The fire accident on the sets of Prabhu Deva’s Rambo Rajkumar earlier this week in Mumbai was not as minor as it is being made out to be. Apparently Shahid has got burn injuries on his back and hand and would need some time to recover fully. Says a source very close the film, “We were shooting a fire sequence when the chemical used to create the fire went awry. It singed Shahid’s shoulder and hand. It could’ve been much worse. Thankfully nothing serious happened.”

Item-boy Shah Rukh Khan may have pulled off all stops for his item songs with Aishwarya Rai in <em>Shakti</em> (remember <em>Ishq kamina</em>?) and with Malaika Arora in <em>Kaal</em> (remember the title song?). But now for his item song in <em>Chennai Express</em>, Shah Rukh has ordered decorum of the highest order.

To introduce music baron Kumar Taurani’s son Girish Taurani as a leading man, director Prabhudheva has selected the title of a vintage Raj Kapoor song. <em>Ramaiya Vastavaiya</em> is the title of a classic song from Raj Kapoor’s 1955 classic <em>Sri 420</em>. Now Prabhu Deva wants permission to use that song in the film to launch Girish Taurani.

Since the last one week, readers going through daily newspapers were getting curious seeing the ad reading ‘Ram is coming’, never knowing that it was part of the promotional campaign of Tips and Prabhu Deva’s upcoming film <em>Ramaiya Vastavaiya</em>. Today, the makers finally unveiled the posters of the film that stars Girish Kumar (Kumar Taurani’s son) and Shruti Haasan. The film is a remake of Prabhu Deva's directorial debut Telugu blockbuster <em>Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana</em>.

Determined to make Rambo Rajkumar his perfect comeback vehicle Shahid Kapoor is leaving no stone unturned in far-off Kandla in Gujarat to ensure the project has the kind of in-your-face slam-the-audience-nail-the-boxoffice impact which Prabhu Deva achieved with Salman Khan in <em>Wanted</em> and Akshay Kumar in <em>Rowdy Rathore</em>. From the simmering rugged location in Gujarat one came to know that Shahid pulled in his director Prabhu Deva to do a jig and to contribute to the choreography of a song-and-dance featuring Shahid and Sonakshi.

It’s Goodbye to Chennai for Prabhu Deva. Plate so full with direction, choreography and yes, acting—he’s next going to star in a musical with Madhuri Dixit-- in Bollywood that the self-confessed workaholic has decided to make Mumbai his permanent residence. A huge leap in priorities for Prabhu, since until recently he ruled the Tamil and Telugu film industry with little time for Bollywood.

The season of sequels is upon us. Besides the sequel to ABCD we have Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroop which is already 10 percent complete and Neeraj Pandey’s <em>Special Chabbis</em> 2 which would be launched very shortly. Prabhu Deva who now has the unequalled track record of being a superstar choreographer, dancer, filmmaker and actor in Tamil and Hindi, is torn between directing his next film <em>Rambo Rajkumar</em> with Shahid Kapoor and working on the sequel to the new dance film ABCD.

<strong>Starring: Prabhu Deva, Kay Kay Menon, Ganesh Acharya</strong> <strong>Directed by Remo D’Souza</strong> <strong>Rating: ***</strong> “Indians don’t have a mind to think,” mock-whispers Kay Kay Menon, playing the sort of slimeball you thought went out of style with Prem Chopra. Menon, who once was a formidable actor, hams it to the hilt as a kind of Mogambo of the dancing world who thinks dancing is for big bucks, and also for big... well you know the ‘f’ word that rhymes with bucks.