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The sexy 38-year-old Sarita Choudhary, who shot to fame with Mira Nairs Mississippi Masala and Kama ...

By Daniel WallisKAMPALA - Geresom A.G. Musamali had never been to a cinema before he was chosen to join an unprecedented screenwriting course at a house on a hill overlooking the Ugandan edge of Lake Victoria.Set up by Indian director Mira Nair, Maisha Film Lab aims to give east Africas faltering film industry a boost by unearthing local talent and training budding screenwriters for success."I strive to reach the top having come from nothing in the film world," said 45-year-old Musamali after completing the first Maisha sessions.Course organisers say local artists like Musamali have the ability to get their stories made, but no knowledge of the film world. They want to change that.

Remember Rakesh Roshan directed Karobar that was inspired from Indecent Proposal and starrer Anil Kapoor as a go-getter multi-millionaire businessman who has his eyes set on Juhi Chawla, already married to Rishi Kapoor.

Pooja Bhatt has another problem with her on-going project Holiday starring Dino Morea and Onjolee Nair. She feels that ...

Raj Kiran Janjani is young, handsome billionaire. He has a passion to change girls in his life like clothes, for his enjoyment.

Onjolee Nair makes her debut opposite Dino Morea in Holiday.

Ek Ajnabee press conference at JW Marriot Hotel on Nov 24th.On announcing the completion of GS.Entertainments film EK AJNABEE. The enthusiastic and enterprising duo Bunty and Jaspreet Singh Walia-as producers are leaving no stone unturned and have started the publicity of their film aggressively with a lot of zeal and zest. This film has a gamut of stars featuring none other than the superstar and versatile Amitabh Bachchan, the very handsome and suave Arjun Rampal, the beautiful Perizaad Zorabian, the charming Kelly Dorji and debuting for the first time ever in a Hindi film is the debonair Vikram Chatwal, Akhilendra Mishra, Dayashankar Pandey, Raj Zutshi, Aditya Lakhia and Rucha Vaidya. The Film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia.Amitabh Bachchan has given us performances for the ages, which resonates in many directions. In his forthcoming film -EK AJNABEE, an action based stylized film, he brings gravity to the action hero previously unknown, he is a man who stands in disbelief at the fact that he remains alive, despite all the damages done to him. He is a stranger in foreign country that takes on a foreign system all for the love and faith of a ten-year-old girl who walks into his reclusive life and makes him feel wanted again.The music of Ek Ajanbee comprises of renditions by Amar Mohile of Sarkar. fame, he has put together an eclectic fusion of sounds to enhance the film. Also to add to this musical extravaganza we have the very talented guest composers VishalShekhar with their foot tapping number mama told me.

Sameer Nair, COO of Star India has denied rumours that Abhishek Bachchan will host KBC 2.

The 47-year-old singer, married to film director Guy Ritchie, sidled up to Balaz at New Yorks Mercer Kitchen - in front of sexy Uma - before chatting animatedly to the shocked millionaire, according to stunned eyewitnesses.

Just recently we had highlighted the fact the Holdiay pair of Dino Morea and debutant Onjolee Nair had appeared in STAR ONEs popular campus serial REMIX.

Mumbai, Jan 4 : The release of Pooja Bhatts new production "Holiday" has been postponed and she has been advised to release it as a Valentine special.The film, featuring Dino Morea and newcomer Onjolee Nair, was scheduled for this Friday with Aparna Sens "15 Park Avenue" and Babloo Pachisias "Jawani Diwani".

The Bhatt camp has signed two new faces for its home production. Both of them have started acting in the camps two different movies. While Kangana Ranaut is acting in the camps Gangster being directed by Anurag Basu, the other Onjalee Nair is acting in Holiday of Pooja Bhatt. Ranaut hails from Delhi and was offered the role at a Mumbai hotel. Onjalee of mumbai had, however, been trying to enter the camp but failed initially. Later, she got a chance while trying to catch up with Pooja in Goa. Ranaut has worked in theater and Onjalee is a kathak dancer. Both were happy to read their scripts and immediately grab the offers. Ranaut plays a simple girl but dreams of a nice family life. However, Imraan meets her and falls for her. So does the other person who happens to be a gangster. Onjalee plays Muskan holidaying in Goa with her parents, but this trip changes her life.

Pooja Bhatts latest film Holiday will hit screens this Friday. Holiday stars Dino Morrea and Onjolee Nair in lead. Apart from them we have Gulshan Grover, Anahita Uberoi and Nauheed Cyrusi.

Onjolee Nair , the heroine of Pooja Bhatts latest movie Holiday , is a girl of many talents.

Film: "Holiday"; Cast: Dino Morea, introducing Onjoli Nair, Gulshan Grover, Kashmira Shah, Anahita Uberoi and Nauheed Cyrusi; Director: Pooja Bhatt; Rating: Dino Moreas swan-like grace in the salsa dancing, done with such precise and yet spontaneous élan, leaves us spell-bound. Is this really a remake of Dirty Dancing

Picture this - yesterday saw the release of Holiday and Mixed Doubles. Both being multiplex fares, the former is a feel good movie set in Goa and stars Dino Morea and Onjolee Nair in a lead role.

