‘Jazbaa is not an action film’
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be seen doing some daring stunts in her comeback film Jazbaa, but the actress says it's not an action entertainer. “The action is just a section of it. It's not an action film,” Aishwarya said during a promotional event. In the film, Aishwarya plays a lawyer and a mother, threatened to fight the case of a criminal, who is guilty of rape and murder. Jazbaa is her first film post the birth of her daughter. She said that she wanted to come back. “I was like a fish wanting to go back to the water,” she explained and added, “Once an actor, always an actor.”
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Aamir Khan and director Rohit Shetty have come forward to give financial help to the filmmaker Kalpana lajmi, who has been diagnosed with a malignant tumour in kidney.lajmi, known for off-beat and women-centric films such asRudaali and Daman, is facing a financial crisis after being diagnosed with tumour in the left kidney. Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit said, “I am associated with Indian Film and Television Director's Association and we do approach actors and directors for financial help whenever needed. After I learnt about her health, I spoke to Aamir Khan and Rohit Shetty. Kiran Rao, Aamir's wife. met her and gave six lakh.” lajmi is being treated at the city-based Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.
I was sexually harassed: Ashley
Actress Ashley Judd has revealed that she was sexually harassed by a top Hollywood studio executive. The 47-year-old actress says she was repeatedly summoned to hotel rooms while filming the 1997 film Kiss the Girls by the head of a rival studio and asked to watch him shower. She did not name the person. The actress said: “He was very stealth and expert about it. He groomed me, which is a technical term, ‘Come meet at the hotel for something to eat'. It was so disgusting. He physically lured me by saying, ‘Oh, help me pick out what I'm going to wear'. There was a lot that happened between the point of entry and the bargaining. When I kept saying no to everything, there was a huge asymmetry of power and control in that room.”