The Filmfare Awards night is the biggest, most glamorous night in B-Town where stars turn up looking their sparkling best in sarees or gowns or suits. We take a look at the stars that rocked the red carpet.
Dazzling Beauty and her Beau: Kareena looks absolutely stunning in this white Manish Malhotra saree with gold and silver embellishments. Her accessories are perfect, her hair and make up flawless. Saif looks absolutely dapper in his navy blue suit with his shiny tie adding a dash of colour. The French beard makes him look even more handsome.
Indian Beauty: It has been a while since we saw Ash go all Indian. We like the bindi, middle-parting hair-do and the bright lipstick. The shimmering gold saree is apt for the dazzling night.
Black Beauty and Beau: Kangana carries off this edgy-Gothic-Diva look brilliantly. The chains lend a unique touch and the gown flatters her figure. Her make-up with smoky eyes and pale lips is apt for her Gothic avatar. Adhyayan plays safe in an all black suit.
Purpleicious: We love her shiny silver accessories add dazzle to the flowing deep purple gown. With twinkling eyes, rosy cheeks and coloured lips, she looks like an adorable movie-star.
Elegance Personified: There is something very simple and elegant about this gown. We love the layers and textures it has. With minimal make-up and accessories, and her red lipstick adding a tinge of colour, Anushka carries off this gown beautifully.
Indian Bombshell: No one can look sexier than Bipasha Basu in a saree. We love her wavy hair and emerald jhumkas. The black saree with heavy copper embellishments is absolutely gorgeous and the red bikini blouse is sensual. The colourful bangles complete the look.
Well-Dressed Trio: Arjun looks smashing as usual in a black suit, Mehr sparkles in her green Godess gown and Arjun's mother glows in a saree on her son's big night
Ajay Devgan has been in the news of late thanks to his upcoming films Rajneeti and newly announced All The Best. However, this time he isn't making the headlines for any of his films. Instead it is the actor's imported bike that has drawn not just ours but also the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence's attention towards the star.
Just months ago she was a virtual nobody, but with the eight Oscar sweep by her debut film "Slumdog Millionaire", Indian model-turned-actress Freida Pinto is now hot property for magazine covers.
Things are not looking good for the Baweja boy.
Actress Sonal Chauhan, who starred alongside Emraan Hashmi in "Jannat", is on a roll. She will shoot at the Seven Wonders of the World for a song worth Rs.6 million.
If director Rohit Shetty (of GOLMAAL RETURNS) had his way, Katrina Kaif would have been his leading lady for ALL THE BEST.
After wrapping up the shooting of his forthcoming venture Kites, Hrithik Roshan will begin shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s yet untitled next with Aishwarya Rai in coming 2009 summer.
Anushka Sharma must be eternally grateful to the King Khan.
Mission Istanbul girl Shweta Bhardwaj is heavily smitten by Shahid Kapoor.
Kareena Kapoor has turned writer for her dietician Rujuta Diwekar! Confused? Well Bebo has written a foreword in Rujuta Diwekar's bestselling book, Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight and in that she has herself revealed her breakfast secrets that lead to her size zero figure.
Freida Pinto has leapt off Bombay's local trains and into Hollywood's limousines. MANJULA NARAYAN looks at the transformation of the girl next door
Then she landed that role in Slumdog millionaire. She began spending time with Danny Boyle and the crew, taking time out to show her leading man Dev Patel the sights including, perhaps, the Queen's Necklace, the neo-gothic buildings that had once prompted Aldous Huxley to call Bombay "one of the most appalling cities in either hemisphere", and seedily exotic Colaba.
Was it because she now speaks with a Miss India accent she couldn't have picked up at St John's Universal High School, Goregaon? Any day now you expect her to have a white-gloved-palmto- face Sushmita Sen moment.
If you thought 2008 was the year of Kareena Kapoor then wait till you hear what’s in store for this stunner in 2009.
Surprisingly Kareena is full of praise for her supposed arch-rival Priyanka Chopra. “I don’t know why so much is made of our rivalry. We’re in totally difference spaces. She does her own films. I do mine. Whenever we meet she’s really sweet to me. I don’t understand why we’re made out to be two squabbling sirens. Please, we’re grownup women.”
Director Ajay Chandhok displays a flair for comic entertainers, but there's not much he can really do since the writing (Yunus Sajawal) is archaic and outdated.
Moon Moon Sen's daughters Riya and Raima Sen have carried the beauty legacy ahead in Bollywood started by their beautiful grandmom Suchitra Sen but success has however constantly eluded them.
Photography by George Pitts
I don’t think I’d have an issue (doing a love scene), but it all depends on the director—what kind of work he’s done in the past. In India, I probably wouldn’t do something like that; it’s kind of taboo. It usually gets cut off at the censorship board level, so what’s the point of having shot it?
While all the hoopla and euphoria surrounding A R Rahman’s double Oscar has been talked about no one knows he had a close shave with death during the rehearsals for his stage performance for the Oscars.
The film has not taken the box office by storm but when I meet him for this interview at his office in the bungalow Janak, Abhishek tells me that what appealed to him when he was offered the film Delhi 6 was the fact that though Roshan is an American by mind, he is an Indian by heart.
Abhishek is of the opinion that his life has not changed after marriage in any way, because now he has a wife like Ash who he considers to be his best friend. Abhishjek denies that it is a conscious decision on his part to do most of his films with Ash.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra thinks out of the box and it's more than evident now. First AKS, then RANG DE BASANTI, now DELHI 6. A two-liner of the story may give you an impression that it's similar to UTV's earlier outing SWADES, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker: An American of Indian origin returns to his roots and decides to stay back in India. But DELHI 6 bites more than it can chew.
DELHI 6 tells the story of a young American boy Roshan [Abhishek Bachchan] of Indian origin, who comes to India for the first time, to drop his ailing grandmother [Waheeda Rehman]. She wants to retire and spend the last leg of her life back home; dissolving into the soil she was born in. 
But the screenplay isn't foolproof. The romantic track is the weakest link in the enterprise. The love story falls flat. Also, the ending is so abstract that an average moviegoer would find it difficult to comprehend what the actual culmination is. The sequence in the end, when Amitabh and Abhishek have a conversation, looks weird. In fact, ridiculous. What was the need to have this sequence? It makes no sense. Even the Ram Leela sequences, interspersed at regular intervals, are forced in the screenplay. 
Prem Chopra is alright. Atul Kulkarni looks like a buffoon. And what is Raghvir Yadav doing in this film? Supriya Pathak, Tanvi Azmi, K.K. Raina, Akhilendra Mishra and Dayashanker Pandey are passable. Amitabh Bachchan's presence in the penultimate minutes fails to evoke any reaction. 
