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Agneepath Storms The `100C Club – Complete B-O Report February 2012 www.the lmstreetjournal.com WORK Actor & PERMIT HURDLE Celebrity Wife Is NARGIS FAKHRI’S Kalki Pak Origin Responsible? Koechlin “I Totally Believe In Sheds Conventions Marriage Unlike Gautami!” “Good People Fall In Love, Bad People Catching Up With Have Sex, Bas!” SHILPA SHETTY MAHESH BHATT JIMMY SHEIRGILL Hilariously Unique Doubly Steamy In Saheb Biwi SHABANA-JAVED Aur Gangster 2? Mr & Mrs Padma Bhushan The Beautiful Absentee Dad ADITI RAO HYDARI Comes Home Stunning Pictorial VIKRAM BHATT & Splash Daughter Tell All FEBRUARY 2012 CONTENTS Vol 2 Issue 11 Jimmy Sheirgill 28 EDITOR & PUBLISHER Bharathi S Pradhan (editorial@thefi lmstreetjournal.com) MANAGER, EDITORIAL DEPT Lucy Lewis ASSISTANT Farhana Khan SUB-EDITOR Petrina D’Souza DESIGN CONSULTANT P G Ghawali DESIGNER Megha S Murkar SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Jyothi Venkatesh Nikita Periwal COLUMNISTS Adelaide Travasso Suniel Wadhwa Shilpa Shetty CELEBRITY GUEST EDITORS Tejaswini Kolhapure (Fashion) 42 Bina Aziz (Art) MARKETING & ADVERTISING Suguna PV Narayan suguna@thefi lmstreetjournal.com Editor’s Diary 5 marketing@thefi lmstreetjournal.com Golly, This Is Bolly 6 Edited, printed and published by Bharathi Sanjaya Pradhan (Tel: 26518253) Extraordinary Relationships for Connect Infotain Pvt Ltd at A-15/16, Nootan Nagar, Station Road, • Actor & Celebrity Wife Kalki Koechlin Breaks Conventions 12 Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050 and printed at Finesse Graphics & • What’s So Special About Your Own? Prints Pvt Ltd, 309, Parvati Premises, Mahesh Bhatt Tears Into Filmland’s Morality 18 Sun Mill Compound, Lower Parel, Absentee Dad Comes Home Mumbai 400 013. • Tel: 24961605 Vikram Bhatt & daughter Krishna in conversation 22 website: www.thefi lmstreetjournal.com “I’ve Been There, Done That!” Ful lled & Preggers – Shipa Shetty 28 Dizzy Fashion Date With Dipannita Sharma 34 Will Jimmy ‘Saheb’ Go Double Steamy This Time? 42 Who’s That Girl? – Aditi Rao Hydari 48 Box-o ce Dossier On The `100 Crore Club 56 : Albert Chettiar Chettiar Albert : : Mrunal Yangad Mrunal : “I Was Irresponsible, Immature And Thoroughly Unprofessional!” Akshaye Khanna Does Some Soul Searching 60 Makeup Styling Letters 66 New Movies 71 Last Shot 78 : Vidya Jagtap • • Jagtap Vidya : : Vickky Idnaani • • Idnaani Vickky : Hair Pic Kalki Koechlin Kalki COVER CREDITS COVER The Film Street Journal February 2012 | 3 •••editor’sDIARY e’ve returned to the 80s alk show host quite literally. In the Twarmed up Bodyguard, Singham the Jan chill in ilk, driven by a one- fi lmdom by getting point agenda of blood- a full-fl edged Wshedding revenge, Agneepath Refreshed introduction to the (as I call it) stormed into the `100 crore many celebrity Indians who met club. Bharathi S Pradhan Likeable: Hrithik Roshan, perfectly her with admiration. Editor, The Film Street Journal overpowering presence and performance Her two-stops in and thank Mumbai: the Bachchan bungalow where she God, no went armed with gifts for Baby B and the switching his Godrej bungalow where Parmeshwar Godrej natural voice assembled the glitterati to chat with Oprah to a rasp Winfrey. the way AB ‘O’, she was here Strangely, after whistle-stop halts in had done grimy Colaba lanes, Agra (the Taj Mahal quite unsuitably in the original. beckoned) and the Jaipur Literary Festival, Oprah called this Hrithik’s Rishi Uncle, delightfully her fi rst and last visit to India. Didn’t like the attention, ‘O’? bang-on as butcher-brutal Rauf Lala in a complete departure t was both happy from his normal charm. Iand heart-tugging Butcher-brutal Rishi Point to note: Kohl-lined Rishi when fi lmmaker Kapoor needs no aids Kapoor uses no external aids to Kalpana Lajmi to pack a wallop pack a wallop, his performance received news does it all. But kids, especially that longtime young boys weaned on partner Dr Bhupen vampires and Voldermont, have Hazarika had loved evil incarnate Kancha been awarded Cheena. The 3-hour-long length the Padma and the no-brain climax is Vibhushan (he also typical 80s – good hero was tipped for the triumphs whatever the odds. highest, the Bharat Impressive: Katrina Kaif’s Ratna but the raunchy moves in ‘Chikni President’s offi ce Chameli’, she’s come a long has apparently way from the frigidly inhibited put a full stop Posthumous Padma honour – ‘Touch me touch me touch me’ to awarding it Bhupen, Kalpana in Race. posthumously). “If Aside: 80s again. Once called only Bhupenda had been alive to receive it himself,” remarked Kalpana wistfully. More wistful: A musical shraddhanjali Shaking her ‘cabaret’, it’s renamed ‘item booty brings in number’ today. organised painstakingly by her in December drew respectful the booty Figures: