Pooja Batra's Sylvester Connection!!

With the news being full of Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards being the first Hollywood stars to act in a Hindi movie, apparently there's an Indian factor that has brought them to our shores!!

Shamita's FASHION connection

Did you know that Shamita Shetty has acquired a degree in fashion designing? The actress, before embarking on films full time, had planned to pursue a career as a fashion designer. She had even completed a degree course in fashion designing at Mumbai's SNDT College and was student the college faculty was proud of.

Watch out for Big B's BEST FILM ever

Amitabh Bachchan's most awaited film, Planman Motion Pictures' The Last Lear, is releasing on September 12. The film is directed by the multiple-award winning Rituparno Ghosh and stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Shefali Shah and Divya Dutta.

ASA announced PURPLE LAKE and PHIR

Producer Surendra Sharma announced the next 2 films by ASA Productions and Enterprises Ltd. Directed by Vishal Pandya, the first of the two films is titled Purple Lake, which stars actor Aashish Chowdhry in the lead along with a well known model Mahsa and comedian Vir Das. The second one titled 'Phir', is directed by Girish Dhamija and stars the main leads of 1920, Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sha

Box office analysis

There was a mention in this column last week about RACE and WELCOME being the only two films which were under threat of their opening week record (35 crores) to be broken by the release of SINGH IS KINNG. However, even though this Anees Bazmee directed film was hot and a sure shot success in the making, it was a wait and watch situation before coming to conclusion around OM SHANTI OM record of 40