Kangna Ranaut to do debut film of Ram Vilas Paswan’s son

After Ritieish Deshmukh, son of Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh who has made his identity in B-Town, here comes a new actor from political background. Chirag Paswan, son of Bihar MP and former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan is all set to make his entry in Bollywood with Kangna Ranaut in the film One And Only directed by Tanveer Khan.

Talking about his son, Paswan said, “I gave my consent for a career in films as I am sure he will become a superstar in whatever field he chooses.” He added, “Wherever he goes, he will carve a niche, whether in films or politics. It’s good that he chose a different path.

Had he come into politics, he would have lived in my shadow. Now, I will be known as the father of a Bollywood actor.” Supporting the son, father also said, “For Chirag, the film industry is a new field.

He has the personality, command over language and the facial expressions….all qualities fit to be an actor. I am sure he will go places.” Besides the lead pair the film by Anuj Saxena’s Maverick Productions also features Sagarika Ghatge and Neeru Bajwa.

Vidya-Kangna to star in Dhamaal 2

Dhamaal 2 has been shelved, Indra Kumar has surprised everyone by managing to get his cast together.

Apart from all the actors in the first film, he has managed to rope in Vidya Balan and Kangna Ranaut for the sequel.

Our source said, “The film was shelved as Sanjay Dutt was not keen on working on part two after which Indra Kumar put this film.

On hold and was all set to start another film with Dutt, Anil Kapoor and Akshaye Khanna.

However that got shelved too. Now Indra Kumar has managed to start working on Dhamaal 2 as Dutt is happy with the script. Arshad Warsi, Ritiesh deshmukh and Javed Jaffrey too have given the film a go ahead.”

Akshay Kumar HOUSEFULL is intelligent entertainer!!

Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan starrer flick ‘Housefull’, which released last Friday was an intelligent comic entertainer with.

A solid screenplay that had Sajid Khan’s brand of humor, instead of being slow paced, boring and unimaginative flick liked by ten percent of so called intellectuals.

Yes, director Sajid Khan, happy with the rocking opening response to his latest offering, has thundered that he knew the audiences more than any other person on earth, let alone the critics.

Once again slamming the critics for their so called criticism, Sajid Khan says that he would always love.

To continue with his brand of entertainer rather than going for something boring to torture the ticket buying junta who go to theatres to be entertained and not for changing their lives of some malady. In fact, Sajid Khan also explains that ‘Housefull’ was made with an eye on the global audience and it was not like his earlier venture ‘Heyy Babyy’ starring Vidya Balan.

And Akshay Kumar, which was more of a drama plus comedy. Herein, he had roped in his trusted friends like Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Arjun Rampal and Boman Irani to create this romantic comedy entertainer for the masses.

‘Housefull’ is about Akshay Kumar playing the unluckiest man in the world, while Deepika Padukone is his wife. The movie cashed in on the summer holiday season and became one of the greatest openers of this calendar year between Friday and Sunday. Now, it will be interesting to see if the movie can survive from Monday onwards.Whatsoever, but the initial response to ‘Housefull’ was already around seventy percent and at some multiplexes like Fun, the occupancy rate was reported to be around hundred percent on the first day of its opening.Now, that is definitely very good news for hit starved bollywood.

'Housefull will be the biggest hit of 2010'

Three years after the hugely successful Heyy Babyy, director Sajid Khan returns with another comedy, Housefull. Joining Akshay Kumar and Riteish Deshmukh (who also starred in Sajid's debut film) in Sajid's new caper are Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Arjun Rampal, Jiah Khan Boman Irani, Randhir Kapoor and Chunkey Pandey. Sajid is very confident Housefull will screen to full houses. He tells Patcy N why. Excerpts: How did you get the idea of Housefull?

While we were celebrating the success of Heyy Babby and deciding what our next film should be, Milap Javeri --my screenplay writer on Heyy Babyy -- shared something that had happened to him. On the last day of college, he proposed to his girlfriend with a ring. She not only returned it; she also broke up with him before driving off on another boy's bike.

