Archive for October, 2006



Priyanka wants her own site!

Priyanka Chopra has turned internet savvy and decided to launch her offical website. The actress is meeting a lot of technical exprets, both from India and abroad, for this.

“It’ll be an interactive website, and I will make it a point to see that it’s upgraded every week. I am shooting in Mumbai for some months, so this is the time when I can meet people to get the website going.” Priyanka says.

But there is a slight glitch, the domain name www.priyankachopra.com has already been booked by some cyber-squatter the day Chopra became Miss World. Continue reading ‘Priyanka wants her own site!’

Priyanka Chopra is all set to launch an official website for herself. Currently, the actress is in the process of meeting several web-page designers, both from India and abroad, for this.

“I am shooting in Mumbai for some months, so this is the time when I can meet people to get the website going. It will be an interactive website, and I will make it a point to see that it’s upgraded every week,” Priyanka says.

The only problem is that she has not been able to get the domain www.priyankachopra.com . “On the day I won the Miss World pageant, the domain was booked by someone. We are trying to work a deal with the person who has a right to this domain . But it seems difficult. There are several websites in my name, but none of them are official,” she says. Continue reading ‘Priyanka Chopra to launch her official website’

Popcorn Entertainment and One Big Option, under the aegis of Tourism Malaysia and under the kind patronage of Yabhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, take this opportunity to proudly announce the three day mega extravaganza GIFA 2006, scheduled to be held between the 7th and 9th December 06′ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

GIFA 2006 promises to be a slick show with a galaxy of Bollywood superstars performing to a worldwide audience in Malaysia. The three-day extravaganza on 7th December, 2006 will have the World Premiere of B R Films and Ravi Chopra’s BAABUL at TGV cinemas, KLCC, in Kuala Lumpur. The BAABUL World Premiere will be attended by the lead star cast Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee and John Abraham. The Awards Function, scheduled on 9th December, 2006, will have mega performances by Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Ameesha Patel and the master of ceremonies will be Arshad Warsi and Amrita Arora.

Leading Indian film stars and personalities from the sports and corporate world will be gracing this International Mega Event. Continue reading ‘Global Indian Film Awards (GIFA-2006), Malaysia’

The Don – World Premiere Royal Gala Dinner has been rescheduled to Nov 11.

The event was originally planned to be held today.

The re-schedule was made in view of the National Open House for Deeparaya in Perlis today. Continue reading ‘‘Don’ world premiere dinner deferred’

With the success of Krish, and the hype surrounding Don, Priyanka Chopra proves she’s more than just the flavour of the month.

Watch Bollywood’s Favourite New It-Girl in an exclusive interview with NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain on “Bombay Talkies”. Chopra discusses being single, dealing with infidelity, and the infamous casting couch. As for Akshay Kumar, it’s just an act: “We did four films together and they all did well…I guess that’s all…that’s what I say. ”

Watch Priyanka Chopra on ‘Bombay Talkies’ on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 9.30 pm on NDTV 24X7 and repeat on Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 11.30 am on NDTV 24X7.

Saajan Saajan from Barsaat Staring Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, & Priyanka Chopra

Spotted: This Don likes cricket

Even as the nation obsesses constantly and compares every little facet of Farhan Akhtar’s upcoming Don with the 1978 classic directed by Chandra Barot, Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra took time off to go cheer India.

Reader Anshul Verma was in Jaipur on October 15, watching the India-England cricket match, and took some pictures of the Don couple. Reader Hemant Dinkar decided to send in the snaps.

Going by how India won the match, maybe Don should cheer every game. Continue reading ‘Spotted: This Don likes cricket’

Priyanka Chopra didn’t make a very convincing skydiver in the blockbuster Krrish because her gait and movements didn’t match those of an athlete. However, in Don, after having received martial arts training for her role, her control over her body is evident even in her dance sequences.

In the original Don, Zeenat Amaan as Roma was shown executing fight sequences that could only have been executed by a trained fighter. However, she wasn’t cast as a fighter and frankly did not appear fit enough to skip a rope for any length of time. In the remake, to lend greater credibility to the fight sequences, Roma is cast as a trained martial arts expert. Hence the training, that Priyanka had to undergo.

The new Don’s Roma is not just ready to fight for him, she is trained to do so!

Priyanka is not particularly perturbed by the fact that her performance as Roma in the Don remake, to be released this Friday, will be measured against that of Zeenat in the original. She feels the two films, while based on the same story line, are substantially different, “There will be comparisons, of course. When we started off with the film we were very prepared for the fact that there will be comparisons. However, our Don, as much as it is a remake of the original Don, is very different.” Continue reading ‘New Don’s Roma, Priyanka Chopra, believes in Don’

At present pretty Priyanka Chopra is leading a very busy life and she loves the pace. In a recent interview, she said if she had a man in her life, perhaps her pace would have been slower. “No one seems interested in me,� she laughed.

“In such a scenario, how you can expect me to have a love life?� she quipped.
But she hoped someone special will soon come in her life and then she will slow down her pace. “Hopefully, someone special will soon be a part of my life.

Till then, I have to fill my life with work,� she said with a sigh.
Priyanka’s next release is Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don’, where she played opposite Shah Rukh Khan. Presently she’s shooting Nikhil Advani’s ‘Salaam-E-Ishq’ with John Abraham, Salman Khan and Vidya Balan.

Bollywood superstar and Pepsi’s brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan boarded Pepsi’s “Blue Billion Express” train on Sunday to cheer the Indian cricket team when India beat England by four wickets at the ICC Champions Trophy match at the Sawai Man Singh cricket stadium in Jaipur.

Shah Rukh, who took a ride on a train after seven years, was accompanied by his “Don” co-star Priyanka Chopra, who also endorses Pepsi.

The 11-bogey special train done up in blue and white with a catchline that resonates through all of Pepsi’s ad campaigns – “Oooooh Aaaaah India, Aaaaah Yaaaaa India!” – written on it chugged out of Delhi’s Safdarjang station early Sunday with about a 100 cricket fans. Continue reading ‘SRK, Priyanka on Blue Billion Express’