
Artist: Bollywood
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:

Asoka
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6

The very best Bollywood songs
Year:
Tracks: 15
 
Mike Myers is known for his unusual and sometimes irreverant comic roles (Think Shrek, Fat Bastard and Austin Powers) Now in his latest film, The Love Guru, the actor plays Guru Pitka, a man who tries to break into the self-help business.
It's a role that has been criticized by some members of the Hindu community, who reportedly feel the film ridicules Hindu principles. Meyers says that couldn't be farther from the truth.
"I nibble on things in comedy, but I never bite with my teeth and I never break the skin," He tells OK!. "Having said this, I only travel with respect for all cultures. I love it. I love how things are done."
When it comes to his own spirituality, Mike is a self-proclaimed "culture vulture."
"I grew up in a house of culture vultures," he tells OK!. "I come as a fan of James Bond, I come as a fan of Bollywood. Those movies � with the colors, pageantry, and joy � I feel like I already made a Bollywood movie called Austin Powers. I feel I owe as much to Bollywood for Austin Powers as I do James Bond."
Much of Myers' fascination with accents comes from growing up with two parents who had strong Liverpool accents.
"We were constantly going 'really? The word squirrel you pronounce squirrel? And the word cookbook you pronounce cookbook?' (says the words in different accents) When you are attuned to how people talk, it's just like 'wow.'"
Perhaps his love for culturally rich characters can be attributed to his Canadian upbringing, a nation determinedly neutral on practically every matter.
"Canada's a strange place," he says. "It's a land without it's own cuisine, or an idigenous instrument. We don't have a mission statement or pledge of allegience. Our motto is good government, you know what I mean?"
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British actor Rupert Everett has apologized for comments he made during an interview, where he claimed British troops "are such wimps now!" and that the "point of being in the army is going to war and getting yourself blown up."
The chat with the 49-year-old, promoting his new movie 'The Victorian Sex Explorer' where he plays explorer Sir Richard Burton, has made headlines worldwide.
"In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray," Everett told The Sunday Telegraph. "Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now!
"The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!"
He adds, "The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up. That and pissing on prisoners. Yet we all get shocked by Abu Ghraib."
Everett's apology was released "without reserve" on Tuesday (June 10) to the "many in this country, and hundreds and thousands of others across the world who have lost their brothers and sisters, their fathers and mothers to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the countless others".
"I never meant at any point to question the bravery of those who lose their lives, or survive, but without arms or legs. Just seeing these people in my mind's eye right now makes me feel a terrible anguish."
The actor also offered an apology for talking "flippantly about torture and our attitude towards it," however, states that, "You cannot be politically correct in a war."
"My flippant and irresponsible behaviour arises from a deep frustration at the fact that we seem to be continually making war, dreaming up new ones, instead of doing everything we can to avoid them."
Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures.
Keira Knightley has argued that her new film The Edge of Love, about the two women in Dylan Thomas' life, is really about female camaraderie.
In the John Maybury film, based on the life of the Welsh poet (Matthew Rhys), Knightley plays his childhood sweetheart Vera Phillips while Sienna Miller stars as Caitlin MacNamara, his wife.
But while it could be expected that the wartime drama would be a tale of two women warring for the heart of one man, the actress see the film as the story of an unusual bond between rivals.
"I think it is a story about female friendship and female rivalry and about a friendship that manages to surpass a bloke," Knightley explained on ITV1's LK Today.
"I was trying to be intelligent there but completely failed!" she joked.
Miller added that the bond between the two women is "really rare".
"I think both of them are a little bit lonely and they had never really had this kind of a relationship with a woman before and it was kind of, almost, born out of their love for the same man," she added.
Despite loving the same man, both Caitlin and Vera struggle to remain faithful, with Vera's husband William Killick (Cillian Murphy) damaged by both his experiences in the forces and his insecurity over his wife's relationship with Dylan.
And according to Knightley, the pain and deceit that go hand in hand with romance are the central themes of the film.
"I think the whole thing is about the reality of relationships and how you can ruin something, how people aren't always good, how people aren't always honourable," she explained.
The Edge of Love is released on June 20th.
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