June, 2009

German supermodel-turned-actress Claudia Ciesla, who is considering a Bollywood career, has rubbished rumours that she is dating Indian superstar Salman Khan and insists that Katrina Kaif is his girlfriend.

“Salman and I are just good friends. He is not my boyfriend, as has been reported. Everyone knows that it’s Katrina Kaif who is his girlfriend and not me. I haven’t even been that long in India to start controversies,” Claudia, 22, told us in an interview.

She was in the capital to promote her film ‘Karma: Crime, Passion, Reincarnation’.

“Everything (rumours) started when I was in Europe. I couldn’t even keep track of it because I was busy over there. But now I hope everything is clear… even Salman had clarified everything in interviews and I am doing the same,” she added.

A leading daily had reported that the model was the actor’s new muse and reason behind the Salman-Katrina split.

The occasional singer, who has already cut two albums, also conceded that she understands “it all happens when you are in showbiz”. She says rumour mills started working overtime after Salman invited her to his place.

“The only thing was that he invited me to meet his family. Even Katrina was there and they made me feel most welcome,” said Claudia, who was on her fifth trip to India since January 2008.

But the negative reports haven’t stopped her from praising Salman.

“Salman is a wonderful person. He is very gentle and polite. He and his father gave me a lot of advice for my Bollywood career. Even Katrina and I spent a lot of time together and she gave me a lot of advice. She told me about her career and how she learnt Hindi. It was amazing. I respect her a lot for that,” she said.

On being asked if Salman promised her to find work in Bollywood, she said: “Salman didn’t promise me nothing. Why should he?”
Her film ‘Karma: Crime, Passion, Reincarnation’, directed by M.R. Shahjahan, won prestigious awards at the Spain and Greece film festivals and was also premiered at Cannes.

The film is a dramatic thriller about an Austrian girl (Claudia) who is raped and murdered during her visit to India in the 1970s and how she reincarnates and comes back to the same place after 30 years.

“I am seriously thinking about coming into Bollywood. After the rainy season, I’m planning to stay here for a long time…I’ll rent an apartment in Mumbai and even start taking Hindi lessons,” she said.

She has already worked in Italian and German sitcoms, -German-Indian collaboration ‘Ki Jana Pardes’ (Punjabi), and Bengali movie ’10:10′.

Claudia says she has three Bollywood offers in hand and that she is coming out with two music albums respectively in German and English.

Source: IANS

The big Khans of Bollywood – Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan , Salman Khan and Saif Ali Khan are not attending this year’s IIFA Awards function but Bollywood’s power couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Bachchan have managed to heat up Macau.

Abhishek and his wife Aishwarya have arrived Macau for the 10th edition of IIFA Awards. The couple looked happy and excited. Abhishek even got hold of the video camera of one of the journalists and gestured to the onlooking fans. He said that the event would be fantastic.

Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of the IIFA Awards 2009. Actress Lara Dutta will host the awards ceremony along with Boman Irani and Riteish Deshmukh. Jackky Bhagnani, who is making Bollywood debut with Kal Kissne Dekha , is going to perform at the event.

Yes, this is Amitabh Bachchan. You’d be excused for doing a double take, but chinta not – he hasn’t actually shaved off his hair.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan would be seen sporting a completely different look in his upcoming movie Pa.

This is the much-protected, top secret look that he’s sporting in the Balki-directed movie, Pa . The film is being shot in Delhi, and Big B’s son Abhishek is also part of the cast and in the city. While Abhishek has been seen at the shooting location daily, Amitabh has been coming and going like an ‘undercover’ agent – literally, for they kept him under the cover of a towel. The unit has been extremely careful about keeping this look under wraps, changing Amitabh’s routes to and from shooting.

According to sources, the make-up artiste is a firang lady, and she takes about four to five hours to achieve this look. The make-up has been done at Amitabh’s Gulmohur Park residence on all the days of shooting.

Amitabh Bachchan plays Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan’s son in the film. The role is of a man who ages faster than normal people do.

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