Chitrangada Singh who is busy promoting her next film I Me Aur Main – which also co -stars John Abraham and Prachi Desai– is taking the not so successful run of her last release Sudhir Mishra’s <em>Inkaar</em> in her stride. “Ideally both the films should not have released so close to each other. The former was supposed to have released in October (2012), but it got delayed (to Jan 2013) due to <em>Chakravyuh</em> which also starred Arjun Rampal again. Luckily both the films are completely different, so it’s fine.”

After being noticed and appreciated in Prakash Jha’s Chakravyuh, Arjun Rampal has done it yet again; this time in Sudhir Mishra’s <em>Inkaar</em> that released on 18 January (2013). In the film Arjun plays Rahul Verma, the CEO of an advertising agency, effortlessly and has managed to keep the audiences on the edge with his undying charm. The actor has left the critics stunned with his role in the film.

A report doing the rounds is that filmmaker Sudhir Mishra has edited out a long lingering kiss between Arjun Rampal and Chitrangda Singh in <em>Inkaar</em>. Says a source, “There is a love-making sequence, a very long a torrid one between Chitrangda and Arjun, which culminates in a lingering intimate smooch. When Sudhir saw it on the screen he decided to cut the kiss off.”

Sudhir Mishra is embarrassed by the stories in the papers on Tuesday morning stating he got into a scuffle with bouncers at a mall in Pune on Monday. Says the mortified moviemaker. “I’ve never got into a scuffle with anyone. It just so happened that we were at this very crowded mall where the bouncers couldn’t control the crowds. One of them pushed me. He didn’t recognize me and probably thought I was a fan of Chitrangda. If someone pushes you, don’t you push him back? It was no big deal.”

For filmmaker Sudhir Mishra the news of Manisha Koirala’s illness was a painful reminder of the past when his wife Renu Saluja had succumbed to cancer. Manisha is not only an actress that Sudhir worked with in the film <em>Calcutta Mail</em> some years ago, she was and remains a close friend.

Having worked with Sudhir Mishra in films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Kal – Yesterday and Tomorrow and Yeh Saali Zindagi,Chitrangda Singh shares a great rapport with the filmmaker. She can never say no to her mentor and guide. The actress is already working with Mishra in Inkaar that is due for an early release. Now it is heard that Chitrangda has been signed by the reputed director for a short film Kirchiyaan (The CleanUp) being made for Large Short Films.

It looks like the war between Salman-Arbaaz Khan and Abhinav Kashyap over <em>Dabangg</em> is finally over. The two parties were locked in a silent war when Abhinav refused to direct the sequel to <em>Dabangg</em> opting instead to move on to what were apparently greener pastures.The Khans brothers saw red.Much acrimony was swapped on the issue.