After years as a director, Vikram Bhatt has finally become a producer and says he is carrying forward his grandfather’s legacy.

Bhatt’s grandfather was the renowned filmmaker Vijay Bhatt, who ran the production house Prakash Pictures.

“My grandfather used to have a production house. He produced and directed such evergreens as ‘Baiju Bawra’, ‘Hariyali Aur Rasta’ and ‘Goonj Uthi Shehnai’.

“After my grandfather, my father and uncle couldn’t produce any films. So in a way I’m carrying forward my grandfather’s legacy. That makes me very emotional. On May 12, 2007, my grandfather would’ve been 100,” Bhatt told IANS.

Bhatt is not using the same name; his production house will be called ASA Films.

“I’m joining hands with some corporate friends of mine to form a production company. My partners are good people and they’ve been asking me for a while.

“If I’ve a home company, I don’t have to make so many films a year. And also I can make the films I want to without compromise. I can be creatively involved and yet I don’t have to implement those ideas personally all the time.”

Bhatt, who gave hits like “Ghulam”, hasn’t been so lucky recently. Most of his recent releases like “Speed”, “Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee” and “Red: The Dark Side” bombed at the box office.

Even while her home in Mumbai is being re-constructed, Preity Zinta is dreaming of building a house in Shimla. “I always wanted a family home in my home town. I’m now going to build a house there. The older one is in a locality that’s so crowded I don’t recognise it any more. Earlier it was just our house and lots of trees,” she shares. Preity has an ancestral land which she has been planning to use to build a dream house. “Now’s the time to do it. Build a farm house where my kids and my brother’s kids will grow up. It’s a little away from Shimla near the golf course. I want to make it completely eco-friendly. I’m also trying to buy an eco-friendly car. Look at the fumes in Mumbai.”

“Where does one go in Mumbai to relax? The other Sunday when I had a day off I had no place to go! Either you go to a restaurant or a movie. And it takes so long to get anywhere! It’s very frustrating. When I want to unwind I go out of the country. We need more entertainment and sports centers in Mumbai. You can’t have children and dogs in Mumbai. If I have children in Mumbai where do I stay with them? That’s why I miss my home town Shimla.”

Preity is looking at entirely refurbishing her life. “Last year I badly hurt myself on my back and pelvis. I’ve been working on myself. We actors are constantly hurting ourselves and neglecting our health. Look at how much Shah Rukh has gone through. And the other day when I dropped in to meet him on the set of Om Shanti Om I saw him with a six-pack. I was like… wow! I’ve seen him so unwell when we were shooting Kal Ho Na Ho. He’s very inspiring, and not just on screen.”

“After so many years of shooting abroad I’m finally working in India. I just shot Samir Karnik’s Mera Bharat Mahaan in Punjab. I came back all sunburnt,” she says. “This is probably the best time for me. Look at SRK in Chak De!. There’re no hard and fast rules about what I can do and can’t do. Strangely I started my career playing an unwed mother, a prostitute and a CBI trainee. Then I started doing much more commercial films. Now it’s time for me to do different kind of films. Working with Rituparno Ghosh and Jahnu Barua there was a lot to unlearn about acting. And it’s not as if I look at Last Lear or Har Pal as small films,” she reveals.

She’s currently shooting for Jahnu Barua’s second Hindi film Har Pal with Lilette Dubey and Shiney Ahuja. She adds, “With Har Pal, I’m having so much fun. We’ve already completed one schedule. The director Jahnu Barua has a great sense of humour. Though he’s very quiet, he knows what he wants. Isha is a pleasure to work with.” Then there’s Rituparno Ghosh. “I just love him. He’s too cute. He made feel so comfortable during Last Lear. Working with Mr Bachchan was a treat for me. Then I had Shefali Shah and Divya Dutta and Arjun Rampal.”

“I want to do the work that excites me. I’m not the same actress I used to be. I want to do at least one film every year that pushes the envelope.” Maybe the housewarming and wedding can be combined in Simla? “Ha, what if the house takes five years to make? I can’t wait that long to get married,” comes the retort.

Aishwarya Rai has been offered the role of Yashodhara, wife of prince Siddhartha, in an English-Hindi bilingual film called “Buddha” being made by a Paris-based Indian filmmaker.

