Bajirao Mastani’ role one of my hardest ever: Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra in 'Ram Leela'
Mumbai: Bollywood
actress Priyanka Chopra says her character in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s
upcoming love saga ‘Bajirao Mastani’ is one of her most difficult roles
and working on the film is draining. The
32-year-old ‘Mary Kom’ star is currently shooting for the period
romance, which also stars Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. In
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus 'Bajirao Mastani', Priyanka plays
the role of Kashibai, Bajirao's first wife. While Ranveer Singh is
essaying the character of Bajirao in the film, Deepika Padukone will be
seen as his second wife, Mastani.
Ranveer's
tonsured head had taken social networks by storm after a photo of the
same was posted online. And in another photo leaked online, Priyanka can
be seen in the Kashibai avatar in a Marathi-style red saree and minimal
jewellery. The 'Mary Kom' star had played Marathi women in films like
'Kaminey' and 'Agneepath' earlier. However, playing a Marathi Peshwa's
wife in a period film of this kind is the first for Priyanka.
The actress took to Twitter to share her experience of filming the movie.
Amitabh Bachchan proud of son Abhishek
The
megastar who is active on social networking sites revels his son
Abhishek's success and posts about him often. He took to twitter and
posted an anecdote during his stay at the national capital:
Emraan Hashmi says 'Ungli' not a typical Bollywood film
"It ('Ungli') is not a typical Bollywood film," the 35-year-old said in an interview.
"(It is) A film having social relevance, along with other elements of society like corruption, where the common man is not able to raise his voice against corrupt powers and injustice happening to him and a gang, whose extreme measure is to fight injustice, comes to help him. I think this has rarely happened in our Bollywood films," he added.
Directed by Rensil D'Silva, "Ungli" is a fun take on the angst of today's youth and chronicles the story of five friends, who act as vigilantes against the corrupt powers and injustice.
There was perhaps no scope for music in the film, however, a special song "Dance Basanti" was shot for the film as it forms an important part of Hashmi's introductory scene in the film.
"There was no scope for music in the film but Rensil devoted one year finding music for it," said the actor, whose films are known to be packed with hit music.
"A song was needed for my introduction scene in the film and we needed a good song for that. So we thought of this track. It is a fantastic and catchy track. I loved shooting for it," he added.
"Ungli" also stars Kangana Ranaut, Sanjay Dutt, Randeep Hooda, Neha Dhupia and Neil Bhoopalam. It will hit the theatres Friday.
Ali Asgar lands a role in 'Meet The Patels'
In the movie, Ali will play a character named Doctor Thanawala.
Talking about the role, he said: "Dolly Dadi has received immense love and respect all over, but I assure you that Doctor Thanawala will unveil another dimension which was somewhat hidden within me."
"Let's hope I get the same love and affection for Doctor Thanawala as much as I am getting for Dolly Dadi."
"Meet The Patels" director Saurabh Verma feels that "playing this character will unleash the untapped talent" of Ali.
"It will also introduce him in a different avatar away from Dolly Dadi, which has given him such immense popularity. It's a difficult job but we will be able to achieve it," said Varma of "Mickey Virus" fame.
Produced by Krian Media, "Meet The Patels" also features Shiv Pandit, Shazahn Padamsee, Ketan Singh and Vaishali Desai.
I-T seizes over Rs 135 cr cash, jewellery from Sahara group
The
Income Tax department has claimed to have seized cash of over Rs 135
crore (Rs 1.35 billion) from the premises of Sahara group during its
raids on its two premises in Delhi and Noida in connection with alleged
tax evasion charges.
Sources said the department made one of its highest seizures which also includes jewellery worth Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million).
The entire cash, they said, has been remitted in a public sector bank branch in Delhi.
When contacted , Sahara group said, "Please note that the amount mentioned in your query is not correct. But whatever may be the figure, each and every penny is company's legitimate money."
"Since last one year, we are facing complete embargo on our properties and for 20 months all our accounts were freezed and the entire amounts of freezed accounts have been paid to SEBI," a spokesperson for the Sahara group said, adding that the cash has been kept by the company at various locations to meet emergencies.
"Under such circumstances we are tightly managing the affairs of our big organisation and hence some legitimate cash is kept at various points for various kinds of requirements and higher emergencies. As getting bigger amounts from bank account is extremely difficult and when, which account, SEBI will seize, we do not know," the Sahara spokesperson added.
Officials said the I-T raided these premises on November 22 on suspicion and intelligence inputs that a huge amount of “unaccounted” cash is lying at these locations.
Through the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the tax department is expected to inform the Enforcement Directorate about the cash for probe of any suspected hawala transactions under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
They added that a report in this regard has already been sent to the Special Investigation Team on black money.
The department, they said, will now issue notices to the Sahara group to "explain the source of this cash".
Recently, another central investigative agency Enforcement Directorate registered a money laundering case against the group in connection with non-payment of crores of rupees to depositors as probed by capital markets regulator SEBI.
The criminal case was registered by Mumbai zonal office of the ED, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, after it got reports in this regard from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Sources said the department made one of its highest seizures which also includes jewellery worth Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million).The entire cash, they said, has been remitted in a public sector bank branch in Delhi.
When contacted , Sahara group said, "Please note that the amount mentioned in your query is not correct. But whatever may be the figure, each and every penny is company's legitimate money."
"Since last one year, we are facing complete embargo on our properties and for 20 months all our accounts were freezed and the entire amounts of freezed accounts have been paid to SEBI," a spokesperson for the Sahara group said, adding that the cash has been kept by the company at various locations to meet emergencies.
"Under such circumstances we are tightly managing the affairs of our big organisation and hence some legitimate cash is kept at various points for various kinds of requirements and higher emergencies. As getting bigger amounts from bank account is extremely difficult and when, which account, SEBI will seize, we do not know," the Sahara spokesperson added.
Officials said the I-T raided these premises on November 22 on suspicion and intelligence inputs that a huge amount of “unaccounted” cash is lying at these locations.
Through the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the tax department is expected to inform the Enforcement Directorate about the cash for probe of any suspected hawala transactions under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
They added that a report in this regard has already been sent to the Special Investigation Team on black money.
The department, they said, will now issue notices to the Sahara group to "explain the source of this cash".
Recently, another central investigative agency Enforcement Directorate registered a money laundering case against the group in connection with non-payment of crores of rupees to depositors as probed by capital markets regulator SEBI.
The criminal case was registered by Mumbai zonal office of the ED, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, after it got reports in this regard from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
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