Wind from the woods

 

 

Back to square one

After Lara and Katrina, the next girl to go low key with her glamour quotient is the plain Jane Vidya Balan and that too, with Vishal Bhardwaj’s production “Ishqiya” where she plays a woman belonging to a remote village. So after those innumerable failed attempts to go wild wild west with her wardrobe, Vidya is finally (thank god!) going back to what got her noticed in the first place. Lets just hope that such movies of substance are reasons good enough to help recognise her true calling! Wedding bells about to ring? 

Jake Gyllenhaal is on a roll it seems. Not only is he keeping St Valentine pleased, but also his girlfriend Reese Witherspoon. After showering her with gifts on V-day, he intends to fly her on a romantic holiday all the way to Egypt to get down on his knees and ask that question. Who knows, on return, she may be sporting a huge rock on her finger! Hollywood calling?

Looks like the sizzling Katrina Kaif is here to win everyone’s hearts. After impressing Prakash Jha with her stunning performance in "Rajneeti" and then ousting the divas of Bollywood even in the ad world, (read Sushmita Sen and her Pantene ad) this girl is going places, and it's not just confined to this part of the globe. Apparently, Hollywood's action director Rob Cohen (of "XXX" fame) has been bowled over by our hot Kat and couldn't keep his eyes off her when they met recently. Well, we hope Kat follows Sallu's ex-flame's footsteps... only professionally! Imran Khan to regain weight  that he lost for Aamir’s film

Imran Khan has been looking rather lean in recent months for "Delhi Belly". But he has a strange agenda lined up for the coming months - he'll regain the weight that he had lost for his uncle’s film. Reason? There's patchwork shooting to be done for Soham Shah’s "Luck". And for this, he needs to regain the weight he lost for "Delhi Belly".

Says the affable young "Jaane Tu…" star, “For "Kidnap" I had beefed up a lot. I did weights and worked out rigorously. For "Delhi Belly" I needed to get lean. Now I'll have to get bulky again for the remaining portion of "Luck" which got stalled because of a railway strike in Namibia. I’ll have to put on weight. I'll have to hit the gym very hard.” Imran finds going to the gym boring. "I'd rather exercise by living healthy and doing outdoor sports. I like off-beat extreme sports like scuba diving and roller skates. I wouldn't say I hate the gym but I find it boring. I also find being written about constantly very boring. You know stuff like, 'I saw this pair of shoes in Paris and I simply had to buy them.’ I'd rather talk when I’ve something to talk about."

On his birthday, Imran looks back at 2008 fondly. "It was the most exciting year of my life! I look back and say, 'Wow!' In six months after "Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na" so much has changed. I feel I've grown up by a couple of years!” Indeed!

By Subhash K Jha Drew is drawn...again!

"Charlie’s Angels" superstar Drew Barrymore carries her heart on her sleeve. Recently, she admitted having a huge crush on "The Prestige" star Christian Bale. Both, Drew and Bale, worked as child artistes, and therefore he'd caught her eye since they were kids. It's no surprise that every time Drew has a thing for a man, she blushes like she has never been kissed! No wonder this gal, amongst all her contemporaries, is considered the cutest of them all.