Mithun Chakraborty is the latest actor to join the team of Housefull 2.

The film already has several stars including Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, John Abraham, Rahul Khanna, Asin, Jacqueline Fernandez, Chunky Pandey, Randhir Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor.

While Asin will be cast opposite Akshay, John will be paired with Jacqueline. Says director Sajid Khan, “The sequel will be completely different from the first one. It’s a new story, and will be ten times bigger and better than Housefull.”

Sajid is scouting for two more female actors for the film. To be shot abroad in UK, Phuket, Argentina and Hong Kong, the film will go on the floors towards the end of May and be completed in October.

The team of "F.A.L.T.U." had no faltu time when they came to town on a recent rainy afternoon, as all of them were busy obliging the cameras and giving non-stop interviews.

It made for an interesting sight to watch all of them speak, separately, at the press conference. One could hear Riteish Deshmukh, standing in the middle of 15 cameras and mikes, saying, "No, I'm not dating ... I don't know where all these rumours come...," and Jackky Bhagnani, on the other corner, answering questions with a smile, "So what if Bryan Adam's concert couldn't happen today, we will be back soon for it." While papa Vashu Bhagnani was keeping to a corner, he was also put before a mike for a sawaal-jawaab session, beginning with 'Film ka title aisa kyun hai?' Remo D'Souza, who seemed to be kinda shy, was discussing how he got the idea of turning a director from a choreographer.

How can we forget the comical Housefull? Directed by Sajid Khan and starring Akshay Kumar as the lead protagonist role while Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Arjun Rampal featuring in supporting roles. Boman Irani and Randhir Kapoor also play important supporting roles in the film. Jacqueline Fernandez has a special appearance in the film. The film was shot over several months in London and Italy. The film is said to be a remake of 1998 Tamil film Kaathala Kaathala. The film was released on 30 April 2010 across more than 750 screens in India. It saw quite a good reponse from the audiences who just wanted to sit back relax and watch a Romcom kind of movie. Now Sajid Khan has made a promise to his team as well as the audience to come up with a sequel of this movie. Standing up to his promise Sajid is almost set to get the movie on the floors soon enough. He is confident that the film would prove to be 10 times funnier than the first in the series."The entire team is quite gung-ho about the sequel to Housefull. The script has come up pretty fabulously. God willing, Housefull 2 will be biggest 'paisa vasool' entertainer for the audience", says Sajid confidently.

Post the success of HOUSEFULL, Sajid Khan was pronto roped by producer Vashu Bhagnani for his next major production. A big budget extravaganza, the film was being looked at with much anticipation, more so since Sajid was working with a production house outside Sajid Nadiadwala's 'Nadiadwala Grandson' for the first time.

However, as per the latest developments, Vashu Bhangani would have to wait for a while since it is Nadiadwala's HOUSEFULL 2 which would be going on floors soon. 'What happened', one asks Sajid Khan.

Ram Gopal Verma announced his next venture, ‘Department’ starring Big B after his Vivek Oberoi starrer ‘ Rakta Charita’ garnered rave reviews. Now that Ramu is charged up with a renewed vigour, he is all set to make a hard hitting stylish action flick. Apart from Big B, the film will also star Abhishek Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh. The multi-starrer film is all set to go on floors early next year.

On being asked by reporters as to what made the producer-director zero-in on a film like ‘Department’, RGV said, “‘Department’ is the other side of my own `Company` (Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi). While `Company` was about the politics within underworld, `Department` is about politics within the police organisation itself. In underworld, there is this single person, a Don, who is the boss. In police, it is not an individual who is the boss. It is the department itself which is.”

“This is the reason why I am coining `Department` as a counterpoint of Don”, he added.

There was a time when directors making cameos in their own films were considered to be a fad. Now the latest trend seems to be getting an actor to do a cameo in a film that has been hyped to the hilt, without even a mention about the star's presence.


The last well-kept secret cameo that Bollywood witnessed was that of Deepika Padukone in the film ‘Main Aurr Mrs Khanna’, a film which only showcased the on-screen presence of Salman, Kareena and Sohail Khan. This time round, it is the Aftab-Aamna starrer fantasy flick ‘Aao Wish Karein’, directed by Glenn Baretto. We found out that Aftab's chaddi-buddy Riteish Deshmukh will be seen playing a Sardar in the film. Our sources also went to the extent of furnishing us with the snap of Riteish's look in the film.

First-time director Milap Zaveri, who held two test screenings for his forthcoming film Jaane Kahaan Se Aayee Hai, will be re-shooting a few scenes based on the response in September. A love story between an earthling played by Riteish Deshmukh and an alien essayed by the Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandes, the shoot will take place in Mumbai. Among the sequences that will be re-shot, one will be between Vishal Malhotra and Riteish Deshmukh. Said Zaveri, “The audiences loved their camaraderie. So I have deleted a one-minute scene and added one more scene between the two.”

The much awaited animated version of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai titled Kootchie Kootchie Hota Hain is almost ready and is being scheduled to release soon to commemorate 10 years of the film. This mega budget animated venture is a joint production between Karan Johar’s banner Dharma Productions along with Los Angeles-based Prana Studios and the Mumbai based 3D Animation Studios. It is learnt to be featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics matching International cinema standards. However though K2H2 was a very successful film marking the debut of Karan Johar as a director, its animated version is not being directed by him but his Dostana director Tarun Mansukhani.

There was also speculation whether Salman Khan who featured in a Filmfare Award winning performance in the film would dub for his animated character since him and SRK have had a fall out. But now we have learnt that his character will be dubbed by Ritesh Deshmukh.

Recently there were talks about David Dhawan beginning work on two of his upcoming projects. While one of them (yet untitled) would be starring Govinda, Riteish Deshmukh, Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta, for the other (which is going to be a remake of Hollywood film WEDDING CRASHERS) the star cast is yet to be confirmed. However, insiders claim that it would be the return of PARTNER team with David, Sallu and Govinda teaming up yet again.

With announcement of two comedy projects coming in almost simultaneously, a few confused souls have already gone ahead and pitched Riteish Deshmukh as one of the leads in WEDDING CRASHERS.