he Little Godfather, Ekta Kapoor and Sunil Shetty’s fourth co-production is 80 per cent complete, but has come to a premature halt.

This is because the co-producers parted ways after Mission Istaanbul and EMI tanked. A source said, “Sunil Shetty, who is in charge of the production, is not completing the film. So, Balaji, who has purchased the distribution rights, cannot sell the film.” Since the two production houses are now unlikely to work together, Balaji sent a notice to Popkorn Motion Pictures Ltd. However, Shabbir Boxwalla, co-partner at Popkorn, denied getting any legal notice. He said, “After 26/11, we had a problem getting permissions to shoot at local train stations.” The film focuses on how the train blasts of July 11, 2007 affected the lives of hawkers in Mumbai local trains. But director Joy Augustine claimed that they already have the required permissions for the shoot. About the legal notice, Joy said, “I too have heard that Balaji has sent a legal notice. But I cannot comment on it more than this.” Despite repeated calls and text messages, Ekta remained unavailable for comment.

Kangna Ranaut, who is currently shooting in Switzerland, is homesick. The place reminds her of her hometown, Manali.

Instead of admiring the beautiful locations, she is also experiencing some rather strong maternal feelings. The actress’ latest message on the social networking website Facebook reveals that she desperately wants to have a bunch of children. And it doesn’t stop at that, she wants several grandchildren too.

Kangna’s status message reads: ‘I’m in Switzerland and this place reminds me of Manali and my family. I can’t wait to have kids and grandkids.’

Kangna said, “This place looks so much like Manali. My family is waiting for me in Mumbai and here I am, in Switzerland.”

Commenting on her intriguing status message, Kangna laughed and said, “All I can see here are old couples spending time with their children and grandchildren. Be it mountain climbing, sitting in cafeterias, or walking on the streets, the tots are with their grandparents. It makes me long for grandchildren.”

Kangna is also missing hot pakoras and chai, but she has no choice but to make do with fish fingers while she is there.

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Michael Jackson's ex-nanny never pumped his stomach of drugs, maintains Mallika Chopra.
Deepak Chopra’s daughter is livid. “In the aftermath of Michael Jackson’s death, I found myself in a surreal situation that gave me a glimpse into the dark side of bloodsuckers, media and celebrity,” she writes.

She is particularly incensed by tabloid reports claiming that Grace Rwaramba, introduced to Michael Jackson by her father, pumped the singer’s stomach of a cocktail of drugs on several occasions. She says, “For the record, Grace never pumped Michael's stomach. (She has no idea how she would even do such a thing.) Which quotes are true, which are in context, (many are not) to me frankly doesn’t matter.”

Mallika puts the blame squarely on Daphne Barak, “a so-called journalist who claims to be a friend of the Jackson family” and who steadily cultivated Grace for a potential scoop. Says Mallika, “Daphne reached out to Grace a few weeks ago, when she knew she was in a vulnerable place, having recently been let go by Michael yet again (this was a regular pattern). In the 17 years that Grace has worked with Michael, she has never spoken to the press. She loves Michael and his children at her core.”

She reveals, “I witnessed Daphne act as a friend while trying to bait information from Grace on her conversations with Jackson family members and friends about his death. She warned Grace that the family was going to try to set her up for Michael’s downfall, and that it was critical that Grace speak with a lawyer before leaving. As a friend, she had organized a ‘lawyer’ to get Grace’s story before she left for the airport.”

She posts online, “Grace feels used, insecure and shaken that she could have been so naïve, particularly having witnessed so many vultures in Michael’s world over the years. She made a mistake. The sad truth is that when you are a celebrity, or a close friend or family of one, in a world of tabloids, you must be impeccable in what you say and to whom. Michael probably faced the epitome of vultures, bloodsuckers and hanger-ons displayed in his endless cycle of managers, enabling doctors, and new business partners. How could anyone blame him for becoming so paranoid in his life?”

