Kate Moss strips for Playboy's 60th anniversary issue

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div id="LeftData" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="Kate Moss strips for Playboy's 60th anniversary issue" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-26778663,width-300,resizemode-4/Kate-Moss.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Kate Moss strips for Playboy's 60th anniversary issue" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> Kate Moss</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="new_class2" id="ftredcmt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: 371px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kate Moss has striped naked for the 60th anniversary issue of the Playboy magazine.</em></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> For the cover, the 39-year-old supermodel has kept a bit more flesh under wraps, as she donned the classic black bunny ears collar, corset and bunny tail while kneeling on the floor.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> The anchor tattoo on her wrist and another one on her hip are clearly visible, the Daily Star reported.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> In one of the snaps, a naked Moss reclines, covering her modesty with a hand draped in diamonds, while in another she covers her face with a mask and obligatory floppy ears, barely covering her cleavage behind a silk throw.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Kate Moss strips for Playboy's 60th anniversary issue

Kate Moss Kate Moss has striped naked for the 60th anniversary issue of the Playboy magazine. For the cover, the 3...

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The Kardashians reveal special Christmas card

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div id="LeftData" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="The Kardashians reveal special Christmas card" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-26780983,width-300,resizemode-4/Kim-Kardashian-with-family.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="The Kardashians reveal special Christmas card" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> Kim Kardashian with family</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="new_class2" id="ftredcmt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: 1295px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Socialite Kim Kardashian and her family members have showcased their much-awaited annual Christmas card, featuring the famous family.</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The family has been photographed by David LaChappelle.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Story: Kim K defends her parenting skills on Twitter</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The card features Kim, her sisters Khloe and Kourtney, step-sisters Kylie and Kendall and mother Kris Jenner. The entire family is dressed in black.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"I loved working with David LaChapelle. It was <span class="ads" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">amazing</span> and it was so much fun," eonline.com quoted Kris as saying.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Also Read: Kim K goes commando in bathroom selfie with beau</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />In the card, Kim is seen standing on a staircase, while Khloe lounges on a chair in a sparkly black dress with Kourtney's son Mason in front of her.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kourtney, meanwhile, is standing near Khloe, holding her daughter Penelope, who wore a cream, flowy dress for the occasion.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">More: Kim, Kanye to spice up love life with yoga</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kylie and Kendall stand atop some of the dollar bills, with Kendall in a high-cut dress and Kylie giving a smouldering look in back of her.</div> </div> </div> </div>

