Unlike other Bollywood stars who aim and long for Hollywood projects, but keep Mumbai as their base clinging on to Bollywood films, The 24-year-old Slumdog Millionaire actress, Freida Pinto has moved to New York to concentrate on her Hollywood career. Not that her move has been too hasty or unplanned. The gorgeous actress has already been signed by Woody Allen for his next film where she will star alongside Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.

And also, the gal is making her presence felt on the international front dazzling at major events. Recently, she was spotted at the Chanel show in Paris Fashion Week where she outdid her fellow front row occupants supermodels Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer. She was was the centre of attention in a white draped cocktail dress with a black layered chain detail and black stilettos.

The Mumbai native, had earlier confessed to getting star struck despite now being a celebrity in her own right, with the stupendous success of her debut film which went on to win eight Academy awards.

Slumdog Millionaire" catapulted her to Hollywood and now actress Freida Pinto is in the league of actresses vying to be the new Bond girl.

Freida was invited to a screen test for the next spy adventure, reports thesun.co.uk.

The 24-year-old actress was apparently first spotted by producers during the casting for "Quantum of Solace" - the 22nd Bond film released last year.

"Freida came to the attention of the Bond team when they were casting 'Quantum of Solace'. She was too young at the time to have a part as a love interest for a secret agent. But she has blossomed into an incredibly stunning young woman and would look perfect on Daniel Craig's arm," a source said.

The chances of the actress' participation in the film seem strong as executive producer of the film Barbara Broccoli is eager to cast her.

"Danny Boyle is favourite to take the helm of the next movie which would increase Freida's chances of a starring role," added the source.

If Freida is lucky enough to bag the role of a Bond girl, it would be her next international project after the Woody Allen movie that she has been signed up for.

Kareena Kapoor wearing a blue gown arrived the launching event of Anne French Roll On lotion cream at the Hotel Taj Lands End. Kareena Kapoor who is known for her zero figure and fitness looks gorgeous. The bluish gown is absolutely fantastic and it shows her beauty perfectly at the event. I don’t know why this dress seems like someone has wear before, i think Deepika Padukone has wear similar kind of dress at some shampoo “Sunsilk” event, may be I am wrong as Deepika dress was upto her knees only.

'Slumdog Millionaire' starlet Freida Pinto's star just keeps on rising

! She's gained international recognition for her first ever role in the Oscar winning 'Slumdog,' signed onto to co-star in a W

oody Allen film, walked the ramp at Milan fashion week, hob knobbed with tons of a-list celebrities, and now she's making waves in the make-up industry. The former model has signed onto become the new face of cosmetics giant, Estee Lauder! Pretty big news, as her face will be seen in magazine adverts, television commercials and so on, giving her tons more exposure.

According to reports, the deal is worth $350,000 dollars and confirms the fact that Freida's become a hot property. Freida joins the likes of Liz Hurley and Gwyneth Paltrow, who are both spokespersons for the make-up company. Plus Freida becomes the company's first ever Indian spokesperson! How exciting! Just goes to show how this whole east meets west collaboration keeps growing. If you ask us, it's about time Desis are shown in a more international light in the entertainment industry!

Freida joins Aishwarya Rai, who is a spokesperson for L'Oreal on an international scale, as another Indian face for cosmetics. It'll be nice to have an Indian woman representing a make-up company

when many Desi girls have often complained about a lack of cosmetics made especially for South Asian skin types. Maybe this will help lead to makeup companies paying more attention to that fact.

All that aside, we want to know what you think of Freida landing the Estee Lauder contract. Is it cool that she's getting all this recognition? Or is she becoming a tad too overexposed? Drop us a comment with your thoughts on the matter!

There's a lot of debate out there about who's hot and who's not. Usually we just wind up talking about those sexy couples that we can't get enough of in Bollywood or Hollywood. But even we have to admit that every once in a while there's a couple that you just can't help but stare at when you see them toge

ther. The fact that two exceptionally attractive people come togeth

er seems kind of unfair, but at least we still get to judge the level of their hotness. So we were sitting around thinking, "Are Bipasha Basu and John Abraham hotter than Brad Pitt and AngelinaJolie?"

They are both undeniably successful couples who have done

well for themselves and joined forces to create an unstoppable force. There are even some similarities, starting with the fact that they're all actors. Also, both couples are unmarried, which is still somewhat culturally frowned upon for Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, more so than it is for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. And there is no denying that both of the people involved that make up these couples are sex symbols in their own right. As for Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, they both seem to be

very health focused and love to exercise. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie seem to be more baby-focused and are notorious for their willingness to continue to adopt, which set off a mini-trend as seen with Madonna.