She refers to Grace as more than a best-friend and a sister., “She thinks of my parents as her own (she actually calls my father papa).” Earlier, Deepak Chopra, referring to Grace as the King of Pop’s children’s nanny and surrogate mother, wrote, “His children's nanny and surrogate mother, Grace Rwaramba, is like another daughter to me. I introduced her to Michael when she was eighteen, a beautiful, heartwarming girl from Rwanda who is now grown up. She kept an eye on him for me and would call me whenever he was down or running too close to the edge. How heartbreaking for Grace that no one's protective instincts and genuine love could avert this tragic day.”

“In the article, Daphne tries to portray a rift between Katherine Jackson and Grace. This is not true. I would like to go on record, with Grace’s permission, to say that Grace firmly hopes that the Jackson family gets custody of Prince, Paris and Michael. It would be detrimental to the children to be separated, and they should be with Michael’s family. They should know their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, and they should learn about who he was as a person, not just as an icon. She has no interest in custody, and just wants the children to be happy and secure. She will be there for them whenever they need or want her.”

Mallika concludes, “As for the appetite for the salacious details of Michael’s life, my hope is that we let him go in peace. We already know he led a tortured life. He also led a great one in which he loved, and was loved, by many. Let his family heal, and let his fans celebrate his music and his giving heart."

After the King of Pop died, among the first questions his mother Katherine asked his children ex-nanny where her son hid all his money.
This was among the claims made by a London daily, quoting Grace Rwaramba, referred to as Jacko’s children’s “nanny and surrogate mother”, by Deepak Chopra.

Other allegations, forming an account of the star’s life and living conditions, include his bizarre nomadic life, days of living without any cash flow, how the children froze in his presence and “pumping out his stomach after he took too many drugs”.

The article describes her as “the woman who worked for Michael Jackson for 17 years, starting in his office, then looking after his three children and sharing his ramshackle life after his sexual abuse trial — though never being his wife.”

Recently sacked, Grace is quoted as saying, “Katherine just called me. She said, ‘Grace, the children are crying. They are asking about you. They can’t believe that their father died. Grace, you remember Michael used to hide cash at the house. I am here. Where can it be?’ I told her to look at the garbage bags and under the carpets.”

“I asked to speak to the children. She said they were sleeping. But she just said they were crying. She never let me speak to them. She said, ‘Grace, where are you? Come. I will pick you up from the airport.’ She sounded so strong. So strong!”

Banned from seeing the children at one point, she confided in the paper then, “I took these babies in my arm on the first day of their life,” she insisted. “They are my babies.”

She cried, “I don’t know what to do. He doesn’t let me see my babies. ... Nobody is cleaning the rooms, because he didn’t pay the housekeeper.”

And then, “I just got a phone call that Michael is in such a bad shape. He is not clean. He has not shaved ... His nails ... He is not eating well. I used to do all this for him. They are trying to lure me to go back. But each time it happened before, he got rid of me.”

The star apparently didn’t like her growing attachment to the children. “I miss my babies. I used to hug them and laugh with them. But when Michael was around, they froze. He didn’t like me hugging them. But they needed love. I was the only mother they knew.”

Prince was smart, she said, and Blanket, who made her laugh, even did a concert once for her, singing Billie Jean and his father’s other songs. She recalls, “I was laughing so hard. Prince and Paris were playing around. It was such a happy moment. Then suddenly Michael walked in. He surprised us. Usually, the security would alert me that he was about to come. Blanket immediately stopped. The kids looked frightened. Michael was so angry. I knew I would be fired. Whenever the children got too attached to me, he would send me away.”

And as the family travelled around the world — Bahrain, Ireland, Germany, New Jersey — there was sometimes no money. She confided in the paper: “When Paris had her birthday this April, I wanted to buy balloons, things, to make a happy birthday. There was no money in the house. I had to put everything on my personal credit card. I brought people to clean the house. The room of the kids needed to be cleaned. But they weren’t paid.”

