Rajkumar Santoshi finally gave out cast details for his big budget film, Ramayan. Ajay Devgan was finalized to play Ram and now, Riteish Deshmukh will be playing Laxman, Ram’s younger brother. For the role of Ravan, South Indian actor Prakash Raj has been signed. Prakash Raj was earlier seen in films like Shakti - The Power, Shart - The Challenge and also in Santoshi’s Khakee.

Talking about the casting, Santoshi says that only North Indian actors will be the members of King Dasharath’s clan while South Indian actors will be a part of Ravan’s clan. The shooting of the film will start early next year.

Rajkumar Santoshi is currently shooting Halla Bol starring Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan.

Having usually played urbane, slightly flummoxed characters in almost all his films, Riteish Deshmukh is all set to become seriously exotic for Sujoy Ghosh's Aladdin & the Mystery of the Lamp , with Amitabh Bachchan as his genie.

The actor is somewhat shy talking about this project.

"I don't know what plans Sujoy and (producer) Rohan Sippy have about my looks. It could be totally Arabian or it might be somewhat contemporary. But it's an exciting prospect any which way," Riteish said.

First things first! It’s said that NAMASTEY LONDON is the 2007 adaptation of Manoj Kumar’s immensely likable PURAB AUR PACHHIM. Sure, NAMASTEY LONDON is about a spoilt British girl of Indian origin and a desi guy, but the similarities end there. In fact, NAMASTEY LONDON also bears slight similarity to Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s classic love story HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM, with the husband allowing his wife to follow her heart, helping her unite with her lover.

Sajid Nadiadwala may have had a bad year with the 'Jaan-E-Mann' setback but his never-say die spirit is very much evident for his next 'Heyy Babyy' .

According to our industry sources , after the Australian shooting schedule , Sajid's next , 'Heyy Babyy' , is nearly complete .

Only some scenes of the baby are now to be canned . Besides Akshay Kumar,Fardeen Khan , Ritesh Deshmukh and Vidya Balan , there is a baby in very significant role in the film which is being planned for a release in May this year !

Amitabh Bachchan will play the genie in a Bollywood fantasy based on the Disney classic Aladdin, filmmaker Rohan Sippy said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

Rohan said the movie was to be set in 2007 and filming was scheduled to begin this summer.

“It is a modern take on Aladdin. The film will have a lot of computer graphics and special effects,” he told a leading newspaper.

“It has the potential to be a great family entertainer,” Rohan added.

The movie, to be directed by promising filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh, also stars actors Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh.

DUS fame Anubhav Sinha's next film CASH is certainly going to attract a lot of eyeballs when it releases on May 11. The reasons for that are manifold, starting with the looks department!

While DHOOM 2 too was a look-based film, even CASH seems to be following suit with a stylish getup provided to each of the members of the cast ranging from Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty, Ritesh Deshmukh and Zayed Khan to Shamita Shetty, Esha Deol and Dia Mirza.

If Indra Kumar’s movie Masti was about the extra-marital misadventures of three married men, the movie’s prequel will be about joys of bachelorhood.

Yes, a prequel to the hit movie that starred Vivek Oberoi , Ritesh Deshmukh and Aftab Shivdasani as three henpecked husbands is in the planning stages.

Well-known Bollywood producer Sajid Nadiadwala's banner, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt Ltd (NGE), has clinched a deal with Fox Studios Australia for the pre and post -production work of Heyy Babyy being extensively shot in the exotic locales of that country.

This makes Heyy Babyy the first Indian film to be processed in Australia and NGE the first Indian production house to have an office at Fox Studios.

The film has Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan and Vidya Balan in important roles.

Ritesh Deshmukh and Tusshar Kapoor , who entertained us with their comedy in ‘Kyaa Kool Hai Hum’, will act together again in the movie’s sequel.

For a long time now it has been speculated that producer Ektaa Kapoor was thinking of making a sequel to the successful comedy Kyaa Kool Hai Hum , which was directed by Sangeeth Sivan.

Sajid Nadiadwala is never hesitant to checkout new technology & innovation from Hollywood.

Sajid has invested in New technology & Systems from Hollywood for his new pet project 'Hey Baby' starring Akshay Kumar , Fardeen & Ritesh Deshmukh and Vidya Balan directed by Sajid Khan.