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After delivery, Farah Khan is back on TV with Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star on Star PlusFiled Under: Amul SVOI, Amul Star Voice of India, Star Plus, Star Voice Of India, TV, TV Shows

Star Plus has premeditated another reality show. This show will be replacing Chhote Ustaad on the same time slot.

It’s once again going to be a singing reality show where we can see the winners and runners- up of Indian Idol, Zee’s Sa Re Ga Ma and Star’s Voice of India.   

The show will be judged by the famous music director duo Vishal and Shekhar and director Farah Khan.   The participants include Ishmit, Himani and Vineet from Zee, Rahul Vaidya from Indian Idol.

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Hijack the movie: Revisiting KandaharFiled Under: Bollywood, Box Office, Hijack

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new Bollywood film about a plane hijacking involving a separatist militant outfit echoes the real life hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in 1999.

But “Hijack”, directed by Kunal Shivdasani, will focus on a rescue operation conducted by lead actor Shiney Ahuja inside the aircraft — something that did not happen in the Kandahar case.

“It may seem similar to that of the Kandahar hijacking case but ‘Hijack’ is a purely fictional film,” Shivdasani told Reuters.

“We are not pointing fingers at the Kandahar hijackers or which group was responsible behind the incident.”

Five armed men hijacked the Airbus A-300 carrying 189 passengers and crew between Kathmandu and New Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1999. The plane touched down in western India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates before landing in Kandahar in Afghanistan.

The hijackers killed one passenger early in the week-long stand-off, but the remaining passengers and crew walked free after India released three Kashmir separatist militants from jail.

India said the hijackers, who were never caught, were all Pakistani and accused Pakistan’s government of complicity in the hijacking, charges it denied.

British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the freed militants, was later convicted and sentenced to death by a Pakistani court for his role in the murder in 2002 of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

“My film is thoroughly commercial and if people come to watch my film due to similarity of the film’s plot to that of Kandahar incident, (it’s) good for us,” Shivdasani said.

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Deepika Padukone very candid on the Kapoor familyFiled Under: Bollywood, Box Office

When Deepika Padukone met her idol, Rishi Kapoor not as a fan but Rishi’s son’s girlfriend she was flabbergasted and said “It’s amazing. But in his younger days my dad (badminton champ Prakash Padukone) was often told that he resembled Rishi Uncle. I grew up as his big fan, have seen Karz and Kabhi Kabhie number of times. When Ranbir took me to meet his parents, I was re-living my childhood images of the most compatible couple I’ve ever seen on screen.”
Even the Kapoors has welcomed their would be daughter in law that’s why Deepika feels “Rishi Uncle is so warm. As for Neetu Aunty, she has an aura of natural grace and charm about her. She’s very poised and articulate. I’ve met her more than I’ve met Uncle. Me and Rishi uncle are going to be working toge

ther. We had a reading together recently. He’s so passionate about cinema. I’ve so much to learn from him.” 

Deepika cannot go on without appreciating the Kapoors, she has lot of regard to both of them which is apparent from her statement which says “Both Ranbir and his sister Ridhima have been brought up with the right values. They come from such an illustrious family. And yet they’re so down-to-earth. I see many similarities between their upbringing and mine. Though both Ranbir and I were exposed to celebrity situations from childhood, our parents have made sure we’re firmly rooted to reality.”
When asked about their marriage, Deepika expressed that “we’re both very comfortable in our relationship. Now that we’ve come out in the open about our relationship, our parents are very happy. Beyond that it’s too early to talk about marriage.”
About her affair with Yuvraj and on the impressionable comment made by Yuvraj, Deepika says confidently that “I really don’t think she said anything against me. If she had a grudge she’d call me up and talk to me. I always say that no outside source can know what kind of a relationship two people share. I spoke to her after the statements attributed to her came out. I’ve always shared a fantastic rapport with her. She’s a wonderful and strong person. I’ve learnt a lot from her. As a woman and mother, I look up to Yuvraaj’s mother. She’s a multi-tasking mother. She has single-handedly brought up her two children. Yuvraaj is doing extremely well for himself. And his younger brother who has just started out is also doing very well himself. I wish the family all the best.”

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King Khan’s Cricket TeamFiled Under: Cricket

King Khan today launched his cricket team under the banner Knightriders in Kolkatta. The name of the site is www.kolkataknightriders.com/home.html. The team activities and actions are towards sports strength and courage of children and youth of the country. The joint owners of the team are the great SRK and actress Juhi Chawla and her business mind husband Jay Mehta.

Sourav Ganguli has been named as the Captain along with tough players like Shoiab Akthar and Ricky Ponting.  John Bucanen will be the coach of the team.

