The lucky pair of Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif has teamed for the fourth time for Venus' De Dhana Dhan. The production house has chosen none other than Priyadarshan to direct the film, which will be a comedy. De Dana Dhan will also star Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Neha Dhupia and Sameera Reddy. The film will be entirely shot in Singapore.

The hot-selling pair of Akshay-Katrina has earlier given three consecutive hits in Namastey London, Welcome and Singh is Kinng.

De Dhana Dhan will put to rest three rumours circulating in Bollywood. The first one: Akshay and Katrina will not be seen together on screen again after Welcome because Salman didn't want Katrina to work with Akshay.

Second, after Phir Hera Pheri Suniel Shetty will not team again with Akshay, as he thought the latter had chopped his role in the film. On the contrary, they were to team again in Singh is Kinng but when Suniel came to know his role was small, he left it and Sonu Sood replaced him.

Third, there were rumours that Paresh Rawal and Priyadarshan would never work together again when Paresh left Billoo Barber seeing that his role was smaller than Irrfan Khan's. Manoj Joshi replaced him.

De Dhana Dhan will go on the floors early 2009. This will be the sixth film for Akshay Kumar with Venus. It may be recalled that Akshay became an big star after starring in Venus' films like Khiladi, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Keemat, Dhadkan and Garam Masala. Looks like he's on his way to greater fame and glory, along with Katrina.

Ace actor Aamir Khan has rubbished the rumours that indicated him to be a part of Shah Rukh Khan’s much anticipated world tour ‘Temptations Reloaded’. The ‘Mr Perfectionist’ has also denied being a part of the sequel to Raj Kumar Santoshi’s hit comic flick ‘Andaz Apna Apna’.

In a clarification sent to a news daily, the actor denied the two speculations by stating “Neither is true”.

Previously, there were reports of the actor being approached by SRK for his much hyped world event. It is believed that King Khan wanted to rope in the actor as no big names were interested to be a part of his mega event, thanks to his infamous public spat with Salman Khan.

Enthiram, the newly named Tamil pic that was earlier called Robot will start shooting in Machu Piccu in Peru. It features mega stars Rajnikanth and Aishwarya Rai and is slated to be the most expensive Indian movie ever with a budget of Rs 140 crore. Shooting starts on September 8th.

Enthiram will see technical features that are unprecedented for an Indian movie. It has roped in the best of international talent to embellish its cinematography , costumes, and action sequences.

Hollywood costume designer Mary E. Vogt – the expert who designed the futuristic suits and gadgets in Men in Black, Bat Man Returns and Inspector Gadget – will design the robots to be featured in Enthiram. She will also design the futuristic suits that will be donned by the artists.

Manish Malhotra will design the ‘normal costumes’ that will reflect the futuristic fashion that might be prevalent in the period depicted in Enthiram. The costume designer, who had worked in innumerable Bollywood projects, had already worked with Rajnikanth in Sivaji.

Stan Winston Studios, which have been catering to all animatronics needs of Hollywood, will take care of the animatronics involved in this film. Iron Man, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, and I-Robot are some of the movies that testify Stan Winston Studios’ efficiency. They will also be aided by companies like CafeEFX ILM, Tippet, Centro and Menfond.

Stunt choreographer Yuen Woo Ping, who choreographed the stunning and visually appealing stunts of Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill, will take care of all the stunts of this film.
With such international talent involved, Enthiram promises to be at least a visually enticing spectacle if not a super hit movie.

Just two days in Amritsar and King Khan is in love. As all must have already guessed, we are talking about Shahrukh Khan, who is in Amritsar for the past few days, shooting for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Since it's a Yash Raj project, there is a lot of secrecy concerning the story of unquestionably the most awaited movie of the year. And why not? After all, it brings back the director-actor 'jodi' of the iconic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge (still running in its 672nd week in Bombay) and Mohabbatein. Naturally, the moment the unit arrived in Amritsar, there was (and still is), a frenzy, both amongst the media as well as the fans of superstar, Shahrukh Khan, in order to catch a glimpse or have a word with Bollywood's global superstar.

