Priyanka Chopra - Indian Bollywood Actress in World Record Book

Didn’t we always praised Priyanka for her hard work and professionalism. The young actress seems to leave no stone unturned to excel in her career. She didn’t though create the world record for hard work.

Priyanka Chopra plays 12 different characters in her forth coming film What’s your Rashee. She is the only actress in the world to do as many as 12 roles in one film. So, Priyanka is ready to list herself in the Guinness Book of World Records for this achievement.

Ashutosh Gowariker’s What’s Your Rashee? Is no doubt opening new dimensions for the actress. Priyanka quips “If this does happen, it will be phenomenal. I’m overjoyed and honoured to be a part of this record-breaking film.”

Producer Sunita Gowariker says “Priyanka has not only played 12 different roles, but breathed life into 12 distinct characters without the aide of any prosthetic. Few peoplerealize how difficult a challenge it is. This we gauged when we spoke to the Guinness officials. No actor has ever played so many different roles in cinema of any language. So it truly is a world record.”

Her close competitors are veteran Kamal Hassan with 10 roles in Dashavataram, Sanjeev Kumar and Sivaji Ganeshan with 9 roles each in Naya Din Nayi Raat and Navarathiri, respectively.

Talking about Hollywood, Eddie Murphy has done seven roles in The Nutty Professor and 8 roles in its sequel. Eric Idle has done 7 characters in his film Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975). Similarly, Alec Guinness has eight roles in his Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).

But, we don’t have a female contender as such, so all hats off!

Ashutosh Gowariker’s What’s Your Rashee - Bollywood Movie Trailer

Bollywood Celebrities Birthday Dates Listing

Celebrity Birthdays

January :

01 January : Asrani , Nana Patekar, Sonali Bendre, Vidya Balan, Minissha Lamba

03 January : Sanjay Khan

05 January : A R Rehman, Deepika Padukone

07 January : Bipasha Basu, Koena Mitra

10 January : Hrithik Roshan

27 January : Bobby Deol

February :

01 February : Jackie Shroff

03 February : Deepti Naval, Waheeda Rehman

04 February : Urmila Matondkar

05 February : Abhishek Bachchan

08 February : Jagjit Singh

09 February : Rahul Roy, Amrita Singh

March :

07 March : Anupam Kher

14 March : Aamir Khan

18 March : Shashi Kapoor, Alisha Chinai

20 March : Alka Yagnik, Akshay Khanna

21 March : Rani Mukherjee

23 March : Kangana Ranaut

April :

02 April : Ajay Devgan

09 April : Jaya Bachhan

10 April : Ayesha Takia

11 April : Rohini Hattangadi

13 April : Satish Kaushik

19 April : Arshad Warsi

May :

11 May : Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Pooja Bedi

15 May : Shiney Ahuja, Madhuri Dixit

17 May : Pankaj Udhas

24 May : Rajesh Roshan

29 May : Pankaj Kapoor

30 May : Paresh Rawal

June :

04 June : Neena Gupta

05 June : Mukesh Bhatt, Viju Shah

06 June : Sunil Dutt

07 June : Ekta Kapoor

08 June : Dimple Kapadia, Shilpa Shetty

09 June : Sonam Kapoor, Celina Jaitley

16 June : Harry Baweja, Mithun Chakarborty

20 June : Neetu Chandra

22 June : Amrish Puri

23 June : Raj Babbar

25 June : Karishma Kapoor

27 June : Kunal Kapoor

July :

10 July : Aloknath

11 July : Kumar Gaurav

13 July : Madhu Sapre

16 July : Katrina Kaif

20 July : Rajendra Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah

24 July : Manoj Kumar

25 July : Rajeshwari

26 July : Jugal Hansraj, Kalpana lyer

27 July : Rahul Bose

28 July : Ayesha Jhulka

29 July : Anup Jalota, Sanjay Dutt

31 July : Sonu Nigam, Mohan Bandari

August :

02 August : Vinod Chopra

05 August : Kajol

07 August : Suresh Wadkar

10 August : Ajit Vachani

11 August : Sunil Shetty

13 August : Sridevi, Vyajantimala

14 August : Mohnish Behl, Johnny Lever

16 August : Manisha Koirala , David Dhawan, Saif Ali Khan

18 August : Aruna Irani, Gulzar

23 August : Saira Banoo

28 August : Deepak Tijori

September :

