After a mega search for the leading lady opposite Abhay Deol in SNAFU, the makers have zeroed in on Puja Gupta. More than 50 fresh faces were auditioned over 20 days, pushing the shoot by a month. Every last member in the unit used their contacts and connections to contribute to the hunt. The director, Sethu Sriram really liked Puja for the role but had two more names in mind. He discussed the situation with Abhay and in a joint call Puja Gupta got the highest votes.

Puja essays the role of Aaniya who shares center stage with Abhay, closing business deals for him. She is an ambitious corporate highflyer who hails from a small town and moved to the city of dreams to pursue her career. After winning the Miss India crown in 2007, Puja made her debut in Bollywood with F.A.L. T.U helmed by Remo D’Souza and most recently she was seen in the zom com Go Goa Gone.

Director, Sethu Sriram said, “ It’s a relief that the hunt is over. This role is very critical to the storyline and the girl had to be much more than singing, dancing and looking good. After a lot of deliberations we have decided upon Puja. Aaniya is an ambitious small town girl so we needed the vulnerability of a small towner along with high glam quotient who would be a head turner. I have auditioned a lot of promising fresh faces and a few upcoming names, some of them were brilliant but Puja fits the bill naturally. With all humility, I want to thank Abhay who helped me in streamlining the process’.

The shoot begins on 12th July, with no time left the crew is moving at a rocket speed, especially to put Puja’s fashion forward costumes together.

"The Lunchbox"-fame actress Nimrat Kaur, who walked for designer Rina Dhaka at the ongoing Shree Raj Mahal Jewellers India Couture Week (ICW), says Indian fashion is changing like Indian culture and she is amazed to see how Indian garments are now accepted globally.

"I am surprised with the way Indian garments are getting global appeal. I cannot even decide half of the time whether an outfit is looking more Indian or Western. You have so many different kinds of draping styles or how people wear things... so I think, much like our culture, fashion is also changing," she told IANS after the show.

The actress, who received global success with Ritesh Batra's directorial, said fashion comes with comfort and this is what she implies in her personal life.

"As long as something is flattering, it works for me. Be it Indian or Western, I love wearing whatever suits my body style. It's great fun to keep things unpredictable," she added.

The actress enlisted her wardrobe essentials.

"A little black dress, faithful pair of denims, nice pair of heels, a nice top and a short leather jacket is always handy and helpful... whenever you are travelling. Also, you can't go wrong with a crisp white shirt. My denim shirt has became one of the essential things as I throw it on almost anything," she added.

Inspired by the very verbose iconography of the gota work of Rajasthan, Dhaka showcased a collection that has new styles in the Gota Patti, placed it against tinsel sheers and lace.

There was extensive use of intricate embroidery elements from between the region of Rajasthan and some from the heartland of Uttar Pradesh, rearranged in a layered, lace-like manner.

Actress Kangana Ranaut, who was away from the limelight to pursue her filmmaking course in New York, is back with a bang. However, she finds the paparazzi "intimidating" and is still adjusting to all the attention.

As she walked the ramp for designer Anju Modi at the ongoing Couture Week, she tripped but took it sportingly.

"I am just back from New York. It was like going back to school. This is my first public outing after coming back from New York. So I took it in a very easy way but it was not. Coming back to paparazzi was intimidating. I couldn't believe I was back here," she said after the show.

The "Queen" fame actress, who was wearing a heavily embroidered black lehanga-choli, said she was an avid supporter of Indian wear.

"It's not that I don't support Indian creation. In fact, I wore a lot of AM:PM (a designer label) during the promotion of 'Queen'. They wanted me to wear Indian clothes," she told IANS.

"However, it's sad that we are getting lot westernised, the way parties are held, the way we dress up, everything has got westernised. If I go to a party wearing an Indian dress like this, I don't know how the media would react," she added.

Kangana has created a niche for herself with films like "Fashion" and "Queen" and has garnered appreciation for her out-of-the-box choices.

