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Ya Jaane Na". "You are not kind of tip-toeing around and worrying that she has this ego, you can work with her like an equal and that is the best thing about her.

I have always believed when you are comfortable and happy working with your co-actor, your performances improve," said Imran. "Ek Main aur Ekk Tu" is set for a Feb 10 release.

Imran, 29, says Kareena, 31, is aware that she is a good actress and her confdience kept the atmosphere light on the sets. "Kareena comes on the sets with this thing of 'lets do work'.

She doesn't have time to waste on things like, which angle you are shooting me from, my costume, hair, make-up is like this and all. She is utterly unconcerned about this stuff.

She is a good actress, she knows it and she has that security and confidence to just do her work," said the 29-year-old. Meanwhile, Imran also brushes aside issues of any major age difference between him and Kareena (less)

Anant Mahadevan's well-intentioned film Staying Alive falls in that category. The story is about two men who suffer a heart attack and share the hospital room.

Aditya (Ananth Mahadevan) is a newspaper editor who has already survived two strokes in the past and has somewhat adapted to the crisis. Shaukat Ali (Saurabh Shukla), an underworld kingpin who has often witnessed death closely, gets paranoid with his first heart-attack.

The story is about their interactions and exchange of ideas in the ICU room that changes Ali's perspective towards life. The film is more or less a single-setting drama largely happening in the hospital room and intermittently cutting into flashbacks.

But what brings more monotony is Sujit Sen's one-dimensional screenplay, with the verbose drama between the two patients not leading to anywhere. The wordplay is mostly about the art of living or the smaller joys of life that never have a bigger meaning.

Outside the hospital room, their wives try to console each other almost initiating a soap-opera of sorts. The characters are directly introduced at the hospital and aren't established enough that you would feel for them.

Like Shaukat Ali's criminal activities, in the first place, never dawn on you that you would want him to mend ways in life. The film attempts to be a simple drama without any twists or turns making it more predictable fare.

But at the heart of it, the gist of the story is the conversational chemistry between the two characters that leads to the mobster's change of heart by the climax. Unfortunately this expected rapport between the two never registers, making the core conflict of the film hollow.

The idea of inducing emotions in the climax through humane conduct with an impassive coma-patient has been already employed to better effect in Rajkumar Hirani's Munnabhai MBBS . Also a melodramatic end to the story was pretty-much avoidable.

The film works, to an extent, only because of Saurabh Shukla, who largely tries to make up for the lack of his character-development and shallowness in script with his 'lively' act of the paranoid patient. Ananth Mahadevan is too idealistic in his act.

This is amongst Chandan Roy Sanyal's early acts. The actor seems raw and has an Imtiaz Ali hangover in his hairstyle.

Navni Parihar and Sunita fill in as the soapy female leads. Alas, Staying Alive is low on life! Verdict: Average (less)

Gour Hari Dastaan is based on Gaur's memoirs and is a revealing account of a country squandering its advantages. While Vinay Pathak portrays Gaur, the real Gaur is super-charged about the film getting facts about his interesting life in a proper perspective.

Says the director, "I first broached the subject with the London Film Festival audience when they told me that they would look forward to my next film after Mee Sindhutai Sapkal. The idea of a disillusioned freedom fighter struck a chord and they unanimously 'approved 'of it.

It would also be a rare instance of the British not being lampooned in an Indian film." Gaur who is now 80, is actively involved with the making of his bio-pic.

The film will be based on Gaur's diary recordings. Says Mahadevan, "His first reaction was, 'Why a film on me?' Now after he has seen my seriousness regarding the project he goes around excitedly telling everyone that a film is being based on his life.

He now keeps saying, 'I will live to see the the film.'He has his entire struggle with the government written in what he calls The Freedom File.

These files are the basis for my screenplay." Ranvir Shorey plays Gaur's closest friend.

Ranvir's character is actually an amalgamation of two real-life characters. Divulges Mahadevan, "This friend is actually a neighbour of Gaur Hari.

They still live in the same building. The friend was the guiding force who egged Gaur on to fight the government.

I've taken the character and fused it with a journalist's character." Ranvir is not the least insecure about his best friend and wife playing a couple.

Says the director. "Not at all.

Ranvir and Vinay share an immaculate parternership. They both sublimate their individual egos to be part of one another's films.

If you rememberBheja Fry, Ranvir had done a small part in that film for Vinay's sake. In Gaur Hari Dastaan Ranvir gladly stepped into the friend's part.

" Vinay Pathak was Mahadevan's first and final choice for the part. "I needed an actor who was rooted to the middleclass reality.

And I needed someone who could portray Gaur's 30-year struggle for justice.Vinay has to age from 35 to 65.

" The makeup is being done by Santosh Gayke,the same artiste who aged actress Jyoti Chandekar in the Marathi masterpiece 'Me Sinduhtai Sapkal'. Apparently Ranvir is so charged about his best friend's role of a lifetime that he has been hanging around helping Ananth Mahadevan with the pre-production and with Pathak's preparation for the role.

Explains Mahadevan, "We're all supremely charged about this film.It captures the tumultuous years in a freedom fighter's life, ironically after attaining independence.

