Raaz’ is very close to me: Bipasha Basu

Dusky actress Bipasha Basu, who entered Hindi filmdom with suspense thriller “Ajnabee”, says her second film “Raaz” is closer to her heart.

” ‘Raaz’ is very close to me because it got me into acting. ‘Ajnabee’ was the first film, but after doing ‘Raaz’ I figured out that I want to be an actress,” Bipasha said.

In a career of more than eight years, the actress has worked in films of various genres, including “Jism”, “No Entry”, “Corporate”, “Dhoom 2″, “Bachna Ae Haseeno” and “Lamhaa” among others

Bipasha Basu has signed for first international project

After sizzling on Bollywood screen for almost a decade, dusky beauty Bipasha Basu has signed her first international project -- English-French director Roland Joffe’s "Singularity".
The 31-year-old is extremely excited and admits she does have butterflies in her stomach.
"I am very excited...but have to admit that I am also a little nervous. Everything happened really fast," Bipasha told IANS over phone from Mumbai.
Bipasha met Joffe in a chance encounter at the Taj Land’s End Hotel in Mumbai in September.
The $33 million movie, written by Ajey Jhankar, is a riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.
It is set in the backdrop of the First Anglo-Maratha War of the 18th century and revolves around four characters - a British officer in colonial India and the Indian woman he falls in love with, an American marine biologist and his researcher lover -- who gets trapped in a wrecked British merchant ship.
The film will be shot in Australia and India. Bipasha will be flying to Brisbane in the first week of November.
Bipasha, who will be missing Diwali for the initial rehearsals for the film, says she would have loved to get some more time to prepare for her role.
"I am not getting much of preparation time right now. I have been given just eight days to prepare for underwater scenes and horse riding...I wish I had at least a month’s time for preparation," she said.
As much as she would have liked to, Bipasha is also not getting much time to brush up on her history.

"There is just no time before I fly out! I have finished all my pending endorsement assignments and now I will try and grasp whatever I can there itself," she said.
Nevertheless, she is looking forward to working with Hollywood actors.
"The script is fantastic. They have a lot of expertise in their field...it’s going to be a whole lot of hard work, and it’s going to be great fun to adapt to their system of working," she said.
"Singularity" also stars Bollywood actor Abhay Deol besides Hollywood stars Chris Pine, Josh Hartnett, Olga Kurylenko, Christopher Egan and Shane Briant, among others.
Bipasha will shoot from the third week of November till the last week of December in Brisbane.
Her upcoming Indian projects include "Dum Maaro Dum" and Abbas-Mustan’s "Players".
Bipasha is glad that Abbas-Mustan, who gave her a launchpad with 2001 film "Ajnabee", were accommodating enough to adjust their dates so that she could give her nod to "Singularity".
The film is tentatively slated for a 2011 release.

Bipasha Basu invites John for Durga puja to her town

In her own words, actress Bipasha Basu took actor-beau John Abraham to her hometown in Kolkata seven years ago, when they were just a year-old in their relationship. The star couple are once again Kolkata- bound for some family time with Bipasha’s parents, sisters -Bidisha and Vijayeta, and her extended family for Durga puja. The actor this time is looking forward to it for more than one reason.

“It’s my mother’s birthday on Nabami (October 16), and I’m planning to give her a surprise. I’m also dying to see my niece (Bidisha’s three-year-old daughter), who I’ve not seen for a long time. Yes, it is going to be one big family reunion,” says Bipasha.

“Last time when I went with John it was pandemonium.”

The only thing that she misses about not celebrating Durga puja in Mumbai is not being able to spend time with her friend and actor Rani Mukerji at the Durga puja held by her family (organised by the North Bombay Sarbojonin Durga Puja Charitable Trust and supported by DNA).

“Attending the family puja organised by the Mukerji clan is a tradition that I’ve followed even when I was a model. It used to be the closest to my house. It’s around this time that I became friends with Rani and got close to the family. I have some fondest memories of the Durga puja there, after I moved to Mumbai. I am a regular there, and it has always kept me in touch with my roots,” she says.