She believes there is still a long way to go. "I am not a global artist," she said.

Designer Anju Modi called her collection "Manikarnika" - that reflects a woman of the past, reborn in the present.

The collection was an exploration of the age-old craft and ancient techniques.

The embroideries were derived from the architecture, with the paintings of the Ajanta-Ellora caves as perfect muses to the artwork and details.

The colour palette mirrored the earthy, sepia tones like sand, old rose, reminiscent of the past centuries. The rich jewel tones of burgundy, ruby, emerald added to the plushness of luxury.

The designer said Indian art and craft was getting a lot of global attention.

"Indian crafts, the colours, the sensibilities, the artistry and the architecture have become very international. There is no boundary, it's like a global village. There is a lot of fusion happening, so even if you wear a T-shirt and it has embroidery, then you are wearing an Indian design," she told IANS.

In despair and puzzled by the aggression of their schoolmates' parents, 23 students from a South Goa school, branded HIV+ve, are falling back on Aamir Khan's blockbuster film 'Taare Zameen Par' for inspiration and solace.

The 23 students aged 6-15 of a Church-run orphanage located in Rivona, a mining village 55 kms from Panaji, who have triggered a stand-off between the authorities of the Fatima High School and the state government on one hand and a section of the school's Parents Teachers Association (PTA) on the other, are also being counselled to cure their despair and trauma caused by social rejection.

The Church and the orphanage insist that the students are not HIV+ve and that they are being targetted because 13 other students from the orphanage, who tested postive, have been removed from the school.

"We are showing them films like 'Taare Zameen Par' and other children's films in English and Hindi to inspire them and keep them cheerful," Sister Alphonso Porathur, who runs the Nitya Seva Niketan, an orphanage which has many orphaned HIV+ve children, also located in Rivona.

'Taare Zameen Par', is an award-winning Bollywood movie based on the travails and subsequent triumph of an autistic student. The film was India's entry for the Oscars in 2009.

Confidence among the 23 students has been sapping in face of the events that have played out in the recent past and Alphonso claimed that they were being adequately counselled.

"They are more worried that the parents were shouting at us, rather than the problems they faced themselves. They keep asking us, 'Are we HIV+ve too?' Then why are they treating us like this," Alphonso told IANS.

The parents on the other hand stand firm. Four days after threatening to withdraw their wards from school, if the 23 students continued in school. By Tuesday evening, the school had received requests for 19 school leaving certificates.

"They want the certificates so that their wards could be admitted to other schools. There are more on the way, if the PTA is to be believed," a school official said on condition of anonymity.

The school had succumbed some days back when the 13 HIV+ve students from the same orphanage, were forced to leave. They have since been secretly admitted to another Church-run institutions.

The parents claim they aren't against the 23 children, but add that they simply cannot "risk" their children's health.

"If these 23 students are not withdrawn from the school, we will shift out children to another place. I have already applied for my (school leaving) certificate here," says Ana Rodrigues, whose two children study at the Fatima High School, in classes II and VII. "They have already shifted 13 HIV+ve students earlier. Why can't they shift 23 more to another school," she asked while speaking to IANS.

Rodrigues claimed that she is well aware of AIDS and how the disease is contracted, but threw up possible scenarios in she claimed the worst could be feared.

"Imagine one of the HIV+ve 23 students falls down in an accident in school and bleeds and then one of my children reaches out to help. Or imagine if my child has an exposed wound and there is contact with the HIV+ve students. Imagine what will happen," Rodrigues asked.

Still, both the orphanage and Church authorities insist that none of the 23 students are HIV+ve.

"None of them are HIV+ve. We tried to allay the fears of the parents about HIV. Some seemed to be convinced. We also informed them about a Supreme Court judgement that says that there cannot be discrimination against these students," Fr. Maverick Fernandes, a Church official involved in the negotiations with the parents, told IANS.

