Case Filed Against Deepika Padukone For Exiting From Race 2

Producer Ramesh Taurani filed a case against actress Deepika Padukone with Cine & TV Artistes Association (CINTAA) and Association of Motion Pictures & TVProgramme Producer of India (AMPTPP) for her last minute exit from Tips’ ambitious thriller RACE 2.

Deepika’s exit from the film after having shot for a week upon being offered a Hollywood project hasn’t gone down well with the producer who on Thursday filed a complaint. CINTAA was quick to inform the actress about the complaint filed in her name by the filmmaker.

Ramesh Taurani says, “I have been a part of the Hindi cinema industry for 25 years. I have made several blockbusters. But I have never faced a situation like this before. Our directors and the other actors are extremely annoyed with her.”

As per procedural norms if an artist fails to respond to a complaint or grievance,the case then passes onto the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE). If still not addressed, the artist is then liable to face a Non-Cooperation Directive (NCD).

Senior producer Pahlaj Nihalani explains, “If Taurani has filed a complaint against Deepika, she will have to honour the dates which she had allotted to him. If she has given the same dates to any other producer, she cannot shoot for the other project.”

Produced by Tips, the action thriller RACE 2 is scheduled for a November release.

There Are Some Serious Issues Between Hrithik & Shahrukh

This is a known fact that Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan, along with their respective spouses, have been great friends, from going on holiday together, to partying together at each others house.
Which is why it was surprising that when King Khan threw a party in honour of Hugh Jackman (who is in Mumbai attending the FIICI Frames 2011 event), he did not invite Hrithik and his lovely wife Susanne to the party.
Hrithik was terribly upset over being left out of his ‘good friends’ guest list so much so that when Hrithik and wife threw their own party, they happened to leave off SRK and Gauri from their party list!
We do wonder what happened to the once friendly foursome, and we hope they sort out their issues soon!

Aamir & Shahrukh Take It Globally

The year 2011 could very well be the decisive year in the Shah Rukh Khan-Aamir Khan battle for one-upmanship. If all goes according to plan, next year both the superstars will go international with a film each by two of the most celebrated directors on the global map.
What gives the global war of the Khans a cutting edge is the striking similarity in location of the two proposed projects. Both films are set in Mumbai, with the city playing as large a role in the script as each of the Khans.
While Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is ready to adapt Suketu Mehta’s celebrated novel, Maximum City to screen, Aamir is set to play the lead in Paul Schrader’s X-Treme City for producer Anubhav Sinha, to be shot in Dharavi.
Both films are realistic takes on present-day Mumbai, its splendour and stench. Boyle and Schrader have already visited Mumbai a number of times and met the two stars who have reportedly agreed to be part of the respective films.

The Thin Line Between 3 Idiots & Five Point Someone

The public spat between the author of Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat, and the makers of movie based on it - 3 Idiots - doesn’t seem to die down. While Chetan claims around 70 per cent of the film is lifted from the book, its lead actor Aamir Khan believes only 5 per cent of the book is embodied in the flick. Let’s try and de-mystify the similarities and differences between the movie and the book.

Similarities:

1.Broadly speaking, the plot of the film is the same as the book. Both stories are about three students of an engineering college who form an inseparable friendship over incidents that take place in the college.
2.The three characters in the book are very similar to those of the movie. While one of them - Ryan (Aamir as Rancho) - is radical and thinks differently from the rest, the second one - Hari (Madhavan as Farhaan) - is a confused character. The book’s third character - Alok (Sharman as Raju) - is facing severe financial and domestic pressures.
3.The narrators are same in both the cases.
4.Some dialogues in the movie — “the examiner looked at me as if I had asked for his kidneys” and “define machine” — seem to be a straight lift from the book.
5.In the book, Neha (Kareena as Pia) tells her dad Cherian (Professor Viru played by Boman Irani) why her brother committed suicide due to the latter’s demanding and dominating behaviour. Similar episode takes place in the film as well. However, the book talks about this incident in much more detail than the movie which covers this branch of the storyline in a single scene