Milap was in love with her for two years. His heart broke when she rejected him. He started crying. The ring fell from his hand, he slipped on the ring and fell himself. His pant tore and a dog bit him. All this happened to him in the space of just five minutes.

I started laughing; I could easily imagine Akshay enacting such a scene. Milap said, 'Kaminey mere saath itni badi tragedy hui hai aur tu has raha hai (You rascal, such a big tragedy happened in my life and you are laughing)'. But I thought the whole incident was very funny; in real life, you sometimes find humour in pathos. It was a sorrowful event -- what happened with him was wrong but it was funny.

From that incident, we started developing the characters and a story -- what if Akshay is the world's biggest panvati (person plagued with ill-luck) and nothing in his life is ever good. Though he is a good man, everything bad happens to him. It took us 18-20 months to write the story and screenplay. Your first film Heyy Babyy was inspired from Three Men And A Baby and Rob-B-Hood

[Sarcastically] Have you seen Three Men and a Baby? What happened in that movie? Main chor hoon. Maine zindagi bhar sirf choriyaan ki hai (I'm a thief. All my life I have done nothing but steal). I have no original thought. I only plagiarise. I rob all the stories from world cinema. I rob stories and make films.

Whatever I am today is because I have robbed from others and made my name. Heyy Babby, the whole movie, was a copy. In fact, Housefull is also lifted from 50 movies -- that is what you are trying to say and this is what you wanted to hear, right [laughs]? [Sarcastically] Rediff par dekhiya aaj Sajid Khan ka khulasa. Yeh openly admit kar rahe ki inhone chori ki hai (Sajid Khan exposed on rediff. He openly admits he has plagiarised). This is what you wanted to hear, right?

I give an open challenge to anyone, anywhere in the world. Take the DVDs of Heyy Babyy and Three Men and a Baby and Rob-B-Hood -- which I have not seen till date because I am not a Jackie Chan fan, I stopped being his fan since the 80s because his cinema kept on going down and compare them.

Show me even one scene that is copied ditto -- like Mahesh Bhattsaab did in his films and Sanjay Gupta did in his movies -- shot-by-shot. If you show me even one scene, I will never make a film again. The scene diaper scene in Rob-B-Hood

There is a diaper scene in Three Men and a Baby? No in Rob-B-Hood, I said... I have not seen Rob-B-Hood till date. In which year was Rob-B-Hood released? Rob-B-Hood was released in October or November 2007 and, even if we think it was June, Heyy Babby released on August 24, 2007.

My whole making of the film is documented. I shot the diaper scene in February 2007 so did I enter Jackie Chan's brain in Hong Kong and copy the scene (Bo Bui Gai Wak, also known as Rob-B-Hood, released on September 28, 2006).

I want to ask you a question. Which is the greatest Hindi film ever made? Sholay, Mughal-E-Azam Sholay. Right. Have you seen Magnificent Seven? Have you seen Seven Samurai? Have you seen Once Upon A time In The West?

Even if we think that one of your favourite film is Munnabhai MBBS, have you see Patch Adams [laughs]? Let me tell you a truth. We grew up on cinema. That doesn't mean you copy the thoughts in your head. The English that you speak has been taught to you by somebody in school. Does that mean you are copying that person? No, right?

I have not seen Rob-B-Hood till date. Even if I have, I am not stupid. My name is Sajid Khan. Main doosre logo ka bhanda fodta hoon television par (I reveal other people's secrets on television). Am I so stupid that I will copy a scene from some other film? I made television programmes for four years and showed how others copied. What is lacking today in most people is what is taking our nation down -- common sense.

Riteish, Jacqueline a couple?

Whatever happened to Genelia D’Souza and Riteish Deshmukh’s friendship?

The actor these days is seen in the company of Sri Lankan beauty The two.

Who shared screen space in Aladin, and who also have another movie in the making, are spotted together.

At almost every other event that takes place in the city. Is it that Genelia has no time for Riteish or is this.

Their new way of hiding their ‘friendship’ from the eye of the public? That’s a question only the two can answer.

But for now, all we can say is Jacqueline’s not a bad choice for a ‘friend’, Riteish.