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And now the actor Akshay Kumar refused choreographer turned director Ganesh Acharya, when he approached him for an item number in his film –“Money hain Tho Honey hain”. While Akshay was busy finishing the shooting schedule of his film Singh is Kinng , Ganesh Acharya visited the sets and asked him to do an item number in Money Hain Tho Honey Hain”

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Akshay the money maker who wanted his price, asked the director to fix a meeting with the producer Kumar Mangat if they wanted him to do a item number. Actor is said to have quoted 1.5 crore for this number.

Akshay, whose 3 films earned around 730 crores for the bollywood industry in 2007,is said to be in peak of his career and is demanding a whooping 20 crore fo each film . And for just an item number his quote of 1.5 crore seems to be worthy…

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Bollywood stunner Deepika Padukone has made a frank confession about her Om Shanti Om co-star Shah Rukh Khan .

In an interview with BBC, Deepika spoke about her experience of working with Shah Rukh and Arjun Rampal in the Farah Khan directed blockbuster.

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"While I wasn’t part of the ’Dard-e-Disco’ song, we all knew that Shah Rukh was working hard on his body. I was there for the filming as I wanted to be the first to see his body, to feel it and make sure that it’s for real," Deepika said in the interview.

Though she is impressed with 42-year-old Khan’s body, Rampal is what makes her go weak who she says was her first crush.

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"I think he looks very handsome. He is tall and chocolaty. I would be very happy if I get a chance to work with him. Arjun too was a model before he entered films and I got to learn a lot from him," she said.

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Padukone termed as rumours the reported ’deep friendship’ between her and cricketer Yuvraj Singh, saying she appreciates only cricket.

"People will keep spreading rumours and the media will keep writing about it, but my family and my friends know everything. I don’t applaud any single player (at cricket matches), I clap for the whole team. The cricket team is playing well and is bringing glory to the country," she said.

Deepika is presently busy with Yashraj’s next project in which she is paired with Ranbir Kapoor .

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Welcome to Shanti town, a.k.a Farah Khan’s filmi fudge-quake.

Is it homage to the zany anything-goes spirit of the Hindi potboilers from the 1970s? A kind of Manmohan Desai dolled up in the crispy, corny, catch-me-if-can-can spirit of the new millennium?

Or is this supposed to be a straight-off adaptation of Subhash Ghai’s "Karz"?

The hasina in this case is the much-awaited, much-hyped Deepika Padukone. A pretty face, sweet smile and an old-world charm… That’s about it.

The deewana is of course the irrepressible Shah Rukh Khan, who gets to slip into two eras, and never mind the aura. Farah, who’s a close ally and collaborator of the star, provides no breathing pace in this wheezy take on the infamous formulae of our commercial cinema.

Some of the film’s bona-fide comic romps come during awards functions when Subhash Ghai and Rishi Kapoor fight to give away an award, Abhishek Bachchan tries to hide a scowl or Akshay Kumar gets nominated for his umpteenth "Khiladi" film.

And yes, that title song with all the glorious screen kings and queens, parading in pirouetting pleasure, is nearly priceless in choreography and spirit.

But that’s about it.

Farah Khan’s agitated screenplay takes quivering pot shots at one and all, from the bombastic dialogues of the cinema of the 1970s, to Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Khanna to the infamous on screen mother, played here with delightful spoof by Kirron Kher – she talks in maudlin rhetoric and embraces clichés of maternity with unconditional ecstasy.

The same, alas, cannot be said about the spirit with which "Om Shanti Om" embraces the spirit of our cinema. The mood is one of patronising and condescension rather than genuine admiration for an era that’s gone with the wind.

Farah’s narrative careens between maudlinism and satire. It sometimes spoofs, sometimes tilts its hat to the films that came in the era of great aura and élan, the two qualities sorely lacking in this work of confounding kitsch.

There are some terrific moments of satire in the plot. The opening scene, in which junior artistes (Shah Rukh and Farah) cheer Rishi Kapoor as he jives on stage to the "Om Shanti Om" track in Subhash Ghai’s "Karz", is a masterly piece of homage to a way of cinema that’s gone-bye-bye.

Soon, however, Farah forgets the satirical mood of her narration, which keeps swinging from homage to imitation with artifice.

Often the devices that are used to generate nostalgic amusement in the first-half are deployed after interval in dead earnestness.

A song sequence in the first-half has Shah Rukh and his object of adoration Deepika riding a stationary car in a studio with back-projection simulating movement.

In the second-half the same device is used without any spoof when the second Shah Rukh, a spoilt bratty specimen of vivacious vanity, rides in the wilderness on the arch-villain Arjun Rampal’s limousine.

Rebirth, which would be considered fodder for 1970s’ style of suspend-your-disbelief cinema in the past, here becomes a matter of immense thematic propulsion.

The climax is an insult to all enthusiasts of traditional commercial cinema.

Bimal Roy’s "Madhumati" finds its nemesis in the hands of these fun-seekers.

Caught between the mawkish and the mockery, the film’s creator thinks smart-aleck one-liners are enough to sustain a three-hour feature film, "Om Shanti Om" barely survives its own arrogant self-regard, thanks to some genuinely entertaining moments provided by Shah Rukh.

His take-off on a South Indian masala matinee-idol in the scorching sun of a humid studio premise is first-rate. So are his expressions of not-so-furtive adoration for the rather pale heroine.

"Om Shanti Om" is like a cracker that fizzles before the promised sizzle occurs. The studio atmosphere where the junior-artiste and his buddy (Shreyas Talpade) hang out with self-conscious nonchalance would have made Guru Dutt smile.

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Shreyas Talpade, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Kirron Kher
Writer-Director: Farah Khan