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Hrithik: ''Guzaarish' has been my most difficult and easiest film to date!'

After the super success of DHOOM 2 and JODHAA AKBAR, Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are paired yet again in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's GUZAARISH. They unveiled the first look of the film at a suburban multiplex.

Aishwarya said, "GUZAAISH is a very special film. Everybody has worked passionately for it. It is a beautiful piece of cinema and we are all very proud of it."

"GUZAARISH is more than a film to me. It's a manifestation of one man's vision and that is Sanja Leela Bhansali. It has changed my prospective on the world. It has affected my life. 30 or 40 years from now I will look back and smile because I had the opportunity to do this film. Some films are made for commercial reasons and some must be made for the world to see and that's the kind of film GUZAARISH is," said Hrithik.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali was all praise for Aishwarya and Hrithik. He said, "I want to thank Aishwarya. She's my jaan. I get terrible excited when I make a film with her. She's very very special. And I have never enjoyed with any other actor as I have with Hrithik just for the talent he has and for the kind of person he is."

GUZAARISH is all set to release on November 19.

His previous flick didn't exactly soar high, and Hrithik Roshan is hoping that his next effort 'Guzaarish' does revv up some cinematic magic for him. Expressly so, since he's enacting a magician and a paraplegic in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali helmed flick.

The 'premier look' has been unveiled and the promo, expectedly, is captivating and engaging, with Roshan Junior sharing screen frames with the exotic Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

"Acting in 'Guzaarish' has changed my life completely," reveals Hrithik. "It has changed my outlook to life. When I look back, ten years, twenty years, forty years down the line, I will always be happy that I did act in this film. Some films are made for commercial reasons, some are made for whatever reasons and some are made because a film like that ought to be made. 'Guzaarish' is one such film."

Adds Hrithik significantly, "'Guzaarish' has been my most difficult and easiest film to date." Even as the scribe tribe hastened to get confused, Hrithik dispelled all doubts stating, "That's because I had a director like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who made the most difficult things seem easy for me."

Rahman combines Jai Ho, Maa Tujhe Salaam for CWG

Even though the song composed by AR Rahman for the Games has faced widespread criticism, his other more celebrated songs may just end up saving the day.

Jai Ho and Maa Tujhe Salaam, both critically-acclaimed songs by the maestro, will be played at the inauguration ceremony of the Games on October 3. Rahman will also sing Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite hymn, Vaishnava Jan To for the 60,000-strong audience expected to attend the ceremony.

Sources said the video of the theme song, Yaro India Bula Liya, to be played at the ceremony, will feature celebrities like Saina Nehwal, Milkha Singh and Samresh Jung, among other famous sports personalities. Interestingly, a troupe of 1,500 artistes will make a human train as part of a 12-minute ‘Great Indian Train Journey’ dance sequence — showcasing rural and small town India — even as Rahman’s popular song Chaiyya Chaiyya plays in the background.

The performance by Rahman will be part of a 45-minute cultural show that has been chalked out by a team comprising Shyam Benegal, Prasoon Joshi, Javed Akhtar and Bharat Bala. It also includes ‘Rhythm of India’ involving 900 drummers, followed by the Swagatam song by Hariharan. The team has been working on the show for the last 14 months.

The opening and closing ceremonies for the Games, involving about 10,000 artistes, are estimated to cost about Rs 300 crore. An Indian martial arts show and Rahman’s composition Vande Mataram will feature among the main attractions during the concluding ceremony.

A rebuff from Aishwarya

Film stars need to answer multiple questions when they are doing the media interviews to promote their movies. Some of them are sublime and the others ridiculous.

On one hand while Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been trying to answer good gossipy queries about working with Salman Khan and the success of 'Dabanng' among others, she also has to face some weird ones.

Sample this:

Q: What are you going to give Mr Bachchan on his birthday on October 11?

A: We are here for the promotion of 'Robot'. Can we talk about Robot now and other questions later?

Q: But you will not be available later?

A: You guys will catch me anywhere. I have one more film 'Guzarish' coming up after this.

Quite a snub from the actress who takes great care to appear politically correct at all times. But don't expect the questions to stop anytime soon, Aishwarya.

Source: Yahoo.Movies India

Shakira gets Colombian president support at NYC show

NEW YORK – The president of Colombia might be in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, but he also found time to attend a concert by Shakira.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, along with the former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, Queen Rania of Jordan and actor Jim Carrey, came out to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night to watch the hip-swiveling Shakira perform before an energetic crowd.

