Priyanka says she does stunts better than MEN

She says she will be much more than taking what’s to be a male dominated world. Priyanka Chopra will make her debut on TV as a host for the horror feature – Khatron Ke Khiladi.

“Just because I’m a girl it shouldn’t be presumed that I can’t enter the boys’ territory. I’d do the stunts better than the boys,” The Kaminey actress said.

The special edition of the show will feature Indian and international cricketers opposing with each other to contend for the Fear Factor – Khaton Ka Khiladi title for the year 2010.

Priyanka who does her own stunts for the show said “And cricketers are people I’m very cool with. Not that I know the cricket world that well. It will be great getting to know them,”

“All I can tell you is that the stunts this year are going to be bigger and scarier than they were on the show last year. Now we’ve male contestants instead of female and I’ve to match up to them,” she said.

“I was getting a lot of television offers for the last couple of years. But the amount of time that those shows required didn’t suit me. Besides nothing excited me. Fear Factor is one of my favourite shows. And it goes with my personality. I’m sporty and spontaneous.” She added.

“The channel didn’t have to convince me much. The pay-cheque? Ah, let’s say it’s the cherry on the icing,” she told.

Piggy chops is also keyed up filming for the adv-real show in Brazil as she not gone there even once for shooting.

“I’m looking forward to shooting the show there. I haven’t seen Brazil. So July onwards I’m going to be basking in Brazilian territory,” she said.

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56th National Film Awards

Attendance of personality like Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Farhan Akhtar made the 56th National Film Awards to be grand function. The awards were presented to the stars by the President Pratibha Patil.

A sum of 13 awards was received by the Bollywood celebrities at the ceremony.

Marathi film Jogva, a emotional tale of one woman’s journey to break free from the chains of discrimination, sexual oppression and servitude to find true happiness, bagged the maximum honours.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni was present at the event.

The programme was compered by actress Divya Dutta.

Golden Lotus Award

Official Name: Swarna Kamal

Best Feature Film – “Antaheen” (Bengali)

Best Direction – Bala for “Naan Kadavul” (Tamil)

Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment – “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!”

Best Children’s Film – “Gubbachigalu” (Kannada)

Silver Lotus Award

Official Name: Rajat Kamal

Best Film in English – “Land Gold Women” directed by Avantika Hari produced by Vivek Agrawal

Best Film on Family Welfare – “Little Zizou” (English & Gujarati)

Best Film on social issues – Marathi film “Jogva”

Best Actor – Upendra Limaye for “Jogwa” (Marathi)

Best Actress – Priyanka Chopra for “Fashion” (Hindi)

Best Supporting Actor – Arjun Rampal for “Rock On!!” (Hindi)

Best Supporting Actress – Kangana Ranaut for “Fashion” (Hindi)

Best Child Artist – Shams Patel for “Thanks Maa” (Hindi)

Best Cinematography – Avik Mukhopadhyay for “Antaheen” (Bengali)

Best Screenplay – Sachin Kundalkar for “Gandha” (Marathi)

Best Art Direction – Gautam Sen for “Firaaq” (Hindi)

Best Make-up Artist – V. Moorthy for “Naan Kadavul” (Tamil)

Best Costume Design – Neeta Lulla for “Jodhaa Akbar” (Hindi)

Best Music Direction – Ajay Atul for “Jogwa” (Marathi)

Best Lyrics – Anindya Bannerjee & Chandranil Bhattacharya for Pherari Mon… from “Antaheen” (Bengali)

Best Male Playback Singer – Hariharan for Jeev Dangla Gungla Rangla from “Jogwa” (Marathi)

Best Female Playback Singer – Shreya Ghoshal for Pherari Mon… & Jeev Dangla Gungla Rangla from “Antaheen” (Bengali) & Jogwa (Marathi)

Best Choreography – Chinni Prakash & Rekha Prakash for Azeem-o-Shaan Shahenshah from “Jodhaa Akbar”

Best Audiography – Pramod J. Thomas for “Gandha” (Marathi)

Best Editing – A. Sreekar Prasad for “Firaaq” (Hindi)

Best Special Effects – Govardhan (TATA ELXSI) for “Mumbai Meri Jaan” (Hindi)

Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) – “Bioscope” (Malayalam)

Best First Film of a director – Neeraj Pandey’s “A Wednesday“ bagged the Indira Gandhi award.

Best Animation Film award – Yash Raj Film’s “Roadside Romeo”.

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Second part of Don to be started by the end of this year

Director cum actor Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2 is said to start filming from October this year.

“The subsequent villain natured Don is coming up really well. At the instant, we are into heavy pre-production for that. We would start shooting on Oct 1 or Oct 2. That’s the scheduled date to start shooting for now.So we are getting there. Slowly but for sure. I am very thrilled about it. And I am quite confident that I’ll have a great time making it and that the audience will surely enjoy it,” he said.

Now the director is said to make part two of the movie and says he will keep hold of most of the star cast from the first episode.

“There will be a bundle of people from my earlier Don. So there will be King Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Arjun Rampal and Om Puri for sure. There are also new stars added to the screenplay this time but they are presently being cast,” he added.

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Ashutosh Gowariker’s film’s master print stolen

Hours before the release of his new film “What’s Your Raashee” Director Ashutosh Gowariker is trying to understand how the master print of his film was purportedly stolen and pirated from a laboratory.”I’ve been travelling to Toronto and then to Ahmedabad, so I’m not aware of the full situation. However, it’s a scary thought that films have been going out for piracy from the lab,” Gowariker said.

UTV, which has co-produced “What’s Your Raashee” with Ashutosh Gowariker Productions Pvt Ltd, has slapped a legal notice of Rs.50crore each on Adlabs and UFO Moviez for allegedly helping the theft of the master print.

UTV suspected that the master print went missing days before the movie’s scheduled release September 25.

The business development manager of Adlabs Processing, Durgadas Bhakta, was arrested in Mumbai for supposedly stealing and selling the master print. Bhakta allegedly sold it for Rs.2lakh to movie pirates.

“I’m glad they were caught out when my film was smuggled out. We don’t know the extent of the damage. I can only be thankful my master print was recovered. But we don’t know how many copies were made,” said the director.

Choosing to see the lighter side of the harsh situation, Gowariker said, “I hope the pirates didn’t cut the film. I don’t want them to watch an in-complete film.”

The film stars Priyanka Chopra and Hurman Baweja in the lead roles.

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