Shraddha Kapoor is Shakti Kapoor's daughter
Shraddha Kapoor is barely one film old - her debut Teen Patti is still to hit the marquee - but she has already been signed for another film being produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansa li.
The film, My Friend Pinto will be directed by Raghav Dar, who earlier assisted Mani Ratnam (Guru) and then was associate director on Abbas Tyrewala’s Jaane Tu ... Ya Jaane Na. The film stars Pratik in the lead, and if the grapevine is to be believed, his onscreen love interest may be more than just a co-star in real life.

Incidentally, Shraddha Kapoor is Bollywood baddie Shakti Kapoor’s daughter.

The film requires new faces. After Pratik was finalised for the male lead, the production house was auditioning for the female lead. Several girls were screen-tested and a few were shortlisted, but it was Shraddha who caught director Raghav and Bhansali’s eye. Pratik has already started with a workshop for the film and Shraddha is also getting under the skin of her character,” says a source.

But the buzz is that Pratik and Shraddha have been good friends for some time now and often hang out together. While Raghav could not be reached for comment, Shraddha preferred to be non-committal. “I cannot comment on it, but I would love to work with Bhansali sir.” The movie also stars Manisha Koirala in a pivotal role.

London girl Jiah Khan couldn’t contain her excitement when the shooting of Sajid Khan’s comedy film Housefull began in her home city. In the starting days of the shooting schedule in London Jiah began to dole out all the gyan about the city to director Sajid Khan and others.

Sajid, being fond of Jiah, heard her out most of the times, but when co-star Arjun Rampal was at the receiving end of Jiah’s endless chattering about London, he did the obvious thing. He gagged her mouth with a scarf.

Of course, it was just a prank and Jiah took it sportingly, but from thereon whenever anyone in the crew made a mere mention of London, everyone would turn to Jiah for verification.

On another occasion Jiah became the butt of a prank by none other than Akshay Kumar. While dining at a restaurant, Akshay stealthily slipped the cutlery into Jiah’s bag to make her look like a cutlery chor.

Poor Jiah! Now she knows what it’s like to work with irrevocable pranksters.

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Karthik Calling Karthik team in Music Ka Maha Muqqabla
Deepika Padukone performs at the television reality show, Music Ka Maha Muqqabla, in Mumbai. The actress and her Karthik Calling Karthik co-star Farhan Akhtar came on the show to plug their film, which releases on February 26.
Both the stars seemed to enjoy themselves. Farhan grooved to the song Rock on while Deepika danced to Tumko paaya hai sung by contestants Shreya and Aneek.
The show will be telecast on February 20 at 9.30 pm, on Star Plus.

‘Harry Potter’ star Emma Watson was the highest paid female star in Hollywood in 2009.

The ‘Hollywood’s top 40’ earners list compiled by Vanity Fair magazine has the beauty, who earned 20 million pounds, at the top among the women.

According to the magazine, she was paid 10 million pounds each for the final two parts of series, `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.’

The 19-year-old is also the also the youngest actress on the list, reports a news daily.

Meanwhile, Watson’s Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe was placed sixth in with an income of 25.6 million pounds.

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ director Michael Bay earned the highest in Hollywood 125 million US dollars.

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Bollywood Hot Jodi Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif will feature in a sizzling rain song in their upcoming film “De Dana Dan”.

They will follow in the footsteps of some A-list Bollywood stars who have done hot rain numbers. However, while such songs in the past have been shown in the promos of the films concerened, this particular number, “Gale Lag Ja”, has been kept under wraps.

It seems Akshay Kumar was against the idea of showing the song in the promo even if it meant depriving the film of the immense publicity this song’s teaser would have brought.

For Katrina Kaif this song is a milestone. It is a dream of every Bollywood actress to feature in a well-picturised rain song and Katrina has got the opportunity with hit co-star Akshay Kumar opposite her.

In the song, Katrina Kaif is featured in chiffon saris and sexy designer blouses while Akshay Kumar is dressed in shirts.