The Kardashians reveal special Christmas card

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I just hate using the word 'Bollywood': Amitabh Bachchan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div id="LeftData" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="I just hate using the word 'Bollywood': Amitabh Bachchan" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-26799733,width-300,resizemode-4/Amitabh-Bachchan-with-his.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="I just hate using the word 'Bollywood': Amitabh Bachchan" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> Amitabh Bachchan with his reference material at the Penguin Annual Lecture</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: 1157px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Of the multiple issues and passions he touched upon in the course of a lecture in Delhi recently, ranging from female literacy to the nuances of entertainment, Big B often came back to the domain he is the regent of - Bollywood. Oh, and he also hates both 'Big B' and 'Bollywood' Excerpts from a voluminous discourse:</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">India's a grand narrative </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I stand before you famous for being a foil - not for what I've done of my own authorship. I'm famous for characters, not the character. That given, many of my characters have indeed been epic, and that's India for you. A grand narrative of big leaders, big movements, big argument, big drama, big passion, big suffering, big overcoming. The only big the media insists I have contributed to this great nation is a rather an overly persistent B - the homemade epithet much to my dislike, the Big B... To entertain - it is a rich and complex act - 'to amuse, divert, attract, to consider, contemplate, hold in mind, to receive, to harbour others in generosity of spirit'. Entertain: inter - among, tenere - to hold. And we hold among ourselves, blessed with a story - 'storytelling conveys meaning without committing the error of defining it'. True entertainers aren't denotative or didactic - we don't give you answers. We certainly don't give lectures.</div> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Films are popular passion of India </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Our nation has somehow, before our post-independence eyes, invented the most successful form of entertainment ever devised by humanity - by sheer number of viewers that is. Feature films are the great popular passion of India, cutting across all social divides of caste, class, gender, region, religion and language. They absorbed all other performing arts from here and abroad, and churned. Urdu and Tamil, poets, scriptwriters; Carnatic ragas, blues and jazz and folk; and churned. The Indian film industry absorbed Parsis, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Christians, Sikhs, and churned. It absorbed Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Assamese, Odiya, so many others, and churned. And all our gods and demons out of the sea have made an extraordinary masala by their churning. This filmi nectar is an ambrosia so intoxicating, that it has achieved what no Indian politician has ever done, could ever dream of. In our cinema, the bad guys always come to no good.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trashy hocus- pocus</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Indian cinema doesn't have a nuclear bomb, it never suffers a recession. How easily it is dismissed as - and here's a word I just hate using - 'Bollywood'. Degenerate, trivial, trashy, flashy hocus-pocus. Because, 'you see the whole country of this system is juxtaposition by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity'. Trashy hocus-pocus!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cinema respects no borders </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Our post-independence cinema played centre-stage creating Nehru's vision of India, where both cinema, elitism and populism produced a new sense of distinction and a collective imagination. What it does... is that it unites an entire people. And it goes beyond that - our cinema respects no national borders. It unites peoples.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Smriti and Sruti </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Perhaps I too may have missed a point in the past when bored watching an Indian film, I felt the absurdity of seemingly dislocated elements and then suddenly flew into a rage - why? What on earth is this song about? What does it have to do with the plot? What's it doing here now? But as I reconsider what I see... I have to ask myself that whether, counter-intuitively, it's about something wiser. Perhaps it is wiser than the director, the screenwriter, the actor and the audience. We all know how Indian epic narrative is interspersed with non-narrative <span class="ads" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">spectacular</span>episodic song. But what about this - it most extraordinarily mirrors our two-fold tradition in ancient Hindu scripture - of smriti, that of remembered, and sruti, that which is revealed. Smriti, the epic narrative tradition of our sacred texts, now speaks to us anew in our overblown film plots. That which is remembered, re-echoed again from memory into recognisable voices. And then the sudden bursts of intermission - non-narrative songs from nowhere. Yes, they are moments of pure sruti.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why is suffering more real than joy </strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A successful film director of the 70s once said, 'I want people to forget their misery. I want to take them into a dream world where there is no poverty, where fate is kind and God is busy looking after his flock.' But why do we presume that it is only through daily suffering that we come to understand these truths? This is what most of us really think, isn't it? Why? What really are we doing when we call our cinema escapist and mere fantasy? I suspect our modern affair with realism is like any other ism - just another overcompensation of ideology. Why exactly does the real, just as confected as any other idea of ours, embody more truth about the human condition than the ideal? Particularly when these very realistic films are being made by perfectly unfamished, middle-class Indians? Why is suffering more real than joy or pleasure? Isn't this a rather puritanical, reified, literalist and simplistic position? Isn't it a bit self-indulgent of us from our position of comfort? Isn't it ultimately offensive towards those that suffer? Why won't we more hear them speak for themselves?</div> </div> </div> </div>

I just hate using the word 'Bollywood': Amitabh Bachchan

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Shahid is the most dedicated actor I’ve met: Sonakshi

