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Shahrukh Khan's wax statue in Paris After Madame Tussauds

Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan has more reason to smile - he will have a second wax look alike coming up in the West, this time in France.

Barely a year after his wax statue was unveiled at Madame Tussauds, London, Paris's Grevin wax museum will present King Khan's wax statue next month.

This will make Shah Rukh the second Indian celebrity after Mahatma Gandhi to have a wax statue in Grevin and the first Bollywood star to have two wax statues in the two most prestigious wax museums worldwide.

Stating this in Mumbai on Friday, Grevin's marketing director Frederic Gouguidis said that this was the outcome of its exclusive partnership with the travel major, Cox and Kings, in the Indian market.

Khan is extremely popular in France with a huge fan following and the wax statue would give Indians another reason to travel to that country, he added.

Paris Convention & Visitors Bureau managing director Paul Roll said that Paris is a hot destination among Indian tourists. 'Last year, over 300,000 Indians visited France, the second largest number after China,' Roll said.

A 19th century French journalist Arthur Meyer conceived Grevin's wax museum. He collaborated with Alfred Grevin, a cartoonist, sculptor and costume designer to work on the project.

When the wax museum doors were finally thrown open to the public in June 1882, it was a grand success.

Some of the wax statues in the Grevin collection include Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Pope John Paul-II, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

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Bachna Ae Haseenon starring Ranbir, Deepika Padukone , Minissha Lamba and Bipasha Basu

First there were four females. Now, they are reduced to three. And Ranbir Kapoor is the lucky guy who gets to romance them all, on screen, that is.

Finally the title of Yashraj Films next venture, starring Ranbir, Deepika Padukone , Minissha Lamba and Bipasha Basu , has been finalized. It is called Bachna Ae Haseenon .

Directed by Siddharth Anand, the movie was originally meant to chronicle a man's romantic journey through his relationships with four different women. Katrina Kaif was supposed to play the fourth lady. But since the movie was getting too long, Katrina's role was deleted because she was the only actress who hadn't shot the film till then.

So, as the film's title suggests, is Ranbir playing a Casanova in the story?

Ranbir refuses to reveal anything about the story as he is contractually bound.

Meanwhile, the young lad has admitted in a media interview that he is dating Deepika Padukone and that love blossomed between him and her during the shooting of this film in Australia.

Well, it was something we all knew and only needed to hear from Ranbir's lips. Good that he has done it.

Black And White Movie Review

Subhash Ghai, the proverbial showman and the maker of many memorable masala movies, comes up with a pertinent, hard-hitting, slice-of-life film, appropriately titled 'Black And White'.

The film is about a sombre and brooding suicide bomber who has a change of heart and mind after witnessing the harmony-in-diversity of the friendly people of Chandni Chowk.

Newcomer Anurag Sinha plays a fidayeen from an Afghan terror camp who comes to Delhi on a deadly mission. His target is Red Fort. And he will execute his mission on August 15.

While in Delhi, the would-be bomber takes shelter in the house of a polite and wise poet (Habib Tanvir) in Chandni Chowk and passes himself off as Numer Qazi, a victim of Gujarat riots. In the same locality live the Urdu professor Rajan Mathur ( Anil Kapoor ) and his sharp-tongued social activist wife Roma ( Shefali Shah ).

Rajan, who sternly believes in religious tolerance and secularism, takes a liking to the quiet and grim Numer.

In the days leading up to his mission, Numer encounters a number of friendly characters in Chandni Chowk, including a pretty girl Shagufta ( Aditi Sharma ) who falls for him. The sullen and stone-hearted Numer struggles with his emotions. On top of it, professor Rajan, his wife Roma and the genteel octogenarian poet give Numer a different perspective of life.

As days pass, Numer finds himself in an unexpected dilemma. On one hand are his deep-rooted fundamentalist beliefs. On the other hand is a faint spark of love, and values of mutual tolerance and humanity that take root in his heart.

'Black And White' could easily have fallen into the trap of being a preachy film. Though the film does have a few such moments, it mostly manages to steer clear of the expected, in-your-face clichés that a Bollywood film with a message of communal harmony could have easily pandered to. And the credit for this should go to its director Subhash Ghai, who shows commendable restraint in handling the sensitive subject.

The only time Ghai seems to lose his grip over the plot is in the last half hour of the film when the screenplay is contrived to the director's convenience. It is in a few of these portions leading up to the climax that the movie becomes unreal and unconvincing.

The film's leading man Anurag Sinha exudes a simmering intensity befitting his character of a terrorist. The newcomer has few dialogues in the film, yet he gives a palpable persona to his Numer. A notable debut indeed.

Anil Kapoor keeps himself carefully restrained for most part of his role. Shefali Shah is terrific in a brief role. Aditi Sharma just about manages not to ham. Theatre veteran Habib Tanvir towers with his screen presence and imposing voice.

'Black And White' deals with a very relevant issue in the times of terrorism and racial profiling. Not only does the movie gives a message of hope that terrorists could be reformed, it also questions the way the state goes about dealing with terrorism.

It is an honest and commendable effort by Ghai. And it deserves to be seen at least once.