After the initial shooting stint at the famous Golden Temple earlier this week (as has been widely reported in the media), the venue has now shifted. Wednesday saw a traditional Punjabi marriage ceremony (some are saying that it was a 'mehndi' ceremony) taking place at the posh Queen's Road, and the venue was Kapoor Guest House. The whole unit as well as the director, Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra were present for the shooting. The atmosphere was seeped in Punjabi culture (seen in countless Yash Raj super-hits!), complete with girls dancing 'gidda' and boys swinging to 'bhangra', dressed in traditional Punjabi finery and clothing. Once the 'mehndi' ceremony was complete, there was the marriage ceremony. Shahrukh was dressed in traditional Punjabi clothing and accompanying him were the relatives who arrived at the Kapoor Guest House and headed for the place where the marriage ceremony was taking place.

A member of the crew tells us that it is at this ceremony that the 'younger' Shahrukh Khan falls in love with his 'mutiyar' (beautiful, young Punjabi girl), played by model-turned-actress, Anushka Sharma.

As we file this report, the shooting venue has shifted to the famous Khalsa College, but more about that later!

Sanjay Dutt has invited all his close friends to party on a yacht he hired in Bangkok while he is shooting for the movie, Blue, in the middle of the ocean

Sanjay Dutt has hired a 40-foot-long luxury catamaran for his close friends while he shoots for the underwater thriller. Sanjay, who is known for his generous ways, invited his closest friends to join him and wife Maanyata in Bangkok to party and relax. The action thriller is being directed by Anthony D’Souza and also stars Zayed Khan and Akshay Kumar.

When contacted, Sanjay Dutt told reporters: “Who told you about this? Ya, it’s true. All my close friends are here with me. Paresh is here from Chicago. Matt has come from Los Angeles and Raja and Pradeep came from Mumbai. So we’re shooting and having fun. It’s more for my own happiness than of my friends.”

Director Apoorva Lakhia, who had cast Sanjay in his successful crime-thriller “Shootout At Lokhandwala”, was all words of praise for the experience. “ Sanju is a rock star. You’ve heard right. He has rented a 40-foot catamaran with the full crew on board for all his friends’ comfort. We all hang out in the middle of the ocean while the cast is shooting in the deep sea,” said Lakhia.

“It’s non-stop deep sea diving, music, snorkeling and barbeque in the middle of the bluest ocean god ever invented. This is the most thrilling holiday I’ve ever had,” he added.

Close friend Suniel Shetty is busy shooting, or else he too would have joined the Bangkok merrymakers. “The friends that I have now are with me for keeps,” said Sanjay.

Shah Rukh Khan plays the role of a superstar named Saahil Khan in the movie Billo Barber directed by Priyadarshan.

Priyadarshan has been trying to rope in Shah Rukh Khan for various projects and Shah Rukh was busy with the IPL hungama. Finally Priyadarshan narrated the script to Shah Rukh Khan and an impressed Shah Rukh gave dates simultaneous with the IPL matches.

Billo Barber is the remake of Malayalam hit Katha Parayumbol starring Mammootty and Sreenivasan. Irfan Khan plays the title role and Shah Rukh plays a superstar called Saahil Khan. It’s inspired by the mythical friendship between Lord Krishna and Sudama but done in a completely contemporary context.

“It’s about a village and the changes that happen in it when a superstar comes to the village. What people don’t know is that there’s a very strong suspense element in the film,” said Priyadarshan.

Commenting upon Irfan, the director said: “Any big star would’ve agreed to play the title role. But I wanted someone who looked like a real villager, a hardcore barber. Irrfan has learnt how to cut hair.”

Shah Rukh Khan has roped in Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor to do cameos in the film.

Interestingly, Deepika Padukone was offered her first film by Priyadarshan but she went ahead instead with Om Shanti Om. Now she appears in a cameo in Priyadarshan’s pet project thanks to Shah Rukh Khan.

Music channel MTV is all set to make three films with the reigning stars of today - Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan.

All the three movies will be regular commercial productions to be made on a grand scale, a source at MTV revealed.

Right now, the actors signed by the channel are busy working in their respective movies. Shah Rukh is currently shooting for Yash Raj Films' Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Hrithik with home production Kites and Aamir with his much-awaited Ghajini.

Since these movies are slated for release later this year, the proposed MTV productions are likely to mount the sets next year. The channel, however, refused to elaborate on it.

MTV India's past attempt at filmmaking, however, was not encouraging. In 2006, the channel made Ghoom, a 45-minute spoof on Yash Raj Films' Dhoom, but it bombed at the box-office.