Caring For The Khan Family - Esha Deol

Esha Deol has always been a close friend of Feroz Khan’s family. She was once upon a time romantically linked with cousin Zayed. Feroz Khan himself is very fond of the girl and Esha would drop in at the FK house in Juhu even if the boys weren’t around to catch up with her Feroz Uncle.

So it wasn’t surprising to see Esha making regular rounds of the hospital when Feroz Khan was recently hospitalized. But unlike other celebrities making a scene out of hospital visits, we are told Esha would be very subdued and would make a quiet entry into the hospital and spend time with Feroz Khan doing her best to avoid drawing attention to her in the hospital.

Knowing Feroz Khan being a scrabble fan, she would be playing word games with him to keep him in good spirits in his troubled times.

One evening she was even seen carrying a dabba of home made food for him and basically taking good care of his like his own kin. That’s quite touching. Source

The Ultra Luxurious Life - Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar today is one of the most popular names in the industry. Right now he is being pampered by Shah a lot. A helicopter has been arranged to help Akshay reach the shooting spot on time.

And for a 40-day shooting schedule, Akshay will get a lavish seven-bedroom bungalow sprawled over four acres of land. To top it, the bungalow has a functioning gymnasium and a swimming pool. Since Shah knows Akshay’s preferences well, he has also installed a home theatre system in case Akshay feels like catching up on movies.

Most importantly, a chef has been hired to cook special food to Akki’s liking.

‘Action Replay’ stars Aishwarya Rai opposite Akshay. The movie’s story will be told in reverse time, that is, the protagonist will grow from an old man to a younger one. Source

Over IPL Promotion - Hrithik Roshan

IPL is no doubt a star studded game of cricket. And why not, Super stars like Shah Rukh, Preity, Akshay, Katrina, Hrithik had been a source which derived a lot of glam to IPL. It can be well recalled that Hrithik Roshan had promoted Mumbai Indians last year and it was a glorifying success. Unfortunately, this time there will be no Hrithik promoting.

Source very close to the actor said, “Hrithik will not be promoting IPL this year as he had done for Mumbai Indians last year. The reason is very clear that Hrithik is too engrossed in his forthcoming film, Kites, for which he has put his heart and soul in it. He is totally devoted to Kites and does not desire a single flaw to occur.”

Now where IPL is going leaps and bounds, where celebs like Shilpa Shetty and all are joining in to add the glam quotient in it, Hrithik is concentrating more on his film Kites, and obviously who won’t, when the film is from his dad’s banner and is one of the biggest budgeted movies till date.

We hope Hrithik’s ‘Kites’ literally flies like a kite in the air, over coming every other kites and paving its way to sour high and higher. Source

Referring Madhavan

The king Khan Shah Rukh and R. Madhavan have many things in common. While Shah Rukh Khan is the undisputed king of Bollywood, Madhavan on the other hand is the undisputed king of the South. In fact many people have actually compared their acting skills on screen and even SRK is aware of this.

The two haven’t shared the screen space together yet, in fact Madhavan was supposed to star in Karan Johar’s ‘My Name Is Khan’. Unfortunately Maddy got a little too busy with Aamir’s ‘3 Idiots’ and missed the chance to pair opposite SRK. Madhavan’s ‘Guru En Aalu’ is a remake of ‘Yes Boss’ will be hitting the screens on March 20. The director of the film, Selvah shared an interesting statement at this time.

He said, “When I informed about my wish for remaking ‘Yes Boss’, Shah Rukh Khan without any pause referred Madhavan would be the right option”. Source

Bollywood box-office report

The movies released in the week are “Jai Veeru,” ”Gulaal” and “Little Zizou.” All the three movies have less famous actor and actresses and the storyline of Gulaal and Little Zizou do not resemble the typical Bollywood kind of movies. The results of the three movies on box office will be clear after the weekend collections. Anurag Basu is expecting to get some good benefits from his film “Gulaal” because his “Dev D” made collections more than expectations.

