Big B croons for Vishal & Shekhar

At 65, Amithabh Bachchan remains indefatiagble. Even as he continues to shoot, juggling Mumbai, Goa and Delhi, he has found the energy and time to record three songs for composer duo Vishal-Shekhar's films Bhootnath and Aladdin. He recorded two rap songs and one ballad. "That's not all. One more song remains to be recorded for Sujou Gosh Alladin as soon as I return to Mumbai," Big B said. "I've sung a rap song for Vishal-Shekhar for my ghost's character in Bhootnath and another rap song for my dijinn's character in Alladin. Plus, I recorded a sift lyrical number for Bhootnath. I'll record one more song for Alladin," he added. The composer duo has been working in a non-film albhum of Abhishek Bachchan's hip-hop for producer Rohan Sippy for the last one year. That too will have singing inputs from Bachchan. "It looks like the music composer are thinking of an alternative career for me. they obviously don't think much of me as an actor," the Big B jokes before flying off to the London Film Festival for Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear.

Bips enjoys watching boys play

Bipasha Basu has been getting compliments for her look in Goal, but onething that keeps us guessing is; What is a beautiful dusky woman like her doing in all men sports films? Bipasha laughs and says, "Well, I am never too concentrated about the length and duration of my role. When I took it up, I knew what the it was going to be like. I also knew it was a film on men right from the beginning."

She adds,"I was introduced to the game (football) almost five years ago when i started seeing Jhon Abraham. That man is crazy about the game and I was also hooked on to it. I was not going to miss the opportunity of being part of the film."
"How many football centric films are made in india anyway? So when I came to know that Goal was being made and the team that was going to be part of the film i immediately said yes. I play a physiotherapist, so luckily I don't play the game but just enjoy it." says Bipasha with a smile.

Kabul Express goes to new, important places

Yash Raj Films' Kabul Express has been invited to be a part of Africa's most prestigious film festival - the Casablanca Film festival. The third edition of the festival, Casa Cine, takes place from October 31 to November 6, Casa Cine will also give a special tribute to actor jhon abraham (following on the heels of the huge success of the tribute to Rani Mukerji in 2005), French actor and filmmaker Roschdy Zen Morrocan filmmaker Saad Chraibi and egyptian actress Nelly Karim. Kabul Express, the screening of which forms part of the tribute to jhon, was released in india in December 2006 and got wide critical acclaim.
With a selection of 73 films, including features, documentaries and children films, shown in six different cinemas of the city of Casablaca,Cine will present 20 Moroccan films, 20 european film, 10 films from the US and 10 films from Asia.
Along with a selection of movies awarded at the most prestigious festivals, the film will be screened on the November 3 at the cinema Sidi Moumen. A screening of another Yash Raj Film, Dhoom will be organised on November 4 at the cinema Le Mirage.

SRK, Kajol to star together

Shah Rukh Khan reportedly said that he is free for some time as he is not doing shanker's Robot and Raj kumar hirani's next venture. He will now be working on Karan johar's next film titled My Name Is Khan. The shooting will begin by the end of december with a shooting stint in the US where the film is based. It is said that Karan want to capture the US winter as as it is a part of the script.
Sources reveal that the film brings together kajol opposite him after a gap of over six years. karan has been making frequent trips to the US to determine the look of the film. Presently, discussions over shah rukh and kajol's look in the film and the coustumes are in the final stages.

An industry source says. "The film My Name Is Khan is about how people with muslim names are viewed with suspicion internationally after the terror attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. The King Khan is extremely excited about this project and has been equating his personam experiences as a musilm traveller abroad with the film's subjects."