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'Inglourious Basterds' actress Diane Kruger won't marry again until she is 50. The 33-year-old who is dating former 'Dawson's Creek' star Joshua Jackson was previously married to Guillaume Canet for five years and says the end of their union taught her that getting wed isn't necessarily meaningful for a successful relationship, reports contactmusic.com. 'I don't think I'll marry again. Because I've realised commitment is important and no matter what paper you're going to sign, if that commitment ceases to be there, you'll get out of the marriage anyway. You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life',' she said. Despite dating Jackson for almost four years, Diane admits they have never really discussed his views on marriage. 'Josh is very cool either way... Well no, it's never come up,' she said.

He is by far the most revered Bollywood personality and almost adored as a demi-god, he is none other than 'Superstar of the Millennium' Amitabh Bachchan. The only star to constantly make the headlines for almost anything he does is in the lime light once again this time for his next film. Big B has reportedly signed a film titled The Outsider with director Raj Kumar Santoshi, being produced under the banner of Firoz Nadiadwala. Speaking about the film on his blog Bachchan says, "Finally, I have accepted Raj Kumar Santoshi's new project called The Outsider to be produced under the banner of Firoz Nadiadwala. After shaking hands he excitedly connected me to Gaffar Bhai his illustrious Father, a great name in film production and with whom I was coming together after a huge gap. I think we did something in 1973, perhaps Adalat and then nothing. He was nostalgic and happy as was I." The Outsider will mark the reunion of Amitabh Bachchan with Raj

By now its common knowledge that Shah Rukh Khan and Arjun Rampal are close friends. The duo have starred together in super-hit films like Don and Om Shanti Om . Shah Rukh even made a fleeting appearance in Arjun's home production I See You that released a few years ago. Now SRK and Arjun Rampal will once again be seen together in Shah Rukh's home production Ra.1 to be directed by Anubhav Sinha. While Shah Rukh plays a super-hero kind of a character in the film, the buzz is that Arjun will be playing his nemesis. The sci-fi film which is expected to go on floors very soon features Kareena Kapoor as the female lead.

From acting to producer to a director. If there is one name which hits your mind instantly after thinking of these three ingredients of filmmaking, you've got to get Aamir Khan in first. But the new name to enter the domain of three in one is Arshad Warsi. The actor turned producer reveals, "There is a friend of mine who is a journalist. He had a concept, an idea. So one day, we just started chatting about what he had thought. It was a nice little story. We wanted to make a very quirky action comedy. It's a little bit on the Guy Ritchie side and the Tarantino side. That's the fact and I have nothing to hide." Yes, Arshad had nothing to hide and why should he? On further questioning, he opens up a few more cards. Warsi says, "There is humour with seriousness. I wouldn't say that it is going to be like a Kaminey . The film starts with the last scene of the film, then goes here and there, then it jumps up and down. As a director, it is the mo

Akon is coming to Mumbai on Monday to record a song for composers Vishal- Shekhar in Anubhav Sinha's Ra.1 . The controversial singer's arrival is being kept under wraps. He's expected to be whisked away from the airport straight for the recording. Akon will be recording on March 9 and 10 before he quietly slips out of India. But hang on. He's expected to return to India in April for live concerts with Aadesh Shrivastav. Confirming Akon's recording in Mumbai, Ra.1 director Anubhav Sinha says, "Akon will be here for the recording on the dates you've mentioned." However, Anubhav very strongly contradicts conflicting reports in the press stating that Akon would also be acting in Ra.1. Says Anubhav, "Akon is only singing for our film. He is not acting in Ra.1 ." While Shah Rukh will lip-sync Akon's lines, the song in Hindi and English will also feature a female voice, since Kareena Kapoor will be dancing with SRK in the song. The f

This is something that usually happens only in a Bollywood film. But, this time round, it's happening in real life and how. Ironically, the people involved in this are the B-town residents. We are talking about the family of legendary late Kamaal Amrohi, which is in news due to their property dispute that's worth over a staggering Rs. 600 crore! Shandar, one of Kamaal Amrohi's three children, has now filed a case against his sister Rukhsar and brother Wasim stating that they have falsely pledged his shares in 'Mahal Pictures Pvt Ltd' (that owns the famous Kamaal Amrohi studio), to a company in Pune. As he was struggling his way through the cops to file a complaint, entered Preity Zinta, his 'adopted' daughter (who, of late has been tweeting about how difficult it is to file an FIR these days), who offered to shoulder his cause ahead. For starters, Shandar always took Preity Zinta as his daughter ever since he saw her films. No wonder then, he

This is one of the most unexpected pairing. But still, as they say 'Anything is possible in Bollywood'. We are talking about the never before pairing of the macho Salman Khan alongwith the still 'Rocking On' Prachi Desai, who have come together in a TV commercial for Active Wheel. The TVC has Salman cornering Prachi Desai, while she ignores him since she has to wash clothes. Then, Salman, in his typical style, tells her to wave goodbye to the old washing powder and say Hello to 'Active Wheel'. The ad has a romantic theme to it, almost like a Bollywood romantic song. What's more interesting and intriguing is the fact that Salman has also given voiceover for the ad. Salman and Prachi surely make a beautiful pair on screen.