This is the fourth school, this year, where the students of the orphanage have faced resistance.

The 13 HIV+ve students and the 23 others had been studying under the aegis of the central government-sponsored Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan scheme and were being taught at the Orphanage itself until this academic year.

Even as the standoff continues, the state education department, Child Rights Commission officials and Church and school authorities are expected to soon meet again to resolve the crisis.

Film: "Amit Sahni Ki List"; Cast: Vir Das, Vega Tomatia, Anindita Nayar and Kavi Shastri; Director: Ajay Bhuyan; Rating: ***1/2

Surprises, they say, come in small packages. I went into this odd-sounding film "Amit Sahni Ki List", honestly, with zero expectations.

I came out pleasantly surprised, bathed in the scent of an ambrosial rom-com filled with endearing nooks and corners secreting a kind of cosmic view of
man-woman relationship that affords both humour and sadness.

The rom-com as genre is perpetually misunderstood and misinterpreted in Bollywood. Not this time.

Okay, so what's the list about? It's a to-do thingy prepared by our everyman-hero, a regular high-income guy on Facebook, played by the very engaging Vir Das. Amit has put together a list (yes, an actual handwritten list) of the qualities that he wants in his soul-mate.

Life of course has other plans. Before he meets his Dream Woman (or DW, as Amit's acronym-obsessed mom would say), he runs into the adventurous bohemian dog-loving bungee-jumping Mala (Vega Tamotia).

Their courtship is done with a colourful candour that is not blindingly romantic. The couple sing, dance, run across fields...but with a warning signal playing somewhere invisibly saying, "Babe, bumps ahead".

It would be unfair to give away the goings-on in the second movement of this very engaging rom-com. Suffice it to say that the dips and curves in the narrative all add up to an experience that leaves us smiling and sometimes chuckling.

"Amit Sahni Ki List" is not a great piece of cinema. It doesn't aspire to have any lofty heights of tragic romanticism (a la "Ek Villain"). Nor does it, thankfully, converge on a neo-classic film of the past to derive its romantic imagery (a la "Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania").

It is what it is. An uncluttered, elegantly narrated rom-com about an inherently flawed hero, so confused about his aspirations as a romantic entity that he ends up wallowing in the kind of giddy romanticism that he probably abhors in the movies that he sees.

As directed by Ajay Bhuyan (some significant talent here), the life and loves of Amit Sahni is both a celebration and mockery of romantic idealism. While the intelligent witty script takes satirical swipes at Amit Sahni, it also makes room for his heart to grow into something less flighty and frivolous than what flirty films about desi casanovas tend to signify.

While Vir lords over the lush rom-com landscape (a territory surprisingly liberated of vulgarity), he gets some solid support from the supporting cast, especially Kavi Shastri who is terrific as Vir's jockey-buddy (langotiya yaar). It's amazing how talented the hero's friends always turn out to be in our movies.

There's also Anu Menon (remember the veejay Lola Kutty) as a break up specialist helping Amit ease out of a 'perfect' relationship. Priceless.

"Amit Sahni Ki List" is an endearing 'roam' com about a restless Romeo looking for...ummm...love. And I use this abused term with a giggle since there is an astonishingly short supply of sex in Amit Sahni's epic love life. For all his back-handed brashness, is our hero shy of making love?

Never mind the sub-texts, of which there are many in this surprisingly entertaining nugget of a film. Just enjoy Amit Sahni's journey from a romantic heretic to a helpless believer in true love para-gliding into Chattisgarh to win over his lost sweetheart (a bit of Mani Ratnam's "Saathiya" here).

The journey is peppered with funny exchanges and smart swipes at contemporary sexual mores. And yes, it's very eye-catchingly shot by cinematographer Maneesh Chandra Bhatt whose camera makes routine cafes and streets in the metropolis appear rejuvenated.

