According to reports in a tabloid, Raj Kumar Santoshi's magnum opus RAMAYAN is budgeted at Rs 90 crore. He has signed Ajay Devgan to play Ram and he was on the look out for Sita. After considering many actresses, he finally zeroed in on Kajol.
Santoshi and Ajay go back a long way. They have done films like KHAKEE, LAJJA, THE LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH etc. Infact the two are great buddies as well. Even the lovable couple Ajay-Kajol has done several films like RAJU CHACHA, PYAAR TO HONA HI THA, ISHQ etc together.
This is the first time they'll be working together (last being RAJU CHACHA) post marriage. It may be recalled that there was a buzz that the duo had also signed a film titled 50:50 earlier.
Kajol seems to have become very meticulous about choosing films post marriage. Well after her successful comeback in FANAA, one can only expect more!
Source :Glamsham
Monday, October 02, 2006
Friday, September 22, 2006
Ajay doesn't intervene in my work: Kajol
London: Bollywood's leading lady is now on Harrods’ shelves in London. The up-market department store in Knightsbridge is ready to release Bollywood star's dolls across the stores in UK.
CNN-IBN correspondent, Akansha Bannerjee spoke to Kajol to know her take on films, marriage, motherhood and the twelve-inch tall, miniature version of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’s Simran in Harrods.
CNN-IBN correspondent, Akansha Bannerjee spoke to Kajol to know her take on films, marriage, motherhood and the twelve-inch tall, miniature version of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’s Simran in Harrods.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
After Fanaa, Aamir-Kajol to rock again! : HTTabloid.com
While we are wondering whether the Aamir-Kajol chemistry will click on silver screen, some of the foreigners are pretty confident that it will!
Some of the US promoters have already signed Aamir and Kajol for an international concert that begins in October.
Reports claim that earlier Aamir was not willing to join but eventually agreed when he saw the amount offered to him. Kajol is making arrangements so that she can take her daughter along.
And there is someone else who will be accompanying the two on the tour! Well...no points for guessing! It's none other than hubby Ajay Devgan. But Devgan has been invited as the chief guest and will not be performing.
While we are wondering whether the Aamir-Kajol chemistry will click on silver screen, some of the foreigners are pretty confident that it will!
Some of the US promoters have already signed Aamir and Kajol for an international concert that begins in October.
Reports claim that earlier Aamir was not willing to join but eventually agreed when he saw the amount offered to him. Kajol is making arrangements so that she can take her daughter along.
And there is someone else who will be accompanying the two on the tour! Well...no points for guessing! It's none other than hubby Ajay Devgan. But Devgan has been invited as the chief guest and will not be performing.
Aamir Khan and Kajol Bring Sparkle to `Fanaa': Bollywood Review
By Nabeel Mohideen
May 30 (Bloomberg) -- ``Fanaa'' would have been a very ordinary, even trite, love story but for its two lead actors. Aamir Khan and Kajol star opposite each other for the first time, creating a magic of their own and raising an ordinary bit of storytelling to the memorable.
The tale begins in Kashmir, where the blind Zooni Ali Beg, played by Kajol, is leaving the protective environs of her home for a week's trip to the national capital New Delhi. In the big, bad city, she and her friends meet the dangerously handsome guide Rehan Qadri, played by Khan.
Zooni and the guide get closer in a series of sequences in which much of the dialogue is poetry. Couplets are used to challenge and seduce as the sparks fly between the two characters and they fall in love.
Director Kunal Kohli, who also wrote the dialogue, keeps things nicely on the boil through the first, and best, third of the film. ``Fanaa (Destroyed by Love)'' turns darker after that sparkling beginning, and it's here, in the transition, that Kohli's inexperience shows.
The director, making his third feature and his first after the 2004 hit ``Hum Tum,'' opts for shoddy contrivance (including Zooni regaining her sight) to advance the plot and move his characters into place for the next half of the story, set back in Kashmir seven years later.
Poland, Kashmir
After the evocative opening montage shot in Kashmir, Kohli had to opt for a Poland covered in snow to stand in for the Himalayan region in the second half because of concerns over terrorism. This doesn't necessarily show but it takes away from the integrity of the film.