Call it cliched but it's an oft repeated statement when it comes to relationships in Bollywood - 'Nothing is permanent in the industry; whether it is friendship or enmity'. This is why it always makes for a pleasant sight when misunderstandings are cleared and relationships come back to normalcy. This is what happened recently with Karan Johar and Nikhil Advani, friends for over three decades, who parted ways after Kal Ho Naa Ho . It came as a shocker for quite a few because the film was a major success at the box office and many believed that this 'jodi' would go on to make many more blockbusters in the years to come. Unfortunately that was not the case to be as both treaded different paths in years to follow. Karan Johar went on to make films with other fresh talent while Nikhil too went independent with films like Salaam- E- Ishq and Chandni Chowk To China . However, it was obvious that both men wouldn't be carrying bad blood for a long du

EXPECTATIONS There are decent expectations from the music of Prince . Since this is a film from the house of TIPS, certainly quality is expected from the soundtrack. Moreover, the man at the helm of affairs is debutant director Kookie Gulati who has many a music video to his credit. It can well be expected that for his first full length feature film, he would have at least a couple of chartbuster songs up his sleeve. However, since the film has taken a little time in reaching towards the finishing line, there is a slight apprehensive factor that sets in. Nevertheless, one goes on to play the soundtrack of Prince which is made of an astonishing 16 tracks, half of them being remixes. Sachin Gupta composes while Sameer writes. MUSIC It's a techno start for the album with ' O Mere Khuda ' giving a high energy start to Prince , something which was pretty much required for the film belonging to action genre. Atif Aslam, who has been known for singing romantic mel

Katrina Kaif has a point to prove in Raajneeti . It's not just the National Award that she's aiming to get with her performance. It's the long-winded rhetorical dialogues that she wants to get tone-and-pitch-perfect so that once and for all no one would ever say she can't speak Hindi fluently. Surrounded in the cast with stalwarts like Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpai and Nana Patekar who spoke super-fluent Hindi and Urdu and constantly ribbed about her chee-chee Hindi by her co-stars specially Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina has taken a vow to wow with her command over the desi language. In fact, every time director Prakash Jha wanted to get Katrina's attention on location, he would jokingly threaten to get her lines dubbed by another artiste. Not only did she get herself a private Hindi-Urdu tutor, she also got her director Prakash Jha to work on her dialogues and their delivery for extra hours. And now moving away from conventional dubbing techniques, Katrina i

What's common to Lewis Wilson, Robert Lowery, Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale and...our very own Ranbir Kapoor? Well, before you start 'flying' for answers, let us tell you that all of these Hollywood actors have played the role of Batman. If you are still wondering what we are talking about, answer for it is in the film Anjaana Anjaani . Bollywood Hungama got its detective hands laid on some of the most exclusive pics of Ranbir Kapoor, dressed up as Batman in his forthcoming film Anjaana Anjaani . For starters, the said film is being directed by Siddharth Anand and besides Ranbir; it stars Priyanka Chopra, Zayed Khan with Anupam Kher and others. We also discovered that in this film, Ranbir Kapoor is called Rocky, Priyanka Chopra as Shilavanti, Zayed Khan as JP and Anupam Kher as Subramaniam. Sajid Nadiadwala's Anjaana Anjaani is surely one of the most anticipated films of this year and Ranbir's Batman act make

How many of us ever thought that a Bollywood film would have music by a complete foreigner? Well that's exactly the case with the film Road, Movie . Famous Canadian Guitarist, Michael Brook has given background score for Dev Benegal's Road, Movie . Michael has contributed to U2's famous album The Joshua Tree in the form of his invention - the infinite guitar and was also nominated for Grammy Awards in 1996 for his production work and as co-artist on Pakistani singer Nusrat fateh Ali Khan's album, Night Song . Apart from these, he has also contributed for the album Rock Paper Scissors. While for Hollywood, Michael has done a number of film sound tracks including the music for Albino Alligator, Mission Impossible 2 , Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Sean Penn's critically acclaimed, Into The Wild . Bollywood Hungama spoke to Michael to find out more about his compositions and of course his experience of working in Bollywood. The first quest