Tabu hospitalised in Kashmir

Yesterday, Tabu was rushed to Srinagar's Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences. She was shooting for Haider in Srinagar's Nishad area.

Mirror has learnt that the actress couldn't bear the severe cold and decided to warm herself near a bonfire outside the heritage bungalow where they were shooting.

The smoke made her breathless and she was rushed to the hospital 13 kilometres away, by the local unit co-ordinator. After four hours, she was discharged but shooting was cancelled for the day.

Jennifer to join mean moms

 

Jennifer Aniston is in early talks to star in the film Mean Moms.

The 45-year-old will be a part of the movie, based on Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bee Moms and King Pin Dads: Dealing With the Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make - or Break -Your Child's Future, reports a leading website.

It narrates the story of a mother who is forced to deal with some grown-up "mean girls" in her suburban neighbourhood.

Mean Moms will be directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller.

Save oceans, says Leo

Hollywood star Leonardo Dicaprio has donated USD 3 million to an organisation that advocates conservation of ocean.

The 39-year-old actor's philanthropic organisation donated USD 3 million to Oceana for the conservation of ocean habitat and marine species, reported a website.
 "Protecting our planet's oceans and the marine species that call it home is one of the most pressing sustainability crises facing humanity today," DiCaprio said in a statement.

The actor's foundation dedicates itself to protecting the earth and since 1998, has worked on pressing environmental and humanitarian issues.

Puppy love

Anushka Sharma flies down from Sri Lanka for the weekend to spend time with a special someone, and no, this time it's not Virat Kohli.

Seems Anushka Sharma's steady date Virat Kohli has some stiff competition. The cricketer's biggest rival has turned out to be his lady love's six-month old Labrador who goes by the name Dude. And the lab has been spending countless nights without his pretty owner.

To ensure that her puppy love doesn't forget her, the actress dashed back to Mumbai for the weekend from Sri Lanka as soon as she got a short break from Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet.

Reveals a friend of the actress, "Anushka is really close to Dude. She doesn't want him to treat her like a stranger when she returns after the long schedule." 

Anushka's parents who are also in town were taken by surprise by her sudden visit. Will she be meeting Virat too who, incidentally, is also in Mumbai? "I'm not sure. The weekend is exclusively dedicated to Dude," the friend says.

Well, every dog has his day, but some are just lucky to get the whole weekend! 

Finding Dino

Two years ago, Dino Morea candidly admitted that he had no offers and didn't want to be tagged a flop actor by doing bad movies. Then he disappeared. Last week, the 38-year-old returned from a six-month stay in Delhi. He had enrolled with NK Sharma's theatre group to reinvent himself as an actor.

Says Dino," When I was producing Jism 2, I was itching to act in the film. I wondered what I was doing wrong. I was told to join acting institutes in New York/London, but I wanted to train with someone with Indian sensibilities. Sharma and I hit it off instantly and I moved to Delhi. For the first few days, I felt awkward, but eventually, I settled."

For six days a week, Dino took seven-hour lessons from Sharma, from 3 pm to 10 pm. He also did several plays and learnt that there are different ways to approach every role. "Now, I can play a character like a performer. Earlier, I was just acting for money and to be a part of big setups," he says, adding that interacting with his colleagues in Hindi helped. "Perfection in Hindi is a must in Bollywood. It changes your thought process."

He insists that even his body language has changed. "Now when I approach filmmakers for roles, I can convince them not to look at me just as Dino Morea. I can make any character believable," he asserts.

Sanjay Gupta has signed him to play an industrialist in his next film, Mumbai Saga, after Dino showed him this picture from one of his plays in a Sardar get-up. Says Gupta, "Dino was very good in my film Acid Factory. What happened to him happened with John Abraham too. Here people have preconceived ideas that models cannot act. We need to give these guys time and good roles and not simply write them off. Hats off to Dino that he has returned to prove a point."

