After watching Kurbaan I now understand why all the posters for the film capitalize on the sexy bronzed skin of the two lead actors—there’s nothing else in this inane, regressive story.

The movie begins innocuously enough. Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan are the trendiest college teachers you’ve ever seen (but at least Khan doesn’t play a student like in Love Aaj Kal). He’s a Muslim, she’s a (badly dressed) Hindu. They fall in love over coffee and Kapoor’s seriously thick eye makeup. He’s aggressive, she’s coy. “Are you afraid of your feelings for me?” he wants to know. Read more…

Last night I watched the first episode of NDTV Imagine’s next big show Pati Patni aur Woh, an adaptation of the international format Baby Borrowers. Since we Indians are obsessed with rituals, the five participating couples began their 30-day stay with a grihapravesh ceremony. Whatever.

The unmarried couples made a big deal of the sleeping arrangement. “Yeh toh joint bed hai,” squealed Rakhi Sawant dramatically and put beau Elesh Parujanwala to work separating them. Thankfully, she’s packed away all her pretty Indian pastel outfits and sounds and looks more like herself—if you can ignore the ghastly new fringe. Read more…

Lata Mangeshkar turned 80 today. I only realized how much I loved Lataji earlier this year after I read Nasreen Munni Kabir’s Lata Mangeshkar…In Her Own Voice. Here’s what I wrote after reading the book.

In an interview in The Economic Times today, the singer says music accounts for 90% of a film’s success. “An audience may forget a movie but never the songs, if they have liked them,” she says.

In the same interview when she is asked which genre of songs suits her voice best she responds: “I have sung the most number of songs for bhoots! Even my family says I am the bhootwali singer. Read more…

Bigg Boss hasn’t gone on air yet, but which of the season’s big reality television shows made most viewers tune in on Day 1? Any guesses? Nope it wasn’t Rakhi Sawant. And it wasn’t Bollywood beefcakes Salman and Akshay either. The answer is Star’s tell-all show Sach Ka Saamna. Here are the rating numbers: Read more…

from bollywoodhungama

Rambha’s biggest Bollywood connection so far has been David Dhawan. So it was brilliant to see her free of that camp and playing a super sexy bar dancer in Shashanka Ghosh’s Quick Gun Murugun. HT Cafe says the wig cost the producers of the film Rs15 lakh. Worth every rupee, I say.

In the same publication, Ghosh says Rambha’s character Mango Dolly was inspired by Helen and is a tribute to all the bad girls of Hindi cinema. “All these southern goddesses have an aura around them, yet deep down, they are very real. That’s the fatal attraction,” Ghosh adds. I’d pick Rambha any day over our sterile, size zero, cookie-cutter, asexual, foam-and-tape cleavage Bollywood actresses. Read more…