The Rangeela Girl

The filmmaker's Rangeela girl is back to add colour to RGV's next venture 'Not A Love Story' by unveiling the song originally picturised on her.

Urmila Matondkar and Ram Gopal Varma have joined hands yet again. This time for a press conference.

The filmmaker and the actress who were alleged to be romantically involved in the mid nineties, had a fallout when another upcoming actress snatched the spotlight away from Urmila.

The two had however, denied all such allegations repeatedly.

The actress even did an item number for the box office dud Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag in 2007. Her Mehbooba Mehbooba act in the film was probably the only respite.

2011, and the actress is back by Ramu's side to unveil a song for his upcoming venture 'Not A Love Story' starring Mahie Gill.

Mallika acts Pricey, gets replaced

Mallika Sherawat was recently approached to host India's Sexiest Bachelors on a newly launched channel. The actress after an initial hearing asked for an astronomical fee.

However whatever the channel offered, the sexy siren would demand double of it. After a few rounds of negotiations, the channel decided that they were better off without her.

Says a source, "As the channel was launched in May, they are looking at grabbing eyeballs. The show would feature hot hunks, so they felt the sexy siren was the best bet to anchor the show."

Adds the source, "The show was for 10 episodes and among the names that are slated to feature include Sidhartha Mallya, John Abraham, Yuvraj Singh and Ranbir Kapoor.

Initially, Mallika showed interest but when the monetary talk began she was like a diva who refused to budge." In the past, Mallika had judged a few episodes of the dance show Chak Dhoom Dhoom on another channel. She was booted out due to her starry tantrums. The actress had turned up hours late at the launch of the show itself.

Later during the shoot, she had her list of demands that included not getting proper breaks during the shoot. An exasperated channel then replaced her with Urmila Matondkar. India's Sexiest Bachelors has now roped in Shibani Dandekar to host the show. Mallika, who is presently in New York, remained unavailable for comment.

"Rangeela" sequel planned...

Sequels, sequels and more sequels are the order of the day in Bollywood and Ram Gopal Varma has also caught up with the trend. His film Rangeela in which Aamir Khan and Urmila Matondkar played the lead roles created a sensation when it was released sixteen years ago. Music maestro AR Rahman's music played a vital part in the film's success. And now, RGV intends to make a sequel to it.

In fact the idea for such venture struck him during the launch of Rahman's biography. Rahman, in his speech, expressed his gratitude to all the filmmakers namely, Mani Ratnam, Subhash Ghai, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Ram Gopal Varma, etc., to whom he attributed his successful career. In fact Rahman made his debut in Bollywood through Rangeela. RGV was touched by Rahman's words of gratitude and immediately thought of making sequel to the trend-setting film. Here again, he is hoping to rope in Rahman to compose the music.