Sonu Sood talks about Salman

Actor Sonu Sood, who plays a pivotal role in ’Dabangg’, says he had fun shooting with Salman Khan who was like a guiding force.

’Salman is a very cool person. He always encourages you. We used to work out together, so he used to tell me a lot about exercising and fitness. On the whole, since he is a more experienced actors, he was like a guiding force for me,’ Sonu told IANS.

The two actors also had a little game going on during the shoot of the film.

’I am a vegetarian and Salman a non-vegetarian. He really wants me to convert to a non-vegetarian, so a lot of times he used to secretly put chicken or mutton pieces on my plate and would tell me to eat it.

’Similarly, I used to force him to eat more vegetarian dishes. So this game of ours used to keep carrying on,’ he added.

’Dabangg’ is slated to release Sep 10.

SRK and Akki to teams up

Now, it is heard that the superstar duo would be producing a film together and star in it. That would be something to watch out for! Two of the most energetic performers in Bollywood coming together in a film would send the boxoffice into a tizzy, for sure!

The bond between Akki and SRK grew stronger when the latter openly praised the former’s ’Tees Maar Khan’, being directed by none other than Farah Khan. As we know, Farah and SRK had moved away from each other recently as she had signed on Akki for her ’TMK’.

Now, if reports are to be believed, Shah Rukh is using the good offices of Akki to mend fences with Farah, who had been King Khan’s very close friend for long.

Mysshkin and John join hands together

Mysshkin, who is a name to be reckoned with in Kollywood, will soon be making his big Bollywood debut with a John Abraham film. The director turned into an actor in the highly-anticipated film Nandhalala (which is yet to see the light of day) when he could not find a suitable actor for the protagonist’s role.

Mysshkin, who is busy with the post-production of his next, Yuddham Sei with Cheran, spoke to DC about his Hindi venture in this exclusive interview.

This still-untitled Bollywood film is being produced by UTV Motion Pictures and has John Abraham playing the lead. “Bringing John on board did not happen all of a sudden. I have been interacting with him for quite some time now,” is how he began the conversation. Mysshkin described it as, “A full-on action film in which the story happens over 12 hours. John watched my earlier Tamil film Anjaathe on DVD, to get to know more about my style of filmmaking and he was very impressed. He called me to Mumbai to narrate the script and once he listened to it, he fell in love with the role and decided to go ahead.”

He gave an assurance that this would not be a remake of his Tamil hit, but a fresh script written for the Hindi film. To an enquiry about whether John asked him to make any changes in the theme to make it more commercial, he was quick to respond, “Oh, no. It is an out-and-out action film. So the question doesn’t arise. All the same, I hardly watch Hindi movies, which I guess, is a blessing in disguise. I will stick to my story and whatever it demands will be scrupulously incorporated.” As for the heroine selection, he said no leading lady had been finalised yet. He was still fine-tuning the script and in all probability, the movie would go on the floors in January 2011.

Vishal Dadlani talks About Oscar winner

Negativity surrounds music director A R Rahman’s Commonwealth Games theme song; people have openly expressed their dislike and said the Oscar winner couldn’t live up to their expectations. But, for composer Vishal Dadlani, a part of Bollywood’s music fraternity, people should understand and appreciate what Rahman has done for music and India.

Vishal has reacted vehemently to all the bad comments about the CWG theme and writes on Twitter, “The only infallible one is god, who sends music to us all. Everyone else is human, including Rahman. We’re all allowed off days. Be nice. All you doubters, and haters, please understand that Rahman has done more for music and India’s international image than almost anyone else.”

Rahman will appear on the show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar that has Vishal as one of the judges. No doubt, Vishal is on cloud nine as he is going to meet the iconic music director for the first time. The episode will be aired soon.

Earlier, song writer Mehboob too defended Rahman and claims that people are forgetting that the number is not for a film but is a theme song for CWG