New Delhi,India Feb 12 : Moviemaking moguls are courting the great Indian teeming middle class like never before, making their mundane and ordinary lives the inspiration for films to feed the ever-escalating demand of multiplexes.Close on the heels of mega successful "Rang De Basanti", a coming of age film about average Indian youths, a couple of more films inspired by middle class lives went on the marquees."Mixed Doubles" by Rajat Kapoor starring Rajat, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ranvir Shorey and Koel Purie tells a story of a regular, middle class couple whose love life has lost the spice and what they do or not do about it.Alongside was released "Holiday", directed by Pooja Bhatt and starring newcomer Onjolie Nair with Dino Morea, Kashmera Shah and Gulshan Grover. The film, inspired heavily by Hollywood-hit "Dirty Dancing", tells the story of an ordinary girl who is more of an underdog in the family but grows in self-confidence to become an achiever.

Premier and Press Meet of HOLIDAY @ ADLABS... With Pooja, Munna Munish Makhija, Dino & OnjoleeIn ongoing promotional activities for their just released film HOLIDAY, it was the time for delhiites to enjoy the Holiday with its unit; Pooja Bhatt, Dino Morea, Munish Makhija, Onjolee Nair & production member Marijke Dsouza. The star cast was in the capital for the premier of their film that was organized at ADLABS CINEMAS. During the premier along with the star cast, ADLABS Tushar Dhingra, Spandan Communications Anshuman Pandey and many others were present there.Speaking about the movie, actress turn producer and director Pooja Bhatt, said with my films I have been introducing new faces to this industry, and this time Im here with Onjolee Nair. Appreciating Onjolee, Pooja compares her with Kajol and says that Onjolee is a dedicated girl and will rise one day. She further added that I wanted to make a movie which can cater to an 11yr old audience. She doesn’t shares her credit with any one in making her film not even her father.Onjolee Nair, a B.A. student from Mumbai will now stand in your theatres as Muskaan in the film Holiday. After getting training in Kathak, Balle and Jazz she has learnt Salsa as per the demand for the movie.According to Onjolee, learning Salsa for her was a challenging job as she has to learn it as an untrained dancer. She says that the movie is simple and relevant. Where as Dino Morea wanted to break an image of a non dancer and after watching this film you can say that he is not less than any top Bollywood actor if dancing is compared.Holiday is a story of an ordinary girl MUSKAAN who fails in her exam and is out with her family in Goa for a Holiday. And how does this girl Muskaan utilizes her holiday while following her heart and learns SALSA.

Kall Penn will be seen next in Mira Nairs Namesake.

People of the west African nation of Kenya are all set to savour the histrionic skills of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan when a retrospective of his films will be screened in Nairobi from next week.

Time Warner Inc. and billionaire Carl Icahn on Friday said they had reached an accord, signaling an end to an acrimonious and public battle over the future of the worlds largest media company.

Dismissing rumours that he plans to move from Star to Reliance, Samir Nair says, "Of course Im restless to move on. But not elsewhere.Theres so much to be done at Star. Therere so many challenges at Star. I dont have to go looking for them elsewhere."

Going bald is in. In Bollywood, Salman Khan started the trend and Saif Ali Khan followed. But the scenario in Malayalam cinema is different. Navya Nair sports a bald look. Surprised huh! Navya Nair has not shaved her head. For the Tamil film, Aadum Koothu, Navya will wear a wig and camouflage make-up that will give her a bald look.

We all know that Navya is acting in a couple of Tamil films. Infact Kollywoods number one director Cheran recently signed Navya. Now from Kollywood Navya Nair forays into Kannada cinema. Sources inform us that Navya will make her debut in Kannada cinema with the remake of blockbuster Tamil movie Pitamagan. Top star Upendra will play the role that was essayed by Vikram and Navya would do the role-played by Laila.

Navya Nair and Renuka Menon were recently seen hitting each other. No we are not talking of some scene being shot. This happened for real on the sets of the film Pathaka. It all happened when the two heroines started chatting in between shots. Navya said that she was lucky and proud to do meaningful roles

Just after Ram Gopal Varmas announcement on making a film based on Lolita story of a young girl falling in love with an old-aged guy another film maker Shashilal Nair told him that he had already started shooting for Lolita.

Filmmaker Mira Nair is all set to make a series of films based on HIV. During her recent visit to India she has confirmed directors Vishal Bharadwaj, Santosh Sivan and Kamal Hassan to make these films.

Anil Babu™s Kalabham™s shooting is nearing completion. This film stars Navya Nair and Bala in the lead. Others in cast include Manikuttan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Thilakan, Gayathri, Bhavani Mohan, Baburaj, and Kalpana.

Nairs The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiris Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will soon be released.

So what if Irhsad Kamil comes in place of regular Sameer as the lyricist, an exciting outing is still expected from the soundtrack of Ahista Ahista. A film that finally brings Abhay Deol back on big screen after a hiatus since an interesting debut in Socha Na Tha, it stars Soha Ali Khan as the female lead with Shayan Munshi being the important part of the starcast. A film by Anjum Rizvi, it is special for Shivam Nair who makes his directorial debut. With good expectations of hearing an interesting soundtrack, one plays on Ahista Ahista that has 8 unique songs with remaining 7 being remixes/unplugged versions.

Kal Penn is the newest Hollywood millionaire.

Navya Nair along with Tamil-actor director Cheran has started a production house. The duo has named this production house as Lights and Shadow. This production house has also acquired the rights of Aadum Koothu, a movie being directed by DV Chandran staring Cheran and Navya.

Gulzar, the poet-extraordinaire, makes a comeback to theatre with a play called "Agar Aur Magar". Talking about the play, Gulzar told IANS: "This is an adaptation of Bertolt Brechts The One Who Said Yes and the One Who Said No. The original play was in the form of a musical chorus.

Mumbai, Gulzar, the poet-extraordinaire, makes a comeback to theatre with a play called "Agar Aur M...

Mira Nair talks about her style, Harry Potter, and Bollywood going global.