RITEISH'S BILLA NUMBER 007

Riteish Deshmukh’s mimicry acts have often left people rolling on the floor with laughter. Riteish’s talent was noticed by comedy king David Dhawaan at an award function who inculcated an interesting cameo for Riteish in his upcoming film, Do Knot Disturb.

Riteish co-stars with the legendary Amitabh Bachchan in Aladin and has mimicked everybody’s favourite hero in his approaching comedy. The mimicry was no mean feat as Riteish recreated Vijay Verma’s famous billa scene from Deewar.

A source informs us, “In the scene, Riteish is dressed in a blue shirt with a rope on his left arm and a beedi in his mouth Riteish Deshmukh sways a bundle of thousand rupee notes imitating Amitabh Bachchan from Deewar. Adding tadka to the scene is Riteish’s billa no.which reads 007 instead of 786. The scene shouldn’t create any problems because Riteish and Amitabh Bachchan are on good terms as they have worked together in Aladin. Also, Riteish and Abhishek are good friends and Riteish idolizes Mr. Bachchan so he would never do anything to offend him.”

Talking about the spoof scene, David Dhawan says, “Riteish’s mother in the film, played by Himani Shivpuri imagines his son to be Amitabh Bachchan from Deewar, so we decided to have a scene with Riteish imitating him. It’s an absolutely hilarious scene that will have the audiences in splits and Riteish’s comic timing and body language is spot on. He is a flawless mimic.”

Producer Vashu Bhagnani didn’t want the scene to create any controversy or show Amitabh Bachchan in a poor light. “We have ensured it is not disrespectful to Amitji or the film Deewar. In fact we had even spoken to Rajiv Rai to tell him about the scene before we started shooting it,” he said.

Riteish Deshmukh was unavailable for comment. The multi-starrer romantic comedy which stars Lara Dutta, Sushmita Sen, Govinda, Sohail Khan, Ranvir Shorey, Riteish Deshmukh, Himani Shivpuri and Rituparna Sengupta hits theatres on October 2.

IF A MAN CAN AFFORD ME, I WILL MARRY HIM

Sushmita Sen is or else content with her life.

She's been linked to a string of men in the past including Randeep Hooda and Mudassar Aziz, but 33-year-old actress Sushmita Sen says she has no plans to settle down until a man can "afford" her.

"If a man can afford me, I'll definitely do that," Sushmita told IANS.

The former beauty queen, who will be seen on screen after a long time in Big Pictures' and Vashu Bhagnani's co-production "Do Knot Disturb", is or else content with her life.

"My life has been very good and exciting. I am making sure that I do only commercial films as I don't want to waste time doing anything else other than what is saleable and what can give my audiences great to see after such a long wait of not seeing me as an actor," she said.

Also starring funny man Govinda, Riteish Deshmukh and Lara Dutta, "Do Knot Disturb" is set to release on Oct 2.

LARA MAINTAINS HER WEIGHT AT 58 KG

David Dhawan is grand impressed!

Director David Dhawan just can't stop gibbering about beauty queen-turned-actress Lara Dutta for maintaining a weight of 58 kg since her debut in Bollywood with the 2003 movie "Andaaz".

The director is so impressed that he calls her "Miss Perfect 58".

"David calls Lara Perfect Miss 58 and is completely amazed how the actress has maintained 58 kilos for last six years. Lara has one of the best figures in the showbiz and is also an amazing actress," said a source close to the unit.

Dhawan is extremely fond of Lara's acting and comic timing. He was so impressed by her work in his 2007 hit "Partner" that he decided to cast her again for his forthcoming film "Do Knot Disturb".

LARA AND SUSH IN A CLASSY CATFIGHT

When you have two sexy former beauty queens in one film, you must be really naïve if you expect them to get along.

When two model turned actresses (Bipasha and Mugdha in All the Best) and two actresses (Udita and Sagarika, Bipasha and Kareena) don’t get along, there is no chance that two smart, well-spoken former beauty queens will. We are talking about Lara and Sushmita in David Dhawan’s Do Knot Disturb. They have stopped talking to each other altogether.

A source from the sets told us, “Sushmita and Lara are beautiful and smart. Two intelligent actresses cannot get along. Sushmita feels Lara has been given a more prominent role. She feels it is unfair because she was asked to gain and lose weight for the role for which she earned a lot of flak. And she needs a hit more desperately than Lara. She hardly has any films except the much delayed Dulha Mil Gaya. Lara had Billu and Do Knot Disturb and the highly anticipated Blue are her next films. She also has Housefull. Sush feels shortchanged.”

Meanwhile Lara has also find reasons to complain. Earlier she wasn’t too pleased with Katrina’s presence in Blue. Our source tells us, “Lara feels Sush has been given more prominence in the posters and promotion of the film. This is hardly true because so far, Bebo is the only song from the movie that is doing well and it features Riteish and her. The posters are group ones and individual ones. It isn’t that Sush is going all to promote her film. Lara is busy with Blue and she is also shooting for Housefull.”

He added that everyone is trying to help them become friends again. It’s not that they are pulling each other’s hair out as both ladies are too polished to do that. They just don’t share warm vibes and maintain safe distance from each other.

Sushmita was unavailable for comment while Lara said nothing like this happened. Produces Vashu Bhagnani did not wish to comment.

The saga continues…two actresses cannot be friends. We can’t wait for stories from the unit of Housefull. Deepika, Jiah and Lara are the ladies on set and three’s a crowd.