Gere called Shilpa twice a day

The kissing controversy not withstanding, Richard Gere has been calling actress Shilpa Shetty twice a day to make sure she is coping with the scandal surrounding their public kiss. The actor embraced Shetty on TV during an AIDS awareness event in Delhi on April 7, causing uproar in the country and issuing of a warrant for Gere's arrest.

The Pretty Woman star has since apologised for the impromptu kiss but he's still worried about the problems his actions have caused the Bollywood beauty. Shetty says, "He was so worried about me, he called me every day - sometimes twice! It was mortifying for him to have hit the headlines over something like this, but he was so generous about it all and kept calling me to make sure I was all right. He was genuinely very concerned about me. That is the kind of man he is."

Sneha Bypasses Sundar C offer...

Sneha bypasses Sundar C offer



Tamil Actress Sneha has refused to act with director turned actor Sundar C in his next film Ayutham Seivom. The film will be directed by Udhayan, the director of film Perarasu, which had Vijayakanth in the lead role. After churning out a hit in film Thalainagaram, Sundar C has become a very busy actor in Kollywood. At present, he is acting in Tamil projects with directors Kicha, Shakthi Chidambaram, Suraj and Vincent Selva.

He is so busy doing others films that he has no time to even consider directing his own movie. Now Sundar has signed for a new film with the Saimeera Media group. The producer of the Ayutham Seivom has approached Sneha to act opposite Sundar in the film. Sneha asked for a pay of 25 lakhs – 10 lakhs more than what she is usually paid. Normally, she takes home 15 lakhs per film.

After considering it, the producer agreed to give her 25 lakhs. But once she heard that Sundar C would be the actor playing the role of the male lead actor, Sneha categorically refused to act with him, in any project for that matter. In fact, Sundar directed Sneha in one of her earlier films Chinna in which she acted alongside Arjun.

At present Sneha hasn't signed any films in Tamil. After Pallikoodam, no other director or producer has approached her for new films. Any scope for gossip here?

Trisha wants to romance Pawan

No doubt Trisha is a huge star. In fact, she is the undisputed number one heroine in Tollywood with hit films like Varsham, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, Athadu, Stalin and others under her belt. No wonder people simply adore her because she creates magic on screens. However, this very lovable lady has a secret desire in life and that is to romance actor Pawan Kalyan.

Well, this pretty babe is known for speaking her heart and mind out. This time, she has revealed that she likes Pawan. “I am very happy for the success of Aadavari Maatalaku Ardhale Verule. Especially I have got 100 per cent marks for my character in the second half of the film. It is a good experience to work with Venkatesh. I am a die-hard fan of Pawan Kalyan. I like him very much. I would like to do a full-length character with him,” said the actress.

Now, the ball is with Pawan, as Trisha has shout out her wish for all to Know. Can you hear Pawan?

No nights out for Tanushree

Many of us might have come across crazy people who leave their home to achieve dreams. Just like Bunty aur Bubbly, since her childhood our former Miss India-turned- Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta too had a dream to become an actress, but the most interesting part is that she comes from a very conservative family where she was not even allowed to wear a skirt! So how come she has grown into such a bold actress over time? Here goes the story.

When she asked her parents to let her come to Mumbai, her parents laid a condition before her saying that that she will have to top in exams. Being good at studies, Tanushree came first in her exams and then moved to Pune for further studies. There she silently and secretly began modeling. She tried her best to conceal this from her parents, but as luck would have had it, her parents came to know about it.

Nevertheless, Tanushree some how managed to convince her parents and won the Miss India pageant. Later, when she did Aashiq Banaya Aapne, where she had few bold scenes, with ultra revealing clothes on in the whole movie, her parents refused to talk to her for about four months!

Undaunted, Tanushree continued with her acting and now when her parents have come down to stay with her in Mumbai, she has started feeling that her freedom is being curbed! As they have started putting restrictions on Tanushree's late nights and other issues, she began to feel uncomfortable. But now the lass is trying to be a good girl by listening to her parents as she has achieved what she wanted to be, disclosed a close source.

So now we know the reason behind Tanushree denying any bold scenes in Raj Kanwar's Raqeeb. But is Tanushree afraid of her parents now? Don't you think that it does not matter any more as she has already established the image of a bold actress by agreeing to do revealing scenes in her previous films. Anyways, hope that she becomes a good girl at last!

Gere's Bollywood Kiss Gets More Appealing

Actress Shilpa Shetty is looking to bring the fallout from her impromptu PDA with Richard Gere a little closer to home.

The Bollywood star has petitioned India's Supreme Court to halt any current proceedings and transfer the pending obscenity case against her and Gere from Jaipur to Mumbai, where she lives, so that she can better fight the charges, Shetty's attorney said Monday.

"The complaints are a complete abuse of the due process of law," Anand Grover, who is only representing Shetty in this matter, told Reuters. "She is being victimized because she is a well-known personality."

Judge Dinesh Gupta, who has since been transferred to a different post several hours away, issued a warrant for Gere's arrest and summoned Shetty to appear in court after the two shared a sweeping smooch at an AIDS awareness event in New Delhi last month, prompting outrage from conservative Hindu groups.

Gere, a frequent traveler to India, has since publicly apologized for any offense he may have caused, while also attributing the fallout to a small group of extreme right-wingers. Shetty, meanwhile, called the people who went so far as to burn posters of the actors in effigy a "lunatic fringe" that "definitely doesn't represent the symbol of my country."

"It is sad that Gere had to apologize for no fault of his," the actress, who made a splash in Britain, as well, this year by winning the latest season of Celebrity Big Brother, told reporters last month.

"All he had done was enacted a scene from his film Shall We Dance to entertain the truckers at the AIDS awareness event. It was a natural cute and loving impromptu gesture by Gere which was blown out of proportion due to improper projection by the gossip-hungry television media."

The kiss, seen by only so many people live, was re-splashed all over the place by at least five local TV stations.

Grover said that the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on Tuesday. Gere was free to leave the country last month and it's unclear how a change of jurisdiction would affect him, if India's legal system sees fit to press charges.

Despite the to-do, some legal officials have called the obscenity charges ridiculous and an embarrassment for their country.