Last week, three Bollywood movies got released - “13B”,”Dhoondhte Reh Jaoge” and “Karma and Holi.” The three movies almost failed to get audience. The openings of the moves were poor and movie makers suffered losses. Same was the fate of movies released prior to last week, such as “Kisse Pyar Karoon” and “Siddharth –The Prisoner.” Some good news came from “Slumdog Millionaire” that continued to make collections from sale of tickets in India and in foreign countries. Slumdog millionaire made a total of collection of around Rs 14 crores from Indian market.

“Delhi 6” collected around 28.50 crores from the screening of the movie in previous two weeks .Both the weeks had no movies to compete a big banner film but “Delhi 6” did not benefit from the opportunity whereas many felt the collections were ok. “Billu” had similar fate and it collected not more than Rs 25 crores and that must have made Akshay Kumar proud because his “Chandni Chowk to China” fared better than “Billu” that had Shahrukh Khan in a cameo role.

Anurag Kashyap’s “Dev D” fared still better and brought profits for its maker because the movie grossed a total of around Rs 15 crores from previous week’s screening and “Dev D” was a low budget ,low promoted movie, that did not expect to perform well when it got released in the last week.

Jai Veeru - Movie Review

Banner: Siddhi Vinayak Movies
Producer: Narendra Bajaj, Shyam Bajaj
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Varun Bajaj
Director: Puneet Sira
Star Cast: Fardeen Khan, Kunal Khemu, Dia Mirza, Anjana Sukhani, Arbaaz Khan, Rajesh Khattar
Lyricist: Sameer, Omer Inayat
Music Director: Bappa Lahri

The film “Jai Veeru” takes the friendship theme from “Sholay” and merges it up with other masala movies of 70’s , to get a package comprising of item numbers, dance, emotional sequences , comedy and action but the film fails to impress in any of these fields and the overall effect is rather nullified.

Jai is a mechanic and Veeru is a car stealer and both get together to form a burglar team although they don’t like each other. Jai wants to meet gangster Tejpal with the help of Veeru who is in love with a bikini girl, who comes out of the ocean. As the processes of running and chasing takes place, Jai is hit with a bullet on his skull and he takes medical treatment for the injury. A metal plate is implanted on his head and it is shown that Jai is married and settled with a nurse.

Then some kind of diary is traced by Veeru that contains telephone numbers and list of clients and contact numbers of the villain .The film’s direction is below average and script takes awful turns at unexpected moments. The overflow of masala elements fails to impress the audience. Nothing is exceptionally catchy or attractive. The comedy scenes fail to generate humor. Editing is not done properly. Cinematography is ok.

Kunal Khemu and Fardeen Khan appear ok (Kunal’s performance is better than Fardeen) and Anjana Sukhani and Dia Mirza’s performance is average. Arbaaz Khan, Govind Namdeo, Rajesh Khattar and Rakesh Bedi are ok. The film doesn’t have much appeal to get audience.

Rating: 2/10

Bollywood : Winners of Kela awards match Filmfare award winners in some categories!

What is the logic behind deciding an award winner? Priyanka Chopra gets the Best Actress Award for “Fashion” and for the same role she is getting the Kela award from another magazine and the magazine claims that the results were decided by online polls. Bollywood’s Golden Kela Awards for inferior movies is given by Random Magazine. The awards are inspired from the Golden Raspberries Awards of Hollywood and the selection for award winners has been made by online polls and the nominations were decided by the Random Magazine board.

Not only for Best Actress Award but also for Best Actress in Supporting Role of Filmfare matches the Worst Actress in supporting role of Kela Award that too for the same film “Fashion.” The main categories of awards include award for Worst Actor Male, Worst Female Actor, Worst Film and Worst Director.

The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to actor Mr. Jaspal Bhatti who said “the award was long due for me.” Other winners of Golden Kela Awards were Worst Actor award for Himesh Reshammiya for “Karzzzz,” Worst actress Priyanka Chopra for “Love Story 2050,” Worst director Kunal Kohli for “Thoda Life Thoda Magic,” Worst Supporting Actor - Salman Khan for “Hello” and worst Supporting Female was given to Kangana Ranaut for “Fashion.” Even in the case of Worst Debutant – the winner is Harman Baweja in male category and Anoushka Sharma gets the Worst Debutant Female. Many other awards functions have nominated Anoushka and even given her best debutant award.

