“This is why I am mixing it all up now. I guess these movies were a great platform for me to showcase my acting talent. Having established that, I deserve to let my hair down now. Due to this I picked a film like ‘Housefull’,” Arjun told IANS.
“It was good fun to be a part of this riotous outing since it’s a genre that I haven’t ever ventured into. I wanted to do a lighter film after all the aforementioned films and I am glad I did ‘Housefull’ even though my character is still quite intense,” he added.
Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by Sajid Khan, the film also stars Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Boman Irani and Jiah Khan. Along with the mammoth star cast of the film, Arjun had a blast shooting for “Housefull” all over Europe through the months of July and August.
“We all had a lot of fun since the overall atmosphere was so great. Both Sajid Khan and Sajid Nadiadwala made sure that our entire stay was so comfortable and happy. I could feel an overall positive energy that was prevalent all these days.
“It was so important actually to get the right camaraderie since the film is about so many characters all thrown together in tricky comical situations,” said Arjun, who is back in town after shooting for “Housefull”, which is almost complete.
The actor has seen a huge upswing in his career over the last few years with movies like “Rock On” (2008), “Om Shanti Om” (2007) and “Don – The Chase Begins Again” (2006) bringing him critical as well as commercial success. And not to forget his performance in 2008 film “The Last Lear”.
Even though his recent release “Fox” has come and gone, Arjun has already moved on and is now looking at his future projects. With movies like Prakash Jha’s “Rajneeti” and Karan Johar’s Hindi remake of “Stepmom” under his belt, Arjun is also happy to finally have a sense of belonging in the Hindi film industry.
“I have been around since 2001 when I had three releases ‘Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat’, ‘Deewanapan and ‘Moksha: Salvation’, all arriving back to back. After almost a decade in the industry, I can now proudly say that the industry has embraced me,” the supermodel-turned actor said.
A young man from Delhi who has managed to find a slot for himself all on his own, he remembers the times when he was a complete outsider.
“At that time a person like me just wished for a sense of belonging। Believe me, it’s a lonely and tough journey and you have to slog really hard. I too learnt it all over a period of time. Today, I am happy with the work that I am getting and am finally coming into my own,” Arjun said, getting a little emotional.
Genting Highlands (Malaysia), April 2. (PTI): Bollywood director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra walked away with the Best Director award for his much acclaimed film "Rang De Basanti" at the 10th Zee Cine awards here.
The movie also bagged the Best Film, Best Editing (P S Bharthi), Best Cinematography (Binod Pradhan), Best Music Director (A R Rehman) and Best Lyricist (Prasoon Joshi) awards at a glittering function late last night.
Hrithik Roshan took away the Best Actor award for "Krrish", while Kajol was given the Best Actress award for "Fanaa".
Another big winner was the movie "Lage Raho Munnabhai", which won six awards for Best Screenplay (Rajkumar Hirani/Abhijit Joshi), Best Dialogue (Rajkumar Hirani), Best Story (Rajkumar Hirani/Abhijit Joshi), Best Actor in a comic role (Arshad Warsi), Critics' Award-Film and Critics' Award-Actor (Sanjay Dutt).
Konkona Sen-Sharma and Abhishek Bachchan received the best supporting actress and actor awards respectively.
The song titled "Beedi Jalaile" from the film "Omkara" was adjudged the Best Popular Track of the year.
The event, attended by most of the Bollywood fraternity, was hosted by Bollywood Director Karan Johar, Actors Saif Ali Khan, Urmila Mantodkar and Shilpa Shetty.
Zee Network, which held the award night overseas for the fourth time after Dubai (2004), London (2005) and Mauritius (2006), also gave away the Life-Time Achievement award to veteran actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna, while the "ravishing" lady of Bollywood Rekha took home the Forever Diva Award.
The "Badshah" of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan took away the Audience Award for Fun Entertainer and also enthralled the audience with a dance performance from his movies "Don" and "Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna".
Performances by Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai, Katrina Kaif , Priyanka Chopra, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan kept the audience glued to their seats during the award night.
Of all the 37 awards given during the award function, the Golden Trophy Zee Award was renamed as the Zenith Award.
54th Filmfare Awards finally happened on Saturday night and the event appeared vigorous at Yash Raj Studios even at that time when the clock told 1.30 a.m. The dance floor got thumbed with the boisterous feet of the Gen Next’s stars – Ayush Khedekar, Tanmay Chheda, Azharuddin Mohammed, Ashutosh Lobo, Rubina Khan and Tanvi Ganesh (from the Oscar winning movie, ‘Slumdog Millionaire).
These kids from the city of Mumbai, though new to Hindi cinema, but they have become already popular with the success of the film and after the Oscar statuette. Shah Rukh Khan described them as the fresh and new talents of Bollywood’s future. The awards’ function was hosted by the new blood of Bollywood – Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan (who replaced Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan).
Both Ranbir and Imran (who, before the show, rehearsed a lot to crack the jokes and make the audience smile at the event), with their wicked sense of humor, ran through the audience like a fire. They made everyone enjoy the fiesta with their fun-filled actions, taunts and pulling legs of the stars present there. They literally raised the laughs. When the duo hit the ‘gay’ note, the filmmaker of this movie (Dostana), Karan Johar along with sexy Deepika Padukone and Konkana Sen Sharma came to join on stage compering. It was fun everywhere.
Hrithik Roshan won the best actor award for his marvelous acting in ‘Jodha Akbar’. And the dusky Priyanka Chopra bagged the Best Actress award for the film, ‘Fashion’. Ashotoah Gowarikar’s ‘Jodha Akbar’ was declared the ‘Best Film’ of the year. The small budgeted flick too looted the black lady like ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan (Best Film for Critics Award and Best Screenplay), ‘Oye Lucky Lucky Oye!’ and ‘Rock On!’ also won several honours. The veteran costume designer and Oscar winner Bhanu Athaiya was graced with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
Om Puri, the legendary actor of international repute, was also given the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by Amitabh Bachchan. The emotional Puri recalled his days of struggle, saying as, “scrawny, long-haired, funny-looking fellow who dared to dream.”
In spite of the onstage moments, what happened at the backstage appeared more interesting and nail-biting. Like the ones:
* When Bachchan family was arriving majestically to sit in the front row where Rekha was sitting already.
* When the lovers Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor inconspicuously went backstage when Kareena’s ex-lover Shahid stepped out of the front to perform on the stage. And after his performance when he sat on his seat, both Saif and Kareena ducked out.
* In her speech, when Kangana Ranaut won the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ award, everyone was thinking that she was mentioning her boyfriend
Adhdhyan (as she mentioned ‘someone special’ in the speech) but it got cleared later that she was describing about her sister Rangloi.
The ones, who set the stage on fire with their dance movements, were Abhishek Bachchan, Shahid Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and newcomer Jackie Bhagnani. Bipasha Basu, Rekha and Katrina complimented Shahid for his wonderful performance. Bipasha told him, ‘You Rock’. And Rekha said Shahid, “You’ll come to collect your Best Actor Award in ten months’ time.”
The whole audience gave AR Rahman a standing ovation (for his winning two Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire) when he came to collect his black lady for ‘Best Background Score’. Anil Kapoor missed the function.
Shah Rukh Khan too recalled his days of struggle like Om Puri and said, “Om Puri recalled his struggling days, and I remember my days when I was also scrawny, long-haired and funny-looking … but we dared to dream and we made it। So there’s hope for everyone who dreams.”
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