Sallu's girl is back with a bang - Hazel Keech

British model-actress Hazel Keech on why she vamoosed from Bollywood post 'Bodyguard' and her return with item number in 'Maximum'

British model-actress Hazel Keech, who disappeared from the scene after starring with Salman Khan in Bodyguard, is back in action with an item number in an upcoming film.

Known for her friendship with Sallu, the starlet strangely did not cash in on Bodyguard and went missing from B-Town. “I preferred to be extremely picky. I just did not want to do anything that came my way,” she says.

Sonu Sood who features in the film suggested her name for the item number. “It came my way suddenly and I had to shoot barely within a week. But when I heard the track Aa Aante Amalapuram, I loved it. I rehearsed for three days with choreographer Rajiv Surti and Ashley Rebello did the styling. Now that the song is on air everyone is noticing me all over again.”

Salman connection
During the making of Bodyguard, there was buzz that she was Sallu’s girl. “I guess any girl that he recommends has to go through this. I had met him a few years ago and he had told me that whenever there was a suitable role he would remember me.

I had been in touch with him and when Bodyguard happened he found me suitable for the role of Kareena Kapoor’s friend.” Hazel is half-British and half-Indian.



“My mother’s side of the family is based in Mauritius. Her forefathers migrated to Mauritius and made it their home. I don’t have any relatives in India now. But I know Hindi and have been exposed to the Indian customs due to my mom’s side.”

Hazel has been acting since her school days in England and also did bit roles in the first three parts of the Harry Potter series. While holidaying in Mumbai six years ago, she had the opportunity to feature in the Kahin Pe Nigahen music video followed by some modelling.

She was later seen in a Tamil film Billa where her name was credited as Rose Dawn. “The makers gave me that screen name for the film!” she says. But now she prefers to stick to her real name and look for roles beyond item numbers.

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Vidya and Emraan to romance in the rains

By Subhash K Jha

The much talked-about Vidya Balan-Emraan Hashmi comedy has been preponed by a month. The shooting which was supposed to start in September now starts at the beginning of August, and with very good reason.

The director wants to capture his Dirty Picture jodi in the rains.

Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan are all set to recreate thae long-forgotten feeling of romancing Mumbai in the monsoon in Rajkumar Gupta’s Ghanchakkar.

And to think that the director’s desire to drench his star pair in the monoon rains almost didn’t happen.

Emraan had vetoed director Rajkumar Gupta’s original August shooting for Ghanchakkar because of time constraints, thereby ostensibly killing the proposed monsoonal romance with Vidya.

However a very lucky circumstance overrode Emraan’s schedule.

Over to the director Rajkumar Gupta, “I had originally planned an August schedule. And Vidya who is at the moment doing no other film was completely one with my film’s schedule.

But Emraan was busy promoting Raaz 3 in August as the film was supposed to release at the end of August. But now I believe Raaz 3 has been pushed forward, so I got the window to shoot the scenes that I wanted. I guess I am just lucky. ”

The idea is to shoot Vidya and Emraan on the rain-soaked streets of Mumbai with secret cameras.

That’s how Gupta had shot Rajeev Khandelwal in Aamir. But to shoot two popular superstars like Vidya and Emraan with hidden cameras requires herculian amounts of courage.

Laughs Gupta, “I agree. But both are used to shooting in the crowded outdoors. If Vidya could brave the Kolkata crowds in Kahaani and the Delhi junta in my film No One Killed Jessica then Mumbai would be a cakewalk in comparison. The important thing is, God has been generous. Thanks to Emraan’s reshuffled appointment diary I am able to shoot as and when I had originally planned.

Two male actors from theatre are being finalized.

Informs Gupta, “We are looking at new faces from theatre and from other sources. We’ve auditioned dozens. With Vidya and Emraan in the cast I need untried talent to balance off their huge stardom. Besides Emraan and Vidya there are two major characters, both male, plus dozens of supporting parts. ”

Gupta hopes to wrap up the entire shooting by December. The film releases in the first quarter. “We haven’t got a release date as yet. But I am hoping it would be the 8th of any month in the first quarter of 2013. You see, my first film Aamir released on the 6th and my second film No One Killed Jessica released on the 7th. ”

And would there be a profusion of romantic songs in Amit Trivedi’s soundtrack?

“Wait and see, what Vidya and Emraan do in Ghanchakkar would be very different from what they did in The Dirty Picture. ”

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Love Making Scenes Expert "Sunny Leone"

Sunny Leone Is Expert Of Love Making Scenes

Here we talking about Sunny Leone's love making scenes in movie JISM 2.

By Subhash K Jha

Back from locations in Sri Lanka shooting for the garma-garam new Pooja Bhatt erotic thriller Jism 2 Randeep Hooda is hellbent on proving that the Bhatt protégé Emraan Hashmi doesn’t have a monopoly over erotic activities in the films produced by the Bhatts.

Randeep, we hear, is giving his all—and we mean ALL—to the love-making scenes with Sunny Leone in Jism 2.

Says a source from the location, “For Randeep it’s very simple logic, really. He is a method actor. When he played a sozzled cop in Jannat 2 he was so much into the bottle that he had to kick the addiction at the end of the film. Now when he’s got scorching love scenes with a lovemaking expert Sunny Leone, Randeep has pulled out all stops to make the sex scenes look authentic. ”

Apparently when Randeep was asked how he’d cope with Ms Leone who is an expert in love-making on camera, Randeep retorted, “I can teach her a trick or two. ”

Randeep refutes the raunchy remark and confesses, “All I said was, ‘She’s not the only expert’. And I maintain that. I am certainly making every effort to be as convincing in Jism 2 as I was in Jannat 2. ”

In Jism 2 Randeep plays a character named Kabir, the same name was given to John Abraham in Jism. Randeep plays an expert lover, a first-rate shooter and, curiously a Cello player.

Quite a lethal blend.



Explains Randeep, “Quite often you find these ruthless assassins have an artistic side to them. So my super-talented director Pooja Bhatt decided that my character kills and plays the cello in his free time. ”

Randeep of course took Cello lessons and plays the instrument well enough to keep his Jism 2 team in Goa regaled.

Says Randeep, “Yes, I can play the cello and I play it here for those who care to hear me. ”

Nowadays after the resounding response to his performance in Jannat 2 Randeep gets a lot of attention.

Says the actor philosophically, “While I accept all the praise gratefully and gleefully I can’t allow it to go to my head. I didn’t allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn’t allow success to bloat my head. I can’t hold on to the praise I’m getting for Jannat 2.

It will bog me down. I believe in an ancient fable about a seaside monastery where the monks created the most beautiful figures with sand and pebbles and the moment one figure was made they destroyed it and moved on to another.

I too need to re-invent my skills constantly in an unbroken stream. ”



For the role of the angst-laden cop in Jannat 2 Randeep worked double hard on his dialogues. “It was Jean-Luc Godard who said there are two performances by every screen actor. One that the audiences see and the other that they hear. When I finished what I had to do on screen I went back to my character and gave his enotions a voice. ”

For now it would be only edgy gritty characters for Randeep. “I tried the light comic stuff in films like Love Khichdi and Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye. It didn’t work. When my films were run down to the ground, why should I not tap my forte when I finally on my feet again?Don’t worry, there’s plenty of angst in here. ”

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