BOLLYWOOD MASALA

However when Kareena was quizzed about her weight, Kareena said, “I am happy to have gained a bit. Don’t you think I needed to?”

Bollywood is a place where the heroes are given more importance and the they always see to it that the female co star gets less role,less coverage and less publicity.But times are changing now 2008 has been a year where our heroines have done full fledged meaty roles and on the basis of their hits and misses we analyise the top 5 bollywood actresses of 2008.

Kareena Kapoor - Started her year 2008 with Tashan which did not do well in the boxoffice.The film was produced by Aditya Chora and Yash Chopra under Yash Raj films. Akshay ,Anil,Kareena and Saif were appreciated for their performances.The film was not for intellectuals or for people looking for a perfect script,as it was nothing new.Kareena looked glamourous in a bikini. On the day of its release, the film opened to a 75-80% response but well short of the expected bumper opening due to the multiplex revenue sharing problem, which didn’t allow the film to be released in major multiplexes across India. Due to this, the film lost a major chunk of its revenue. Then came in Roadside romeo the first major computer animated film.The title character, a dog living in the city of Mumbai is voiced by Saif and his girlfriend, Laila, is voiced by Kareena.The story was about a rich dog who was abandoned on the streets of Mumbai and all the difficulties and all the dangerous characters he comes across.This film again opened with a poor response and dint do well in the boxoffice.Kareena’s third and last film of the year was Golmaal Returns which was a remake of an old Bollywood comedy. Kareena plays the role of a suspicious wife of Ajay Devgan who hapens to spend one whole night out of the house with Celina Jaitely just to help her from some bad people.To hide this fact from his wife all the stories that he has to cook and all the difficulties that happen then is actually the story of the film.The film did really well and was a super hit and inspite of Kareena not having a meaty role in it she still managed to get a hit in her kitty.

Katrina Kaif - Her first release of the year was Race-an Abbas Mastaan thriller with lots of enjoyable twists and turns.Katrina is paired with Akshaye khanna,while Saif and Bipasha are aso there in the cast.Katrina plays the soft decent cute secretary of Saif who adores Saif and is with him through thick and thin and how in the climax turns out to be the bad mans fiancee and how she backstabs Saif.This film did really well in the boxoffice and was said to be a hit. her next film was Singh is King which was a super hit in the box office and Katrina is paired with Akshay kumar and inspite of the story revolving around a punjabi villager who comes to town and all the misadventours that happen and he ends up to become the Australian underworld king,Katrina’s role is worth a watch.

Her third film of the year was Hello where she is paired opposite her beau Salman.in the entire film her role was only for a few minutes.So it was her guest appearance in the film and the film too dint do well in the box office. Katrina’s fourth and the last film of this year was Subhash Ghai’s Yuvvraaj where again she is seen with Salman in the film. Anil Kapoor and Zayed are also included in the cast. Katrina gave a good performance but the film in all did not do well. So Katrina managed to get two hits and two flops in the year.

Priyanka Chopra -This actress has given the maximum number of release in 2008. Her first release is Love Story 2050 where she is paired opposite Harman Baweja,it was a mega budget special effects film.Priyanka’s performance was not appreciated and the film crashed badly at the box office.Her next one was God Tussi Great ho opposite Salman Khan.The film was a remake of the Hollywood film Bruce Almighty.Where Salman challenges God and in return God comes down to Earth and asks him to take up his job and all the mess that happens after that. The film did not make news in the box office. This was followed by Chamku, the story of a shooter Bobby Deol and how he falls in love with Priyanka and his life changes after that.Priyanka’s performance was appreciated but the film failed in the box office.Then came Drona a contemporary fantasy fable. The film was a horrific disaster.Then came Priyanka’s two most awaited films of the year Fashion and Dostana.In both the films priyanka has acted brilliantly.In Fashion she plays a small town girl who comes to the city of dreams to fulfill her dreams and for that she has to pay a heavy price.In Dostana she plays a funfilled light character of being friends to John and Abhishekh.Both the films did really well in the box office giving Priyanka her much awaited hits.

Rani Mukherji - Had just one film which was Thoda Pyar thoda Magic where Rani plays the role of a childlike,mischeivious ,lovable angel who comes to the rescue of four orphans and their dad.The film was directed by Kunal Kohli but he was still unable to create the magic of Hum Tum.It did not do well in the box office.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - This year Aishwarya came up with two releases Sarkar Raj and Jodhaa Akbar. In Jodhaa Akbar she was opposite Hritik Roshan. A romantic, biographical and historical movie, which was set in a era of revolt, conspiracies and war.Aishwarya looked and acted brilliantly in the film.The film did good business in India and very good buisness in the overseas.Her second flick Sarkar Raj was opposite hubby Abhishekh Bachan.It also got her critical acclaim apart from box office success.

After the entire analysis of all the five actresses we come to the conclusion that Katrina Kaif is on the top of the list with two hits in a row and two flops,then in the second position its Priyanka Chopra with two hits and four flops and then its Aishwarya Rai with one hit and one flop followed by Kareena who has two flops and one hit and then comes Rani with only one release and that to a flop.

Kareena Kapoor is all set to take her relationship with Saif to another level. She'll be visiting his ancestral village Pataudi in Haryana. A privilege that none of Saif ladies from the past have been given.

