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June 15, 2009

Jodhaa Akbar shines at IIFA Awards

Posted by Libran


The Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer 'Jodhaa Akbar won maximum awards at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) on Saturday in Macau. Double Oscar award winnerA R Rahman won the Best Music Director award for 'Jodhaa Akbar', Javed Akhtar grabbed the trophy for Best Lyrics category for 'Jodhaa Akbar'.
Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan got the prestigious Special Award for Global Impact. Abhishekh Bachchan won the Best Comedian award for Dostana, Shreya Ghoshal got the Best Female Playback singer for 'Singh is Kinng'Yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khanna was honoured with the Life Time Achievement Award at the function. In the technical awards category, 'Jodhaa Akbar' swept through the award function with Ballu Saluja bagging Best Editing award, Nitin Chandrakant Desai got the Best Art Direction award, Neeta Lulla for Best Costume Design.

Resul Pokkutty, who made history by winning an Oscar for his work in Slumdog Millionaire, bagged the Best Sound Recording Award for Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini with Amrit. Jason West for 'Rock On!' grabbed best Cinematographer award, while Best Choreography award went to Farah Khan for her song Desi girl from 'Dostana'.
Around 500 Bollywood personalities and an 8,000-strong audience reportedly flown in from all over the world to attend the ceremony at Macau. All the winners, except Farah and Jason, were present at the event.




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June 12, 2009

Secret marriage of Prabu Deva and Nayanatara

Posted by Libran

Breaking news of a Telugu channel has it that Nayanthara’s married Prabhu Deva secretly in Hyderabad!

While the Kollywood grapevine holds that Prabhu Deva and Nayanthara are the hottest couple in town and does not deny rumours of them being in love ever since they worked together in Vijay’s Villu, sources close to the actress have denied the marriage. “She was not even in Hyderabad when rumours of her marriage broke,” they said.

The choreographer, actor-turned-director Prabhu Deva is a married man with three children, and went through a harrowing time a few months back when he lost his eldest son. The buzz was that it was Nayan, who gave him strength to come out of his personal grief, which was compounded by the fact that his marriage with Ramlath, his one-time dance assistant, was on the rocks.

Kollywood sources also attribute Nayan’s reluctance to party to her closeness to Prabhu. She withdrew into a shell and cut off all her friends in the industry. Her frequent trips to temples are also attributed to the man in her life, who is an ardent Hindu devotee. When asked about Nayanthara by the local press, Prabhu Deva said that “it is personal”.

Prabhu Deva also went out of his way to improve her on-screen dance movements, as he personally coached her. Many choreographers feel that she has improved leaps and bounds in the Vaada Mapillai... song in Villu. Recently, Prabhu Deva created a stir when he went to Kumarakom at his expense and without taking any fee choreographed two songs that were picturised on Nayanthara for the Malayalam film Bodyguard!

The rumours about their affair, was confirmed when the actress tattooed ‘Prabhu’ (P in English and the rest in Tamil), a little above her wrist at a newly-opened tattoo lounge in Hyderabad. Remember Saif Ali Khan’s ‘Kareena’ tattoo on his forearm, which he is said to have got to prove he is seriousness about her. Earlier, Nayanthara had also pierced her nose, while shooting for her Malayalam film Bodyguard in Kerala. It is said she did this because Prabhu loves it!

Sources close to the actress say that “they may be in love, but marriage is not on the cards in the near future as they are both highly professional people who are concerned about their respective careers.”

Nayanthara is doing one Tamil film, Aadhavan with Suriya and two Telugu films, one with NTR and the other with Ravi Teja, and Bodyguard in Malayalam with Dileep. Prabhu Deva is making a comeback to acting and is playing the lead in Thangar Bachan’s offbeat Kalavadiya Pozhudugal, and is directing, the Hindi remake of his Pokkiri — Wanted Dead and Alive — with Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia for producer Boney Kapoor.

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