. Ya Jaane Na | dhobighat SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet Prateik You will never find this budding star of B-Town playing on the cards of his legacy.

Prateik in his own words is "just another quiet man", and that should be understood given the fact that he hasn't had the smoothest childhood as his legendary actor mother Smita Patil passed away very soon after his birth and the shadow of a father had mostly been absent from his bringing up in his maternal family. But even though his foray in the industry has been coincidental, he's gens have surely started speaking aloud and he is managing to make his mark.

Ask him, which of his performance is closest to his heart and he says in a whispering voice, "I don't know! I am very critical about myself as an actor. But 'Dhobighat' was memorable one and 'Jaane Tu.

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Ya Jaane Na' also remains closer to my heart." Prateik speaks with long pauses of indecisiveness, and you wonder that whether you should ask him where he sees himself after 20 years down the line.

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"More matured as an actor," he says agreeing that he indeed has conceived a picture of his future and just when you think that's all, Prateik adds unpretentiously but strongly, "And also a better human." Prateik isn't particularly a celebrity, at least by behaviour.

If any actor is apt for representing current youth - with his fears, uneasiness while facing media, indecisiveness, willingness to find his mark and work hardest towards it, honesty in conduct - Prateik, if you have met him, will feel the right choice amongst all his counterparts (less)

He tweeted, "Watching 3 with my fans in albert right now :) the love dey have for me brings out tears:)I love you all guys.touched.

Overwhelmed.god bless" The film's other lead actor is Shruti Haasan, the singer-actor daughter of another Tamil superstar, Kamal Haasan.

On the eve of the release of 3 Aishwaryaa tweeted, "Just collected the 1st city print of "3" from the lab as a distributor :) emotions racing..

off to the temple now..

prayers now !" Aishwaryaa's younger sister Soundarya, who is in London, was among the first one to wish her luck. She tweeted, "Still in London .

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@ash_r_dhanush thoughts with you aisu ..

.here's wishing my sis all the best for 3.

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ur gonna rock!!! Godspeed." Actress Khushbu also wished Aishwaryaa on Twitter.

She wrote, "@ash_r_dhanush hey my sweetypie,all the very best n I am very sure you will surpass the pressure of being tested n emerge a winner!Love you!" The film initially stormed into the limelight when one of its songs, Why This Kolaveri Di, leaked on YouTube and went viral. Composed by young music director Anirudh Ravichander, the song had the entire country smitten with its foot-tapping music and crazy lyrics.

The mish-mash of English and Tamil was an instant hit with YouTube recording 1.4 million views and 19,000 "likes" in less than a week.

#Kolaveri trended on Twitter for days. From Amitabh Bachchan to entrepreneur Anand Mahindra, everyone had a tweet or two about the song.

Dhanush's father Kasthuri Raja, well-known director, has produced the film. Last year Dhanush won the National Award for Best Actor for the Tamil drama Aadukalam , playing "Karuppu".

His last release, rom-com Mayakkam Enna , did well too. With an upcoming debut in Bollywood with Raanjhnaa , all eyes are on Dhanush.

If first responses are anything to go by, looks like Dhanush and 3 , will sail through. Tweet (less)

He tweeted, "Watching 3 with my fans in albert right now :) the love dey have for me brings out tears:)I love you all guys.touched.

Overwhelmed.god bless" The film's other lead actor is Shruti Haasan, the singer-actor daughter of another Tamil superstar, Kamal Haasan.

On the eve of the release of 3 Aishwaryaa tweeted, "Just collected the 1st city print of "3" from the lab as a distributor :) emotions racing..

off to the temple now..

prayers now !" Aishwaryaa's younger sister Soundarya, who is in London, was among the first one to wish her luck. She tweeted, "Still in London .

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@ash_r_dhanush thoughts with you aisu ..

.here's wishing my sis all the best for 3.

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ur gonna rock!!! Godspeed." Actress Khushbu also wished Aishwaryaa on Twitter.

She wrote, "@ash_r_dhanush hey my sweetypie,all the very best n I am very sure you will surpass the pressure of being tested n emerge a winner!Love you!" The film initially stormed into the limelight when one of its songs, Why This Kolaveri Di, leaked on YouTube and went viral. Composed by young music director Anirudh Ravichander, the song had the entire country smitten with its foot-tapping music and crazy lyrics.

The mish-mash of English and Tamil was an instant hit with YouTube recording 1.4 million views and 19,000 "likes" in less than a week.

#Kolaveri trended on Twitter for days. From Amitabh Bachchan to entrepreneur Anand Mahindra, everyone had a tweet or two about the song.

Dhanush's father Kasthuri Raja, well-known director, has produced the film. Last year Dhanush won the National Award for Best Actor for the Tamil drama Aadukalam , playing "Karuppu".

His last release, rom-com Mayakkam Enna , did well too. With an upcoming debut in Bollywood with Raanjhnaa , all eyes are on Dhanush.

