Hottest Onscreen Kisses of the Year 2013

Aditya Roy Kapur & Shraddha Kapoor: Rumoured Bollywood couple Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor shared a passionate kiss in the movie Aashiqui 2. Rain and romance did make for a hot kiss

Arjun Rampal & Shruti Haasan- Arjun Rampal and Shruti Haasan locked lips in the movie D-Day. The kiss was followed by a passionate love-making scene and a beautiful song.

Farhan Akhtar & Rebecca Breeds- In the film Bhaag Milka Bhaag, actor Farhan Akhtar kissed the Australian beauty Rebecca Breeds. Hotness personified, don't you think?

Ranbir Kapoor & Deepika Padukone- The ex-couple shared a kiss in the movie, Ye Jawaani Hai Deewani. It sure made us think, what’s cooking between them?

Ranveer Singh & Deepika Padukone-  The movie Ram-Leela might not be a great watch, but the kiss sure was. The liplock shared by Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone was a screen scorcher!

Shocking: Shruti Haasan Attacked By Stalker at Her Home

Mumbai: An unidentified stalker allegedly tried to barge into the residence of Bollywood actress Shruti Haasan, the daughter of noted actor Kamal Haasan, but her timely act of closing the door prevented the man from entering her house in suburban Bandra.

A source close to the 27-year-old actress told PTI that Shruti opened the door when a man rang the doorbell of her sixth floor residence in a suburban Bandra building at about 9:30 am.

"The man wanted to know from her why she was not recognising him and not talking to him. Shruti did not entertain the man, saying she did not know him, but the man tried to barge into her house. Shruti immediately banged the door," the source said.

The stalker was seen on her movie sets on a number of occasions, the source said. No complaint has been registered with the police so far, the source said adding that "Shruti may approach the police station tomorrow".

The stranger has perhaps been following her for quite a while now, a source close to her said.

"The stranger has been following her ever since she started shooting for 'Ramaiya Vastavaiya'.

Three days ago, he had also come on her sets. At the moment, she is very stressed and for her safety, she has moved to her friend's place," the source said.

Shruti Haasan In Short Floral Dress Exposes Sexy Thigh - Latest 2013 Photos

Cute smile babe and singer, music composer Shruti Hasan hitting the weather in very stylish short floral dress with sexy black blazer which showing her perfect curves body shape during a press conference.

Enjoy hot collection 

John Abraham shoots Rs.3 crore song for 'Welcome Back'

John Abraham's entry in Anees Bazmee's "Welcome Back" will not be an ordinary one. The director has spent Rs.3 crore on a song that will introduce the actor in the comedy.

It has been shot in a popular suburban studio here.

"Anees bhai wanted to do something special with the song. He and Anu Malik have worked extremely hard on it and wanted it to be shot in an elaborate manner," producer Firoz A. Nadiadwala said in a statement.

"Right from the beginning, we had planned to shoot John’s introductory song on a grand scale. We had 700 junior artists and dancers and the song was shot for over seven days," he added.

A sequel to the 2007 hit "Welcome", "Welcome Back" also stars Shruti Haasan, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor and Paresh Rawal and is slated for a 2014 release.

Ramaiya Vastavaiya Movie Review: Girish Kumar And Shruti Haasan Naughty Fight & Romance Hits The Audience!

"Kya ghisi-piti baatein kar rahe ho, kuch naya kaho na" (Why are you saying the same old things, say something new). It should have been the tagline of Ramaiya Vastavaiya, the most shopworn, tired film I have seen in a while.

It is a remake of a Prabhu Deva's own Telugu hit which was a remake of Maine Pyar Kiya, which itself was a refurbished version of the romances Hindi cinema was churning out in the '60s. Instead of Salman Khan and Bhagyashree, we have Girish Kumar and Shruti Haasan. Around a quarter of a century separates the two films. Did anyone stop to ask themselves why and for whom they are remaking this film? It is a Tips production and the lead actor is a Taurani (the producer's) scion, so it is understandable that you would want a cast-iron hit. So of course, you would reach for the oldest plot in the world: a poor but proud heroine, a rich but ultimately nice hero, an over-protective brother of the girl, and mealy-mouthed parents of the boy.

