Today's Celebrity Culture in Bollywood

In a time when we are constantly bombarded with celebrity gossip – who’s sharing a bed with who, who has had new boob job and who has managed to find the worlds smallest dog and dress it up like a little girls doll you would be forgiven if you lost a slight sense of reality.
Can these people really be making a living by fluttering their eyelashes and flashing a bit of skin? Well seemingly the answer is yes and in a way we are all to blame.
Celebrity culture has been around in one way or another since time began, people have always looked up to their hero’s, in the past you would have such celebrities as Edna Manley (the famous artist) and Bobby Moore (Famous Footballer) but it seems that people have started to worship a different kind of celebrity.
These people have little or no talent but somehow manage to find it onto the front-page of every newspaper and magazine going. Just look at Paris Hilton, she is locked up in prison but still manages to make front-page news!
I believe that UK celebrity worship started to take a turn when the Celebrity Big Brother of 2007 aired on channel 4. Three UK “Celebrities” caused a massive world wide up roar by appearing to bully the Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, this caused national outrage and the three “celebrities” were branded as racists.
Two of those celebrities haven’t been seen in the papers since (Jo O’Mara and Jade Goody) but one celebrity has somehow managed to raise her profile after the whole affair. Danielle Lloyd a former Miss Great Briton and former playboy cover girl took a time out after the Big Brother show and now appears to be back stronger than ever.
Will the public forgive these “celebrities” for anything or will we all eventually get tired of seeing non entities on out TV screens and on the front pages of our newspapers.
Only time will tell but I for one look forward to the day when we can let our children look up to celebrities because of their amazing talents, be it acting, singing or dancing, rather than “celebs” that make a living by dating footballers and appearing on reality TV shows.

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Nudity in Indian Movies - Spread of a Virus

Indian sub-continent, which comprises of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan had its own social values all along. Its much different then those in western countries. With the availability of information, differences of cultures becoming less and less distinguished day by day.
Nudity has made its own place in Hindi movies. A very distinguished place. If there is no shaking of Boobs, Ass its a flop.
Until the late 80s and even early 90's movies from various movie sectors in India, bollywood, kollywood, tollywood etc , concentrated on the action , comedy, drama as the key elements to make the movie a block buster. They had good actors, good story writers who could really deliver the success. And now a days with lot more people coming to movies, everybody want a shortcut road of success. Not necessarily they all have talent. And the preferred way of going up the hill is exploiting old, basic natural human attraction, sex.
Until few years back, topless women were not shown on the screen. This was so strict in India as they boasted about their "unique culture " they possessed. We seem to be so proud of something that is presently in scarce now, moral and culture. But never did we analyze the truth and never were we ready to accept that we are hypocrites.
"The films were so good", says our grand parents. Do we have the same scenario now? Directors don’t want their reputation spoiled with a flop. So most movies cast actors, getting drenched in the water and showing off their "biological features" directly and indirectly.
And the truth is very plain:
We want to view such scenes.
Directors need to make money.
The actors/actresses are into this for money, cheap fame, and quick ride to top.Lies are everywhere. The culture in our country is so badly shattered that it needs a rebuild at once. Or at least a repair.
The effect on the society is devastating as well. How many movies can be named when asked for ones that have created a positive attitude in us? Very few is the answer... (For e.g. anbe sivam , stalin ,mozhi, munna bhai 1,2 ). But when asked the opposite question any movie name that comes to your mind would easily suffice the answer. And worst of all is the bollywood industry which churns out a humpty number of junk movies with such crap in it. Sins, girlfriend, murder you name it, it has big crap in it! Where is the need for sexually rousing scenes as shown, if the script and the story were great?
And the effect on the community is very negative. You see children and families are watching movies, and just think what effect it would have on the young minds and also the embarrassing situation of the parents who would find it very difficult to explain to their kids as still in India we follow the conservative policy for bringing up our kids.
And certain incidents in India show that we’ve misunderstood the concept of westernization. Where is the need for neha dupia to pose for the playboy and show off? Why is that they do not think that they reflect INDIA as a whole.
While some actresses are more than willing to shed few clothes and pose their tawny skin, Bollywood has come up with a solution to create more hype with actually including digitally created nude images of those who are not willing and for this help is sought from Hollywood . Director Louis used this SEX trick in his recent release " ho sakta hai " where actress mohini ( as parvati ) is shown praying nude inside a lake to appease the devil and get his blessings.
Well, we could all point our fingers at our actress for starring in such movies. They will point their finger at the directors for getting them act in such scripts and in turn the directors will point their finger at us for making such films a big hit. Everybody is to blame us, the directors, the producers, the actresses, the society, westernization etc. But digging to the roots would yield an astonishing fact that where there was great culture, there remains nothing but ruins of it.
It is only up to us to wake up and do the necessary amendments to re-channel the river to where it belongs, stopping the slide in moral values and making the entertainment media into something that really entertains

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The Hot Aishwarya Rai Wedding and Her Life