Some other sections of awards were “Bawra Ho Gaya Hai Ke Award” was given to RGV, “Wafaa” got “When Did This Come Out Award”, Lajja Award for Worst Treatment of a Serious Issue Award was bagged by “Deshdrohi” , Insensitivity Award was taken by “Fashion” , Dara Singh award for the worst accent for Katrina Kaif, Most Atrocious Lyrics for Anvita Dutt Guptani for Lucky Boy from “Bachna Ae Haseeno” and Most Irritating Song of the Year was taken by “Tandoori Nights.”

Gulon Mein - Sikandar

The music of the film “Sikandar” is composed by Sandesh Shandilya Justin Uday and Shankar Ehsaan Loy are guest composers in the album.

‘Dhoop Ke Sikke’ – Lyrics of the song is by Prasoon Joshi and the song is composed by guest composers Shankar Ehsaan Loy. The song is in voice of Shankar and Anusha Mani and classical singing has been mixed to rock kind of music. The lyrics are about innocence and kids.

‘Gulon Mein (Serene Version)’-The song comes in two versions. One of the versions is called “Serene Version” and the other is the “Upbeat Version.” The poetic song’s composition is inspired from romantic songs of 70’s 80’s like “Gulmohar gar Tumhara Naam Hota, Ajnabi Kaun Ho Tum” and many others. The serene version is in Mohit Chauhan’s voice and the musical instrument used in the serene version is guitar. The song is romantic number and the Mohit’s voice makes the song powerful. The song is by Justin Uday. The lyrics are by Neelesh Misra who dedicated the song to Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the famous poet of Pakistan.

‘Gulon Mein (Upbeat Version)’ –The fast version of romantic song Gulon Mein has the keyboard sounds, guitar and other instruments and it is in voice of K.K. The fast version is by Sandesh Shandilya.

‘Arzoo (Naat)’ – Since the film is based in Kashmir a local number ‘naat ‘is also present in the album. The song is a spiritual number and it is in voice of a little boy Mehrajuddin. The local flavor and religious feel is present in the song.

‘Allah Hoo’-The song is in voices of Hrishikesh Kamrekar and Yash Navrekar and the song appears fresh for new voices but it is similar to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s song. The lyrics by Kumaar are impressive. The music is by Justin-Uday.

‘Manzaraat’ - Shilpa Rao is behind the mike for the song and the folk touch is prevalent. The lyrics and beats are like a dance number “Bhumro Bhumro” kind.

‘Chaal Apni’ - Hamsika Iyer and Hrishikesh Kamerker get together for the song and it is ok. The theme of the song is like “Choti Si Aasha “but intensity is less. The Kashmiri tunes have been added to make the song feel to be from the valley.

The music composers have tried to have at least one musical instrument or sound in the songs that makes the song appear to be from the Kashmir valley and lyrics have also been written to enhance the Kashmir effect. The song ‘Gulon Mein’ is good to hear.

Bollywood : Aamir Khan will do the role of a Sardar in a commercial

After doing romantic roles and six packs roles, Aamir is set to do a role of a “Sardar” in a commercial. Aamir did the Mannu bhabhi role for coke advertisement and he will do an elderly Sikh man in another TV commercial. Aamir has proved, he does all the roles with perfection.

In his last movie “Ghajini”, he did the role of a shirtless man (like Salman Khan which might have annoyed Salman, who was ruling the gym going shirtless genre in Bollywood and even Shahrukh who was praised for six packs in OSO).Now it is turn of Sardar Akshay Kumar to see how Aamir portrays a Sardar. Akshay Kumar played the role of a Sardar in his movie “Singh Is Kinng” and he inspired many other actors to do role of Sardar in Bollywood movies.

Before Akshay, no Hindi actor ever tried to appear in the role of a sardar with a pagdi and come onscreen with unshaved face. Akshay took the risk and reaped the benefits. Even Shahrukh should be praised for appearing in the role of an unappealing man in “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.”

Bollywood stars are working hard on varieties in looks and Aamir will appear in the role of an elderly Sardar in the TV commercial for Tata Sky and he will also be wearing a black spectacle and he will have wrinkles on skin for the role. The look will be very serious and Aamir may be difficult to identify.

