Is Katrina Kaif a strong contender for Mastani?

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Like life, casting in Bollywood also seems to go around in circles. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who presents his lead actors like demi-gods, wanted to launch Bajirao Mastani years ago with Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

The two actors even did a photo shoot in the get-up. A poster of the same is in SLB's possession for posterity. But the project didn't take off on schedule. Later, Salman started dating Katrina Kaif and sources say that he recommended her for the role of Mastani.

Now, years later, the magnum opus is about to be cast. And guess what? While Ranveer Singh could be Bajirao, Kat is a strong contender for Mastani. Sanjay remained unavailable for comment.

Amitabh Bachchan, Katrina Kaif invited for cultural conference in Lahore

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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Katrina Kaif have been invited for the annual Literary and Cultural Conference to be held in Lahore, organisers said.

According to a report in Dawn newspaper, Amitabh Bachchan, 71, and Katrina Kaif are among the many foreign dignitaries, who may attend the event organised by the Lahore Arts Council.

The organisers are hopeful that both Bachchan and Kaif will attend the proceedings in Lahore.

“We have sent invitations to 12 personalities from India, mostly writers, including two prominent faces from Bollywood-Amitabh Bachchan and Katrina Kaif. Hopefully they will attend the conference,” Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi, Programmes Deputy Director, said.

Other personalities who have been sent invitations include Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi and Shamim Hanfi.

This year, the conference is themed around nostalgia, and the title is ‘Beetay Huway Din Yaad Atay Hain’.

Renowned people from all fields have been invited to speak at the conference, which will be held from May 24-26 at the Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall.

Katrina Kaif: Marrying Ranbir Kapoor in 2015 is news to me

 

Katrina Kaif dismissed reports of her marriage with beau Ranbir Kapoor.

Actress Katrina Kaif has denied next year marriage rumours with actor Ranbir Kapoor. There were reports that Katrina Kaif, 30, and Ranbir Kapoor, 31, were likely to tie the knot in 2015.

However Katrina Kaif dismissed such reports saying there were no such plans as of now. “I don’t know about this, it has come in media today. It is news to me as I got to know when someone sent me a message about this, till then I was not aware about it,” Katrina Kaif  told PTI.

“But there is no such thing. If there is something like that happening, I will be the first one to tell you all about it. But, there are no such plans as yet,” she added.

Ranbir had earlier said in an interview that Katrina was special to him. The actress said she does not get disturbed by reports about her personal life as she has learned how to tackle such things now.

“These things don’t bother me today as it used to earlier. I think with time you get used to it,” she said. The ‘Dhoom 3′ actress said her family too was not aware of what was being written about her personal life.

Aishwarya Rai, Katrina Kaif, Sonam Kapoor come together for women awards

The three divas of Bollywood — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Katrina Kaif and Sonam Kapoor — came together for an awards show on Thursday (March 27).

L’oreal Paris Femina Women awards honoured women with extraordinary accomplishments in Mumbai.

  

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The fifteen recipients of awards, from diverse fields, included Usha Jadhav for films, Kiran Bedi for social impact, Rani Khanam for music and performing arts and Razia Sultana for education.

The show also saw performances by Isha Sharvani, Swanand Kirkire and Aditi Mittal.

Katrina Kaif: Women’s roles in Bollywood are changing

 

 

Katrina Kaif says that today women characters in films are strong and are not stereotypical. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Actress Katrina Kaif thinks that the portrayal of women in Bollywood films has changed.

“The portrayal of women has changed over a period of time… The kind of roles and films that are being made with women are great. We not only have women-centric films but even in a love story, where hero and heroine have equal role, the characters of women are strong and not stereotypical,” Katrina, 30, told PTI.

“Earlier the roles of women were more or less same, they were repeated, but today there is a difference. And people are loving it,” she said.

L’Oreal Paris brand ambassadors Katrina, Aishwarya Rai and Sonam Kapoor came together to celebrate India’s women achievers at the third edition of the L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards yesterday.

Fifteen women from different walks of life were felicitated. ”We actors work for gratification, money, fame, acknowledgement. These women who won awards do things not for financial reasons or anything,” Katrina said.

Katrina Kaif nudges Deepika Padukone out of Ranbir Kapoor's tour

 

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Is Katrina Kaif the reason why Deepika Padukone has been unceremoniously dropped from ex-boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor's much-hyped world tour? Deepika, along with Ranbir and Priyanka Chopra, was scheduled to be part of the chain of mega events scheduled for July 2011.

While Deepika taunting Ranbir on Karan Johar's talk show is being seen as the primary reason for her ouster, industry insiders can't help notice a Katrina angle in all this.

The buzz goes that Katrina has been keen on being part of the world tour. And she would never be comfortable with Deepika around, industry insiders point out. Since Ranbir got close to Katrina while he was still dating Deepika, so the two beauties can't stand each other.

The Ranbir-Deepika split happened around the time the Kapoor scion got close to Katrina when the two were shooting together for Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani and Raajneeti last year.

"Katrina and Deepika quite obviously have never shared a great rapport. Also, Deepika's split with Ranbir, allegedly over Katrina, would have made things uncomfortable if all three were on tour together.

The dig that Deepika took at Ranbir on the chat show (Koffee with Karan) was not received kindly by Rishi Kapoor either. And anyway, Katrina is a bigger star than Deepika at the moment," a source says.

While Deepika was quite keen to be part of the tour, Rishi, who is overlooking Ranbir's affairs for the tour, said: "Deepika wanted to come along, but we didn't want any stress behind the stage. Ranbir has never performed live on stage before, so we want it to go smoothly. We don't want any problem." Ranbir's parents, Rishi and Neetu Kapoor, have never desisted from making their dislike for Deepika clear, as also the fact that they love Katrina.

Deepika angered the Kapoors when she was asked by Johar on his show what was the one thing she would like to gift to Ranbir. She replied she would like to give him condoms, taking a jibe at his philandering ways. On the same show, she also miffed Katrina by saying that she would like to see the latter's passport-a reminder that Katrina is of British origin and prefers to keep her past shrouded in mystery.

"Katrina has never taunted Deepika over anything. So, she isn't amused by the comment," the source says. Deepika's condom comment made Rishi so angry that he blasted both Deepika and her fellow guest on the show, Sonam Kapoor. 

"It's a clear case of sour grapes," he said, referring to the fact that Ranbir has dated both of them in the past. "It just shows their class." Deepika responded with a not-so-politically-correct comment: "We (she and Ranbir) are good friends. Till the time the person concerned, doesn't stop taking my calls, my friendship with him isn't affected. I don't need to bother about others." 

Ranbir's Saawariya co-star Sonam has backed out of the tour. Malaika Arora Khan, whose item number Munni badnaam hui is a huge hit, will be part of the tour, besides Priyanka, Bipasha Basu and Katrina. The first lap of the tour will be spread across the UK, the US and Canada.

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