Amitabhji in Rajini's Endhiran!

Amitabh Bachchan has be roped in by ace movie maker Shankar for his magnum opus Endhiran. Solitary of the costliest movies to be completed in the fatherland by means of a big budget of more than Rs 125 crore, the picture features top stars Rajinikanth as well as Big B's bahu Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead.

At the same time as Rajini plays a twin role of a robot as well as a scientist, Ash comes as a undergraduate. The movie is an accomplishment adventure movie interlaced with romance as well as is produced by Sun Pictures.

In recent times, the Pa star was in Chennai as well as visited the Sun Studios on ECR Road somewhere a good number of the scenes are being can for Endhiran with expressly erected sets by Sabu Cyril. Reliable foundation confirms that Amitabh motivation attribute in an moving cameo -a friend of scientist Rajini, the scenes for which were explosion here.

Vasanthabalan looking for fresh faces!

Director Vasanthabalan, fresh from the success of Angadi Theru, is planning his next film. He has roped in Adhi and Pasupathy to play the male leads in the film, which is set in a village back-drop. We also hear that this is an action film.

Vasanthabalan is doing the groundwork and is simultaneously scouting for a newbie heroine. Sources say that the director is keen on casting a dark complexioned lady to pair up with Adhi, as it is one of the major requirements for the role that he has in mind.

Shakira to sing a item No. in Bollywood

Latin American sensation Shakira's turn to rock in a Bollywood song. She will sing for a film featuring entrepreneur Sachin Joshi, the key sponsor of Kolkata Knight Riders Indian Premier League team.

To be composed by Salim Sulaiman, the number, a frenzied dance track to be filmed on South African model Candice Boucher, will be recorded in the next couple of months. "It will be a very sensuous cabaret kind of song," said Salim.

Shakira is no stranger to India. In 2007, she performed live in Mumbai and other cities and has repeatedly expressed a desire to be part of the Bollywood film industry.

"Sachin Joshi, who's helming and starring in the project, is in touch with Shakira and she has agreed to sing for Salim-Sulaiman," a source said.

"The lyrics would be in English, but with a smattering of easy Hindi. It won't be a duet like the song Kylie Minogue sang on Tony D'Souza's 'Blue'. It'd be a Shakira solo dhamaka." Source:economictimes

Manoj Bajpai as Coal Mafia Don in Kashyap’s “Gangs of Wassipur”.

Manoj Bajpai is all set to don the garb of a bad guy for Anurag Kashyap’s “Gangs of Wassipur”. The actor says he has verbally agreed to play a coal mafia gangster, but has yet to sign on the dotted line.

“The story, of course, has a gang involved in it. It’s not like ‘Satya’ because there that was Mumbai mafia. This will show the coal mafia of Dhanbad (Jharkhand),” Manoj told IANS. “I haven’t signed the film, but I have verbally agreed to do it.”

Manoj is still remembered for playing gangster Bhiku Matre in Ramgopal Varma’s underworld drama “Satya” (1998) - the film was a huge success at the box office.

Though he hasn’t signed the contract, Manoj has already started making preparation to tone down his body for his role in “Gangs of Wassipur”. “I have to lose three kgs in one-and-a-half month for the film. I have to look lean,” he said.

Right now he is basking in the success of his recent release “Raajneeti” where he played an aggressive politician Virendra Pratap Singh, which was modelled on Duryodhan of Mahabharata. Source:filminews

Saranya Mohan to stare with Vijay

Saranya Mohan is going to play Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s sister in his new Jayam Raja directed Velayudham.This Malayalee girl rocked as heroine in Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, and became popular all over Tamil Nadu by doing a jewellery ad with Prabhu playing her father.

Now playing Vijay’s sister will give her a new reach. The underlining sentiments in Velayudham is Thangachi Paasam (sister sentiments), an ingredient which has worked big time for Vijay in Tirupachi.

In the Perarasu film another Malayalee girl Malika played Vijay’s sister, and got a lot of recognition.

Meanwhile the buzz is that in Velayudham, which has Genelia and Hansika as two heroines, the pivot around which the film revolves will be Saranya Mohan’s sister role. Recently along with the two leading ladies, Saranya took part in the photo-shoot. Source:Sify

Won't bare for every movie: Taylor Lautner

Having showed his impressive six-pack for the hit Twilight series, Hollywood actor Taylor Lautner has said, he will only peel off again only if the role requires it.

"Originally I was supposed to take off my shirt in the movie. The script said we were walking into school and (my character) Willy takes off his shirt. I said, 'No. He's going to take off his shirt in the middle of school? No, no, no'," contactmusic.com quoted the actor as saying, for his another movie Valentine's Day.

"The reason I took off my shirt for New Moon (sequel to Twilight) is because it is written in the book that way. And there is a reason behind it," he added. Source;Sify