If you are a fan of Bollywood movies and songs then Sonu Nigam needs no introduction. Sonuji has been a popular playback singer for nearly two decades now.
His songs have been featured in numerous Hindi and Kannada movies, as well as films in Tamil, Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Telugu. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi movies. Many Filmfare awards too have come his way, notable amongst them are for ‘Ishq Bina’in ‘Taal, ‘Panchi Nadiyyan’ for the film ‘Refugee’ ‘Piyu Bole’ for ‘Parineeta’ and many more, including the wonderful ‘Do Pal’ for the film ‘Veer Zara’.

Every summer, one or two big artists from India try and make a tour of North America and this year we are fortunate to have Sonu Nigam visit us. Sonuji will be on a 15 city tour of the United States and Canada, starting in Raleigh, NC on June 1st and ending his tour on July 7th in Washington DC. The tour is called the Klose to my Heart tour.

Maximum is an upcoming Hindi crime/thriller film written and directed by Kabeer Kaushik. The project features Naseeruddin Shah, Sonu Sood, Neha Dhupia and Vinay Pathak in pivotal roles.  The movie is set in scenes of Mumbai during 2003. Big Land deals, intense politics and in the center of it all, a volatile story around two cops (Sonu Sood,Naseeruddin Shah). Arshad Warsi is also reported to play encounter specialist against his previous roles, but later he turned down the part. Maximum is scheduled to release on April 13, 2012.

Cast

• Sonu Sood as young police officer
• Naseeruddin Shah as senior police officer
• Neha Dhupia
• Vinay Pathak
• Arya Babbar as business tycoon
• Swanand Kirkire as Bachi Singh
• Anjana Sukhani
• Amit Sadh
• Mohan Agashe
• Rajendra Gupta

Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen is an upcoming Indian action comedy film directed by Sajid Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. It is the sequel to the 2010 hit, Housefull. The film features most of the actors from the original with new additions included to the cast such as John Abraham, Asin, Jacqueline Fernandez, Zarine Khan, Shazahn Padamsee and Shreyas Talpade. It also features veteran actors such as Mithun Chakraborty, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and Boman Irani in supporting roles.

Akshay Kumar and Ritesh Deshmukh remain in the lead from the original. Malaika Arora Khan features in an item-number song. The music is composed by Sajid-Wajid.

The film is scheduled for release on 5 April 2012.

Blood Money is an upcoming Bollywood thriller film directed by Vishal Mahadkar, and produced by Mukesh Bhatt. The film stars Kunal Khemu opposite Amrita Puri in lead roles. The film is about a young and simple man, Kunal who is in love with Arzoo (Amrita Puri), however her parents do not allow her to marry him, as he is unsuccessful. The two run away and get married, and move to Cape Town. There, Kunal starts to work in a small business of diamond-exporting. However, Kunal has no idea that he is being taken into the underworld slowly! It is scheduled for release on 30 March 2012.

• Kunal Khemu as Kunal Kadam
• Amrita Puri as Arzoo
• Manish Choudhary
• Shekher Shukla
• Mia Uyeda