Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming movie ‘Ram Leela’ has been in news a lot lately due to its casting coup.

The director while announcing the movie had said that the movie would star Ranveer Singh and Kareena Kapoor as Indian Romeo and Juliet. Sanjay Leela Bhansali had made his excitement of working with Kareena Kapoor, with whom he has wanted to work for a long time now, very evident during the announcement.

But later reports came in stating that Kareena Kapoor was out of the project. While Kareena stated she dropped out of the movie due to date issues, Sanjay Leela Bhansali had said that he let go of Kareena as he dint think a married Kareena would do justice to the role of Juliet.

Director Kabir Khan of ‘Kabul Express’ and ‘New York’ fame said that though the presence of Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif will bring in people to watch ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ initially, the content of the movie will make it a hit.

“I feel the film has stamina to run for a very long time. I hope the film goes way beyond the opening which is dependent on Salman. After that it is me and the film that I have made. I feel it has the strength to go a long way,” said Kabir Khan to IANS.

‘Ek Tha Tiger’ is a spy thriller, where Salman Khan plays a spy named Tiger and Katrina Kaif plays his lady love.

The movie is so eagerly being awaited that the multiplexes have decided to cash in on the demand and hype and have hiked the prices of the ticket 10-15 percent.

If the latest news going around tinsel town is to be believed then Anushka Sharma has been finalized for Anurag Kashyap’s ambitious project ‘Bombay Velvet’.

‘Bombay Velvet’ is a drama film based on 'Mumbai Fables', which is a semi-fictional study of Bombay in 1960s by eminent historian and Princeton University's history professor Gyan Prakash.

Anurag Kashyap had previously approached Aamir Khan with the film and even though Aamir Khan loved the script, he failed to accommodate the movie in his busy schedule. So, filmmaker recently approached and finalized Ranbir Kapoor for the male lead.

When asked if she would be starring opposite Ranbir Kapoor in ‘Bombay Velvet’, actress Anushka Sharma dint confirm the news but said that she would love to work with Anurag Kashyap.

“I can't talk about things till it is confirmed. The announcement will come at the right time,” said Anushka Sharma in an interview with PTI.

After going through a rough patch actor Salman Khan has been back on top for a few years now. The actor has delivered blockbuster hits in past few years with ‘Wanted’, ‘Ready’, ‘Dabangg’ and ‘Bodyguard’. But the actor said that being on top was a dangerous position.

“I am happy that my films are doing well. But it is a very dangerous position to be in, as we don’t know what to do in the next film. I don’t know what to do right now,” he said to PTI in an interview.

The actor further said that he was confused on what character to play next.

“If there is a larger than life character in films that I do, then it looks like no one can kill him which will get boring. If you take a film to a larger level then it is like too much is happening, if you don’t take it to that level then it feels like first was better. You don’t know what to do,” said Salman Khan.

Over the years actor Emraan Hashmi’s movies have been very successful commercially but critical acclaim has always eluded them. But things changed with ‘Shanghai’, as the movie not only became critical success but Emraan Hashmi was lauded for his performance in the movie.

Emraan Hashmi in a recent interview revealed that post ‘Shanghai’ he wants to work in more unconventional movies.

“Whenever I have played on a risky wicket, I have had success coming my way. I have realized that audience too expects the same from me. I would most probably fail if I take a conformist approach. At least my current standing dictates so,” said Emraan Hashmi to PTI.

Though ‘Shanghai’ was a hit with critics it failed to make a mark at the box-office. But Emraan Hashmi isn’t phased by this and said that he dint want to be caught up in box-office race.

“I can't get into the trapping of box office. I don't want that pressure on me. Also, number game does not interest me. I want to experiment with different kind of cinema. May be a couple of them don't take a huge opening but then it would give me creative satisfaction at least,” he said.

Actress Sonakshi Sinha’s song ‘Go Go Govinda’ from the movie ‘Oh My God’ has become famous as Sonakshi Sinha’s first item number. But the actress seems to have different opinion as she doesn’t consider the song to be an item number.

“It’s not an item number. It is a song with a difference,” she Sonakshi Sinha to HT in an interview.

“The term ‘item song’ is used very loosely these days. Any solo number is termed as an item song. This is a good song with Prabhu, and is very different from other item numbers,” she further added.

The actress said that the song composed by Himesh Reshamiya and choreographed by Prabhu Deva has a ‘young feel to it’. She also added that she personally loved the song.

Model turned actress Esha Gupta, who made her debut opposite Emraan Hashmi in ‘Jannat 2’, has been paired opposite the actor yet again in ‘Raaz 3D’.

The actress is all praise for Emraan Hashmi and said that Emraan was a great person and had taken up the task of mentoring her.

“I love Emraan. I was really scared of him during 'Jannat'. He as a person is very quite. During 'Jannat', he used to give his scenes as a piece of cake and I would be looking at him. The moment he used to react I was like tongue tied. I had no idea what I was doing. But he is really sweet,” said Esha Gupta to PTI.

“He would tell me to calm down... I have done worse than you in my first few films. I thought he is joking. But it was during the promotions of 'Jannat' when Mahesh Bhatt told me... in his initial films Emraan used to give 30-40 takes; I was like I am not that bad then. He is quite like my mentor he has given me a lot of tips,” she added.

Few days ago it was reported that Salman Khan had gone back to his woman beating ways and had got physical with Katrina Kaif. While close friends of the actors denied the reports, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif weren’t even perpetuated by it.

In an recent interview with a daily Salman Khan admitted that he used to be very impulsive and driven by anger previously but he said that now he was much calmer and in more control.

“I do feel more at peace. I think it comes from stopping to fight everything that comes your way and starting to accept it. Sometimes, it’s better to let destiny take its own course and you just go with the flow,” said Salman Khan.

Salman Khan’s love life and marriage are most talked about in the media. Both Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif in separate interviews stated that it was time Salman Khan got settled. But Salman Khan is in no hurry to do so.

On the occasion of Friendship Day, actor Shah Rukh Khan, who has been in the film industry for over a decade now, said that he hasn’t made any friends in the industry and his children are his best friends.

“My kids are my best friends. I read this line somewhere - I love my children not because they are my children but because I have garnered a friendship with them,” said Shah Rukh Khan to IANS.

The actor said that he realized his kids were his best friends on this friendship day.

“I am realizing this... as they are getting older, they are my greatest friends. I realized this on Friendship Day and I really enjoy myself with them. I think my mental age is between 12 to 14 so it is nice to have two friends that I can ever have,” he said.

The actor also added that his daughter tied him a bright orange band while he got a black band ‘from a lovely Russian family outside my house’.

One of the major criticisms coming Bollywood’s way is that most Bollywood movies revolve around their heroes and the heroines just add the glamour quotient in them.

Even though for past years woman centric movies have been made like ‘Fashion’, ‘The Dirty Picture’, ‘Saath Khoon Maaf’, ‘Kahaani’, there is no denying that many movies still remain hero centric.

But actress Katrina Kaif said that she makes a conscious decision to sign the movies in which she has a substantial role.

The actress who will seen with Aamir Khan in ‘Dhoom 3’, Shah Rukh Khan in Yash Chopra’s untitled projected and Salman Khan’s ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ said that she was more than a glamorous quotient in those movies.

“I’m grateful to my makers that I`m not just an ornament in a Khan film. My roles have substance,” said Katrina Kaif to a daily.