If last year Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan shone at the BO with their respective films, this year clearly belongs to Aamir Khan. Why? His film Talaash is the year’s most-awaited film and has garnered tremendous response from the fans. Now the reports suggest that the movie’s theatrical rights have already been sold for a whopping Rs 90 crores.

Yes, the movie has struck gold five months before the release, and has beaten Shahrukh Khan’s last year’s hit Don 2 by a margin of Rs 10 crore. Sources reveal that the thriller starring top heroines Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor has fetched Rs 90 crores for its theatrical rights. The deal apparently got sealed between producer Excel Entertainment and Reliance last week.

But the road to success for Talaash has become a bit difficult now. Insiders say that Don 2 was sold for Rs 80 crores because it was a hit franchise. But with this development there will be a great deal of recovery pressure on the film Talaash, which is directed by Reema Kagti, who has never directed a thriller before. Reema’s first film was the lighthearted comedy Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. More

Remakes like GHAJINI, READY, BODYGUARD, SINGHAM and WANTED have created history at the box-office. Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn climbed greater heights of success with these blockbuster films. Even today, the trend of remakes is in full flow with KICK that stars Salman Khan and SON OF SARDAR, remake of MARYADA RAMANNA, which stars Ajay Devgn.

But there is one film that Bollywood stars seem to have missed. And that is PAIYA, another potential pot of gold for Bollywood with love from the South. The reason behind keeping Bollywood stars away from this big project is because director Linguswamy was waiting for South superstar Surya to play the lead in the Hindi version. However, since Surya is still stuck with his Tamil assignments (he has acted in the original films which were later remade in Hindi- SINGHAM, GAJINI to name a few), Linguswamy has moved on to do four Tamil films with UTV. More

The Umang Mumbai Police show 2012 was surely a grand affair and not to be a missed one. The who’s who of Bollywood came in full force to cheer up for Mumbai Police.

It was one of those very rare occasions when the three most sought after Khans of Bollywood – Shahrukh, Salman and Aamir were seen together, though they appeared separately.

The guest list included Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, R Madhavan, Rani Mukherjee, Mallika Sherawat, Vidya Balan, Anushka Sharma, Kangna Ranaut, Malaika Arora Khan, Akshay Kumar, Mugdha Godse, Sameera Reddy, Sushmita Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, More

Kamal Haasan candidly admits that he couldn’t have made it big in Bollywood without his mentor K Balachander, that Hindi movies still enthuse him and that he loves the kind of films Aamir Khan is making.

He is also proud of his daughter Shruti Haasan’s career in Tamil and Hindi movies as she has made a place for herself without his banner’s support.

Excerpts from the interview.

Q: Are you enthused by Hindi cinema?

A: Yes, some of it. I am very happy Aamir Khan is now attempting films that should’ve been done 10 years ago in Hindi. People attribute this new cinema to the entry of corporate houses in Hindi cinema. But where were these corporate houses when Hrishida (Hrishikesh Mukeherjee) made his films, and Gulzar bhai made Achanak? Brilliant films are possible in every corner of India and at any time.

Q: Your daughter Shruti has made a career both in the Tamil and Hindi film industry. More

They were seen cozied up to each other, involved in a warm and friendly discussion at a prayer meeting held at a Mumbai film studio in the memory of the late Dev Anand, lovingly and respectfully called by the industry folks as Dev Saab.

While the first time father Abhishek was quietly listening to the senior thespian’s animated discourse with a very friendly smile on his face, everyone was left wondering about the topic of conversation. Were they discussing the nitty-gritty of fatherhood? Both looked relaxed and happy, with the bright glow of fatherhood adorning their visage. More

Our headlines may come as a surprise to most as the two top Khans, Aamir and Shah Rukh, though cordial to each other are not exactly bosom pals. But hold on to your horses because what we are saying is true, though there is bit of a twist to the tale.

As is known, in February 2011, Shah Rukh Khan was in Malaysia’s exotic tourist island, Langkawi, to shoot for DON 2. During his two week sojourn, King Khan stayed at Langkawi’s The Danna Hotel, located very close to the shooting venue, the cable car and the rain forest.

