Alia Bhatt pushes away rumors of dating Siddharth Malhotra

Being young, attractive and famous is great, but all of this does come with a price. One of the cons of fame is the rumors that attach themselves as baggage and follow one around. Lately, newcomers Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt who made their debut in Karan Johar’s Student of the Year have been subjected to a bunch of rumors that state the two to be dating. While none of have been proven true, Alia and Siddharth have also denied the gossip linking them together and the reports of them dating.

And that’s not all! Alia has also been stated to have been angry with actress Esha Gupta’s closeness to Siddharth Malhotra. The Razz 3 star has connected well with Siddharth and apparently young Alia is extremely displeased about the fact! Well, these aren’t the only rumors that have been surrounding these promising newcomers. Alia has also been stated to have been dating her second co-star, Varun Dhawan. Of course, this isn’t true either and the actress articulated her indifference to the gossip sprouting up saying, “I don’t really care about people discussing my personal life. I’m fond of Varun and Sid (Siddharth Malhotra) but no I’m not going out with either. And no, I have no boyfriend in Bandra. A boyfriend doesn’t really fit into my scheme of things right now. My boyfriend is Student of the Year.”

Alia Bhatt will next be seen in Karan Johar’s film adaptation of the popular bestseller, 2 States, written by author Chetan Bhagat. The actress will star in the lead alongside actor Arjun Kapoor.

Karan Johar’s protégé and Student of the Year star, Alia Bhatt, speaks about her debut!

Karan Johar’s discovery, Alia Bhatt, has given teenage girls a new idol to look up to. At the tender age of 19, this young actress who hails from one of Bollywood’s most prominent families, Alia seems to have achieved it all! The young actor is the daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and the sister of actress Pooja Bhatt. Making her debut in Karan Johar’s Student of the Year alongside newcomers Siddharth Malhotra and David Dhawan, Alia has been enjoying a lot of attention lately!

Speaking about just how she bagged the role for the film, Alia Bhatt recently stated in an interview, “I got a call from Dharma Productions asking for my pictures. Then I met Karan Johar and he asked me to audition for the role. By then Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra were already on board. Karan told me I had to lose weight. He put me on a diet program with Zarine Watson. Five months later we did a test shoot. I still remember the day when Karan gifted me this giant cup cake. I was busy gorging on it, when he told my mom that he would be directing the film and wanted me for the lead role.”

After a successful debut, Alia has been rumored to be dating Varun Dhawan. The actress has denied this gossip of a boyfriend however, saying, “I don’t really care about people discussing my personal life. I’m fond of Varun and Sid but no I’m not going out with either. And no, I have no boyfriend in Bandra. A boyfriend doesn’t really fit into my scheme of things right now. My boyfriend is Student of the Year,”

Siddharth Malhotra to shed his boyish romantic avatar for a darker role

His Bollywood debut in Karan Johar’s directorial venture titled Student of the Year pushed newcomer Siddharth Malhotra in the spotlight. The 28-year-old actor starred alongside debutants Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt and played the role of a middle-class student at a prestigious educational institute presided over by a gay and eccentric dean. The film was a blockbuster, just like Karan’s previous films and released on the 19th of October, 2012.

After a dream debut, Siddharth Malhotra has bagged a couple of more films and seems to be on a roll, being tagged as one of Bollywood’s most sought after newcomers. Besides his next film, Hasee Toh Phasee, Siddharth has bagged yet another film. While Hasee Toh Phasee is a joint production by Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap with Parineeti Chopra playing the female lead, Siddharth Malhotra will be seen in a darker role in The Villain, an Ekta Kapoor production.

Speaking about the film, Siddharth recently tweeted, "Really excited about my new project with Balaji... Will be fun walking the dark side." Girish Johar, head of acquisition and distribution, Balaji Motion Pictures, confirmed The Villain in which Siddharth will don an angry-young-man role. The film is supposedly set in Mumbai and could very well be directed by filmmaker Mohit Suri. There has been no news who will grace the female-lead role.

Stay tuned for more on this upcoming flick!

Karan Johar’s students, Varun and Alia, rumored to be dating!

Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt stepped into the limelight with their first film, Student of the Year. A Karan Johar directorial venture, this campus romance brought the newcomer trio to the attention of the Indian audiences, film-critics, filmmakers and obviously, rumor-mongers! The newcomers have been subjected to rumors, gossip and linkups time and again. Each of these youngsters have been said to be in and out of love and more recently, Varun Dhawan, the son of the veteran filmmaker David Dhawan, has been linked up with his co-star, Alia Bhatt, Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter.

