Amrish Puri’s grand-daughter’s debut in Telugu film

Bollywood’s most famous villain Amrish Puri is also well known to the Telugu audience through the films Chiranjeevi’s Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari and Kondaveeti Donga and Nagarjuna’s Akhari Poratam. Arthi Puri, grand daughter of Amrish Puri is now making her debut in an untitled film being produced by Rambabu under the banner of Satya Poorna Pictures and directed by Ramesh Nuthalapati.

Brahmaji is playing the male lead in this film which is officially launched last week. The shooting is in progress.

Priyanka kills two birds with one stone

We all know that John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan play gays in Dostana! Let’s move on! And while these two actors are busy doing their own thing, it’s Priyanka Chopra who is getting all serious and standing up for gay pride and all. She tells us, “Why should homosexuals be looked down upon or singled out? It’s someone’s individual preference… That’s why I love the fashion industry. It’s the only industry that doesn’t discriminate, and encourages talent, whether you’re straight or gay!” Must give it to Piggy Chops… She just killed two birds with one stone, eh? Yeah, she just promoted her two films with one quote. Wah, kya dimaag hai!

Daniel Craig is ‘downright goofy’, says Liev Schreiber

Daniel Craig, whose Defiance: The Bielski Partisans is set for a release, has been dubbed ‘downright goofy’ by his co-star Liev Schreiber.

Liev, who with Craig and Jamie Bell feature as three Jewish brothers who escape from the Nazis and fight back to rescue fellow Jews, said the blonde Brit Bond is often misbelieved to be serious like his secret agent character, reports China Daily.

Liev told the US TV show Entertainment Tonight, “We had a lot of fun, which was important because what we were doing was really quite sombre.

“Daniel Craig is far more entertaining and just downright goofy than I think most people think he is, and that's a result of that Bond thing he's doing."

The forthcoming war film is based on the true story of the Bielski partisans, covered by author Nechama Tec in the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans.

Sarah Palin to star in Desperate Housewives?

Desperate Housewives creators are reportedly keen to offer Alaska governor Sarah Palin a part in the show.

Hollywood PR man Hal Lifson, who's not involved with the show, said series creator Marc Cherry is "very hot to trot to have her appear on the season-five finale."

"Marc is highly enamoured of Sarah and sees her as the ultimate guest star [playing] a similar version of herself,” the New York Post quoted Lifson, as saying.

“The idea has gone over surprisingly well with execs at Disney, who see it as a blockbuster based on Sarah's huge ratings on Saturday Night Live," Lifson added.

Cherry declined to comment and an ABC rep said, "There's no truth to it."

Arjun Rampal features in the November issue of MW

'The Reinvention of Arjun Rampal' screams the headlines from the latest issue of MW. If the headline was not catchy enough, trust Arjun to do the rest. If we had the option of coining the headline, we would have hit the nail on the head stating 'Arjun Like Never Before...Never Ever After'. Having said so, one must admit that the current issue of MW is a killer, from the word go!

For all those who loved to hate and hated to love the on-screen Arjun 'Mukesh Mehra' Rampal in the blockbuster Om Shanti Om, and thought that this role must have been a cake-walk for the dude, then, here's the real story. It happened on a New Year's Eve, SRK and Farah dragged him into a bathroom and told him about his 'characterless' role in OSO. When Arjun was very skeptical about doing a negative role thinking of the impact it will have on his kids, the omnipresent SRK simply told him "Do this one film for yourself. You'll do plenty for your kids!" Can SRK ever go wrong?

Even the way Arjun bagged his role in Don is quite interesting in itself. Farhan says, "I'd earlier wanted him for a role in Lakshya, but he'd been busy. I'd seen him with his kids on holiday and thought he could draw on that for the character". Though Arjun's was ready to play Pran's role in the new Don "as long as you don't put me in spandex and make me walk the tightrope". Well, the rest...as they is history!

Each and every film of Arjun's is surely a milestone in itself. This also includes the 'cult-and-still-cultivating' landmark film Rock On. Arjun cannot express his joy in words as he says, "One of my most cherished moments after Rock On was when Amitji (the Big B) came and hugged me at the premiere of The Last Lear." All that we would like to ask Arjun is that Amitji hugging you is alright, because both of you are stars! But what about your zillions and counting fans out there, who are hoping to get a 'jaadu ki jhappi' from their Rockstar of Bollywood, Arjun Rampal!

There's surely something about Arjun that takes him places, keeps him in the good books of one and all. You will rarely (read 'never') find him bitching about any co-star or director. No wonder then, filmmakers like Farhan Akhtar, Farah Khan and Rituparno Ghosh are all praises and only praises for this dude with an attitude, an absolute positive one though!

With so much going for Arjun Rampal, all that we can say is Arjun is 'Rocking' Bollywood and seems like he is going to do that for a long time now.