A word about Vir Das, who grows with every performance. Here he is vibrant and woeful, frivolous and deep all at once. Watch him in that sequence where he runs into his former girlfriend, now pregnant. As she tells him why she dumped him, Vir's face registers a deep embarrassment.

Luckily the film never needs to run into any mortifying roadblocks. It's a smooth ride all the way. From Amit Sahni's Ms. Perfect (Anindita Nayar, tres chic) to his Miss Imperfect's pet dog, every character here has a mind of its own.

Ditto the film. It has a heart and brains. Go for it.

Actor Hrithik Roshan's much-awaited film "Bang Bang" will release Oct 2 in three languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

"'Bang Bang' is a true-blue entertainer and we are going to have the widest possible release for the film. We are releasing the film in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu," Vijay Singh, CEO, Fox Star Studios, said in a statement.

"The buzz on the film is tremendous and we are going out to market and distribute the film day and date worldwide," he added.

Directed by Siddharth Anand, "Bang Bang" features Katrina Kaif with Hrithik.

She was born and raised in a simple middle-class Indian family, but she got exposed to the world courtesy her internationally-acclaimed film "The Lunchbox". Actress Nimrat Kaur says the movie "opened all doors" for her, allowing her to do "anything, anywhere".

"I am open to do anything anywhere," Nimrat, who played the lovelorn Ila, told IANS in an interview when asked how life has changed "The Lunchbox" and what kind of roles are starting to come her way.

"Suddenly what happened with 'The Lunchbox' was that all doors have opened at the same time. And I really had the greatest opportunities to travel and meet some great people in the business and they are really looking at Indian market for talent and for audiences," added the actress, who was in the capital to walk the ramp at the Shree Raj Mahal Jewellers India Couture Week (ICW).

Directed by Ritesh Batra, the 2013 "The Lunchbox", a unique love story featuring Irrfan Khan with Nimrat, did its share of rounds at international movie extravaganzas, including the Cannes International Film Festival. When it released in India, the movie also found takers in those who have been fed on typical Bollywood potboilers for years.

Nimrat's aim now is to to work as much as she can and deliver the best to the world - medium notwithstanding.

"I know that I would want to work as much as I can everywhere and have a great balance of a kind that I would personally love to have. I have grown up in very Indian simple middle class way but I have the exposure of the world. I intend to make the most of that combination," she said.

Actors from the big screen are increasingly making a transition to the small screen - and Nimrat is open to that as well.

"Indian TV is increasingly becoming so interative. They have changing formats and episodic series - much like in the West. I'm not closed to anything...it's about what resonates with me and connects with me," said the actress, who featured in "Peddlers" and "Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana" before "The Lunchbox".

The actress' success bears testimony in the fact that she's soon leaving to shoot for an American movie series, the details of which have been kept under wraps.

Nimrat is not ready to tell much either.

"I can't disclose the name because I am forbidden to do so. The studio will be the one who will declare it and then I will be able to talk about it," she said.

Actress Sunny Leone is juggling between different Bollywood films, dance numbers in the southern movie world and brushing up her Hindi skills. On a career high, the Indo-Canadian talent says she's here to stay.

In an interview, she has spoken about her new projects and about her journey in the Hindi film industry.

Excerpts from the interview:

Q. All of a sudden there is a lot happening in your career. How do you feel about this sudden surge of activity?

A. Well, to me it's beyond a surge. It's complete insanity, everything that is happening. I am so unbelievably happy about everything that is going on. Happy to be working and happy people are showing so much support.

Q. Interestingly Bobby Khan's film casts you as an exotic princess and would not be focused on your physicality. Does this shift in Bollywood's attitude towards you, please you?

A. I don't know about shift. This is just a different type of movie from what I have been cast for in the past. I believe that every movie should be different and I'm extremely excited about how this movie unfolds.

Q. What do you play in the Pritish Nandy production?

A. I am not allowed to discuss the details of this movie yet. All I can tell you is that it will be someone that people have never seen from me.