It's a toss-up and kind of difficult to say that one is better than the o

ther,

or is it? The couples are sexy, young, and taking the Bollywood and Hollywood film industries by storm. So we want to turn over this oh-so difficult question to our readers. Do you think Bipasha Basu and John Abraham are hotter or do you think that no one can match the level of hotness that is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Leave us your comments on these sexy couples.

Kareena Kapoor is the cover girl for Blender Magazine’s Indian Edition for the month of March 2009. She looks very ok, not so fashionable on the cover. Now a days there are so many magazines that all went less on creativeness for the cover. Enjoy Kareena Kapoor on the cover of Blender.

Sonam Kapoor is the cover girl for Marie Claire’s Indian Edition for the month of March 2009. Her Recent movie “Delhi 6” gets huge failure but just like Saawariya she got appreciation for her role, Masakali girl

The gorgeous actress Sonam Kapoor will be seen wearing a silk-wool moire-wrapped caban, net cotton long sleeve knit top, obi belt and a comic strip necklace.

Besides being on the cover, Sonam has given an exclusive interview in the magazine, where she talks about her growing up days - having chicken rolls at Jugheads, burji-pao ne

ar Cooper hospital and pani-puri at Elco.

Enjoy the cover of Marie Claire India March 2009.

No sooner the Kapoor lad, Ranbir Kapoor stepped into Bollywood; he drew all the limelight. His on-screen chemistry with his co-stars and off-screen love with beautiful Deepika Padukone had been a juicy topic of discussion. After Saawariya, girls dreamt to have a boyfriend like Ranbir. Recently, when he posed for the world famous magazine 'GQ', it sold like a hot cake as he had made some stunning revelations.

Ranbir not only graced the magazine by posing in a cool manner but also made it hugely popular by disclosing some hidden facts about his life. He confessed about doing some mischievous things during teenage. He in his own admission says "There was marijuana, there was alcohol, I started smoking cigarettes". To one's surprise, he revealed that around 15 years old, he lost his virginity.

Apart from films, Ranbir’s shocking revelation has made the magazine quite interesting and worthy reading

Young and charming Shahid Kapur goes bare bodied while shooting for Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Kaminay’ and girls could not stop cheering for the actor. They whistled, screamed on looking Shahid Kapur riding a horse without shirt.

Shahid is young and so he could easily mingle with the youngsters. ''Shahid is happy about it. He feels honored to be college crowds favourite. Also his zara hatke role in ‘Kaminay’ is sure to give him a top billing among other actors. ‘Kaminay’ will change Shahid's entire image. It is going to put him being a hot contender amongst the others. Also working with Vishal Bharadwaj has been amazing,'' said the source.

A friend of Shahid said, ''He wants to be that way! Also Shahid feels that playing characters older than your real age can fall flat on screen at times and he does not want to land up doing anything stupid.''

In ‘Kaminay’, Shahid will be in a ‘never seen before’ role and for that he has undergone a massive makeover.

Shahid is happy that offers are coming his way slowly and steadily. In ‘Kaminay’, he pairs opposite hot Priyanka Chopra.

Freida Pinto has been cast in a film from a legendary Hollywood director on the heels of her breakout performance in the Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire.

According to Variety, the 24-year-old Indian-born beauty will join Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins, and Josh Brolin in an upcoming untitled project from filmmaker Woody Allen

Crackers were burst and sweets distributed in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur Dabai village Monday as "Smile Pinki", a documentary about a girl from the dusty hamlet whose cleft lip made her a social outcast, won an Oscar.

God Save Rahman. That's what Allah Rakha Rahman means. And that's what the country said Monday for the man who became the first Indian music director to win two Oscars for his score in the globally appreciated film "Slumdog Millionaire" and for the film's theme song "Jai Ho".

Rahman, a household name in India for his contribution to Bollywood, as well as regional cinema from the south, has been the cynosure of all ears since 1992 when he burst on the Indian musical scene with his refreshingly different tunes for the Tamil film "Roja".

The film was subsequently made in Hindi, giving mainstream Hindi film music a new meaning altogether: the rest as they say is history.

He has moved on from being a celebrated composer in India to a global music supernova who has entered the record books as the first Indian to get a Golden Globe, the first Indian to get the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for music and the first Indian to bag a golden Oscar statuette.

With "Slumdog Millionaire", Danny Boyle's rags to riches drama based on a book by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup, the 41-year-old Rahman has stuck gold - and so has India and Indian music.

