Amitabh Bachchan will be playing legendary tiger hunter and conservationist, Jim Corbett in Priyadarshan’s forthcoming movie, “Grrr”.

Priyan had this to say about casting Big B in the role of Jim Corbett:

he could envisage none other than Big B in the role of the fearless Jim Corbett

The film will be about the man-eating tigers of Sunderbans and is going to be a thriller.

Priyadarshan has so far directed the Big B only in commercials and this will be his first directing the Shahenshah in a movie.

Interesting to note here that Priyadarshan’s last outing, Billu (Barber), had the Badshah of Bollywood: Shahrukh Khan in it.

Here’s a great article I found on Beauty’s 80 Bloom blog that is displaying rare pictures of the King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan! You have to see the pics to believe that this is really Shahrukh. Plus, you get to see Shahrukh’s parents in the pictures.

Yesterday, 27th Of July 2008, was the finale of Kya Aap Panchvi Paas Se Tez Hain?. For those who don’t know, Panchvi Paas is the Indian version of “Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader?”.

Coming back to the finale, Shahrukh Khan had none other than our very own Lalu Prasad Yadav for company. It was really a great show and had Lalu chugging through the whole episode and answering all the questions without much hesitation.

Or perhaps the show’s questions were setup that way? Who knows. Anyway, I pretty much enjoyed the show and was thoroughly entertained by our very own Railway Minister who has an ear to the ground!

With TRPs or ratings running low for the show mostly due to the Indian Premier League debuting side by side, I am doubtful if the show will return for a second season. Although SRK was optimistic about it and was saying that this is the season finale episode.

Budgeted at a whopping US$ 25 million (or Rs 1 Billion), SRK is all set to make India’s costliest movie. The movie is a fantasy based subject which will have lot’s of CGI and VFX.

It will be produced by Shahrukh’s home production, Red Chillies Entertainment, and directed by Anubhav Sinha of Tere Bin and Dus fame.

I hope the movie is a good one and lives up to the hype.

It seems Bollywood’s big names, fascinated by the medium of keeping a blog and the number of viewers it attracts not mentioning the revenue they bring in (what ever the cut of the star is), are all using the medium to vent their ire against each other and then post an apology (albeit without any sense of moral guilt) to rectify their earlier post which had spewed the venom.

Whether it be the Perfectionist Aamir Khan or the Big B, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, I believe people should avoid reacting without any provocation. Even if provoked, they should be wise in replying since words are twisted. In UP, there is a saying that goes, Ek Chup Hazaar Chup, which when translated means, “One silence is equal a thousand words”.

These previously respected stars have started not a blog containing personal rants or logs containing the details of their lives, but a knowingly personal blog of war. In their bid to keep the blog interesting, these people are using unethical tactics to attract users.

I must tell people here that even though I am not a big fan of Shahrukh Khan or SRK, I hate mud slinging.

I hope better sense prevails and the blogs of war are shutdown. Or At the least focussed back on the topics that it originally intended to serve, let the people interact with the day to day workings of their favorite actors (male or female).

Oh my God, It’s gonna rain stars and cricket this summer, if this is anything to go by. Have a look at our man Shahrukh Khan shaking his money maker in this video for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Ye!!!! Go KRs Go….

Watch Shahrukh Khan’s IPL Team, The Kolkata Knight Riders show some attitude in this great promo video.

Click here to watch the Kolkata Knight Riders Promo Video.

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Seems like Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna finally have a reason to smile. They have just overtaken the King Of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan’s biggest hit (of last year and which is being billed as the biggest hit of the decade) Om Shanti Om as far as the first week’s collections are concerned. RACE is a big hit already (and it is just the beginning).

The movie Race has captured the imagination of the people across the table. It is grossing well all over the country in all territories of India. That’s a piece of terrific news for the directors, Abbas and Mustan who are undoubtedly the thriller specialists of India. Abbas-Mustan must surely be rejoicing especially after their last two outings behind the megaphone were all but successful (remember: 36, Chinatown and Naqaab ?).

Well, good news for us thriller fans. I personally am a fan of their style of film-making wherein there ain’t really no clean protagonist in there stories thus bringing in an element of excitement and providing us with an edge of the seat entertainment.

If this wasn’t the season of exams, the film would have grossed atleast 60% more on the first week collections of OSO.

Well, recently there’s been a lot of activity between our favorite stars and here’s an article that sums up the (in)famous stars’ wars for your (wicked) pleasure. If anybody remembers the Shahrukh vs. Amitabh, Aamir vs. Amitabh, Kareena vs. John or even the most recent Aamir vs. Shahrukh.

Now, now, people. Let’s not get dirty, OK! Let’s not be so wicked that we enjoy what these people have to fight about. But, then it’s better to enjoy all this rather than be left out.

Ok, guys and gals. This one is for those of you who wanted to set some cool song/music as your “Ring Back Tone” or “Caller Tune” as we in India know it. Actually an interesting thing happened today. I had setup (finally!) a caller tune on my Mobily number here in Saudi Arabia with a cool new song from the Shahrukh Khan movie, Om Shanti Om.

Anyway, after I set it today, my fiancée called me and found out that I had set a caller tune (for her sake of course!) and then she decided to set up one on her own mobile number (from Airtel) and then called the Hello Tunes number that the Customer Care exec. gave to her.