Sania Mirza refused to get into details but confirmed her engagement with longtime friend Mohammed Sohrab Mirza was off.
Tennis star Sania Mirza's family has reportedly called off her engagement to Mohammad Sohrab Mirza. Sania got engaged to long time friend Mohammad in Hyderabad in July 2009.
According to a media report, she confirmed it saying, "We were friends for half a decade, but found ourselves incompatible during our engagement period. I wish Sohrab the best in life".
Sania's father Imran, who coaches and manages her career, called off his daughter's engagement to Sohrab Mirza earlier this week.
Sohrab is currently studying business management in the United Kingdom. Sania, who is in Melbourne, has crashed out of Australian Open.
She will go to Kuala Lumpur on Friday for Fed Cup Asia Oceania Group 2 competition.
The
strayer has become a player. The reclusive actor has evolved into a
smartly packaged star. The record- breaking run of 3 Idiots has sealed
his status as the guru of good fortune.
He
quit studies after Intermediate at Mumbai’s N.M. College much to his
parents’ horror, choosing to work as an assistant director for four
years. After his pin-up worthy debut in 1988, he wept every day coming
home from work, convinced that the nine films he had signed in a rush
would crash his career. Then in 2002, after he separated from Reena,
his wife of 16 years, every alternative weekend he would see his
children. Not what you would call the perfect ingredients for success.
But Aamir Hussain Khan, all 44 years and 5 ft 7 inches of him, his
wife’s diamond studs twinkling in ears pierced for Lagaan, has always
swum against the tide. Only now the tide seems to be swimming with
him. He’s just starred in 3 Idiots, a film that has been breaking box
office records at home and abroad, making Rs 240 crore in 10 days and
still counting. His last four films, released over three successive
years, Rang De Basanti, Fanaa, Taare Zameen Par and Ghajini, made a
collective box office revenue of over Rs 590 crore. He makes an average
of Rs 10 crore a year from each of the six brands he endorses. The way
he marketed Ghajini will now be taught as part of a course in film
marketing at IIM-Ahmedabad. The profit he is contemplating from 3
Idiots, as a result of a wise decision to forego his fees and split the
profit three ways between producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, director Raju
Hirani and himself, will be over Rs 20 crore. But more than that, his
films have consistently hit a nerve with audiences, either getting them
to participate in candlelight vigils inspired by Rang De Basanti, treat
children with greater sensitivity as in Tare Zameen Par or even cause
them to bulk up their bodies as in Ghajini. In an industry ripped apart
by camps, he is his own institution, working with untested new
directors (Farhan Akhtar in Dil Chahta Hai) and even failed filmmakers
(Ashutosh Gowariker, who had two flops behind him, in Lagaan). He’s
been a producer for the smash hit Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na which starred
his nephew and made Rs 115 crore at the box office, a director for
Taare Zameen Par and even the unofficial CEO of Ghajini Inc. He shuns
the awards circus and has never been seen in public performing song and
dance routines. Yet his decision to act in one movie at a time is now a
mass mantra and a sure career cure. His help was sought in resolving
the two-month stand-off with multiplexes last year. And equally, his
move to not charge a fee for 3 Idiots could set off a trend of stars
putting their talent where their mouth is in these leaner, meaner times.
Yet as he sits folded up in his favourite chair in the projection room
of his home, two floors below his mother’s home where he was born and
brought up, it is hard to think of the word superstar. He exudes an
aura, but the room is more suited to that of a messy student, with
books such as Katherine Frank’s Indira to Abraham Verghese’s The Tennis
Partner sharing shelf space with PC games and Bob Dylan and Sufi
qawwali CDs. The make-up room is stacked with the tools of his trade,
from spare costumes to a wigmaker’s dummy. And the terminal above his
computer has chronologically labelled scripts.
The actor recently talks about how he lost weight for his role of
Rancho in 3 Idiots, which director Rajkumar Hirani rewrote for Khan, he
speaks of how he modelled the 17-year-old on the boyish director of
Ghajini, A.R. Murugadoss, and his 14-year-old nephew Pablo, who can
never sit still. He jumps up to demonstrate, as he often does in his
exuberance, contorting his body like an over-active teenager. “But
Rancho was also dangerous because he is without a flaw. The audience’s
heart doesn’t go out to such a guy. So I made him curious rather than
cocky,” he says. Thinking deeply about his character is something Khan
has done increasingly, whether it is Bhuvan’s stance in Lagaan, with
his with his weight evenly distributed on his legs to suggest inner
strength, or Aakash’s darting eyes in Dil Chahta Hai indicating what a
shallow layabout he is.
Khan is a star who doesn’t play himself in every film, as Amitabh
Bachchan did at the height of his fame or Shah Rukh Khan tends to do.
He plays the character, which may be why he tends to work with new
directors, who help in creating a fresh persona every time. “Audiences
now expect an element of surprise from him,” points out Kabir. “Like a
magician, they want him to conjure up a new character.” Once he has
identified the perfect script, a director whose vision he shares, and a
producer who will back it, Khan surrenders himself to the moment.