Gour Hari Das still resides in Kandivli, Mumbai. He spent five years of his teens fighting the British and then thirty years to obtain a freedom fighter's certificate.

The latter was tougher than the former, he admits. The film holds up a Kafkaesque mirror to a country gone wrong.

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"My newest ad for London Fog has just been released! It might be my favorite one yet! What do you think?" the 33-year-old singer, 33, tweeted to her followers on Wednesday. Scherzinger, who was tapped to be the face of the brand in October, follows in the footsteps of Gisele Bundchen (who stripped down while pregnant), Eva Longoria (who posed with her ex-husband Tony Parker) and 'Mad Men's Christina Hendricks as the brand's celeb spokespeople.

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"He wants a big name female star on the panel. Mariah Carey is good, but she's not that hot today.

He wants Beyonce because that would immediately give him the bounce needed to beat American Idol ," a source said. Meanwhile, American Idol judge Randy Jackson thinks Carey would be an "amazing" US X Factor judge and he hasn't ruled out the possibility of her joining the show.

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30 am. When guards of the hospital tried to stop him, he had a scuffle with them," ACP Malvia Nagar, Rajendra Singh, said.

He said that Chaudhary was roaming with a local girl identified as Praveena Chaudhary. "After receiving information, our policemen rushed to the spot and arrested Chaudhary under for disturbing peace," he said, adding, that the girl was sent to her house.

Chaudhary, former husband of TV star Shweta Tiwari, has starred in reality shows like Bigg Boss and Nach Baliye . It is not his first run-in with law.

Chaudhary was previously arrested for beating his girlfriend in 2010. He has also attended a rehabilitation camp to control his volatile behaviour.

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The date for their wedding has not been confirmed as yet. The engagement ceremony of Ananya and Anjaneyan was organised at the actress' house at Perumbavur near Ernakulam.

Ananya was noted for her film Shikkar alongside superstar Mohanlal. She was also seen in a supporting role in the 2010 Malayalam war film Kandahar, with Mohanlal and Amitabh Bachchan.

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So sweet! She asked me to make a cameo appearance in the film with her father. I immediately flew down to Chennai.

When it comes to anything to do with Rajinikanth, one doesn't ask questions. One just does the needful," said Jackie.

"It's an interesting cameo which Soundarya insisted only I could play. I believe the film is in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.

But even if it was in Swahili, I'd run and do it for Rajinikanth," added the actor who turned 52 Wednesday. He had to rush to Chennai for the shoot and said, "My birthday is generally a very quiet affair.

As always my rakhi-sister Anna Singh came home. Then we went to Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza's sangeet.

That's where I brought in my birthday. I flew into Chennai for Rajiniji's film early next morning.

I can't think of a better way to spend my birthday." Getting a little philosophical, Jackie said: "Honestly a birthday is no big deal.

I am just beginning to understand life. My first 40 years went into growing up.

Now I am finally getting to know what this whole business of living is all about." Jackie and Rajini go back a long way.

"He was one of the few people at my wedding with Ayesha when we got married in 1989. Rajiniji and I were shooting for Subhash Ghai's Uttar Dakshin , in which he played my younger stepbrother.

It was so much fun. I was the North Indian, he was my South Indian brother.

During the lunch break Ayesha and I decided to get married. Just the two of us and those close to us.

There was Rajiniji, Subhash Ghai, Dimple Kapadia, Anupam Kher and a few of my other friends, that's it. So you see, I've very fond memories of Rajnikanth and would never say no to anything to do with him or his family," said the actor.

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The groom, wearing a white sherwani and red 'feta' (turban), entered the hotel riding a white 'ghodi'. Genelia wore a red and gold lehenga designed by Ritu Kumar .

The 'baaraat' started from the grounds near Grand Hyatt. Amidst the singing and dancing, Riteish, with his face covered with a 'sehra' (flower veil), waved excitedly while sitting on the horse.

The actor's Congress minister father Vilasrao Deshmukh was dressed in a brown sherwani. Sharad Pawar , Praful Patel , Subodh Kant Sahay , Sunil Tatkare and Johny Joseph were among the political figures present at the wedding.

B-town guests present included Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan , Jaya Bachchan , Kajol and Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar , Sajid Khan, Karan Johar , Shahid Kapoor , Ashutosh Gowariker, Sajid Nadiadwala, Satish Shah, Asin, Jacky Bhagnani, Vashu Bhagnani, Ramesh Taurani, Nishka and Neeta Lulla. Riteish took to Twitter last night, saying, "Saw the Last sunset as a Bachelor.

" And soon after the wedding, the actor took to Twitter to post a photo of him and Genelia, with the caption, "MR & MRS DESHMUKH". The wedding capped three days of festivities that included sangeet, haldi, mehndi ceremonies and a traditional bachelorette party for Genelia.

The reception will take place tomorrow at the same hotel. Riteish and Genelia have been seeing each other since their Bollywood debut, 'Tujhe Meri Kasam' in 2003 but they chose to be secretive about it.

They finally opened up about their relationship last year. The couple will be seen romancing in their forthcoming film 'Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya' that will hit the theatres on February 24 (less)

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