The film had 10 Oscar nominations, including three for Rahman - he was nominated for Best Original Score and two for the Best Original Song for a motion picture with his songs "Jai Ho" and "O Saaya". It was another first for an Indian.

For India, the "Slumdog" awards story, which some say is as improbable as the film itself about an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who goes on to win a staggering Rs.20 million ($410,000) on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" game show, is not just about the BAFTAs and the Oscars.

It is also recognition of popular Indian cinema in the West that for long has shunned Indian movies as too long and too full of song-and-dance sequences. Rahman's exuberant score has shattered all those perceptions, and shown that the West likes the sound of India.

"It's a moment of pride not just for me. India has done it," Rahman said modestly.

Composing music for British director Danny Boyle was a challenge, said the self-effacing celebrity.

Boyle simply wanted a score with energy and an edge for his film. There was also a twist. The perfectionist Rahman was given just three weeks to plan and execute the score.

"We had met and talked about it for about two months. But I had to finish it quickly as Boyle wanted to start mixing the film by August," Rahman told IANS in an interview.

"It's probably one-fifth of the time I normally take. For one thing, a normal film has about 150 cues. But in this one there were only 17-18 cues for me. Boyle uses music very little but very efficiently," he added.

Like the film's protagonist Jamal, Rahman's is also an inspiring story of the everyday struggle for survival that has ended on the glittering red carpets of showbiz.

Born A.S. Dileep Kumar to a Tamil Hindu family, his father R.K. Shekhar, a composer who directed music for Malayalam movies, died when he was just nine. The family was forced to rent out musical equipment. Two years later, the 11-year-old budding maestro joined noted composer Ilayaraja's troupe as a keyboardist and computer programmer to support his mother and three sisters.

After working with several renowned composers like Vishwanathan-Ramamurthy, Zakir Hussain and L. Shankar, he set out on his own to compose jingles and scores for popular Indian television features and has composed more than 300 jingles.

During this period, he also earned a degree in western classical music from the Trinity College of Music, London and went on to set up his own in-house studio called Panchathan record-inn at Chennai, which is said to be Asia's most sophisticated and hi-tech studio.

In 1989, Dileep Kumar converted to Islam along with his family due to personal reasons. He became A.R. Rahman.

The Bollywood debut came a couple of years later. And there was no looking back after that.

In 1997, Sony Music signed up Rahman as its first artist in South Asia to commemorate 50 years of Indian Independence. The result was "Vande Mataram", the anthem of Indian patriotism, an album that succeeded in rekindling the nationalistic spirit and was an instant hit with Indian youth.

The musical genius not only won hearts in India but also made a mark on the global music scene.

He got his first international break when Andrew Lloyd Webber invited him to compose music for the Broadway musical "Bombay Dreams", which won him immense fame.

He also composed for the stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord Of The Rings" that premiered in Canada in 2006 and in London in 2007.

Apart from composing music Rahman is also involved in social work. He launched the A.R. Rahman Foundation to tackle the issue of poverty by providing education to the poor and equipping them with knowledge and skills to earn a living.

An outcome of this initiative was his first single in the English language called "Pray for me brother" and all proceeds from sales went to his foundation.

As the awards pile up, Indians can only say a collective and joyous "Jai Ho".

Delhi 6 is one of the biggest releases of 2009. As it came from the Rang De Basanti fame, Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, expectation is much higher. No sooner the stars of Delhi 6 stepped into the movie theatre, thousand of onlookers heated up the atmosphere of Delhi with their whistling and loud cheer. Delhiites are stuck to see their favorite stars paving their way to PVR Priya. Girls of all ages hauled on looking at Abhishek and threw remarks like “Abhishek I love you", "Abhishek marry me", "Abhishek, you are the best". Women of every age group cheered for Abhi.

Abhishek is awestruck on looking at the enthusiasm of the audience. "It's mind blowing. It's amazing. I love Delhi and the turn out of the people here is fantastic. I hope it remains the same in theatres as well", said Abhishek.

"We are keeping our fingers crossed. Expectations are high," Sonam Kapoor, one of the lead actors, said. Abhishek has been quoted as saying, "I’m nervous with anticipation. I’m so excited. I hope audience love the film. I found a lot of similarities and that''s why I was really keen to do the film." The story of Delhi-6 is placed against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Delhi. It will hit the theatre today.

Movie Review: Delhi 6; Star Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Om Puri and Waheeda Rehman; Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra; Rating: *** - Is worth a watch.