03 September : Shakti Kapoor

04 September : Adesh Srivastava, Rishi kapoor

06 September : Rakesh Roshan

08 September : Asha Bhosle

09 September : Akshay Kumar

11 September : Aditya Pancholi

12 September : Ranjeet, Vinod Rathod

13 September : Mahima Chaudhary

17 September : Shabana Azmi

20 September : Mahesh Bhatt

21 September : Gulshan Grover, Sudha Chandran

22 September : Kumar Sanu

23 September : Prem Chopra

25 September : Divya Dutta, Feroz Khan

26 September : Dev Anand, Chunky Pandey, Archana Puran Singh

28 September : Ranbir Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar

October :

02 October : Asha Parekh

06 October : Vinod Khanna

07 October : Renuka Shahane

10 October : Rekha

11 October : Amitabh Bachchan, Ronit Roy

13 October : Ashok Kumar

16 October : Hema Malani

17 October : Sanjay Kapoor, Simi Garewal

18 October : Om Puri

19 October : Sunny Deol

21 October : kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shammi Kapoor

22 October : Kader Khan

24 October : Mallika Sherawat

26 October : Raveena Tandon

30 October : Vikram Gokhale, Dilip Tahil

November :

01 November : Padmini Kolhapure, Aishwarya Rai

02 November : Shah Rukh Khan, Anu Malik

03 November : Laxmikant Berde, Swaroop Sampat

04 November : Tabu

13 November : Juhi Chawla

19 November : Dara Singh, Zeenat Aman

20 November : Shilpa Shirodkar

21 November : Helen

22 November : Saroj Khan

December :

01 December : Udit Narayan

03 December : Konkona Sen Sharma

04 December : Javed Jaffri

06 December : Shekar Kapoor

07 December : Shekhar Suman

08 December : Dharmendra

09 December : Shatrughan Sinha

10 December : Rati Agnihotri

11 December : Dilip Kumar

12 December : Rajnikant

17 December : John Abraham, Suresh Oberoi

21 December : Govinda

24 December : Anil Kapoor

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Aishwarya, Shah Rukh ‘Actors of the Decade’

Superstars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan were declared ‘Actors of the Decade’ at the IIFA awards at Macau on Saturday night.

Aishwarya won two honorary awards for her work in Indian and international cinema, while Shah Rukh was honoured for his work in Bollywood.

The 35-year-old actress, who also performed on stage at the function, received both trophies, while Shah Rukh missed the ceremony because he is shooting for his upcoming film ‘My Name is Khan.’

The 43-year-old actor, who began his career on the small screen, beat Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Abhishek Bachchan to the title.

Aishwarya won the ‘Golden Decade’ award for her memorable performances in the past 10 years, beating off competition from Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.

While Aishwarya shot to global recognition with international projects like ‘Pink Panther’ and ‘Provoked,’ Khan too has a global following as the ‘Badshah of Bollywood.’

The former Miss World won the ‘Outstanding Achievement by Indian in International Cinema’ award, which was bagged last year by musician A.R. Rahman, who won the ‘Golden Decade of Music’ award for his contribution to Indian films.

Bollywood international award winning spree this year seems to have outshined even Hollywood. How do you agree/ disagree? Mail your comments:

A.R Rahman invited onto Oscar board

Music genius A.R Rahman has got an invitation to be an Oscar voter. Rahman has been in news ever since he won two Oscars earlier this year for his score in Slumdog Millionaire.

This is another big news for Allah rakkha Rahman’s career. Rahman has won all the known awards for his music. He is the 1995 recipient of the Mauritius National Award and the Malaysian Award for contributions to music.

He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his first West-End production. A four time National Film Award winner and conferred the Padma Shri from the Government of India, Rahman has received six awards for Best Music at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and eleven awards for his scores at the Filmfare and Filmfare Awards South each. In 2006, he received an honorary award from Stanford University for contributions to global music. A 2008 Critics Choice Awards winner for Best Composer, Rahman became the first Indian national to win a Golden Globe, winning for Slumdog Millionaire in the category of Best Original Score.

Wow, what an enormous achievement so soon, so young Allah Rakha Rahman, born A.S. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1966, in Madras (now Chennai), India, to a musically affluent family--for him it seems sky is the limit

Priyanka’s sore eyes--may be because of some 'Boori Nazar'?

Come rain or shine, I’ll be going on. This line may be apt for Piggy Chops as on now.
Priyanka Chopra is said to be suffering from eye infection; but she has not a made an excuse out it. The ‘Fashion’able actress has been carrying on with her busy schedules despite of the conjunctivitis.

