Preity Zinta turns babysitter!

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta turned babysitter for a day for her nieces and their friends. She says they had fun together.

"Spent the whole day babysitting my nieces & their friends! It was wonderful (as long as the ear plugs were on). Hats off to all babysitters," Preity wrote on microblogging site Twitter.

Meanwhile, the actress is busy brushing up her French language for her first Indo-French production venture " Ishq In Paris", where she plays the lead role.

Preity Zinta's first look in Ishq In Paris

After news started doing the rounds that Preity Zinta has been working out with Madonna's trainer in Los Angeles to get a svelte figure for her first home production Ishq In Paris, it now seems that the actress, who is back after a long hiatus, is making sure that she looks great on screen.

We hear that Preity recently did the first look test of her film with celebrity photographer Ashutosh Gupta.

 

Says a source, "Preity wants her first home production to look really stylish and that's why she wants to experiment with her look. She did the first look test at a house in Los Angeles."

Shilpa Shetty: Party hearty

Shilpa Shetty and husband Raj Kundra are currently in Los Angeles partying up a storm.

Last week, Preity Zinta hosted a party in New York that was attended by them, apart from Dino Morea and girlfriend Nandita Mahtani, Harman Baweja and Sussanne Roshan.

The Kundras are in the US for a month long holiday, and the buzz is that the couple is there to finalise a Hollywood film deal. Watch this space!

Preity brushing up French for Ishq In Paris: Director

Director Prem Soni says that by the time the shooting of Ishq In Paris starts, lead actress Preity Zinta would have got her French absolutely right. He also says that in spite of the costs involved, there was no other city he would have shot the film in.

"Ishq In Paris", an Indo-French project, is Preity's first production venture and she plays a half-Indian half-French girl who falls in love in one of the most expensive cities in the world to shoot in.

"From the start, we were very sure that Preity would get her French absolutely right with the correct accent and pronunciation. We did not want to dub her French dialogues. By the time we start shooting, I am dead sure Preity will know as much French as any native and speak the language fluently enough to pass off as a Frenchwoman," said Soni.

He thinks there's something distinctly French about Preity's looks and added: "So many people have commented on how French she looks. I couldn't have cast anyone else in the role."

So expensive is Paris to shoot in that Sanjay Gadhvi had to shelve his Katrina Kaif-Imran Khan romance "7 Days In Paris" due to the costs involved.

"I'm aware of this. But for 'Ishq In Paris', it was always Paris or nothing. I couldn't locate this love story anywhere else. I started writing the script two years ago. From the start I was sure it had to be Paris or nothing," says the director who spent his formative years in Spain.

Though the director doesn't want to reveal this, there will apparently be two different versions of the film - one for the Indian and the other for the international market. 

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