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Monday, 7 November, 2011
‘Ra.One’ premiers in Lahore
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HAH Rukh Khan’s latest superhero action film ‘Ra.One’ hit the Pakistani cinemas and grabbed a large audience for premier show. The much awaited sci-fi action movie, ‘Ra.One’ (Random Access-Version 1.0) recently premiered in Lahore as celebrities including Nabeel Khan, fashion model Iffat Omer, fashion designers Nickie & Nina, Tony, Shafaq Habib, Imtisal Zafar attended the premier show. There has been a mixed response of the ‘Ra.One’ is directed by SRK’s wife Gau-
rai Khan and SRk himself. The movie is studded with performances by Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal who form the main cast of film along with SRK. Priyanka Chopra, Sunjay Dutt and super star Rajnikanth have given guest appearances in the movie.
Ayzel Maison De Couture extends collection ISLAMABAD STAff rePOrT
Multi designer fashion house ‘Ayzel Maison De Couture’ now brings more fashion collections for fashion lovers by placing latest collections of many Pakistani fashion designers. Fashion label Ayzel Maison De Couture recently opened in Islamabad and besides having collections by many renowned fashion designers; amateur designers’ collection has been exhibited there now. The fashion store exhibits ladies’ dresses by well known Pakistani fashion designers and also displays high end jewelry, handbags and accessories. The new fashion designers displaying their collection at Ayzel Maison De Couture include Urban Wear, Sadaf Sherazi, Rabia J., KHM Couture and Waseem Noor.
Agha Sheraz opens Burnout cafe ISLAMABAD STAff rePOrT
Famous Pakistani television artist, Agha Sheraz, has launched an auto mobile themed café in Islamabad with his two friends Babar and Waqas. The café is called ‘Burnout’. Burnout is the only café in Pakistan based on such an innovative theme that has an automobile themed décor as its main attraction. Pakistani celebrity, Agha Sheraz, has introduced car shaped seat sofas with tyres and flashing lights in this Burnout café. Logos of various automobiles have also been used in the décor. Federal Minister Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain inaugurated the café. Many Pakistani celebrities such as Laila Zuberi,
LAHore: wasabi, the first of its kind home-delivery service for Japanese cuisine, launched at Y-block. PhoTos By AmIr BABA Zeba Bakhtiar, Shabbir Jaan, and Tony attended the launching ceremony of Burnout café in Islamabad. The café serves Italian, Thai, Mexican, continental and Lebanese cuisine.
Should ‘the chase’ continue? MUMBAI AGeNCIeS
Come December, and Farhan Akhtar will be back with the second instalment of action thriller ‘Don’ with Shah Rukh Khan in ‘Don 2: The Chase Continues’. Shah Rukh has always maintained that their intention of doing Don 2 was “to pay tribute to Amitabh ji. There is only one ‘Don’ and he is Amitabh Bachchan.” But the fact is that the original Don personally doesn’t favour the trend. Bachchan had said that neither he nor his son Abhishek favour remakes of classics and that the original should be left as original. Does this rattle him?
“I am a huge fan of Amit uncle. But to say that classics should not be remade. Perhaps he said it in a different context. It cannot be a standalone statement because the same person has done a remake of Sholay,” said Farhan. He continues, “When you look back - the most remade film ever in the history of cinema is Devdas. It has been made eight times. When it was being remade with Dilip Kumar people objected saying that how can one make Devdas with Dilip Kumar and that only K L Saigal can do it. People are fascinated by certain stories and they want to retell the story for today’s audience. What is wrong in that?”
Sandalwood can’t afford Raima MUMBAI: Actress raima Sen says she was offered a role in a Kannada movie, but didn’t take it up because it wasn’t financially viable. Actress raima Sen has certainly made a career in offbeat cinema, so it’s little wonder that she’s called an indie heroine of sorts. “I am not interested in commercial cinema because I have always been different, right from my debut when I played the role of Sejal in ‘godmother’. Sure, there was ‘Honeymoon travels Pvt Ltd’, ‘Mirch’ and now ‘raakh’, but I get the kind of roles I want to do in Bengali cinema,” says raima. Now that Bollywood is changing, with directors like Dibakar Banerjee and Bejoy Nambiar making edgy films, wouldn’t she want to lend her offbeat film experience to B-town? “of course I would love to do experimental films. I am a director’s actor and seeing the way Bollywood has changed over the years, it would be great,” says the actor. given that she has only two upcoming B-town films - a cameo in John Abraham’s I Me Aur Hum and tanjua Chandra’s raakh alongside rajeev Khandelwal and vir Das - it seems like the Bong bombshell has made the right move in shifting her gaze down south. raima recently made her Mollywood debut with veeraputhran, a biopic on the life of freedom fighter Mohammed Abdul rahman, directed by Pt Kunjumohammed. How did she bag the role? “there was a film festival in Kerala and Mohammed happened to see the Japanese wife. He liked it and flew to Mumbai and told me that when he saw the film he could only think of me in the role,” says raima, adding, “I was a bit sceptical initially, but he was so confident that I decided to do it. And it was a fabulous experience, I never felt like an outsider on the set.” Is she game for tollywood and Kollywood as well? “My sister (riya Sen) has done some films down south and she has had a good stint in these industries. If I get good projects, I will definitely take them up,” says raima. Buzz is that the actor was approached for a Sandalwood film. Prod her about this and she says, “there were talks, but it didn’t materialize as it wasn’t financially viable. Also, my dates didn’t work out.” AGeNCIeS
Bobby Deol likely to play
‘Jat Dehati’ MUMBAI: Satish Kaushik plans to start a film next year with Bobby Deol tentatively titled Jat Dehati, where he plays a truck driver. “the film’s screenplay is ready and Bobby has liked it but talks are still at an initial stage”, said Kaushik, who has been building a library of movies post ‘Milenge Milenge’.”would you imagine Bollywood heroes agreeing to play a truck driver few years back, or have a title like rowdy rathore for a film? everybody wanted to do romcoms and go abroad to exotic locations for shoots”. says vijay galani, the producer of Jat Dehati. AGeNCIeS