Q. Have you been able to improve your Hindi? When would you be able to dub your own lines?

A. Yes, I can dub but it comes down to the producer and how they feel about it. We shall see.

Q. When we last spoke, you were keen on avoiding item songs. What made you accept "Pink Lips"?

A. I never avoid anything. It's about the right opportunity coming your way. I have a great relationship with T-Series and when they asked me, I said 'yes' based on my relationship with them and also the song was a killer.

Q. You are also doing a song or two in South Indian films?

A. Yes, I am and am having a blast doing it. It's very different from Bollywood.

Q. Your next release "Tina and Lolo" is a girl-bonding film. How did you get along with your co-star Karishma Tanna?

A. I love her. She is a complete doll and so much fun to work with. We both have a lot of good memories together shooting.

Q. It's been three years since you made Bollywood your home. What have you learnt about the Indian entertainment industry during this time?

A. I have learned so much in a very short time I don't know where to begin.

Q. Have you finally made some friends here?

A. I definitely have made some friends and I will be friends with them for the rest of my life.

Q. Do you feel you have finally left your earlier career as an adult film actress behind?

A. Yes I do.

Q. Do you feel you are finally a part of Bollywood?

A. I feel a part of my fans more and yes, Bollywood too. I'm here and want to stay.

Actress Priyanka Chopra will soon be promoting the Indian sari on international platforms, officials said Thursday.

A proposal to this effect was being given final touches and the National Film Award winner has given her consent, union Textile Secretary Zohra Chatterjee said during her visit to Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

While the Bararasi silk saris would be at the forefront of this branding, the larger branding by the actress would be for the Indian handloom industry, officials told IANS.

The union government wants to promote the 'desi' handloom and textile industry in a big way the world over and a "detailed publicity campaign is being planned for the same," a senior bureaucrat told IANS.

The union government, it is learnt, is also toying with the idea of opening a National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in the temple town after which the products of the weavers in the city would be "integrated and upgraded" with the help of the institute, officials informed.

Keeping up with his promise made during the campaigning of the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Modi reportedly has also asked the textile ministry to explore options for early setting up of a trade facilitation centre, officials said.

The high-profile constituency is under active focus of the union government with most ministries deliberating on various developmental, welfare and job-creating schemes in Modi's constituency.

Designers Masaba Gupta and Amit Aggarwal together will start the winter-festive 2014 edition of Lakme Fashion Week.

Masaba, known for her prints, and Amit, the man synonymous with edgy and futuristic fashion, will display their collections Aug 19 at Palladium Hotel, a day prior to the fashion week scheduled Aug 20-24, said a statement.

"I am very excited to be opening Lakme Fashion Week this season. I will be showcasing after one year...LFW was the platform where my journey in fashion started and it’s good to be back,” said Masaba.

Added Amit: “Opening the fashion week was always a dream. This platform allows me more creative freedom and concentration on the vision of the brand. I look forward to kick starting the fashion week with a bang.”

LFW is jointly organised by cosmetic brand Lakme and IMG Reliance, entertainment event marketing and management company.

Director Vikram Bhatt is ready with "Creature", his fourth film shot in 3D. He says he feels more at home with the format now than 2D.

"This is my fourth 3D film after 'Raaz 3', 'Haunted' and 'Dangerous Ishhq'. So I am finding myself more at home with 3D more than 2D," the 45-year-old said here Wednesday at the trailer launch of the film.

"As a matter of fact, if I visit a colleague's set and they are shooting in 2D, I somehow find something wrong with the frame or something. Now I am very comfortable (with 3D)," he added.

"Creature 3D" stars Bipasha Basu and Pakistani actor Imran Abbas in the lead. The film hits theatres Sep 12.

It's a good idea to change your look with every season to avoid boredom, says international celebrity hairstylist Rod Anker.

