Priyadarshan’s Tez features Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut in important roles. The film being a thriller has some adventurous stunt sequences and in one of those Sameera had to do white water rafting after Biking, she earlier done for the film in London.

A crew member of Tez told Mid-Day, “Sameera was supposed to shoot a scene under water. We all knew of her fear of water so the director thought of doing the scene with a body double.

But Sameera is a such an adventure junkie that she took it up as a challenge to shoot the scene herself. We were shocked when Sam besides rafting also agreed to do the underwater scene in the freezing temperature.”

“She stayed in the freezing cold water for 15-odd minutes pulling off the sequence to perfection. But when she came out she couldn’t stand on her feet and her body had gone completely numb.

The unit got a bit worried but thankfully Sam got back to being normal in an hour. We gave her a lot of hot drinks and warm clothes.”

Sam seems into some solid form!

Ra.One features the Bollywood Badshah in a ‘Superhero’ avatar while David Dhawan’s ‘Rascals’ looks at the funnier side of Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt. The poster of the film is showing this Diwali will once again have another comedy crapper featuring Ajay.

The producers of ‘Rascals’ were quite thoughtful before deciding to pitch their film against a mighty ‘Ra.One’ but they reached the conclusion of releasing the film at the time of Diwali with the 5 day weekend which can be said to be rewarding and will not hamper much to the future of the film.

Shahrukh Khan has a great track record over Diwali release. His earlier films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Veer Zaara, Don and Om Shanti Om garnered great rewards and proved to be box-office hits. On the other side Ajay’s earlier releases on Diwali like Golmaal Returns and All The Best proved successful.

On every scale both the films are going to get their share of audience and with a five day weekend, they will not miss any of the film.

Ajay who is playing a cop in the film has some fist flows. It just shows the angry side of the silent assassin.

It is furious, fistful and fast!!

Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kajal Aggarwal and Prakash Raj

Director: Rohit Shetty

Release Date: 22 July, 2011

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The FWICE members have demanded the payment from the producer (Reliance) to let the filming of Rohit Shetty’s Singham to continue.

Prem Singh Thakur, chairperson, vigilance department, FWICE told Mid-Day, “We stopped filming until the workers are paid. The producers (Reliance) owe the workers over R 45 lakh. It is a small amount for the producers, but a substantial amount in wages for the workers.”

Sanjeev Lamba, CEO, Reliance Big Pictures, admits there is a payment issue. “But our last schedule ended some time ago. The shooting was not stopped.”

But he adds, “There was a confusion over the payment between the workers and the art director. We’ve now cleared the misunderstanding and also a large sum of the due money.”

As the two having a good rapport between them, Ajay has asked Salman to attach the Singham promo with Ready which will hit the theaters on June 3, the star then called the producer of the film Bhushan Kumar and asked him to look into the request.

Says an insider to Mid-Day, “Everyone knows that Salman goes all out to promote the films he loves. Many people including Aamir Khan’s Delhi Belly, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobaara, Ghayal 2 and Chillar Party have attached their promos to Ready’s prints.”

Bhushan says, “It’s a pleasure attaching Ajay’s Singham with Ready. Salman bhai put in the request. Ajay has also done a cameo in Ready. All the makers of the top films releasing in the next few months have wanted to attach their promos with Ready.”

Now you know why Salman is called ‘Bhai’?

If Aamir tattooed all over his body to remember what he has to do in ‘Ghajni’, Ajay has no plans of doing so but he has got one tattoo on the left side of his chest. Well, Ajay has gone miles in his acting and this could give him a little more to wave his fist in the air.

He might set another trend for keeping mustaches among men, girls you will have tough time ahead!

Sources in the industry say that Shahid has been texting Ajay requesting him to change the date of ‘Singham’.

Ajay could have bow and considered Shahid’s request but director Rohit is determined to release his film on the schedule date considering the fact that he has announced it long long before than duo father-son have thought of Mausam’s release.

