According to the latest news, producer-director Vinod Pande has decided to go ahead with the release of his controversial film "Sins" despite a ban called by Catholic groups and a refusal by satellite channels to air the film's promos.

"Sins" is supposedly the story of a Catholic priest who slips and commits a crime of passion with a young girl.

While Catholic organisations have raised strong protests, questioning the film's portrayal of the priest, satellite channels have refused to show the "sexually explicit" promos of the film branding them fit only for adult viewing.

Even as Gurinder is busy helping with the shooting of her husband Paul Mayeda Berges's 'MIstress Of spices' starring Ash Rai and Dylan McDermott, she is also planning her first Hollywood film. Hollywood starlet Kate Hudson will play the protagonist in  Chadha ’s Hollywood film, a cinematic version of the famous American television series ‘I Dream of Jeannie’, which is about a suburban witch named Jeannie. Hudson will play Jeanneie, natch!

Aamir Khan is sporting a completely new look for his next venture, 'Rang De Basanti' where he plays a Disc Jockey. Aamir is admired for his chameleon like quality to inhabit the characters he portrays by getting the look totally right!
"It was the script of the film that attracted me. The film is about the youth and I play an easy-going character", Aamir said.

Another Sivan makes waves in Bollywood. Grapevine indicates that Santhosh (ace cameraman/director) and Sangeeth (ace director) will be joined in the Bollywood industry by the younger brother  Sanjeev Sivan who will direct Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan in a Hindi film titled 'The Stranger'.

'Stranger' is the remake of a Malayalam film that starred Mammooty and enjoyed mixed reviews. Apparently, some changes have been made but the theme is that of the original film. The film is slated to release next year.

One of our favorite actors, Vijay Raaz landed in very hot soup last fortnight. Raaz was detained at Dubai airport on the morning of February 13 where he had gone there to shoot for movie "Deewane Hue Paagal" for allegedly possessing drugs.

Raaz was released by UAE authorities on Tuesday night, nine days after he was detained at Dubai airport on February 13 and  arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday morning.

 Raaz is known for his role in movies like national award winning 'Raghu Romeo' and Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding', 'Jungle' and Satya.

For all you gals out there who were pining for another Deol to hit the screens, we bear good news! Yet another handsome Deol is to make his debut next week. Abhay Deol, cousin of Sunny and Bobby Deol, will be seen in 'Socha Na Tha' with Ayesha Takia.

Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi has begun work on the script for ' Prithviraj Chauhan'. Sunny Deol will play the title role. Even though Deol admitted to the press that he was looking forward to playing the lead, he also indicated that if another film with the same subject was being planned  (there was a rumor that Rajkumar Santoshi was working towards that), he would reconsider his decision. Deol had also said that he had burnt his fingers once with 31 March 19: Shaheed! Once bitten, twice shy!

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