Shraddha Kapoor was reportedly the first choice for Yash Raj Film’s Aurangzeb but she refused to do the role without a second thought! So vivid are the love-making scenes in Yash Raj Films’ Aurangzeb that Shraddha Kapoor who was the Yash Raj heroine for their production Luv Ka The End refused the role.Says a well-placed source, “Shraddha was the first choice for the lead opposite Arjun Kapoor.

No one at Yash Raj thought she’d say no to a lead role in a big Yash Raj production with one of the hottest newcomers as her co-star. But when Shraddha heard about the graphic nudity and intimacy, she simply opted out without a second thought and preferred to focus on Aashiqui 2 which is now her first big hit.”Apparently, like the other star-daughter Sonakshi Sinha, Shraddha is very clear about here dos and don’ts on screen.

The explicit love scenes of Aurangzeb were a complete no-no to her family values.

Shaukeen, the 1980 Basu Chatterjee comic film about three old men lusting after a girl next-door, is all set to be remade by Rumi Jaffery. Akshay Kumar has been roped in to reprise Mithun Chakraborty’s role from the original in the remake of Basu Chatterjee’s comedy,Annu Kapoor, Paresh Rawal and Anupam Kher have been cast as the three lecherous old men.Interestingly, this will be the first time that Akshay will be seen romancing Nargis Fakhri.

Though in the original, Mithun’s part was a small role, the remake will apparently change the part to fit in Akshay. Further reports suggest that Akshay has not charged his usual fee for this film as it is not a full length role, but he will have a stake in the film. “More than anything else, Akshay has given his nod for the remake because he is happy with the way his character has been etched out by Rumi. He will shoot for the film mid-2013,” says an industry insider, adding, “The makers were also very keen to cast a completely new pair in the film. So Nargis fit the bill.”

Although it’s a remake of Chatterjee’s comedy, Rumi is believed to have rewritten it to suit today’s times. In fact, the film’s will now be based in Thailand instead of Goa. “So you will see three old men trying to woo Nargis on beautiful Thai beaches. The film won’t remind you of the old Shaukeen in terms of setting and treatment,” adds the insider.

Krishna DK and Raj Nidimoru, known for helming films such as “Shor In the City” and “Go Goa Gone“, are keen to direct Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu. They have already offered him a script.”Yes, we are interested to work with Mahesh in a straight Telugu film. We have narrated the story to him and we are waiting to hear from him.

This is all what I can reveal at the moment. We have to wait for more development on this,” Krishna told .When asked why Mahesh Babu, Krishna said: “Why not Mahesh? He is a great actor and we want to make different kind of commercial film with him for a larger audience”.

The duo’s last outing “Go Goa Gone”, a zombie-comedy, has reportedly netted Rs.12.80 crore in its opening weekend.A busy actor, Mahesh is currently wrapping up his untitled Telugu project with director Sukumar. He is soon to join hands with director Krish for a Telugu film titled “Shivam“.

After ‘Jannat‘, ‘Tum Mile‘ and ‘Jannat 2, director Kunal Deshmukh is teaming up with Emraan Hashmi one more time for his next project – a thriller. Not only is this their fourth collaboration, it is the first time they are joining hands on a film that is not from the Bhatt stable.The hit pair of actor Emraan Hashmi and director Kunal Deshmukh will team up for a masala entertainer.

“Together Emraan and Kunal are a knockout team…This will be our second film with Emraan post Ghanchakkar… We are confident that this hit actor-director ‘jodi’ will entice the audiences with nothing less than a full-on masala entertainer,” Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing director, Studios, Disney UTV, said in a statement.A source told: “Kunal is in talks with UTV and their discussions are in the final stage, almost.

Emraan, who is currently on vacation with his family, has immense faith in Kunal’s vision and doesn’t really question him. After he returns next month, he will discuss with Kunal and finalise his look with designer Rick Roy. The leading lady is yet to be finalised.”Meanwhile, director Rajkumar Gupta’s Ghanchakkar, which sees Emraan with Vidya Balan again after The Dirty Picture, is coming out June 28.