There’s no spillover, no hangover. Everything apart from the movie goes
into a soft focus. “When I read a script, it just goes straight to my
brain,” he says. “It’s like a computer in its memory. It just soaks
everything in and then it’s in my head at all times,” he adds, even as
he acts out the first part he got in a play in Class XII. It was a line
as a painter in a Gujarati play, a role he couldn’t actually perform
because he was sacked for missing a day of rehearsals. The line remains
etched in his hard drive. He repeats it now: “Bloody hell, no one
marries me. I wish his mother gets married to a dog.”
On the sets, Khan is a trooper. He will hang out even when he doesn’t
have lines, or just play scrabble with the assistants. He will promote
the film across the country on every media he can find. And he will
just not want to go home. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who directed him in
Rang De Basanti, and has been a friend since, says, “He makes himself
completely accessible to the filmmaker.” Kunal Kohli, who directed him
in Fanaa, recalls how Khan was apologetic even asking him for four days
off in the middle of the shoot in Mumbai in 2005 because he wanted to
get married to Kiran Rao, a highly rated assistant director. “He’s
there whether it is for readings or costume trials,” adds Kohli. “And
he’s just incredibly intelligent. How many people do you know who can
solve the Rubik’s cube with one hand?”
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After
the success of Wanted Salman Khan is coming with the movie Veer to
impress his fans with a great look. Salman acted in this movie as Veer
which is the name
of the movie itself. Veer Movie is woven around Salman Khan as a
character Veer. Veer is an epic saga and taking center stage is the
brave heart Veer.
Veer Movie Cast:
Director: Anil Sharma Producer: Vijay Galani, Sunil Lulla Written by: Salman Khan, Shaktimaan Talwar
Veer Movie Starring:
Salman Khan - Veer Mithun Chakraborty - Prithvi Singh Lisa Lasarus Sohail Khan - Punya Jackie Shroff - Raja of Madhavgarh
Veer Movie Date:
Jan 22, 2010
Veer Movie Story:
Veer
is an epic saga and taking center stage is the brave heart Veer (Salman
Khan). Veer is the most valiant of the Pindaris, who are enraged by the
British, who are imposing their Divide and Rule policy on India. It is
not just the British that Veer has to fight against. The King of
Madavgarh and his own people also need to be dealt with. Love, revenge,
survival, and courage in the face of adversity, make Veer a mighty
warrior. Will Veer's might grow or will he meet a bloody end?
Veer Movie Review:
As
we seen Salman Khan acted in the movie Wanted। People expect Salman
Khan to do the same thing in the Veer as well As per the speculations
and the trailers looks preety good. Lets see how the film will be.
Salman will surely give their fan a surprising look in the film with
good support from his fans as well.
There
is no denying the fact that Malaika Arora Khan is one of the most
desirable item girl of the tinsel town with the evergreen item numbers
like Chaiyyan-Chaiyyan in Dil Se and Mahi Ve in Kaante, but we have had
a chance to see her share screen space with her brother-in-law, Salman
Khan.
For
the first time, she will be seen together with Salman Khan in an item
song composed by Lalit Pandit, for the Abhinav Kashyap-directed, Arbaaz
Khan-produced ‘Dabangg’. The song, titled ‘Munni Badnaam Hui Darling
Tere Liye’, has been choreographed by Farah Khan. It will be shot in a
set resembling a rugged, sweaty Bihari bar, something like Beedi
Jalaile in Omkara.
It has been
a long time since we saw, Malaika spicing up the screens and we eagerly
await this number, coz Malaika with Salman, is something which we don’t
get to see in an ordinary course.
The year 2009 in Bollywood saw some good movies but very few managed to set the cash registers ringing at box office. The first hit of the year was the edgy Dev D, Anurag Kashyap’s modern version of Sarat Chandra’s classic love tale ‘Devdas’. But after that box office couldn’t warm up to better collections and, to make things worse, there was a producer’s strike for many months of the first half of 2009.
Yet, most of the films that released afterward tanked or managed just average business. Worst was the debacle of big-budget movies like Kambakkht Ishq, Kurbaan, Blue and London Dreams. In the year when more than 90 per cent of the films were declared flops, silver linings came in the form of Wanted, New York and Love Aaj Kal among others.
Here are top ten Bollywood films (in the order of their release) that catered to our entertainment needs and emerged successful at ticket windows.
Dev D As the handsome Devdas of modern times, Abhay Deol couldn’t think beyond sharaab and shabaab. Loves a village belle, but eventually loses his heart to a cute prostitute. Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev D’ was refreshingly different and an instant hit. The movie also featured some good songs and performances.
New York Released in June, ‘New York’ came as a respite for Bollywood. Yashraj Film’s first and the only hit of the year. Katrina Kaif showed her acting skills, so did John Abraham. Kabir Khan tackled the terrorism issue with sensitivity, without taking sides.
