Bollywood actress Preity Zinta is well respected by almost everyone in the industry, she is probably among those few who have never been part of any cheap controversy, however since a long time we haven’t heard from the beautiful and talented actress, in a recent interview to a Mumbai based daily the actress opened up and shared about her journey in bollywood.

Preity says that she hasn’t been part of any star camps because she has never indulged in a relation with any male co-stars which is why she share a healthy and professional relation with everyone she works with, and everyone respect that.

Talking about Aishwarya Rai she said – “Ash is someone who I can call a friend”, Preity also said – “Ash is so confident and what I like best about her is her on-your-face attitude. Both of us are not hypocrites, and we appreciate that about each other. We both are head-strong and have an opinion about things, but we aren’t double-faced”.

In this day and age where other actresses can’t even talk about their contemporaries, such statements further enhances the respect Preity commands.

Bollywood’s celebrated fashion designer Manish Malhotra has got the beautiful Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to be his showstopper at the HDIL India Couture Week next month.

“Beautiful aishwarya is going to be the show stopper at my couture week show,” Manish wrote on his twitter page.

“Emerald is the main colour of my couture week collection,” he added.

Last week, he showcased his collection at the Lakme Fashion Week that had Bollywood actresses Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji and Urmila Matondkar as his special guests.

When the stars get together to chat you can be sure it’s juicy! Whether they gossip about their latest love interest or newest fight with a movie director, we love to know what’s going on in our favorite celebs’ lives!
But while a photo can say more than words, it’s hard to tell from a pic what the stars are up to. So why don’t you tell us; what are they sayin’?

Oh, oh! What is going on here? Aishwarya Rai Bachchan bumped into Preity Zinta the other day at an event, and it doesn’t look like the two were all smiles! Even Ritesh Deshmukh looks nervous about being in the picture!
Could they simply be discussing a script for a new – serious – movie they are working on? Or are the two Bollywood actresses talking about who should walk in front of the cameras and who should stay behind?
Judging by Ritesh’s facial expression, the girls are not all chummy, chummy! The “Housefull” actor looks quite worried that the photographer will capture the fight!
We wonder what Ash and Preity are talking about! Why don’t you tell us; what are they sayin’?

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta is in Dubai to celebrate her 35th birthday Sunday and has plans to cook Indian food for “Good afternoon guys! Chilling in Dubai for my birthday weekend! This is going to be the best year of my life,” Preity posted on her Twitter account Saturday. “I have always wondered why Ash (Aishwarya Rai) & me grow older every year while all the other actresses either stay the same age or get younger? Any guesses?” she asked. On this birthday weekend, the actress is also trying to cook some Indian food.

“Ok! Its my birthday weekend so now I am going back to focusing on me…he he he! Trying to cook some Indian food 4 my Indian tummy! Ciao,” Preity posted. Preity, who has supposedly agreed to host a chat show for a TV channel, is very positive about the year 2010.

“2010 is the year for new beginnings! New and adventurous projects and even sky will not be the limit! Wait and watch…you guys! Luv you all!,” the actress posted. Preity also admitted her admiration for friends Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar.

“Guyz just for the record…Shah Rukh is the most secular and the most fair guy I know! Its unfair to judge his movie based on his opinions,” Preity posted. “I do love Karan Johar and Shah Rukh! Both are very dear to me and I will defend them if someone writes nonsense about them,” she added.

Freida Pinto, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, Preity Zinta and Priyanka Chopra are busy lending their names to benevolent plans.

Freida has signed up with Nanhi Kali Foundation while Ash will be Smile Train’s first goodwill ambassador.

Nanhi Kali Foundation, for the uninitiated, aims to offer primary education to underprivileged girl children in India. Smile Train, on the other hand, is a leading cleft charity involved in providing free cleft surgery to poor children.

“God has given me plenty of reasons to smile and I feel it’s time to spread it around. Lot of children desperately need help, but can’t receive timely care since their families cannot afford this surgery or are uneducated,” says Ash.

Big news is that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is making a third film with Sanjay Leela Bhansali called Guzaarish after Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and
Devdas, and it stars Hrithik Roshan.

The actress, trapped in the dense forests of Kerala with husband Abhishek for Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, took a call and spoke to BT about it. “We’ve evolved together, grown as individuals and artistes, we’re both similar — totally driven and passionate, the passion is mutually addictive, we don’t meet for months, but every time we meet — we pick up the threads effortlessly,” said Ash about her filmmaker friend.

But, Guzaarish is going to be different from their first two films. “This time we aren’t going into the glamour zone,” said Ash. “Sanjay was so excited when he found the right script for us to work together in. ‘This is it,’ he said. For the first time I didn’t even read the script before I said yes. It’s a very real, very intense drama. I respect filmmakers like Sanjay, Mani Ratnam and Shankar who make the films they do because they have to. The family that I’ve married into, this belief and faith in the work we do is predominant. Ma or Pa only go into projects with complete conviction. I follow that faith.”

