On a Date with Anushka Sharma!

I can bet my money on this: If she is fatigued in an interview, she will never betray it and if an eager, insistent clot of journos are pushed towards her, she'll somehow manage to greet each well-wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless surge of elated surprise on her part: "Oh, it's you! You're the one". To achieve this effect, Anushka must appear, at every minute, to be not only the most interesting person in the room but also the most interested. She knows it isn't easy, but does it well even at a tender age of 21 and just one film old. People walk away feeling glowy, sated and privileged. I was one of them when I recall the first time meeting her.

I always knew at the back of my head that she will be a good company on a hot Saturday afternoon. I get a call from her publicist. We are supposed to meet at the JW Marriott around 3.30pm. I enter the hotel lobby, then call her publicist who takes me to her room.


But before we are about to enter Anushka's room, I clarify, "Are you sure she isn't tired after filming?" To my surprise, the publicist answers, "She's been waiting for your arrival since long. She is excited". "Am I late?" I quiz. "No. Just in time", came the answer. The door opens and there she was standing beside the huge glass window staring down the beach from her hotel room. The room brightens up with her smile, she offers on my arrival and even though she has been working since 7 in the morning, she still looks full of life, and that's evident from what she is wearing - a pink tube top going well with her blue rugged jeans. Pink, because it resembles her illustrious smile. I greet her and gift her. "What's this?" she questions. "A surprise gift to a surprisingly beautiful date", I reply. Like all my previous dates, she too tears the gift wrap apart and appreciates the brownish coloured sea shells which she unwraps from a separate pack and places very carefully on the triangle shaped candle stand. She adds, "This will go somewhere special in my new house which I've just bought". The last thing you want as a journalist is a drive-through 'date' interview that tends to give an actress the distant cordiality of a flight stewardess, smiling but with the defences firmly in place. Not Anushka, though. She's warm and frank and happy to talk with her big smile going places. She is ambitious and cheerful, capable of glamour but also expressive of a kind of a jolting common sense. She has a strong professional ethic, which she somehow balances with her domestic life. Within minutes....the chieftain takes over and I listen.

Colin Farrell’s Girlfriend Pressure to Marry Soon in this Winter

Irish actor Colin Farrell is in pressure. Colin Farrell's girlfriend Alicja Bachleda is in fact making him to propose to her and get married soon in this winter. Alicja Bachleda is expecting her first child with the Irish actor and wants to marry him before the baby is born due to her family's strong religious beliefs.

Alicja Bachleda, 26, and Irish hunk Farrell, 33, met on the set of their Neil Jordan-directed movie “Ondine” back in January, and the two started a relationship.

"Alicja's parents in Poland met Colin and liked him a lot. But they are Catholic and very old fashioned. They are putting pressure on Colin to make her an honest woman as soon as possible," source close to them quoted.

Alicja Bachleda’s child will be Colin's second child. Farrell has a 6-year-old son from a previous relationship with model Kim Bordenave.

Kim Kardashian in sexy Water Goddess shoot

Kim Kardashian, 28, could be seen covered in sparkling silver clothes, as she stood in the water and later posed on the beach. American socialite Kim Kardashian’s these photographs is named as Water Goddess.

In the meantime, Kim Kardashian was talking about the sex tape, which brought her to fame. “I was devastated. But when something negative happens, I pick myself up and move on and I don’t make the same mistake twice,” Kim quoted.

Robert Pattinson and Rupert Grint are the most talked competitors

Robert Pattinson and Rupert Grint are in a cold war. They both are running for the role of Prince Harry.


Peter Kosminsky is directing a film based on the life of Prince Harry and titled The Spare. Peter Kosminsky quoted “I think it's reasonable that we don't want to rule out Americans, although there's a very strong cadre of British actors, too.” He said about the story, “I feel a sense of compassion for the guy. His parents break up in the most spectacularly public way, his mother dies in the most tragic and, again, public way and everything is picked over."

It is rumours that Rupert Grint and Robert Pattinson are amongst the leading competitors to play Prince Harry though the makers of the film have not finalised the cast.

This movie is about the high and low points of the Prince’s life, including the death of his mother, the Princess of Wales, and his time serving in Afghanistan. David Aukin and Hal Vogel are going to produce it.

Katrina Kaif is more happy with Ranbir Kapoor.

Though Katrina Kaif has worked with the biggies of Bollywood, she is pretty cool and doesn't get carried away by it. In all her earlier assignments, she has mostly worked with the seasoned artistes, but now in Rajkumar Santoshi's forthcoming comedy AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI Katrina Kaif, for the first time, will be seen sharing screen space with the actor of her age - Ranbir Kapoor.