The star, whose portrayal of Jodha in Ashutosh Gowariker’s epic romance “Jodhaa Akbar was well-received, has been offered the role by director of spiritual and crossover films Pan Nalin of “Samsara” fame.

Prince Siddhartha renounced the world, became a monk, attained nirvana and was known the world over as Gautama Buddha.

Nalin, who was in Mumbai recently for the DVD launch of “Samsara”, told IANS that he met Aishwarya a few times and discussed the movie’s script with her.

India-born Nalin made waves internationally with his Buddhist crossover film “Samsara”, which had mixed cast comprising Ladhaki, Indian, American and Chinese actors. He followed it up with another crossover movie, “The Valley of Flowers.”

Nalin has penned the script in collaboration with Hollywood-based scriptwriter Tinker Lindsay.

“Aishwarya has not yet said anything. But I am hopeful that she will agree to it. It is scheduled to go on the floor in August this year,” Nalin said.

A self-taught filmmaker, Nalin’s debut film “Samsara” won 30 international awards.

Bollywood star Sushmita Sen, who graced the DVD launch ceremony, encapsulated the theme of “Samsara” saying it was about a person’s choice between desire and satisfaction, between inner urge and outside yearnings.

The movie tells the story of a monk, who leaves his monastery in Ladakh after meditating for years to experience the pleasures of matrimony and returns to his cloister after undergoing the trials and tribulations of a commoner’s life.

But unlike elsewhere in the world, “Samsara” came a cropper at the box-office in India when Sony released it in 2006.

Nalin claimed that the movie could not generate revenue in India because Sony managed to run it only for three weeks.

“When the box-office collections were picking up, the film had to be withdrawn from theatres as they were booked for other movies in the queue,” he said.

“Samsara” grossed over Rs.1 billion worldwide and did good business in Europe. Shemaroo has launched the movie on DVD in India.

“As part of our company’s policy, we are now taking the initiative to support good cinema and independent filmmakers, making their productions available on home video,” said Shemaroo director Hiren Gada.

He said Shemaroo was aware that DVDs of films like “Samsara” might not sell like those of commercial movies.

“But there is a clientele for good, sensible movies. We will be more than pleased if the DVDs of “Samsara” do business worth Rs.2.5 million,” Gada said.

Though the movie has been made in Tibetan-Ladakhi language with sub-tiles in English, by virtue of its theme and cinematic brilliance, it was highly acclaimed worldwide when it was released internationally in 2001.

Bollywood showman Subhash Ghai is back to filmmaking after a long break with a movie on terrorism, “Black and White”. His period romance, “Kisna: The Warrior Poet” had bombed at the box office in 2005.

Releasing Friday, his latest film stars his favourite actor Anil Kapoor who was seen in some mega Subhas Ghai movies like “Karma”, “Meri Jung”, “Ram Lakhan”, “Taal” and “Trimurti”.

The story goes like this:

Set in Delhi, the drama revolves around Professor Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor) who teaches Urdu literature in Zakir Hussain College. He lives in Chandni Chowk with his activist wife, Roma Mathur (Shefali Shah).

One day, Mathur meets a young man Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha), who introduces himself as a victim of communal riots in Gujarat. Mathur believes him and gives him shelter without knowing the reality that Numair is a suicide bomber commissioned by a Muslim fundamentalist group. His aim is to plant a bomb near the Red Fort Aug 15.

During his 15-day stay, Numair wins the professor’s trust. Even his sharp-tongued wife becomes fond of him. He also meets a modern Muslim college girl Shagufta.

In a short period, Mathur becomes so fond of Numair that he helps him get a pass for the Aug 15 celebrations at Red Fort. The professor also introduces him to the warm and loving people of Chandni Chowk, who coexist with fun, music, love, colourful events and festivals irrespective of their religion.

Despite his deep-rooted fundamentalist beliefs, he sees Chandni Chowk as one of the most colourful and loving areas. Everybody showers love and affection on Numair and their attitude surprises the terrorist. There is no black and white.

He starts questioning himself and finds himself caught in an emotional dilemma to go ahead with his mission. But he moves on.

Terrorism is a burning issue plaguing the entire world. If researched well and executed deftly, the film might be a good watch especially because of Anil who is known to be a perfectionist. Anil gives meticulous attention to every detail of his character.

Shot in Delhi and Mumbai, Ghai’s film launches Anurag Sinha.