Newbie Girish Kumar plays a happy-go-lucky chap who is the only son of a business tycoon from Australia. He is boisterous, super rich and loves flirting. His parents Randhir Kapoor and Poonam Dhillon aren’t a problem, till their son falls in love. So clichéd! Shruti Haasan is a simple village girl who lives with her bade bhaiya Raghuvir, played by Sonu Sood. Sonu is a very hard working, self-made man who dotes on his only sister. Yes, we saw the same pyaar between brother and sister in Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, remember?

So the film is about Girish Kumar (Ram) and Shruti Haasan (Sona), two completely different individuals who eventually fall in love. Ram comes to India to attend his cousin’s wedding and that’s when he meets Sona, his cousin’s best friend. Initially the duo doesn’t get along, but by the interval they end up feeling ‘something-something’ for each other. But what is love without obstacles, separation and some melodrama, right?

Enter Poonam Dhillon (Ashwini), who can’t stand the fact that her son has fallen for a poor girl. She wants Ram to marry a rich lass and therefore insults Sona and her brother and throws them out of the house. All this drama takes place in the absence of Ram, obviously. The brother-sister return to their village and are back to living their normal life. So what happens next? Well, even if we didn’t reveal this, you could figure it out. Yes, Ram comes running after his lady love, leaving his aisho-aaram ki zindagi. He confesses to Raghuvir that he wants to marry his sister. Here’s when Sonu turns on his ‘angry brother’ switch and puts forward a condition which he thinks will drive the crazy-in-love young man away! But Ram takes up the challenge and wins it too. And there you have your ‘happily ever after’ ending.

The supporting actors Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon and Vinod Khanna play their parts well. Girish is impressive and is surprisingly bang on with his comic timing. Shruti does a decent job, but has a long way to go before she establishes herself as a bankable star. Sonu as the angry brother is convincing and gives a sober performance in the film. All in all the movie is strictly okay and a one time watch, but only if you can’t get enough of those typically romantic Hindi films.

The first half is spent in a large shaadi–wala ghar with village belle Sona (Shruti Haasan) and the Australia-returned Ram (Girish Kumar) making faces at each other, and then falling into each other's arms. Cue arrival of poor-but-proud bada bhaiya (Sonu Sood), and the nasty elders (Nasser, Satish Shah, Dhillon) can humiliate him and tell him to get out. Second half: city boy Ram shows up in the village, picks up cow dung, milks said cows, sleeps on straw pallets and eats terrible food, all to win over the bhaiya, and take his dulhan away.

Rating: 3 Out of 5

D-Day Movie Review: Is Much Better Than Bollywood Expect From Nikhil Advani?

Director Nikhil Advani’s one-line narrative – ‘To bring back world’s most wanted man to India’ – is given life on the big screen in the most convincing way possible by his stars, Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Arjun Rampal. No such luck, though we can happily report that Rampal is aging beautifully. Admittedly he spends most of D-Day gritting his jaw and looking like he can’t figure out what’s going on, but then so does the audience.

From its trailer, D-Day appears to be the desi lovechild born out of a threesome made up of Zero Dark Thirty, Munich and James Bond. There is however a different film whose title it could have borrowed: Clueless. The film begins as a thriller, wanders into heartbreak, gets stuck on revenge, takes a sharp wrong turn with an outlandish twist and ends in no man’s land. This is a shame because D-Day begins promisingly and it’s realising a long-cherished Indian dream: to catch Dawood Ibrahim.

As Rajpal Yadav gyrates energetically to “Dama dam mast kalandar” at a wedding in Pakistan, D-Day opens with two men subtly setting a plan in motion. We don’t know what’s going on or why they’re doing what they are, but Advani has the audience’s attention. Swiftly it becomes clear that the target of the stratagem is a don who is believed to be responsible for all the recent terror attacks in India, including 26/11.