The reporter remarks, “Revealed within her account of their love-hate relationship was Jackson’s everyday life as a father and drug addict. Grace told me of pumping out his stomach after he took too many drugs and of how dirty and unkempt he became towards the end.”

Grace said the children disliked the masks they had to wear in public and she tried to help them by often “losing” the accessories. Grace says, “I hated it as well. So whenever I had a chance, I misplaced the masks or forgot to pack them. Michael always got angry and asked, ‘How come we keep losing children’s masks?’ He didn’t notice that we were losing them only when I was around.”

He didn’t read his O2 contract either before signing and didn’t realise he had committed himself to 50 concerts. “Fifty performances! I told him, ‘What are you doing?’ He said, ‘I signed only for 10.’ He didn’t know what he was signing. He never does!”

Jackson also seemed to have no understanding of money. “During the trial Jermaine (his older brother) suddenly connected him to Sheikh Abdullah. I was happy because he was so down. He was scared. Nobody else called. So Michael was spending hours on the phone with Abdullah. He is the one who is sending the money for the lawyers.”

Abdullah one day called and asked for her bank account and said he wanted to send “money to Michael through my account. He sent $1m. Then another $35,000. Katherine needed money too. So Michael told me to give her my ATM card. She was cashing out of the machine every day. I checked it.” She allegedly was even framed for taking the money when the singer denied ever having received any money after Abdullah sued Jackson for reneging on a music contract that would have paid back this and other loans.

Grace then pointed out to his mother, “I said, ‘You, Michael and I — we will all go to jail! You know that we didn’t report to the IRS about that gift.’ I told her I had all the documents. That worked.”

The next time Michael received some money, Grace can’t remember how, instead of investing in a small house, he chose to send her to buy antiques worth £1m. “I flew on my credit card. When I arrived in Florence and saw these antiques, I called him and said, ‘This is not worth anything.’ Michael never listened to me. He said, ‘Buy it. Buy it.’ We didn’t even have a home to live in so we had to put the antiques in some storage.”

Jackson reportedly even demanded that the sheikh build him a house in a Bahrain. After moving to Ireland and then New Jersey and Japan, they were back in California, where Jackson rented a house from the Nation of Islam, who “grossly overcharged”.

According to the paper, Grace hasn’t been paid her salary and expenses since 2008 and medical insurance since she was with him and the children in Bahrain. Once, when she had been in hospital for chemotherapy, he had accused her of abandoning him and the children, she said.

Says Grace, who the daily claims suffers from a life-threatening form of the auto-immune disease lupus, “To Michael, to go to a hospital was never about being ill. It was all about avoiding a court appearance or a performance or some other commitment he didn’t want to respect. You know, during the trial, the only peaceful place we could escape to and sleep was a hospital room. We used to go to the hospital and relax.”

There are two things that you notice instantly when you see Deepika Padukone. One is that she is pencil-thin; and, two, she has a love-bite on her neck that is still to fade away.
The actress who has returned to badminton and yoga with a vengeance, has lost five kilos. And, as she stands before you in a short green dress, she looks dishy. “Dishy is such a sexy word,’’ she smiles, her brown eyes lighting up like beacons on a cloudy monsoon day.

The actress has just wrapped up a rom-com with Saif Ali Khan, 39, and is actually packing her suitcases again for a 50-day schedule of Sajid Nadiadwala’s Houseful in London. “This will be my first full-on comedy film,’’ she says. “And I’m a bit excited and nervous.’’

Her co-star is Akshay Kumar, 42, and when you ask Deepika why she chooses men almost double her age to team up with, the 23-year-old says, “I don’t sign a film looking at the hero’s age.’’ She adds, “The script of a film has to turn me on. There are films that I have rejected that other actresses have accepted and vice versa.’’

Factors like money, too, don’t count for this gorgeous girl who is in a happy place in her career, simply because she’s not avaricious. Deepika who saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai when she was in Class 6, still says bagging Om Shanti Om with Shah Rukh Khan, 44, remains one of the best moments in her life.