Indian television soap queen Ekta Kapoor finally gave in to conditions laid down by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) after the latter directed its 22 affiliates Feb 29 to boycott shooting of all her serials.

Kapoor gave a written commitment Monday afternoon that her production house, Balaji Telefilms, would pay the cine workers their revised rates.

Balaji Telefilms and FWICE clashed swords after the production house dilly-dallied in paying the newly-fixed daily wage rate to cine workers, which was revised from Rs.400 to Rs.600 recently (USD 10-15).

The matter came to a head when Kapoor allegedly got FWICE’s vigilance committee chairman Prem Singh Thakur arrested when he arrived on the sets of one of her serials at a studio in Andheri in north-west Mumbai Feb 29 to ensure that the cine workers were paid their revised daily wage.

Kapoor told the police that Singh’s arrival on the sets instigated the workers to resort to rioting. The police detained Singh and later released him on bail.

The FWICE convened an emergency meeting Monday evening after it received a written commitment from Ekta Kapoor, agreeing to abide by its norms. The meeting decided to call off the boycott.

All the 22 affiliates of FWICE earlier directed their members to stay off from work in the shooting of all the under-production television serials of Balaji Telefilms.

The boycott call delayed production of the bank of episodes of Balaji’s long-running serials on different television channels.

“Our standoff with Ekta Kapoor occurred because in spite of our repeated reminders, she refused to pay the cine workers their new rates of daily wage. Now that she has agreed in writing to pay the new rate, we have decided to call off the boycott,” FWICE general secretary Dinesh Chaturviedi said Monday evening.

In spite of repeated attempts, none from Balaji Telefilms, including Ekta Kapoor herself, was available for comment.

Arshad Warsi is upset because he lost a chance to share screen space with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan in “Teen Patti”.

“I was looking forward to working with Mr. Bachchan again after ‘Zamaanat’. But it’s not destined to be, at least not right now,” Arshad told IANS.

He had to opt out of their only film together because of the date problems.

“I’ve no choice but to leave ‘Teen Patti’. I was looking forward to it because it was with Amit ji, and also because it was my first film with a female director. But my dates for ‘Teen Patti’ are now clashing with my own production, that I start in July.

“If it was just one more assignment, I’d have happily swapped it with ‘Teen Patti’. But I am turning producer and it’s a big leap for my career. I’ve all the pre-production in place. And any delay would be fatal for my plans as a producer.”

Arshad, however, needs to clear the air with the Big B.

“I need to explain to him why I’m not doing ‘Teen Patti’ before people go to him with all kinds of mad implications. I want him to know I’d give anything to be in the same film with him. In fact, I want to produce a film that features both of us.”

In the make-believe world of fickle love, a Bollywood producer-director has scripted the longest-running family love story. Chandrashekhar, of the 1959 “Cha Cha Cha” fame, and his wife Pushpa Devi, have just celebrated their 72nd marriage anniversary.

Chandrashekhar, who popularised the ‘cha cha cha’ dance in the film he produced and also starred in along with Helen, married Pushpa Devi when he was 14 and she 11. Though it was a child marriage, the union has lasted for seven decades and more.

But then veteran actor, producer, writer, director, trade unionist and social activist Chandrashekhar has always been an unusual man, who literally grew up in the film industry, starting his career in movies in 1941 as a teenager from Hyderabad.

In the last 67 years, he has seen the industry grow from a small cluster of studios to the massive Bollywood that it has become today.

Following the movie’s release, Chandrashekhar, who had been trained in western dance, became a craze in India.

His popularity is still intact.

Four generations of the family celebrated the anniversary on March 1 at their Andheri home in northwest Mumbai.

The occasion was unique because the invitees this year included only staff members of Bollywood’s different craft associations in which Chandrashekhar has been involved in some capacity or the other since he pioneered the film industry’s first association of artistes in 1953.

On the occasion of their marriage anniversary, Chandrashekhar and his wife offered indigent members of the staff an unspecified amount as “chandla” (money given as gift) to spend on their daughters’ weddings.

The couple’s gesture touched the staff members. Some of them accepted the ‘gift’ with tears in their eyes.

Besides acting in movies and producing a few like “Street Singer”, Chandrashekhar assisted legendary Bollywood directors like V. Shantaram, Hemant Gupte, B.K. Sagar and Pandit Bharat Vyas.

At 85, he is still busy as bee, though not in movies any more.

