Together they have worked on films like Khamoshi: The Musical, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Saawariya. And now buzz is that after a spectacular film like Bajirao Mastani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is all set work a new project. And apparently, the filmmaker has thought of Salman Khan in the lead role.
As per news sources, Salman had a casual meet with SLB and discussed the project. There were signs of him liking the project but he has not said a ‘yes’ to it.
Meanwhile, it is Bhansali’s Mastani, Deepika Padukone who will be paired opposite the actor. It’s said that the actress had a meeting with Bhansali and even gave a nod to the project. With this, it will be Deepika’s third venture with SLB post Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and Bajirao Mastani.
And if all goes well, this film will be a first in terms of Salman-Deepika starrer
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A constellation of Hollywood stars sparkled across Los Angeles’s storied Dolby Theatre, making their way to the 88th Academy Awards this February, but my eyes stayed glued to a beguiling Indian import as she sailed into view. In her sheer ivory Zuhair Murad gown and 50-carat diamonds, a winning combo that’s earned her a coveted spot on various best-dressed lists, actor Priyanka Chopra, slated to present an award that evening, fielded a dizzying range of red-carpet queries. On several occasions, she made sure to mention that she’d work the after-party circuit, then hop on a red-eye to Miami, where her latest Hollywood project, a 2017 Baywatch reboot, beckoned. She remained poised and unflappable, punctuating all her answers with an incandescent smile—surely, a learning from her Miss World days—and a healthy dash of self-deprecation. “I just don’t want to screw up anyone’s name, you know?” she told E! News’s Ryan Seacrest, who appeared visibly disarmed by that admission.
I was catapulted back to a Manhattan press conference, circa September 2015. I’d sat just a few feet away from Chopra (who was in town to promote her then brand-new American television show,Quantico) and was basking in the actor’s second-hand stardust while the voice recorder in my hands trembled slightly. As she hopscotched between Hindi and English, confessing a deep love for Burger King Whoppers while recapping a childhood that included shuttling across various cities in India (her parents were military doctors) in addition to a four-year stay in the US as a teen, it occurred to me that the powerhouse and I, a freshly-minted Indian-American who had arrived by way of Japan, shared an unlikely trait: we were both unable to neatly gift-wrap our histories and hometowns when prodded about where we were “really” from, comfortably residing outside the traditional conventions of nationality. It’s partly why I’ve rooted for her since.
“There is no strategy” Her résumé mirrors a steady build-up to a crescendo—with the occasional wrong note, of course. After all, it’s hard to forget that Chopra’s fledgling Bollywood career, the obvious next step for Miss World 2000, consisted of a clutch of bland rom-coms. It was only in 2008, when she snagged the lead in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion, a film that captured the murky warts-and-all underbelly of glamour, that she leapt towards the big leagues. At a time when female-centric storylines were considered the ultimate swan songs in testosterone-riddled Bollywood, Chopra’s uninhibited performance as a small-town beauty with supermodel ambitions swivelled heads for its stark vulnerability, resulting in a National Film Award for Best Actress and meatier subsequent roles.
Then she veered West in 2012, recording a track with Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am and subsequently producing an earworm of a single, ‘Exotic’, joining forces with international rapper Pitbull. While the tunes themselves were lukewarm at best, they spurred bigger things, including a sultry stint in a Guess ad campaign and the lead role in Quantico, a terrorism-themed mystery that made her the first Indian actor to bag top billing in an American television drama when it premiered on ABC last September.
“There is no strategy,” insists the 33-year-old, who carved out the time for an early-morning phone call from Montreal, Canada, where she was logging superhuman hours shooting for Quantico. Chopra plays Alex Parrish, a fearless Indian-American FBI recruit framed for executing the deadliest attack on New York City since 9/11. It’s easy to see how that twisty role, the first part Chopra ever had to formally audition for, served as the unofficial try-out to the aforementioned Baywatch remake, where she’ll play a baddie, single-handedly taking on an elite crew of lifeguards, starring heavy-hitters like Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock and Zac Efron. “Let me show you how slow-motion running is done, Hollywood!” she quips with a throaty giggle. For a moment, I’m unsure of where her cinematic loyalty lies before reminding myself that rather than claiming just Hollywood or Bollywood, she’s on a trailblazing mission to embrace both.