And, though there are legions of fans who wish to see her team up with her real-life sweetheart Ranbir Kapoor, the actress says there is no project on the anvil with the two of them.

Currently, if there is one dark cloud that she is worried about, it’s the fact that she will have to spend 50 days away from Mumbai. “I get homesick when I’m away for long spells,’’ says the leggy lass. We’re guessing she misses two staple things in her life when she’s away — Ranbir and her favourite South Indian dish, rasam. Ummm...

Miss India, films, link-ups, break-offs, controversies... sounds familiar?

Maybe a Hindi movie script! But then this is what keeps going on in B-town, especially for our lovely leading ladies. Sayali Bhagat spills the beans on her on-off relationships; and what role Shoaib Mallik, the cricketer from Pakistan, plays in her life.

Very upset with the wrong media hype, Sayali says, “It’s funny. How I can break off with a person I was never seeing? It’s true that we met a couple of times on social occasions. But then that was it. It is so unfair when people wrongly write about you.” But then wasn’t it front page news that the two were dating? “Oh, yes it was, but I guess people just like to add spice till the aroma spreads. Problem was that they fail to understand that sometimes too much spice can get pungent and might cause trouble to people. Especially the person written about. Only I know the kind of mental trauma I underwent because of a misquoted report.” So the real scene was... “All the stories were falsely woven, for reasons best known to the people who did it, but the person who suffered was me. In fact, I was actually dating someone else at that point of time. Let aside the social stature, my personal life went for a toss. I had a bad break-off with my then boyfriend thanks to this report; and it was NOT Shoaib Mallik. He wasn’t even someone from the industry! My career was affected as I wasn’t in the correct frame of mind to work. I went through a traumatic phase.” She continues, “Why don’t people see the work that I’m doing and appreciate that, rather than indulge into rumours and gossip. Even criticism is welcome, but not misinformation.”

Currently, Sayali has managed to gather herself out of all the trauma she underwent. Kirkit and Paritosh Painter’s Paying Guest are the two movies that have released this month. In fact she breaks away from the glam-doll image that she had made for herself so far, in both the movies. In Kirkit, there was a slight grey shade to her character while in Paying Guest, which is an adaptation from the play of the same name, she did a straight-faced comic role. Experimenting more with the comic genre, Sayali has another comedy called Chalu Movies Inc. She has also signed Wilson Louis’ horror film, Shout. She says, “Working is very therapeutic for me as it has helped me overcome most of my mental trauma and look in a positive direction. So, consciously I try and keep my hands absolutely full.”

After Akshay Kumar, Ranbir Kapoor could be Katrina Kaif’s next hit partner.

The actress, who is already starring in Ajab Prem Ki Ghajab Kahani and Rajniti opposite Ranbir, is on the verge of signing yet another film opposite him. This film will be directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and will be a serious one unlike his Ajab Prem ...

While the actress plays a smooth operator and an articulate orator in Prakash Jha’s Rajniti, she plays a hysterical character in Ajab Prem ...

Playing dumb didn’t come easily to Katrina. Talking about her role in Ajab Prem ... , Katrina said, “Throughout the film, I’m this clueless Catholic girl from Bandra. Very self-important, dramatic and hysterical. Her problems are very serious to her but very funny to onlookers.”

Being a woman in-charge and always in control of her emotions, Katrina had a tough time letting go. “Raj Santoshi had to show me how to do the broad comedy from Andaz Apna Apna, which Salman and Aamir had done earlier. He would actually show me how to gesticulate and roll my eyes. Once I got the hang of it, I was fine,” added Katrina.

However, it was a cakewalk for co-star Ranbir, who plays a satirical synthesis of Raj Kapoor’s Awara and Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights in the same film.

Commenting on her co-star, Katrina said, “Since he’s a natural inheritor of the Chaplin and Raj Kapoor school of acting, Ranbir was spot-on. He plays a bumbling do-gooder very much like Chaplin and Raj Kapoor. It was fun watching him do the goofy, clumsy scenes so smoothly.”