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div id="LeftData" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="Shahid is the most dedicated actor I’ve met: Sonakshi" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-26799258,width-300,resizemode-4/PYAAR1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Shahid is the most dedicated actor I’ve met: Sonakshi" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> Sonakshi and Shahid</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="new_class2" id="ftredcmt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: 2215px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pyaar, maar, naach, gaana... R...Rajkumar style!</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rajkumar aka Shahid Kapoor on Prabhu Dheva and R... Rajkumar...</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"I've had the best time shooting with Prabhu sir. I feel he's the 'Mawali King' of Bollywood — no one can make these loud, <span class="ads" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">vibrant</span> films in heartlands the way he does. As an actor, this movie challenged me. I've never essayed a role like this before, so I had to work harder to get the nuances right. Despite being a trained dancer, I had to 'unlearn' everything to work with Prabhu sir's choreography."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Sonakshi Sinha...</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Sonakshi is one of the easiest people to work with. Apart from being very punctual, she is always jovial, so it's a pleasure working with her. Having worked with Prabhu sir before, she picked up his steps faster than me."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pritam and Prabhu Dheva create high-tempo music</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The movie marks the coming together of Prabhu Dheva and music director Pritam for the first time and the duo has come up with some foot-tapping music. Pritam says, "It was a challenge to work on the film since Prabhu Dheva loves high-tempo music that's rustic, yet appeals to a contemporary audience. Out of all the tracks, my personal favourite is Sari Ke Fall Sa. It is beautifully picturised and has unique choreography. I've enjoyed watching it every time I've seen it."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chanda aka Sonakshi on Prabhu Dheva and R...Rajkumar</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Prabhu sir had told me about this film while we were shooting for <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rowdy Rathore.</em> I loved the story and immediately told him I wanted to be part of it. It's a fun entertainer that will have you clapping and whistling."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">On Shahid:</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Shahid is the most dedicated actor I've met. He completes 10 years in the industry this year, but still shows the same kind of enthusiasm and sincerity. He'd spend the entire day shooting, doing some hardcore action, performing challenging choreography, getting injured and then, at night, he'd still hit the gym! <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Producers' notes</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Viki Rajani says, "There's <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">pyaar, maar, naach gaana</em>... Prabhu Dheva understands the pulse of the audience and this film includes all the elements he has popularly come to be associated with." Sunil Lulla adds, "The feedback we've received on the songs and the trailers has boosted our confidence."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Director's cut</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Prabhu Dheva says, "People have always asked me how I manage to make such rowdy films, especially since I'm a shy person. Interes-tingly, this time my hero, Shahid, is someone who has not played macho roles. To direct him in an action entertainer was even more challenging. The film needed an actor never seen before in a full-fledged action avatar and I felt that Shahid was perfect to essay that character. My films have all the ingredients — love, dance, romance, drama, comedy — because we Indians love seeing these emotions on screen. Though a romantic-action flick, it is has been presented differently and that is what sets it apart."<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Behind the scenes trivia</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Shahid went through rigorous training with experts to perform some death-defying and hand-combat stunts, including a 40-men attack action sequence.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The makers roped in designer Kunal Rawal to style the actor in a complete mix-and-match look — everything from his shoes to the pockets of his shirt were customised to suit the character of Rajkumar.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Though Shahid successfully matched steps with director and ace choreographer Prabhu Dheva for the song <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gandi Baat,</em> he had to give several takes and ended up hurting his feet<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />10,000 beer bottles were used to design the set where the song Gandi Baat was shot.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sonakshi's introduction scene will see her attempt some hardcore stunts, including beating up goons and smashing glass bottles.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />While shooting at a lake near Filmcity, the team once got a scare as a leopard had crawled into the area where a crucial scene was being picturised.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The film has invented a new slang -— a mawali style 'Thappi', i.e Thappad + Pappi.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">R...Rajkumar,</em> produced by Eros International and NextGen Films, releases December 6. </div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div id="LeftData" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="I’ve told Shahid not to meet Sylvestor Stallone : Prabhu Dheva" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-26797503,width-300,resizemode-4/P1_1181.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="I’ve told Shahid not to meet Sylvestor Stallone : Prabhu Dheva" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: 4px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> Sonakshi Sinha, Shahid Kapoor and Prabhu Dheva</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: 2107px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal showpage1" id="artext1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prabhu Dheva, Shahid Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha got candid with Bombay Times during their visit to the office. Excerpts:</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prabhu, you couldn't retain your original title Rambo Rajkumar because of the international Rambo team. Were you upset?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Just the other day, Shahid was watching Sylvestor Stallone's <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rocky V</em> and I asked him to change the channel. I also told Shahid, 'When you go to America, don't meet Stallone'!