Meryl Streep to play another Iron Lady

Meryl Streep is set to play another British Iron Lady. This one is an early 19th century women's rights activist Emeline Pankhurst.

Streep, who won an Oscar for her performance as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, will play Pankhurst in upcoming drama Suffragette which co-stars Carey Mulligan as a young feminist who is frustrated by the movement's peaceful protests. It will be shot in the U.K. next week, according to an entertainment website.

Charlie Sheen's fiance still married to another man

Charlie Sheen's wedding to fiance Bret Rossi will have to wait as she is yet to officially separate from her husband Jonathan Ross. Ross filed for divorce on July 18, 2013. The Couple had been married for almost a year and don't have any children. Rossi didn't file a response until January 30. Sheen proposed on V-Day.

Philip Seymour Hoffman leaves estate to partner

Details of Philip Seymour Hoffman's will reveal that he has left the bulk of his money to long-term partner Mimi O'Donnell though the exact value of the estate is not known. Reportedly, the couple had separated just months before his death on February 2. The couple had three children, Cooper, Tallulah, and Willa.

According to a will dated October 2004 and filed in a New York court this week, the actor also used the will to set up a trust fund for son Cooper, who at the time was his only child.

It requested that Cooper be brought up in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco, and if that was not possible, he visit those US cities at least twice a year.

Gwyneth denies cheating buzz

Gwyneth Paltrow has slammed rumours of cheating on her husband Chris Martin with Kevin Yorn, a top entertainment lawyer, according to a leading daily.

"The story is absolutely false. Gwyneth knows Kevin casually through business contacts. She is not romantically connected to him," her spokesperson Stephen Huvane asserted.

He added that the Shakespeare In Love star had met Yorn only once when they were on a flight together from New York to Los Angeles.

The allegations of Paltrow cheating on her husband surfaced earlier this week via an application, Whisper.

Paltrow married the 36-year-old Coldplay star Chris Martin in 2003. They have two children.

One flop is not the end for me

Tamannaah Bhatia on why she's working with Sajid Khan despite the Himmatwala debacle.

The Himmatwala remake flopped but Tamannaah Bhatia is working with her mentor director, Sajid Khan, again in his next film Humshakals. "One flop is not the end of the world for me, I'm grateful Sajid'and Vashuji (producer Vashu Bhagnani) still have the faith in me," she says. "If Himmatwala had been my first film, I don't know how I'd have reacted. But I wasn't an overnight star even down South. It took me over five films to get a hit. The Himmatwala debacle hasn't changed anything for me."

She's juggling both film industries and admits it can get tricky at times. She explains, "Down South, they want the women to be fuller, in Bollywood, it's about having a fit body. So I try to be somewhere in between."

Will she ever wear a bikini? "I wouldn't judge anyone who does - but my contract clearly says no kissing and no bikini. I have set a few boundaries for myself. If any film is destined, it will come to me," she asserts.

And will she ever go under the knife? "Why should I? I have good looking parents. My body parts have not been touched up,"she retorts.

She's worked with three senior actors -- Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan "They have survived for over two decades. I would never compare the three."

Darr@The Mall

The setup is intriguing enough to name the mall 'Amity', remnant of the small town terrorized by a Great White Shark back in 1975 (Jaws). For a change, there are no vengeful witches (close enough), religious voodoo, Victorian castles, rapist ghosts or Vikram Bhatt.

Within the confines of this stumbling genre, director Kirpalani does a decent job with a predictable script. There is only so much originality left to operate with; even the ghosts have begun to look alike. There are plenty of set pieces (elevators, AC ducts, Mannequins, kids, CCTVs), but none as jarring as the Raaz series.

The horrors of digital cinematography are exposed during rare exterior shots, but one particular ice skating rink sequence stands out for its eeriness.

No horror film should be more than 90 minutes long. At a whopping 125 minutes, this film is more about what it hasn't done wrong than what it's done right.