The baby boom continues in Bollywood. As Shilpa Shetty is due to deliver another Bollywood celeb is ready in the line. Actor Twinkle Khanna who is married to Akhsay Kumar is reportedly expecting their second child.

The elegant beauty is missing from the social circuit lately and is said to be in the second trimester of her pregnancy.

After ten years of their first son Aarav, the couple has decided to have another child. The baby is said to be due in September. Even Akshay Kumar and son Aarav celebrate their birthdays in September.

Akshay and Twinkle Khanna tied the knot in January 2001. Source

South Sensation Asin is learning a new dance form. Waltz it is, for the Ghajini actress who is learning this particular form for an advertisement shoot. There was a sequence in an advertisement for a soap brand that the actress endorses, which required her to perform the ballroom dance of the ‘Viennese Waltz’ style, and if onlookers are to be believed, Asin mastered the steps of this complex dance form in a relatively short period.

The ad has been directed by the renowned Harvey Brown who specially travelled down to Wai, where Asin had been juggling her Bol Bachchan shoot as well as her Waltz rehearsals, to supervise her practice sessions.

Asin who has already been trained in Bharatnatyam, is quite enamored by this new dance form and plans to learn it further as and when she can find time! Source

Konkona Sen Sharma and Rahul Bose are all set to return to the silver screen for an upcoming comedy film. Bose’s I Am has been winning a lot of awards at the festival circuit and the actor is overjoyed with all the appreciation that he has been garnering. Konkona has not been seen on the big screen since quite a long time. The last film that she acted in was Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf.

Rahul Bose and Konkona Sen Sharma have previously set the screen ablaze with their marvelous chemistry in films such as Mr & Mrs Iyer and 15 Park Avenue. Let’s watch how this magical duo tickles the audiences’ funny bone! Source

The Dabangg girl Sonakshi Sinha had impressed one and all with her acting skills in her debut film. However, this time she has found an ardent admirer in her Rowdy Rathore director Prabhu Deva. In fact, so much have the Shotgun girl’s histrionics impressed Prabhu that he has increased the romantic angle in the script, so that it would be far meatier than in the original Telugu version.

He also asked Sajid-Wajid, the music composers to add a few more songs that would help Sonakshi show a unique side of her personality.

Prabhu Deva was quoted saying, “I feel that she is easily 25-films old. You just have to read out the dialogues to her once, and she’s ready to give her take. The same holds true for the dance sequences. Sonakshi has all the traits of being a successful leading lady.”

Coming from a man who is himself regarded as a great dancer and is a proven filmmaker, that is quite a compliment for Sonakshi Sinha! Source

Actress Parineeti Chopra, whose first solo film Ishaqzaade hits theatres Friday, holds three degrees in finance and always dreamt of becoming an investment banker. But global recession in 2009 changed her future, and she landed up as an actor.

“I am triple-qualified. I have done triple honours in Business, Finance and Economics. I have grown up wanting to be a banker, so studying finance was an automatic thing,” the 23-year-old said.

“I went to England and studied in Manchester Business School. Then I went to London because I wanted to work in an investment bank. But recession hit in 2009 and I wasn’t getting jobs and it was not because of my qualification, it was because they couldn’t give jobs to who were not British nationals,” Parineeti Chopra added. More

Proving to be lucky at the Bollywood box office, actress Asin scores yet another 100 crore mark with her latest comic caper HOUSEFULL 2 being one of the biggest grosser of 2012 till date!

Asin has registered a lot of ‘firsts’ in her name. She is the only actress from south who has made a successful transition into Hindi films in the recent times. She has tasted tremendous success within a period of mere 3 years in the Hindi film industry. Out of the total 4 Hindi movies she has done, each of them have the record of crossing 100 crore mark.

