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Revealed: The inner story of Salman-Shah Rukh Khan fight at Katrina’s birthday bash
In 2008 on the night of Katrina Kaif’s birthday party on July 18 something happened between Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. The spat was so ugly and scarring that for years thereafter Katrina swore off birthday parties, her own that is. On the morning after the historic bash-up at the bash it was Ranbir Kapoor who rang me up to excitedly share details of what happened between SRK and SK. Ranbir used to take baffling pleasure in recounting ugly incidents. I thought he was just making up the very public fight between the two Khan superstars (Ranbir | Click Here...
Year Ender 2019: Biggest Bollywood controversies that shook the world
Every year we hear about fall-outs and love affairs gone wrong. 2019 was no different, what with Kangana and her sister taking on everyone who is worth taking on. Here are the top eyebrow-raisers of the year. Sanjay Bhansali-Salman Khan Split Wide Open: What really happened between Salman Khan and Sanjay Bhansali. I will tell you. The two began working on Insha Allah. But Salman’s….errr…suggestions (some directors would call them outright intrusion) got more and more aggressive. Until one day when the shooti | Click Here...
Blast from The Past: When the Sultan jumped on the Begum
This happened in front of me in my hotel room in Mumbai when I was visiting many many years ago. A dear director-friend (who is still a close friend), the beautiful young star daughter (now married into a Nawabi khandaan) and the evergreen enfant terrible (ET) were with me. ET was drinking all evening non-stop even when his girlfriend was admonishing him on the phone and asking him not to drink. But ET was beyond listening. By the time we returned to my hotel room at around 1am he was dancing around and creating a scene in the lobby because his for | Click Here...
Blast from The Past: When Zeenat Aman was thrashed in full public by a Macho Khan & his wife
The alluring Zeenat Aman could have any man she wanted. But she chose to fall in love with men who almost invariably ill-treated her. I jokingly told her this. “You are a terrible judge of human beings. And the men in your life are proof of it.” And she laughed throatily. But what happened in 1980 when she was in the throes of a passionate love affair with a married Khan hero, was no laughing matter. The Khan was not only married with multiple kids he was also an over-ambitious filmmaker whose latest opus starring Zeenat and he, had gone ridiculous | Click Here...