The Bollywood Star Shilpa Shetty shares the secret of her fitness, by way of an instructional video founded on the ancient Indian tradition of yoga titled ‘Shilpa’s Yoga’ released on DVDs and VCDs by Shemaroo Entertainment.
The yoga video is shot at the radiant backwaters of Gods own kingdom ‘Kerala’. Directed by Manisha Jha, under the direction of Yoga instructor Shiv Kumar Mishra and produced by Shilpa Shetty, Shilpa’s Yoga is very well enacted, picturised on the scenic beach with ceremonial elephants and Kalaripayattu fighters in the background and the demonstration of Asanas in a simplified manner .
Shilpa Shetty says ‘It’s a command system for life and it is the most holistic approach to life that I have ever come across. It reinforces tones and cures. It works on body, mind and soul. Yoga has had a spectacular impact on my life’. Atul Maroo, Joint MD, Shemaroo Entertainment states, ‘A title like yoga sounds ancient; yet the way ‘Shilpa’s Yoga’ is filmed is mind blowing moreover Shilpa has added an aesthetic touch to it with her genuine belief in yoga. We at Shemaroo are really proud to be associated with this lifestyle product’. This DVD is an introduction to ‘dynamic free-flow’ yoga practice by Shilpa Shetty. The VCD’s are launched in Hindi & English priced at Rs 99/- & Rs 149/- respectively. The DVD is priced at Rs. 299/- and it also has a bonus Audio CD of Shilpa’s Lounge Music along with bonus features that includes ‘Music Video’ ‘behind the scenes’ , ’stills’, ‘bloopers’, ‘15 minutes quick fix’ and but off course a tete-a-tete with Shilpa Shetty.
Salman Khan too made his first appearance on the small screen with Dus ka Dum on Sony TV. It is the creation of Siddhartha Basu and Synergy Labs, the inventors of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and ‘Paanchvi Paas Se Tez.
Distinct from other shows like KBC or Paanchvi Paas Se Tez, Dus ka Dum is not a quiz proramme. General Knowledge need not be crammed. The show is reasonably very uncomplicated and is likely to be acquainted with the Indian audiences very rapidly. The contestants should have the similar feeling what most of the Indian feel .The nearer the player is to the answer in the estimation poll,the healthier are his chances of winning.
Salman Khan like SRK was seen having a close bonding with the participants, but it had to be mentioned that he does not acquire the magnetism nor the screen existence like King Khan. All the player has to do is make a presumption of how the majority of Indians are belief. The show probably may catch up in the days to come. The prize money of 10 Crores is the largest amount offered on a Game Show in India thus far. But in the first episode, the first contestant lost Rs. 10 lakhs in the pursuit to play for the 1 crore question. Had she quitted at Rs. 10 lakhs she need not have faced herself in such a distressing and reprehensible state of affairs. But as the case is, this is the rule of the game!!
Suresh Menon, comedian of TV is in the preparation for a 24-hour comedy channel to leave the audience in jerks.
“I have been meeting different people involved in this field for starting a comedy channel which is my brainchild. Let’s see how my 15 years of experience on television comes to use. I shall be able to make a definite announcement in two months,” stated the exited Menon.
According to Menon, some comedy shows are currently on air, still there is a lot of breathing space for comedy on television and the substance is doing well and is getting better day by day.
Menon said that he has five films on floors; Don’t worry be happy, Tom Dick and Harry part II, 24 hour gupshup, The Man and Chatursingh.
He added “Comedy is here to stay in films. But, heroes would not like to call themselves as comedians. This is where films like Khalbali hai Khalbali directed by Ajay Chandok come into picture. This movie has 30 comedians together for the first time. I play a bell boy, a confused character in his own world. It is an interesting role,” says Menon.
Menon felt that it was wonderful working with comedians like Johnny lever, Shakti Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Tiku Talsania, Manoj Joshi, Rakesh Bedi, Vrajesh Hirjee, Dinesh Hingoo, Asif Sheikh, Ketki Dave,Delnaz Paul, Rasika Joshi, Chunky Pandey and many like that.
