Warrior goes Wild over Celina

Celina Jaitley’s cross-cultural romance Love has no Language, where she stars opposite hot New Zealand hunk Ben Mitchell, received a standing ovation and rave reviews from the audience at its premiere in New Zealand. “800 Asians turned up to meet me besides the 325 formal invitees,” said Celina, obviously thrilled at the size and glamour of the premiere,”We had the crème de la crème of New Zealand attending, including television film and sports personalities.”

In fact, Celina, was feeling a little unwell with the weather - “I was down with this acute tummy infection. I was doubling up with cramps and pain,” she explains, “I really thought I wouldn’t be able to attend. But at the last minute, I squeezed into my Manish Malhotra gown and dragged myself to the red carpet. The effort was worth it.”

She appears to have been a big hit all over with the kiwis. In particular, New Zealand Warriors and Kiwis legendary Rugby League hooker and captain Monty Beetham appears to have been more than smitten with the beautiful Indian actress and is said to have followed her everywhere. Could the theme of the movie be about to be re-enacted in real life? “I’m no stranger to male attention. Though I met Beetham only briefly, I believe he was quite taken up by what he called the Indian beauty. I was just floored by all the attention I got.”

The former Miss India, who was also recently seen in Money Hai Toh Honey Hai and the mega-big Diwali hit Golmaal Returns will soon be seen in Paying Guest and her next English-language project Quest of Sheherzade. In this, she plays an Iranian princess and will star opposite Orlando Bloom (who’s a lot smaller than Monty so he’d better not get any fanciful ideas!) and Sean Connery, tempted out of retirement for this epic movie. Finally, we can expect to see her as a stripper in Showman later next year – oh boy!

Aishwarya Is Now Celebriting His 35 Birthday

35-year-old Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. In a published statement, Amitabh Bachchan expressed his pride in having her as a member of his family: “I am proud of Aishwarya and her achievements. I wish her peace, prosperity, good health and a harmonious life. I am proud that she is my daughter-in-law,” he said.

Now that Amitabh’s health has begun to improve, Abhi and Aish have returned to work. They have spent the last couple of days shooting in the forests of Malayatoor for the trilingual production of Ravana. Aish will play the role Sita in all productions but Abhi will be Rama only in the Hindi version. Southern hero Vikram will play Rama in the Tamil/Telugu version. Aish is very excited at working with Mani Ratnam as the director. “You can’t expect Mani sir to go into the same space twice. Working with him is an exciting thought for any actor. The way he connects to his actors is very clear in the films that he makes. He creates magic on screen.”

Meanwhile, Aishwarya has confirmed that the troubled production of Robot will not be released in a Hindi version to the disappointment of many of her fans – but that the production is now at last nearing completion. “After Sujatha sir’s sad demise, the project got delayed slightly,” she explains, “People chose this tragedy as an occasion to spread all kinds of rumours when the fact is death slowed down Robot. But we’re back on track, though now we need to work on a tighter schedule.”

Katrina Kaif signs with UTV

Katrina Kaif is certainly one of the stars of Bollywood after having hit after hit after hit. Many directors and production houses want to work with the actress. Recently, Katrina signed a new two-film deal with UTV, one of the biggest production houses in India.

Ram Mirchandani COO of UTV said, “We are proud to have Katrina in the UTV family. Katrina is one of the most talented and successful actress of the industry today and I am sure that this exciting collaboration is the first step in the wonderful future that lies both for her and for us.”

About signing with the company Katrina said, “UTV brings to the table a very strong legacy in film production and distribution. I am very happy to be associated with them, and I am sure we will make some great films together.”

Topless Aishwariya

A site has published a topless photo of Aishwariya Rai Bachchan taken way back in 90s. Aishwariya Rai and other top models like Milind Soman, Madhu Sapre and Colleen Khan posed topless for the flick, which featured in a magazine. But the authenticity of the image is still to be verified as the models posed their bare back for the shutter.

Apparently the Bachchan khandaan is very upset about the incident, especially hubby Abhishek Bachchan. Abhishek did not want the controversy to blow out of proportion and clearly branded the image as morphed, denying his wife’s presence in it.

The ghost of past is very dangerous and Ash should realize that it will leave no stone unturned to haunt her.