As per rumors, Alia and Varun have been dating since quite a while now and have been in a relationship ever since the making of Student of the Year. Both, Alia and Varun have disregarded this gossip. While Varun plays Alia’s boyfriend in reel life, in the film Student of the Year, this does not hold true to real life. Though young and fresh to B-town, the actors are taking these dating rumors maturely.

“My father (Mahesh Bhatt) had warned me that this would happen. I was prepared for these speculations. What I’m worried about is the expectations. People are just waiting to write you off. I’ve got this platform at an early age. Many girls would want to be in my shoes. I don’t want such false rumors to overshadow my work,” said Alia Bhatt. The youngster seems to have learned the best ways to deal with bad-press from her filmy family and went on to add, “I don’t really care about people discussing my personal life. I’m fond of Varun and Sid (Siddharth Malhotra) but no I’m not going out with either. And no, I have no boyfriend in Bandra. A boyfriend doesn’t really fit into my scheme of things right now. My boyfriend is Student of the Year.”

Karan Johar’s ‘Koffee with Karan’ given a comedy twist by Rohan Sippy

Rohan Sippy

The Bollywood industry is transforming quickly and filmmakers have begun to resort to innovative ways to market their films. Filmmaker Rohan Sippy recently announced his next directorial venture, Nautanki Saala. Starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapur, this upcoming comedy has taken up a new means to promotion. An online show called Kutting with Kunaal, hosted by Kunaal Roy Kapur, has taken the internet by storm and is a comedy take on talk shows. From what we’ve heard, this show also has Karan Johar’s popular show, Koffee with Karan, as an inspiration!

Quoting Rohan Sippy, “Our show is a take on all chat shows. Of course, Karan’s show is quite popular and it’s a good reference point. The K of Kutting came from Kunaal and Khurrana. Karan’s show is a big show but ours is a zero-budget version of it. Kunaal is playing the worst talk show host in the world.” The filmmaker also went on to add, “We were thinking of ideas to promote the film and came up with the absurd idea of a talk show. Later, it turned into a fun idea and has developed so well. But the funny part is that it doesn’t promote our film outright.”

Karan Johar’s show, Koffee with Karan, ran for three whole seasons and featured several Bollywood bigwigs, speaking about their lives on-screen and off-screen. The show was noted for Karan Johar’s fresh and witty appeal and began to air in 2004.

“I have never felt more proud,” says Karan Johar, speaking about SOTY

Karan Johar

Dharma Productions honcho, Karan Johar, has been known to draw up big budgets, roping in larger-than-life stars for all of his stories. After having directed Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) and My Name Is Khan (2010), all packing Bollywood bigwigs including the likes of Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Kajol and Hrithik Roshan, Karan Johar stepped away from his usual mix for his upcoming film titled Student of the Year.

A campus romance to be precise, the film stars newcomers Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. This however didn’t keep Karan from setting an equally high budget for the film. The movie is just as glamorous and glitzy as his previous releases and has launched Siddharth, Varun and Alia. When asked about his choice of actors for latest directorial venture, Karan said, “In a star-ridden industry such as ours, launching new talents on such a large scale is always a risk. But nothing ventured, nothing gained. I have never felt more proud.” He went on to add, “After all, there are just as many people who are big and up there. So unless we take the onus, and leverage our position to create new stars, we’ll be running dry soon. I have never worked with newcomers before. But I realized it was time and took up the challenge,” says Karan.

Besides discovering these promising newcomers, Karan Johar has also groomed and trained them, helping them master the trade of acting on the silver screen. The director has played the role of a mentor, coaching Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt for the film.  Quoting Karan Johar, “Hindi cinema has taken a quantum leap in every aspect of its functioning.”

Karan Johar ropes in Remo D’souza to script Siddharth Malhotra’s upcoming action flick

Siddharth Malhotra took the big-screen by storm with his debut appearance in the film Student of the Year, a Karan Johar directorial venture. The 28-year-old actor rose to stardom with the film, playing the lead alongside two more newcomers, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. Now, after a very successful Bollywood debut, Siddharth Malhotra has signed his next film, Hasee Toh Phasee, alongside Parineeti Chopra. The actor has chosen to stay under his mentor-director’s wing and will star in the aforementioned romantic comedy produced by Dharma Productions and directed by Vinil Mathew.

Apart from this, Siddharth will also make an appearance in yet another film by Karan Johar, an untitled action-adventure movie. For the film, the Dharma Productions chief has teamed up with UTV and has also roped in Remo D’Souza to develop the film. An industry insider recently revealed, “Although the details are being kept under wraps, the genre will be similar to that of the hit Hollywood film franchise, The Fast and the Furious. Siddharth’s role will be very different from how he was seen in SOTY.”

