Shilpa has also signed her first bollywood film after Big Brother back home. The film titled 'The Man' will be produced by Sunny Deol and has been written by Neeraj Pathak. In the film Shilpa plays a star who suddenly shoots to international fame. The film’s co-director, Neeraj, has decided to use in the movie the real footage of Shilpa’s experience in London after she won the Big Brother show last year. ‘The Man’ is set to go on the floors in the first quarter of 2008.

Thanks to Himesh Reshammiya's decision to curtail his work, Bollywood's most prolific lyricist Sameer Anjaan who has written over 5000 songs, has reduced his work load. "You see Himesh and I had formed a team. I did some of my finest and most popular work recently for Himesh in films from Tere Naam to Aap Ka Surroor. But now that he has decided to compose only for his own starrers, I too have been forced to slow down. Yes I'm doing the words for Himesh's three films Karz, Kajra Re and A Love Ssssshtory, " says Sameer.  For Karz Sameer will re-write the whole Anand Bakshi theme song Ek haseena thi. "I'll take the opening line as a starting point and then weave my own words."Quite a tribute, coming from a self-confessed fan of Majrooh Sultanpuri and Anand Bakshi."Look at their body of work. How prolific they were! They were poetic and yet so accessible to the common man.That's what I've been aiming to do all along, although I've been criticized and condemned for playing to the galleries. But when today Gulzar Saab write populist numbers like Ticket to Hollywood and Beedi he's praised for moving with the times. When I've been doing the same I was accused of making compromises. But it's very important to keep up with the times. For a recent film Phir Hera Pheri I wrote All day all night which was in four languages Rajasthani, English, Hindi and  Punjabi….That's the effect of globalization on cinema and our music. That's how today's youngsters speak. That's the spirit one has to capture in our film songs." Sameer lights up like a gallery of diyas when he talks about his latest triumph in Saawariya.

It has happened before in Bollywowd. The parent is always wary of being seen with their star-child specially at the beginning of the newcomer's career. Dimple Kapadia said no to Sanjay Bhansali's Khamoshi with daughter Twinkle and Dharmendra agreed to play Sunny and Bobby Deol's father in Apne after so many decades in the industry (Dharmendra did play Sunny's dad in his second film Sunny but they didn't have scenes together). To no one's surprise Anil has turned down a chance to co-star with his daughter in her second film the much talked-about Dilli 6. "It's true Rakeysh Mehra offered me a role in Dilli 6. But I regretfully declined. Who wouldn't want to work with Rakeysh after Rang De Basanti? Sonam is lucky to be working with him in her second film, after THE Sanjay Bhansali as her debut," says Anil.

Riding on the waves of her success in her debut film ‘Om Shanti Om’, Deepika Padukone is now being considered to play the female lead in Shankar's ‘Robot’ opposite Tamil superstar. Rajnikanth. Eros Multimedia and Ayngaran Films Internation will produce ‘Robot’. Sources said that an official announcement in this regard will be made on January 11 to coincide with the silver jubilee of ‘Sivaji’.  Rumors out that Deepika demands one crore for the movie.

Boman Irani shot in London to play the coach of Vivek Agnihotri's football team in Goal. But unlike other actors who prepare for roles by getting in shape, Boman was going the other way. "I let go as far as my physical fitness is concerned. The coach was a burnt-out spent force, hence out of shape. And that's the shape of things. If I was meant to be a footballer I'd lose weight and become lean and mean. But I played a washed-out guy with a sordid past running away from the truth. I think I needed to not look like Boman but someone who may have been an athlete twenty years ago. So my look had to be out of shape but hints of being in shape at some point in the past. It's interesting to raise the bars for myself. I like to revel in the tension of getting into character," says Boman.

Sushmita Sen has distanced herself from the controversial illegal import of her Toyota Landcruiser, which has almost invited prosecution for the former Miss Universe. In a reply to a notice issued by the Bombay High Court asking her to explain as to why appropriate action be not initiated against her for alleged illegalities committed in import of Toyota Landcruiser purportedly using fake documents and further manipulation for getting the vehicle registered, Sushmita has said that she had no intention to defeat any provision of law and that she was not involved in import of the Landcruiser.

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