Katrina Kaif Is The Sexiest Woman In World

Gorgeous Katrina Kaif has an added reason to smile. A UK men magazine that conducted an online poll in India has rated Katrina to be the ‘Sexiest Woman in the World’.

Born in London, Katrina’s career is on an all time high at this moment. Not only she has been tagged as the ‘Sexiest Woman, but she also has several hit movies under her belt. The actress has given the credit to his million fans who took their time off and voted for her.

The angel-faced has not only defeated Bollywood actresses like Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Bipasha Basu but also Hollywood beauties like Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson, singers Rihanna, Madonna and several other sexy women around the world who were included in the poll. Read more

Movie Review : Partner

Starring: Salman Khan, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif

Review: What can we say about David Dhawan’s Partner. It’s a leave-your-brains-at-home comedy that’s been blatantly ripped off from the Will Smith starrer Hitch.

In this desi version, Salman Khan stars as a love guru who doles out romantic tips to those who can’t woo their sweethearts left to their own devices. Everything from how to charm a lady, to how to behave on a first date… Everything from dancing skills to bedroom manners… Love guru is the one-stop problem-solver for geeks and freaks.

But when dumpy Govinda shows up for advice on how to win the affections of his cute-as-a-daisy boss Katrina Kaif, even Love Guru can’t seem to come up with a good enough plan.

Clearly Govinda is aiming for the sky, evidently the dumpling has bitten off more than he can chew. But determined to find a place in her heart, gol-matol Govinda convinces Love Guru to take up his case.

Now in between training his new student, Love Guru himself falls hook, line and sinker for tabloid photographer Lara Dutta, who’s always on the run from a midget gangster whose pictures she’s secretly taken. In the end, both men learn that it’s only good old-fashioned sincerity and a big heart that it takes to woo your girl.

When David Dhawan’s in form, there’s nobody who can do comedy quite like him. But truth is the director’s been slipping up lately.

The problem with his recent films is fairly obvious - there’s just no plot to speak of. Look at some of his most successful films - Coolie No 1, Hero No 1, Judwaa - even if they were madcap movies, each had a very distinct plot and the actors performed within the framework of the plot.

But his recent films - Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, Shaadi No 1 and even Partner have wafer-thin storylines and the focus is not so much on telling a story as it is about actor-interaction.

In the case of Partner for example, the screenplay has no twists and turns, no highs and lows, no surprises, no thrills.

The director depends entirely on the repartee between his actors to make the film work, the constant leg pulling between Govinda and Salman. All they’re doing throughout the film is delivering one funny dialogue after another.

Now while some of the lines are genuinely funny, let’s be honest, a lot of them just aren’t. Much of the dialogue just sounds forced.

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Katrina Kaif Dubbing Her Own Lines

Katrina Kaif is finally dubbing her own lines and is highly inclined to continue this trend of hearing herself speak in her own voice now onwards. Katrina says that dubbing in your own voice really adds to the performance.

“When I look back where someone else dubbed for me, I go, ‘No, no, no! That’s not me!’ But in Namastey London and Apne, I felt I was watching and hearing myself,” says the excited actress.

Katrina was previously dubbed for Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar although she was sure her voice suited the character just fine. She has come a long way to synchronise her voice and personality in her latest releases in two years time.

Indian film industry has given her a lot and still has lots to offer her feels Katrina, being completely at home in Bollywood.

She sees every unit as a different entity with its own rhythm and atmosphere.

“A Vipul Shah production is different from a David Dhawan set-up, but I don’t think I ever retired to my van for either Namastey London or Partner. With Vipul, I go blah-blah all day long,” says Katrina.

But Katrina misses her family at the end of the day, getting homesick. That’s when she takes off to Chennai to be with her mother and sisters.

Katrina was recently in Abbas-Mustaan’s Race for a song. Saif Ali Khan and Bipasha Basu made her feel really comfortable and welcome.

Apne: Movie Review

Starring: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Kirron Kher, Victor Banerjee
Directed By: Anil Sharma

They all hug each other quite often. The men hug up-front, unabashedly. The ladies creep up on the men from behind them and hold them close to their heart.

In Apne heart and craft come together to create an amazing graph. Apne is a very warm film. It exudes the comforting, heady scent of lives lived in a ruptured repose manifested in scenes that are written with the lavish and meticulous exactitude of emotions invested prudently in long-term action plans.

Yes, the narration is lengthy, sometimes tedious. What, for example, was the need for that ridiculous ‘rock’ song with one of Bobby Deol’s hands in his pocket?

The length is understandable in a film that puts forward Dharmendra, playing a Punjabi Stallone who has been diagraced in the boxing championsip, and his troubled relationship with an elder son (Sunny) who won’t box, and his younger son (Bobby) who can’t.

Caught between the ‘can’t’ and the ‘won’t’ of lives that share tears and chuckles as destiny reigns hard blows on the knuckles, this portrait of bona- fide emotions is free of naqal.

Full marks to Neeraj Pathak’s screenplay for creating a near-perfect vehicle for the trio of Punjab da Puttars who excel in shedding tears, together and apart. Papa Dharam and his two sons share another common ground. They are seem to suffer a perpetual bad- hair day.

Let not the awkward toupees and hairstyles come in the way of appreciating the deep-focussed melodrama’s undulating motions of light and shade.