Though Chopra is quick to summarise a 16-year entertainment career through a few fortune-cookie-flavoured phrases—“when man proposes, God disposes,” she says—her professional trajectory reads like an overachiever’s playbook. While she may passionately deny the existence of a grand future vision, Chopra is never without an immediate game plan. The latest in her growing list of accolades are a 2015 Padma Shri and a People’s Choice award she scored in the US for her debut on Quantico, the ultimate vote of confidence from a stateside audience.
“ABC pushed a totally unknown face to mainstream America,” says Aseem Chhabra, a New York City-based film critic and programmer for the New York Indian Film Festival. He is alluding to the publicity blitzkrieg the network launched last fall. Chopra’s face was splattered on buses and billboards across major American cities, ensuring no one’s morning commute, including mine, was devoid of a PC sighting. “It’s pretty remarkable for them to show so much faith in her and invest in her that way,” Chhabra adds.
The American Dream“I’m an education portal for those who don’t know what India is,” Chopra admits, only half-joking. “I help people understand our movies—no, we don’t just randomly break into song and dance, that’s an important part of our storytelling.” Thankfully, there’s a palpable sense of camaraderie that streams through Quantico’s multicultural ensemble, evident in the nicknames they’ve assigned each other— Chopra’s is “Priyonccupied” for her incessant multitasking. “Out of any of us, [Chopra’s] the most displaced, the furthest away from home,” says Johanna Braddy, her roommate on the show. “But she’s so endearing. She helps people even when she doesn’t have to, whether it’s offering rides to airports or giving advice on how to be a strong woman.”
Chopra’s careful not to gloss over the challenges that come with the groundbreaking role: “People think I’m just waltzing on set and practicing an American accent but it’s so much more than that,” she asserts. “I’m embodying someone whose spirit is American and it’s all very out of my comfort zone.”
Her current comfort zone is difficult to pinpoint, even for Chopra, though she jovially claims it features high altitudes. “I feel the most local on a flight, where no one can get in touch with me, though having a nomadic life wasn’t always my cup of tea,” she says, describing the draining 17 hour haul between Montreal and Mumbai. It’s the inevitable price she pays for being a transcontinental sensation. The second half of Quantico’s first season premiered on March 6, while Jai Gangaajal, director Prakash Jha’s high-voltage crime drama, hit theatres on March 4. “If Priyanka’s decided she wants something, she will do all the possible things to get it—within 15 minutes of my narrating the Jai Gangaajal script to her, she declared no one else could play [the lead role],” Jha recently said in an interview. For the film, which features her as the first female police superintendent in a corruption-laced district in Bihar, Chopra allotted a whirlwind 30 days before jetting back to Canada.
“I was concerned about [Quantico] because there hasn’t been a precedent for this—I’d never seen Indian actors in the West leading television shows,” explains Chopra. Quantico isn’t ABC’s only current programme that showcases a minority lead. The network is responsible for a cavalcade of recent shows—Scandal, How To Get Away With Murder, and Fresh Off The Boat, to name a few—that reflect the demographic changes sweeping America. It’s the sort of dynamic television that serves as the perfect antidote to the social media maelstrom surrounding this year’s Academy Awards, which were accused of being woefully tone-deaf in the race department. Chopra, in all her cosmopolitan glory, couldn’t have planned her US entrance at a more appropriate time.
But Chopra’s trepidation surrounding her great American experiment isn’t completely unwarranted. At 12, after spending much of her young life in various north Indian cities, she tried her luck at a local high school while visiting cousins in Iowa. To hear her recap her initial tryst with the US is reminiscent of some of the more cringe-worthy scenes from the teen flick Mean Girls: navigating impossible-to-befriend cliques, scarfing down lunch solo in a bathroom stall and enduring juvenile taunts like “brownie” and “curry.” I can’t help but wish that her high school bullies are gawking, slack-jawed and sheepish when Chopra dominates their TV screens today—the ultimate revenge fantasy—gracing red carpets and late-night talk shows.