Aamir previously was seen in the role of Chinese man in an advertisement then Dinu Kaka .Later he played “a good husband who allows his wife to watch TV and he, instead talks to his mother-in-law on phone.” After doing young man in “Rang De Basanti” and “Dil Chahta Hai” and serious roles in “Ghajini,” Aamir is waiting for some more challenging roles and it is expected that he will be able to surprise his fans through his upcoming movie ‘3 Idiots.’

Bollywood : Aamir Khan champions Earth Hour 2009, Lead India and Incredible India campaigns

Birthday Boy Aamir Khan turns 44 years younger today. The defining actor who has excelled in every role, be it that of an actor, producer and director, has donned the mantle of a crusader for social causes in 2009. Aamir Khan will be leading the Earth Hour 2009 campaign for India. As a part of the 'Vote Earth' campaign, everyone will be voluntarily switching off their lights for one hour on on Saturday, March 28, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm local time. The symbolic flip of the switch is our way to express solidarity against climate change crisis and global warming.

More than 80 countries and territories including India, have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009. Aamir Khan who is serious about the Vote Earth campaign is forthright in his views,"Climate Change is undoubtedly and regrettably, the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to come to sound policy outcomes on climate change will not only have a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for all of us. Stand up and join us in the fight against climate change. Support Earth Hour.”

Let us all take a stand in saving our planet from climatic crisis and global warming. Join Aamir Khan in the Orkut Earth Hour campaign and/or Facebook Earth Hour campaign

Bollywood 2009: Year of Fear and supernatural thrillers

Bollywood 2009 began with a scream(read Raaz-The Mystery Continues and 13 B), gives us the clue that horror is the flavor of the year. If Bollywood 2007 was the year of sports, 2008, the year of terror-based films, Bollywood 2009 seems to be about super natural thrillers.



Raaz 2 was about a spirit tormenting a girl so that he could take revenge on wrongs done to him. 13B was a unique story about a TV set telecasting a daily soap that has events that are going to happen in the lives of the family watching the series. The forthcoming Bipasha Basu-Neil Nitin Mukesh starrer, Aa Dekhen Zara has a camera predicting the future through a series of pictures and photographs. Akshay Kumar starrer-Tasveer 8x10 has the lead actor gifted with the unique ability to talk about the lives of dead people who are complete strangers, by looking at their photographs. Akshay Kumar will also be starring in Action Replay, reportedly made on the lines of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,where he will be born as an old man, getting younger with each reel. Producer Vashu Baghnani's son Jackie Baghnani, makes his debut in a thriller, in which his character has the ability to forsee the future.

Kareena loves Saif so much Why !

Kareena Kapoor in a recent interview to popular tabloid Mumbai Mirror, revealed why Saif Ali Khan is the most understanding man in her life. Here are the excepts of the interview, where Kareena Kapoor reveals why she loves and adores Saif Ali Khan a lot:

On Saif's role during her breakup with Shahid Kapur:
Choice is where you choose to be, and where you want to be and in such a personal issue, I think there’s so many things that happen which one shouldn’t be digging up and shouldn’t talk about. Saif has always been my friend first in that period and now my lover, so I think we’ve grown from friends to being in this relationship. And the choice is that I clearly wanted to be where I was. I don’t believe in mud slinging, I don’t believe in discussing my relationships, I think the fact that I’ve just been purely honest and I’ve never hidden the fact that I was with Saif and that I am with Saif.

About marriage:
I want to tie the knot but at the right time. People think that Saif is pressurizing me but I would like to say on record say that he’s never done that. In fact I am always wanting to tie the knot and he’s the one whose been telling me that "listen, lets give it some time, lets wait, your are at a stage which every girl would want to be at in their career, so sit back and just enjoy the roller coaster ride for some time. And that’s what makes me love him more to tell you the truth. I don’t think any man in the industry would ever want to tell an actress the same thing. The reason why I want to be with him is because he is so supportive of my work and respects me for what I am doing.