It may well be a co-incidence of sorts but the fact is that (believe it or not!) the name of the general manager of The Danna Hotel was Aamir Khan, who made sure that SRK’s stay was a very comfortable one. The interesting information came to our knowledge during our recent visit to Langkawi!

Well, we are sure that Aamir Khan’s efforts were not in vain because we know for sure that some of the most stunning shots from DON 2 are from the Langkawi portions, but more on that later! Source

Aamir Khan and Kiran rao have become happy parents with a baby boy on December 1st.

Aamir Khan said “It gives us the greatest joy to share with you the good news of the birth of our baby boy. This baby is especially dear to us because he was born to us after a long wait and some difficulty.

Due to medical complications, we were advised to have a baby through IVF -Surrogacy and we feel very grateful to the Almighty that everything has gone well.” Source

Ask Aamir to do a film and Mr. Perfectionist will do what not to make his film look just ‘perfect’.

Just few days back we heard, Aamir Khan  is perfecting the art of ballet dancing for his upcoming film DHOOM 3 since he had to stand on his toes in a particular scene of the film.

Now the buzz is that the perfectionist Khan will start training for the death-defying sport Parkour shortly.

A close hand reveals that there is this key sequence in the film that has an extensive shot of Parkour. And Aamir insisted to do the stunt himself.

Directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya DHOOM 3 also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Katrina Kaif. The movie is slated to release by Christmas 2012. Source

There has been much speculation about the title of Aamir Khan’s next directed by Reema Kagti, which also stars Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji. Post unconfirmed reports that the film was initially titled Dhuaan, we now hear that the film has finally being titled Talaash.

Talaash is said to be a suspense thriller, which is being co-produced by Aamir along with Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. Apparently, it was the joint decision of the trio to name the film Talaash. Source

The much awaited release of DHOOM 3 has now been shifted to 2013. This has been necessitated because of various production and post-production considerations.

While the shoot begins from end-November 2011, we anticipate a demanding 10 to 11 months of intense shooting with concurrent post-production, which will stretch beyond. This will probably be cutting it too fine for a Christmas 2012 release.

In view of this and keeping the interest of the audience expectations from DHOOM:3, both Aditya Chopra and Vijay Krishna Acharya (Victor) in consultation with Aamir Khan, have decided to delay the release of the film to 2013.

Speaking about this, Victor said, ‘DHOOM:3 is very dear to all of us as well as to its audience who expect only the best from the franchise. While the shooting will finish in time, we expect the post-production to take much longer. We are trying our best to give one of the finest cinematic experiences to our discerning audience and therefore did not want to compromise the quality of the film just to meet the release date.’ More

Hrithik Roshan has finally beaten the Khans in the movie rat race. According to trade insiders, Zee Network has apparently bought the satellite rights for his upcoming AGNEEPATH for a whopping Rs. 41 crore, which could be a new record. The transaction beats what Sony Entertainment supposedly paid for Aamir Khan-Kareena Kapoor tentatively titled cop caper DHUAN (Rs. 38-40 crore), and has also outclassed Star Network’s reported Rs. 35 crore bet on this year’s Diwali release, RA.ONE.

Jayantilal Gada, CMD, Pen India Pvt Ltd, the agency that aids the purchase of films for Zee Cinema, justifies a hefty price tag, saying that channels study the production banner’s track record on the small screen before pitching to buy satellite rights. ‘We chose to buy AGNEEPATH over several other biggies because Karan’s (producer Karan Johar of Dharma Productions) movies have always delivered great numbers. And the promo of this film showed promise,’ he adds. More

Aamir Khan, who himself is credited with blockbuster hits and known for his perfection in industry calls his buddy and superstar Salman Khan as no 1 star of Bollywood.

“Salman is ahead of me. The way his recent release BODYGUARD has got the terrific opening and broken all box office records, today if there is anyone who is the number one box office star, then it is Salman,” said Aamir at a recent event.

“He has proved with that he is ahead of all of us. I am happy and my best wishes are always with him,” he added.

As per Aamir, Salman’s BODYGUARD that released on Eid, has surpassed box office records of many biggies including his blockbuster 3 IDIOTS. An elated Aamir immediately gave the news to Salman, who was in the US for a nerve surgery when the movie received such a massive opening. More