When our conversation shifts towards the Indian cinema scene—after Chopra’s award-winning portrayal of Kashibai in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 18th-century warrior romance, BajiraoMastani (2015), there are faint rumours about her taking on his next untitled opus alongside Irrfan Khan— she brightens up. “I think it’s a great time for female actors in [Hindi cinema],” she says. “But it took a big fight from performers like Vidya [Balan] and Kangana [Ranaut], women who have taken cinema forward and enabled audiences to have faith in the fact that whether a story is told by a male or female, ultimately, just watch it because it’s a good story.”
Chopra’s willingness to credit her peers makes her an anomaly in an industry that is somewhat stingy with its praise. But maybe shaking up convention is one of the perks of being a perennial outsider. It’s hard to imagine any of her Bollywood contemporaries so at ease on American primetime—who can forget her breezy appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she regaled the audience by revealing her childhood crush on rapper Tupac Shakur? On a recent episode of TheTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she challenged the host to a chicken wing-eating contest, winning all too gracefully. Then again, she’s equally at home on Koffee With Karan, battling it out with Deepika Padukone (also soon to make her American movie debut) for that notorious gift hamper.
Chopra’s blueprint for global domination isn’t an easy one to decipher. As far as I can tell, its identifying marks include an inimitable hustle, the constant need to shatter stereotypes and a borderline obsession with uncharted territory. “For me, it’s about surpassing what I’ve done before—how do I become bigger and better?” she divulges as her voice trails, momentarily. “I just put my head down, keep working and make sure I’m the best person for the job.”
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Photographed by Chris Craymer; Styled by Priyanka Kapadia; Hair: Julie Saint-Laurent/Next Canada using Label.m (Priyanka), Nisha Gulati/Folio Montreal (cheerleaders); Make-up: Hung Vanngo/The Wall Group (Priyanka), Alexandre Deslauriers/Folio Montreal (cheerleaders); Models: Karina Savoie/Dulcedo Management, Ann-Sophie Mongeau/Agence France Dionne, Kathy Maguire; Photographer’s agency: Sarah Laird and Good Company; Photographer’s assistants: Dong Loga, Pablo Calderón-Santiago; Assistant stylist: Rima Chahine; Hair assistant: Alexandra Muñoz; Digital imaging: Alex Dow Production (Eloi Beauchamp, Karyne Bond, Nicolas Chabot/l’Éloi), Julia Ferrier, Divya Jagwani
We are aware of the fact that superstarSalman Khan has never shied away from anything. Be it giving back a witty reply or about his films, he has always been very straightforward about everything. But when it comes to dating or being in a relationship,'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' actor has never talked about it in public.
For months now, Salman has been linked to Romanian model and Television presenter, Iulia Vantur. She has been seen many times with his family, friends and at his Panvel farmhouse. Though both of them have kept silence on their alleged relationship, it is hard to believe that they just friends. The duo was seen last seen together when they took a trip to Dubai and looked very cozy.
Today, some pictures were doing the rounds on social media of them being together. It looks like Salman has taken some time off from his 'Sultan' shoot and was spotted with his close friend Bina Kak at an undisclosed location. What caught our attention was the fact that even Iulia was also snapped with Bina in one of the pictures. The model is seen wearing a white kurta in the picture whereas Salman is wearing a white Tshirt and blue shorts. That made us confirm that the alleged couple is in fact together spending some quality time with each other. Iulia did not post pictures with Salman but she did post some snaps with her friends. One of the pictures had a caption"Love is Blind". Well, this sort of confirms something is cooking up between them.
It is reported that Salman Khan is shooting for his next film with Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Along with Salman, it is reported that his brother Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan are also present in Delhi. It seems like Iulia is back in India to spend some time with Salman.
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut had many ups and downs in life and one of many was her secret relationship with Hrithik Roshan, which has become a talk of the town now. The recent revelation of their secret relationship has set the media abuzz. While the two were hitting back each other with legal notices, we were surprised with another big shocking twist inKangana and Hrithik‘s fight and the revelation that had come out to media recently.