Whether their serious roles will be as much of a cakewalk however, will only be seen when their third film together rolls.

Rumour has it that Fardeen Khan and his sister Laila’s boyfriend Farhan Furniturewala do not get along.
Late Saturday night, both men nearly came to blows at a nightclub in Andheri East. Fardeen, Laila, Farhan, Farah Ali Khan and her husband DJ Aqeel were together when the fight happened.

An eyewitness said, “It all started with a heated discussion, which soon became an ugly argument. A point came when they both got physical. Onlookers were extremely shocked at their behaviour.”

Meanwhile, DJ Aqeel had a witty take on the incident. He said, “Fardeen and Farhan were talking about WWF wrestlers. Later, they got into an argument and started acting as if they were fighting like those wrestlers.” Farah too said the same thing.

While Farhan admitted he had a problem with Fardeen, he denied that the two nearly came to blows. “Fardeen and I had an argument. It’s something personal. Let’s not blow it out of proportion,” he said.

When asked if Fardeen was against Laila’s relationship with him, Farhan said, “I have been dating Laila for a long time now. So, Fardeen is obviously okay with it. Laila and Fardeen did not reply to repeated calls and text messages.

Manoj Bajpai may be the next actor to patch up with his mentor Ram Gopal Varma.
News has it that after Vivek Oberoi, a bharat milap may happen with RGV and Manoj. Manoj who is currently busy with other film assignments also has one more hidden talent. He is a great cook. When his wife Neha (Shabana in real life) had a bout of flu sometime ago, Manoj was pampering her with his cooking. The actor says, “I love pampering my wife. It gives me immense pleasure doing chores around the house, and even looking after the kitchen when she is unable to.”

Is Priyanka Chopra getting too big for her boots? According to reports, when approached by Sanjay Gadhvi for 7 Days In Paris,co-starring Imran Khan, she demanded Rs. 5 crore.
Gadhvi and the producer, who were already reeling under the shock of Katrina's obvious disapproval of the script, were flabbergasted. Consequently, Priyanka lost out on the film.

A source said, “The producers were shocked when Priyanka asked for such a huge fee. They tried to reason with her but she refused to relent.”

Maybe Priyanka was trying her luck after she got Rs. 3 crore from Yash Raj Films to star opposite Uday Chopra in Pyaar Impossible. “This time, she was not so lucky. The producers would rather wait and sign someone else rather than pay such a huge sum,” the source added.

While Priyanka’s official spokesperson said, “Priyanka has not been offered Gadhvi’s film,” our source insisted that Priyanka was approached for the role and she asked for much moolah.

Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Gadhvi did not reply to our text messages.

As things stand today, Katrina might agree to do the film as the script is being reworked. The source added, “Katrina will take the final call only after the script is fully ready.”

In case things don’t work out with Katrina, Gadhvi is also in advanced talks with Genelia D’Souza and Asin. The film is scheduled to go on the floors early next month.

How has Team India’s swashbuckling opening batsman (and vice-captain) Virender Sehwag begun his convalescing period at home while Messrs Dhoni

& Co take on the West Indies in the Caribbean islands?

Rather well, it would seem, if reports of how Sehwag is recovering from his IPL shoulder injury are anything to go by.
Late on Friday night, it seems, Sehwag went to meet Aamir Khan at the shooting of Raju Hirani’s 3 Idiots in Noida. A huge crowd had gathered outside a Noida hospital while the crew was shooting, but Sehwag reportedly beat all that to spend some time with the actor in his vanity van. 3 Idiots also stars Kareena Kapoor, R Madhavan and Sharman Joshi.
Kareena, unfortunately, wasn’t around the sets when Sehwag called. But no matter, in Aamir, the cricketer found a kindred soul. Aamir is fond of cricket and is known to wield the willow pretty wristily himself. Remember how, as the villager Bhuvan, he had cinema audiences lustily cheering as if at a World Cup final for his cricketing character in the film Lagaan?

