Stardust - November 2020

Akshay Kumar worked really hard to promote his film Laxmi. In fact, everybody had a lot of expectations from this film more so as the original film Kanchana was rocking. No wonder, Laxmi became Akki’s biggest opening ever till date. Unfortunately, the film was a total let-down. The director was absolutely clueless whether he wanted to make the film a horror or a comedy. For the traumatised audience, it was literally a horror comedy.

Every year we hear of Salman Khan introducing some of the Bigg Boss contestants like Sana Khan, Gautam Gulati and so many others in his projects. This time, we’ve heard over the grapevine that Salman is planning to introduce the very good-looking and talented Romil Chaudhary too. Though we are yet to get official confirmation, we are keeping our fingers crossed. Way to go Salman… You’re getting in more talent into Bollywood than all the casting director put together.

During the lockdown most of the stars went underground. Katrina Kaif, however, is one actor who has had a whale of time. She discovered her ‘mermaid’ fantasies and headed off to the oceans to swim with the fishes and surf with waves. And of course, sizzle in sexy bikinis and get all the men across the continents hot and bothered. Kat rocks!

Abhishek Bachchan was touted as the lead actor of the web-series Ludo directed by Anurag Kashyap but unfortunately, his role wasn’t as substantial as we thought it would be. Rajkummar Rao in fact was the real hero of this happening thriller. Hmm. We think Abby Baby should protest! He’s too talented to have been wasted.

Poor Deepika Padukone went MIA after all the NCB brouhaha. Of course, a bunch of meanies were trolling her constantly and though her PR machinery were constantly on their toes deleting rude and nasty comments from her social media platforms, the trollers refused to relent. Thankfully, she is slowly resurfacing once again. We guess she’s not going to ‘Kwan’ any time soon.

Hubby Ranveer Singh however was constantly at Dippy’s side. In fact even on their anniversary, he put a touching post with a romantic picture of the two of them with a caption “souls intertwined. Good to see DP has solid support at the home front.

Taking about love and support, Sanjay Dutt has thanked all his fans, family and well-wishers for getting him through the most trying time of his life. This time ‘round, Sanjay has put a post on the occasion of his kid’s birthday stating that he’s “come out victorious” of his illness. We are happy too, Sanjay.

Did you know Siddhant Chaturvedi writes as well as he can act? Well, we were surfing through his insta posts and found to our delight that MC Sher from Gully Boy is an extraordinary rapper and poet even in real life. Come on Bollywood, we want to see more of this talented guy!

Last we saw of Siddharth Malhotra, he was playing dumb charades with his fans. Though we do think Sid is definitely one of the most handsome guys in the film industry, we agree he needs to work on his acting a tad more. Perhaps playing dumb charades will help, what say?

Another talented guy is Randeep Hooda who disappears suddenly from all the excitement as suddenly as he’s back in action. Well, thankfully after a brief hiatus, Randeep is back and we are told he’s shooting somewhere in Karnal for a web-series.

Tiger Shroff has flown off to Maldives to get a bit of sun, sand ‘n’ surf. And guess what we spotted him in flaming red shorts doing some acrobatic somersaults into the azure waters. He sure looked super hot in the super cool ambience. Definitely Tiger, tiger burning bright… in the middle of the ‘swimming pool’.

Talking about super-hot, rumoured girlfriend Disha Patani in an itsy-bitsy bikini sizzled at some seaside haunt. Were you holidaying in Maldives too, Disha? Is it a secret romantic getaway with the rumoured boyfriend? Do tell?

Another star made sure he had some ‘me time’ with his loved ones too. Well, we are talking about John Abraham who cutely posed with his little puppies. He looked as adorable as his four-legged furry pets. This is one actor who stands apart from the milieu.

We did speak about Katrina Kaif a little earlier, so obviously we are going to be talking about Vicky Kaushal. Why? ‘cause we do think there’s something brewing between the two. Of course, we are just romantic fools, what do we know? So what if Kat and Vicky rush off in a hurry in one car in the middle of a party. It could be a script discussion, right?

Talking About Vicky Kaushal, well he has also signed his ‘Uri’ director Aditya Dhar’s second film Ashwathama. Well Aditya believes Vicky is his lucky charm and wants to recreate ‘Uri’s resounding success once again. Well, we too think they are a winning combination and can’t wait for the film to go on the floors. Go for it Aditya!

Rumours were abuzz when Taimur was seen smiling from ear to ear holding a little baby, claiming Kareena Kapoor Khan had delivered a baby girl. Well, hold your horses’ people… the baby was some cousins’ and though Taimur looked as if he was all ready to welcome a new entrant in the family…. Kareena still hasn’t delivered.

Anushka too who is about seven months pregnant is being mollycoddled by her hubby Virat. In fact, Virat who was playing the IPL in UAE took a break in the middle of a game to call his gorgeous wife to check if she’s been eating properly or not. Awww!

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has always been rather vocal about touchy topics moreso as she’s one actor who doesn’t believe in taking the middle path. This time, she was asked about sexism in Bollywood and she readily confessed that ‘Yes it does exist’ instead of being politically correct as many of her contemporaries are. Way to go Sonam!

Sushant Singh Rajput’s sister Shweta sent a very touching Diwali greeting to SSR’s fans. She urged them to celebrate the festival the way he would. Five months after his death, combating rumours, wrangles and more, it’s nice to see SSR’s family still remaining positive and hopeful.

All’s quiet on the Kangana Ranaut front right? Ya, that’s ‘cos she was busy organising the wedding of her brother Akshit which was indeed a grand affair. So it was nice to see the firebrand take a breather and chill out for a change. She really should do this often, it suits her!

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Shahid Kapoor who dropped in at celebrity stylist Aalim Hakim. But when Aalim’s staff requested the Jersey star to pose with them for the shutterbug, Shahid not only kindly obliged but also posted the same on his insta handle.