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Of late, she hasn’t been having a particularly great time at the box office or with the critics. But Aishwarya Rai has an absolute winner on her hands in the form of Jagmohan Mundhra’s “Provoked”. Screened several times in the Cannes Film Market, “Provoked”, the real life story of a battered Indian woman who went on to become a role model for all victims of domestic violence in Britain, has bagged positive reviews both for its controlled making and Rai’s finely etched performance
 

Bollywood’s bubble doll Preity Zinta will soon be seen in a just different image of a cool actress in Karan Johar’s forthcoming ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’. Preity says, “Really, I have never played such a character. But I have left no stone unturned to do full justice to this role. Though I am an independent-minded girl, yet I accepted to play the challenging role of a cool girl in this movie. This is just opposite to my natural instinct though”

Shah Rukh Khan’s decision to associate with director Ram Gopal Verma has surprised the industry. Nobody believed that Shah Rukh would act in and produce Ramu’s ‘Time Machine’. A section of the industry views that Ramu is too strong a director to give enough freedom either to his producer or the actor. However, Ramu denies it, and says that SRK will relieve him of certain responsibilities and he will thus be able to concentrate on his job as director

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