FSJ’s box-offi ce expert music lovers like Jaya Bachchan, Govind Nihalani and Suniel Wadhwa reports: Shabana Azmi. But will Kalpana be allowed to go up and Estd cost of Agneepath – `80C take the Padma award on beloved Bhupenda’s behalf? Shah Pics: Yogen (making cost `65C, Prints & Publicity `15C). When Bhupen had proposed marriage couple of years ago, Kalpana had said, how does it matter at this stage of our Revenue breakdown lives? That piece of paper seems to matter a lot after he’s ` Estd domestic theatrical collections (lifetime) – 75C no more. Theatrical Overseas (sold to Eros International) – `16C Music Rights – `10C (Sony Music) ou may call us Satellite Rights – `38C (Zee Telefi lms) “YMr and Mrs Opening day collections: Padma Bhushan,” Overtakes Bodyguard collecting chirped Shabana Azmi `23.5C as against Salman’s `21.5C as news came in that Verdict: Has the potential to enter she was being awarded `100C club in the 1st week itself the Padma Bhushan Heart-warming: Amiable dad this year. Javed Akhtar Yash Johar was heartbroken when was similarly honoured Agneepath (1990) had failed. The a few years ago. Well fi gures of Agneepath Refreshed deserved, Akhtar & therefore make it more poignant for Azmi! Karan. And he can take a bow for Talent taking the fl avour of the original nonpareil while whipping up a completely new gets its due – visual banquet 12 years later. Javed, Shabana The Film Street Journal February 2012 | 5 multiple fi lm contract with us. Where’s NARGIS She had a contract for only FAKHRI? one fi lm and once that fi lm was completed, her work permit Whisper: Rockstar girl Nargis Fakhri expired,” remarked Imtiaz. faces a major visa problem and cannot Now all that Nargis needs is a enter India to work here because she’s letter from any fi lmmaker who has of Pakistani origin. a fi rm offer to make her, a letter Truth: Hear it from her discoverer undertaking that he is making a fi lm Imtiaz Ali who is in touch with her on with her. “That will happen soon, a daily basis. “The Pakistani origin bit it shouldn’t be a problem,” Imtiaz only means that she gets interrogated a optimistically stated. In other words, little more than others,” Imtiaz told FSJ. it’s only when someone really wants “She is asked if she has visited Pakistan to make a fi lm with Nargis Fakhri that and the answer is ‘no’.” she can get a work permit again. Background: Nargis’ father is of Until then: Nargis is back in the US. Pakistani origin but he met and married “She has gone home because she her Czech mother in USA where Nargis knows that once she starts another was born. Her parents divorced each fi lm and comes here, she won’t be other when she was barely 6 or 7 years able to go back for maybe another old and Nargis has always been a US two years,” Imtiaz explained. citizen with no links at all to Pakistan. Hmm, anybody in fi lmland ready Obstacle: “Nargis didn’t have a to bell this cat? Hello, Good Morning, Ganpati Allah a Sadhubaba. He touched the Sadhu’s feet saying, ‘Baba, Pranam Walekum’. And that’s how I got my title for this fi lm!” offered Sanjay Mishra. Reminds us of little Aryan, Shah Rukh Khan’s son, who’d coined the name Ganpati Allah for the gods worshipped inside Mannat. Curiously, Mishra’s satirical tongue-in-cheek fi lm Let’s pray together – Sanjay Mishra, Irrfan Khan starring Irrfan Khan boasts of scenes Pranam Walekum, folks! Oops, it’s directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia (of Saheb, got nothing to do with secular feelings Biwi Aur Gangster fame). Now how did being whipped up after the recently that happen, Tishu? Says Tigmanshu, concluded Republic Day. It’s the name “Sanjay is a very good friend and batch of accomplished character actor mate from NSD. When I heard the Guys, who’s getting Pics: Yogen Shah Pics: Yogen Sanjay Mishra’s debut fi lm as director. script of Pranam Walekum I fell in love me a work What’s with the catchy title? “I had a with it immediately.” A classic old boys’ permit? – Muslim friend whom I introduced to reunion! Nargis in USA 6 | The Film Street Journal February 2012 The Pregnant Mukesh Bhatt with the Pause After The bereaved Darshan boys Dirty Picture After Entertainment, Entertainment, Entertainment, it’s going to be Vidya, Vidya, Vidya in Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani. The toast of the year 2011 is determined to keep up the wow work (and the resultant accolades and awards), this time heavier than before. Playing a six-month pregnant Vidya (her name in the fi lm), she is doing the promotional requisites looking pregnant, very pregnant. With the fi rst trailer out, there are two things you’ll get to see throughout the mysterious Kahaani – plenty of grimy Kolkata (the entire fi lm is shot there) and frames full of Vidya (it’s another of her full-on woman-oriented fi lms).