Yes, it's the same Kajal Aggarwal who expressed in many interviews that she would never don a bikini in her films. Kajal has taken her fans and those in the industry by surprise by going topless for a magazine cover photo shoot.
The popular magazine's September issue carries the interview of the actress and the cover page has her posing topless. The actress has gone topless and has sported an haute pair of stockings with polka dots. Although the pose doesn't seem overtly suggestive it is minimally voluptuous.
What's even more interesting is that, in the same magazine's inside cover interview, the actress says that she is not ready to wear bikini and not certainly okay to do a kissing scene.
The popular hottie of South is now basking on the success of her Bollywood debut, the super hit 'Singham' where she is cast opposite Ajay Devgan. She is currently busy with a Tamil movie 'Maatraan', starring Suriya.
For sure, Kajal's act has caught the attention of media and movie buffs... One bold move, indeed!

 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was honoured with the Pazhassiraja Purashkaram - 'Abhinaya Kaala Ratna' - by the Pazhassi Raja Charitable Trust. Other recipients of this award were Lata Mangeshkar, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and many others from other fields.
The Pazhassi Rajakeeya Puraskaram is an award which has been instituted by the Pazhassi Raja Charitable Trust and it's a distribution ceremony where eminent personalities of international reputation from across the country are honoured.
An interesting fact - earlier this award has only been conferred to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya's father-in-law, and now Lata Mangeshkar and Aishwarya have joined the eminent list of recipients.
However, Aishwarya could not attend the event as she had a prior family commitment out of town but a message was sent across where she said, "I'd like to dedicate this award to every professional I've worked with throughout my career and to all my audiences in India and the world over for their love, support and blessings.....and my family!"
The ceremony was to happen in Delhi earlier in the year in the presence of the President of India but due to the sad demise of his Highness Sankara Varma (the senior Raja of Pazhassi Kovilalam) the ceremony has rescheduled to be staged in Mumbai in the presence of His Excellency, The Governor of Maharashtra now.
Pazhassi Raja Charitable Trust was formed with the noble intention of remembering the great pioneer freedom fighter Veera Pazhassi Rajaand, his uncompromising patriotism and of introducing him to the new generation.

 

Raj Kapoor is many things to many people: producer, director, actor, editor, musician, story-teller, a man of many moods, an acknowledged patriarch of India's film making industry. There will be endless debates about his exact contribution to the art of cinema, but few can deny that he was the greatest entertainer known to Indian films - the great showman.
Ranbir Raj Kapoor was the son of Prithviraj Kapoor the head of India's greatest and largest film family. He started work as general factotum for Bombay Talkies before moving on to assist Kidar Sharma. Here he was made to sweep floors and be the clapper boy but Sharma noticed the young man's determination to make it. Sharma gave him his break as a lead actor in 1947 with Neel Kamal opposite Madhubala.
The following year at the age of 23, Raj Kapoor made his directorial debut with Aag, the first film under the RK banner. Aag was an interesting film in that it challenged traditionally established conventions of sympathetic characters and straightforward storytelling. It was also the first of his many films with Nargis, the two of them going on to become the leading pair of Hindi films. Aag was also the first of many of Raj's films to explore duality - Aag looked at Physical beauty v/s Inner beauty (a theme revisited in Satyam Shivam Sundaram [1978]), Barsaat [1949] looked at Love v/s Lust, Mera Naam Joker [1970] at Public life v/s Private life etc.
Mehboob's Andaaz (1949) made Raj a top star and in the same year it was the passionate romance Barsaat which really reckoned Raj Kapoor as a director of much merit.
Barsaat, a runaway hit, also brought to the limelight new music directors Shankar-Jaikishen, lyricists Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri and the actress Nimmi. The raw passion between Raj Kapoor and Nargis in Barsaat shot with a beautiful almost poetic use of light and shade drove audiences wild. The music of the film was hummed across the nation and along with Andaaz and Mahal that year, the songs were instrumental in Lata Mangeshkar's climb to the top as a playback singer. In fact Raj Kapoor's musical sense and feel for rhythm and involvement in music sittings have ensured the highest quality of music in his films.
The fifties saw Raj Kapoor's greatest work as a Producer-Director besides establishing himself as one of India's biggest ever film stars along with Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar - the Trimurthi!
Awaara (1951), the tale of a vagabond was perhaps his greatest triumph and was released in Russia as Bradyaga to unprecedented success. It's dream sequence with huge statues set amongst the clouds to the strains of Nargis dancing to "Ghar Aaya Mera Pardesi" stands out even today!
With Awaara, Raj Kapoor created the Chaplinesque tramp, an allegory for the innocent state of mind of the post Independent Indian. This image was used once again in Shree 420 (1955) tracing the corruption of an innocent soul who comes to the city to make his living. In fact, many of Raj's other films look at the naïve simple hero used by a cruel and corrupt society like Anadi (1959).
After his break up with Nargis (their last film together was Chori Chori [1956] though she did do a cameo in Jagte Raho [1956]), while Raj Kapoor continued to explore social issues - Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960) or complex human relationships - Sangam (1964) there is a marked difference in his treatment of the heroine who became a sex object with a high accent on her physical attributes.
Going back to the Chaplinesque image, Kapoor made his magnum opus Mera Naam Joker (1970) about a clown who laughs on the outside and cries within and though absolutely brilliant in parts (particularly the first chapter of the adolescent hero discovering love and sex) the film, a highly self indulgent exercise, flopped miserably at the box office shattering him.
Raj bounced back with Bobby (1973) a teenage romance of young lovers fighting parental opposition that is aped by Hindi cinema till today.
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978) examining Physical Beauty v/s Inner Beauty was a misfire but Prem Rog (1982) based on widow re-marriage and his swan song Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) about innocence being sullied, were critical and commercial successes. In the latter the female protagonist is a metaphor for India - once pure but now sullied by dirt and corruption.
At the time of his death Raj Kapoor was making Heena, a love story breaking the barriers of the Indo-Pak border, which was subsequently completed by his eldest son Randhir. His sons, all primarily actors, have tried to keep the RK Banner alive albeit with mixed results. Which just goes on to prove - Raj Kapoor was one and one of a kind.
Raj Kapoor was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian Cinema in 1988.