As per what we’ve heard, this upcoming film will include everything synonymous with Karan Johar, particularly his extravagant film settings. Expect fast cars, pretty girls and tons of action in this upcoming film with Bollywood’s newest hunk, Siddharth Malhotra, gracing the lead!

Siddharth Malhotra signs Ekta Kapoor’s The Villain!

Karan Johar

Siddharth Malhotra grabbed the attention of audiences in India and internationally as well with his Bollywood debut, a Karan Johar-directorial venture titled Student of the Year. In the film, the 28-year-old actor stars alongside newcomers Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt and plays the role of a middle-class student at a prestigious educational institute presided over by a gay and eccentric dean. The film was a blockbuster, just like Karan’s previous films and released on the 19th of October, 2012.

After a dream debut, Siddharth Malhotra has bagged a couple of more films and seems to be on a roll, being tagged as one of Bollywood’s most sought after newcomers. Besides his next film, Hasee Toh Phasee, Siddharth has bagged yet another film. While Hasee Toh Phasee is a joint production by Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap with Parineeti Chopra playing the female lead, Siddharth Malhotra will be seen in a darker role in The Villain, an Ekta Kapoor production.

Speaking about the film, Siddharth recently tweeted, "Really excited about my new project with Balaji... Will be fun walking the dark side." Besides the fact that Siddharth will be seen in a role different from that of his romantic debut, not much has been divulged in regards to the film. Also, there has been no news as to who will be directing the film. Girish Johar, head of acquisition and distribution, Balaji Motion Pictures, also confirmed The Villain.

Karan Johar’s Student of the Year – The competition of a life-time

Karan Johar is known as a multifaceted filmmaker and for good reason. The Dharma Productions chief has unveiled five directorial ventures till today and has covered some of the most important subjects that relate to our day to day lives. With his first film, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Karan Johar showcased bubblegum romances and teenage love. His next film, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001), brought traditional family values to the big-screen in a perfect way. What followed was Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), a film with a subject that brought a new phase of cinema to the big-screen, revolving around adultery. Karan then addressed political issues in his 2010 film, My Name Is Khan, bringing to light the mistreatment of Indians in the United States of America.

His latest film, Student of the Year, brought to life campus romances yet again. The film released on the 19th of October, 2012, and starred debutants Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. The film revolves around the lives of three students at a premium educational academy, St. Teresa’s High School, Dehradun. Presided over by a gay school dean named Yogendra Vasisht (Rishi Kapoor), the school has organized a Student of the Year competition annually to decide the best student at school. Abhimanyu Singh (Siddharth), a newbie at school, is introduced to a new life, different from that of his middle-class upbringing. He ends up befriending Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan), a rich and affluent boy. He also crosses paths with Shanaya Singhania (Alia Bhatt), the prettiest girl at school while hanging out with her boyfriend Rohan.

As time flies, a love triangle ensues, with Abhi falling in love with Shanaya, despite the fact that her boyfriend is his best friend. Shanaya unknowingly finds herself falling for Abhi, reciprocating his feelings. When her boyfriend finds out, things fall apart and a rivalry grows between the boys.
Watch this Karan Johar blockbuster to know who wins the competition of a life-time!

"Yes, I am doing a short film with Karan Johar,” says Randeep Hooda

Karan Johar’s upcoming direction, Bombay Talkies, has been in the news constantly these days. A 20-minute short-film, this will be the director-producer’s sixth directorial venture after a string of blockbusters that include include Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), My Name Is Khan (2010) and his latest release, Student of the Year (2012), starring newcomers Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt.

The upcoming film is a tribute to the 100 years of Hindi cinema and will have directors Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap directing the rest of the film’s 20-minute parts. For Karan Johar, a director synonymous with longer films, usually 200-minutes long, this short film is a challenge. “For me, it’s a challenging format. We have 20 minutes to tell a story, which is coherent and connected to the other plots. This can be a challenge for any filmmaker,” said Karan.

As per reports, Karan’s next film will star seasoned actors Rani Mukherjee and Randeep Hooda along with Saqib Siddique. "Yes, I am doing a short film with Karan Johar and it features Rani Mukherjee," said Randeep, choosing not to divulge any more. Also, this film will be shot at realistic locations that relate better with audiences and has parts captured at a suburban Mumbai station too. “Karan, who usually shoots in elaborate locations, will now shoot on the streets and other actual places,” says a source close to the Dharma Productions chief.

Bombay Talkies will hit cinema screens on the 3rd of May to commemorate the day the Father of Indian Cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke, released the first Indian motion picture, Raja Harishchandra.