Blog Archive
June - July 2006
Bollywood Dreams - An Exciting Opportunity
In an interview, the acting manager of Melbourne's Immigration Musuem, Elena
del Mercato, has said the current "Bollywood
Dreams" exhibition provides "an exciting opportunity for the Museum to
work with Victoria’s Indian community. With more than 42,500 people, it is
now the eighth-largest group in the state."
July 27th, 2006
A Brush-Up with Bollywood
The
Adelaide Advertiser reports on a local girl:
Adelaide make-up artist and stylist Larissa Jones certainly has a
well-travelled passport.
The 30-year-old, who has been back in Adelaide for a year, spent 12 months
in Bangalore in India...
In India, Larissa had the chance to work as an assistant to celebrity
make-up artist Leila Sharma (who daubs all the Bollywood stars and
supermodels), as well as spend time with Anila Anand, who runs Aditi
Modelling.
In a small coincidence, ex-Adelaide fashion photographer Darren Centofanti
(married to Indian supermodel Vidisha Pavate) is also on Aditi's books.
July 12th, 2006
Tania - 60 Pairs of Boots and Six More Watches
I take with a grain of salt much that is written in the Indian press about
Tania Zaetta. So I can't verify the following from
IndiaFM:
Tania is not a brand baby. She loves to buy things that she likes.
Speaking about shopping she says, “I shop everywhere, from US to India."
...When asked about Indian fashion she says, “I love it. In fact during the
Delhi fashion week I shopped a lot. I love Kavita Bartia’s creations.” She
has a fetish for boots. In fact she has 60 pairs, almost in all colors.
Watches and sunglasses are something she is crazy about. Tania loves them a
lot and never leaves home without it. Speaking on the same she says, “I'm
totally in love with Guess watches at the moment and have recently added six
more to my collection. I prefer Gucci, Christian Dior for my shades and
watches. Talking about lingerie she giggles, “This is not something to hide
about. I use La-perla, that’s the best.”
If you feel about all this as I do, you may wish to make a donation to
Mother Teresa's
Missionaries of Charity - 54A, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road,
Calcutta 700 016.
July 3rd, 2006
Bollywood Idols as Godly Figures
Melbourne's Immigration Museum has opened a new exhibition,
Bollywood Dreams, featuring photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik.
The Age reports:
Torgovnik's photographs probe behind the curtain, behind the camera,
throughout the audience and into the projection room, where sweat-soaked men
in dirty singlets fight to keep an antique-looking projector in working
order.
There's superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who pulls in up to $A1.3 million a film,
attended by a make-up artist as a spritz of hair spray is captured by the
lights behind him. In these photographs, actors appear as godly figures.
Witness the Mumbai street vendor who sells posters of Bollywood idols
alongside those of Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ.
Museum manager Padmini Sebastian said the exhibition, to run for six months,
was partly an attempt by the museum to reach out to the 35,000 Indian people
estimated to be living in Melbourne. "Bollywood is becoming bigger all the
time," she said. "Budgets are growing and Melbourne is already a popular
location for filming."
And in Brisbane the second annual
Bollywood Masala Indian Film Festival has begun.
June 30th, 2006
Miss World Australia - Bollywood Bound?
 The latest Miss
World Australia, Sabrina Houssami, has said she might consider offers to
work
in Bollywood.
She is not the typical Australian beauty. Miss Australia Sabrina Houssami,
the beauty queen with roots in India, says she is open to acting in
Bollywood films.
Sabrina will represent Australia at the Miss World pageant in Poland in
September. The first person of non-Australian parentage to win the Miss
Australia title last month, 19-year-old Sabrina was born to an Indian mother
and a Lebanese father.
June 20th, 2006
Gorgeous Sexy-Babe Tania's True-Fit Man
Personally, I'd take
this
story from a "Bollywood analyst" with a grain of salt:
Some years back in Bollywood and entertainment fraternity, the stars used
to hide their love affairs. Today it has become a fashion to display their
love sagas in open and media. Amongst the ones in Bollywood, whose love
story is all the time in news and who appear to be very caring and strong
love birds, are none other than the dashing John Abraham and sultry Bipasha
Basu. And both are ruling the cinema today.
 There is walking a threat to Bipasha’s love these days. Yes, it can happen
since the curvaceous sex-pot model (who has made her Bollywood debut in
‘Bunty Aur Babli’) Tania Zaetta (who is seen widely in Page 3 circles) is
found expressing openly about John as her true-fit man.
This Aussie’s gorgeous-sexy babe is single and looking for a man in her
life. When asked about her Mr. Right, she ruptures, “There is hardly anyone
in Bollywood who can match my standards except one. I happen to be very
selective about men. Mostly women go for looks in men but I am different.
Looks don’t swing me. I see beyond looks in men. He should have a good
attitude and a handsome sparking personality. He should be tall and have a
kind of complexion, I admire. John Abraham is the only one in Bollywood, who
fits to my choice of a man”.
Tania is snowed under whopping amount of offers in Bollywood and confident
to make her mark in this industry.
Bipasha, be careful else you may lose your boyfriend since this babe too is
very sexy and gorgeous.
June 19th, 2006
Bollywood Superstars - Rafting Through Rotorua
In New Zealand, Rotorua's Daily Post is excited at the arrival of
some
Bollywood superstars:
But while these actors and actresses have starred in hundreds of films
between them, don't worry if you have never heard of them. Sameera Reddy,
Vivek Oberoi and Sunny Deol may not be household names in New Zealand, but
they certainly are in their native India, where they are superstars of the
Bollywood film industry. The three - who have been in Rotorua with a film
crew shooting scenes for a new movie - could loosely be described as India's
answer to Jennifer Lopez, Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.
The Rotorua scenes for the as-yet untitled film included a trip on the
Kaituna River, which was organised by local company River Rats Rafting
Adventures.
Rafting guide Neville Baty said he found all three stars pleasant,
down-to-earth company throughout the seven-day shoot.
"They were all pretty nice. Vivek was a bit of a ladies' man. He went out
drinking at the Lava Bar a few times while they were here. So did Sam. Sunny
was much more quiet, but he came out a few times as well.
"One of the nights Vivek was at the Lava Bar there was one Indian girl
there who knew who he was and made a huge fuss of him. You could see all of
the other girls look on and decide that he must be somebody and soon they
were all swarming around him."
June 8th, 2006
London Love Blooming for Tania?
Melbourne's Herald Sun wonders "whether we can believe the news that
Orlando Bloom and Bollywood star Tania Zaetta really sat down to dinner
last week."
The pair apparently talked shop over dinner in Soho, London, with Zaetta
later seen teaching Bloom some Bollywood dancemoves in a nearby nightclub.
What is known is that Zaetta's career is booming in India, where she has
scored her first title song sequence in a new film.
Zaetta is back in Australia this week to shoot a corporate ad for ANZ and to
visit family on the Gold Coast.
June 3rd, 2006
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