"It's really an honor for us," Shakira said, thanking the president of her homeland for attending.

The bilingual singer kicked off her show with a slow groove to "Pienso en Ti" — wearing a hot pink ensemble that covered most of her body, revealing only her face and some of her blond curls — while she sang and gave hugs to people in the crowd. She walked to the middle of the stage, tore off the ensemble to reveal a shiny gold top with black tights and knee-high boots and performed the thumping "Why Wait."

"I'm here to please you!" she yelled. "Remember tonight I'm all yours."

The 33-year-old continued with rock-filled versions of "Te Dejo" and "Whenever, Wherever," then sang lyrics from EMF's 1990s hit "You're Unbelievable."

The crowd got rowdy during the electric guitar-fused "Si Te Vas" and the explosive "She Wolf."

But the highlight was Shakira's cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters." Wearing a silver tank top, a flowing maroon skirt and no shoes, the singer belted the drum-filled jam, also highlighted by the violin. That was followed by a sensual Shakira dancing to the beat of the drum, then falling to the floor — and dancing again.

Shakira brought four fans onstage and gave them a dance lesson while others waved the Colombian flag throughout the show, which lasted for nearly two hours.

The Grammy-winning singer, whose new album "Sale el Sol (The Sun Comes Out)" is due out next month, performed songs from the CD, including the soft rock title track. She also grinded to her latest single "Loca."

"For a few months I've been different. I feel like the sun has been shining on me, brighter than ever!" she yelled.

She returned for an encore in a bright blue ruffled dress, performing the soft "Antes de las Seis." She then ripped off the dress to shake her hips — even imitating Beyonce's signature booty dance — to her largest U.S. hit, the uptempo "Hips Don't Lie."

Shakira closed the show with her international smash, the World Cup anthem "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)." But before she began, a video of African children saying what they aspired to be played in the background. Green, red and yellow confetti began to fall as Shakira sang the song, saying loudly: "We're all Africa!"

Rafael Nadal breaks through at US Open

NEW YORK – For seven years, Rafael Nadal deposited his share of skin and blood and sweat and effort on the imposing blue court in the middle of the biggest tennis stadium in the world.

At the end of the eighth year, he collapsed and rolled over, his face to the ground, exhausted while he celebrated — knowing that finally, he would take something away from the court where he'd left so much.

The top-seeded Nadal won the U.S. Open trophy and completed the career Grand Slam on Monday in a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 victory over No. 3 Novak Djokovic. Nadal became only the seventh player to win championships at all four majors. He has nine major titles overall, and having filled in the last big gap on his resume, the discussion now focuses on whether — or when — he can be considered the best of all time.

"I think the talk about if I am better or worse than Roger is stupid, because the titles say he's much better than me," Nadal said of Roger Federer, who has a record 16 Grand Slam tournament titles to his credit. "So that's true at that moment. I think that will be true all my life."

Time will tell, but time is on Nadal's side.

He is 24 years old, five years younger than Federer, and has eclipsed the halfway mark to Federer's record.

Federer could still add to his 16 and set the bar higher. But he is on the back end of his career. And all signs point toward Nadal being at or near his peak. Winning the season's final major, the one in which he had never been past the semifinals before this year, was the strongest testament to that.

Long considered a clay-court specialist who later figured out how to win on the grass at Wimbledon, Nadal is one of those rare elite athletes who actually doesn't make it look easy. He grinds. His sneakers squeak loudly with every change of direction. He whips his arms violently on every groundstroke. He sneers and smirks and grunts.

All this, the thought went, could never bode well for his chances at Flushing Meadows, where the hard, fast court, the softer ball, the wind, the crowd, the New York pressure and the cumulative effect of the long season always wore him down all too quickly.

This year, though, he came to the Big Apple as ready as he'd ever been.

"Players said Rafa could never win on hardcourt because he played too much topspin, he's too physical," said Nadal's uncle and coach, Toni Nadal. "And now I believe there's not much that the players he plays against can argue with."

Nadal made it through his first six matches of the 2010 tournament — plagued by heat the first week, wind the second and rain at the tail end — without losing a set. The final had been scheduled for Sunday but got postponed a day because of rain. That certainly didn't hurt Rafa, though the common thought was it would help Djokovic more because he had a grueling five-set semifinal against Federer on Saturday.

As Nadal expected, Djokovic was no pushover.