She laughed when asked whether filmmakers who wanted Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would settle for no other actress, “I don’t know, but when I am not able to do a project they discuss the alternatives with me. I treasure that relationship with my directors where they don’t see me as just their heroine but a collaborator even if I’m unable to do their films.”

That apart, Ash is thrilled to be working with Hrithik again. They were offered Mission Kashmir soon after Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, but she couldn’t meet the schedule, so her role was done by Preity Zinta.

Then they almost did Krissh, but that, too, didn’t materialise.
Hrithik has admitted that the former Miss World is his favourite co-star.

“We did an ad-film together before working in Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa-Akbar. Hrithik, Sanjay and I are like-minded people — very focussed and passionate about our work. The two films Hrithik and I did were poles apart and now Sanjay’s film takes us into a totally different territory. Like I said, there’s no glam zone in this one. I go completely by my convictions. I chose to do Dhoom 2 after ten years in the industry and not at the start of my career. I was just cracking a genre. And then I moved on. On the other hand, I was content being totally deglam in Guru. If I get loved by my audience for it, then nothing like it,” she said.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might be all of 35 and is losing out on endorsement deals and positions to the likes of Kareena Kapoor and plastic actress gone lucky, Katrina Kaif, but she still is going strong in more ways that one.

Not just Ash, her contemporaries like Sushmita Sen, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Kajol too have been replaced by the likes of Kat, Bebo, Deepika Padukone, even Sonam Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza.

But Ash is doing better than her contemporaries.She may not be the face of Coca-Cola and Nakshatra diamond jewellery in India, but she still has successful and long-standing international endorsements.

She has completed nearly a decade of endorsing Swiss luxury watch brand Longines, international soap Lux and is the brand ambassador of global haircare brand L’Oreal since 2003. And unlike Shilpa Shetty and Preity Zinta who have moved.

On to businesses like IPL with rich boyfriends, Ash still has some good movies like Maniratnam’s ‘Raavan’, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next with Hrithik Roshan, Vipul Shah’s ‘Action Replay’ with Akshay Kumar and a movie with Excel entertainment, probably one with Rajiv Menon as well. Hollywood top star Will Smith is still willing to work with her. That very well makes clear the fact that the dame is here to stay put in the glitzy world of showbiz for a few more years. The Kats, Bebos and Dipsys of the world be damned.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might be all of 35 and is losing out on endorsement deals and positions to the likes of Kareena Kapoor and plastic actress gone lucky, Katrina Kaif, but she still is going strong in more ways that one.

Not just Ash, her contemporaries like Sushmita Sen, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta and Kajol too have been replaced by the likes of Kat, Bebo, Deepika Padukone, even Sonam Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza.

But Ash is doing better than her contemporaries. She may not be the face of Coca-Cola and Nakshatra diamond jewellery in India, but she still has successful and long-standing international endorsements.

She has completed nearly a decade of endorsing Swiss luxury watch brand Longines, international soap Lux and is the brand ambassador of global haircare brand L’Oreal since 2003. And unlike Shilpa Shetty and Preity Zinta who have moved on to businesses like IPL with rich boyfriends.

Ash still has some good movies like Maniratnam’s “Raavan’, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next with Hrithik Roshan, Vipul Shah’s “Action Replay’ with Akshay Kumar and a movie with Excel entertainment, probably one with Rajiv Menon as well. Hollywood top star Will Smith is still willing to work with her. That very well makes clear the fact that the dame is here to stay put in the glitzy world of showbiz for a few more years.

With Randhir Kapoor making his comeback from his retirement, it seems the Bollywood oldies are too keen to start their second innings in the glitzy tinsel town. According to latest buzz, Bollywood maverick Vipul Shah has penned a role especially for Randhir Kapoor in his latest flick ‘Action Replay’.

Added to this, the film will bring rivals ‘Bachchans’ and ‘Kapoors’ together as the film stars none other than Aishwarya Rai Bachchan opposite Akshay Kumar. Off late, the last time Randhir Kapoor graced silver screen was with Honey Irani’s ‘Armaan’, where he essayed the role of a father to vivacious Preity Zinta.

According to Vipul, he is all excited about Randhir Kapoor in ‘Action Replay’. A newspaper quoted Vipul Shah as saying, “I’m a fan of Randhir and Rishi Kapoor. It was a dream come true when I got a chance to work with Chintuji in ‘Namastey London’. Look at how many wonderful roles and films he signed after that. Now I’m hoping that after ‘Instant Replay’, Randhirji too will be doing more films.”

Randhir Kapoor will be seen as a scientist in his engrossing time traveling tale. Elucidating about the film, Vipul said, “Randhirji doesn’t play a mad scientist with his hair flying rebelliously and all kinds of fumes and fires escaping from the lab.

He plays a calm scientist lost in his own world.”It is well known that Kapoors and Bachchans have a strained relations, with the Bachchan ‘bahu’ Aishwarya Rai and Randhir Kapoor sharing the same space, let’s gear up for a new doze of war-of-words!