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Actress Chitrangada Singh, who is returning to Bollywood after a three-year hiatus, says she has walked out of 'Delhi Belly' starring Aamir Khan due to creative differences with the makers of the film.

The actress, who shot to fame with 'Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi' (2003) and is now doing Onir's 'Sorry Bhai', also says she will never do an item number.

Mr Perfectionist has just got another bellyache. Or is it one he's giving others, again?

In the recent past, his production of Taare Zameen Par, saw the original director and writer of the film, Amole Gupte, being sidelined and the producer-star of the film, massively rewrote the film and took over the reins, too.

He gave due credit to Gupte, but the scrap caused a lot of heartburn to Gupte, naturally. It was small consolation that the film was appreciated very much by the audieneces as well as critics.

Now, Aamir Khan's production of Delhi Belly seems to have caused heartburn and a bellyache too. The first to the original director of Delhi Belly, and the second to Aamir Khan, to be sure.

Or is it that Aamir is giving a lot of bellyaches to just about everyone around?

These pre-production aches and post-production heartburns are not usual for Mr Khan, and he would probably have quite a stomach upset if he didn't play Mr Perfectionist all the time.

While the directorial responsibility in TZP changed hands when the film was nearly complete, Delhi Belly has seen a change at the helm even before it has gone on the floors.

The original choice to direct Aamir Khan's quirky and crisp sex comedy was Swedish director Robert Nylund. Nylund is nyet nyet already!

Delhi Belly has a new director in the chair already and likely to have a change of language, too.

Confirmed a source close to Delhi Belly, "Robert Nylund has been replaced by Abinay Deo who is veteran actors Ramesh and Seema Deo's younger son -- the elder one, Ajinkya, is a recognised Marathi and Hindi actor."

The source also informed that the film was originally going to be in Hindi when it was to be directed by the Swedish director. Amusingly, it will now be in English."

It has turned out to be big break for the bright spark ad-filmmaker who has already notched up high-budgeted star-studded Pepsi and Cinthol commercial spots.

Shah Rukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone starred in his recent Pepsi ad with the 'Youngisthan' theme while Hrithik was the lead in the Cinthol ad.

Added the source, "In an instant replay of what happened between Aamir and Amole Gupte during TZP, Aamir couldn't see eye to eye with the Swedish director. Aamir was very impressed by Abhinay's ads. When they met, he found Abhinay to full of do-able ideas."

So, the deal clicked. Reportedly, Abhinay has been asked to direct Delhi Belly on the lines of Guy Ritchie's heist-caper Snatch. "It would be a very naughty and sexy comedy unlike anything one would expect from Aamir. And, yes, he's likely to play a part in it."

So, then, there is much to look forward to with this project. After the bellyache break.

I turned up 21 this November but im not happy of that everyone celebrate when they turn 21 but I didn’t coz I was far away frm my home far away frm everyone who was the important chapter in my life.

I was in a relation with a guy since 5yrs we used love each other ,care for each other , was so much crazy about eachother I was that much crazy about that guy that I never made a fren in my college time everytime I used roam around wid him only him , none can believe that I had got no frenz at all, he was everything for me everything I was so much deeply in love wid him that I used to cheat my parents and go out wid him coz my family were against our love he used to love me so badly that when someone wants to talk with me he used to be jealous.

I was entire world for him and so he was but one day everything shattered.. everything.... From that day he used to behave me differently as if I don’t exist I thought that it was just my feeling but it was the reality we started quralleling used to argue in small small things like this our relation started becoming worst he used to enjoy with his crap frens rather than me our relation was being weaker and weaker day by day now those love were turning slowly to hatred now those trust were disgarded. I was dumped, felt like I was being used so badly. But I did a blunder when I ask him to help me out he showed me his back, when I was in need of him he threw me away then I came to know he was just using me nothing more than that. I started ignoring him .

Thank god it wasn’t too late I gather all my guts and walk ahead their was person who helped me out. He comforted me, adviced me and supported me a lot never thought that I'd get help frm someone like him to take me out from that problem. I really can’t forget him, the one who used to say that he loves me a lot he never did coz when I was in need he walked away like a looser when he broke up wid me to tell the truth I was very happy though my heart couldn’t resist the departure if I hadn’t gone to this phase I would have surely loved him as I did and he left me he run away like a looser, thank god, I wasn’t too far in his love or he would have left me in the middle of ocean and I would ve been of nowhere but Im happy that i can still sail back and get a new boat to sail on.

I wasn’t being able to believe that he dumped me it was being hard for me to face myself my parents. I wasn’t being able to explain my pains also then I decided to move away. I chose to come here. God how could I come here alone with none’s supports??? None can believe that I came to Australia all alone no frenz at all and guess what no nepali people in my journey also I gather all my guts and came here to study hospitality coz I was keen interested in this subject came here alone struggle a lot missed my parents a lot.

The one who helped me to heal those pains used to be in touch with me actually he was my best frens’s fren he used to call me mail me saying not to be upset not to feel alone I also used to feel comfortable with him, talking with him makes me feel better than one day he proposed me I was shocked knowing all those craps also he’s ready to accept me I ask him do he know wat he’s doing he replied yes but I’m still confused what to do now it isn’t that I dont love him but I m afraid of my past I don’t no what to do, finally said yes but I’m still confuse why he want to be a part of me knowing all the truth he loves me a lot but am afraid if he’ll also leave me like that guy did .God can’t be rude to me every time thinking about this I put my step ahead .

