For Sunil Shetty the year 2009 began with a terrible accident that left him bed-bound for a good three months. Bizarrely the year ended with a fire accident that scorched Sunil's hand. "It's just about healing," says Sunil, just back from a family holiday in Bali, blessedly free of accidents.Read the rest of this entry »

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Suniel Shetty has never worked in a realistic film, but he's winning accolades for portraying the role of a farmer caught between naxals and police/government in RED ALERT - THE WAR WITHIN, directed by Ananth Mahadevan for producer T.P. Aggarwal. What prompted Ananth to cast Suniel in a serious, realistic, unconventional film? "That's what Suniel asked me," Ananth recalls.Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai, Suniel Shetty missed his father-in-law’s birthday celebration in the US to attend the screening of “Red Alert-The War Within” – a movie that deals with the Maoists – at the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. The actor-producer says it was a “heartbreaking decision”.Read the rest of this entry »

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Explains Sunil, “I had to choose between attending my screening in Goa and going for my father-in-law’s 80th birthday celebration in the US. My wife and her entire family, who are like my own family, are there. I am like a son in my wife’s family. Moreover ever since my father-in-law lost his wife he hasn’t been himself. It was a heartbreaking decision.Read the rest of this entry »

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Mumbai, (BollywoodWorld.com) Bollywood producer-actor Suniel Shetty is elated at winning the best actor award at the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) in New York for his performance in “Red Alert – The War Within” – a movie that deals with the Maoists – and says he is inspired to do better work.Read the rest of this entry »

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New Delhi, He himself has a well-toned body and exercises regularly, but actor-turned-producer Suniel Shetty says when it comes to the fittest body in tinsel town, Akshay Kumar wins hands down as he has maintained his physique throughout his 18-year career.
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After 16 years in the film industry, actor-producer Suniel Shetty says he is jealous of Akshay Kumar as the latter has shaped up his career wisely over the years.

"Akshay Kumar is an inspiration for me. He has handled his career beautifully. I'm envious of him," Suneil told IANS.
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Actor Suniel Shetty has sent his family on a long holiday after he received threatening calls from a stuntman over a financial deal. The Stuntmen's Association of India has, however, distanced itself from the dispute.
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Sunil Shetty seems quite hassled and worried these days. The actor has been receiving abusive and threatening calls from a person by the name of Puran Chauhan. Apparently, Puran is a physically handicapped stuntman who was hired by Sunil's production house Popkorn Entertainment for enabling them to get permission to shoot their film Little Godfather on railway premises. However, when he failed to do so, the actor seems to have cancelled his contract after making his payments.
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Actor-producer Suniel Shetty says he is not joining Raj Thackeray's party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and is just supporting his proposal to form an association for the welfare of cine artistes.

"I'm happy being an actor. I can't talk about my colleagues. But politics isn't my cup of tea. I think the best example of secularism is our film industry and I'm proud of it. To me Amitabh Bachchan is god. At the same time, Raj Thackeray is a very good friend of mine with a rational mind. But I don't subscribe to his politics," Suniel told IANS.
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Actor-producer Suniel Shetty is keen to see Mumbai transformed into a super clean city - so clean that people can "eat their vada-pao off the road". And to turn his dream into reality, Suniel is making a feature film, "Mumbai Chakachak", about a squeaky clean Mumbai. He is also propping it up with a music video with a who's who of the city supporting the campaign. "Mumbaikars dream of a city so clean they can eat their vada-pao off the road instead of a plate. We filmmakers share that dream. It's a dream project for my company, Popcorn Entertainment, and one with which we hope to up the calibre of our company from entertainment to meaningful entertainment," Suniel told IANS.Read the rest of this entry »

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Suniel Shetty's proposed actioner "Loot" is now a much bigger project than it was a fortnight ago. He has just cut a lucrative deal with the Philippine government for the movie. This is his second such major tie-up with a foreign government on behalf of his company. Earlier, he had cut a similar multi-million-dollar deal with the government of Turkey for the Apoorva Lakhia-directed "Mission Istanbul". However, the deal for "Loot" cuts deeper."Of course, on the most obvious level we get to shoot in some of the most gorgeous virgin locales of the Philippines, just as we shot in Turkey. But the tie-up means a lot more. It's time we stopped looking at Bollywood as an Indian enterprise," Suniel told IANS.
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After many unsuccessful attempts, the now husband-wife team of Abhishek and Aishwarya finally hit the bull's eye with this year's first hit, GURU. Even before that, their on-screen chemistry was there for all to see in the song that became a rage, 'Kajra re' from BUNTY AUR BABLI.

Though there were indications of them being paired again in Karan Johar's Tarun Mansukhani project, Aishwarya opted out, and in walked Priyanka Chopra.Read the rest of this entry »

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