 

Twenty days after his death, veteran actor Shammi Kapoor's ashes were immersed in Jhelum river in Jammu and Kashmir, said his son Aditya Raj Kapoor on Saturday.
"He (Shammi Kapoor) was in love with Kashmir. So we immersed his ashes in Jhelum," said Aditya Raj in Srinagar.
"We also planted a sapling at Lalit Hotel where my father used to stay whenever he visited Kashmir," he said.
According to reports, before the ritual, Kapoor's ashes were taken to Dal Lake in a shikara as he used to love the boat ride there.
Kapoor's son Aditya Raj, daughter Kanchan, Adtiya's wife Preeti, his co-actors Asha Parekh, Vinod Khanna and filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra were present at the ritual.
Earlier on Aug 15, Kapoor's last rites were performed by Aditya Raj at Ban Ganga crematorium in Mumbai, where his first wife Geeta Bali was cremated in 1965.
Shammi Kapoor succumbed to renal failure in Mumbai on Aug 14. He was 79.
Kapoor, who was suffering from chronic renal failure for the past 7-8 years was admitted to Breach Candy on Aug 7 after his condition was complicated by low blood pressure and an infection. Kapoor was put on ventilator support on Aug 12 after his condition deteriorated but died at Breach Candy.
Shammi Kapoor, born as Shamsher Raj Kapoor on 21 October 1931, was the romantic dancing hero during the late 1950s and 1960s.
A gadget freak and a dedicated netizen, Kapoor was last seen jamming with grand nephew Ranbir Kapoor in Imtiaz Ali's film Rockstar to be released later this year.

 

Bipash Basu has hit back at reports that claim she is trying to woo actor Ranbir Kapoor, saying it is "bizarre".
"Woke up to a news report that says 'Am wooing Ranbir'! Bizarre! Just because I love 'Rockstar' trailer and I tweeted about it!" Bipsha posted on Micro-blogging site Twitter.
"Ranbir (Kapoor) is an awesome guy but I don't need to woo him like this. I like to be wooed,I dont need to woo anyone for that matter," she added.
The 32-year-old was very impressed with the theatrical trailer of Ranbeer's forthcoming movie 'Rockstar' and expressed her opinion in a tweet saying: "Really have to share this, 'Rockstar' is by far the best and the most captivating trailer that I have seen. Ranbir looks like a powerhouse performer!"
After that there was speculation that she is trying to impress the young Kapoor.

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