Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta has refused to inherit Rs. 600-crore property from Kamal Amrohi’s son, Shandar Amrohi. Shandar Amrohi considers Preity Zinta as her daughter and wants to leave his share of property to her. But Preity Zinta says, "I won’t accept Shandar Amrohi’s share of Kamal Amrohi’s studio."

The irony is, Shandar’s own sister is trying to grab his property by hook or crook. But Preity has been offered everything on the platter and she is refusing to accept. Preity Zinta has been helping Shandar Amrohi for the past 15 days to get an FIR registered against his sister, Rukhsaar, and nephew, Wase-em, with the Khar police.
The sister and nephew have allegedly forged and also stolen share certificates pertaining to the family property. Waseem, however, has refuted the charges saying that the shares were transferred legitimately.

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Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan along with Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit launched WWF’s Earth Hour 2010 at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) office.

WWF has taken this initiative to create awareness about environment all round the globe. Earth Hour is a  initiative where citizens show their support for action on climate change by turning off lights for one hour. In 2010, the switch off is being observed on March 27, from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.

Abhishek Bachchan made an appeal to the citizens of the country to ’switch on’ their minds and lend their support towards climate change and energy conservation by ’switching off’ the lights for one hour.

Speaking to the press, Abhishek Bachchan said: “As responsible citizens of this planet, it is extremely crucial for us to address the colossal problem of climate change through ensuring responsible action and adopting a sustainable way of life. Earth Hour is one such platform and a people’s campaign that goes beyond national, regional, economic and cultural differences.

“It is important that Earth Hour 2010 should not be viewed as just another cause. We need to make this a movement to demonstrate our support for action on climate change by showing the world that actions such as those taken up at the ‘individual level’ like adopting an energy saving attitude and being more efficient in the use of energy can play a significant role in curbing greenhouse gas emissions that are eventually responsible for global warming.”

“It is a matter of pride for me that I am associated with this prestigious campaign. It’s time that we take a collective pledge to ’switch on’ our minds and take one simple step to ’switch off the lights’ on March 27, 2010 from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm,” Bachchan Jr added.

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Rani Mukherjee

Rani Mukherjee is going her friend Aditya Chopra’s way and has confined herself to four walls.

Following her close friend Aditya Chopra, Rani Mukerjee has stopped socializing and meeting people to confine herself to the four walls of her house.

Reports suggest that Rani is extremely hurt by the outcome of her latest movie Dil Bole Hadippa, which flopped miserably at the box office and has stopped attending to many parties or interacting with too many of her friends as she used to do before. Rani is also not talking to media persons.

Rani is also avoiding her friends from Bollywood like Urmila Matondkar and Dia Mirza, who were said to be very close to one another at one point of time.

Confirming the news of Rani getting introvert in last couple of months, one of her close friends said, “There is a change in Rani’s behavior and that is unexplainable. She has become a very introvert and a private person. Though all her friends are eager to see the old Rani, she insists that she wants to be left alone.”

During the course of making of the film, there were various reports that Rani was working very hard on Dil Bole Hadippa and had lot of expectations from the film. It seems that the failure of the film has hurt Rani very badly and she is still finding it hard to come to terms with it.

It is therefore good that Rani is a close friend of Aditya, who himself is a very introvert person and seems to have taught Rani how to stay alone and confined in these time of difficulties for her. 

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Hema Malini

Police is said to have nabbed culprits who robbed Hema Malini’s house.

Police is said to have solved the case of theft at Hema Malini’s house, in which cash, jewelry and valuable over Rs. 2 cr were stolen from her house in Goregaon East.

The police nabbed five people in this connection from Nensey Colony in Borivli East, just 10 Kms away from where the theft took place.

Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria said that the robbers were caught when the police got a tip-off about another robbery, which was allegedly being planned by the same men, who have been accused in the case of robbery at Hema Malini’s residence. The police then lay a trap, which helped to arrest the culprit.

The police not only nabbed the five criminals but also recovered most of the valuables that had been stolen from Hema’s residence.

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Priyanka and Ranbir

Priyanka Chopra has been banned from using social networking site Twitter. Read Why?

Imagine this. It’s the first day first show of one of the most awaited movie of the year and despite the fact that tickets are easily available, you don’t want to see the film. The reason being that you not only know the story of the film but almost every scene that the movie has to offer.

There is a growing feeling among the producers that in their enthusiasm to write on these social networking sites, some stars are revealing some facts, which may not help the film at the box office.

Keeping this in mind, producer Sajid Nadiadwala has asked the lead pair of his upcoming film Anjaana Anjaani, Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor not to write anything about the film on any of the social networking sites.

Nadiadwala said he himself has logged onto some of these the social networking site and has seen a lot of comments and other information about his film on these sites, most of which are untrue. He hopes that with the lead pair not writing about the film, at least some wrong information about the film will be prevented from spreading.

Though Nadiadwala may be the first one to ban a star working in his film from writing about the film on Social Networking Sites like Twitter and Facebook, keeping in mind the risk such sites pose with regard to revealing the secret facts associated with the films, many more makers may follow Nadiadwala and ask the stars not to write about their films at these social networking sites.

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Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta is appointed as the UNAIDS’s Indian ambassador. Just a few minutes ago Preity Zinta has written about this appointment of United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS on her twitter account. She wrote, “Had an awsome Press Conf. In Delhi! I am now officially the Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS & for peace ! It was endearing to meet people.”

Pretty stars like Preity Zinta are not lagging behind in their social commitments. Like a marketing pro she is thinking of involving her IPL Cricket team Kings XI into this campaign. It seems she is picking up lots of business tips and marketing strategies during her stint as the owner of Kings XI. As an ambassador, Preity Zinta will raise awareness on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. She will give more emphasis on women and children to create a difference.

