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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who received this year's Dadasaheb Phalke Academy award along with Dilip Kumar, says the veteran is a colossus in the industry. The 69-year-old actor was also all praises for Kumar's wife Saira Banu for taking care of the yesteryear star so well.

Zoya Akhtar's road movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is leading the nomination pack of the 13th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards with 14 nods, while Vidya Balan's The Dirty Picture follows closely behind with 13.

Bipasha Basu, who returns to the Bhatt camp after a decade with Raaz 3, is hoping for a third hit with the production house after success of Raaz, Jism. Basu says that her role in Raaz 3D (2012) is challenging and would have subjected any other actor in her place to “second thoughts”.

Actor confesses it’s thrilling to be taller than both Amitabh and Sanjay. Rana Daggubati is excited about his upcoming release Department, but he claims he has already got his due from the film as he got to share screen space with stalwarts like Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and work with director Ram Gopal Varma.

Talents from India's $2-billion Indian movie industry received from Vice President Hamid Ansari the 59th National Film Awards across various categories on Thursday. Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was also honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, highest honour in Indian cinema at the event.

Actor Parineeti Chopra, who is busy promoting her second release Ishaqzaade, says she is a trained singer and might take up singing seriously in future. Ishaqzaade, which is the launch pad for Boney Kapoor's son Arjun, is coming out May 11.

Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, who is busy filming underworld drama Shootout At Wadala, says he has pushed the film's release to next year as he does not want it to clash with Talaash and Dabangg 2.

Actor Jimmy Sheirgill, who shares screen space with Karisma Kapoor in her comeback film Dangerous Ishhq, describes his co-star as focussed and says the 3D romantic thriller will be an amazing movie.

After his father Amitabh Bachchan acted in three Bhojpuri films, son Abhishek is set to follow suit. The junior Bachchan is most likely to appear in the upcoming film of the megastar's make-up man Deepak Sawant.

The actor and IPL franchise owner Preity Zinta is back in the show business and after a 65-day stint in France, the actor has another schedule planned to wrap up her home production, Ishkq In Paris: which means missing some games.

Pakistani singer-turned-actor Ali Zafar will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke academy awards here on May 3. The 31-year-old actor made his acting debut in Bollywood in 2010 with a small budget film Tere Bin Laden.

Kunal Deshmukh admits that the sensuality factor is high in his forthcoming movie Jannat, which has Emraan Hashmi in the lead role. But at the same time he clarifies that he doesn't consider kissing a bold gesture.

Katrina Kaif who's playing a gymnast in Dhoom 3 is reportedly all set to do a climatic duel with Aamir Khan in Dhoom 3. The scene in question will have a lot of fist-to-fist and man-to-woman fight to the finish.

Here's a look at the movies releasing this weekend.

Publicity for Karisma Kapoor's comeback film Dangerous Ishq is on a roll. And then there will be a slew of movies marking the return of other married actresses, be it Madhuri Dixit or Manisha Koirala.