Anker, the newly appointed ambassador of professional haircare brand Schwarzkopf Professionals in India, was in the capital to demonstrate his fashion-altering imagination with modern designs and styling.

He played with messy buns, boho chic braids and curly frizzy hair on models and spoke about the peculiarity of Indian hair types and common hair problems during monsoon.

The international stylist gave a vital evergreen tip for those who like to move with the times.

"With every change of season, you need to evolve your look because no one wants to see someone wearing the same clothes for the next 20 years, it's boring," Anker told IANS during an interaction here.

The Australian, who believes himself to be acting as a conduit between the west and India, seeks to redefine the haircare business in the country.

"I am excited to start this journey. I want to educate the upcoming stylists and not just create celebrities," he said, clarifying that he doesn't like being referred to as a 'celebrity' hairstylist.

He hopes to bring the hairdressing industry "up" in terms of getting respect as a career choice.

"Hairdressers around the world are considered celebrities for some reason. Globally, there are stylists who're celebrities and that's where we need to take the Indian industry...to not just create celebrities, but actually have the back-end work done so that hairtylists can stand on their own two feet and not rely on a foreigner to come into their country to do something," said Anker.

Anker says nowadays, the accessibility to global trends has increased courtesy the world wide web and social networking sites, but the reason why he thinks they are not applied well here, is lack of "back-end" education and skills.

With 25 years of experience of working with both international and Indian clients and celebrities including the likes of Kylie Minogue, Deepika Padukone and Elle Macphersan, Anker says that since these known faces are always in the public eye, they mostly shy away from changing hairstyles or their looks.

"Every celebrity fears experimenting with their hair," said Anker, who started his career in hairdressing in 1986.

In India, he is the director of Monsoon Salon and Spa, which currently has operations in two northern India states - Delhi and Haryana). The brand is owned by Rod Anker Hair Stylists Private Limited (RAHSPL).

Director Vikram Bhatt is keeping the look of the scary creature of his film "Creature 3D" a secret, but he has revealed that it finds its inspiration in Indian mythology.

"Creature films in the west are mostly scientifically based, like a genetic mutation happens or some chemical change. Our creature is mythologically based...it's a character derived from our ancient stories. What exactly it is, for that you would have to see the film," the 45-year-old said here while launching the film's trailer Wednesday.

The filmmaker is proud that the 'creature' has been created in India itself without any help from foreign studios or technicians.

"At the risk of sounding a little arrogant, we are here to see something that has never been done in India before. For the first time without any foreign studio's help, without any foreigner coming here, we have indigenously created a CGI creature, lifelike, in 3D and given the scares, thrills and chills," Bhatt said.

He even indicated that he would like to dabble more in this genre in the future.

"Before I move on to more genres, let me enjoy this genre because this is something that has just come about," he added.

"Creature 3D" stars Bipasha Basu and Pakistani actor Imran Abbas in the lead. The film hits the theatres Sep 12.

The shooting of Amitabh Bachchan-starrer "Shamitabh", directed by R. Balakrishnan, fondly called Balki, will end soon, says the megastar.

"It bears late...around 3 am and there is work tomorrow for Balki .. it reaches a moment of ending soon...," the 71-year-old posted on his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com.

The movie, also starring Dhanush, marks the Bollywood debut of southern superstar actor Kamal Haasan's daughter Akshara. Big B and Balki had also worked together in films like "Cheeni Kum" and "Paa" in the past.

The megastar is also busy wrapping up his pending projects.

"… there is also the preparation for the fresh season of KBC and the new films of Shoojit Sircar and Vidhu Vinod Chopra as also many others on a pending list," he added.

Filmmaker Rohit Shetty is not particularly fond of night shoots, but for the shooting of "Singham Returns" he had to lose sleep over it.

The film's script demanded that the cast and crew be active at night and if a source is to be believed, "Singham Returns" is one project that Shetty shot the maximum night schedules for.

