Bollywood's latest happenings at a glance

All eyes are set on the big three films - Kites, Rajneeti and Raavan. The films are expected to extend the summer box office fest after Housefull and Badmaash Company. However, if any of these three films fail, that would immediately pull down the industry by at least 50 crores.
Manisha Koirala may happily settle down after her marriage but before that she would have to go through the ignominy of seeing the release of her stuck film Ek Second Jo Zindagi Badal De?
Better days are there ahead for Tusshar Kapoor. He has been signed by Rajshri Productions for a solo romantic film. The film would be directed by first timer Manavsi and would feature Amrita Rao opposite Tusshar. The film goes on floors this July.
Film maker Anees Bazmee has an eventful 12 months ahead. He would be seeing the release of four his films one after another - It's My Life, No Problem, Thank You and Ready.
After Zeher, Arshad Warsi has taken a dark route again by signing a gritty cop drama for debutant director Bejoy Nambiar, an erstwhile assistant director with Mani Ratnam
There is quite some competition ahead in the Diwali month of November as three high profile films - Hrithik Roshan's Guzaarish, Ajay Devgn's Golmaal 3 and Akshay Kumar's Patiala House would be vying for screen space.
Do we see yet another Katrina v/s Zarine debate hotting up? Buzz is that Zarine Khan has been signed for Partner 2 starring Salman Khan and Govinda.
Hrithik Roshan'as much-hyped film "Kites", which released worldwide on Friday (May 21), garnered a mixed response from critics and fans. The love story, which marks Hrithik's return to the big screen after a gap of two years, is high on style but falters in the writing department, feel critics. They also lamented that Kangana Ranaut has been wasted with a "half-baked" role. Critic Anupama Chopra said Hrithik was spectacular but the film "does not become more than the sum of its parts because the second half is flat and in places, outright foolish". The film is produced by Rakesh Roshan and directed by Anurag Basu of "Gangster" fame. Hrithik Roshan, actor, speaks exclusively to TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on his new film.

Katrina Kaif is 2008's sexiest Asian woman

Bollywood Star Katrina Kaif has now won the

coveted title of sexiest Asian woman in the world this year in a weekly based in the UK. Last year's topper, actress Bipasha Basu has now fallen to number two.Kaif landed on the top of a list of ten in a yearly roundup held by the Eastern Eye, a leading Anglo Asian publication.The judging panel included Brianna Ragel, editor of Asian Woman Magazine and FHM India's former editor Farhad Dadyburjor.According to Hamant Verma, Eastern Eye's editor, "Katrina Kaif's natural beauty and easy charm has enabled stock to rise in Bollywood. This has resulted in a number of lucrative offers, and appearances in films that proved to be box-office hits."Katrina, who grew up in the British capital, landed one notch above actress Bipasha Basu, last year's number one, and two above actress Priyanka Chopra, the winner in 2006. Third on the list was actress Kareena Kapoor.Newcomers to this year's list of the 'sexiest' included Pakistani star Mehvish Kayat at ninth place, Miss India Universe Simran Kaur Mundi in tenth, the former Miss Sri Lanka Jacqueline Fernandez in twelfth and South Indian actress Asin in twenty-second place.Aishwarya Rai, a former Miss World landed up in seventh place.Looks like Kat has no place to go but up!

Ranbir And Dipikapadukon

According to sources, “Deepika Padukone had got the news from her sources about Ranbir’s growing comfortability on and off the sets of Rajkumar Santoshi’s Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani during the two month shooting schedule in Ooty. Deepika got very insecure when her sources from the sets of the same film told about what was happening between the two in the Goa schedule.He further added, “It is learnt that during the Goa shoot both Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif appeared more than comfortable with each other than before even in front of the unit members on the sets. Deepika Padukone went to Goa straightaway after hearing from her source. During her one day trip she met her source and came back to Mumbai.”When Ranbir Kapoor came to know about the incident, he made call to Deepika Padukone and they had an argument over the phone which ended up in Deepika hanging up on him. Since that day, Deepika has been avoiding picking up Ranbir’s calls,