Govinda shakes leg with Mithun
Mumbai: It was time for some “mauj masti” on the sets of Zee TV’s Dance India Dance with the baap of comedy and dance, Govinda paying a visit!
The superstar is reported to have left the audience holding on to their bellies with his witty wisecracks and the house was flooded with seetis each time Chi Chi took to the floor.
Not the sort to pass up a golden opportunity, the judges Remo, Terence & Geeta insisted that Grand Master Mithun Chakraborty shakes a leg with Govinda.
Without the slightest nakhra, Chi Chi broke into a lively street dance to his evergreen hit ‘Main Toh raste se Jaa Raha Tha’ and Mithun Da sportingly followed suit.
As if this wasn’t enough, Govinda made a special demand saying, “I have forever seen Terence Lewis give detailed comments after every dance act but never had the chance to see him live in action. Terence, I want you to show us your moves.”
Unable to refuse his favorite Govinda, Terence brought the house down with a jazzed up street-style dance to ‘Kya Kare Kya Na Kare’ from Rangeela.
On public demand, Govinda joined him on stage and together the duo danced to the actor’s popular dance hit ‘Kisi Disco mein Jaayein’ …!
Not scared of horror films: Ehsaas
Mumbai: Children are generally found scared of watching horror films, and child Artist Ehsaas Channa was no exception.
But she does not find horror films scary anymore! Why?
Simply, because she is one of the few child actors to have worked in maximum number of horror films.
“Earlier I was scared of watching horror films, but after having acted in few I do not fear anymore” says the brave girl.
Ehsaas, who had worked in various horror films like Vaastu Shashtra and Phoonk, is now set to be to be possessed again by the evil spirit in Ram Gopal Varma’s Phoonk 2, slated for April 16, release.
Phoonk 2 also stars Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ashwini Kalsekar, Neeru Bajwa, Amit sadh and Rishabh Jain.
The film is directed and written by Milind Gadagkar.
Anupam Kher auditions Ahmedabad for Actor Prepares
Ahmedabad: Actor-director Anupam Kher recently interviewed candidates seeking entry to his acting school ‘Actor Prepares’ in Ahmedabad.
The interviews and auditions were held at Cambay Grand, the centrally-located 5-star hotel of the Cambay hospitality group.
“I believe that acting, like any craft, can be taught, learnt and perfected,” said Kher, who has won innumerable awards in a career spanning 25 years encompassing almost 400 films.
‘Actor Prepares’ opened last year in the city after establishing a presence in Mumbai, Chandigarh and London.
Two batches of students have already passed out after completing the three-month fulltime course.
Apart from the fulltime acting programme, ‘Actor Prepares’ in Ahmedabad has also been conducting workshops for teachers, dancers and teenagers.
Kher will be taking classes when the course commences.
Apart from Kher, the school has a trained full-time faculty of teachers to teach the craft of Acting. Other subjects, which will be taught, reflecting the holistic approach of the Actor Prepares programme, are Yoga, Dance, Martial Arts, Voice and Diction etc.
Actor Prepares Ahmedabad is sited on a landscaped 2.5 acre campus on the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway opposite Nirma University.
Dancing kids gherao Remo’s car
Mumbai: At the recent Mumbai auditions of its dance reality show for kids- DID Li’l Masters, Zee TV decided to delight the 9000 children & their parents who had queued up outside a school in Kandivli with a surprise visit by their favorite dance master Remo D’souza.
Little did the channel know that this would result in a scenario where Remo’s car would be frozen at one spot, unable to budge for over an hour with kids flocking all around it, dying to show Remo their much-rehearsed moves.
Remo was completely overwhelmed by the accuracy with which little children were aping the moves they had seen in the 2 seasons of Lux Dance India Dance. He couldn’t believe his eyes when a couple of kids began performing the extremely difficult stunt dance “B-boying” in front of his car, standing on their hands and kicking away vigorously.
Special security had to be called for at every school where DID Lil Masters conducted its auditions in Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Indore, Baroda & Jaipur.
In Mumbai, the frenzy knew no bounds, what with as many as 500 families landing up the previous evening from neighboring towns with “gaddas”, food, water - all set for a night-cap on the road outside the audition venue!
Arshad-Dia promote ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’
Mumbai, Mar 30 (IBNS) Actors Arshad Warsi and Dia Mirza recently came together to promote their forthcoming film ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ at PVR Select City Walk, Saket. The movie is directed by Kabeer Kaushik and produced by Arshad Warsi and Maria Goretti. The movie released all over India.
Ranvir goes underwater despite phobia
Mumbai: Youngistaan’s heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor has played many different characters starting from a lover-boy to a Casanova to an honest salesman; but for the first time ever he will be seen in a fantasy-adventure act in Pepsi The Game’s Level I that goes on air this week on TV (March 31 onwards).
In an industry where it is easy for stars to demand for body doubles, Ranbir chose to perform his own stunts, something that he has never done before.
Sources reveal that in spite of having a water phobia, Ranbir performed an entire underwater sequence, which took over 4-hours to shoot, with ease and like a true professional. In fact, he did not even let the production crew know about his phobia till after the sequence was completed.
While performing yet another tough sequence of climbing a high wall to pull out a few daggers, Ranbir hurt his hand.
But with the famous Kapoor blood in his veins and with his will and determination, he went ahead and completed the shot!