It seems the infection is due to her prolonged use of the contact lens. Priyanka is involved in two big bannered projects - ‘What's Your Raashee?’ which is complete and ongoing ‘Pyaar Impossible’. So she is going on shooting without any proper rest. She is also not willing to give up the use of lens, since it will hinder the shootings.

Sources said, "It is still a bit difficult for her to shoot, as when they need a continuation sequence of Priyanka, she has to wear the lenses."

Poor Priyanka. Maybe this is because of some ‘Boori Nazar’?

India, US movies not true pictures

“Don’t believe everything you see in the movies,” US secretary of state told students at Delhi University. “People watching a Bollywood movie... think everybody in India is beautiful and have dramatic lives and happy endings,” she said to laughter. “And if you watch American TV and movies, you’d think we don’t wear clothes and spend a lot of time fighting.”

Those were the images — exaggerated a bit for dramatic effect — that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton evoked Monday in a question-and-answer session with university students who probed her thinking on a range of topics — some personal.

It was a classic Clinton moment, engaging in what she calls public diplomacy to argue that Americans have more in common with people around the globe than is often suggested. She blamed the media — not just the news but also entertainment — for distortions.

She said it is time for Indians and Americans to get over the stereotypes promoted by their movies and television.

"If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me," she said with a tone of understatement. "And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

"People watching a Bollywood movie in some other part of Asia think everybody in India is beautiful and they have dramatic lives and happy endings. And if you were to watch American TV and our movies you'd think that we don't wear clothes and we spend all our time fighting with each other."

Did Indians over-react to Shah Rukh being detained?

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was en-route to Chicago for a parade to mark Independence Day, when he was detained and questioned at Newark airport.

After a couple of hours’ interrogation, the 43-year-old actor was allowed to make a call, getting in touch with the Indian consulate, who vouched for him and secured his release.

The incident sparked uproar among Khan’s fans in India, who vented their anger over the Internet and in protest marches.

This is not the first time an Indian celebrity has had trouble with U.S. immigration officials and security checks. Last month, U.S-based carrier Continental Airlines apologised to former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for frisking him at New Delhi airport.

On Saturday, Information Minister Ambika Soni said while she could not say if Khan had been detained “on religious grounds, there have been too many instances like these in the U.S. concerning Indians”. A Times of India report on Sunday said U.S. officials feel some Indian visitors are “needlessly huffy about routine security procedures and there is a broad cultural mismatch”.

Are Indians over-reacting? Or is the U.S. taking things a bit too far? Khan is a celebrity, but what about ordinary Indians, who travel to the U.S. — do they face racial profiling?

Rani Mukherjee says she and Shahid Kapur

Dil Bole Hadippa - touted to be Rani's comeback vehicle after a string of flops - has her cast opposite Shahid Kapur. And while the two have a visible age difference, Rani doesn't think so. Speaking to the press, the Bunty aur Babli actress said that when she and Shahid looked at the monitors on the first day of shooting, they couldn't believe their eyes, as they looked great together.

She added that producer Aditya Chopra must be confident that they would look good together. Dil Bole Hadippa releases on September 18.

Rani also revealed a little known fact: Dil Bole Hadippa is not the first time the two have worked together. The two had worked together on a Pepsi commercial several years ago, which also featured Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, and Shahid Kapur was working as a model at that time. Rani revealed that Shahid used to look at her in awe and kept watching her.

Another nugget about Shahid's career as a model/dancer has also emerged recently: the Kaminey star was a background dancer in a sequence with Karisma Kapoor in Dil To Pagal Hai, the hit film which also starred Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit. Shahid revealed this to Farah Khan when appearing on her new talk show, Tere Mere Beech Mein, where he also confessed that the reason he never felt despondent about his flop films when he was starting out was because of the encouragement of then-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor, who had become his "support system." But with the success of Kaminey and the praise being lavished on Shahid, we bet he doesn't miss his support system anymore…

Imran Khan Gets Secretly ENGAGED !!!

Finally the much expected seems to have taken place. Bollywood’s current heart throb Imran Khan according to latest reports has got engaged to his steady girlfriend Avantika Malik in a closely kept secret ceremony.

Though, Imran has always worn his heart on his sleeve, but this secret announcement has been received with much surprise as many expected Imran to announce his engagement in full public glare. Buzz is that Bollywood got the whiff of the
news during the launch of Arjun Rampal’s nightclub in Delhi were many celebs
were seen congratulating the couple on their engagement.

Now, with Imran having taken his love affair to the next level, let’s hope his
marriage ceremony makes up for all this hush-hush news.