kan kat daerah blakang orchard sana kan? Near borders ke apa kalau tak silap..tapi tot nama sekolah ni Overseas Family School?

entah eh...agaknya main hentam tulis jer  :bgrin: