Vidya Balan used pads to look busty

Vidya Balan, whose bold antics and revealing clothes in The Dirty Picture is becoming the talk of the town, apparently had to use pads and prosthetics to look bustier.

Vidya Balan, who portrayed yesteryears' South siren Silk Smitha had to look extremely sensual in her upcoming film The Dirty Picture. As Vidya wore deep-neck and cleavage revealing cholis, she had to look heavy. Vidya was not only asked to put on some weight, but also had to use pads and prosthetics to look more bustier.

Vidya Balan's designer Niharika Khan informed a leading website that Vidya had to use pads and prosthetics for some scenes to look bustier. This apparently took a toll on Vidya Balan's health and she fell ill.

The Dirty Picture will release this Friday on December 2nd.

Akshay Khanna gets slap-happy

Akshaye Khanna has slapped a politician in his forthcoming film but makers claim they were not inspired by the recent Sharad Pawar episode Even before the sound of Harvinder Singh's slap resonating across politician Sharad Pawar's cheek has died down, there comes the news that Akshaye Khanna playing the frustrated disillusioned Common Man in a new film has done exactly that in a forthcoming film. Writer-director Rumi Jaffrey, however, kills the rumour that the sequence has been shot after the slap-happy incident in Delhi. In what looks like a bizarre reprise of Harvinder Singh's slap against corruption last week, Akshaye Khanna playing the Common Man in writer-director Rumi Jaffrey's Gali Gali Gali Mein Shor Hai, walks up casually to the corrupt politician, played by character-actor Murli Sharma, and plants a resounding slap on the corrupt glib-talking man's face. Protesting against the buzz that he shot the slapping sequence following the real life incident in the country's capital, Rumi says, "No, no! We shot the sequence three months ago in Bhopal. We had no clue someone will actually be doing what we had only imagined as a cinematic device to show the Common Man's anger and frustration. We even used to discuss within our crew whether the scene would offend our politicians in any way. But look at destiny! A man actually went and did it." Rumi says, "I suppose the average Indian's tolerance power has reached breaking-point. When we started Gali-Gali Mein Shor Hai, Anna Hazare saab's campaign and all its offshoots had just started. As we completed the film we realised how deep-rooted people's resentment against corruption had become." At the moment there's just anxiety on the director's mind: "People shouldn't think we're copying real-life incidents of protest."

Chitrangada almost groped by fans

The actress escapes with few scratches and an ankle injury while promoting 'Desi Boyz'

On Tuesday evening, Chitrangada Singh was made to realise the perils of being popular.

At a shopping mall in Pune, while she was promoting her film with co-stars John Abraham and Akshay Kumar, the crowds went berserk around her. The actress also suffered scratches in the process.

Says an eyewitness, "The mall had three floors packed with people because the stars were to perform.

However despite many security guards, things went awry and the crowd was trying to reach out to the actors. The crowd was way beyond the capacity of the mall and it was very difficult to control over 4,000 people at one go."

Realising it was not safe any more to continue, the organisers called off the show half way. And when the stars proceeded to exit the venue, things went completely out of control.

Chitrangada who also hurt her ankle says, "I have never seen so many people together in my life. Plus they were so aggressive that they started pushing the railings and even got into a scuffle with the security guards.

I realised then how serious the situation was. There was a point when I fell and almost got groped, but thankfully Akshay was right behind me and he bailed me out."

More trouble
Apparently later in the evening when the actors reached a Pune nightspot, John Abraham spotted a girl being eve-teased and immediately stepped up to help her. John got into a physical fight with the guy, but the latter escaped.