Confesses Saif, "Yes, Kareena has been invited to Pataudi. It'd have been earlier. But it's too hot right now. Winter is when our family reunions happen every year. And Kareena is now part of the family. My parents are extremely fond of Kareena."

Sighs Saif, "This relationship is 'IT' for me. Today I feel very settled and very happy. Though a bit lonely. And when I've bad days I feel I'm being ungrateful. I'm now looking forward to settling down with Kareena.

Our marriage will happen very shortly as soon as we both have a little less work on hand and we can give the marriage quality time. Also, her family has to be ready for our marriage."

Saif is very happy with Kareena's mom. "We're very close. She has been really gracious in inviting me into her family.

She's made sure I'm part of her family. I've also met Daboo Uncle a few times, shared friendly drinks with her. As for Karisma, I think she's the sweetest girl ever in the world. I'm deeply fond of both Karisma and her husband Sanjay. They're truly wonderful people. Kareena's family has taken to me as warmly as my family has taken to her."

Saif has a lot to be thankful for. "My lifestyle has changed completely after the heart attack. Looking back it's hard to believe I went through such a health scare.

If it wasn't for that life-changing experience I wouldn't be in a relationship with Kareena right now. I hardly drink. Don't even look forward to drinking any more. I don't smoke or party."

All because of love.

Kareena Kapoor will be seen romancing her Saif in Raghavan’s spy thriller Agent Vinod . Saif plays the title role and Kareena, his love interest. Reportedly, Deepika was the first choice for the female lead in Agent Vinod but it seems Kareena was in no mood to take yet another defeat from the young star. However, director Raghavan explains that he s keen to work with Kareena for the same.

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Ever since Agent Vinod was announced, Bebo was keen on bagging the role and made sure that Deepika doesn’t get away with her sweety pie this time. Perhaps the lady just wants to be with Saif at all times, at work and otherwise and keep his attention solely on her. We all are aware of Saif’s Casanova ways, aren’t we?

When asked, S Raghavan confirmed, “I haven’t yet signed her but hope to do that soon. I can give more details only by December end.” The film will have two leading ladies an Indian (Kareena) and a foreign actress. The film will go on the floors in March 2009. Apart from this, Saifeena will be seen together in Karan Johar’s next.

The Kapoors and the Bachchans have been thick Bollywood pals for long. Until of course the much publicized Karisma Kapoor – Abhishek Bachchan breakup happened!

Of late there has been news of the family friends getting back together.

But according to fiesty Kareena they are just rumours as nothing of that sort is happening or likely to happen in the future.

She has reportedly said, "The 'patch-up' decision cannot be taken individually. This one's quite complicated, since the two families are involved now. There's no truth to the news-report about our teaming together. There's no project on the cards either."

Apparently she was miffed with Abhishek too as there were rumours of him being responsible for getting her replaced with Priyanka Chopra in Karan Johar's 'Dostana'.

Kareena sings another tune altogether and says, "I have moved on. Karan is a brother and he has offered me a far more challenging role in his next film that will be directed by Rensil D'Silva."

It seems Kareena's actually not ready to forgive the Bachchans yet.

Abhishek had apparently also extended the olive branch and said that he would love to work with Bebo again as she was his first heroine which makes her very special. But Bebo really seems totally uninterested!

She's too busy concentrating on her career and enjoying the luck bestowed upon her (even a senseless 'Golmaal Returns' has done well) to think of the Bachchans! Maybe she'll change her mind when the days are bad!

Never mind the ‘golmaal’ on-screen, there was much off-screen ‘golmaal’ happening on the sets of GOLMAAL RETURNS as well!

While in Bangkok, director Rohit Shetty’s assistant, Rami, wanted certain changes in Kareena Kapoor’s outfits and had a message sent to her designer Manish Malhotra. The latter, pronouncing “Rami” as “Rumi”, informed Kareena of the alterations that had been requested.

Kareena instructed her manager to call “Rumi” for a meeting to discuss the changes. The manager assumed that by “Rumi”, she was referring to Rumi Jafri (the director) who, incidentally, had helped out with the story of GOLMAAL RETURNS.

A thoroughly confused Jafri couldn’t fathom why he was being called in to discuss Kareena’s outfits and told her manager that he didn’t know what he was talking about.

After much chaos about the mysterious identity of “Rumi” it was discovered that Manish had mis-pronounced Rami’s name!

Needless to add, Rumi Jafri was a relieved man at the end of it all!

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After much chaos about the mysterious identity of “Rumi” it was discovered that Manish had mis-pronounced Rami’s name!

Kareena Kapoor has proved her love for beau Saif Ali Khan when she kept fast for him on Karva Chauth. After completing a hectic shooting schedule she flew to Delhi to meet Saif who was shooting with Imtiaz Ali for his upcoming home production. The couple also visited a jewellery store where Saif even bought her some expensive ornament. The couple then headed to Saif's ancestral town of Pataudi and spent some quality time together.

Kareena however denies even meeting Saif and says she had gone to Delhi for some endorsement deal and Saif was in Rajasthan at that time. She added that she did not believe in the custom for Karva Chauth and there was no question of her fasting for Saif. On career front Kareena is busy shooting for Sajid Nadiadwala's Kambakth Ishq. Well Bebo its nothing wrong in keeping a fast for someone you love even if you are not married to him!