“Even though the hero of the film is Nikhil Dwivedi, all the comedians have pivotal roles and our characters have gelled very well to the main plot,” expressed the shy Menon.
Sanju Baba had of late shown interest in contesting the Lok Sabha polls planned for next year
Sanjay Dutt’s political belief could meet with rigid conflict from some resident groups in the Bandra-Khar area, who are not in support of the actor receiving a ticket in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Dutt lately inclined curiosity in contesting the next Lok Sabha elections. He is reported to have made his political ambitions clear at a function to mark the birthday of a Congress party MLA. Congress is yet to make a decision on whom to put up for the elections from the constituency, some residents associations have made their position unambiguous. The representatives are opponent because they feel he was involved in the bomb blasts case and also many are not in confrontation with him after his marriage with Manyata, people does not want to acknowledge it, more often than not because Manyata does not embrace a good family backdrop and appropriate stance. “Our stand is clear: We want candidates with a clean background. We fear that Dutt will not serve the constituency. We will write to all political parties not to give him a ticket,’’ remarked Anandini Thakoor of the Khar Residents Association. But residents of the area have questioned Dutt’s contribution to society thus far. ‘’What has he done till now?’’ says Thakoor. The associations had decided to start a signature campaign on Sunday in support of MP Priya Dutt, the plan was dismissed as they felt it would tantamount to propagating a picky candidate.
The need for a scrumptious chutney geared up by a family member and immediate neighbour priced a young man In Tamil Nadu, India extremely, as he gone astray with his tongue.
As per the advice of a village witch doctor, Rajammal, 43, of Nachiampatti village invited Venkatachalam, her 27-year-old nephew living next door, for a feast on Sunday in which she served him the chutney decorated with drugs.
As the man fainted, she quickly cut off two centimetres of his tongue and presented it to god as part of her adulation in her house while blood flowed out of her nephew’s mouth.
“The woman is said to have applied the blood like vermilion marks on her and her son’s foreheads - an act she believed would make her rich,” said a police official.
“When the wounded man began screaming, neighbours came and rushed Venkatachalam to a private hospital. Though the man may never be able to speak properly ever again, there is no immediate danger to his life,” the cops added very confidentaly.
The mother-son duo was detained and the police are on the watch out for the tantric in and around Salem, a textile town 375 km southwest of Tamil Nadu capital Chennai, India.
Off late, a young music composer Ram Sampath made the Roshans recompense the price for plagiarism. Ram Sampath had composed a jingle The Thump for a Sony Ericsson TV commercial, which is endorsed by Hrithik Roshan. It is very sad that Plagiarism has become very unbridled today. People are just lifting tunes. Hereafter, Roshans who have the regular habit of stealing music will think twice before stealing another tune, keeping in view the huge amount they had to pay to the music director as compensation.
They are in fact copying a lot from Pakistani music too. The super duper hit film of our industry K3G ’s most popular song “boley choodiyan” was copied in tune from a popular private pakistani number ” ghar aaja sohniya” sung by female singer “shazia manzoor”
Music directors should know the difference between motivation and plagiarism. Resourceful inspiration is not always wrong. Sometimes you get to listen great songs due to this creative inspiration. Copying in any sense is wrong and should not be done.
Parvathy Omanakuttan (centre, with Miss India Earth 2008 Harshita Saxena and Miss India Universe 2008 winner Simran Kaur Mundi)
Surrounded by transcription of her being crowned Miss India World 2008, websites catering to Keralites were operating ultimately and for good raison d’être.
Parvathy is the first Malayali to become Miss India World. This 20-year-old classical beauty hails from Changanacherry in Kottayam district, but is presently based in Mumbai.
