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Katrina Kaif is undoubtedly Bollywood’s reigning beauty but Katrina Kaif has still not won a Filmfare award and is "dying" to get her hands on the ’Black Lady’.

"I haven’t won a Filmfare award till now and I am dying to win one. But I can never be a judge for myself whether I should get a Filmfare award as it for the audience to decide," said Katrina who was in town to announce the 56th Idea Filmfare awards.
The 26-year-old is also on the cover of Filmfare magazine’s latest issue along with her ’Tees Maar Khan’ co-star Akshay Kumar.
The actress who is tipped to be in the race for a Filmfare trophy this year for her performance in the hit political drama ’Rajneeti’, said that she is excited about the new wave of cinema in Bollywood.
"Look at the type of films being made nowadays.
Its really commendable. Films like ’No One Killed Jessica’ is a classic example of this. I am amazed everyone is so excited about it including me," she said.

Ram Charna Tej 3rd film Orange is all set to release on Nove 12 and the audio will be launched on October 25.

Orange, described as a new wave love story with the tag line Love in Fall is directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar. The female leads are played by Genelia D’Souza and Shahzahn Padamsee. Music is composed by Harris Jayaraj.

The film is produced by Naga Babu under the banner of Anjana Productions.

Directed by Kevin Greutert

Produced by Mark Burg, Oren Koules

Written by Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton

Vamsi might be directing Ravi Teja again. Although Ravi Teja agreed for Vamsi’s proposal of doing sequel to Ladies Tailor last year itself, the movie didn’t take off. Now the project seems to be revived. According to sources, Ravi Teja recently called up Vamsi and asked the senior director to work on the sequel. Released in 1985, Ladies Tailor is sort of trendsetter in comedy movies and the film strengthened Vamsi’s status as new wave director in 80’s. He has been planning to make a sequel to this blockbuster with a title Fashion Designer for over two years but hurdles keep coming for it to really take off. Finally Ravi Teja seems to have okayed the movie.

But it can only go to the sets next year as Ravi Teja is currently tied up with two films - Mirapakaya that is under progress and Veera that goes to the sets in November.

If after the conclusion of the traditional family Mukherjee Durga Puja , in October will be announced. Therefore, there is speculation that the strong appointment is about to be in November.
Both Aditya and Rani have the path of denial of their relationship will continue to talk as much. Aditya is said, divorced his first wife to his relationship with this beauty bong legalize.
Coming to his career in Bollywood, it seems, take a look brighter in the near future, it is the best time to solve the actress's personal life.
Aditya tries, the magic of Rani with his latest film Dil Bole Hadippa face much younger hero Shahid Kapoor new. He has lost several kilos to look younger and Shahid game, but nothing helped.
The movie was not good at the box office and Rani Use career in Bollywood has almost ruined.However, if the marriage happened in reality, and if the rate is Aditya, Rani can expect a new wave of Chopra!

There is no confirmation that the AT&T exclusivity for the iPhone has ended, just rumors that it either extends to the end of 2010 or even to 2012. Still, an analyst believes as many as 17 percent of Verizon customers would switch to a Verizon iPhone, if such existed.

In a research note released Monday morning, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty estimated that nearly 17 percent of the carrier’s customers would upgrade to an iPhone.

“According to our [Alphawise U.S. consumer iPhone survey], there is substantial pent up iPhone demand within the Verizon installed base as 16.8 percent of Verizon subscribers said they are “very likely” to purchase an iPhone if offered on the Verizon Network. This 16.8 percent is higher than AT&T subscriber’s 14.6 percent extreme interest in the current AT&T iPhone and well above the overall iPhone extreme interest of 7.5 percent.”

If you recall, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega didn't see that there would be a huge exodus from AT&T when a Verizon iPhone was released, and Huberty agreed.

Historically, past losses of exclusivity in other countries have not ended up with a severe impact to the original carrier. In addition, AT&T's recent early termination (ETF) fee changes will lock users in. Huberty said:

• 60 percent of the iPhone base is locked until 2H11/1Q12. An iPhone refresh could bring a new wave of subs to AT&T and extend the lock-down of those who upgrade. 80 percent of AT&T’s postpaid subs are sticky customers (70 percent are on a Family Plan (FP); 40 percent on business discounts).
• For current subs, the Early Termination Fee (ETF) is $175 falling $5/mo for the term of the contract; for new smartphone subs it’s $325, falling by $10/mo. Every line on a FP has a contract/ETF of its own. In addition, customers would have to pay for a new device if switching carriers.

Cinema has never taken an ’escapist’ route for veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who continues to weave social issues with entertainment in his movies.

The 75-year-old filmmaker, who is known as the pioneer of New Wave in Indian cinema during the seventies with films like `Ankur`, `Nishant`, `Manthan`, has turned to comedy with `Welcome To Sajjanpur` and most recently `Well Done Abba`.

The filmmaker says his aim is to bridge the gap between the young generation and rural India as he believes that cinema plays a major role in developing our sense of reality.

"I do feel its important to tell our generation about the problems faced by rural India. One of the problem we have had in the past 10-15 years of Hindi cinema is that it has become so predominantly urban that the rural India has just fallen off the map," Benegal told PTI.

"But in reality it does exist. A lot of us know the world through cinema. So if you are going to be so completely urban you would not realise that next to you there is a large rural hinterland. Therefore it became important for me that the problems of rural India are shown once again," Benegal added.

And to attract the Gen Y, the Padma Bhushan filmmaker is using the English titles of his films as a hook.

"English has become a predominant language among the college going kids and working class so the title does help to connect with them," Benegal said.

After making gritty social dramas in the past the multi National Award winning director feels that his style has changed and he now prefers the genre of satire.

"I have mellowed down and I look at the ironic side of the problems now. I feel that they can be explored in a different way with the medium of comedy," Benegal said.

But the multiple National-Award winning director will always be telling the stories of soil through his work as he believes that they are appreciated.

"I was very happy to notice that `Welcome To Sajjanpur` did really well. It was like by people in metropolitan cities, in first class cities, small towns. It had a single screen presence as well as in multiplexes which was very heartening," Benegal said.

The filmmaker hopes that his Boman Irani, Minnisha Lamba starrer `Well Done Abba` which hits the theaters on Mar 26 will also be well received.

"The film has done its rounds in International film festivals like New York, Dubai, Palm Spring and we got good reception. Although its an extremely Indian story, it has been liked by foreign audiences as well," he added.

According to Benegal, `Well Done Abba` is a comedy which has two things at the centre of it-- a political satire and a romantic comedy.

Minnisha, who grabbed eyeballs as the `bikini babe` in `Kidnap`, will be seen in a total de-glam avatar in the film.

"She plays a young, feisty girl. I don`t make my actresses look like they will win Miss World title. But they require a certain kind of personality that makes them very attractive. I look for that and I think she has done a wonderful job in the film," Benegal said.