As the film is about black money and illegal siphoning off of funds, it needed to be symbolised by being shot in the dark of the night.

"Singham Returns" will see Ajay Devgn as Bajirao Singham, a role he first essayed in "Singham". Produced by Reliance Entertainment, the film also stars Kareena Kapoor.

Actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt says she goes by advice that her father Mahesh Bhatt once gave her about the process of casting. Since then, she never follows Bollywood's diktats.

"A lesson I've learned from my father with regard to casting & one I apply to each film I make- "we don't need new people, we need new EYES'. If I had gone by Bollywood dictates, John Abraham would not have been in JISM nor Irrfan in ROG. Rahat dubbed in PAAP & no Sunny in JISM2 (sic)," Pooja tweeted.

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. I will cast with my heart & back people I believe in for I rather fail on my terms than yours," she added.

Actress Jacqueline Fernandez finds "nothing to worry about" in the fact that Salman Khan has "overpowering" presence in their forthcoming Bollywood film "Kick".

"The movie is on Salman's shoulders. He is the main lead of this film, people come to see Salman Khan at the end of the day, and for me to be part of it, is a very big deal," Jacqueline said here.

"Even if Salman is overpowering you (an artist), it's fine. He is a superstar, he is a very strong person. That's nothing to worry about. For any actor, it only does good," she said.

Directed by Sajid Nadiadwala, "Kick" has a screenplay by Chetan Bhagat.

Jacqueline, who hails from Sri Lanka, says her Bollywood journey, which started with the 2009 film "Aladin", has been "amazing".

"I couldn't have asked for anything more. I came here not knowing anybody. I am happy...when I look back at my career, I have worked with amazing people. I feel I have been blessed. Doing a movie like 'Kick'...I think my hard work has paid off," she added.

Jacqueline, a Salman Khan fan herself, says she loved him in "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam".

"He was so cute in that."

Superstar Salman Khan, who usually shies away from intimate scenes and from locking lips in his films, is said to have shared a "rare" moment with his onscreen love interest in the forthcoming Bollywood entertainer "Kick".

In the Sajid Nadiadwala directorial, Salman stars with Jacqueline Fernandez.

A source close to the team said: "Salman shares an intimate moment in the film with his love interest. It is very rare that you see Salman do this on screen."

It is however, not clear, whether "Kick" has a kiss or not.

Actress Dipannita Sharma is a fan of horror films - and her friends have challenged her to watch her own supernatural thriller "Pizza" all alone.

Dipannita is said to have a collection of 600 horror films, and to test this love, some of her friends have challenged her to watch "Pizza" alone.

The model-turned-actress has been vouching that the movie has the right pulse for a horror movie and that it is going to be one of the best coming from Bollywood because of its treatment.

She also plans to ask the film's makers if they can help her with this 'horror test'.

Actress Evelyn Sharma has made her singing debut internationally with an number, which is not indie-pop in nature, but a part of the alternative genre - less commercial and more music. She says she's always been passionate about singing.

"I'm very excited as singing is something I have always been passionate about. I would sing casually all the time but never imagined actually having to work on a collaboration for an international album," Evelyn said in a statement.

"The whole experience of recording the song, shooting the music video was very exciting. Now I hope that when the song comes out in a few weeks people fall in love with it," she added.

Evelyn was encouraged by her friends to consider singing commercially, and it all fell into place when she got a chance via Indo-American rapper, Brooklyn Shanti for an album.

Brooklyn met Evelyn on the sets of "From Sydney With Love", a movie for which Brooklyn composed music. That's where Brooklyn discovered Evelyn's singing prowess, said a source.

Evelyn not just lent her voice to the song titled "Something beautiful", but also penned it. It speaks about herself and her journey. The song is meant to be a motivation for others to believe in themselves.

The album is slated for release in August release and its video has been shot in New York. Evelyn, who, as a teen used to sing for her church choir, will be seen sporting designer gowns in the music video.