Kangana Ranaut‘s emails sent to Hrithik were leaked out after the actor had submitted to cyber cell police for the investigation. Hrithik leaked emails that he had received from Kangana where the actress has made some confessions on her love for the actor. In fact, in one of many emails, the ‘Queen’ actress has also addressed Hrithik Roshan as ‘Jaan’.
Well, amid their nasty controversy and much more, here comes a leaked phone call conversation between Kangana and Hrithik. A YouTube channel named ‘Screen Patti’ has released the audio recording of the two stars talking and fighting on the phone call. Well, the whole conversation is nothing but a spoof audio of the exes. This YouTube channel has just mocked the two ‘exes’ over their over their legal mess.
We are sure this audio video is going to leave you in splits and also wait to hear Farhan Akhtar‘s special role in the conversation between Hrithik–Kangana.
The one common factor uniting stylish women we admire is this—in a sea of uniformity each of them has a unique identifier. Whether it’s sexing up the dress (like our April 2016 cover star does so seamlessly!) or mixing prints; favouring indie designers or playing with exaggerated silhouettes; opting for monochrome or investing in couture—Vogue singles out the defining quality of the country’s best dressed:
We all know that Alia Bhatt hasn’t left a stone unturned after joining Bollywood. From her breathtaking performances in movies to her style trends to her melodic singing, the young artist never fails to impress us. And now, rumor has it that Alia will be recording her first single by the end of the month with music composer Mithoon and it'll be produced by Bhushan Kumar. Inspired by her father Mahesh Bhatt, the romantic track will incorporate musical elements from Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin and Sadak. The passionate and poised singer has earlier lent her voice to Sooha Saha for Highway and an unplugged version of Samjhawan from Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania.
Priyanka Chopra, actor, singer and producer, can add ‘Super Woman’ to her list of titles. A globally recognised star, PC added one more achievement to her overflowing basket of success. She has now grabbed a spot in 2016 Time magazine's 100 most influential people's list. Let’s go through a timeline of her milestones: 1) In 2000, Priyanka won the Femina Miss India World title, and then topped the year with the Miss World crown at the tender age of 18. 2) In 2003, she made her film debut with a Tamil film Thamizan and her Bollywood debut withThe Hero. 3) In 2004 she won her first Filmfare award for Andaaz. 4) In 2008, she won a National Award for her role in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion, a breakthrough performance, beautifully playing a character of complex layers and challenges. 5) Priyanka is also a phenomenal singer. She sang for a few Bollywood movies, and later launched herself as a pop singer in the West. In the year 2012, she released her first international single 'In My City' (featuring Will I Am), Exotic (featuring Pitbull), 'I Can’t Make You Love Me' and 'Erase,' and an album produced by RedOne. Her songs quickly topped the charts. 6) Priyanka finally broke the record by becoming a Hollywood superstar, starring in 'Quantico.' In February 2015, she was cast as the lead—an FBI Agent, Alex Parrish, who gets framed for blowing up Grand Central and now has to figure out who really is orchestrating the whole scheme. The show is produced by ABC Studios, and Priyanka is the first Indian to headline a major American Network Drama Series. Way to go, girl! 7) Priyanka’s stardom has steadily risen in the West too. She won her first People’s Choice Award in the Favorite Actor in a New TV series award category for her role in 'Quantico.'
8) Earlier this year , Priyanka turned producer with her production company, Purple Pebble Pictures, which has three regional movies scheduled to release in 2016.
9) She is set to star as the main antagonist in Baywatch on May 19, 2017, along with Hollywood A-listers Dwayne Jonson, Zac Efron and Alexandra Daddario that are starring alongside her.
10) PC’s most recent laurel is receiving the Padma Shri Award.
Together they have worked on films like Khamoshi: The Musical, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Saawariya. And now buzz is that after a spectacular film like Bajirao Mastani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is all set work a new project. And apparently, the filmmaker has thought of Salman Khan in the lead role.