Director Rajkumar Santoshi, who has been toying

with the idea of making a love story for some time, has signed

Bollywood’s new sensation Ranbir Kapoor for a film. He will cast

Katrina Kaif in the female lead.

He starts the project immediately.

Confirming the development, Santoshi told IANS: “I’m making this

film, Ranbir has confirmed and even Katrina has almost confirmed. I

wanted to work with Ranbir the minute I saw him in ‘Saawariya’. I see

that special spark in him. In fact, after I saw him in ‘Saawariya’, I sent

him a bouquet. I was so impressed by him.”

Following the unexpected debacle of “Halla Bol”, producers are no

longer eager for more from the Ajay Devgan-Santoshi pair.

Apparently, PVR Films, which was supposed to support Santoshi’s

multimillion rupee historical movie on emperor Ashoka, has backed

out of the project.

Tips, with which Santoshi had a long-standing tiff over outstanding

payments for “The Legend Of Bhagat Singh”, will produce the film.

However, Santoshi denies differences with Tips.

“We had a very fruitful working relationship during ‘Bhagat Singh’. If

we didn’t, why would we be working together again?”

The director is especially excited about this project because it’s a love

story that he is writing himself.

“For very long now I have wanted to make a pure love story. I wrote

this script some time back. I was waiting for the right face. I think

Ranbir was destined to be the hero in my love story.”

Two years ago, Santoshi was supposed to make a film called “Ranbir”

with Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan.

The Percept Picture Company (PPC), known for its

popular animation movie “Hanuman Returns”, has struck a deal with

Hyderabad-based animation studio DQ Entertainment for its

forthcoming animation film ventures.

However, Percept’s production deal with Toonz Animation to make

the third instalment for its Hanuman series, “The Return of Ravana,”

stays.

“While we requisitioned the services of Toonz Animation to make our

Hanuman series of animation films, we entered into a co-production

deal with DQ Entertainment,” said Ashok Ahuja, director, Marketing,

PPC.

The PPC-DQ deal is worth $25 million. Both collaborators will

contribute equal amounts towards producing the three animation

movies.

DQ Entertainment, which owns an animation studio in Hyderabad, will

handle the production while PPC will provide the concepts and market

the movies worldwide. The first of these three movies will be ready for

release next year.

Although animation movie-making is a cost-effective as well as a

time-consuming venture, PPC’s “Hanuman Returns” and Shemaroo’s

“Bal Ganesh”, released recently, have done fairly good business so far.

The box-office earnings of “Hanuman Returns” are about Rs.16

million so far and those of “Bal Ganesh” a little less than Rs.15

million.

These movies are yet to be exploited in the electronic media and also in

the overseas market.

Filmmaker Mira Nair, television show “Top Chef”

host Padma Lakshmi and actress Madhur Jaffrey will join hundreds of

South Asian women professionals from all over the world here March

15 to discuss opportunities and challenges they face in their lives and

careers.

The event called “Congress 2008″ has been organised by South Asian

Women’s Leadership Forum (SAWLF) during the Women’s History

Month. The annual Congress will provide women entrepreneurs and

professionals a forum to interact with and learn from successful

business and community leaders.

The opening session will examine the precedent for women in

leadership roles by comparing and contrasting the US and South Asia.

Speakers at the Congress will also address the rapid global transition

that has already begun, as women work for multinational

organisations, manage cross-border transactions, teams and impact

global policy.

The panellists include Shahla Aly, general manager (corporate and

business groups solutions delivery) Microsoft, and Punita

Kumar-Sinha, senior managing director, The Blackstone Group. The

closing presentation will be by Mira Nair.

Created in 2003, SAWLF is based in New York with chapters in

Chicago and Washington DC.

It has 4,000 members drawn from US, UK and South Asia, its founder

Simi Ahuja was quoted as saying in a press release.

Is producer-director Aditya Chopra tying the knot

with Bollywood star Rani Mukerji? The grapevine is abuzz with

rumours ever since the former has filed a petition seeking divorce from

his first wife at the Bandra Family Court in northwest Mumbai.

Aditya’s father, movie moghul Yash Chopra, is not too happy with this

alliance and therefore Aditya has moved out his family home and is

now staying in a five-star hotel in suburban Mumbai.