Iqbal (Rishi Kapoor) is a terror-monger modelled on Dawood Ibrahim. When we meet him, he’s sitting pretty in Pakistan and getting ready for his son’s wedding to a cricketer’s daughter. When a bomb blast tears through Hyderabad, the patriotic head of India’s Research & Analysis Wing decides he’s going to take a leaf out of the American military playbook and send a covert team to apprehend Iqbal. The project is titled Operation Goldman. The team is made up of two R&AW plants in Pakistan — Wali (Irrfan), who has been pretending to be a barber in Karachi and massaging an ISI agent’s head for 9 years in hope of uncovering intelligence, and Aslam (Aakash Dahiya), an ex-murderer. These two are joined by Zoya (Huma Qureishi), an explosives expert, and Rudra (Arjun Rampal), a rogue Indian soldier who can match camels’ strides and kill people in the messiest possible manner.

In order to stay inconspicuously undercover, Rudra shacks up with a prostitute who has literally been scarred (Shruti Haasan, with a fake scar). While waiting for the big day, he smoulders, smooches and commits a couple of murders in broad daylight in order to establish he is an impressive soldier and a romantic. He brutally beats up an ISI agent in a bus (while Wali is following the bus in an open-air auto, pointing a gun at the grappling duo). Then, in order to win fulfill his lover’s wish, Rudra follows the man who had disfigured the prostitute’s face and (with a witness present) kills him in a way that leaves Rudra drenched in blood.

Did I mention all this is happening in Pakistan and Rudra is undercover?

He’s not the only one breaking the law in the name of patriotism. Zoya also has to prep for the operation by committing one sexual act — sadly, her partner is nowhere near as lovely as Rudra’s — and one murder. Wali and Aslam are the only ones who don’t indulge in random acts of violence at this stage (although they more than make up for it in the latter half of the film).

By and large, the acting in the film is competent. Kapoor, weighed down by a patently fake moustache, hams occasionally but manages to mix bombast and menace to create his take on Dawood Ibrahim. The script doesn’t allow Irrfan’s character the luxury of being logical, so the actor attempts to give his role some emotional heft. The role of his Pakistani wife, Nafisa, is played by the lovely Shriswara. Qureshi is convincing, but barely utilised. It’s better than the scenes of mindless violence that are Hassan’s character’s lot.

However, even if D-Day is ultimately a boys’ bash and Zoya is sidelined, at least Qureshi’s role relies less on the usual clichés that make conventional Bollywood heroines boring. Advani attempts to be balanced in terms of politics and religious sentiments too. Unfortunately, while he gets A for effort, he also gets a F for credibility.

Still, if you don’t look for realism in its ludicrous version of how politics, governments and covert teams work, the first half of D-Day is actually quite fun. Everything seems to be coming together: performance, strategy, stunts, music, cinematography. The script tries to mesh facts with its fiction by referring to actual terror plots and it’s effective in parts. As pulpy drama goes, D-Day is true to genre until interval and without nauseating jingoism.

Then comes the second half, also known as the altar at which logic, causality and common sense are sacrificed. People yell, tyres screech, bullets are fired and a twist is thrown into the mix. (After all, the Indian agents have to do something to entertain themselves while completing Operation Goldman. So, among other things, they stand in the middle of a deserted highway and yell at each other like squabbling, hormonal teenagers in an American road movie.)

The Indian government washes its hands off the patriots in R&AW, disowns the undercover agents, leaving them to die or be captured. Almost no one in Pakistan recognises the Indians even though their mug shots have been published and circulated widely by the Pakistani military and police. Buying stuff like guns and RDX is no big deal either. It is quite staggering how much violence D-Day believes can be explained away with, “It’s happening in Pakistan.”