We just hope Rohit and Pankaj sit down and sort out the issue and let everyone eat their pie!

David Dhawan whose most of the films come under the comedy genre worked most of the time with Govinda as the leading man but it seems ‘Chi Chi’ has lost his timing. It left no other option to David and he left his most trusted horse in the race to give space to not so funny ‘Ajay Devgn’, who can be seen tattooed along Sanjay Dutt who is also sporting tattoos but is wearing diapers.

Sanjay is also making his debut as a producer with the film. The film’s other stars include Kangana Ranaut, Chunky Pandey, Lisa Haydon and Arjun Rampal.

Before these ‘Rascals’ make their entry into the theaters, laugh out loud seeing their face on the poster.

The Karbonn Mobile 17th Star Screen Awards organized at MMRDA Ground in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex on January 6, 2011 has made one thing clear that only those films deserve an award that serves a meaningful cinema to the audience rather than big budget and big canvas.

If it wasn’t the case, Udaan couldn’t get the Best Film Award of the year and Vidya Balan begged Best Actress Award for her sensuous role in Ishqiya and Katrina Kaif went away with the Best actress popular choice Award for Rajneeti and Tees Maar Khan.

However, the most interesting award of the evening was the ‘Best Actor Award’ where the two Khan’s had a face-off but Shah Rukh Khan won the Screen Award for Best Actor Popular Choice for My Name Is Khan and Salman Khan too had his share with Screen Award for Best Actor Male for Jury choice for his Robin Hood character in Dabangg.

The most dominating film in the Karbonn Mobile 17th Star Screen Awards was Abhinav Khashyap’s ‘Dabangg’ with 7 Awards, including Screen Awards for Most Promising Newcomer Female Sonakshi Sinha. Dabangg was closely followed by two low budget films Udaan and Ishqiya with 4 awards each.

The List of The awards is given below:

• Screen Award for Best Film: Udaan
• Screen Award for Best Director: Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan)
• Screen Award for Best Actor Popular Choice: Shahrukh Khan (My Name Is Khan)
• Screen Award for Best Actor Male for Jury choice: Salman Khan (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Actor (Female): Vidya Balan (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best Actor Female for popular choice: Katrina Kaif (Rajneeti, Tees Maar Khan)
• Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer Male: Ranveer Singh (Band Baaja Baraat)
• Screen Awards Most Promising Newcomer Female: Sonakshi Sinha (Dabangg)
• Screen Most Promising Director: Maneesh Sharma (Band Baaja Baraat)
• Ramnath Goenka Memorial Award: My Name Is Khan
• Screen Award for Negative Role (Male/Female): Ronit Roy (Udaan)
• Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role (Male/Female): Sanjay Mishra (Phas Gaye Re Obama)
• Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Male: Arshad Warsi (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Female: Shernaz Patel (Guzaarish)
• Screen Award for Best Child Artiste: Ayaan Barodia (Udaan)
• Screen Award for Best Dialogue: Habib Faisal (Band Baaja Baraat)
• Screen Award for Best Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali and Prakash Jha (Rajneeti)
• Screen Award for Best Story: Amit Rai (Road to Sangam)
• Screen Award for Best Performer: Ajay Devgn (Golmaal 3)
• Best Popular Music: Pritam (Once Upon a Time in Mumbai)
• Screen Award for Most Popular Music: Pritam (Once Upon a Time in Mumbai)
• Screen Award for Best New Talent in Music: Mamta Sharma for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Music: Sajid Wajid (Dabangg), Shankar Ehsan Loy (My Name Is Khan)
• Screen Award for Best Lyrics: Gulzar for Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best Playback Singer Male: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji (Ishqiya)
• Screen Award for Best playback singer female: Mamta Sharma for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Choreography: Farah Khan for Munni Badnaam (Dabangg)
• Screen Award for Best Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterji (Guzaarish)
• Screen Awards for Best Action: Master Vijayan (Dabangg)
• Star Screen Special Jury Award for spectacular cutting of age technology: Robot

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