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The prolific Priyadarshan has had more than his share of title problems with his new Ajay Devgn-Akshaye Khanna-Bipasha Basu starrer.

A hard-hitting film about love across caste barriers and honour killing set in Bihar, Priyan wanted to call it Ishqana. But Ishqiya came along and Priyan chose Garam Hawa.

But now that title too had to be hastily abandoned and Priyan has called his film Aakrosh. Explains an exhausted Priyadarshan: "We wanted to call it Garam Hawa as homage to M.S. Sathyu's classic film of that name. But then Mr Sathyu got very upset. We received a letter from him questioning our right to use his title. We immediately abandoned Garam Hawa. In order to use Aakrosh as the title, we got the original Aakrosh's director Govind Nihalani's permission. He was very generous about it."

"I need a break. I've four films this year. Aakrosh and Khatta Meetha are almost complete. Then I'm going into a film about the loves and lusts of the youth for which I want to cast newcomers along with Prateik Babbar. I'm starting this film in July. Finally, I want to make my realistic no-frills film on AIDS at the end of this year with Aamir Khan in the lead. I'll go to him only when my script is ready."

Priyan says he needs a star like Aamir to have a large receptive audience for the AIDS film. "I'm more successfully known for my comedies in the North. However, even if Aamir declines, I'll still go ahead with the AIDS film."

Bollywood actor Aarya Babbar, who is currently shooting for Farah Khan's Tees Maar Khan, was so excited on the first day of shoot that he performed an entire scene without even any instruction from the director.

Aarya had a scene with 40 villagers, but he was so excited to be shooting with Khan that he started performing even before she could say action.

"I was very excited to give my first shot for Farah. My scene went off great and everyone clapped and I had a sigh of relief that it was a good start... then I saw Farah walking towards me and she said 'I didn't even say action, sweetheart!'

"In my excitement, I didn't even realise if Farah said action or not. I was so embarrassed," said the actor.

Aarya has been part of films such as Guru and Jail, among others.

It looks like Mani Ratnam’s Raavan is likely to be premiered at the worlds most prestigious film festival at Cannes.

Mani has already applied to premiere the film at the 63rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

The Hindi original Raavan will be premiered on May 14 at the festival.

Abhishek, Aishwarya, Mani Ratnam and Vikram are likely to take part in the red carpet premiere of the film.

Lal Creations In Ghost House Inn, the third part to Harihar Nagar, has taken a fantastic opening across 75 screens in Kerala.

The film has been declared by the trade as a hit, though among the audiences it carries mixed reports.

In Ernakulam in four days from March 25 to 28 in two screens Shenoys and Padma it has netted a whopping Rs 11, 51,000. In Kottayam at the huge Abhilash the film is going “Houseful”, on Monday (March 29), fifth day of its release.

In Thiruvananthapuram Sri Padmanabha, the film on its fifth day of release is still doing 100 percent. At Chennai’s Sangam and Mayajaal the film has reported 100 percent during the weekend.

In Ghost House Inn, is the first big hit of 2010, and is poised to become bigger with closure of educational institutions and no opposition.

Mammootty’s Pramani is just not able to stand up and is struggling to survive at the box-office.

Dileep is doing a film within a film in Sanjiv Raj directed Film Star.

The film has Kalabhavan Mani and Rambha in the lead and is the story of a common man from nowhere becoming a superstar.

Dileep will play a scriptwriter Nandagopal whose own story will make Suryakiran played by Kalabhavan Mani to attain stardom in the film.

Rambha plays herself in the film. The film produced by Appu John has music by Benny Johns.

The big question being asked in film circles is whether Prithviraj’s Amal Neerad directed Anwar about “Love Jihad”?

Love Jihad, was widely reported in coastal Kerala and Karnataka where young handsome Muslim boys reportedly targeted college girls belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love.

Last year the matter created a furore in Kerala after various “investigative reports” in the media highlighted it. Finally the Kerala High Court had to intervene and ask the state police and Union Home Ministry to probe the matter.

The buzz is that the thread of Amal’s Anwar is based on “Love Jihad” with Prithviraj playing a Muslim youth Anwar who lures Mamta a non-Muslim and converts her and later makes her join his terrorist outfit.

Prakashraj will play a deadly cop Stalin who heads the anti-terrorist squad who is on a mission to uncover the “Love Jihad” operations of terrorists. The others in the cast are Lal, Saikumar, Geetha and a few other Pathan looking villains from Bollywood.

The shooting of Anwar started last week in Kochi. Prithviraj himself has told a Malayalam magazine that Amal has discussed everything about the film and it would be the director’s best film till date that will tackle a social issue.

During the first schedule of the film, Prithviraj got injured while doing some deadly action scenes

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