The theme song for the team has been composed by multitalented Vishal-Shekhar and the song has been sung by Vishal.  The jingle for the song is something like Korbo,lodbo,jeethore in Bangla.  More songs will be composed by Pritam and to be sung by Usha Uthup the Kolkata much-loved.

The official clothes has been sponsored by Belmonte, designed flamboyant  Manish Malhotra.  The colour of the T-shirt is gold and black, SRK feels gold is lucky for him.  SRK himself has chosen Jersey No.12 and says he will be the waterman for the team in an athletic spirit.

A golden helmet as musket of the team, enclosed in glass was offered to Saurav and certain other members of the organisation.

SRK also unveiled the team’s logo Hoog-lee shown as a cartoon character, the surprise members’ name will be announced later.

SRK disclosed that he does not anything much about cricket on a funny message. He stated that a sum of INR 80,000/- crores will be the expected  annual turnover, out of which 80% money will be dispersed to the players.

Sony Max will be official broadcaster of the matches which will begin from March 18 onwards.

Well whatever King Khan does, he steals the thunder as ever. Good luck King Khan!

No
Name
Age
Nationality
Playing role
Batting Style
Bowling/Fielding
Bidding Price

1
Sourav Ganguly (Captain)
35

Batsman
LHB
Right-arm medium
Icon Player

2
Ishant Sharma
19

Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast
US$ 950,000

3
Chris Gayle
28

All-rounder
LHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 950,000

4
Brendon McCullum
26

Batsman/WK
RHB
Wicket-keeper
US$ 700,000

5
David Hussey
30

Batsman
RHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 675,000

6
Shoaib Akhtar
32

Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast
US$ 450,000

7
Murali Kartik
31

Bowler
LHB
Left-arm orthodox spin
US$ 425,000

8
Ricky Ponting
33

Batsman
RHB
Right-arm medium
US$ 400,000

9
Ajit Agarkar
30

All-rounder
RHB
Right-arm fast-medium
US$ 350,000

10
Umar Gul
24

Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast-medium
US$ 150,000

11
Tatenda Taibu
24

Batsman/WK
RHB
Wicket-keeper
US$ 125,000

12
Salman Butt
23

Batsman
LHB
Right-arm off spin

US$ 100,000

13
Mohammad Hafeez
27

All-rounder
RHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 100,000

Front Office:

• Owners - Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, & Jai Mehta
• CEO - TBA
• President - TBA

Coaches:

• Head Coach - John Buchanan
• Assistant Head Coach -
• Physiotherapist - Andrew Leipus^[5]
• Physical Trainer - Adrian Le Roux^[6]

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Adnan Sami wants Indian CitizenshipFiled Under: India, Indian Cinema, Indians

Poor Adnan Sami, for the last three years he is trying to get Indian citizienship. The singer, a Pakistani national, owns a house in India, has a PAN card, and has now even applied for his marriage at the marriage registrar’s office in Bandra.

The singer-cum-composer is anxious for Indian citizenship and is wearisome the whole lot to get one. Adnan married Dubai-based Sabah Galadari last April and applied for the marriage registration in October. But the marriage is yet to be registered.

This is Adnan’s re-marriage with Sabah. The couple had married in September 2001 and separated in April 2004 after completing divorce proceedings in Dubai.

Adnan was married to Pakistani actress Zeba Bakhtiar before he married Sabah.  He had stated many times before that Zeba was the real love of his life and the motivation behind his new sleuth look is the inspiration of Zeba. Meanwhile, his struggles to acquire Indian citizenship still continue. Initially, he seemed to have got a positive response to his application filed in November 2003. The singer had issued a notice in a newspaper in April 2005 announcing his desire for choosing Indian citizenship. However, it seems that his application is still pending.

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Women’s Day, 8th March , Bollywood Babes talk to usFiled Under: Bollywood, India, Indians, Interviews

Bollywood’s leading ladies say they have never felt mediocre to men and mull over opportunities are escalating for women in the country. 
On Womens Day today i.e. 8^th March,2008 ,BestDesi.com asked Bollywood stars on what they feel being a woman , this is what they opined:

Shilpa Shetty: As a woman I’ve nothing to grumble about. Today when I go abroad I’m proud to symbolize my film fraternity, my gender, my country and myself. I guess I’ve been singularly lucky. I realize there’re so many women in our country who are still aggressive to earn a living. But I think things are varying very fast. Opportunities for women aren’t incomplete any longer. 

Hema Malini:   I’m proud to be a woman and an Indian. With the prominence that I’ve achieved I’ve no problem getting what I want. But I know it isn’t so with a lot of women in our country. I sympathize with their distress and I do want to work towards getting better their lot. That’s one of the reasons I joined politics.

Ekta Kapoor : Being a woman is no annoyance. Though I won’t say it’s an benefit either in today’s India - at least not in the corporate world. Yet lots of women in rural India are made to believe they’re deprived by their gender. Yes gender bias is fading. I think our inherent advantage as women is that we’re stronger than men even though we’re more perceptive.
 