Yesterday’s freak is today’s rock star. But Abhay Deol, 33, whose last films Dev. D and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! made a place for him in

Bollywood’s history, still lives out of a suitcase.

He’s just back from New York, where he escapes to whenever he feels claustrophobic constantly being in the eye of the media and Bollywood, and where he seeks emotional sustenance from his family. “In America, I get recognised mostly by the people from the sub-continent,’’ he says. “There are days on end when no one even looks at me, and then all of a sudden, some guy recognises me. That comes as a welcome surprise. There are no intrusions on my privacy, though.’’

He admits that the only reason he comes to Mumbai is to solicit work. His earlier outings in the movies — Socha Na Tha, Ahista Ahista, Ek Chalis Ki Last Local and Manorama Six Feet Under — are DVD cult classics, but came a cropper at the box office. If Abhay is amused that perceptions have changed overnight, he’s not bragging about it. “Even when my films were flopping, my price was going up,’’ smiles the actor displaying enviable dimples (a corny aside is that his pet name is Dimpy). Dev Benegal’s Road Movie is his only assignment currently. He has also green lighted Anil Kapoor’s Ayesha with the lovely Sonam. “I’m also in talks for two more films,’’ says Abhay. And he is in the process of setting up his production house.

The man who is responsible for the contemporary take on Sarath Chandra’s Devdas, and is still winning accolades for it, wants only to make different cinema. “Dev. D shocked many,’’ smiles Abhay again. “One of my aunts prayed fervently that the censors wouldn’t pass it because she found the film too abrasive and shocking.’’ He himself thinks Anurag Kashyap is a genius. “I loved his adaptation of Devdas. I agreed to the screen intimacy because I knew I was in a safe pair of hands. But in real life, I’m super-shy.’’

His sole intention now is to keep pushing the envelope as far as Hindi films go. “Song and dance in a film is an aberration for me,’’ he says. “Cinema has to be more real. When I talk of pushing the envelope, I don’t mean that cinema should be more violent or sexually explicit. What I mean is that we must raise the bar and tackle slice-of-life subjects and characters.’’ He is okay, not ecstatic, being a Bollywood product, but to him, “Bollywood is still a genre. It is unfair to call all Hindi films as Bollywood. Hindi cinema goes far beyond what it typically is classified as Bollywood.’’

If there’s one thing he abhors about his current ‘hot’ status —it is constantly being under media surveillance. “Tabloid journalism is at its peak in India,’’ regrets the actor. “The press is very intrusive. It doesn’t feel the need to crosscheck anything with an actor before speculating.” He feels whether it is his love life or his price, everything is discussed in a cavalier fashion, and that is something he won’t stand for. “I guard my privacy very fiercely,’’ says Abhay. “I can’t talk about who I am dating because the women I date, guard their privacy even more than I do.’’ And, India’s rock star film actor threatens that if his New York jaunts get too much publicity, he will still fly out of the country every six months. “Only the destination will be different,’’ he says.

Slumdog-sweetheart Freida Pinto, Aishwarya Rai and Sonam Kapoor are inadvertently stepping on each other’s toes. Or so say reports. It is being said that a big brand that has Ash representing them overseas and Sonam in the Indian market, is also signing Freida Pinto as another of their international models. If this is true, then Freida will be walking the red carpet at all major international film festivals next year with Aishwarya for company. Freida, who has bagged films with Hollywood biggies Julian Schnabel and Woody Allen, is also expected to be on the jury of some of the biggest film festivals in 2010. Sonam on the other hand may be the face of yet another watch brand for the Indian market.

When I was in Class 4, my friend Savitri refused to share my lunch. Though we shared the same bench, she would never touch my food. This was because she was a Brahmin and I was a Muslim. Her mother had asked her to do so saying ‘we’ ate goats and buffaloes and ‘we’ were an impure lot.

I came to Mumbai for higher studies. I needed a paying guest accommodation for my internship period. But every broker I called said, “Muslim ho? Mushqil hai.” We boast of this city being cosmopolitan and India being a secular state. Yet such prejudices still exist here.