About Saif proposing her everyday!
Can you believe that? Poor thing he is so upset, he’s like "Why are they doing this to me?" Saif Ali Khan is actually the guy who has wanted to be single all his life, run away from relationships, run away from commitment, but the fact is that he always tells me "you are actually the only girl that I really wanted to commit to." I am with him all the time, but I give him space to be with his family, to do what he wants to do with his work. The fact that I am not the heroine of his first production just goes to show that we have our complete different zones when we work.

Her Honeymoon Trip - Amrita Arora

Just married couple Amrita Arora and Shakeel Ladhak had to cancel their honeymoon trip to Mexico due to excessive drug violence in the country. Mexico was the choice of Amrita but unfortunately she had to drop her plan on looking at the unsafe scenario of the country. Western beauty and spicy cuisine fascinated Amrita to choose Mexico. A source close to Amrita says, “Amu and Shakeel had planned a 15-day honeymoon. They were to leave on March 14, go to New York and head to Mexico from there.

However, due to escalating drug violence in the last week, their plans stand cancelled. Amrita has been to most European cities, so she wanted to either go to Mexico or Hawaii places she’s never been to before.”

Their families have been debarring them from going to Mexico. “Finally yesterday, both Shakeel and Amu decided they would fly to New York and then go to Hawaii or some other place rather than risk their lives going to Mexico.” Source

Yash Chopra’s

Yashraj banner is famous for encouraging new talents. After introducing Anushka in the runaway hit Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, the production house is reported to be making another film with her in female lead. And Shahid, who’s already working in the banner’s ‘Hadippa’ (tentatively titled) with Rani Mukherjee , is set to be Anushka’s hero.

According to sources, Parmeet Sethi has written the script which Aditya Chopra liked instantly and decided to back the project. Well, Parmeet’s association with the YRF has been since he acted in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge . It’s heard that Parmeet has also signed a contract with YRF for three films.

The film is believed to be a romantically themed family drama set in Punjab. It is reported that Adi recommended Anushka’s name to Parmeet for the film. And Shahid reportedly gave nod to the project once he heard the narration and his character sketch.

As for now, Yashraj Films is waiting for their year’s first release New York, starring John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh. Source

Admiring Tamil Films A Lot

Inspired from the tamil version ‘Ghajini’ the hindi remake received a grand welcome in Bollywood and became an all time super hit so much so that Aamir Khan is now an ardent fan of Tamil films.

Aamir had even told that it was actor Surya –the hero in the Tamil ‘Ghajini’ who persuaded him to take up the project in Bollywood with full confidence. One of the top stars of Kollywood Vijay got surprised when he met Aamir recently. He got amazed when Aamir recognized him and told him that he and his wife Kiran are big admirers of his dancing style.

Aamir seems to have developed a soft corner for the Tamil flicks. After all ‘Taare Zameen Par’ became the only Hindi film to win the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial award which is hugely respected in Tamilnadu.

Every one knows that Aamir never attends any award functions. So if he came all the way to Chennai to receive the award at a time when he was injured, it shows the respect he has for Kollywood ! Source

Actors’ reincarnation stories

San Francisco researcher Walter Semkiw’s book “Born Again” has reincarnation stories of top Bollywood stars and politicians. The book claims Shahrukh Khan was Bengali dancer actor Sadhana Bose in his previous birth and Amitabh Bachchan was actor Edwin Booth in his previous life. Edwin had two wives, Mary Devlin, who was his wife for short duration is Rekha in Amitabh’s current birth as per the book and Mary McVickers, Edwin’s second wife is said to be reborn as Jaya Bachchan.

There are other reincarnation stories in the book such as Former President of India Abdul Kalam was Tipu Sultan in his previous birth. Tipu Sultan was famous for using rockets in war against British rule for the first time. Tipu Sultan used better technology in war. The book also claims that Tipu Sultan’s father Hyder Ali was Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai in next birth. Sarabhai is father of Indian Space program.

Other stories are of former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru who is said to be the next birth of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, he was banished by British rule and was imprisoned and he was the last of the Mughals. The book claims Bahadur Shah was reborn as Jawaharlal Nehru and after Nehru, he was born as Benazir Bhutto, the first woman prime minister of Pakistan. There are reincarnation predictions about Indira Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi as well.