In fact, Aditya’s parents have already made it known publicly that they

are against their son divorcing his wife whom they adore. Which,

indirectly, means that if Aditya’s marries Rani, he will have to do so

against his parents’ wishes.

It is speculated that Aditya’s shift from his father’s home is a prelude to

his impending marriage with Bollywood star Rani, with whom he has

been having an affair for a long time, according to sources.

A rumour has been also doing the rounds since Sunday that Aditya had,

in fact, given the actress an engagement ring a day earlier when both

met secretly at the hotel where he has been staying.

Though none close to the Chopras would confirm the rumour, but the

fact that Aditya’s petition seeking divorce from his first wife, Payal,

was granted after the mandatory grace period of six months last week,

lent teeth to the speculation.

“I am afraid, I will not be able to comment on the private life of my

client. Moreover, I have no inkling of the exchange of engagement

rings between Aditya and Rani. My client does not keep me informed

about his private affairs,” Gopal Pandey, long-time publicist of Yash

Raj Films, told IANS.

As a matter of fact, in deference to the reputation of Yash Raj Films,

especially the position filmmaker Yash Chopra holds in Bollywood,

none came forward to comment one way or the other on the

“impending” Aditya-Rani marriage, which, without confirmation, has

remained a rumour.

Over the last few years, Rani has been seen in quite a few films made

by Yash Raj Films, being handled by Aditya. She featured in “Hum

Tum, “Veer-Zaara”, “Ta Ra Rum Pum” and “Laaga Chunari Mein

Daag”.

Petite and pretty Neha, who was introduced by Vidhu

Vinod Chopra in “Kareeb”, is back. The actress features in Sanjay

Gupta’s “Alibaug” and says when good offers stopped coming, she was

happy being a wife.

“I’ve always been passionate about acting. But I couldn’t go role

hunting from door-to-door in producers’ homes. Maybe that was a

drawback in me. After a while, when the right roles stopped coming, I

withdrew from acting and was just happy being Mrs. Manoj Bajpai,”

Neha told IANS.

The couple married legally in April 2006.

“But it didn’t really matter. Manoj and I have known each other for 10

years. I met him right after ‘Kareeb’ was released. And since then we’ve

been together. We’re individuals and yet a compatible couple. Now

we’ve recently moved into our new home. Our own new home, just

imagine.”

House-proud Neha can’t stop raving about her home.

“I’ve done up the house piece by piece. And I still can’t believe it’s ours.

Manoj and I don’t need to socialise or go out to feel happy. We share

long evenings of tea, silences and warm vibes right in our house.

Nothing gives us more joy than to be together in our house.”

The career can come as and when.

“I’m in no hurry. Yes, I’m passionate about acting. But I won’t run after

work. I never have. I’ll wait for the right opportunities to come my

way. Like ‘Alibaug’ - it came to me when Sanjay Gupta asked Manoj

about me while they were shooting for ‘Dus Kahaniyaan’.

“Gupta wanted to check me out to see if I suited the role of one of

Sanjay Dutt’s students. I guess I fitted the bill. Shooting ‘Alibaug’ has

been the most pleasurable phase of my career. Not that I’ve done so

much work,” she said.

Tell her that people were wondering where she was and she quickly

retorts: “Come on, no one was missing me. I don’t have a body of

work. I wish I did. Hopefully, with so many kinds of films happening

now I can find my space in cinema. Otherwise, there’s always the space

that I share with Manoj. Nothing can equal that.”

Neha has reverted to her original name Shabana Raza.

“I was always Shabana Raza. And that’s how close family and friends

have always known me. Neha was never me, it is too delicate a name to

describe me. I’m far stronger.”

Strangely, in Bihar, where her in-laws live, Shabana Raza is still

remembered as Neha prancing around with Ajay Devgan in an

obnoxious comedy called “Hogi Pyar Ki Jeet”.

“It was a big hit in Bihar. And whenever I visit the state with Manoj

people remember me for my movie. So, for now that’s my claim to

fame,” said the actress who played Hrithik Roshan’s love interest in

“Fiza”.

Though many see him as rude and rambunctious, Bollywood star Salman Khan has once again revealed the compassionate side of his personality without making a song and dance about it.

On the sets of a music reality show, “Chhote Ustad” last week, the star donated Rs.500,000 to a little girl after he learnt that she was a cancer patient.

Four-year-old Sahara Shaha was among the four children the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, Mumbai, had sent to the sets to be a part of the show’s audience.