I do not know whom to blame for this but the sad part is the community in itself is responsible for this in a way. Once I was travelling to Kashmir. There was an elderly Mulla who was brainwashing some boys about jihad and Islam. No wonder the community is stereotyped. We have let the world point fingers at us.

But we all must remember, no religion teaches to kill, so it’s not the religion but the person who decides to kill or shed blood.

A woman was allegedly raped by two men under Greater Noida police area on Friday. They men allagedly filmed the act to silence her.

“I was returning home in the afternoon when two motorcycle-borne youths, on the pretext of helping me get a job, took me to the a house and raped me turn by turn,” the victim said. The victim with her husband lodged an FIR against the accused on Saturday. Police has arrested one of the accused — Deepak Kumar, while the other was absconding.

Village pradhan Kartar Singh said the alleged victim was a domestic help while her husband worked as a driver.

Greater Noida police station, SHO Ajay Srivastava said: “Both the accused are students and from well-off families. A medical report has not found any internal or external injuries.”

The coroner may have concluded that there was no foul play in legendary singer Michael Jackson's death, but his family is not satisfied. It wants an independent autopsy to determine the cause of the pop singer's death.

The Jackson family is understood to have requested a second independent post-mortem examination of the body.

According to reports, Coroner's investigator said that on Saturday Jackson family told his office, that they wanted a second autopsy carried out, as they still have unanswered questions about MJ's death.

Veteran politician and a friend of MJ's, Reverend Jesse Jackson said the Jacksons were upset because the official cause of death might not be known for weeks.

He said the family wanted answers from the star's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, who was with him when he died.

Jesse Jackson told a news daily "When did the doctor come? What did he do? Did they inject him, if so with what?"

He went missing immediately following the death, which raise questions of substance that will not go away until they are answered.

And while the details of his death are a mystery, so are the details of his funeral.

Jackson's body was handed over to his family on Saturday afternoon, which was taken by them to an undisclosed mortuary. The family is still pondering plans for the King of Pop's funeral and there is no news of when and where will it take place.

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Kabir Khan’s “New York” looks at America after 9/11 through a Bollywood lens — and it’s less distorting than you might think. The story, which engages issues of ethnic profiling and terrorism, hinges on loyalty, love and friendship, a holy trinity of Hindi cinema.

Parts of the film play like a typical Bollywood romance. Before 9/11 a triangle forms — and is sealed in a song montage — at the leafy New York State University. Sam (John Abraham), who has been in the States since childhood, and Maya (Katrina Kaif), an American-born Indian, befriend Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a newer arrival from Delhi. The athletic, all-American Sam wins Maya’s love. And then history intrudes.

Spoiler alert, from here on: After the terrorist attacks an innocent Sam gets in trouble with the F.B.I., which tosses him in a detention center, refuses his request for a lawyer and tortures him. (There’s a brief depiction of waterboarding.)

The ultrabuff Mr. Abraham, who has made a career of displaying his toned torso, here uses his body to show the privations that flesh is heir to. In a particularly powerful shot, a naked, shackled Sam is curled into a tiny boxlike cell that fills the movie frame.

While Mr. Khan’s depictions of American life occasionally seem silly and the plot has some crater-size holes, “New York” is continually fascinating. It benefits from the performance of Irrfan Khan, who adds layers of complexity to his character, a Muslim F.B.I. agent who recruits Omar to spy on Sam.

Indian films often deal with the problems faced by a Muslim minority. Transposed to the American context, those problems continue to resonate.

NEW YORK

Opened on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Kabir Khan; written by Sandeep Shrivastava; director of photography, Aseem Mishra; edited by Rameshwar S. Bhagat; music by Pritam; production designer, Norman Dodge; produced by Aditya Chopra; released by Yash Raj Films. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: John Abraham (Sam), Irrfan Khan (Roshan), Katrina Kaif (Maya) and Neil Nitin Mukesh (Omar).