Arjun Kapoor and Deepika Padukone will apparently romance together in an Indo-English film, which would be directed by Homi Adajania and Produced by Dinesh Vijan.Dinesh Vijan’s latest flick Go Goa Gone is carrying good reports, and news is that he has already started working on his next. Not just surpassing but also shocking everyone’s expectations of his next to be a Hindi flick, Dinesh has decided to make an English film titled Finding Fanny.

Critically acclaimed director Homi is already known for his highly praised Indo-English film ‘Being Cyrus’ that starred Saif Ali Khan in it. Recently he also gave a super-hit film ‘Cocktail’ last year that again starred Saif, along with Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty. Moreover, the film was also produced by Jr. Pataudi and his dear friend Dinesh Vijan. While Deepika and Arjun will share the screen space for the first time together, buzz is that Finding Fanny is based on a road trip, and its major portion will be shot in Goa.

Chetna Pande made her debut in Bollywood with a bold movie, titled, ‘I Don’t Luv U’ which is based on MMS scandal. Chetna said that she enjoyed playing the role of MMS victim because she could relate to the character. Ruslaan Mumtaz of ‘Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar’ and ‘Dangerous Ishq’, plays the lead opposite Chetna in the film.The film is being produced by Amrapali Media Vision, part of Amrapali Group, a real estate giant. Chetna says the film is relevant for the youngsters who fall into trouble by getting into wrong kind of relationships.

“The character portrays the trouble and stigma faced by MMS victims. When such news hit the headlines, it evokes interest. But rarely do we get to know how life turns upside down for the victim,” Chetna tells MAIL TODAY. Written and directed by Amit Kasaria and produced by Dr Anil Kumar Sharma and Dr Pallavi Mishra, the film is set to release on May 17. It highlights a sinister side of college romance where innocent people got into a serious mess by way of MMS shot secretly.Chetan hails from Dehradun, she comes from a non-filmy, middle-class family. She narrates the incident how she embark into showbiz.

Chetna was pursing her MBA course from a Pune college when she was called for audition. She left MBA in the mid-way to try her luck in Bollywood.”For some reasons, the Ekta Kapoor show did not work out but I could not think of anything but working in films,” says Chetna, who worked in several ads and also in Tamil film.

After that extremely aesthetic pertinent and stunning gay kiss between Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem last week in Viacom 18′s Bombay Talkies, we have a lesbian kiss coming up in this week in Go Goa Gone.Bollywood cinema is truly coming of age. And it seems the Censor Board Of Film Certification is determined not to trail behind any longer.

Miraculously, the CBFC has allowed this unorthodox kiss too to pass by.Says a source, “The gay kiss in Karan Johar’s story of Bombay Talkies was absolutely essential. But, in Go Goa Gone, the lesbian kiss forms no part of the central theme. The film’s co-directors Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. were pleasantly surprised by the censors liberal attitude. They expected the kiss to go. Nidimoru confirmed that ” Of course we got an ‘Adults Only’ certificate. It was always meant to be an Adults zombie comedy.”

With a bevy of actors, Sanjay Gupta’s crime drama Shootout at Wadala has managed to nail the art of audience and reportedly earned total 27 crore in just three days after release. It was released on May 3 across the country.

It is strongest in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra, where the story of Manya Surve found resonance. It also managed to collect decent numbers in parts of India where mafia tales are a big draw.

The collections that was recorded at 10.10 crores on it opening day (Friday) now rests at an approximate of 4.50 crores on Monday (Day 4). The film’s weekend collections were excellent despite having adult content, hurling abuses and lewd language at places!

It was made for a cost of around 32 crore with a print and advertising (P&A) budget of around 15 crore, and with three days of release it has crossed one-fourth to its making. It recovered approximately 27cr over the weekend. The producers sent out a release saying, SAW collected 30.7cr from the domestic box office in the first three days.

According to sources from the production side it is informed that the satellite rights were picked up for around 22 cr because this film was sold as a package deal along with Ek Thi Daayan and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again; all three films are produced by Balaji.

Of course, it collected something to the tune of 4 cr on the opening weekend. But the real star is Aashiqui 2 that is 2013′s first certified super hit with a collection of around 43 cr in its 10-day run.

Stand-up comedian Vir Das excels the art of making audience laugh. Showcasing a act in front of the Live audience and leaving them in splits, is something the Delhi Belly holds a knack.

