ETC

• Deepika Padukone doesn’t mind kissing on screen and for her forthcoming film ‘Love Aaj Kal’ she will be seen doing some steamy scenes with Saif. • Gulshan Grover was supposed to play brother to Anil Kapoor in the American television series 24, but couldn’t because of prior commitments. • Buzz is that Manoj Bajpai has patched up with Ram Gopal Varma and may act in his next film. • Tapan Sahaa has signed on Hollywood actor Billy Zane to star opposite Bipasha Basu for his next film Chimera. • Priyanka Kothari braved the jungles of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka for Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Agyaat’. • Abhay Deol has returned from New York to shoot for Anil Kapoor’s ‘Ayesha’ and spearhead his production house, Forbidden Films. • Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Kaminey’ starring Shahid Kapur will show how the Bengali mafia plays a big role in Mumbai’s underbelly. • The censor board has asked the makers of ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ to delete a scene where a dancer is seen staring at his own crotch. • Subhash Ghai is planning on giving up filmmaking and concentrating on being an educationist instead. • Debutant Maradona Rebello plays a cross-dressing sexually-confused star opposite Bipasha Basu in ‘Pankh’. • Fardeen Khan got into a fist fight with his sister Laila’s boyfriend Farhan Ebrahim Furniturewalla at a lounge bar in a five star hotel in Mumbai. • Tabu recently rejected an offer from a university in New Jersey to be a guest lecturer on Indian films. • Choreographer Remo D’Souza will hold a concert in the memory of late pop star, Michael Jackson. • Tusshar Kapoor will play a double role for the first time in a film to be directed by Sagar Bellary opposite Minissha Lamba and Genelia D’Souza.

Do you think Jacqueline Fernandes has what it takes to be in B-town?
Yes, Newcomers are always welcome.
No, go back!
I wouldn’t know until I see her act.