Love Aaj Kal This movie not only got thumbs-up from critics but earned well from all the quarters, including overseas. Imitiaz Ali knows how to deliver a ‘romantic’ hit. Loved Saif Ali Khan as Jai, a stereotype modern-day loverboy with commitment phobia and ambitious dreams, and also loved Rishi Kapoor as the old Veer Singh. But Giselle Monteiro was the real surprise.
Kaminey Main ‘sa’ ko ‘fa’ bolta hun! Vishal Bharadwaj’s dark comedy, Kaminey was not a typical masala film, but audiences and critics liked it. Most of all Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra looked very ‘fexy’ together.
Wanted Salman Khan’s no-holds-barred action flick ‘Wanted’ emerged as a box office darling. Prabhudeva seemed at ease wielding the megaphone, just like the way he dances. Propped on Salman’s one-liners and Mahesh Manjrekar’s acting, ‘Wanted’ was a paisa-vasool film.
Wake Up Sid A simple coming-of-age story of an aimless, rich boy. Wake Up Sid, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Konkana Sen, hadn’t something extraordinary to offer, but a simple tale dealing with sheer innocence got the viewers flocking to theatres.
All The Best Though the movie wasn’t really good as a comedy, but Rohit Shetty pulled it off well. And when it’s Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu and Goa locales mixed with songs and comedy of errors, it does work.
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Rajkumar Santoshi returned to comedy in this frothy, breezy rom-com starring Ranbir as a goofy but adorable boy who makes others happy at the cost of his own feelings. Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani also marked a beginning for the stunning on-screen pair, Ranbir and Katrina Kaif.
Paa If you think he should retire, think again, Amitabh Bachchan is still around and here to stay. Paa not just tugged at our hearts, but Big B’s stellar performance left almost everyone spellbound. Moreover, Amitabh’s makeover into a 12-year-old progeric boy was a huge feat in itself.
3 Idiots Straight from the college campus comes Aamir Khan as an ‘idiot’ for 3 Idiots. The movie marks the end of 2009. Aamir has even tried some unique promotional strategy for the film – traveling incognito throughout India and revealing his identity only rarely.
Zarine Khan is making her acting debut with magnum opus Veer along with none other than Salman Khan. And now as the film Veer’s release is just around the corner, the debutant actress desires to make her presence at the premiere grand. She wishes wear an attire of 18th century queen like she’s wearing in the film.
India’s most successful female tennis player Sania Mirza on Thursday revealed that she will hang up her racquet after getting married.
Sania, who got engaged to childhood friend Sohrab Mirza in July 2009, did not elaborate when she plans to marry but said she will bid adieu to the game after tying the nuptial knot.
“As of now, I don’t intend to play professionally after marriage but that is still some time away,” Sania said.
Before getting engaged to the Indian tennis diva, Sohrab had said that Sania will have complete freedom in making her career decisions.
“She has my complete support and backing in whatever she wishes. It is completely her decision for how long she wishes to play,” Sohrab had said in June.
So when asked if it was purely her decision to quit the game after marriage, Sania’s father Imran Mirza said, “It’s her decision for now. If later she decides to play after marriage, its her choice.”
Ever since turning pro in 2003, Sania has been the face of Indian tennis on the WTA circuit.
She also became India’s first female Grand Slam winner when she won the Australian Open mixed doubles title with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi last year.
Sania’s start to the 2010 season though was far from impressive as she lost in the second round of the Auckland event, followed by a first round defeat at the Hobart event but the Hyderabadi is hardly perturbed.
“I think after competing for seven years as a professional and ranked five years in the singles top-100, I’ve reached a stage in my career where my performance cannot be judged on the basis of one or a few tournaments,” she said.
“Wins and losses are part of the game and in a truly global sport like tennis where more than 220 countries compete seriously, except for the top-10 players, nobody wins too consistently,” Sania added.
All that the Indian wants now is to stay away from injuries in the new season. Her wrist injury in 2008 had forced her to spend half the year out of court.
“I am approaching 2010 like any other year. I expect to continue to work hard, try my very best and leave the rest to God. I would like to stay away from any serious injuries during 2010,” she said.
Talking about the year gone by, Sania says she is happy with the way she performed in 2009 although there were only a few moments of glory for her.
Apart from the triumph at the Australian Open which was followed by the final appearance in Pattaya and a win over Shahar Peer were the only high points of Sania’s stay on the tour, last season.
However, the Indian said after losing many a weeks due to pain, the results achieved were satisfactory.
“As a matter of fact, I did play the semifinals in singles in Birmingham and Osaka and won an ITF title in USA besides making the final of a USD 100,000 event in Canada.
“I had singles wins over players like Bartoli and Shahar Peer. Apart from this, I won a doubles title in Ponte Vedra Beach.
“I finished at a singles ranking of 57 after having dropped to the 120’s following my wrist injury. I also had to skip several weeks due to the niggling pain. So, under the circumstances, I’m reasonably happy with my performance,” she said. PTI
The
strayer has become a player. The reclusive actor has evolved into a
smartly packaged star. The record- breaking run of 3 Idiots has sealed
his status as the guru of good fortune.