The film is produced by Saif Ali Khan’s Illuminati Films and stars Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Anand Tiwari, Puja Gupta, and Khan as the wacky Russian, Boris. We caught up with Raj, who took the time out from editing, and promotions to chat about his and Dk’s creative process, the zombie genre, and the music.

“We know there are a lot of people in our country who haven’t seen such (zombie) films. What are zombies? How do they become a zombie? And what should be done with them? Answers to all these questions are being given in the film,” the 29-year-old said in an interview.

“The story has been told in a simple manner… So if you haven’t seen a zombie film before, or you don’t know what a zombie is, you can still watch it. Even our characters in the film don’t know what are zombies and what is happening with them,” he added.

Admitting that the subject of Go Goa Gone is a risky one, Vir even added that if it turns a success Bollywood will have access to zombie films. He explained the same fact saying, “When I came to India, there was no audience for stand-up comedians. Still, I managed to create some market for that. Now same holds good for a zomcom like Go Goa Gone. There are inside jokes but the laughter is entirely script based. Yes, we come across zombies. Yes, we don’t know how to tackle them. But then at every point in the film, we and audience are on the same level. We are laughing even as we are being either chased by the zombies or are chasing them back!”

Akshay Kumar supports Special Olympics Bharat and he has approached Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan to come forward and wholeheartedly support the project. Akki is approaching all the Bollywood bigwigs to join hands and support child disability.

This time though the fight has shifted to the Eid release date and SRK will have a face off with Akshay Kumar – it will be Shahrukh-Deepika Padukone’s romantic comedy Chennai Express versus the Akshay Kumar-Imran Khan-Sonakshi Sinha starrer Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again. While SRK’s movie is a masala love story, Akshay’s is a sequel and an action drama.

But not getting into clashes right now, the two has some good news for all fans. Recently Akshay paid visit to Shahrukh twice to talk about a movie in which both of them could play the lead actors. A source said, “Akshay and Shah Rukh will deny this now, but both were trying to figure out if a movie can be made with the two of them in the lead.”

While Shahrukh and Rohit have a clear statistical advantage over Akshay at the moment, we wonder who the audience will give their thumbs up to this time around.

Ahmedabad Gauravvanta Awards show was rocked by sizzling beauty of Bollywood Veena Malik. The actress gives bombastic performance on her upcoming Bollywood movie Zindagi 50:50 songs with Rajan Verma.

The event was organized to honor to give away the awards to Gujarat’s brightest faces who have excellent feats in their respective fields. The Bollywood star Veena Malik enthralled the audience when she stepped out in western wear oozing oomph and sporting a bright smile that matched her crimson lip gloss.

Veena Malik said, “It’s great for me to be a part of Gujarati Gauravvanta Awards where well known Gujarat personalities are honoured. I am very happy to perform on my upcoming movie song which is very naughty and lovely.

The evening saw a temperature rising performance by TV star Leena Jumani and singer Aishwarya Majmudar. Actors Amar Upadhyay, Vatsal Seth and rapper Devang Patel also showcased wonderful acts. Overall Veena ruled the hearts of the Gujarati people.

Kangana Ranaut, who plays Mumbai gang-lord Manya Surve’s love interest in Shootout At Wadala (SAW), seems to be the all-time-favourite moll of gangster films.

Right from her film Gangster (2006), one has seen the pretty lady playing a gangster’s moll in many of the underworld films made in between. It’s not that she hasn’t played other characters but it’s the role as a gangster’s moll that has always helped her in bagging the brownie points.

“Kangana is the tender soul of a very dangerous and violent world depicted in SAW. And it’s amazing how she has portrayed the character of Vidya minus any star trappings. She completely surrendered to the role and made it all her own,” Gupta said in a statement.

Trade analyst Taran Adarsh too praised Kangana saying: “Kangana delivers a wonderful performance (especially towards the final moments) and stands her own despite the presence of actors with challenging characters.”

Kangana, who seems to be unaffected by the success said, “I’m an actor. I get assignments, I do my work and I stay totally detached from my movies. It’s good if a film does well but that’s not going to change my attitude or commitment to my work.”

Meanwhile, she is next to be seen playing a gangster in Revolver Rani, a mujrawali in Rajjo, and a suburban Delhi woman who sets out on a honeymoon all by herself in Queen.