After a successful innings in the southern film industry, Ileana D'Cruz wants to make it big in Bollywood. With plans to settle here, she is looking for a perfect pad for herself in the city of dreams.

Her first Bollywood release is , which is coming out Sep 14. In the Anurag Basu directed movie Ileana will be seen sharing screen space with Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.

"My parents are presently living in Goa. I am looking for a place in Mumbai so that they can shift here with me. I want to settle down in Mumbai. So right now I am hunting for a house in the city," the 24-year-old told IANS.

In 2006, she bowed in movies with Telugu film " Devadasu" and has since worked in many southern movies including " Pokiri", " Jalsa" and " Kick".

"My father recently called me and said he is extremely proud of my work and for me that's a huge achievement. He has never been biased. He will never compliment unless he means it. It is very flattering," she said.

Being in showbiz means looking fit and attractive and she admits that she is conscious about it.

"I am very conscious about my body. When you are in the limelight, people criticise your looks. It takes a lot of time for me to get comfortable. When people say that you have a good physique, there is a constant state of disbelief. But I am not shy. Looking pretty and doing make up is part of my job," she said.

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Actress Kareena Kapoor remained tight-lipped when reporters asked about the date of her wedding here today.
"Right now, only one date is fixed - a date with you all, at a cinema near you on September 21, which is also my birthday. Right now, only one date is fixed," she said.
She insisted that she is busy with the promotion of her soon-to-be-released movie 'Heroine'.

"We don't give importance to that topic like you all do. Right now there is no time, as we are busy with the promotion of 'Heroine'. There are lots of events happening, like interviews almost every day relating to 'Heroine'. So there is no time to think about it (marriage)," she said.
Although Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor continue to maintain silence about their much awaited wedding, Saif's mother Sharmila Tagore indicated at an event recently, that it will take place in October.
There has also been a buzz in the media that the wedding will take place on October 16.
The couple had officially declared that they will tie the knot in the beginning of 2012, after the release of their film 'Agent Vinod'. However the film did not do that well at the box office and both the actors got busy with other projects.
They later postponed their wedding to October -November.

The last speaker of the summit, Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, entered the auditorium to resounding cheers.

Despite pleas by Group Synergy Officer and session moderator, Kalli Purie it took ten minutes for the crowd to settle down.

Miss India 2000, Bollywood A-lister and soon-to-be global popstar, Chopra took to the podium to discuss "Music, Movies and Life" amidst loud applause. She narrated the story of her path to stardom; from humble beginnings as the geeky daughter of an army officer to winning the Miss World crown.


Actor Priyanka Chopra at the India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit 2012.
An entertaining speaker, who knew how to work the crowd, Chopra narrated several interesting anecdotes from her rise to stardom.

"I was aprehensive before joining films. People asked how I would be able to adjust in Bollywood. But I was sure that I could learn. If I could learn how to survive in an American high school, if I could learn to walk in heels and represent my country, I knew I could learn how to act," says Chopra.

She went on to discuss her forthcoming film 'Barfi' in which she plays an autistic girl alongside Ranbir Kapoor and also expressed apprehension regarding the success of her debut as an international singer.


Priyanka Chopra at the India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit in New Delhi.
"It's nerve wracking. It's like giving an exam," she said. Her album is scheduled for a September 13 release.

Inspiring the crowd, Chopra encouraged everyone to be at peace with who they are. "The world is your oyster. Be who you are and make only those decisions that you can live with."

She concluded her speech by singing two lines from Tinka Tinka to an ecstatic crowd.





Priyanka Chopra shares a light moment with Kalli Purie, Group Chief Synergy Officer, India Today Group.
Q1. How did you overcome your flaws?

A. If I take off my heels, I'll be the same gawky teen again. I think it is okay to be flawed. I didn't stand out for many months, I used to hide from people and not eat lunch at school. You have to work on your flaws to improve yourself. If I can do it, so can everybody else.

Q2. How do you switch from playing a modern girl to a desi girl?

A. I think all of us have a bit of both in us. We wear jeans and saris, our culture is a mix of desi and modern. Understanding different aspects of characters helps me to switch characters.

