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Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan will be starring togetherfor Ketan Desai’s yet–to-be titled film. It will be made under Ketan’s father, Manmohan Desai’s banner. The film will also mark the return of Ketan Desai as a director. There’s a lot of speculation on how things will go with Aishwarya and Salman’s past still humming in everyone’s ears. Here’s what a close friend to Salman had to say,

Salman and Ketan have been friends for a long time and have also worked together earlier in ‘ Yeh Hai Jalwa’ which Ketan had produced and David Dhawan directed. They have wanted to work together for a long time. So, when Ketan approached Salman, the latter immediately agreed to do the film, no questions asked. When Ketan told him that the film would also mark his return as director after a long gap, Salman was more than thrilled to be part of the film.

It looks as though Salman will do anything for an old friend. This will be an interesting spectacle to see unfold. It just so happens that the two also have another possible movie in the works, God Tussi Great Ho. Who knows Salman and Amitabh may just happen to get all buddy buddy after this experience.

Ramu will soon start working with Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Ajay Devgan for his next project ‘Cobra’. The movie is being made by RGV’s Factory together with Adlabs. More big names will be added to the cast in the future.

Seems like RGV is all set to repeat the disastrous effects of ‘Aag’, in which he worked with the same actors. Also, isn’t it weird that The Big B signed this movie considering he’s been bad mouthing Ramu all around town and expressing his displeasure with the director’s attempt at the Sholay remake?

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai were in Toronto promoting their ‘Unforgettable Tour’, which was announced at the IIFA awards a few months ago.

The tour will kick start in Toronto in the Summer of 2008 and will feature a wide array of Bollywood big shots such as Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta, and Ritesh Deshmukh. There will also be concerts in Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, London, Cairo, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Being a die hard fan of ‘Sholay’ I was absolutely shocked when I heard that Ram Gopal Verma would be remaking the classic a couple of months ago. As the star cast was slowly revealed (it sucks), and when the soundtrack came out last week (sucks also), my heart broke into more and more pieces.

And now the man has to audacity to promote this god forsaken film with a useless partnership with some cell-phone media company.

Because people are dying to download ring-tones from the movie.

Not.

Anyway, the movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sushmita Sen, Ajay Devgan, blah, blah, blah….

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan launched author Aarti Kochchar’s book, ‘Recipes For Success’, at Crossword. The book is a compilation of the favourite recipes of Indians in the forefront of various industries such as Amitabh Bachchan, Mukesh Ambani, NR Narayana Murty, KV Kamath, Kapil Dev, Kiran Bedi and others. The book also gives a chance for each of these personalities to talk about their vision in their respective fields and to convey their message to the Indian youth. Aarti Kochchar plans to donate the proceeds of the book to the NGO ‘Salaam Baalak’, which works for less privileged children.

Ram Gopal Varma can really pull of amazing feats. After having the Bachchan crew once in his film, he will do it again. Before even completing the sequel to his film Sarkar, he is in the works of creating a new movie with the Bachchan camp. A source close to the director tipped us off:

Ramu has planned to rope in Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya for Time Machine. The director took the decision of reviving the film during the outdoor shoot of his film Sarkar Raj which is currently in progress in Hyderabad.

Ram must be a pleasure working with, usually Amitabh likes to switch things up, but he has stayed loyal to Ram and the pair are helping each other create amazing blockbusters. We can’t wait to hear more news on the film.

The room was in calamity as soon as Amitabh showed up to present the new August issue of Filmware, which has him on the cover. Amitabh spent a lot of time taking pictures and signing autographs at The Orchid Ecotel in Mumbai, Monday night. The funny thing is that the only photographs of him are from web photographers, since mainstream photographers are still refusing to give him any limelight, because they are still bitter about not being able to shoot the Abhi/Ash wedding. We don’t think Amitabh is too concerned, if anything, he is probably laughing at them, knowing that they will have to give in sooner or later.

Johnny Depp is confirmed to dance in a song in Mira Nair’s upcoming film Shantaram. The song will be composed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Mira Nair has requested Vishal Bhardwaj to make four tracks with Sufi touch and one Bollywood masala song. A source close to the crew of the film said,

Most of the shooting is likely to take place in the studio and very little of it may happen at actual locations. Depp, it is learnt, may arrive in India after Christmas for the shooting of the film. Mira Nair has asked Amitabh Bachchan who plays a pivotal role in the film to block his dates for the film at that time.

The film is aboutan Australian bank robber and a heroine addict who escape from Pentridge Prison and come to India to live in the Dharavi area of Mumbai. Irrfan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are expected to play very important roles in the film.

The Unforgettable Tour was announced today by Wiz Craft International Entertainment, the organizers of IIFA Weekend. Today they released word of the huge world tour featuring: Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya, Abhishek Bachchan, Lara Dutta, Bipasha Basu and Ritesh Deshmukh. Also on hand were: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Govinda, Sohail Khan and David Dhawan promoting their soon to be released film Partner. This tour will surely be a huge success with all the big names on the bill — we can’t wait and see what happens.

Shah Rukh Khan is said to boycott the International Indian Film Academy Awards this year which will be held next month in Yorkshire, England. Many people assume it’s because his rival Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of the event, but Shak Rukh has said it is because his children are on holiday. Here’ what an inside source had to say:

S R K was royally snubbed when he was not invited to the Abhi- Ash wedding. Also, Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya will be present as the Bachchan family brand, thus stealing the limelight from other stars. It’s no wonder that they are wary of attending. Even the real reason behind his not attending last year’s function in Dubai was the cold war between him and Amitabh. Karan Johar had to organize two music release functions for Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna in London and at IIFA in Dubai to appease both SRK and Bachchan.

Wizcraft, the company that is hosting and setting up the function, is worried about lack of ticket sales for the event. Shah Rukh is very popular in the UK and with Salman Khan yet not confirming his attendence, the company is worried about the event not being as big as it usually would. We’re sure even without Shah Rukh it will be a good event, even though Shah Rukh’s presence will be greatly missed.

Source: Magnastardust.com