** Kal Ho Naa Ho and Koi Mil Gaya win most awards! **
2} * The Bollywood award season continues with the recent Sansui Viewer’s Choice Movie Awards. Kal Ho Naa Ho and Koi Mil Gaya were the two big winners of the night.
Amongst their awards, Kal Ho Na Ho managed to win Best Actress (Preity Zinta), Best Film, Best Supporting Actor (Saif Ali Khan) and Best Music (Shankar-Ehsan-Loy), whilst Koi Mil Gaya won Best Actor (Hrithik Roshan), Best Director (Rakesh Roshan) and Best Choreography (Farah Khan). Other winners included Lara Dutta and Shahid Kapoor for Best Newcomers and Urmila Matondkar for Outstanding Performance (Bhoot). *
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** Superstar gives dates to Buddhadeb Dasgupta! **
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- Madhuri Dixit fans have been waiting with baited breath for the screen queen to announce her much-awaited comeback. According to the latest reports, The Bollywood superstar, Madhuri has given bulk dates for shooting Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s yet untitled Hindi film that will be presented and produced by Jhamu Sugandh.
The shooting for the film will begin in October and last around one month. The story of the film is based on one of the director’s unpublished stories and deals with how a person craves to achieve something in life and is yet left with a sense of unfulfilment. Madhuri is also considering offers from Rajkumar Santoshi, Rituparno Ghosh, Zoya Akhtar and Zafar Hai. *
Maduri u rule :k:
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** The actor does a new stunt for forthcoming film Waqt! **
4) * During his successful career, Akshay Kumar has always taken daring scenes in his stride. His forthcoming release Waqt - The Race Against Time is not an exception.
Akshay plays an amateur stuntman in the film and gets chased by twenty vicious Alsation dogs, with chunks of meat hanging from his sleeves.
"It's true that I love doing the action sequences myself. It gives me an inexplicable high!" Akshay explains. "I play a spoilt brat. The film is about a father-son relationship. Though I have acted in other father-son films before this one is different because of its story line. It is time that is chasing us and we have to achieve something in our relationship before time runs out."
Co-starring Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav, the shooting of Waqt will be complete by August 2004. *