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With third edition of the cash-rich Indian Premier League inching closer, Bollywood actor and co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals Shilpa hoped the Shane Warne-led side will re-live the first year`s glory of winning the show-piece tournament.

The Rajasthan team, which won the inaugural edition of the Twenty20 tournament in 2008, finished an unimpressive sixth last year when the event was organised in South Africa.”We finished sixth in the IPL previous year in South Africa.

But we were the champions in the first edition and I wish the team will move up once again when the third edition takes place,” Shilpa said.The tournament is commencing from March 12 and Rajasthan  will open their campaign by taking on Mumbai Indians in an away match the next day.

Shilpa, who was here with team`s co-owner and husband Raj Kundra, took part in an environmental awareness programme along with all the Rajasthan Royals players, including captain Warne.

A luminous star illumines a village with electricity. Rs 3 lakh from her celeb coffers have made their way to Chanderi village. And Kareena Kapoor is beaming away with her philanthropic gesture.  A solar energy plant will bring light and joy to the electricity deprived village of Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh.

Earlier, Bebo had dazzled the paparazzi with a black and gold Chanderi sari gifted to her by the Chanderi weavers when she showed up with Aamir Khan for a promotional exercise of ‘3 Idiots.’
Earlier, Kareena was deeply saddened when she zoomed in for dinner with the star struck Chanderi weavers. They lived without electricity and wove using candle light!

A touched Bebo promptly issued a Rs. three lakh cheque to the village authorities for a solar energy plant. What’s better, KK will now mobilise star support to generate resources for generating electricity for over 100 deprived villages in India!

Not more than a decade ago, when Shahid Kapoor hadn’t yet got his break in Bollywood and was struggling to enter films, he used to live in a tenement in Andheri’s MHADA colony. Today, as well all know, Shahid Kapoor is one of the sought after stars in tinsel town and he pockets crores for every movie he does. Last week, a visit by Shahid to a studio in Andheri brought out old memory and old companions from the tenements.

Some of the people who were Shahid Kapoor’s friends from old times gathered outside the studio, hoping to meet the star. However, they were uncertain if Shahid Kapoor, a famous star now, would even take out time to meet them. But guess what? Shahid Kapoor did a Krishna to all his Sudama friends. The actor came out of the studio to meet his old buddies. He bonded with them, joked and laughed with them and even let them take photographs with him.

Well, stardom certainly hasn’t gone to Shahid’s head.

Aamir Khan has known Lata Mangeshkar since his early days when she would visit his home to meet his father. But the bonding between the two grew really strong when she praised Aamir for his singing in Aati Kya Khandala, observing that he held his sur right to the end of the song. After the Khandala song, Lata invited Aamir home and gifted him an expensive watch. Aamir, on his part, got her a shawl from Kashmir while shooting in the Valley for Sarfarosh. For Lagaan, he insisted she sing a bhajan which she did free of cost.

Over the years, they’ve stayed in touch.Lately, Aamir found no time to attach with the Nightingale, so much so that she confessed on Thursday to a mutual friend that Aamir had not been replying to any of her cards, calls and letters. The friend promptly conveyed the Nightingale’s distress to Aamir who immediately decided to set things right.He called her. Says Lata, “Aamir didn’t have my new number. He sought out my number and then called. He explained how busy he had been travelling out of the country.”The singer had been planning to visit Aamir’s place since his father passed away but was hesitant due to the lack of communication with his side.

But now as the catchphrase goes, ‘Aal Izz Well’ between them. Aamir will soon be arranging a special screening of 3 Idiots for her. Adds Lata, “I love Aamir’s cinema. What a film Taare Zameen Par was! Aamir told me he plans to take the whole year off now to produce films. I advised him not to lay off acting for such a long time. Public memory is so short.” Lata is aware that her name is mentioned in 3 Idiots among the icons of our times. Aamir will screen the movie very shortly for the Mangeshkar family.

Akshay Kumar who is known as the Khiladi of Indian cinema has reportedly performed a very risky and challenging stunt which could have proved fatal. Akshay Kumar performed this risky shoot for the movie ‘Housefull’ by Sajid Nadiadwala and Eros International.

The scene involved an underwater stunt which was supposed to be shot by a camera in a chopper above the sea.That particular day, in which Akshay was supposed to perform this dangerous stunt, it was found that the tide was high and it was very dangerous to shoot as the stunt could have resulted fatal.