Starring Irrfan Khan, Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Juhi Chawla, Suresh Menon, Rajat Kapoor
Written and Directed by Jaideep Sen
Rating: **

Stand-up comedian Suresh Menon playing one of four psychologically –disturbed protagonists utters barely one word in the film.

"Kidnap!" he stammers to tell his associates that the sweet doctor Juhi Chawla has been whisked away by an assortment of baddies who look like they could do with a spot of training in crime management.

Krazzy 4 is a refreshing if not riveting change from the risqué-driven innuendo-laden ha-ha-thons that have recently infested our theatres with parasitical passion.

This one has a point to make under the barrage of burlesque. And it's all done in the spirit of give and tickle. Cinematographer Ajit Bhat shoots the streets and crowded places of Mumbai to signify the sense of freedom that the four institutionalized heroes feel even in the claustrophobic atmosphere outside the confines of their world within the stone walls.

So who's the crazy one? The guy who thinks we're still living in the era of Gandhian freedom fighters? Or the guy (Rajat Kapoor exuding suave viallainy with a slurpy stealth) who gets his sweet wife kidnapped for political gains?

Good question. And adeptly handled by debutant director Jaideep Sen as long as the audience doesn't ask too many questions about the logistics of four men and a jalopy joyride one not-so-fine-day into intrigue, adventure and crime.

Sen with ample help from writer Ashwani Dheer knows precisely which frontiers to open to ensure the comedy doesn't slip into farce. The initial scenes introducing the characters are well executed. And if the pace doesn't slacken it's because the actors wouldn't let it.

Each of the four main actors invest a certain something beyond the precincts of parody to their characters.

Irrfan Khan as the literate cleanliness freak, Arshad Warsi as the inmate with an anger-management problem, Rajpal Yadav caught in Gandhian time warp and Suresh Menon as the tongue-tied repressed vagrant invest a definite direction to the wacked-out goings-on.

If you persuade a cine buff to choose one from the foursome it would have to be Rajpal who's by now the maestro of mirthful manoeuverings. Watch him give his patriotic mouthfuls to several scumbags in the plot. Rajpal brings the house down.

Agreed some of the plotting and narrative transitions lack finesse. But when have mainstream Hindi films been known for extravagant bouts of finesse?

Amidst the rites of the road movie, the narrative packs in some seriously satirical and sensitive moments. Check out Arshad's scene with his prospective father-in-law. It's a superbly scripted encounter worthy of far more recognition than evident on 'farce'-value.

Or that isolated incident of pathos when the hygiene maniac Irrfan repositions the bindi on his wife's head.

Such moments, delicately drawn and deftly defined get drown in the din of devilish merrymakers on a rampage.

Krazzy 4 moves from one wacked-out adventure to another without sacrificing the sublinear message on the definition of normal behaviour in a social structure that has lost all its sense of proportion and is hurling into mayhem and anarchy.

Laughter, you might want to know, is the only medicine.

Krazzy 4 isn't quite the tonic for our wounded souls. But you can't help giggle at the goings-on specially when the cast is so finely clued into the cult of comicality.

A word on the two controversial item songs. Shah Rukh moves. Hrithik glides. And yes, Irrfan Khan tries to wipe Rakhi Sawant's tattoo clean in her item song.

That's where the laughter of the lewd is dispersed in the innocence of the 'mad'. Krazzy 4 isn't Milos Forman's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Priyadarshan did that in Kyun Ki.

Krazzy 4 goes cuckoo in different sometimes endearing strokes.

It isn't as if Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan planned to be in Miami for their first anniversary.

"It just happened," says the Big B. "Abhishek is shooting in Miami for Dostana on their marriage anniversary. And Aishwarya is going to be with him.

We'll get them by a new technology called skyscape to speak from Miami to mediapersons in Mumbai at the launch of Sarkar Raj which happens to be on the same evening as their wedding anniversary."

Ram Gopal Varma says it's just a coincidence that the unveiling of Sarkar Raj will take place on April 20.

"I didn't even remember it was Abhishek and Aishwarya's wedding anniversary on 20 April.

We decided to do the First Look party of Sarkar Raj on this day because it was six weeks before the release. It's just a coincidence. I don't keep track of anyone's birthdays and anniversaries, not even mine."

Ramu is excited about something else. "This is the first time the actors of an Indian film will be connected to the media via satellite. We're doing it through a technology known as skyscape.

I think it's very exciting to reach out by modern technology in this way. It's the First-Look party of Sarkar Raj. Aishwarya and Abhishek will be live from Miami in Mumbai."

However the Big B will be physically present in Mumbai at the event.

Tell Ramu that the Sarkar Raj event will be eclipsed by the excitement of the lead pair's wedding anniversary, and Ramu shrugs. "It doesn't matter. We can't separate Abhishek and Aishwarya's life from Sarkar Raj.

Very soon after the First-Look event we'll have the music release of Sarkar Raj. T Series is releasing the music soundtrack."

After all the friction with Bhooshan Kumar it's back to T Series!