Bipasha Basu:    The new Indian woman cuts across all age groups and class structures. We acclimatize better to situation because we are not playing by the rules of others. We are flexible and are able to bounce back from every prospect. I know women who go to work, take care of house and home, and be mothers without breaking a step. I don’t know many men who can do that. Somehow we never tire out ourselves as much in the place of work as men do. 

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Anamika Choudhury, is the winner of the SRGMP L’il ChampFiled Under: Uncategorized

• Anamika Choudhury has been aanounced as the winner of SRGMP little Champ and walked away with the winners’ title and Trophy.

• Anamika Chaudhury, is contestant from Mariani Assam. Rohanpreet is the first runner-up, while Tanmay came third.
• Ajay Devgan and Kajol were the special celebrity guests. The couple also confirmed the International votes where it was Rohanpreet who got the highest. India votes showed Anamika to be leading in almost all the zones
• The Grand Finale was made excessive remarkable with lot of extravaganza and great performances.. Both the Judges Sonu Nigam and Suresh Wadekar gave luminous performances.
• Tele stars Smriti Irani, Rajshree Thakur and Divyanka Tripathy,gave positive performance.
• Aditya Narayan too gave away breathtaking performance.  The three finalists of L’il Champ 2006 welcomed the new L’il Champs of SaReGaMaPa by giving wonderful performances.
• Anamika walks home with a huge amount of Rs. 20 lakhs in cash prize and a Hyundai car.

• Well done Anamika (my favourite always right from the beginning of the show) and both the runners-up, Rohanpreet and Tanmay Chaturvedi!!

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Foetus slips out of moving train, safeFiled Under: Foetus

AHMEDABAD: Call it good fortune or just the will of God. But the life in a seven-month-old foetus, that fell through the toilet bowl of a running train when the mother went to ease herself, still lives on!
Call it a miracle, perhaps. This tiny bundle weighing just 1.4 kg, which slipped from the womb into the toilet tube and crash-landed on rocks between two steel tracks, is from the top drawer of survival tales.
Born a good two months premature, she is recuperating in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Rajasthan Hospitals. Here, she lies without a scratch after the providential escape just before midnight on Tuesday.
“She is a fighter. In just 12 hours after the unthinkable accident, she was coming out of the accident quite well,” said pediatrician Dr Raj Kumar.
“She is a gift from God. How else can all this be explained,” the girl’s mother, Bhuri Kalbi (33), said. Bhuri is a native of Swaroopganj, located between Sirohi and Abu Road, in Rajasthan and was travelling by the Jodhpur-Ahmedabad train.
Bhuri was headed for Ahmedabad with her relatives for a medical check-up. She felt very weak on the toilet seat and passed out. The next thing she remembers is people knocking on the toilet door.
When she managed to get up to open the latched door, she realized an emptiness in her stomach. “I realised my stomach was flat. My child was gone,” said Bhuri whose husband works in a packaging unit in Ahmedabad.
Bhuri’s brother-in-law Arjun said when she opened the door she was semiconscious. He realised with complete shock what had happened. “We immediately pulled the chain at Kalol, two stations away from where the child had slipped off and alerted the train guard,” he said.
On a day when the Railway Budget was presented by Lalu Prasad, who promised ‘green toilets’ in trains, the girl can thank railway personnel for snatching her from sure death. As she lay on the track — fortunately located close to the Amblisayan railway station — some members of the Gram Rakshak Dal alerted station master KK Rai that a new-born child was lying on the track.
While rushing to the spot on foot, Rai said he could hear the cries of the baby from a distance. On coming closer, he could not believe what he saw. “The baby was lying dangerously close to the left track with the umbilical cord hanging by the side,” Rai said. The baby had turned blue due to the chill at midnight.
The railwaymen wrapped the baby in a cloth and called the local doctor. While the child was being examined, a call came, saying the parents were traced.
The mother could not believe her eyes when she was reunited with the baby two hours later at the Kalol Civil Hospital. And she just can’t take her eyes off this baby ever since.

SOURCE TOI

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Ekta Kapoor launches new serial Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa DilFiled Under: India, Indian Television, Indians, Star Plus

Ekta Kapoor’s is launching her new serial Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil  3^rd March.

The time slot of the serial will be 8:30 p.m prime-time , thus replacing the oldie, Kasautii Zindagii Kay. It is hoped that the show becomes an amazing hit.  

The name of the leading lady of the serial is Aditi Gupta. But since Ekta is  fond of numerology fixture and is very gullible about it, it is understood that she made a bit change on the lady’s name, she simply added another D in Aditi to make  it more powerful.

So wait and watch for another capacious serial from Balaji.

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