But the most controversial part in the reincarnation story is that Shahrukh Khan was born in 1965 and Sadhana Bose died in 1973.Same is the case with Benazir Bhutto who was born in 1953 and Nehru died in 1964.The book explains the stay of soul in two bodies at a time. But the stories also indicate that once a man born in rich family is always born in a rich family in subsequent birth. The person who is popular in his previous life is famous in his next life. There are no proper explanations into the connections made about the two different people or the reincarnation stories have been made, just to promote the book.

Actors make way for the young ones

There are not many young actors and actresses who are leading in Bollywood and it can also be said that not many youngsters are talented like Shahrukh Khan or Aamir Khan to make way for them in Bollywood. Most of the top stars such as Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar have been dominating the silver screen from almost 15- 20 years and from their first movie onwards; these actors proved they had the talent to reach the top slot.

What has been the reason for Bollywood not having real actors, is it the family culture, where the children of actors and actresses are getting chance to do movies and new faces not from Bollywood families, are not getting opportunity to prove their talent or the lack of seriousness in making movies, as most of the movies are made taking people from fashion world and the talented ones are not considered.

Audience today is not spending on viewing movies they don’t consider valuable. Sometimes you see people not fit to be in acting world, doing lead roles in expensive movies. Today you have Neil, Imran and Ranbir, the new faces into Bollywood, who appear to be talented but all of these belong to famous Bollywood families and they got a chance to prove their talents through various advertising and marketing ways. You don’t find truly romantic heroes or action heroes in Bollywood.

The performance of actors doing romantic roles is not serious and even action heroes are not like angry young man Amitabh Bachchan. It is said that there is lot of competition in Bollywood but it is even evident that there is a big vacancy for good actors and actresses in the Hindi cinema Industry.

Preity, Salman & Kareena - Together Worth 80 Lakhs !

The latest upcoming director Prem Soni is presently preparing to shoot a special song for his film Main Aur Mrs. Khanna with its lead stars Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Preity Zinta in Mumbai.

Sources reveal that a huge set is presently being erected for the song shoot the cost for which will run to Rs. 80 lakhs. This song will be shot between 20th to 25th March in a Mumbai studio.

Farah Khan who has become very selective about her choreography assignments after turning director and now mother especially, will be choreographing this special song. With this song the entire shooting of the film will be completed.

Sources further inform, “All those who have seen the rushes just can’t stop gushing about the film’s magnificent look and the chemistry shared between Salman and Kareena who were last paired in the romantic tragedy Kyon Ki directed Priyadarshan. Sohail and Preity who have very significant roles in the film too are outstanding in their roles.” Source

Hrithik Roshan - Getting Recognition Across The Border

The superhero Hrithik Roshan, just selected by Forbes among the half a dozen Bollywood actors who have a name in Hollywood, was delighted and surprised when he was recognized on the streets in the US while shooting for Kites.

“That was a change. It makes me feel good to see our films are crossing borders. At a bank in the US when you’re withdrawing money you are delighted to realize that the person on other end of the counter knows who you are. Or salesgirls at shops…they recognize you and go, ‘Are you?….And when you tell them, they go, ‘Wow!’ …yeah it feels good.”

“I haven’t set any goals for myself as such. I just want to keep evolving as an actor and a person. That’s the only mission in my career. If Kites takes me international, I’ll be happy.”

On the other hand Hrithik Roshan’s Kites co-star Barbara Mori came to Mumbai and went without being recognized. Source

Surprise, Surprise - Katrina Can Now Speak Hindi Fluently !!

It was a celebration time for the unit members of the film Rajniti. By now everyone is aware of the fact that Katrina Kaif is not too polished with her Hindi diction. Recently during the shoots in Bhopal, Prakash Jha who is known for his realistic films wanted Katrina to deliver her dialogues, lengthy ones at that, in chaste Hindi. He asked our pretty Kat to learn it by heart.

Katrina plays a politician in the film (which apparently has been inspired by Sonia Gandhi) and her character is required to speak unadulterated Hindi sans an accent.

Katrina disappeared for hours. And just before the final take, Jha asked Kat to deliver her dialogues once. To everyone’s surprise the actress delivered her dialogues without a mistake. Jha along with his crew were speechless for a second.

The actress has indeed come a long way! Source