Delhi 6 is a delightful musical run through the Hindu and Muslim cultures of Old Delhi as seen through the eyes of protagonist Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) who comes to India to fulfill the desire of his terminally ill Daadi (Waheeda Rehman) to spend the last days of her life in her hometown. As Roshan after a brief culture shock, tries to understand the complexities of relations that kept his people apart from each other as well as close to each other, he slowly gets attached to Bittu (Sonam Kapoor) and the chemistry grows, which is very convincingly directed using rich background music and believable day-to-day situations.

The first half, though appearing a little lengthy focuses on reverse-culture-shock jokes, lavishly reproduced Ram Leela, a visit to the Taj Mahal, and a cow giving birth in the street. It is in the second half that things take a more serious turn. Unwelcome traditions and smoldering religious hatred comes bubbling to the surface and erupt into a Do the Right Thing climax that takes everyone by surprise. Several characters and subplots weaved together to relate to the central plot of analyzing beliefs against rational thinking, with a touch of humor is quite entertaining but one has to endure the laborious and forced accent of Abhishek Bachchan throughout the movie. Although at several places, the movie seems predictable, Mehra succeeds in putting surprises well in time and balance. The climax gets dragged due to cameos and voiceovers. Although Roshan’s attempts to put belief and trust in people ahead of belief in customs and religion deserve a pat, what disappoints is Mehra getting preachy at many places. Rahman’s soulful music takes the film to a completely different level altogether.

Mehra and his cameraman Binod Pradhan have succeeded in capturing the buzz of Delhi city very well in every frame. Those living outside of India will find that connect with that feeling of wanting to be in both places. The song in the second half which juxtaposes Abhishek’s life in the US with the people and life in India is beautifully done as well. Hat’s off to the director and technical team there.

Abhishek has delivered one of his better performances but his American accent doesn’t really work. Sonam Kapoor doesn’t have much to do but except for the climax but she carries herself immensely well. Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri and Rishi Kapoor are simply outstanding. The huge ensemble cast comprising of acclaimed actors such as Raghubir Yadav, Pavan Malhotra, Supriya Pathak Shah, Deepak Dobriyal, Divya Dutta, Vijay Raaz, Tanvi Azmi and Atul Kulkarni do a wonderful job.

Just look at the diversity of topics addressed convincingly through brilliant performances and slick editing, you will realize why I say it’s worth a watch

A panel discussion at FICCI Frames had an interesting debate titled ‘Cut Copy Paste To Indian Taste’ that was attended by leading Bollywood names such as Dibakar Banerjee, Rohan Sippy, Imtiaz Ali, Kabir Khan and Mahesh Bhatt.

The buzz is that this almost became a wrestling match.

Seasoned writer-director Mahesh Bhatt without any remorse made a confession,

He apparently said, “I’m a thief, every word or phrase that I use has been lifted or sourced from some other place. I want to make a living what is your problem.”

The self confessed spokesperson of the industry is mighty bold but obviously this comment didn’t go well with many.

Kabeer Khan said, “How long can you get away with stealing? Now the foreign studios are here, they will sue you from here to eternity.”

Imtiaz Ali rightly said, “The topic is itself not an original idea and by the end of it we will get into a wrestling match.”

People who support this concept lke David Dhawan, Sanjay Gupta, Sajid Khan and many others are still in business.

This sure is a debate which will go on for a long, long time in B-Town

Globosport Digital launched Celina Jaitley’s official online and mobile destination aiming to invite fans of the gorgeous actress into her very personal and professional life. www.mycelinajaitley.com is an interactive and user-friendly website which takes fans on a journey through memories and career highlights that have made Celina Jaitley who she is.

The website encompasses the story of a girl who aspired to join the army and her journey from there on to become a successful model and finally an acclaimed actress. Also shared are the diva’s style secrets, her favourite destinations and more. Revealing an unknown side of the actress is a list of charitable causes that Celina has been associated with. It also provides her fans with an opportunity to ask questions and get a reply from the actress herself. Celina also plays online love guru as she gives fans help and advice on their love life.

“I am really excited about launching my own digital platform through www.mycelinajaitley.com. My fans and my well wishers can now get a glimpse of my personal life, get to know me more and talk to me about my style statement, my professional life etc,” says Celina. “This really makes me feel connected to my fans and I feel like this is an ideal platform for people to reach out to me,” she adds.

Globosport Digital has powered the Official Mobile and Internet destinations of Celina Jaitley. GSD has currently acquired exclusive global new media (Internet, Mobile) and Licensing and Merchandising rights of over 30 celebrities from Bollywood, Sports and South Indian film industry. This includes the likes of Ranbir Kapoor, Celina Jaitley, Mugdha Godse, Payal Rohatgi, Sikander Kher, Riya Sen, Koena Mitra, Amrita Arora, Rahul Bose and several others