How Shahid managed Sonam's friendship?

Bollywood hottie Sonam Kapoor is known as a fashion icon. And she has put down a lot of conditions for her to call someone her friend. What are the conditions.

This pretty lass prefers her friends to be stylish or to quote the lady herself, should be  "fashionable"! Can you believe it? But now let us tell you who is letting the cat out of the bad. It is her co - star Shahid who said divulged the secret.


Shahid Kapoor during the first look launch of his movie MAUSAM said, "Sonam has very high fashion standards. She doesn't entertain people whose fashion standards don't match hers. Therefore you have to dress and look in a certain way and get an approval on it!

Fortunately through the making of this film I tried to educate myself on that and I hope that I'll have a stamp of approval on it!"

Well, Sonam like your unique fashion standards you also have unique sense of choosing friends!

I'm the only hero to fly a F-16: Shahid Kapoor

Mumbai, July 11 : Actor Shahid Kapur, who had the rare experience of flying multirole jet fighter aircraft F-16 to adapt traits of a fighter pilot for his forthcoming film "Mausam", takes pride in being the only film actor to have flown that ultimate flying machine.

"I was quite fortunate that I flew an F-16 fighter plane. I don't think any other actor has ever flown a F-16. Even when actor Tom Cruise had done 'Top Gun' he had flown an F15. I was very fortunate to get that opportunity. It was a very exciting experience for me," Shaid told reporters at the first look of the film at the PVR here Monday.

The actor had flown the American fighter aircraft at the AeroIndia defence exhibition in Bangalore earlier this year.

Sharing his overwhelming experience, Shahid reveals: "Honestly I was not fond of flying in a plane but when I actually sat in it and flew it I was so excited that I started shouting. It was probably the most exhilarating experience one could have. I am someone who loves speed anyway.

"So, the fact that I was sitting in a F-16 and I was a co-pilot was unbelievable. I also went through G force. If you know when you fly such a plane you can go up to G9. G1 is when you feel your body weight; G2 is when you feel two times your body weight. He (The co-pilot) took me up to G6. That's something I would take through my grave with me."

"I think it was required to understand my part better and it helped me to understand what all goes to become a fighter pilot," he added.

Shaid closely followed the mannerisms of the Indian Air Force pilots in the bases he visited and maintains that he is completely in awe of their attitude.

"I visited some air force bases to meet some air force pilots; I sat on the aircraft, I put on the G-suit, observed how they walk with the helmet. All things like that which actually gives you some kind of perspective of what it is to be representing the country and to be the part of the arm force and to be an Air Force pilot.

"It's interesting to know that the value of an air force pilot is Rs.300 crore in an average because that's the money invested to make an air force officer over a period of time. He is an extremely valuable commodity. They are taken extremely good care of. They all met me like 'Oh tu to hero hai, haan thik hai'. They all have this attitude, which is awesome. They are the real heroes," said Shahid.

The directorial debut of his actor father Pankaj Kapur, "Mausam" is a love story with actress Sonam Kapoor playing the lead opposite him.

"'Mausam' is about season of love. It's about different emotions and different situations that the couple goes through. That's the theme of the film," said Shahid.

"Mausam" is set to hit theatres Sep 16.

Bollywood lacks good young actors, says Kabir Bedi

Toronto, June 24 : Veteran actor Kabir Bedi rates Ranbir Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor as the two best young actors in Bollywood today.

"But frankly there is dearth of young bright talented actors coming through. That's what Bollywood lacks today,'' feels Bedi who is one of the few Indian actors to make it to Hollywood.

"The problem could be also due to the fact that older actors keep reinventing themselves. Salman Khan is still there, Shah Rukh Khan is still ruling there. Akshay Kumar is there,'' Bedi told IANS here.

"But Ranbir and Shahid are the two most promising new-generation actors, and I want to see more young actors in Bollywood,'' he said.

However, he feels there is no death of young actresses.

"Bollywood has seen no such problem when it comes to new actresses. We have so many of them. We have just seen Anuskha Sharma come from nowhere. We have Deepita Padukone who too came from nowhere. We have Priyanka Chopra who has been on the scene for about 10 years now. She also came from nowhere. So I think are some very good young actresses.''

Asked what he thought of Deepa Mehta's description of Bollywood as "Indian kitsch'' and not true representative of Indian culture, he said, "Deepa is a great filmmaker of finer sensibilities. These may be her elitist views, but Bollywood does reflect India and its Indian culture. That it is has a huge audience worldwide shows that it reflects Indian culture.''

Later, speaking a discussion on 'Hollywood, Bollywood and Beyond,'' Bedi said Bollywood is a potent symbol of India.

He said though has not worked much in Bollywood, he has no hesitation calling himself a Bollywood actor.

"Bollywood is the most potent symbol of India. It has promoted (communal) unity. It has promoted Hindi as India's national language. Bollywood unites India,'' he said.

Priyanka Chopra no longer a part of Kaminey Sequel

After the success of the movie ‘Kaminey’, which starred actor Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, the makers of the movie are all set to make a sequel of the movie. While most of the Bollywood sequels retain their earlier cast, reports have claimed that Priyanka will not be a part of the sequel.

And the alleged reason behind Priyanka’s absence from the movie is the cold-war between Shahid and Priyanka. Sources from the production unit have said that Shahid has refused to work with Priyanka in any of the future projects after they finsihed filming Kunal Kohli’s upcoming movie.

But the makers of ‘Kaminey 2’ have denied the reports saying that the news is false and that the actress is not a part of the movie as she does not fit in the sequel. Director Vishal Bhardwaj is currently working on the script of the movie.

After ‘Kaminey 2’ the director will be working with Ajay Devgn for a movie that is also co-produced by him. Vishal has told Shahid to work on his six packs for the sequel of ‘Kaminey’. Vishal will also be directing the movie ‘2 States’ along with Shahrukh Khan. 2 states is the book written by the popular author Chetan Bhagat.