Nadal only got broken twice in 91 games during his run to the final thanks to a new-and-improved serve he worked on specifically for this tournament. But Djokovic broke him three times.

Nadal rallied from down 4-1 to 4-4 in the second set and had the momentum. But Djokovic had luck on his side. Just then, rain came and caused a 1 hour, 48 minute delay.

Nadal came back out after the delay and dropped the second set. Suddenly, Djokovic, the 2008 Australian Open winner who was 7-3 lifetime on hard courts against Rafa, looked like he had another upset in him.

This, however, was not meant to be for the Serb — an entertaining and worthy foe nicknamed "The Joker," whose victory over Federer deprived tennis fans of the first Rafa-Roger final at Flushing Meadows. Djokovic left more impressed with the player he lost to Monday than the one he defeated two days before.

Federer "is still playing as one of the best players in the world," Djokovic said. "The other hand, you have Nadal who is just proving each day, each year, that he's getting better. That's what's so frustrating. He's getting better each time you play him."

Indeed, Nadal's groundstrokes were too penetrating, his passing shots too precise, his serve either too big or too perfectly placed in the corners. He won a riveting third set despite squandering 10 of 11 break points.

The fourth set was reminiscent of the bullfights in his home country of Spain: There was the matador, Nadal, jabbing and poking and slowly, cruelly sapping the loser's strength — and his will; and the bull, Djokovic, warbling dangerously between resignation and brief flurries of rage and effectiveness.

But when it was over, it was Nadal who crumpled to the ground — a brief moment to take all to himself, with several thousand of his closest friends looking on in 23,000-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium.

"For the first time in my career, I played a very, very good match in this tournament," Nadal said. "That's my feeling, no? I played my best match in the U.S. Open at the most important moment, so I am very, very happy for that, for sure."

With his latest victory adding to the 2010 French Open and Wimbledon titles, Nadal stretched his Grand Slam winning streak to 21 matches. No man had won those three tournaments in the same year since Rod Laver won a true Grand Slam in 1969. Now Nadal heads to the Australian Open in January — played on a slower version of hard courts — with a chance to claim a Rafa Slam. Four straight majors.

No surprise, then, that the talk quickly turned to history and greatness, reluctant as the Nadal clan may be to play along.

After the match, Rafa's entourage took to the player's courtyard, just outside the locker room, where Toni Nadal set down a few bottles of champagne, then picked up and admired the trophy his nephew had casually placed on a chair.

They smiled, they hugged, the family took pictures.

Uncle Toni did some interviews, and after talking about what an accomplishment it was to finally break through at the U.S. Open, somebody asked him if Rafa might someday be the greatest of all time.

"The best of all time are Federer, (Bjorn) Borg, Laver," Toni Nadal said. "Rafa is a good player, but I don't think he's part of that group."

But maybe someday?

Toni just laughed.

"I don't know, I don't know," he said. "Ask me in five or six years and maybe I can say."
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Rafael Nadal: Modest King

By Neil E. Schlecht

Monday, September 13, 2010

Rafael Nadal began his career as the ruler of relatively small provinces, the terre battue of Roland Garros and the red clay of his native Spain. Just out of his teens, though, he audaciously announced his intention to expand his fiefdom to the grasses of London, where Roger Federer's Wimbledon reign was considered invincible.

Most thought Nadal, well, delusional. But true to his determined vision, he dethroned Federer, supplanted him as leader of men's tennis and promptly announced that next on his list of desired conquests was Flushing Meadows.

Today he gobbled that up, too. I guess we should have believed him when he spoke.

When he spake?

Though Nadal has demonstrated himself to be ruthless on court, lording over his subjects and summarily banishing them en route to nine major championships and 42 titles, off court he's anything but imperious. His conqueror persona seems like a character he plays in competition.

With his violently torqued topspin forehand, Nadal's game is thoroughly modern. His demeanor, though, is decidedly Old World.

Away from the rigid geometrical confines of a tennis court, Nadal is a gracious and modest young man, with impeccable manners and respect not only for his rivals but pretty much everyone he comes into contact with: journalists, ballboys, tournament directors, drivers.

If you think this is a kid who was raised right, you're correct. He may have been taught to be a great tennis player, but he wasn't necessarily groomed to conquer the tennis world.

Nadal is famously family-centric. This multimillionaire Mallorcan still lives in his inland boyhood town, Manacor, in a John Boy Walton-like townhouse with each segment of his extended family on a different floor. His coach is his unpaid uncle. The divorce of Nadal's parents, which came as he turned 23, was every bit as debilitating as the patella tendonitis that marred his 2009 season.

