hanghai International Film Festival concluded this weekend. The highlight was the closing ceremony on 21st June 2009 where in Bollywood's sultry actress Priyanka Chopra was presented with The Jin Jue Award. The stylish Priyanka's career is on high as this is the tenth award that she has gathered in the past six months.

"Jin Jue" Award is the festival's highest honour and this is the first time that it has been presented to an Indian for their outstanding achievement in the Hindi Cinema!

The award is a very prestigious International award and reflects a traditional Chinese culture.

The talented Priyanka Chopra feels really honored and emotional to recieve such a big honor and is very pleased to present India to the rest of the world! She finds such awards very encouraging and is pleased to be recognized for her hard work.

We extend a warm hand of congratulations to the actress who has been applauded by the audience and critics for her fine performances throughout the year. Kudos to Indian Cinema which is now reaching new heights!

The competent director-actor-singer Farhan Akhtar was in for a pleasant surprise at the sets of his movie 'Karthik Calling Karthik' when well-known Hollywood director, Ang Lee, visited the sets.

Multi-talented Farhan was shooting for the movie when Lee surprised everyone on the sets with his presence and showed interest in the project.

Farhan has always admired Ang Lee's work in Hollywood and was immensely excited to have a chat with the director.

The news is that Ang Lee stayed on sets for quite some time and chatted with Farhan about the differences in the work traditions of Hollywood and Bollywood. Both the directors shared their expectations about their upcoming projects.

Farhan being a director himself could easily relate to Lee and both enjoyed their conversation immensely.

If things were'nt heating up already, the latest twist in the Piryanka Chopra-Aishwarya Rai-IIFA tale is the new revelation my Jaya Bachchan.

Recently, Ashutosh Gowariker had raised questions over the choice of Best Actress award being given to Priyanka Chopra for 'Fashion' instead of Aishwarya Rai for 'Jodhaa Akbar' on the IIFA stage.

Jaya Bachchan has spoken out in the media that it was her opinion to raise the question of 'Why Aishwarya has not received any award?' on the IIFA stage and had prompted Ashutosh Gowariker to bring open their unhappiness.

Interestingly, Jaya Bachchan has not seen the movie 'Fashion' and hence has no clue about Priyanka's performance in the movie.

We wonder how she was able to reach the conclusion that her bahu was better in the performance tha Piggy Chops without revieweing it herself??

Or was it just a case of sasu-ma supporting bahu darling and not a critic judgement? Either way, we find this behaviour highly immature and biased.

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Katrina Kaif has dismissed the reports of her split with beau of four years — Salman Khan.

The news have been abuzz that the Welcome girl and Sallu miyan had formally called it quits but the actress has vehemently denied such reports and has termed them as baseless rumours.

She has rubbished reports that Salman had thrown all her belongings from his apartment and rather said she and Salman have always lived separately.

According to reports, Katrina also said that her photograph was still hanging in Salman’s room.

Reports of a split between the couple came out after Katrina started mingling with her New York co-star John Abraham and Salman became close to German model Claudia Ceisla.

Now, let’s wait and watch until Katrina and Salman officially announce the D-Day.

Aman (Anubhav Anand) is a talented young architect. Raised by his Uncle, he has all the love and care a family could offer but Aman takes it for granted. While working towards his dream, his life takes a beautiful turn when he bumps into the perfect girl Neha (Nandana Sen). The two fall in love, and nothing seems able to come between
them.

Nothing, that is, until it is the time for families to meet. Sparks fly. Every known disaster strikes when hyper-vibrant Mr. Bhalla (Anupam Kher) and the rigidly-conventional Mr. Patel (Boman Irani) meet. Both are hilariously different. Both are woefully mismatched. Naturally both fathers lock horns & vehemently oppose this match.

The lovebirds must find a way to bring their families together and this leads to a comical series of misadventures of the two disapproving, faultfinding fathers. In the process Aman realizes the true definition of family and what it really means to love someone. Will Aman be able to bring the two families together? And will he succeed in achieving his dream?

PERFECT MISMATCH invites you to Join Mr. Bhalla, Mr. Patel, Aman & Neha, along with their families as they celebrate life, love and everything in between.

This Indo-American production is a passionate view of hilariously star-crossed romance while never forgetting the importance of family, culture, and staying true to one's emotions.

Reports are coming in. Hrithik Roshan has said no to Karan Johar for doing the re-make of Agneepath. Few days back the media was bedazzled with the news that KJo was remaking the legendary movie starring Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty and Danny Denzongpa in the original. There were speculations about the casting of the movie. Hrithik was considered for essaying the role of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, which was played by Amitabh Bachchan in the 1990 movie. But now, he has declined to do the role saying that he "was a tad apprehensive about stepping into Big B's shoes.", says our source. Seems like he has been able to even convince KJo so much so, that now KJo is having second thoughts too. Adding to the apprehension, Hrithik would be busy with another film at the time Karan plans to go on the floor with the New Agneepath which is in the beginning of 2010.

After winning awards for Jodha Akbar and eagerly waiting for his Kites to come on the big screens, Hrithik is pretty choosy in everything he does. Adding to this, he is writing the screenplay of the sequel of Krrish. Also, since the time he was adjudged the look-alike of Jesus, many Hollywood film-makers are looking for a piece of him. Wow, Hrithik does seem like the Man of the Year! Isn't it?

Coming back... Who will then play Vijay Dinanath Chauhan in the re-make? Guess that's simple. Of course, the son of Vijay... Junior Vijay Dinanath Chauhan aka Junior Bachchan. Abhishek Bachchan has said in most of his interviews that his favorite film is Agneepath. Who would be, then, most happy to be in the film? AB Baby must be floating in the clouds now. His dream is going to be fulfilled very soon.

Would you like to see that? Can Jr. B be better than Big B or as good at least?? Thoughts, thanks and thwarts are being eagerly waited for.