The Battle of the Hotties: Kangna v/s Sushmita

By Subhash K Jha

With government policies clamping down heavily on the participation of foreign entertainers in Bollywood the days of Kylie Minogue and Snoop Dogg going jiggywiggy with Akshay Kumar (in the films Blue and Singh Is Kinng, respectively) are now over.

Recent efforts to get international artistes into India have been far from fruitful. The latest example being Shakira who it was being touted as the item girl in Anees Bazmi's No Problem as too the lead in a film based on Hindu goddess.

A reliable source exposes the sham behind all these Bollywood announcements about international stars. "99 percent of the time these international stars are not even aware of these lofty plans in India.

Filmmakers in Bollywood have access only to international entertainers' agents and managers whose polite non-commital response to the Bollywood invitation is quickly and conveniently construed as approval by Indian filmmakes and announced as such."

Anees Bazmi tries to play down the Shakira card when asked about her participation. Says Anees, "There was no time to get any international celebrity.Our film is complete.Our first trailer was out with Anjaana Anjaani.We just decided to add an extra title song. And we felt we don't really need outside contributions.Sushmita and Kangna are fabulous dancers."

No international dancefloor hottie? No Problem! For his comedy of that name which is all set for a December release director Anees Bazmi has decided to shoot an additional song with the two sizzling leading ladies of the film Sushmita Sen and Kangna Ranaut who it might be said at the outset, have adopted each other as sisters.

But the number that Ahmed Khan will choreograph wll be anything but sisterly. The two lovely ladies will pull out all stops in front of the camera to dance like two devilish divas out to outdo each other.

Apparently the role models given to Ahmed Khan go back to Vyjanthimala and Helen in the sizzling dance combat in the 1960s Prince and Hema Malini in Parveen Babi in the 1970s' spectacle The Burning Train.

Interestingly both the actresses enjoy dancing at pubs and even at home.The idea would be to make their moves as casual and cool as possible.

More more Bollywod hotties would be seen performing item songs in coming months.

The rest of the male cast—Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor and Sunil Shetty—are also expected to join the two sizzling seductresses.