Aishwarya Rai - Miss World 1994.
Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to Krishnaraj Rai, a marine engineer, and Vrinda Rai, a writer on 1st of November 1973.Rai attended the Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai, then entered Jai Hind College, Churchgate, and Mumbai for one year and then moved to Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai to finish her HSC. She was an A student and was on track to become an architect. Her mother tongue is Tulu.
She also speaks Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil. Rai began modeling on the side while pursuing for studies in Architecture, which did not materialise. In the 1994 Miss India contest, she was controversially placed second behind Sushmita Sen, and went on to win the Miss World title that same year and the Miss Photogenic award. After a year of reign as Miss World in London, she then worked as a professional model, in advertising and Indian fashion magazines and later got into Aishwarya debuted in Mani Ratnam's Tamil language film, Iruvar (1997) with Mohanlal. She was introduced to Bollywood in the film, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya; the film did not do well at the box office.
However, her third project, a Tamil-language film, Jeans (1998) by S. Shankar was a critical and commercial success for which she was awarded the Filmfare Best Actress Award South. Aishwarya then appeared in many Bollywood films; a few successful films of her career include Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Taal (1999) for which her performance was applauded. She was awarded the Film fare Best Actress Award for her role in the former. In 2000 she had a supporting role in the hit film Mohabbatein and also in another hit film Josh. In 2002, Rai appeared with superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit in the lavishly produced Devdas, which was a major box-office success and earned her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. The film attracted overseas attention as well, receiving a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival. It was during this time that she garnered the attention of the West as an Indian actress and went on to appear in a few Hollywood projects.
She was chosen by Time magazine in 2004 as one of the World's "100 Most Influential People" and in 2003, appeared on the cover of Time magazine. She was the subject of a 60 Minutes profile on January 2. A month later she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. She was also featured on Oprah's "Women across the Globe" segment. In 2003, she acted in the critically acclaimed and commercial success Bengali film, Chokher Bali, an adaptation of one of Rabindranath Tagore's novels by the same name. Rai has been a regular at the Cannes Film Festival since 2002, and was a member of the Jury at Cannes in the year 2003. In October 2004, a wax figure of Rai became on display in London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
The same month, her first foreign film was released: Bride and Prejudice. The film was an Indian version of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice. The film did well commercially in the U.K but not in India. Her next overseas venture, The Mistress of Spices, was critically acclaimed though not commercially successful. She then appeared at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, as part of a performance showcasing Indian culture, on behalf of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, to be held in New Delhi. In between her overseas acting stints, she appeared in the Indian film Bunty Aur Babli in a hugely popular seven minute dance sequence for the song "Kajra Re".
At the end of the year 2006, she had two releases: Umrao Jaan and Dhoom 2. Umrao Jaan did poorly in India; however, her role in Dhoom 2, a sequel to the 2004 hit movie Dhoom brought her great attention. It was a hit commercially too.2007 saw the release of Mani Ratnam's Guru which premiered in Toronto. The film, based on the life of Indian businessman Dhirubhai Ambani, was critically acclaimed and a big box office hit. Her most recent film, Provoked, based on the book "Circle of Light" where she portrays a real life character, was released on 6th of April, 2007 in India and the UK. The film did well commercially in the UK. It was critically acclaimed all over the world. At the end of April 2007 her first American film, The Last Legion, was released in Russia and the Netherlands. The film is expected to open in North American theaters in August 2007.
She was linked with different co actors at different times. Her relationship with Bollywood hero, Salman Khan is an open secret. Then she was linked up with Viveik Oberoi, another actor from the film industry. After much speculation concerning their relationship, her engagement to Abhishek Bachchan was announced on January 14, 2007.They married on April 20, 2007 in a private ceremony held at the Bachchans' bungalow Prateeksha. The event was heavily covered by the media. Presently Aish (as she is fondly called) is enjoying her world tour with her husband and has been away from the limelight for some months. The viewers are eager to watch Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on screen again.

Riya Sen- The Hottest Bollywood Actress And Model!

This 5”1 Bollywood actress was born on January 24, 1981 in Kolkata, India. She belongs to a famous family clan of West Bengal. She is the grand daughter of Suchitra Sen, a legend in Bengali cinema, and daughter of Moonmoon Sen, a former actress. Before moving to Mumbai, she lived with her parents and sister Raima Sen, also an actress, in Kolkata. Her father Bharat Dev Varma belongs to the illustrious royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi is the Maharani of Jaipur.
This gorgeous lady first stepped under the arc lamps at the tender age of 15 when she faced the camera for the famous Tamil flick “Taj Mahal”, directed by Bharati Raja. And this is how her acting career started blooming.
Her Bollywood film debut was supposed to have been in Love You Hamesha, opposite Akshaye Khanna. Soon after that it was her comedy movie Style that took her to the success.
Well, most of her other films have not done well on the box office. An exception is Jhankaar Beats, another comedy in which she co-starred with Shayan Munshi, Juhi Chawla, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna and Sanjay Suri. Most of her appearances have been item numbers and cameos. Her few leading roles have been in low-budget films.
She has also made her career in modeling, where she appeared in numerous music videos for songs by popular singers, including Asha Bhonsle, Falguni Pathak, Jagjit Singh and Sonu Nigam. She was one of many Bollywood stars who appeared in Haath Se Haath Mila an anti-HIV/AIDS music video.
She is also a successful advertising model. The high point of her modeling career was started when she replaced Lisa Ray as the Lakmé Girl. Her other notable assignments include Colgate, Limca, Vatika, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, and Margarita King.
After doing her last movie “Apna Sapna Money Money" this young and charming lady has lost again… there is no other fourth coming movies in the row that shows her…Might be she will come back with a new style and passion again.