Mama – Bhanja , Aamir and Imran Khan are teaming up for a yet to be named movie. The movie will supposedly directed by Mansoor Khan.

Thought Aamir Khan is currently busy with the production of his films – Peepli Live, Dhobi Ghaat and Delhi Belly. Rumours are they would start the production of this film in mid September.

We all hope Mama – Bhanja weave magic on the screen together.

New Delhi, Nov 25(ANI): Bollywood actor Aamir Khan was in the national capital on Wednesday to promote his upcoming film ‘3 idiots’, which is about three engineering [^] students and their experiences on the campus.

The film is a celluloid adaptation of author Chetan Bhagat’s best selling fiction ‘Five Point Someone’.

Addressing the media on the plot of the film, Aamir Khan said, “The film discusses plethora of issues its not only for the engineering students where the film is set. The subject of the film is relevant to those students or the parents who want their kids to be successful after studying [^]. It addresses various questions like what do we understand by success.”

Bollywood actor Sharman Joshi, who essays the role of Alok in the film, said that he related to the characters, which were essayed by Aamir, R. Madhavan and him.

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Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, ‘3 Idiots’ is derived from Bhagat’s story of three friends whose dismal grade point averages at the Indian Institute of Technology influence their friendship, love life and career choices.

The film, set for release at the end of this year, has brought Khan and producer-director Vidhu Vinod Chopra together for the first time.

“I was really apprehensive of working with Mr Chopra,” Khan said in Mumbai on Friday.

“Now that I have got to know him during the making of this film, I realise that those apprehensions were unfounded,” he said.

The film also stars Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi and southern star R. Madhavan.

Sampurn, Bollywood Trade News Network

It’s a well-known fact that Aamir Khan – Mr. Perfectionist has a special concern for each of his film and puts his earnest efforts to get best of the results. At the moment, he is close on the heels of completing final schedule of Rajkumar Hiran’s much in news 3 IDIOTS, based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘Five Point Someone’.

Meanwhile, he has decided to host a special screening for his family members and close friends seeking their feedback. On heeding to their views, Aamir would insist Hirani to make modifications or re-shoot certain sequences if required.

According to the close sources of Aamir Khan, it has been revealed that the actor has also planned to invite filmmaker A.R. Murugadoss, who directed Aamir’s blockbuster film GHAJINI, for a special screening.

3 IDIOTS starring Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Kareena Kapoor in lead roles is all set to hit screens on 25th December 2009 on the Christmas Eve.

Mumbai, Sep 20 (IANS) Marathi film ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’, Mumbai-based theatre actor-director Paresh Mokashi’s debut movie, will be India’s official entry for the Oscars.

Mokashi told IANS Sunday that his film has been nominated by the Film Federation of India as the country’s official entry in the Foreign Language Film category.

The movie is on the making of ‘Raja Harishchandra’, India’s first full length feature film made in 1913 by the pioneer of Indian cinema Dadasaheb Phalke.

Mokashi’s low-budget period film was completed in January. It has bagged a series of international awards and honours. ‘The film is to be released in India soon,’ the 40-year-old said.

‘I will start campaigning for my film for the Oscars from next month. Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowariker and ‘Shwaas’ director Sandeep Sawant will help me in the promotion as they are experienced hands,’ he said.

This is the second Marathi film after ‘Shwaas’ to be nominated by India for an Oscar in five years. ‘Shwaas’ was Sandeep Sawant’s directorial debut.

Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji says she was delighted to see Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, ‘two special people’ in her life, on the first day of shooting of her film ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’.

‘It was my first schedule for ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’. We were shooting the song ‘Bhangra Bistar’ and coincidentally Shah Rukh was shooting for ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ and Aamir was shooting an ad at Yash Raj Films studios at the same time…they were all eager to see what I am doing in the song and if I am playing a man so they came and kind of gave blessing to our set in a way.

‘It was really sweet because Aamir and SRK are two very special people in my life and I see their presence on the set on the first day of the shoot as a happy coincidence.’

Releasing Friday, the film will see the actress playing a man too. She is starring opposite Shahid Kapoor and took cricket lessons for the role.

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Rakhi Sawant buys gift for ‘her’ children

Item girl Rakhi Sawant is trying her best to be a perfect mother on NDTV Imagine’s new reality show ‘Pati Patni Aur Woh’ – she went on a shopping spree in the US to buy toys and clothes for the children she will be parenting on the show.

At different stages of the show, Rakhi will be taking care of kids from different age group — from infant to adolescent.

According to a unit source, Rakhi purchased clothes for both boys and girls in the age group of six months to 10 years so that she can pamper ‘her’ kids on the show.

When Rakhi packed her bags to go from Mumbai to Goa, where the show will be shot, her luggage weighed around 60 kg.

‘To manage all the stuff, she took her assistant and managers so that the weight of the luggage could be divided,’ said the source.

But since contestants are only allowed a limited amount of luggage on the show, she decided to part way with her own clothes rather than the gifts she bought for the kids.

