| 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. |
Mumbai/Nashik, June 24: A police complaint has been registered against Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai and several others, including chairman of wind power company, Suzlon, Tulsibai Tanti for illegal purchase of land at Nandurbar district in north Maharashtra.
The complaint was lodged by a farmer, Anand Lala Thakare, who alleged that his land was purchased for a sum of Rs 20,000 and illegally transferred in Suzlon company’s name.
“We have received the complaint and have called for the land documents from the revenue department after which a preliminary inquiry would be conducted to see if any offence is made out,” Keshav Patil, superintendent of police, Nandurbar district said.
Thakare in his complaint has alleged that his land was illegally usurped by Suzlon company for setting up a windmill.
According to Thakare, Sarjan Realties had taken his land on agreement-basis, but the company allegedly transferred it illegally in Suzlon’s name and rendered him landless.
The company is setting up a wind power project at village Dhandane in Nandurbar district. The actor is a shareholder of the company.
The state government has ordered a probe into the land deal in tribal-dominated Dhule and Nandurbar districts. Suzlon has termed the allegations as “unjustified and baseless.” The actor was not available for comments.
But the final straw was reports of Shah Rukh having said unflattering things about Ash during a verbal war with Salman, last year. While Salman maintained that SRK had made debasing comments about Ash, SRK swore that he had too much respect for women to demean them. At the time, Shah Rukh had called the Bachchans’ family friend Amar Singh and had explained to him that he hadn’t said anything demeaning about the Bachchan bahu, but the damage was done. Battle lines were drawn. Apology accepted But on Monday night, when Karan brought them together, both sides decided to put aside their differences and make a fresh start. Says a source, “A few minutes into the conversation with Ash, SRK apologised to her.” He said, ‘I think I owe you an apology because in some way I have wronged you.” Ash gracefully accepted the olive branch offered. After that, Abhishek, Ash, Shah Rukh and Gauri stuck together — dancing, chatting and laughing. As the party wound up, Gauri asked her usual group of friends back home to continue the party there. She also invited Ash and Abhishek to come along, and they all piled into one car and headed for Mannat. Other couples like Hrithik and Sussanne Roshan, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan, Kajaal Anand and Arjun Rampal and Mehr Jesia joined them later. The group partied at SRK’s home till 6 am and left after having breakfast.” Happy endings are so much fun.Karan Johar’s birthday party on Monday night was a night of patch-ups. Especially for the Bachchan boy. Vivek Oberoi and he hugged each other, he exchanged hellos with Karisma Kapoor and chatted at length with SRK.But the surprise patch-up of the evening was between Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. How things went bad Says a source present at the party, “After Shah Rukh dropped Aishwarya unceremoniously from his home production Chalte Chalte, she never forgave or forgot that. Things between them got worse when SRK and Gauri were not invited to the AbhiAsh wedding.
Salman Khan’s latest love interest, Claudia Ciesla, has put Abhishek and Aishwarya in an embarrassing situation.
Claudia, who’s a German model-actress and has also been a Playmate, had her photograph clicked with Abhishek while they were in Cannes. Soon thereafter, the photo appeared in a Mumbai newspaper along with the story that Abhishek was seen chatting with wife Ash’s ex-boyfriend’s current love interest!
The Bachchans were in for a shock when they found out about Ciesla’a past and the fact that even a nude image of hers had adorned the cover of a German magazine.
Abhishek could not recollect getting this picture taken. After some time he realised it was just one of the many photographs he and his wife got clicked with fans.
So now, as a precautionary measure, Ash and Abhi will be saying no to all fans wanting to get photographed with them, at least for the time being.

Apart from the mainstream Hindi film industry, there also thrives an industry of soft porn films starring struggling girls from towns and cities. At times the makers of these films rope in girls who have facial resemblance to Bollywood actresses. At other times the movies are titled to mislead the viewers. A few years back, there was a skin flick titled ‘Bipasha – The Black Beauty’ that starred a dusky actress with facial resemblance to Bipasha Basu . And now, one such movie titled ‘Aishwarya’ is about to make waves in the soft porn market.
It’s not known who stars in the film (the girls often don’t use their real names in such flicks), but the poster of the film revealed a fair-skinned shapely girl dressed in a bikini.


