Holly Madison, the former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has reportedly insured her breasts for 1 million dollars.

Madison, 31, said that she insured her famous assets with Lloyd’s of London to protect them while appearing in her Las Vegas production, ‘Peepshow’.

“I’ve heard about people getting body parts insured and I thought, why not? because if anything happened to my boobs, I’d be out for a few months and I’d probably be out a million dollars,” she told People magazine.

“I thought I’d cover my assets,” she added.

Madison, however, also comprehends the quirkiness of it.

“I think it’s kind of funny. I think they’re getting the credit they deserve. They’re my primary money makers right now,” she added.

No matter how progressive the world around us gets, Bollywood will always remain a male dominated industry

They say behind every successful man there is a woman. But, in Bollywood, there seems to be one too many.

From Kareena Kapoor, riding high on her '100-crore heroine' tag, to a Katrina Kaif, deemed as the latest Khan queen, actresses in the industry seem to be only too happy to latch on to the triumphs of their male co-stars even today.

"Even before the film's release, I know it's going to be a hit. So why wouldn't I work with an SRK or an Aamir, " says Kareena.

From the very beginning, the big boys have been calling the shots in Bollywood. And the girls, who make them look good, stand pretty and obeyed.

Friends with benefits
Be it within a film or even their personal equations, Bollywood beauties seem to have little choice but to play along with their more successful male co-stars to keep the roles coming.

The recent Kangna Ranaut spat with Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn proves the point. Sources say the actors won't touch her with a barge pole now.

Clearly, this is not the first time when the heroine has been at the receiving end of the wrath. Everyone's aware of the infamous fight between Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan during Chalte Chalte (2005).

A disagreement with then boyfriend Salman Khan resulted in Ash being ousted from the film and replaced by Rani Mukerji.

On the other hand Priyanka Chopra, who did films like Mujhse Shaadi Karoge and God Tussi Great Ho with Sallu, is now not in the best of terms with him.

Result? She will never be part of Salman's paisa vasool cinema. That leaves her with little choice than to keep her foot strong within the SRK territory.

While Kareena made sure she shared good rapport with Aamir Khan, even Bipasha Basu is apparently trying to get into the good books of Sallu.

As for Katrina, from the Khans to the Kumars she has it all covered.

No woman-oriented cinema
Though this year has seen films like No One Killed Jessica and even Saat Khoon Maaf with women as the centre of the story, neither of the films did great business.

However for someone like Madhur Bhandarkar, who has probably churned out maximum female-oriented scripts, it's about the choices our heroines make.

Says Madhur, "We can count on our fingers the number of actresses who will be able to pull off a Fashion or a Heroine.

And even if they can, many of them choose to stick to conventional song and dance cinema."

For Milan Lutharia, who is directing his first woman-oriented subject with The Dirty Picture, the male actor is a producer's crutch. "The hero is a very saleable commodity and no one can deny that.

I can't expect a Rs 70 crore film to run only with a heroine. However, in The Dirty Picture my actress is as aggressive as a hero.

You need an actress as talented as Vidya to hold the fort and only then it is worth the risk."

Adds Bipasha Basu, "It only makes sense to go with whatever works. People like to see commercial entertaining films and I will do them as long as they satisfy me. There could be four heroes or none, doesn't matter."

Money matters
Over the past few years, with action coming back with a bang, the heroes seem to have acquired even more might.

This has resulted in not just doubling of their pay cheques, but most of them even claiming profit shares in their films. However, it seems to have had little impact on the salaries of our leading ladies.

Says trade analyst Amod Mehra, "Movies with heroines as the central character hardly manage to make money Even the highest paid heroine in Bollywood gets only 20 per cent of what a mainline hero makes."

So be it Ash, who was paid between R 3-4 crores for Robot, or Kareena, who has reportedly bagged Rs 8 crores for Heroine, their pay cheques hardly come close to that earned by their leading men.

But producers force Dibakar Banerjee to boogie to their tune for an item song in his film

While many songs picturised on Bollywood's inhouse 'serial kisser' have gone on to become chartbusters, Emraan Hashmi apparently can't dance! And Dibakar Banerjee, director of his forthcoming Shanghai, learnt this the hard way.

The filmmaker informs, "We had no plans of making Emraan sing and dance in the film's item song. He was just going to be a spectator.

But then my producers insisted that he participate, so we changed the concept. Emraan chose not to do the rehearsed steps, but to dance like a guy who has just joined in the revelry on an impulse."

The director, it appears, is being diplomatic. Our source reveals, "Emraan suddenly realised that he can't dance on rehearsed steps.

For an actor whose songs have been danced to in every club and discotheque across the country, this was quite a revelation.

Emraan sheepishly admitted that he had done a step or two only in Aksar. Otherwise, he has only emoted to his numbers."

Unwilling to replicate Mansi Aggarwal's choreography, Emraan did his own steps. Apparently, there was a lot of drama on the sets.

The song Bharat Mata Ki Jai was originally planned as a chorus number with a mob joining in the anthem. However, representatives from the film's production house PVR Cinema showed up at the shoot forcing Banerjee to change the concept.

They informed him that their contract with the actor demands that he lip syncs the lyrics of all his songs in the film. Says a member of the team, "Dibakar had planned to shoot the number with Emraan and co-star Pitobash, with the crowds joining in.

The production guys, however, insisted that only Emraan do the singing in the song. Poor Pitobash was just asked to keep quiet."

Unhappy with the turn of events, Banerjee has apparently recorded two versions of the song one which has just Hashmi lip-synching and the other with the chorus.

"Dibakar will still try to push for the chorus version of the number. If he is unable to persuade his producers, he will have no option but to go ahead with the solo version."