Deepika's dinner out with 'Love Aaj Kal' crew 

Deepika Padukone The last day of shooting often becomes an emotional day for the cast and crew of any film.
So no surprise that Deepika Padukone decided to take the crew members of Love Aaj Kal out on an informal dinner on the day the shooting of the film wrapped up in Delhi.
Since most of the crew was young, Deepika had bonded well with them throughout the film’s shooting. And on the final day, she invited assistant directors, production assistants and the costume unit to dinner at a restaurant serving yummy Italian food.
And expectedly, the whole gang had a whale of a time munching on pizzas and pastas.
“We spent the evening remembering the time we spent together, laughing at internal jokes and spilling secrets,” Deepika is quoted by TNN as saying.
The movie has Deepika playing two roles, since the story is set in two time periods. She plays a Punjabi kudi Harleen in the Calcutta of 1965, and she plays a modern girl Meera in San Francisco and Delhi in 2009.


Salman Khan gets into designing watches 

Salman Khan A host of Bollywood celebs endorses various renowned watch brands. And now actor Salman Khan has stepped into manufacturing designer watches, but only for his close friends.
Salman Khan’s charity foundation ‘Being Human’ will now make in-house designer watches. This initiative is because of his mother, who wanted to cut down the actor’s expenses because of his incorrigible habit of giving costly gifts to friends, family, and even strangers. Salman is believed to have spent crores on watches as gifts. His once bicep buddy Hrithik Roshan still finds it difficult to part with his wrist watch, worth approximately five lakhs, which was gifted to him by Salman.
This time Salman has showered his love to co-star Aseem Merchant, who plays the villain in Salman’s movie Wanted . The first Being Human watch is gifted to him. Aseem was quoted as saying, “He gave me his first ‘Being Human’ watch. It's awesome. Its look and movement are as slick as the super-exclusive Swiss Breitling watches.”
Despite being embroiled in controversies in the past and labeled as a brat, Salman is known for his generous heart. Aseem is lucky to have been taken by the star under his wings.
Not only a watch, Aseem has also got a role in Salman’s brother Arbaaz Khan first production which will introduce Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter Sonakshi Sinha . Salman took this decision because he wanted Aseem to do a positive role after the gray character he plays in ‘Wanted’. Abhinav Kashyap is going to direct the film.
Salman’s girlfriend Katrina Kaif also takes keen interest in ‘Being Human’ activities.


'New York' script plagiarized 

Yashraj Films Yashraj Films is facing accusations of plagiarism from a budding director and writer Suchita Bhatia who alleges that the banner’s latest film New York is based on a script written by her.
The movie credits Sandeep Shrivastav and Aditya Chopra for the story but Suchita claims the movie is based on a script called ‘Osama – A Love Story’ written by her. Bhatia says she got in touch with Aditya Chopra in August 2006 to narrate a few story ideas and he referred her further to director Arjun Sablok who invited her to Yashraj Studios to narrate the story in September 2006.
According to Bhatia, Sablok was impressed after hearing the story and told her he would get in touch with her. But she never got a call from him or Yashraj Films.
But after watching ‘New York’, which released on Friday, Bhatia says she was shocked to see that her script was made into a film without giving her due credit or even informing her.
Suchita Bhatia had got her script registered with Film Writers’ Association in 2006 and now she has filed a complaint against YRF for plagiarizing her script.
Meanwhile, the film’s director Kabir Khan says Suchita is an opportunist who’s using a popular film “to get cheap publicity and five minutes of fame”.
‘New York’ tells the story of three friends whose lives are changed forever after the 9/11 attacks on the US following which one of the friends is arrested as a terror suspect and tortured in prison.


Watching 'New York' made Katrina cry 

Katrina Kaif Actress Katrina Kaif got very emotional while watching her film New York at a special screening.
She has been describing her character in the Kabir Khan -directed film as someone very close to her self. And she’s also been gung-ho about the film, which she called her first film that doesn’t dabble in escapism typical of Bollywood cinema.
Just days before the release of ‘New York’, Katrina was overwhelmed with emotion and wept while watching the film at a special screening.
“It was embarrassing. This has never happened to me before. I was deeply moved by the film,” Katrina is quoted as saying in a media report.
The screening was attended by her co-stars John Abraham , Neil Nitin Mukesh and the film’s director Kabir Khan along with producer Aditya Chopra .
Katrina added that she was in disbelief after seeing her performance in the film.
“I kept staring at myself. 'That's me!' I exclaimed at the end of the film,” Katrina said.
Compared to her previous performances, Katrina has done very well in ‘New York’.