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why did you decide on Shahid and Sonakshi for this film?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />We needed a new couple. I visualised them together and felt this would be a good pair.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shahid, were you nervous at the thought of being choreographed by Prabhu Dheva?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I was very nervous, especially because there is this one step we do together in the song <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gandi Baat</em>. His choreography is very different. While shooting, he saw the monitor and told me, 'Arre, how much energy you've got!'<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">One doesn't see you doing too many action films. How did R...Rajkumar happen?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Prabhu sir saw <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kaminey</em> and felt that I could do an action film. He has worked with Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan in the past, who are established action heroes. I was lucky that he thought of me in that space. I love the kind of action he does — there are no superpowers or bikes or cars, just hand-to-hand combat.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prabhu, this is the first time that you are making a Bollywood film which is not a remake of a South film. How different was this experience?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For me, it's not difficult because I have worked in South too. I started with remakes here, now the actors and producers have accepted me. Whether it's a remake or not, it's the same effort, similar energy is put in.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Overall, some people do feel that the whole South remake trend in Bollywood is losing it's charm...</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I don't think so.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Shahid: Also, the biggest grosser this year has been <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chennai Express.</em><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sonakshi</strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">, who do you make a good screen pair with?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I think I look best with Shahid, Akshay and Salman.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shahid, people loved your pairing with Kareena in Jab We Met. Who do you both think you look best with?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Kareena and I looked really bad together in our first couple of films. <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jab We Met</em> was just a really good film... the characters worked and people remember that. Besides Sonakshi, I like my pairing with Amrita (Rao), Priyanka (Chopra) and Kareena (Kapoor Khan).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">In R...Rajkumar, the two of you take friendly digs at each other (Shahid mocks Sona's weight and she mocks his height). Do these 'imperfections' subconsciously affect you'll in real life?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Shahid: Subconsciously, I feel I am perfect. No seriously, once you become an actor, it's a constant process of improving yourself and also making people love you for who you are. The minute you start being somebody you are not, people sense that and lose that connect they have with you. Look at our biggest superstars. None of them are perfect looking or have the perfect height etc. People love them because they are themselves and they are out there entertaining the audience to the best of their abilities.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sonakshi: He has summed it up perfectly. I have never tried to be perfect right from my first film.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shahid, on the personal front, are you single as reported? Are you open to an arranged marriage?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yes, I am reportedly single! Also, every marriage is arranged only. When you fall in love, you have to arrange things before you get married. On a serious note, I don't think so much about marriage. I have not reached that point where I have fallen in love with somebody and am ready to settle down. Men, unlike women, do not grow up wanting to get married. They think more about how many girlfriends they'll have, parties they'll attend... there's a difference in the psyche. We don't think about marriage until we reach that point where boss, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">abhi toh sochna padega hi padega.</em></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></em></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px 0px;"> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">You have become quite reserved of late when it comes to talking about your love life...</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I grew up and got smart!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">It was said that you are a rigid boyfriend...</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Who told you this? Has to be an ex. Sour grapes, madam (smiles).<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sonakshi, what's your take on marriage?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When I was 16, I would say, when I grow up, I want to be married with two children. As I am reaching that stage, I find myself evading it. I am so involved with my work that.. aise kisisey bhi nahi karne wali shaadi, aise haar nahi dalungi.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prabhu, how are you as a director? Do you miss acting?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If you are asking me, I'll say I'm the best (laughs). What else can I say?<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sonakshi: He is a taskmaster, but it's fun working with him that it just doesn't feel like he's being strict. The space his films are in is so much fun. He makes life simple for us actors by enacting every scene for us.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Shahid: He enacts each scene for us.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prabhu, Shahid says you tell him to talk less. But don't you think you talk very little?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yes. (Shahid jumps in saying, 'Tell the truth sir, we travelled together in the car yesterday. Sonakshi adds, 'We were sitting behind you and sir, you spoke for an hour in Tamil on your phone.)<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Finally, tell us one 'gandi baat' about each other...</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sonakshi: Shahid talks too much!<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Shahid: Sonakshi is a bit hypersensitive. The other gandi baat is that she is too punctual... she reaches half an hour before the scheduled time. As a result, people who come on time feel they are late. That is really annoying.</em></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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