She started with GHAJINI – which marked her Bollywood debut opposite Aamir Khan essaying the notable character of Kalpana. This was followed by the super hit Salman Khan starrer READY in 2011, a romantic comedy and now HOUSEFULL 2 where she was paired opposite Akshay Kumar for the very first time. More

One of the salient features about ISHAQZAADE is that it is a romantic story with a twist. Indeed it would be for the first time that a love story of the youth and for the youth is a love story between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. As it is Hindi cinema has been rather conservative about using this genre as a subject matter of content, and one needs to congratulate Yash Raj Films for having chosen this subject.

Last time when Yash Raj Films had ventured into this arena it was through VEER-ZAARA and it is now more than a decade later that YRF has returned to the subject once again. However there is a twist in the love story of ISHAQZAADE, it is a love story situated in the Hindi heartland.

Indeed the earlier films which had the reference point of a Hindu Muslim love story, invariably were based around Punjab where the love that prospered had a backdrop of partition associated with it. In Punjab, as the Hindus and the Muslims lived together and shared lots of cultural affinities, it was quite natural for love to prosper. More

Buzz is that Neha Dhupia has been added to the ensemble cast of Karan Johar’s next production which is an action adventure.

The film to be directed by Qurbaan director Rensil D’Silva features Emraan Hashmi and Kangna Ranaut.

The film is slated to roll later in the year as Rensil is currently busy as a writer for Karan’s upcoming directorial venture. Source

Veteran actor Annu Kapoor has alleged that Priyanka Chopra did not take her role in 7 KHOON MAAF seriously.

In a recent interview, the actor is reported to have said that Priyanka, who was his co-star in the critically-acclaimed 7 KHOON MAAF, did not take her role in the film seriously.

The movie portrayed the actress aging from 20 to 65 years, during which she goes through seven marriages. Annu who had played the role of one of Priyanka’s seven husbands, supposedly did not think high of the actress.

Annu said, ‘I have been in the industry for 30 years and have worked with some big actors. But when I worked with Priyanka in 7 KHOON MAAF, I felt she didn’t take the role seriously.’ More

This is certainly good news for all those hot-blooded Punjabi lads out there! It seems that when it comes to matters of the heart, actress Parineeti Chopra is somewhat partial to Punjabi youths. In a recent interview, the perky Parineeti made it quite clear that she would love to date someone with Punjabi blood in him.

The Ishaqzaade actress was quoted saying, “All I know is that I am a happy go lucky Punjabi girl. I am never sad, stressed or tense. So I want my guy to be a ‘mast malang’ like me. He doesn’t have to be a Punjabi, but he should have that Punjabi blood in him…’khao, peeyo aur aish karo’ types.”

Parineeti Chopra, who made her Bollywood debut in Ladies vs Ricky Bahl will be next seen paired opposite Bollywood newbie Arjun Kapoor in Ishaqzaade, a love story set against the backdrop of lawless towns in North India. Source

Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha has been a busy bee ever since her dream debut with Dabangg! She has lately been shooting with A-listers that any newcomer would die to work with!

While Sonakshi has finished the shooting of her upcoming films Rowdy Rathore and Son Of Sardar starring Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgan respectively, she still has Lootera, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2 and Dabangg 2 lined up!

From photoshoots, to promotional activities, to shooting for her films, Sonakshi has had a chock-a-block schedule from quite some time now! However, now, the actress has finally taken a much deserved break, as she wrote on Twitter: “I’m on holiday ”

Looks like she preferred not to reveal her holiday destination and we certainly think that is the right call! After all, the paparazzi would not have left her alone and despite holidaying she might have felt that she was indeed a part of a photoshoot! Wink. More

One would have expected Karisma Kapoor to make her comeback with established stars. But the case is different with “Dangerous Ishq”. She says it’s because the movie required actors with no image.

“These young actors have been cast in ‘Dangerous Ishq’ because we required actors with no image. That’s why they have been cast… and they have been very appropriately cast in the film,” said Karisma.

“Dangerous Ishq” features model-actor Rajniesh Duggal opposite Karisma. It also features model-actor Ruslaan Mumtaz, who made his debut with the film “Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar”, and Arya Babbar.

Karisma, 37, who is appearing on the big screen after a gap of five years, says the audience, her family and friends led to her returning to films. More