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Mahima is riding Anjali is the new Shruti Haasan lends voice for Sonakshi high in Kollywood A glamour queen

fter starting her career with a girl next door image, Anjali’s career graph has now taken a U turn completely. Off late she has been acting in glamorous roles, even in “Singham Returns” she was seen shaking a leg for a song, for the Telugu movie “Geethanjili” she has acted quite glamorously as well. The buck doesn’t stop here for the upcoming Tamil movie with Jeyam Ravi, the role requires glamour. This news is spreading like wildfire among Tollywood and Kollywood, with the film buffs already calling her as the next Silk Smitha. There has been talk about making a movie on adult star Shakila and her life, rumour is that Anjali has been approached to do the role of Shakila. Amidst all these, at a recent function in AP, a prominent director went on to say that Anjali can earn millions if she continues to dance for item songs and show glamour as people have taken a liking to it.

ven though Shruti Haasan has been busy donning the greasepaint for films down South, she never misses any chance when it comes to music, her first love. She has recorded a song for the Hindi film “Tevar” starring Sonakshi Sinha and Arjun Kapoor. It has music by Sajid and Wajid. It is said to be a romantic song and has come out well. The music directors found Shruti’s voice fresh and extremely soothing and

Sonakshi being the confident actress she is, was more than happy so far as it worked well for the song, says a source. Even Sonakshi lent her voice for a small portion in the song called “Let’s celebrate.” Will A R Rahman utilise Sonakshi’s voice in Rajinikanth’s “Lingaa”? It was Rahman who shocked everyone in the “Highway” album where Alia Bhatt, the female lead of the film, crooned the soulful “Sooha Saaha” song.

Asin donates her organs

couple of months ago, Trisha pledged all her organs and posted a picture of the same on her official page. Now, it is, Asin, the 'Ghajini' girl has signed the papers for organ donation. Asin was actively participating in lots of social activities and took part in a blood donation camp held at

‘Singham Returns’

“Singham Returns” (formerly referred to as Singham 2) is an action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment. The sequel to the 2011 film “Singham,” actor Ajay Devgn reprises his role from the previous film, as well as co-producing the project, while Kareena Kapoor Khan plays the female lead. Others in the cast included Amole Gupte, Dayanand Shetty, Anupam Kher, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Zakir Hussain and Sharat Saxena.

Aamir defends nudity on ‘PK’ poster

a m i r K h a n , who has left many intrigued and many ridiculing him over his nude look in the poster of his upcoming film ‘PK’, says it’s not for publicity. Calling it ‘key art’, he says it depicts the story of the film. Talking about it, Aamir said: “When you will watch the film then only you will be able to understand the idea behind the poster. But I would just like to say that the kind of filmmaker, the kind of writer Rajkumar is, he always tries to present the things, his thinking, in a unique way and that’s why I am his huge fan.”

Mumbai. While answering what made her to take this decision, Asin replied - “It was my long time wish to do so. And I am happy that I have done it now. I hope that this will act as a catalyst in making others to donate their organs.” Asin was last seen in Vijay's 'Kaavalan' in 2011 and she is acting in 'All Is Well' with Abhishek Bachchan.

fter her impressive performances in Tamil films like “Sattai” and “Ennemo Nadakuthu,” actress Mahima Nambiar is on a high. Though her debut role in Dileep-starrer “Karyasthan” didn't give any boost to her filmi career in M-Town, Kollywood welcomed the pretty lass with open arms. As she has been signed up for a number of projects in Tamil like “Mosakutty,” “Puravi 150 cc” and “Ahathini,” Mahima is indeed living her dream. "In Karyasthan, I played Dileep's sister, which was indeed a blink and miss role. So naturally, the audience must have forgotten about it. But I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason. Since the movie had a huge star cast, I got an opportunity to meet many actors," says Mahima. She says she was always serious about her acting career, even from a very young age. "Since my dream was to become an actress, I was very careful and always stayed away from any sort of adventure that might cause any physic a l marks o r scars on my b o d y, " she says.

Juhi Chawla grows older for Steven Spielberg

Kangana Ranaut offered an Italian film

ollywood actor Juhi Chawla will soon make her Hollywood debut with a Steven Spielberg production that is being directed by Lasse Hallström. She will be seen playing veteran actor Om Puri’s wife in the film. However, for the role, the makers needed Juhi to look at least 15 years older than she is. So, to make sure she fit that requirement, the 46-year-old has been made to age digitally on screen with the help of post-production techniques. A source says, “Puri is 63 years old, and that’s why Juhi was required to look older for the part.”

fter signing a French film opposite Irrfan Khan, now Italy is on the radar for Kangana Ranaut. According to a source close to the actor, she was recently approached by director Edoardo De Angelis to play the lead role in an Italian film opposite Massimiliano Gallo. Although excited at the prospect, she is yet to decide on whether she will accept the offer. The source adds that Kangana will begin Nikhil Advani’s film in September, followed by the “Tanu Weds Manu” (2011) sequel and the film with Irrfan. Thus, she is unable to decide whether she should take up this film.