‘Pati Patni Aur Woh’ will have Rakhi and her Canada-based businessman fiance Elesh Parujanwala as well as four other celebrity couples, who will be relocated from their glamorous lives to become parents. They will have to take care of infants as well as adolescents in course of the show.

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Shiv Pandit to star opposite Kalki Koechlin

Actor Shiv Pandit, best remembered for his comedy show ‘F.I.R’ and his stint as a host for Indian Premier League (IPL) last year, is now set to star opposite ‘Dev D’ actress Kalki Koechlin in a movie.

Shiv has teamed up with Kalki in Bijoy Nambiar’s tentatively titled ‘Shaitan’.

‘The world around me suddenly seems to be changing really fast. I never expected things to work out for me in Bollywood so quickly. I am now looking forward to shooting with Bijoy Nambiar, he is a brilliant director,’ said Shiv in a statement.

This is Shiv’s third Bollywood project — he was earlier seen in UTV’s ‘Aage Se Right’ and Quartet Production’s ‘Lets Enjoy’. A Delhi boy, Shiv has earlier worked as a radio jockey and has been a successful model for brands like Airtel, Sprite and Tide.

Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) Big Pictures, a subsidiary of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG), is trying to tap the international market and has sold the rights of Aamir Khan starrer superhit action thriller ‘Ghajini’ in South Korea.

It has also sold the broadcast and digital rights of its four films — ‘13B’, ‘Luck By Chance’, ‘Karzzzz’ and ‘Rock On!!’ — in China.

‘Within just a year of its launch, our international sales team has tapped into major markets for the proliferation of Indian cinema. Indian cinema is gaining ground with the entry of ‘Ghajini’ into South Korea and our four titles into China,’ said Jawahar Sharma, COO of International Film Business at Big Pictures, in a statement.

‘China is a crucial market because of its size, and we are happy that we have found warm welcome in the largest country in the world,’ he added.

Film director Priyadarshan, known better in Bollywood for his comedies, has gone ahead and bagged the National Award for the best film for his off beat effort in Tamil, called ‘Kanjivaram’. The film, which has been produced by Percept Picture Company, has come in for a lot of praise from critics around the film as the film has been doing the festival circuit.

The awards for the best actor went to Prakash Raj for his performance in ‘Kanjivaram’, while the best actress award went to Kannada actress Uma Shri for ‘Gulabi Talkies’. Renowned Malayalam director Adoor Gopalakrishnan was honored with the best director award for ‘Naalu Pennungal’, his seventh award. While it was quite a southern sweep in the main categories, Bollywood managed to claw its way back with Darshan Zariwala receiving the Best Supporting Actor award for Feroz Abbas Khan’s ‘Gandhi My Father’, while Shefali Shah won the Best Supporting Actress award for Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘The Last Lear’. Aamir Khan’s ‘Taare Zameen Par’ bagged the Best Family Welfare Award. The other winners from that film included lyricist Prasoon Joshi for the song ‘Maa’, while singer composer Shankar Mahadevan bagged the best male singer award. The best female playback went to Shreya Ghoshal for ‘Jab We Met’. Shimit Amin’s ‘Chak De’ won the best film for overall entertainment.

The Hrithik Roshan starrer Kites is rumored to hit the marquee a month earlier than planned. Apparently,

the film’s producer and Hrithik’s father Rakesh Roshan has conferred with the Kites’ director Anurag Basu to speed up the process.

The film’s shooting is over and the post production work is on, we hear. While the earlier plan was to release the film on January 15th, 2010, it has been preponed to December 18th, 2009.

Moreover, Rakesh is keen that the Kites release does not clash up with other films. It is worth a mention here that Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots will release on December 25th.

The year had promised to end on a really promising note with the Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘My Name Is Khan’ and the Aamir Khan starrer ‘3 Idiots’ set for a release in December. Joining them in the fray was Hrithik Roshan with his film ‘Kites’.

But all of that now seems like a sweet dream as all three films have been delayed for some reason or the other. It was the post production blues which led to the delay of Karan Johar and Ajurag Basu’s movie. Hence, it seemed that Rajkumar Hirani would have a field day at the box office with his ‘3 Idiots’. But to everyone’s surprise, even this film has been delayed and pushed back to next year like the remaining two. As everybody knows, Aamir’s wife Kiran has had a miscarriage and the actor has taken off for a couple of months with his wife, his home production, ‘Delhi Belly’ has been completed and everybody is just waiting for Aamir to come back to sit and supervise the editing. Even Kiran’s directorial debut, ‘Dhobi Ghaat’ has been pushed back due to the same reason. ‘3 Idiots’ too has been affected by Aamir’s decision to take off as the film’s shooting has not yet been completed. The original plan was to release the movie on December 25, but that may not be possible now. Aamir has not yet given Hirani the go ahead so nobody has any clue on when he intends to resume working. The way things stand now, all the three biggies will only be ready to unveil themselves next year.