But, the Khiladi Akshay performed the shoot in spite of all hurdles and successfully completed it. The unit members said that the shoot was awesome. Hats off to daring Akhay!

For all those who think Imran Khan’s career has been a cakewalk, think again. Things may be smooth sailing now but he had a nerve-wracking time before his hit debut movie, Jaane Tu yaa Jaane Na, released. “It was the time when Jaane Tu…kept getting pushed further and further back and we didn’t know when it would release. We had finished shooting the film more than a year ago and I had finished shooting my second film, Kidnap also and was about to start shooting for Luck.

It was pretty funny because I had started shooting my third movie and was unsure about the release of my first film,” recalls Imran.He continues, “After the fourth time that the release got pushed, I cracked; I broke down. I couldn’t handle it and I wasn’t hopeful. That was the lowest point in my life.”Imran felt he didn’t exist and that nobody knew about him. “I had finished two films and was working on the third one. In spite of coming from a filmy background, no one knew about my existence. No magazine or newspaper mentioned me in their articles about upcoming films and upcoming actors.

They mentioned Nikhil Dwivedi, Harman Baweja, Farhan Akhtar’s debut but nobody ever mentioned me. That hurt me because I was shooting for my third film and had not created any buzz. I didn’t know where I was, I didn’t who I was and I was unsure of the purpose of my existence,” Imran recalls painfully. Fortunately for him JTYJN was a huge hit and he has become one of the most sought-after actors in B-Town today. Times change and how!

The shooting of Dabangg in Wai seems to be quite an accident-prone event for the cast and team. Only last week, Salman Khan was rushed to a local hospital after he complained of smoke congestion when a fire erupted on the sets. Now Salman’s co-star in Dabangg, Sonu Sood has landed himself with a fractured nose while shooting for the film earlier this week. Sonu who, despite the injury, is continuing shooting for the film in Wai. “Yes…It’s true that I got hurt two days ago while shooting. We were shooting a fight scene between Salman and me that is a part of the climax.

During the practice, one of the fighters jumped and his knee happened to hit my nose real hard. The pain was quite severe and I was taken to the hospital for an X-ray and scan. The X-ray revealed a fracture in my nose. The doctor advised me bed rest for 3-4 days, but since we were shooting the climax scene between Salman and me I didn’t want to delay the schedule. I landed on the sets the very next day after taking some painkillers and shot for some light scenes.”One must say that Sonu has indeed shown true professionalism by continuing to shoot in spite of a fractured nose.

He will return to Mumbai in a week’s time, after finishing the current schedule of Dabangg in Wai. We wish him a speedy recovery.

It is common knowledge Ajay Devgan and Shahrukh Khan could not get along despite Kajol being best friends with the Khan. He seems to dislike Shahrukh Khan to an extent that he did not watch Kajol’s comeback film My Name Is Khan. Now what is the reason for Ajay not having watched is better known to him.

Agreed he was busy with his upcoming film Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge which must not have allowed him time to watching it but Ajay darling could have taken few hours time off to please his wife and watch it for at least for Kajol’s performance about which the whole world is talking in awe.

During a important award ceremony we all witnessed the gutsy Niel saying “shut up” to the two Khans who were all set to make mockery of themselves on the eve. Following which Niel also went on to break the eggs on SRK and Saif’s head. All this was part of a comic skit but the young actor did not give his 100 percent.

He was actually suppose to throw those eggs on them but with all the due respect to the star-Khans he did not hurl the egge but only broke the eggs on their heads merely to obey the orders given to him. To which he said, “How could I throw eggs at them? Their fans would never forgive me!

I’m happy people finally got to see my mischievous side. But no thanks. Never again.”

The much-delayed `Milenge Milenge` will finally see the light of the day with actress Kareena Kapoor presently completing the dubbing as well as the promotional video of the film.”Though the movie has been in its making stages for quite a while now Kareena Kapoor has been very patient and in spite of having a plethora of brands and other film shoots she is making sure she gives `Milenge Milenge` its due attention,” sources close to the actress said.

Both Boney Kapoor and director Satish Kaushik are raving about the actress` accomodating attitude, they said.The movie will bring together Kareena and ex-beau Shahid Kapoor, last seen together in Imtiaz Ali`s 2007 hit `Jab We Met`. The couple have split since then.