No matter what, if people are asked to point out the most striking feature of Vikram Bhatt’s ‘Raaz 3’, they would undoubtedly put their fingers on Shanaya Shekhar. Bipasha Basu performs the character with a finesse that one might – I admit – only hope to replicate, and perhaps succeed. But the woman sweeps you off your feet. Whether with her devilish laughter ringing in the ears long after one leaves the theatre or with the bloodshot eyes where all the raaz resides, Basu casts a spell with her Shanaya.

Shanaya Shekhar is the actress every producer dreams of roping in and every director aims at directing. In the film industry, Shanaya is the reigning star. Till Sanjana Krishna (Esha Gupta) forays into it. Three years after the entry of Sanjana, Shanaya becomes a producer’s choice – only if Sanjana denies signing a film. Aditya Arora (Emraan Hashmi) is a director who rises to fame, thanks to Shanaya(or so thinks the latter). Shanaya’s desire to ruin Sanjana makes her resort to black magic, and what ensues is ‘Raaz 3’.


The film stands out more for the acting of its cast than its other aspects, I daresay. Emraan Hashmi, by now, has been able to strike a chord with his audience. After a not-so-acclaimed Sonu Dilli KKC in ‘Jannat 2’ and an extremely well-received Joginder Parmar in ‘Shanghai’, Hashmi has managed to prove his detractors wrong. His acting skills are way more convincing now, and he manages to perform the Director-in-dilemma well enough – both when he is kissing and when he is not.

Esha Gupta has taken her performance several notches higher, but at times is overshadowed by the others. The fact that she is just one film old in the industry might work to her benefit, but her acting requires polishing. As the coy, shy, lovelorn Sanjana, Gupta is charming. Comparisons with the film’s predecessors are inevitable given that it is the third in the franchise. Esha performs way better than what Kangna did in ‘Raaz 2’, but Bipasha in the first one is undoubtedly the one who shines steadily among the trio of the damsels in distres





 The film’s technical aspects are commendable. Vikram Bhatt is the man who brought 3D horror films to the country, and in his third rendezvous with the technique, he has performed really well. After ‘Haunted 3D’ and ‘Dangerous Ishq’, the third film from the director is actually brilliant as far as the 3D is concerned. Several scenes stand out among the plethora of enlarged insects and objects flying towards the audience; and the one where Sanjana is attacked by innumerable cockroaches deserves a special mention. I’m not very scared of cockroaches as such, but henceforth when a cockroach flies at me, I might have to scream out loud.

Vishesh Films and the Bhatts have a way with the music in their films. Songs like ‘Rafta Rafta’ and ‘Deewana Kar Raha Hain’ will be hummed, sung and whistled by many people and for a long time to come. Bipasha in the title track is hot enough to fire your brains out.

For a person who isn’t scared easily, ‘Raaz 3’ wouldn’t be able to do much. However, it doesn’t have the used-and-abused clichés of blood running out of water taps and windows incessantly banging in the wind – and thank god for that. The film somewhere seems lacking something as far as the element of horror is concerned. Ample usage of the technology of 3D might have been able to make up for it at places, but sending chills down the spine all through is not what the film does.

Watch ‘Raaz 3’ for Bipasha and its 3D factor. The sheen of Shanaya wouldn’t disappoint you. And like Shanaya so confidently claims in the film, Bipasha too “was a star, is a star, and will always remain a star.

Sonakshi Sinha describes herself as a grounded person and says that she enjoys appreciation, but at the same time is aware of the fact that fame is a relative term.

"I'm happy that I'm being appreciated as an actress and who doesn't like box office success? I just wish that I do good films that audiences love,"  said Sonakshi Sinha

"I'm very grounded as a person. I know that fame is a very relative term. When films work well, fame comes naturally. I just hope that I do good work and people remember me for them," added the actress who gave two back-to-back blockbusters - Dabangg and Rowdy Rathore.

"I never pick a film knowing it will be a blockbuster. I pick a film that is interesting and at the end of it all, audiences have to like it. We are entertainers, who hope to entertain always with every film," Sonakshi told IANS.

Sonakshi forayed into Bollywood with 2010 film Dabangg, which broke all box-office records. Her second film Rowdy Rathore entered Rs.100 crore club, though her recent release Joker, which had Akshay Kumar in the male lead, failed to create the same magic at the box office.

Her next Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2 is also with Akshay.

"Akshay is a superb co-star to work with. He is a thorough professional and I have learnt a lot from him. He is one of the most punctual stars in Bollywood and it is a great quality. He is also a super actor who is so dedicated to his craft," she added.