Bipasha Basu have thousands of followers

Even as bodyguards and security guards barely prevented Bipasha Basu from getting mobbed at a recent store in Gurgaon in Delhi, the store exhausted every single piece of garment in just two hours.

“There were at least two thousand people on that day who had gathered to see Bipasha Basu at a mall in Gurgaon last Saturday (18th September). Since Bipasha had already tweeted about it, word had got out very quickly that she will be shopping at the mall after inaugurating it,” says a source present at the venue.

The actor’s spokesperson also admitted that she had gone to the mall and a large crowd had already gathered there. As her bodyguards and the store’s security wrestled to keep the crowd at bay, Bipasha was asked to have a free run when it came to retail therapy. She was asked to go ahead and shop whatever she felt like buying. Guess what? The crowd followed her and whatever she picked up from the shelves was also picked up by the scores of people following her.

“Everybody said, ‘Jo Bipasha ne liya, wohi kapda humko chahiye’. In the end, the store ran out of garments by three in the afternoon,” the source added.

Her spokesperson confirms the incident too. “At this store launch she shopped to her heart’s content. Before the launch there was an unending queue of enthusiastic consumers outside the store and once the store was inaugurated by 3 pm they were completely sold out by 9 pm,” the spokesperson says.

According to sources, Bipasha picked up a few tops and also interacted with the media, while shopping. “She gave a few interviews as she shopped and in the meanwhile, the crowds were carefully following what she was buying. The entire stock at the store and in the warehouse was over in just a few hours,” the source added.

Bipasha tweeted about the incident.

Not just men, even women can’t seem to keep their hands off Bipasha Basu who has been drooled over, stalked and even harassed by her many fans.

An interesting incident happened recently. Bipasha was flying to Bangalore to be at the wedding anniversary of her parents. Upon arriving in the city, Bipasha was cornered by an aunty who all but smooched the actress.

“Funniest thing happened at BLR airport entrance! One aunty pulled me down almost pinned me to smooch me! Somehow I was saved! Near escape!” Bipasha tweeted about the incident.

Funnily, this is not the first time Bipasha was harassed by a female fan. A similar incident happened in Sri Lanka.

“Sri Lanka for IIFA I was saying hello 2 ppl outside d hotel, 1 girl pulled my hand n bit my finger hard! But today’s aunty shocked me more!” Bipasha wrote.

Bipasha is looking forward to do more films in her mother tongue.

Actor Bipasha Basu, who has garnered rave reviews for Rituparno Ghosh’s Sob Charitro Kalponik, says she is looking forward to do more films in her mother tongue.
“I had an amazing experience shooting for Rituparno. He is a fantastic director and he is one of the finest to explore the workings of the human mind and behaviour.

It is brilliant the way he can dissect the layers to give dimensions to a character. I am certainly looking forward to working with him,” Bipasha tells DNA.

The sassy bombshell adds, “I know of many very good directors from Bengal who are making their mark and I can see that many good Bengali films are being made.

I would want to work in a Bengali movie soon but in the ones that are different and off-beat. Rituparno is looking to make Draupadi and I hope he does it soon because that is one character I’m really looking forward to essay.”

Bipasha, whose recent release is a film set in Kashmir that explores the tension in the Valley due to politics and religion, says she has been bowled over by Rahul Dholakia, the director of movie who had also made Parzania.

Parzania, about the Godhra riots, had earned Rahul criticism from some right wing political groups who felt they were being targeted.

The film was pulled out of theatres across the nation as theatre
owners feared losses to their properties.

“His understanding of the subject is really good. Before he started shooting the film, he made sure that he had his research spot-on and all the facts were correct.

That’s commendable because a film about Kashmir is always a tricky one, given how sensitive the Valley is. He also had the guts to shoot in Kashmir and think about having a screening in Kashmir,” she says.

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