News : Sanju’s love for Mallika's bikini irks Manyata

Mallika Sherawat has donned a bikini in ‘Double Dhamaal’ and Sanjay Dutt’s appreciation of Mallika’s bikini moment has irked his wife Manyata Dutt. Sanju Baba later made her understood that it is only for film promotion and he has no such thought in his mind. Manyata started to think ill after media reported Sanjay’s love for Mallika’s bikini moment.

Though Sanjay has ranked Mallika Sherawat 7 out of 10, the filmmakers have apparently chopped the bikini scene from the movie keeping in mind the Indian audience.

Now that the bikini scene has been deleted, the controversy comes to an end.

Sanjay Dutt and Kamal Haasan considered to play the Osho role

Almost two decades after his death in his ashram in Pune, charismatic yet controversial preacher "Bhagwan Rajneesh" - also dubbed the "Guru of Sex" due to his advocacy of free sex - is to be resurrected in a film on his life and actors like Sanjay Dutt and Kamal Haasan from the Indian film industry are being considered to play the main lead.

Italian film director Antonino Lakshen Sucameli, an Osho disciple himself, is in talks with production companies in both India and abroad as well as senior Indian actors to resume work on "Osho: The Film", which was conceptualised more than five years ago.

The 54-year-old, who was in Nepal this month to attend a course at the Osho Tapoban in Kathmandu, is now back in India to hold talks with powerful Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan and Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, an associate in Nepal said.

"The shooting will start by next year," Swami Rishi from Osho Tapoban, Kathmandu told reporters. "Part of the film will be shot in India."

When Sucameli, known for his mystic films "Blue Line" and "Zorba Il Buddha", began work on the script, Kabir Bedi and Irrfan Khan were also approached to act in it. The director is still looking for a Hollywood actress to play Clara, the journalist through whose eyes the mesmerising - as well as turbulent - life of Osho will unfold.

Inspired by Bertolucci`s "Little Buddha" and Oliver Stone`s "JFK", Sucameli plans to weave in his film videos on Osho, who was born Chandra Mohan Jain in Madhya Pradesh in 1931 and in the 1970s established himself as a new age guru advocating a luxurious life-style as well as experimental therapies that combined sex with violence.

When Clara arrives in the ashram to investigate Osho`s life, including his deportation from the US in 1985, she falls in love with his Indian security chief Satyam, and an East-West love story punctuated by flashbacks from India`s colonial past forms the core of the film.

Sucameli met Osho in 1978 when he arrived in India and became his disciple.

Osho`s sensational life has attracted other filmmakers as well. In 2006, an Indian company, Media One Venture of Chandigarh, had announced plan to make a film, "Guru of Sex" that was to have cast Sir Ben Kingsley as Osho.

Sanjay Dutt unable to shave off his beard during Knock-Out film

Sanjay Dutt’s dates have gone haywire, all thanks to the beard that he has grown for his role in Mani Shankar’s Knock-Out.

The beard was supposed to come off this month after the completion of his schedule for Shankar’s film. But Dutt’s mentor Amar Singh played the spoilsport. He asked Dutt to campaign for the assembly elections in Maharashtra.

That’s when Dutt’s shooting schedule got somewhat messed up.

Says a source close to Dutt, “Sanjay Dutt was supposed to complete the current schedule of Knock-Out and then move on to Indra Kumar’s Dhamaal Part 2, the next schedule of Anees Bazmi’s No Problem and the remaining portion of Bunty Walia’s Lamhaa. But suddenly Sanjay got a call from Amar Singh asking him to campaign for the by-elections in Maharashtra.”

When Amar Singh summons Sanjay Dutt hears no other voice.

Says the source, “Sanjay immediately gave the dates required. Resultantly his schedules were thrown off by two weeks.”

Two weeks in itself would’ve not been such a setback were it not for the beard. Apparently Dutt refused to shave off the beard to work on other pending projects simultaneously with Knock-Out.

Says the source, “Sanjay feels a false beard would cut into the authenticity of his character in Knock-Out. He refused to shave off the beard and take on the other projects after the delay caused by the by-elections. He requested other producers to push up their dates until he could finish with his bearded look.”

Dutt has now decided he will hold a ‘Look’ for his film even if means cutting down on his assignments. In fact after he was unable to shave off his beard during Knock-Out he gave others producers the option of signing someone else.

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Today's educational system to guide our youngsters

Sanjay Dutt had thumbed his nose at academic qualifications by fudging his way through a doctorate. Now in Faltu, he questions our educational system in a less satirical far more serious tone.

When Vashu Bhagnani wanted to re-launch his son, he needed an A-lister as a box-office support.

Every leading man declined politely. Only Bollywood dildaar, Sanju Baba, came forward to work with Jackky Bhagnani in a film that starts in September to be directed by choreographer Remo. It will star Sanjay Dutt and Vashu’s son Jackky who made his debut this year with Kal Kissne Dekha.

Jackky’s second film is not an escapist entertainer. Says Vashu, "It’s a film about the lacuna in present-day education. When I heard Remo’s story, I was bowled over. It’s about the failure of today’s educational system to guide our youngsters into suitable careers. It’s about how there’s too much stress in and on academics and too little on actually tapping every child’s potential. Remo has earlier made an award-winning Bengali film (Lal Paharer Katha with Mithun Chakbraborty)."

Vashu’s son’s post-debut film going by the improbable title of Faltu sounds like a departure from convention.

"It is," concedes Vashu. "But nothing conventional works any more. I want to bring new talent into the industry. And the title is an acronym. I can’t reveal the full form. It will give away the plot."

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