Nadal carries his own bags and, despite his fortune and worldwide fame, doesn't expect to be granted extraordinary privileges. His parents and Uncle Toni have taught him how privileged he already is.

As a tennis player, Nadal doesn't assume his very complete game is unassailable. He believes he can continually improve. That's why just two days before the beginning of the 2010 US Open - the title he professed to covet more than any other - Nadal was tinkering with his service action, slightly altering the grip. That audaciousness and willingness to adapt, which immediately garnered him another 10 to 12 mph on his serve and about a 10 percent improvement in points won on serve, is a major reason Nadal is the champion he is.

"I go to practice every day not to practice; I go to practice every day to try to learn something and to keep improving my level," Nadal said after his throttling of Mikhail Youzhny in the semifinal.

Nadal may be alone at the top, but he is happy to share the spotlight. He rarely misses an opportunity to extol Federer as the "best of the history." Even as he rules in their head-to-head matchups, in Nadal's mind, Roger is the greatest ever, and the Spaniard is merely pleased to share the stage with him.

There's a video clip, famous because it is thought to reveal a shocking side of Federer, from the aftermath of their epic battle in Melbourne in 2009. But it may be more revealing about Nadal.

At the close of their spectacular, five-set Australian Open final, Federer broke down in tears, unable to make it through his runner-up acceptance speech before a stunned crowd. It was a supremely awkward moment. The camera panned to Federer's speechless wife, Mirka, and then to Nadal, the victor waiting to accept the trophy.

As Federer tearfully retreated from the podium, Nadal stepped forward to give him a reprieve. But instead of grabbing the mic and celebrating another victory in a major, Nadal, then just 22, instinctively approached Federer and threw an arm around his rival's neck, putting the Swiss in a friendly headlock. Nadal whispered words of encouragement in his ear, and Federer found a way to compose himself.

Nadal wasn't about to allow his friend suffer an embarrassment of that order. It was a striking moment, an act of generosity from the young mensch, Nadal. And it went to the core of the immense respect and friendship he shares with his comrade and fellow champion.

On court after his semifinal victory on Saturday, on a brilliant blue-skied day that eerily recalled another Sept. 11, Nadal made a point of addressing the lingering pain of that day. He later acknowledged his annual pilgrimages to Ground Zero - something most of the public and press were never privy to. In a time of famously self-centered athletes with limited interests, for years Nadal ventured to lower Manhattan each time he came to New York, but he never invited publicity. He went because he wanted to pay his respects.

Nadal surely didn't envision those visits as part of staking his claim to New York real estate. But at just 24, a shockingly young age to possess a career Grand Slam, Nadal has quietly paid his dues.

After what we've been privileged to witness over the past six years or so, who would've expected anything different?

Article Courtesy: usopen.org

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Shakira: Doesn't want to get married .....

Shakira doesn't want to get married even though she's engaged.

The 'Hips Don't Lie' singer says she has no intention of tying the knot with fiance Antonio De La Rua, despite saying yes when he popped the question over four years ago.

She said: "I have no plans to get married. Ever.

"There's something romantic about being someone's girlfriend forever. I like the state that I'm in."

Although she has no plans to marry, the 33-year-old beauty says she and Antonio are keen to start a family together.

She told the News of the World newspaper: "I definitely plan to have children but I don't see a wedding dress."

Shakira, who met Antonio nine years ago in a restaurant in Argentina, has recently admitted she knew straight away he was 'The One'.

She said: "The minute I walked in, I saw him sitting, and I thought, 'That man is for me, he's the man of my life.' I kept staring at him until I got to meet him that night. And then I just followed my intuition and everything worked out. Frankly, meeting him that night was like winning the lottery."



Shakira is a huge fan of chocolates that she even dreams of it - and wakes up crying. The Waka Waka performer has revealed she’s addicted to chocolates ., She says, “Do you know when I realized that? Shortly before we started shooting the video for ‘She Wolf’. When we finished filming the video I went to a cafe in Los Angeles and asked for five pieces of chocolate cake once!” Shakira usually follows a strict diet of vegetables to keep her trim figure. “I needed a month to get in shape. I danced, worked out and had to follow a strict diet – only fish, spinach and dessert specially prepared with tofu. For the first time in my life, I was dreaming of chocolate and cake and always woke up with tears in my eyes."