The real surprises, however, come right at the end. First, the conclusion presents a very alarming vision of “new India” (Rudra’s words, not mine), in which self-respect is a warm gun. Second, thanks to D-Day, there’s finally something against which the ISI and R&AW can, for once, present a united front: Bollywood’s inane depiction of intelligence agencies and their operations. Finally, with the last shot of the film, you realise that if this was how the story had to end, the film could have ended after the first 10 minutes. That means you have to sit through about 143 minutes of D-Day for no good reason. Sometimes, good things don’t come to those who wait.

Rating: 4 Out Of 5

Watch: D-Day - Official Trailer

Dhanush Is My Best Business Friend; Says Shruti Haasan!

This is what Shruti Haasan had to say when asked about her alleged affair with Raanjhanaa star Dhanush

“I know there are 10,000 rumors. For me, it’s a rare connect with someone. Dhanush is an important friend because when nobody thought I could play the part in 3, he stood by me and said I could do it.

For anyone in any job, it’s important that people have faith in you. I owe him so much. Also we get along well. We have so much to talk about. He is also a comprehensive artiste. But I’m not going around justifying to people. I’m not going to tell people to put a microchip in my bum and follow me, so that they can know the truth. He is my best friend in the business. He has always helped me artistically.”

- Shruti Haasan

Nikhil Advani Says; Its Right Time To Make D-Day - Interview!

As Indian cinema celebrates its century, director Nikhil Advani says this is the most exciting time for filmmakers as they are experimenting and getting creative freedom thanks to flexible audiences.

Earlier, filmmakers were apprehensive about trying out new themes because audiences were inflexible, but today's movie buffs are open to new subjects spelling a boom time for creative minds.

"I would not change from where I am for Rs 100 crore (movies). It's the most exciting time for the industry," said the 42-year-old who started as an assistant director in Sudhir Mishra's 'Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin' (1996). 

"I have been in the industry for 20 years and in the 20 years, everyday I used to think there will be a day when people will start understanding what we want to do, and the cinema will change. But we forgot that audiences have always accepted great and different films. The last two and a half years have only proved that."

"The kind of films that have been made only proves that every time you give something different to the audiences, they will accept it with open arms."

The box-office successes of women-centric thriller 'Kahaani', dark comedy 'Peepli Live' and sperm-donation-based comedy 'Vicky Donor' have proved that viewers are accepting change.

"I am very happy that the studios are today going to the directors who they wouldn't even look at in normal circumstances. It's the best time to make films."

"I want to thank the audiences and say that the more you accept it, the more we will give you different stuff, the more we will keep thinking differently and boldly," Advani added.

Advani's first full-fledged film as a director was Shah Rukh Khan-Priety Zinta-Saif Ali Khan-starrer hit 'Kal Ho Naa Ho' (2003). After that he went behind the camera for 'Salaam-e-Ishq', 'Chandni Chowk To China' and 'Patiala House', but they couldn't replicate the success of 'Kal Ho...

He however hit the bull's eye with his animation film 'Delhi Safari', which won a National Award.

The filmmaker also feels today's youth "is asking for a difference, whether it's difference in politics, leadership, music, fashion or cinema".

He admits that the demography of people looking for different films is lower than the masses sticking to certain subjects. "That's why you will always have a 'Rowdy Rathore' or 'Bodyguard' or 'Dabangg' still working (at the box office)."

"But the niche audience has grown over the past few years and that's very gratifying and helps filmmakers like us to make something different."

Over the years, the definition of romance has also changed.

"In 2003, when I made 'Kal Ho Naa Ho', the generation then believed that at the end of the day Shah Rukh will give up the love of his life for Saif... but today's generation is not like that, they will simply not accept it."

His next is 'D Day', a film on cross-border terrorism, in which a bunch of RAW agents is assigned to bring a terrorist back to India from Pakistan. The film, starring Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan, Arjun Rampal, Shurti Haasan and Huma Qureshi, is coming out July 19.

"I am making another romantic comedy next year. But it's the kind of romantic film that I think this generation would identify. So it's not going to be in the same space of 'Kal Ho Naa Ho', but it will be a romantic film," he added.

Courtesy: IBN

Shruti Haasan' Many dialogues Axed From D-Day!

