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Abhishek Bachchan with the Remix cast: Dressed to thrill Priyanka Chopra: ColourfulAjay Devgan in Kaal: Deadly |
n With off-screen Holi just days away, the on-screen festival of colours is right ?on time? with the teasers of Vipul Shah?s Waqt ? A Race Against Time all over the telly. The Anu Malik song Let?s play Holi, featuring lead stars Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra, is already a big rage on the airwaves. But all was not well on the sets during the shooting of the song with wet wet wet Priyanka in for a shock when she stepped on to a loose wire in her make-up van.
The Aitraaz lady collapsed and fainted inside the van leaving the entire unit in a state of shock. With all efforts to revive her failing, she was rushed to hospital and the shoot was cancelled for the day. By next morning Priyanka was hale and hearty and shooting could be resumed straightaway.
With the film from the maker of Aankhen set to release in end-April, Waqt?s Mumbai distribution has been taken over by Akshay himself. ?Waqt is very close to my heart. It?s more than just a business decision ? rather an emotional one,? says Bollywood?s khiladi star.
n It?s getting more and more interesting at the Lakme Fashion House. After Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora and Dia Mirza, it is time for Abhishek Bachchan to take the judge?s chair on the reality fashion show.
Before that, in the Saturday episode, the designers are told to design club wear for the hip and happening cast of STAR One?s Remix, Anvesha, Yuvi, Tia and Ranvir. The foursome comes to Lakme Fashion House and meets the designers to help them understand the characters better. Item girl-turned-actress Koena Mitra, too, pays a surprise visit in the evening and gives the designers a pep talk. The day ends with a ?wine, dine and relax? session at the Le Chocolate Lounge.
In the Sunday episode, the contestants realise that they are running out of time to create two garments in six days for the Remix cast. After a hard day?s work, when Anvesha, Yuvi, Tia and Ranvir arrive for trials and fittings at Lakme Fashion House, the contestants are thrilled to know that the celebrity guest judge is none other than Abhishek.
They decide to get Abhishek a cake to celebrate his recent award for Yuva. Commenting on the Remix collection, Abhishek said he is definitely looking at changing his designer and it?s his mother and sister who shop for him. For more on the small-screen fashion fiesta, catch Lakme Fashion House, 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday on STAR One.
n In this week?s Jaanbaaz, STAR News features inspiring stories of ?lives lived less ordinarily?, profiling winners of the Red and White Bravery Awards.
At 25, when Dr Ratan Sarkar?s colleagues moved to big cities for a lucrative career in medicine, he decided to go back to the villages of West Bengal and founded the Rural Health Development Centres. Running schools and old-age homes, Sarkar refused a ticket to fight an election offered by a political party.
Raghuveer Singh Malik, an ordinary family man in Delhi on his way to work, saw miscreants shooting the employee of a petrol pump and running away with a bag containing Rs 2 lakh. He chased and caught them, while the world stood watching.
Catch the show on STAR News, Sunday 8.30 pm or the repeat on Friday, 3.30 pm.
n Karan Johar meets Ram Gopal Varma in Soham Shah?s directorial debut Kaal, starring Ajay Devgan, John Abraham, Vivek Oberoi, Lara Dutta and Esha Deol. With the promos of the forest thriller already on air, the buzz around the songless Johar-Shah Rukh Khan production is getting hotter by the day.
Without a song Kaal may be, but the music inspired by the film is ready to rock town. Composed by the talented techie duo of Salim and Sulaiman, Kaal?s music is more of the bhangra hip-hip stuff we hear in lounges and discos.
One of the highlights of the film is the item number performed by Shah Rukh and Malaika Arora Khan which comes with the opening credits. This Sunday, at 4 pm, STAR Gold presents a half-hour special show on Kaal?s music, punctuated with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with some of the crew and cast members.
n It?s double dhamaka for English film buffs as STAR Movies brings you a weekend full of exciting entertainment with the premiere of two Hollywood blockbusters.
First up on Saturday at 9 pm is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen starring Sean Connery and our very own Naseeruddin Shah. About extraordinary figures having legendary powers to battle technological terror, The League... is set in 1899 and based on the best-selling and acclaimed comic book series by Alan Morre and Kevin O?Neill.
Shah plays the legendary Captain Nemo from Jules Verne?s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. For his first major Hollywood movie, he trained with a karate master to do much of his own fighting stunt work as Nemo.
On Sunday, at 9 pm, it is time for another sizzling action thriller, Silver Hawk, from cinematographer and director Jingle Ma. A formulaic superhero story set in the hi-tech future, the film boasts considerable visual flair and a touch of humour.
It is an action-packed kung fu movie with Michelle Yeoh displaying her outstanding physical prowess. Co-starring Luke Goss ? the evil dude from Blade II ? Yeoh plays the femme fatale, The Silver Hawk, who has to protect the futuristic Polaris City.