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 The music industry is certainly on a high note in Bollywood. Increasing numbers of large films have been announced and one of the biggest and most awaited films of 2007 is Shah Rukh Khan's home production, Om Shanti Om. It was recently reported that T-Series had acquired the rights to the music. Now comes the big question on the terms of the deal. We have learned through reliable sources and an insider was overheard saying, "It's true that T-Series has acquired the audio rights for Om Shanti Om. The deal has happened at a figure between 4 to 5 crores and the company plans to promote the music very aggressively". The film directed by Farah Khan has music by Vishal-Shekhar with some arrangements made by yesteryear music director Pyarelal of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo. The major highlight of the film is a song that features almost the entire present day and (even the) yesteryear film industry people playing themselves. The last time one saw something like this was in Manmohan Desai's Naseeb. Farah, however, promises to make this experience bigger and better. T-Series is currently the biggest player in the Indian music industry and is planning innovative ways to market Om Shanti Om , including a big activation on the digital medium. Its upcoming lineup of film includes big names like Bhool Bhuliya, Welcome, God Tussi Great Ho, Showbiz, Taare Zameen Par, Bhootnath and the Ghajini remake Related StoriesLeo-wants-Twilight-Zone Leonardo Dicaprio plans to make a sci-fi cult film based on the classic TV series  Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio is considering bringing The Twilight Zone back to cinemas, according to reports. The star’s production company, Appian Way, is said to be looking for material to create a big-screen version of an episode from the classic TV series. The programme was made into a self-titled movie in 1983 but executives at DiCa more SRK-Pampers-Veterans  Shah Rukh Khan is known to do things in style. As is common knowledge, there is a song sequence in Om Shanti Om featuring 30 veteran film stars. However, what isn't common knowledge is that Shah Rukh presented each one of the 30 veterans a gift hamper containing expensive watches and cellphones, as they had refused to take any money from him. Actors Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta, Sanjay Dutt, Kajol, Govinda, Karisma Kapur and Bobby more SRK-bares-it-all,-strikes-a-pose-for-a-magazine  King Khan is an old term. Now Shahrukh Khan is better known as the six-pack Khan. And if he is at an event, the Media cannot resist but ask him about his six-pack abs. And thats what you get to see not only in Om Shanti Om but also on the cover of the latest edition of Filmfare. "I am very embarrassed, people come to see my abs and not my acting. Actually I am very shy of photo shoots,” says Shah Rukh. When asked if was there just to flaunt his six-pack abs cover, or to promote more Om-Nipotent!  There's great news from the sets of Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om. Farah has now roped in Sridevi and Abhishek Bachchan to do cameos in the film. The script has a track that will feature Sridevi and Abhishek Bachchan together. The story goes that Sridevi was earlier slated to feature in the lavish title track alongside Jeetendra. However, Sridevi couldn't feature in the song due to time constraints. That's when Farah decided to have her in another scene. "We love Sri and she just had to be a part of t more Bwood-&-cricket:-marriage-made-in-ad-heaven The year of 2007 has been great for cricket fans. With the Indian cricket team winning the Twenty20 World Cup, Bollywood's on a high too. And fans apart, advertisers are making the most of it. The Twenty20 World Cup is in India’s bag, and so is the recently concluded test series against Pakistan. And brands have thought of new ways of making the most of this happy period. The first to kick off the celebrations are MS Dhoni and Shah Rukh Khan, who can be seen in an advertisement for a leading electronics brand. The advertisement shows Dhoni playing the star in Om Shanti Om while Shah Rukh swings the cricket bat. Marketing VP Videocon Jyoti Shekhar says, "The timing was perfect and everything worked. Everyone more Munnabhai,-Hera-Pheri-brand-war-hots-up  After the success of the Munnabhai and Hera Pheri sequels, the two brand titles have become the hottest sellers at the turnstiles and are now competing with each other for their upcoming sequels. Neither of the two producers - Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Feroz Nadiadwala - is taking any chances with the part three of their respective films. Director Raj Kumar Hirani, who was at the helm of Munnabhai M.B.B.S. and Lage Raho Munna Bhai, and his writer Abhijat Joshi have decided to work much harder on the more Nana-Anil-may-do-a-Welcome-series  It looks like the Govinda-Salman Khan pair has competition. Even as David Dhawan plans to bring the Partner partnership alive again in a sequel, Anees Bazmi is busy scripting part two of Welcome in which he plans to cast Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar together again. "I'd love to take the Welcome characters forward in a series. People love the characters. The box office figures say it all. The collections are Rs.1.32 billion so far. It's the biggest comedy hit ever. I'm now working on a sequel," Bazmi said. more Simran-to-illuminate-TV-now  The yesteryear’s queen of Tamil filmdom, Simran is back in action. This time she is set to storm not the silver screen but the on TV through a mega series that would be telecasted in Jaya TV every day. The series, would run for an year, and have one story running for a month. Simran leads in all the stories, selected from various authors. ‘Pyramid Saimira Production International Limited’, a part of the Pyramid Saimira Group, launches this mega series named as Simran Thrai. Mr. K. S. Srinivasan, Director more Plans-for-sequels-to-Krrish,-Phir-Hera-Pheri  It's raining sequels in Bollywood. Rakesh Roshan is all set to make another sequel to 'Koi...Mil Gaya' after 'Krissh'. And there are hush-hush plans to put together another chapter in the continuing saga of 'Hera Pheri' and 'Phir Hera Pheri'. But 'Phir Hera Pheri' director Neeraj Vora is not in a mood to go back to familiar terrain. 'I don't think I'd be making another 'Hera Pheri' film. I'd rather do something new than return to something I've already done,' says the writer-turned-director who started his c more India-wins-the-test-series  [ The second test match played at Mohali Stadium ended with a draw. India won the series with 1-0 lead against England. Jaheerkhan was declared as Man of the series and Gautam Gambhir as Man of the match. With this, India’s ranking in the test series claimed the second place. India declared the match at 251 runs. Although the test more |
