Posts Tagged ‘Anil Kapoor’

Sonam Kapoor has enjoyed a pretty successful year so far, and happens to be keeping quite a busy schedule starring in films along side Shahid Kapoor and Akshay Kumar. However, the latest news surrounding the Bollywood actress is that she may be headed across the world to Hollywood.

Apparently while in Los Angeles, Anil Kapoor(Sonam’s father) made connections including striking up a business deal with Hollywood funny-man Ben Stiller. The two will be working on launching a production company together, but Ben’s current company is casting for a new film.

After seeing some of Sonam’s work, Ben had expressed interest in getting the actress for a role in ’30 Minutes Or Less’. The movie is said to have a $30 million budget, and is to be directed by Reuben Fleischer.

The film will star  Jesse Eisenberg, who is most known for his role in the hit movie of last summer, ‘Adventureland’,  and even though the actress has a busy schedule sources say she will do her best to find time for this opportunity.

Latest reports suggest that the youthful actress, Sonam Kapoor, will star in an upcoming Bollywood flick that is supposed to be a remake of Hollywood’s ‘Freaky Friday’.

Sonam, who will be staring in the heavily hyped move ‘I Hate Luv Stories,’ will be playing the same role in the movie as Lindsay Lohan did in the American version. The movie is about a mother and daughter who end up getting trapped in each other’s bodies, which in the end gives them a peak into each other’s hectic lives.

The movie will be produced by the actress’ father, Anil Kapoor, and had stem from a meeting between Anil and Disney representatives.  The original movie also starred Jamie Lee Curtis as the mother, and Anil already has Kirron Kher in mind for that role.

The movie was a huge stepping stone for the young Lindsay Lohan, unfortunately, the actress took a path of destruction later in her career. However, everyone must admit that her career started with a bang, and Sonam will want to follow in Lindsay’s footsteps in that aspect.

It seems as though the Kapoor family has finally given in; at one time Anil and Sonam Kapoor refused to be paired on screen together, but that is no longer the case.

The father-daughter combination have been offered plenty of roles; however, only Aditya Chopra’s film has appealed to the duo. Apparently the other roles just didn’t seem right for the Kapoors, “ this is the first time that I’ve liked something which has been offered to both of us,” explained Anil.

It has yet to be determined if the two will be playing father and daughter on screen, however, it will be interesting to see the kind of dynamic the two will have. Working with family always has it’s potential for disaster, and so can sharing the spotlight with those close to you. We’ll see if Sonam can surpass her father.

Boney Kapoor’s newest film ‘Mr. India 2′, starring Sridevi and Anil Kapoor, is set to be made with the capabilities of 3-D! Boney has stressed the importance of being ahead in the technological since, and has made this film all the buzz in Bollywood.

“I want to take this film to the highest level. 3D would be a terrific experience with this kind of subject. We were toying with the idea for a long time, but finalised things only a few days ago,” Boney said. However, i can’t help but wonder if this was the best cast to showcase in 3-D?

The pair of Sridevi and Anil Kapoor just seems to be less enticing than a Hrithik Roshan/Katrina Kaif combo for example. Salman Khan does add some fantastic skill in acting to the cast of this movie, but I think that without Salman this film would not be as promising as it seems to be. Let’s hope Salman can hold his own!

While I can’t begrudge the success of Anil Kapoor, I most certainly can cringe at some of his past antics. Acting like a rowdy sports spectator at the Golden Globes, lifting up Regis Philbin on an appearance with “Regis and Kelly” and recent news (which may or may not be true) that Kapoor is going all Hollywoody.

Spicezee is reporting that the 24 actor spent a lot of dough on a 42 feet long golden yellow vanity bus. 2 crore to be exact.

Kapoor even bragged that the Tata manufactured vanity bus which includes mahogany wood and exotic upholstery took a year to make.  While we wouldn’t want Mr. Kapoor to be uncomfortable, it sure does solidify India’s Regis as a meanie (on screen of course).