Bollywood to bring on the heat at Macau

IIFA 2009 is just around the corner! With the schedule for the much-awaited event out now, it looks like Bollywood is going to make its mark in Macau, the picturesque place which is host to the 10th year of the IIFA awards.

Amitabh, Abhishek, AishwaryaComedy kings Boman Irani and Riteish Deshmukh would be hosting the event, in co-ordination with the beautiful Lara Dutta. Each of them we know as top class communicators. Lara we know as a great orator, and is witty. And when it comes to witty and humourours, Boman and Riteish have established their ground in this space.

The event organizers are all set to have a lot of drama on the stage. On one hand, they have Aishwarya Rai-Bachchhan - who created waves dancing to the tunes of Kajra Re at IIFA 2005 at Amsterdam. And where Ash is, Abhi would surely follow! Maybe Pa and Ma should join in and create the Kajra Re magic again. And on the other hand, the surprise element comes with someone who is going to make her stage debut at the event… none other than the Delhi 6 gal Sonam Kapoor! We hope all the Cannes catfights will be forgiven and forgotten. The drama that we can forsee cant get better than this - Kareena Kapoor is scheduled to perform a belly dance to a Turkish-Arabian song. And guess who will also be on stage - the very spoken about love birds Priyanka Chopra-Shahid Kapoor are to perform to a song from their upcoming film Kaminey.

The other highlight of the event is a special award that has been added by IIFA to commemorate the completion of a decade – The Videocon IIFA Golden Decade Honours. Five different categories have been made for the same, including Star of the Decade (Male and Female), Movie of the Decade, Music of the Decade and Director of the Decade, so as to honour the best of Bollywood over the past 10 years.

Speaking about the occasion, IIFA Brand Ambassador Amitabh Bachchhan says, “I am delighted to see IIFA celebrate its 10th year. The Indian and international reception to IIFA has grown over the years, cementing its position as a significant larger than life phenomenon. This year at IDEA IIFA Awards, we pay tribute to the greats of Indian cinema through the Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Videocon Golden Decade Honours. We are committed to presenting the talent India has to offer, while giving audiences a chance to experience their film favourites.”

We look forward to a spectacular show of Bollywood at Macau soon, as always!

Lara worked up over Blue promos

Despite bikini, actress has less footage in promos than special-appearance Katrina.

Lara Dutta is blue. And this time, it isn't her boyfriend Dino Morea who's causing her worries. Lara is miffed with the producers of Blue after seeing the rough cut of the first teaser for the film. The promo, incidentally, has more of Katrina Kaif then Lara Dutta.

This should be fine in the normal course of things, given that Kats is clearly a much bigger star than Lara. But Katrina only has a special appearance in the Akshay Kumar-Sanjay Dutt starrer. And Lara has been billed as its heroine, or at least that's what Lara was given to believe.

So, when she watched the promo, she was fuming. How could the producers focus more on someone who had done a cameo than on the person who was the star of the movie?

A source on the film said part of the reason for this was that Katrina was in a different league. "The fact is that Katrina is definitely hotter than Lara in the market."

But he added that there was another reason for a little less of Lara in the promo. And that was that there is a lot of Lara to be seen in the movie. And we're not talking about the length of her role! "She's looking hot in the bikini, and we don't want to give it out in the promo itself," said the source. And not having too many other chick scenes in the movie led to overuse of Katrina.

"Lara is feeling sidelined because now she not only has to compete with Katrina, but also Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue," he added. He said that the Katrina 'special appearance' bit was also turning out to be a little more than that. "Initially Katrina's role was supposed to be very limited, but during the making of the film, the length of her role increased," he said.

Another factor that's troubling Lara is the fact that Akshay Kumar and Katrina share a fantastic equation. "Since Sanjay Dutt has hardly taken any interest in the film, the producers consider Akshay's opinion in every aspect. It was Akshay's idea that they use Kat in the first teaser."

Now, it's to be seen whether the production house gives in to Lara's demand and chops Kat from the promo, or retains it.

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Sush finds Lara intimidating

Sushmita is one very highly insecure girl. The Do Knot Disturb actress isn’t having the best time on the sets, says a source.

David Dhawan is bringing together, for the first time, the two Miss Universes, Lara Dutta and Sushmita Sen for Do Knot Disturb. Sushmita is showing concerns of her role being chopped to fit Lara’s character. Although the crew and the director are trying hard to calm her nerves, Sush isn’t convinced.

That’s not Miss Universe attitude now, is it Sush?

Lara, Dino not splitting!

Talks of the Lara Dutta-Dino Morea relationship being on the rocks has been doing the rounds for some time now.

But these two has been doing the rounds of theatres these days, and that too, together! So all differences seem to have been set aside for some fresh beginnings... Only recently, we spotted the duo at a screening of Vin Diesel’s Fast and Furious 4. As we got comfortable in our seats, we suddenly saw Dino walk up the (theatre) aisle with Lara. And yes, they left together too. So, if you thought that this pair was on their way to splitsville, let’s correct you fast — well, this romance just got more ‘furious’.

When Lara came late and left early

Arrey Lara, yeh theek nahi. Now, now, we are not complaining or anything, just making a point.

For the uninitiated, here’s what happened. Hua yeh ki, Lara Dutta was the guest of honour at a recent do in the city and the actress walked in – fashionably late (during the last sequence of a three-sequence ramp show)

Post-show, she was invited on to the stage and the shutterbugs went clickety-click. ‘Lara left dekhna, Lara right dekhna, Lara camera mein dekho, Lara chin up!’ Lara did it all, she even did a little jig for a photo-op. Next, the floor was open for a Q&A session, but the lady simply thanked all and left.

Arey, yeh kya hua? Zip-zap she went backstage and zoom she was driven out of the hotel. Some said, she was in a bad mood, must have fought with Dino, some called it starry tantrums... Later, a little birdie told us that some byte-seekers had barged into her room (the hotel staff had apparently given away her room number) and that upset her. Oh, ho! But aise mood nahi kharab karte, Lara! Cheer up, lady!