It seems that Katrina Kaif is more happy to have worked with Ranbir Kapoor and also finds it bit relaxing. Smiles and says the pretty damsel, ''Till date whenever I reported on the sets of any of my films, I was accustomed to saying good morning sir! Thank God! While working in AJAB PREM I never had to do anything like that. Jokes apart, when you work with the people of same age-group, you automatically get comfortable. Ranbir Kapoor is a chilled out guy, never takes himself seriously and doesn't have any ego problems. So it was very easy and natural to get along with him.''

Director Rajkumar Santoshi is quite secretive, rather diplomatic about his actors' real and reel relationship. He lately Director Rajkumar Santoshi proved it when asked about the on and off screen chemistry of Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif . Santoshi added, ''Well, I can't really go about revealing much about their chemistry, both on and off-screen when they are around. However, if this question is put to me in isolation, I have no qualms to answer the same.''

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'Saturday Night Live': Lady Gaga, Madonna, the s-bomb drop, Letterman jokes, and a little funniness

Ryan Reynolds may have been the host of Saturday Night Live last night, but music guest Lady Gaga provided the most notable, if not the most entertaining, moments. Carrying on what is now a mini-tradition, Lady Gaga said a four-letter word (”Dancing to that s— on the radio”) during her first song. She also appeared in one of Kenan Thompson’s periodic house-music sketches. Gaga and surprise-guest Madonna conducted a little cat-fight that had less to do with humor than with Madonna literally trying to fend off the latest usurper to her dance-music-queen status:

Other celeb sightings: Scarlett Johansson during a fake-commercial for “porcelain fountains,” and Elijah Wood in an Andy Samberg Digital Short, a hiphop parody that was arguably the funniest thing of the night.


'Saturday Night Live': Lady Gaga, Madonna, the s-bomb drop, Letterman jokes, and a little funniness
by Ken Tucker
Categories: Current Affairs, Fall TV 2009, Last Night, Review, TV Last Night, Television

Ryan Reynolds may have been the host of Saturday Night Live last night, but music guest Lady Gaga provided the most notable, if not the most entertaining, moments. Carrying on what is now a mini-tradition, Lady Gaga said a four-letter word (”Dancing to that s— on the radio”) during her first song. She also appeared in one of Kenan Thompson’s periodic house-music sketches. Gaga and surprise-guest Madonna conducted a little cat-fight that had less to do with humor than with Madonna literally trying to fend off the latest usurper to her dance-music-queen .

Other celeb sightings: Scarlett Johansson during a fake-commercial for “porcelain fountains,” and Elijah Wood in an Andy Samberg Digital Short, a hiphop parody that was arguably the funniest thing of the night:

Yes, SNL did acknowledge the David Letterman scandal via two jokes by Seth Meyers on “Weekend Update” — the 48 Hours producer attempted a Stupid Human Trick, he said, and after sex, Letterman says “Stay tuned for Craig Ferguson.” Ha. Ha.

At this point in its history, SNL is more about itself than about the comedy. New cast member Jenny Slate was present, with no harm done after her accidental expletive last week. Darrell Hammond’s appearance as Arnold Schwarzenegger during “Update” was a good performance, but more notable for the fact that Hammond, who no longer appears in the opening credits of the show, turned up at all. New regular Nasim Pedrad was amusing as the wife of Fred Armisen’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The most elaborately produced sketch was “So You Committed A Crime And You Think You Can Dance,” which contained some taped elements. The only time I laughed, though, was upon seeing Bill Hader’s silent Phil Spector as a judge.

Bonus points to a well-thought-out PBS parody in which supposed actors from Oslo (including Reynolds, Armisen, and Kristen Wiig) performed, excellently, a cop drama with accents that invoked yet surpassed old “Wild and Crazy Guy” sketches. Points detracted for the Family Feud sketch about John and Mackenzie Phillips whose only laughs came from Jason Sudeikis’ slick host.

But it all came back to Lady Gaga: Her second song featured her wearing what looked like part of a big Slinky. For her, the spectacle is more important than the music (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Still: The biggest suspense of the night turned out to be whether she could sit at the piano wearing her getup, and the awkward moment when she had to take off her sunglasses in order to continue (”Hello, SNL,” she vamped weakly).

Even the final comic moment was reserved for Gaga — dressed in her bubble-suit, she, not Reynolds, got to have a precious few moments of screen-time shared with exec producer Lorne Michaels. Like I said, SNL is all about the inside-maneuvering of SNL than it is about comedy so far this season.

What did you think?

(Here’s the Lady Gaga “s—” performance of “Paparazzi”: warning: language)

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