“He is my favourite actor. Meeting him is like a dream come true. I love you, Salman uncle,” said little Sahara as the actor picked her up in his hands for a few minutes.

Salman also danced with the other cancer-afflicted kids, the contestants, the audience and the crew driving the gathering hysterical.

Salman, who was the celebrity guest for the episode being shot, also regaled the participants and the audience when he danced with them, removing his shirt and baring his muscled body - his trademark act.

Sahara’s mother later said her husband abandoned her four years ago after the child was diagnosed with leukaemia. The family lives in a slum colony in Kanjurmarg in northeast Mumbai, barely making ends meet.

Now, with Salman’s help Sahara can get proper treatment, said the mother with tears in her eyes.

This episode of the show will be telecast on StarPlus Saturday at 10 p.m., a spokesperson for the channel said Thursday.

John Abraham is director Deepa Mehta’s

blue-eyed boy is an open secret. After “Water”, the Toronto-based

director has now roped in John for a mainstream Hollywood film

“Luna”.

“After working with John I realized what a wonderful human being he

is. He just brings so much positive energy to the location. And he’s so

willing to learn and participate,” Deepa told IANS.

“John was my first and last choice for ‘Luna’. If I have my way and if he

fits in I’ll cast him in all my films.”

But for the time being, this new collaboration has put brakes on

Deepa’s film with Amitabh Bachchan - “Exclusion”.

“‘Exclusion’ is a very ambitious project. And it’s a script I’m writing on

my own. ‘Luna’ is something that almost fell into my lap. Warner

Brothers gave me a ready script by David Ward. David’s script was

given to me ready to be directed. It was too hard to resist,” said the

director.

“John will be in ‘Exclusion’ too. But that project will be on hold for

the time being. Right now I’m revved up about ‘Luna’. It addresses

itself to a favourite subject, the environment. From the start I’ve been a

child of nature. ‘Water’ had a very strong ecological element.”

Deepa even has an explanation her affection for John. “The love for

nature is another factor that binds me with John. And of course the fact

that my mother adores him just ends all discussion.”

She is one of the most talented actresses in

Bollywood, but Kajol, who graces the screen after a gap of two years

in her home production “U, Me Aur Hum”, says her priority is her

family.

“I am not going to do four films a year. I will work, but at my own

speed,” Kajol told IANS on phone from Mumbai.

After marriage with Ajay Devgan in 1999, the actress cut down her

film roles and was occasionally seen in hits like “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie

Gham” and “Fanaa”.

For “U, Me Aur Hum”, she teams up with hubby. The film, which

releases April 11, marks Ajay’s directorial debut and he has written the

script too.

Asked how different this film is from her other movies, the ebullient

actress says: “Well, I hope it is not so different that it becomes a bad

film (laughs). I won’t say it is different, but it is a very special film for

me.”

“While working in the film I never felt constrained. In fact, it was the

other way round. I felt very comfortable and at home.”

Her debut film, “Bekhudi”, in 1992 did fairly well, but it was

“Baazigar” with Shah Rukh Khan a year later that was her first

blockbuster. She later went on to deliver some of the biggest

Bollywood hits like “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge”, “Kuch Kuch

Hota Hai” and “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham” opposite Shah Rukh.

Juggling multiple roles of a wife, mother, actress and judge of a TV

show, Kajol is neck deep in work. “Time management is a huge issue.

I’m doing it with difficulty. Even a 15-minute delay makes a lot of

difference. But I think it is not impossible to manage all this, you can

do it.”

Commenting on the changes in the film industry in the last one decade,

Kajol says this evolution is vital.

“It is very important that things should change. We should change. You

will die if you don’t change. In the last few years viewers have changed,

their demands have changed, the business of cinema has changed, and

with so many changes the parameters of Indian cinema has changed.”

On rumours that she has signed Karan Johar’s next venture, Kajol said:

“I have not signed the film, but I am discussing it with him. When I

sign, I will certainly let everybody know about it.”

She is having a ball as judge on Zee TV’s new reality show “Rock n

Roll” along with her husband and mother, actress Tanuja. “I’m really

enjoying the reality show. There is so much positive energy,” she said.

She has a high opinion of her fans. “I think we underestimate our fans.

They are so level-headed and know where to draw the line. Only a very

small percentage of fans go overboard.”