Preity Zinta expresses her thoughts during the press conference in Delhi, “The team members of Kings XI, they will be involved in a public service film to talk about HIV-AIDS. We are also in our first game with Delhi Daredevils, which is on March 13, going to have a toss done by a person living with HIV.”

Preity Zinta said, "We will be doing a lot of on-ground…going and creating awareness, meeting people living with HIV. I think this is the first step and there is lots more to come."

"I think although there are so many awareness programmes being done amongst the people but something is still lacking. People need to put more efforts in the awareness programmes," Preity Zinta said. "Till now awareness programmes were conducted only in the cities but now we shall have to conduct it in the villages and rural areas of the country as well.”

Its heartening to see stars like Preity Zinta coming forward for such a cause and creating awareness among common people. Its for sure with people like Preity Zina talks we the people listens.

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Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar is wishing kids all the best for their exams. Press and broadcast  media hardly give us an insight into stars’ real lives. Thanks to tweets and blogs that stars themselves can communicate directly with their fans.

Today Akshay Kumar is saying to kids to spend less time on internet and more to their studies. Akshay Kumar tweeted, “Hi,I believe for quite a few of u,the exam fever is running high,so most of u shouldn’t even be online reading this…”

In the very next tweet, Akshay Kumar wrote, “In case you are, I just wanted to wish you guys all the best.Study hard, may God always be with you and cheers to a bright future!”

Its nice to know the parenting side of the stars. They too are responsible people and don’t care for box office collections all the time.

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Shahrukh Khan, Akon and Kareena Kapoor

Shahrukh Khan married pop singer Akon to Kareena Kapoor at an event in his honor. 
Off late, Shahrukh has been known to crack some cheap jokes. Recently, while writing on a social networking site, Shahruk commented, “I asked my friends whether I cracked some cheap jokes at the recently concluded Filfare award function. When they said Yes, I told them that in the times of economic recession, how could I afford costly jokes.”

Though Filmfare event is long over, Shahrukh’s cheap jokes don’t seem to end. Here’s another one of them.

In an event organized in the honor of the pop singer Akon, who is in Mumbai to record a few songs for Shahrukh Khan’s movie Ra 1, Shahrukh married him off to Bollywood lead female star Kareena Kapoor.

The incident happened at the beginning of the party, when Shahrukh and Akon came there.

As Kareena, who had been assigned the duty to put a Tikka on his forehead and garland both Akon and Shahrukh when they entered the party undertook the duty assigned to her, Shahrukh remarked, “In India, when a girl garlands a boy, it is supposed that they have got married. Now, all three of us are married.”

Among others the event was attended by Uday Chopra, Hrithik Roshan , Priyanka Chopra, Abhay Doel, Kangana Ranaut , Karan Johar, Arjun Rampal Dino Morea , Fardeen Khan amoung others.

Reports suggest that though it was planned that Akon will be welcomed at this event in the traditional Indian way, the pop star looked very confused when he was garlanded and a Tikka was put on his forehead. It was right then that Shahrukh cracked this joke and married Karina off to Akon to put on a smile on the face of everyone present.

Meanwhile Shahrukh has clarified that Akon is in Mumbai to sing only for the film Ra 1 and right now, they haven’t discussed any other proposal to work together. Shahrukh also dismissed the reports that there were any plans for the pop singer to record a song for his IPL cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, though he would not mind if that actually happens.

Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif has said that she doesn’t feel she is hot and sexy.

Katrina Kaif has said that though she has often been called hot and sexy, she does not feel anything of that sort in her real life.

Katrina said that each female lead star in Bollywood has a certain image and the actresses have live up to that image not only on the screen but also in their personal life as well.

Giving an example, Katrina said, “Vidya Balan is seen as simple ethnic lady because in most of her film she has taken up such roles only. But, since most of the characters I have taken-up in the past have had glamorous look on screen, contrary to reality, I am considered to be glamorous in real life as well.”

Irrespective of whether she has a hot and sexy look on screen and whether that look is contrary to her real life image, Katrina will not mind till it helps her career in Bollywood and make all her films a super hit.

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Deepika Pdukone

Nana Patekar is said to be very upset with Deepika Padukone for proposing changes in his script.

It seems like in any other field or industry, even Bollywood has men, who love to do things in their own way and do not wish to be disturbed in any manner. Once upon a time you used to hear such stories about late Rajkumar and now you hear them about Nana Patekar.

Nana Patekar, who recently put all his acting assignments aside to work on directing his next Bollywood movie, is said to be very upset with Deepika Padukone for suggesting changes in the script, which he had chosen for his next film.

Reports suggest that Nana had offered a role to Deepika in his next directorial venture when the two recently met on the sets of a movie.

Though, Deepika wasn’t adverse to the idea of working with Nana, like most other stars, she suggested that it would be better if she could listen to the script of the film, a thought, which suited both Deepika and Nana.

But, sources point out that as per the mutual decision, when Nana went and narrated the script to Deepika, she suggested a few changes in the script before she took up the role. This did not go well with Nana as he not only refused to accept Deepika’s suggestions but also blasted her for making those suggestions. When asked, Nana said that he is a senior person in the industry and therefore finds it quite odd that a newcomer like Deepita should make suggestions regarding his script.

Though, both Nana and Deepika were not available to comment on their meeting, a source close to Deepika denied the entire report of Deepika proposing changes in the script or Nana being upset with her over the issue. The sources added that though Deepika and Nana discussed the script, the meeting was a peaceful affair, which ended immediately after Deepika told Nana that she did not want to be a part of the film as she did not identify with the character she was being offered. 

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