Nothing says Bollywood has moved on from being a gratuitous skin-show entity like astrological predictions of a movie's success featuring an evergreen song as a rehashed 'item number' starring the current flavour of the season.

Yes, you read that right — Deepika's "hottest" item number where she's gyrating her daddy-long-legs to yesteryear's anthem for the drugged and the high, 'Dum Maaro Dum', from the movie of the same name, has had its stars read by expert astrologers (not on request) and has found fortune favouring it, much before it hits the theatres.

Don't believe me? Here you go: Dum Maaro Dum — Astrological Consultation

You know, PR gimmickry is fine, but someone has to draw the line at weird hairstyles and messages on the backs of auto rickshaws. When a film that stars one of the hottest bodies in tinsel town (I don't mean you, Abhishek) has an item number featuring someone waaaay lower on the voluptuous ladder, you know the constellations themselves are shaking their heads

Move over, heroes-turned-baddies of Bollywood, there’s a new man in town.

So it’s official now. After rumours were rife that one of the 3 Khans would be signed on, looks like Yash Raj Films went with their old favourite Aamir. (Remember Paramapara?) Tinsel town’s teenybopper heartthrob turned award-eschewing rebel turned movie producer turned Oscar nominee turned movie director turned Narmada Bachao activist turned “calculated risk taker” (post-Peepli epithet) is now turning into an onscreen villain.

Of course, you may throw the Fanaa card in my face, but think, was he really a villain in that as much as he was someone in the midst of an identity crisis? His “terrorist with a heart of gold and a disastrous hairdo” act didn’t really get movie halls whistling now, did it?

But after sinewy John Abraham and gymnast-on-water-spouting-from-underground Hrithik Roshan, why Aamir Khan? He may have done the whole 8-pack thing with his tummy after SRK’s triumph over the 6 pack, (really,

So, a new Superman is born.

Henry Cavill, dreamy Brit actor from the period drama The Tudors has bagged the honours of playing the world's favourite superhero in the next edition of the beloved franchise. The impossibly good-looking actor is no stranger to auditioning for superhero/larger than life roles, though. Rejection, bad luck and age haven't been kind to him.

Until now, that is.

Cavill had tried out for the previous Superman offering, and was signed on as well, but fate had other plans for him. Before he knew it, the directorial baton changed hands and he was left with a broken dream, with Brandon Routh stealing the role from right under his nose. Brandon Routh's run as Superman didn't last long, however, and his caped crusade in blue and red stands pretty much forgotten today.

Losing a chance to play James Bond to the very intense Daniel Craig, *and* losing the Green Lantern role to Ryan Reynolds haven't dampened this heartthrob's enthusiasm — or appeal — one bit. At one