‘West brackets us as a genre’
Actor Abhay Deol, who is stepping into Hollywood with his international film The lovers, says American filmmakers slot Bollywood as a genre, marked by colours, music, pretty women and well-built men. “Filmmakers in the US see Bollywood with an amused curiosity. For them, musicals traditionally are rare in Hollywood, so that automatically puts all of Bollywood into one genre. The word brings up images of bright colours, music, beautiful women and muscular men. Funnily enough most of them haven't seen any Bollywood film but the name is something they are aware of,” Abhay said.
Biopics are very challenging. I have not really thought about it but, if given a chance I would love to play Indira Gandhi. I really enjoyed Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, one of the best biopics, and was very impressed by it | Mallika sherawat
Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe's final photo-shoot snaps are set to go under hammer in Texas next week. Prints of photos taken by Bert Stern for Vogue are available to bid on in the auction by Heritage auctions Texas, which opens on March 10. Stern, who died in 2013, shot a series of photographs of Monroe for Vogue in June 1962, which were the last photos published of the actress and model before her sudden death that August. The photographs came to be known as The last Sitting.
Justin has ‘man crush’ on Affleck
Singer Justin Bieber has a man crush on Ben Affleck because he thinks the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice actor has a ‘cool vibe'. The 21-year-old singer is a huge admirer of the 42-year-old actor because of his success and the way he conducts himself, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
When asked who his man crush is, Bieber named Affleck, adding: “I think his vibe is cool.” Bieber also admitted he wishes he had an alter-ego like Affleck's superhero character so he could just disappear when the attention from the paparazzi. “I wish I had the Batman thing where people didn't know I was Bruce Wayne,” he said.