UTV, Kareena Kapoor and Madhur Bhandarkar are pulling out all stops to promote their upcoming film Heroine. As part of the promotion, the team made a grand entry for an event in Dubai last evening that left the audience and media spellbound. True to the glamorous and stylish spirit of the film, Kareena, Madhur and Siddharth Roy Kapur addressed a press conference on a cruise in the city when the stylish Heroine alighted the cruise at Jebel resort from aboard a sea plane.

Who but Kareena Kapoor can call herself a superstar without sounding pompous? Even Rajesh Khanna couldn’t get away with that one. Kareena dazzles you with her enterprising spirit. From the sassy streetwalker in Sudhir Mishra’s <em>Chameli</em> to the Muslim riot victim in Govind Nihlani’s <em>Dev</em>, to the sassy Punjabi <em>kudi</em> in Imtiaz Ali’s <em>Jab We Met</em> and now the on-the-edge actress in Madhur Bhandarkar’s <em>Heroine</em>…..it’s been a truly maddening and turbulent career for Bollywood’s most pricey actress.

It’s victory time for the Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC). Though the producers UTV of Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine have approached the Mumbai High Court to protest against the new policy of a statutory-warning ticker whenever a smoking sequence is shown, the CBFC on Friday, passed the film with an ‘A’ certificate, with a clause that a statutory warning should be displayed in every scene showing Kareena Kapoor smoking in the film.

Cousins Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor will share the Indian Idol 6 platform to promote their respective films. The cousins will be coming for the grand finale of the reality show on 31 August. While Kareena will be talking about her much awaited film <em>Heroine</em>, Ranbir will there promoting his upcoming film <em>Barfee</em>. The cousins will be coming for the grand finale of '<em>Indian Idol 6</em>' on 31 August.

After fighting tooth and nail to ensure that Sridevi’s comeback vehicle English Vinglish does not budge from its release date September 21, the film’s producers have finally bowed out of the woman-centric race. Leaving the coast clear for Kareena’s <em>heroine</em> on Sept 21 English Vinglish has now moved to October 5. The decision was taken at a meeting earlier this week attended by the producers, director Gauri Shinde and Boney Kapoor.

Madhur Bhandarkar and UTV Motion Pictures’ upcoming Kareena Kapoor-starrer Heroine has run into trouble in the Middle East. The damage has been done by the first promo of the film in which Kareena, accusing the media of holding preconceived notions about actresses, says, "Heroine ne gaadi li toh business man ne gift kiya... aur God forbid Dubai gayi, toh uska rate card ban jaata hai”

You will probably not see a ‘smoking’-hot Kareena Kapoor in Heroine, at least not in the trailer. The shots of her smoking in the trailer have been duly censored before being cleared. As for the film, when it is censored in September all the scenes showing Kareena blowing smokes in air would be blurred out.

Word is around film circles that the Censor Board has granted Madhur Bhandarkar's ambitious project Heroine starring Kareena Kapoor an ‘A’ certificate. But folks, there is something to be clarified. Only the film’s promo has got an “A” certificate, not the movie, which is still at the editing table. On the issue, Bhandarkar went on to tweet, “As expected got an 'A' certificate from the Censor Board. Countdown begins for the launch of the poster and promo of <em>Heroine</em>.”

Come September 2012, the month is set to go down as a month when films of four big heroines would be released. It is already known that Madhur Bhandarkar’s Kareena Kapoor-starrer <em>Heroine</em> will release on 21 September (2012) and so are the release dates of R Balki’s Sridevi-starrer <em>English Vinglish</em> and Preity Zinta’s <em>Ishq In Paris</em>. The Rani Mukerji-starrer <em>Aiyaa</em> releases a week later on 28 September.

Sridevi and her English Vinglish director Gauri Shinde will soon take centre stage to promote their film. Yes, it’s going to be an all-women’s show as the release date September 21 approaches for <em>English Vinglish</em>. After much deliberation the film’s producers R. Balki and Eros Entertainment have decided to stick to the original date and not get scared off by Kareena Kapoor and <em>Heroine</em>.