Kohli's story of doomed love is inextricably linked with the politics of Kashmir but, while some of the characters do venture into speechifying, he stays away from the polemic.
This is Kajol's comeback film, following a five-year hiatus after marriage to fellow actor Ajay Devgan and motherhood. She still has the ability to light up the screen with ease, making her one of the few leading ladies who can more than match Khan's method-driven prowess.
Coming so soon after his surprise February hit, ``Rang de Basanti,'' there are scenes in the first half of ``Fanaa'' where Khan looks jaded in the face of Kajol's artless performance. He's in better control in the second half, during which there are some great scenes between the two leads.
``Fanaa,'' gorgeously shot by Ravi K. Chandran, should have been cut by at least 30 minutes and the director ought to have simplified and strengthened his plot devices. Kohli seems to have been too mesmerized by the chemistry between Khan and Kajol, which is admittedly quite riveting. Still, and maybe this is because she's been away so long, Kajol's powerfully spontaneous screen presence ensures that the film belongs to her. With Khan at 41 and Kajol at 30, and both picky about scripts, this is a pairing that's unlikely to be ever repeated, which makes ``Fanaa'' a film to be cherished.
``Fanaa'' was released in India on May 26.
To contact the writer of this story:
Nabeel Mohideen in New Delhi at nmohideen@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: May 29, 2006 22:55 EDT
By Nabeel Mohideen
May 30 (Bloomberg) -- ``Fanaa'' would have been a very ordinary, even trite, love story but for its two lead actors. Aamir Khan and Kajol star opposite each other for the first time, creating a magic of their own and raising an ordinary bit of storytelling to the memorable.
The tale begins in Kashmir, where the blind Zooni Ali Beg, played by Kajol, is leaving the protective environs of her home for a week's trip to the national capital New Delhi. In the big, bad city, she and her friends meet the dangerously handsome guide Rehan Qadri, played by Khan.
Zooni and the guide get closer in a series of sequences in which much of the dialogue is poetry. Couplets are used to challenge and seduce as the sparks fly between the two characters and they fall in love.
Director Kunal Kohli, who also wrote the dialogue, keeps things nicely on the boil through the first, and best, third of the film. ``Fanaa (Destroyed by Love)'' turns darker after that sparkling beginning, and it's here, in the transition, that Kohli's inexperience shows.
The director, making his third feature and his first after the 2004 hit ``Hum Tum,'' opts for shoddy contrivance (including Zooni regaining her sight) to advance the plot and move his characters into place for the next half of the story, set back in Kashmir seven years later.
Poland, Kashmir
After the evocative opening montage shot in Kashmir, Kohli had to opt for a Poland covered in snow to stand in for the Himalayan region in the second half because of concerns over terrorism. This doesn't necessarily show but it takes away from the integrity of the film.
Kohli's story of doomed love is inextricably linked with the politics of Kashmir but, while some of the characters do venture into speechifying, he stays away from the polemic.
This is Kajol's comeback film, following a five-year hiatus after marriage to fellow actor Ajay Devgan and motherhood. She still has the ability to light up the screen with ease, making her one of the few leading ladies who can more than match Khan's method-driven prowess.
Coming so soon after his surprise February hit, ``Rang de Basanti,'' there are scenes in the first half of ``Fanaa'' where Khan looks jaded in the face of Kajol's artless performance. He's in better control in the second half, during which there are some great scenes between the two leads.
``Fanaa,'' gorgeously shot by Ravi K. Chandran, should have been cut by at least 30 minutes and the director ought to have simplified and strengthened his plot devices. Kohli seems to have been too mesmerized by the chemistry between Khan and Kajol, which is admittedly quite riveting. Still, and maybe this is because she's been away so long, Kajol's powerfully spontaneous screen presence ensures that the film belongs to her. With Khan at 41 and Kajol at 30, and both picky about scripts, this is a pairing that's unlikely to be ever repeated, which makes ``Fanaa'' a film to be cherished.
``Fanaa'' was released in India on May 26.
To contact the writer of this story:
Nabeel Mohideen in New Delhi at nmohideen@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: May 29, 2006 22:55 EDT
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