Bollywood World

Their first film together, Love Story 2050, didn’t set the cash counters ringing.

But going by the trade buzz, Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja will once again be wooing the box-office on the same day but in different films.

While Chopra has two releases, Karan Johar’s Dostana and Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion, lined up for November 14, ‘good friend’ Baweja too will be going ‘Howzzat!’ with his cricket-centric Victory that Friday .

At the unveiling of the first the atrical promos of Fashion last Wednesday, the film’s director and co-producer, Madhur Bhandarkar affirmed that Fashion was ‘coming’ on November 14.

Date problems

When quizzed on the ‘clash’ with Johar’s Dostana and Baweja’s Victory, he said, “We had fixed our date a couple of months ago. I haven’t spoken to anyone about the other two releases yet. Let’s see if we can work things out amicably .”

Johar however seems set on the date. But Baweja isn’t too keen on fighting it out with his girlfriend’s films. “Obviously, a clash with Priyanka’s films is the last thing I’d want

Contrary to her sentimental and lovelorn image in Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Bollywood’s oomph girl Mallika Sherawat is all set to take on her man in a dominating role in forthcoming romantic comedy Ugly Aur Pagli.

“In the film, Mallika is the beauty with the brains and she meets a geek (Ranvir Shorey). The story is about how they ultimately fall in love with each other,” said director Sachin Khot, who makes his foray into Bollywood with this film.

“It is a humorous take on today’s relationships and how the tables have turned - where the men are from Venus and women are from Mars and how they are actually playing each other’s role,” said Khot who directed popular tele-serial Shanti for Doordarshan in 1997.

In Ugly Aur Pagli, which releases August 1, Mallika will be seen as an achiever, who knows her mind and knows what she wants from her relationship.

Ranvir, on the other hand, plays a carefree man whose life goes for a toss when he encounters Mallika.

Elaborating Mallika’s character, Khot said, “In today’s age, women are doing much better in lots of spheres and why shouldn’t this be touched upon? Mallika plays a dominating character in the film, but I would not literally call her the man of my film. Luckily, both my actors shared a good chemistry ”

Said Ranvir, who will be seen facing Mallika’s wrath in the film, “It is crazy to even think that a girl is making you do the wildest of things and has complete control over you.

“One might think that it makes a man effeminate. However, there is an interesting side to it also that how two-unlikeliest people fall in love with each other.”

The film also has 70s glamour girl Zeenat Aman in a cameo.

The film discusses why girls always fall for the wrong guy. Who can blame him for falling in love as many times as love is fortunate enough to find him. It’s not his fault that he’s a heartbreaker, its in his DNA.