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Rang De Basanti actor Kunal Kapoor has reportedly joined the cast of Gold, starring Akshay Kumar and to be directed by Reema Kagti. Actor Kunal Kapoor is on a roll. After starring in the lead role in the Malayalam historical epic Veeram, Kunal Kapoor has now bagged a role in Akshay Kumar-starrer Gold, the sports film to be helmed by Talaash director Reema Kagti. Gold revolves around the tale of the Indian hockey team which won the country's first Olympic medal as a free nation in 1948 at the 14th London Olympiad. According to a report in Mumbai Mirror, Kunal Kapoor has begun his training in hockey already, a couple of hours every day with his coach in Chembur. "The actor will be training for five-six months before he begins shooting so that he can pull off the part of a professional hockey player. The film is expected to go on floors by July or August this year," a source was quoted as saying. Gold is the first time Akshay Kumar will be collaborat...

Trailers reveal a lot of the story and there’s no mystery left: Kunal Kapoor Actor Kunal Kapoor is a content man. Though he admits it’s tough to recreate the same magic that he did a decade ago in Rang De Basanti (2006), he prefers to be happy with his recent small yet significant appearances. The 39-year-old, who was last seen in Gauri Shinde’s Dear Zindagi, says times have changed and now, it needs a lot of effort to generate the right amount of curiosity among audience and not kill the mystery with trailers. “You won’t see lot of filmmakers these days releasing movie trailers. If you do, everyone talks at length about the genre, you end up revealing a large portion of the story and there’s no mystery left,” he says. Talking about Dear Zindagi in particular, Kapoor says it was a deliberate choice made by the makers. “I think it helped. It’s been the most unusual campaign done around a film. There were just a couple of tweets Alia and Shah Rukh Khan exchanged and got the fans t...

A Birdie tells that that Amitabh Bachchan personally called everyone for the Drona premiere — specially people who were not invited to the AbhiAsh shaadi. And the entire industry did show up. Even Shah Rukh Khan was present, with his entire parivaar. While all couples walked in together, Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja continued with their 'good friends' act (yawn!) The stunner of the evening was undoubtedly Sonali Bendre. Buzz was that Bachchan loyalist Ram Gopal Varma was not invited but the Phoonk director was, and couldn't make it as he was in Hyderabad. That's cruelty! Mean, mean, mean. An actor who recently saw Drona says, "They have a disclaimer before the beginning of the film that says that no animals have been hurt during the filming of this film, but the horse that Abhishek Bachchan sits on looks in pain. My fingers itched to call SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Animals)." Now we want to call SPCA too — Society for Prevention of Cruelty...