Director Nikhil Advani can breathe easy. D-Day, his film on cross-border terrorism about a bunch of RAW agents assigned to bring a Dawood-like terrorist back to India from Pakistan, was passed on Saturday by the Censor Board.

Surprisingly, the board had no qualms regarding rantings against Pakistan but took offence to few dialogues by Shruti Haasan in the film. She plays a Pakistani prostitute in the film.

Says, the director, “These are lines where Shruti does hardcore business bargaining with her clients. I was advised to get rid of these dialogues to obtain a ‘UA’ certificate. I happily took them off. My apprehensions were not about what Shruti’s character has to say but about the far more important dialogues on cross-border terrorism. I am happy to say the Censor Board.

Arjun Rampal and Shruti Haasan Get Intimate In D-Day Alvida Song!

The latest song "Alvida" from the action thriller movie D-Day is about love, loss and blood splattared.

If you thought there was something amiss in the way Shruti Haasan and Arjun Rampal were paired alongside each other in Nikhil Advani’s D-Day, just one look at the latest song Alvida will banish all those doubts! The two make for a stunning pair, and look super cute together.

In the track, you can see the scar that Shruti carries as a sort of harsh reminder of the broken life she’s been made to live as a prostitute in Pakistan. However, even as a young girl in the arms of a much older man, she finds solace in the intimate moments she shares with Arjun, before darkness swallows them both again.

What adds to the soulful composition by Shankar Ehsaan Loy is the folk touch rendered by Shruti herself and Nikhil D’Souza, while Sukhwinder Singh in the chorus adds more power to it. So check out the amazing song from Nikhil Advani’s D-Day.

Watch: Alvida - D-Day| Arjun Rampal and Shruti Haasan

Kamal Hassan Helps Shruti In Her Career

Kamal Hassan has done wide-variety of roles in his distinguished career. His roles are backed by the realistic looks, which have played major role in his success. Now, the Universal Star, like a doting father, has helped his daughter Shruti Hassan, who is trying hard to make it big in Bollywood, in developing her look for her forthcoming Hindi film. 

The veteran actor, who has experimented with his looks in films like Indian and Hey Ram, gave his inputs on his daughter Shruti's look for the Hindi film D-Day in which she sports a distinct scar. In the film directed by Nikhil Advani, Shruti plays Suraiya, a prostitute. As part of the character's look, the actress required to have a scar on her face, and her father is said to have helped her get it right. According to reports, the story of the scar dates back to Suraiya's past, when she entered the world of sex trade at 16. She was given this scar when her face was cut open by a pimp

She claims, "Even at this time, he does so much hard work and has so much dedication. He has the same enthusiasm that a newcomer has for his work and that has been very inspiring for me."

Kamal Hassan gave his inputs on the look of the scar. The father-daughter duo was very involved in developing her look, which included deciding the right colour of the scar, its depth, how it would look as it ages.

The scar, as seen in the recently launched trailer of the movie, looks as good as real. D-Day also features actors like Rishi Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Irrfan, Aakash Dahiya, Huma Qureshi, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Sree Swara Dubey.

Ramaiya Vastavaiya - Official Film Trailer

Watch the official trailer of "Ramaiya Vastavaiya" directed by Prabhudheva.

This July watch hearts and heads collide as young love blossoms...

Introducing Girish Kumar as Ram with Shruti Haasan as Sona.

Go Desi Cool...July 19

Directed by: Prabhudheva

Produced by: Kumar Taurani

Starring: Girish Kumar, Shruti Haasan, Sonu Sood, Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Vinod Khanna, Satish Shah, Naseer, Paresh Ganatra

Music by: Sachin Jigar

Lyrics: Priya Panchal

Screenplay Adaptation & Dialogues: Shiraz Ahmed

Production Designer: Sunil Babu

Choreographer: Vishnudeva

Editor - Hemal Kothari

Audiography and Sound Design : Kunal Mehta & Parikshit Lalvani

Casting Director - Shruti Mahajan & Parag Mehta (Spell Caster)