It is already out that Karan Johar has been signed by Dharma Productions for one of its upcoming ventures that is to be directed by Punit Malhotra who had earlier helmed I Hate Luv Storys. But there was a small impediment; the film’s title Gutka was registered under the name of Madhur Bhandarkar. It was only after producer Karan Johar spoke to Bhandarkar regarding the same, the former readily transferred the title on his name. With the glitch out, Johar is all set to start pre-production of the film that would be a two-hero project.

The Cairo International Film Festival has invited Madhur Bhandarkar to be part of the jury. Said an excited Bhandarkar, "I am delighted to be a part of the International Jury for the 35th edition of Cairo International Film Festival. I love the theme that they have - 'Positive thinking, revolution and freedom'. This is an honour, which I humbly accept." The 44-year-old director's last film was the Kareena Kapoor-starrer Heroine that released last September.

Arjun Rampal is today in a very confident space. Gone are the days when Aishwarya Rai lorded over her home production Dil Ka Rishta while Arjun had to play the sleeping partner. He ensured himself a proper place in the publicity campaign of <em>Heroine</em>.

<strong>Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Shahana Goswami, Ranveer Shorey, Govind Namdeo</strong> <strong>Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar</strong> <strong>Rating: ****<strong> Somewhere deep within the corroding flamboyance of filmdom there is a tale of heartbreaking compromises and immorality tucked away from the naked tearless eye. Madhur Bhandarkar nearly gets to the nerve centre of that world, and then pulls back just before he’s really gotten to the centre.

Insiders know that Madhur Bhandarkar is infatuated by the word jalwa that now seems to be the most common words in the director’s vocabulary. Having first started usage of the word in the song '<em>Fashion Ka Jalwa</em>' in the Priyanka Chopra starrer-<em>Fashion</em>, Bhandarkar has used the word in the Kareena Kapoor-starrer <em>Heroine</em>.

Cairo International Film Festival has invited national award winning director Madhur Bhandarkar to join the International Jury. The festival that will go underway on 27 November will go on till 6 December, this year. Airing his views on him being selected for the jury at this year’s Cairo fest, Bhandarkar opined, “I am delighted to be a part of the 35th edition of Cairo International Film Festival. I like this year’s theme that says ‘Positive thinking revolution and freedom.”

UTV, Kareena Kapoor and Madhur Bhandarkar are pulling out all stops to promote their upcoming film Heroine. As part of the promotion, the team made a grand entry for an event in Dubai last evening that left the audience and media spellbound. True to the glamorous and stylish spirit of the film, Kareena, Madhur and Siddharth Roy Kapur addressed a press conference on a cruise in the city when the stylish Heroine alighted the cruise at Jebel resort from aboard a sea plane.

It’s victory time for the Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC). Though the producers UTV of Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine have approached the Mumbai High Court to protest against the new policy of a statutory-warning ticker whenever a smoking sequence is shown, the CBFC on Friday, passed the film with an ‘A’ certificate, with a clause that a statutory warning should be displayed in every scene showing Kareena Kapoor smoking in the film.

Madhur Bhandarkar and UTV Motion Pictures’ upcoming Kareena Kapoor-starrer Heroine has run into trouble in the Middle East. The damage has been done by the first promo of the film in which Kareena, accusing the media of holding preconceived notions about actresses, says, "Heroine ne gaadi li toh business man ne gift kiya... aur God forbid Dubai gayi, toh uska rate card ban jaata hai”