A little bit of star, and a whole lot celeb

We're quietly sneaking in a new daily goss column. Ssssh, we haven't told anyone. Bollywood is giving up a pink eye, and so are we...training our lorgnette to see where is the shor coming from!

Ranbir Kapoor gets a new daddy!

Ah, we woke up to taaza-taaza daddy issues. Ranboo (Ranbir Kapoor for all you who don’t know how much we love him) is doing a new film with Anurag Basu. It’s called Jagga Jasoos. Yah, we know it’s been in the news for long. Katsoo (Katrina Kaif) is his leading lady. They’re still trying to finalise another heroine. Kats has given the makers a long list of heroines she does not want to be seen anywhere around her beau. Anushka Sharma has felt the currents on Bombay Velvet Sri Lanka schedule. Anyhoo, seems after the Besharam fiasco of papa-beta, Ranboo wants a new daddy in Jagga Jasoos. And apna Chi-Chi (Govinda) has agreed to play his father. Apparently everyone who went to see Besharam (a handful) told us Chintuji stole the show. Beta Ranboo finally has competition! BTW, did you guys check out the new Pepsi ad in which Daisy Irani asks a puzzled Ranbir for his dad’s number.Cho-chweet na, Chintuji! Daddy cool.

Bebo's Karwa Chauth Challenge

Back in the nineties, when the Kapoors were considered moophat (meaning no control over loose tongue when questioned) such a ritual would make them pink with embarrassment. Which hatta-katta Kapoor bachcha has been known to keep a fast? Must be an insult to even ask! Now that the media captures all sorts of reactions, even the once fire-spitting sisters, Karisma and Kareena appear demure and seem to be mincing words in public. The luscious nawab-jaan (shall we call her that?) Bebo was recently asked if she would keep a fast for her husband on the auspicious occasion of Karwa Chauth. Pat came the response. "I don't need to starve to prove my love. I am not going to fast. I am a Kapoor. I can't live without food. I would celebrate it by eating, working, by promoting my film.' Just when we thought she'd show some nawabi culture and refrain from giving it back to the media personnel. Funny, isn't she the pin-up girl for size zero? On the good
side, now that she's eating, she's surely sending out the right signal to all the women out there. No more pati parmeshwar spiel, where's the buffet section, dahling!

Varun Dhawan is Nobody’s Hero

Varun’s vela-panti days are over. He’s moved into the industry’s hottest newcomer since his Student Of The Year debut. What else has happened? He’s been linked with co-stars as well as non co-stars. Who’s that? Some rag tag spread the rumour that this aaj-kal ka naujawan is dating the much older Bipasha Basu. She laughed it off, telling a shaken Varun, ‘welcome to the film industry.’ And Varun was keeping mum about his bachpan-ka-pyar Natasha Dalal, who he broke off with in March this year. Since then, the press has linked him to co-star Alia Bhatt, and then Shraddha Kapoor. Not only that, he was supposedly dating Alia, then she moved on to Arjun Kapoor, and then he created a rift between them, and now she’s back to him. Oh ho ho ho,
all these naya kids, fresh out of college. Varun wants to concentrate on his upcoming film with dad David Dhawan directing it. His co-stars in the film are Ileana D'Cruz, and Nargis Fakhri and he’s not been linked to any. Strange! Too much of a baccha for them? He swears never to date an actress. Maa-kasam!

Sridevi in yet another sequel

Hawa hawai…the grapevine is growing pink ears…what are we hearing…Sridevi is not only going to return in the Mr India sequel, she might appear in the Khuda Gawah sequel as well. The 1992 film Khuda Gawah has a sequel being written and its producer is going to approach Big B soon. Now if that happens, he will possibly ask for Sribaby to be cast. Remember how she was cast the first time around? Apparently, Senior Bachchan saw the rushes of a song for Roop Ki Rani
Choron Ka Raja which was being filmed around that time, and he told the producer only the reigning queen could do justice to the role. Big B will be gracious if he agrees to do the film with her. After the resounding success of her comeback film English Vinglish, Sribaby is well in demand. She surely could give some girls a run. They need running, Khuda Gawah hai!

RGV Ki Rant

Ram Gopal Varma, his Twitter fans think, is an enigma. Just the other day, he tweeted: “I made Satya and @karanjohar made Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in the same year and since then he has been escalating and I have been deescalating.” Karan Johar did not respond. Instead, a lot more media
covered ’15 years of KKHH’ articles to pump up the director’s ego. No one wrote about Satya, a far more defining film for hindi cinema. Had Karan replied to his tweet, as he as always acknowledged in his interviews, that Satya is one of his favourites, it would have fired up social media. But Kjo is in no mood for this twitter-baiting that RGV has taken to. Just this September, when RGV tweeted, ‘‘If someone takes off from Karan johar’s Student of the year and makes Teacher of the year it will become the Disaster of the year.” Karan immediately responded. ‘‘Disaster of the year is your territory Ramu…no one can ever replace the comfortable place you have made for yourself there.”
Guess a case of RGV smug in his comfortable decline, where no one notices him disappear.

Imran Khan wants Kareena’s backside

Oy, we didn’t make up that headline. Immu (Imran Khan, does he have a backside?) recently said for the promotion of his new film Gori Tere Pyaar Mein, that his co-star Bebo (Kareena Kapoor) has the ‘hottest backside’ after his. Ahem, uh…the last time we checked Jr Khan’s derriere, ah, well…Bebo does the ‘tooh’ dance in her new film, saying she has ‘gore gore, naughty naughty, round round tooh.’ Only Saifu (Saif Ali Khan) can tell. Actually, coming to think of it, which of these men have a backside? Amongst the girls, we can surely say for Sona (Sonakshi Sinha) and Dpad (Deepika Padukone) but the guys? Saifu? What about John Abraham? You guys know what the joke was around the time he lowered his knickers in Dostana. Hah, which one acts better!
Tell us if you have a favourite ‘tooh’. Between Imran and Kareena, our bet is on the producer Kjo (Karan Johar) who will be famously swinging his ‘tooh’ all the way to the bank. ‘Everybody does it, and you can do it tooh.’

Freida Pinto makes love to a gorilla

Freida once starred in a film called Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. So why is it strange that she should cuddle a gorilla? She has done it, in Bruno Mars’ latest video song Gorilla. Bruno sings to stripper Freida pole-vaulting in a strip club, ‘You and me baby making love like gorillas.’ She does it with some aplomb. But she’s not sure she wants her Indian fans to see her new, racy act. She thinks her Indian fans will be disappointed. Serious? She has Indian fans? Erm, okay, after this hot video, she might get some. We think she looks supaaa-sexyyy! She should do more to break that image of the girl-next-door. She’s our desi Salma Hayek, our Bollywood Penelope Cruz. She just has to prove it with a break-out performance. You go girl, make love like a gorilla.