Cinematographer Kabir Lal paints the frames in colours several shades deeper than life. And that’s the way it is meant to be.

Though the ladies are engagingly portrayed (Shilpa Shetty as the introverted Sunny’s exuberant wife reminds you of Kajol in Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham) this is a patriarchal story, populated with men who fight for self, family, country and morality on territory as far-ranging as the terrace of a Punjabi village, the boxing ring in New York and most importantly, the human heartland where most of life’s most ironic games are played by God and man.

Other recent films like Rahul Rawail’s Jo Bole So Nihal, Gurinder Chadha’s Bride & Prejudice and Vipul Shah’s Namaste London have gone to Punjab and then onwards on a journey to the West to take stock of the moral waste-land.

Anil Sharma gets it right, in almost every frame. The stretched-out plot takes the Deols and their elegant women and surprisingly-restrained adversaries through several continents and time zones.

Proving himself a master storyteller, Sharma never loses the threads of the plot as the characters scatter across the contients trying to restore family honour in hostile circumstances.

Yes, the narration gets excessively dramatic towards the end. But the magic of the real-life family being alchemized on screen is preserved until the very end.

Let’s stand and applaud Anil Sharma for attempting a theme so vast and dramatic showcasing two generations of Deol plunged into the vortex of a battle that takes them through several levels of emotions and revelations to arrive to a kind of liberating denouement that comes our way in the movies once in a while.

Indeed this Anil Sharma’s Gadar of the boxing ring. It takes hungering leaps into the hemisphere of the Deols’ most precious family ties. Sharma picks up threads of lingering sorrow and abiding ties to weave a tale that’s as sweet tender strong and resonant as any grandma’s tale about the simple god-fearing family which didn’t buckle under pressure.

It’s not the content as much the tightly-clenched treatment that gives the film a feeling of uncompromised ardour.

Swarming with characters and over-sentimental songs about family ties, Apne manages to hold its head high above the intrinsically treacly situation that Anil Sharma creates for the Deols.

The performances are fine as long as you aren’t looking for Brandos and Azmis in the cast. The immensely -gifted Victor Banerjee’s as the Deols’ sounding board is the odd one our specially when he materializes with prayer beads on screen to pray for Bobby’s quick recovery.

Good God!

This could have been one more mawkish attempt to bring together a family that suffers and celebrates together. Instead Apne is our own Rocky.

In fact, better. Not only are the boxing sequences first-rate, the emotions that the macho men invest into each other’s lives makes them look like giants who think big and act for the camera fearlessly.

Katrina Kaif’s Skirt Issue

Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti’s dargah committee has decided to issue notice to actress Katrina Kaif for wearing a knee-length skirt inside the dargah premises.

Filming a sequence for “Namaste London”, which featured Kaif wearing a knee-length skirt inside Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti’s dargah in Ajmer, over 140 km from here, had created uproar among ‘khadims’ (servers) and the shrine administration.

A similar notice has been issued to actor Rishi Kapoor, director Vipul Shah and Babu Bhair Goshi, the shooting arranger for rolling the cameras without taking prior permission of the dargah authority.

The notice reads that all the accused should feel sorry for their act or they would be sued in the court of law.

“We have located the addresses of all the people except that of Katrina, which is being searched by the committee,” Dargah Nazim Abdul Alim informed.

As per Islamic traditions, women wearing skimpy outfits are not allowed into the shrine and dargah officials and the Muslim community had taken exception to Kaif’s attire.

It may be mentioned here that on Oct 2, while filming a sequence of “Namaste London”, Kaif had walked into the dargah wearing a knee-length skirt, which had created a ruckus.

Dargah committee vice-president Sayed B. Chisti, while objecting to it, had said it was the duty of office-bearers accompanying the Bollywood team to ensure the sanctity of the shrine.

At the time of controversy, the film’s director Vipul Shah had said: “There was no intention of hurting anyone’s sentiments or religious feelings. Katrina’s attire was in keeping with her role as a London-based NRI. We are even ready to drop the scene from the film.”

Katrina Kaif Asked To Opt Out Of Sholay

Tough time for Katrina Kaif are refusing to end. Her skirt controversy at Khwaja Moinudeen Chishti’s shrine at Ajmer was barely over when the petite starlet got another shock from her mentor Ram Gopal Verma.

Verma had announced that Katrina is no longer playing Radha in his Sholay. According to insiders, Ramu was unhappy with Kat’s diction and asked her to opt out of the film.

We also hear that the maverick director is already in talks with Sushmita Sen for the role.

Katrina, however, cites dates problem as a reason of her exit from Sholay.

She says, “I’m not doing the film because the dates are causing too much of a problem. I had signed Sholay a long time ago, and now all of a sudden the dates have changed, so it isn’t working out for me.

“I am busy with Anees Bazmi’s Welcome, Vipul Shah’s Namaste London and David Dhawan’s Partner, and don’t have dates for Ramu Ji’s film right now. But I do wish Ramu the best.”

Ask her about her diction problem and she adds, “I don’t think Ramu would ever have had a problem with my accent. I’m doing roles which need more emphasis on the diction and language. David’s films have long dialogues and funny lines, which I have done. So it’s completely untrue.”