Parvathy Omanakuttan, who won the Pantaloon Femina Miss India World 2008, has set Keralites talking. And they are still talking and talking and talking…
“It is a great feeling and is something that is beyond expression. I would say there is no better high than seeing your dreams become reality,” said a joyful Parvathy, an English Literature graduate from Mithibhai College in Mumbai.
“I was just seven when I saw Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai winning the pageant. I decided then that one day I would also be like them.’”
Her main substance on winning the pageant was her answer on marital relations. Asked whether the rise in the divorce rate in India was a result of Western influence, she said: “Divorces are not the result of Western influence.
At the end of the day it is we who decide one’s worth. Marriage is not when one completes the other, but when both share their completeness.”
‘Sweet girl’
It was her serene answer that set her spaced out from the respite, and her teachers and former classmates conspicuously remember her for that excellence.
“She was very sweet and above average,” her former teacher stated.
“Parvathy was quietly confident, you know, the determined type,” she said, adding that the “sweet girl” was popular among friends.
Her Andheri neighbours recalled how, early in the morning, they used to come across Parvathy, drenched in sweat, jogging around their neighborhood with her mother in tow.
Now all that solid exertion has paid off and Malayalis in her neighbourhood are swollen with satisfaction . They reeled off their pains in dispensing the SMS vote round in the contest.
After the crowning, when the winners were approached backstage and asked how they intended to chill out, they answered in unanimity.
After weeks of being on a harsh diet, they wanted to party tough and push the boat out by overwhelming chocolate pastries, brownies, ice-cream and pizzas with cheese toppings!
Another wonder baby born in India.She has two faces!
Villagers are queuing outside Lali’s house to get a foretaste of the “Goddess”, baby Lali, a 24-day-old baby girl in Saini village near Noida. She is all set out to be rather a mob puller.
This wonder baby was born on March 11 to a Dalit family in a private hospital in Noida, the newborn has four eyes and two mouths. The infant with two faces is, however, unwavering and in good physical shape. In fact, despite the deformity, the child and her mother Sushma were discharged just the next day of the delivery.
“The baby’s delivery was normal and we felt there was no need to keep them in the hospital for further tests. But Lali’s mother had not come to us during her pregnancy,” stated Dr Archana of Saifi Hospital.
The child’s father, Vinod Singh, alleged, “We were shocked to see the baby. The doctor assured us that Lali would be a normal child in every other way. During her pregnancy, my wife was never ill and we never felt the need to consult a doctor.”
Lali’s is the first child of Sushma and Vinod, who got married in February 2007. “Initially we had some problem in accepting the child but now everything is fine. She is just like any other child,” believed the befuddled Sushma.
Older members in Saini Village uphold the child possesses celestial powers. “God has made her like this and we are lucky to be her parents,” assumed Brahm Singh, the grandfather, a daily wager in the Indian Railways.
What does it feel before the release of a film taking into consideration it’s after a long gap?
I’m not the sort of person who gets nervy. In any case, I haven’t had the time to replicate much on U Me Aur Hum as both Ajay and I were preoccupied with other stuff.
After playing Simran, Anjali and Zooni, there is a lot of inquisitiveness about your personality in U Me Aur Hum.
I play a common working girl. There’s isn’t anything predominantly different about her character.
The preceding time you worked with Ajay was in Raju Chacha in 2000. How was it running with him again?
He knows me as an actor and as a person. I think it makes it easier for him to direct me.
What do you think of him as a director?
I think he’s a terrific director. He really is.
Is he a sturdy director to thrill?
He knows how to augment an artist’s presentation and how to get the unsurpassed out of you. He gauges what you are capable of and enhances it, which is what good directors are all about.
Taking into consideration Ajay is uncomfortable dancing, how did the salsa sequences go?
I was in fact nicely flabbergasted. We were worried as we did not get sufficient time to prepare and I thought we would have to repeat several times and matters like that but I was stunned. He was quite good.
How did your daughter Nysa retort to the ambience on the sets?
She was OK but she wouldn’t sit roughly much. She would get jaded. All kids want notice. She was not in reality spellbound by anything on the sets.