If first responses are anything to go by, looks like Dhanush and 3 , will sail through. Tweet (less)

Then he gave one to Kareena Kapoor for an item number in Dabbang 2. Not to be left behind, SRK gifted a BMW to Arjun Rampal.

Sanjay gave a high end bike to Ranbir Kapoor. Ekta Kapoor gifted a luxurious car to The Dirty Picture’s writer.

Ameesha Patel gifted one to beau Kuunal Goomer as a Xmas gift. List is endless.

After the success of their three films together; Garam Masala, Desi Boyz and now Housefull 2, John is following the trend in Bollywood and is gifting Akshay a Harley Davidson bike. Are these really gifts, or are these tax saving methods? Laws in India require only the donor to declare gifts as income and pay tax on it, while the receiver need not pay any tax on it.

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"We (celebrities) have an edge because we are there on every TV and every screen, good films, bad films, stuff like what we do in restaurants..

.So, we are there all over and we have an advantage over people who are really great people, and have not been given the coverage because of TRP ratings," the 46-year-old said here.

"It sucks because if you are doing that kind of (social) work, and nobody knows about you, it's weird," he added. Salman keeps doing his bit as a socially concerned citizen.

He sells his paintings, and the proceeds are used for the welfare of the underprivileged. Last seen in " Bodyguard ," Salman will soon be seen sharing screen space with ex-flame Katrina Kaif in " Ek Tha Tiger .

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What's brewing? Insiders reveal that the two actors share great on screen chemistry that seems to come very naturally to both of them. "A particular scene shows Jaaved and Nandana in an intimate position while their teenage boy watches them.

The two actors pulled this scene off effortlessly because of their great on screen chemistry," revealed our source. Haute confessions Rag Jaaved about this hot new connection, and he says, "Well, the excitement of the olfactory senses are a prerequisite for the intimacy.

So, A - Nandana always smells wonderful, and B - her being extremely attractive - definitely adds to it. She's a big turn on! So, doing the scene was a cakewalk!" Forgotten resolutions Remind Jaaved about his earlier resolution about never doing such scenes on screen, and he says with disarming honesty,"I readily agreed to it because when Nandana came in front of me, I suffered a short-term memory loss about my earlier statements.

Of course, it was my wife Habeeba who brought me back to reality, only after completing the scene though." (less)

"So far, I haven't found a film I'd love to be naked in, but I certainly never look at an actress naked in a movie and judge her. It's a human body, which is a beautiful thing, right? So stay tuned," she said.

Lawrence has earlier confessed that she suffers from such strong self doubt that every time she fears each job will be her last. Tweet (less)

The silver prize went to a documentary by Hollywood actress Demi Moore, which focussed on trafficking in Nepal. Other global ambassadors there included singer Peter Gabriel, Latin superstar Ricky Martin and actor Ashton Kutcher.

Talking about the win, Anil says, "The awareness generated through such documentaries is important for combating this serious global issue." Anil plays it cool while talking about taking home the prize over Hollywood biggies like Moore and Ricky Martin.

"The intent for all of us was the same - to create awareness about the issue of modern-day slavery throughout the world. The focus was never about getting an award; it was about spreading awareness; 2,000 women have already been rescued from modern-day slavery (directly or indirectly) as a result of this initiative," he says.

What has touched Anil most are his experiences while filming. "The plight of these young girls and women was shocking.

It was unreal that something like this is happening in the modern world; that human slavery still exists. It was very moving to visit villages and interact with the villagers.

The documentary brings to light the existence of this village and creates awareness that part of our society still believes in this tradition and that we let it exist. The Freedom Project was a global initiative and my role was to shed light on aspects of what happens in India.

I initiated and hosted this documentary with the help of the NGO PLAN India," he adds. Has he seen the other documentaries? "I haven't had a chance to view the other two winning documentaries, including the one by Demi Moore, but I've heard they're incredibly moving.

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Guns are fired randomly at enemies, real or imagined. Enemies fall to the ground.

Morals lie crushed under heels. And finer feelings are buried under a rubble of trouble.

Into this town, here named Almora, enters love on silent feet. Well, maybe not so silent.

Ishaqzaade is a very noisy film. The hero Parma (debutant Arjun Kapoor) is an uncouth animal whose disgusting habits include kidnapping the town's nautch girl from a rival's party to dance at his grandfather's wedding.

Later his moral temperature dips to an all-time low when he takes loathsome revenge on the girl he loves to hate. As the Muslim girl Zoya, Parineeti Chopra fills the screen with a tempestuous charm.

Natural spontaneous and vivacious she reminds you of the early Jaya Bhaduri. Her character is a sharp-shooter with a tongue to match.

And when she gets brutally compromised by Parma she reacts like a wildcat raging against the promised full-cream milk that curdled when she was not looking. Habib Faizal who made the mellow mild-mannered middleclass comedy Do Dooni Chaar about a college professor's dream of buying a scooter here shows a completely unexpected side to his cinematic vision.

The landscape Habib paints in Almora is so volatile and violent, you pray for atonement for these characters. The lovers don't exchange chaste glances and furtive kisses.

They embrace passionately and smooch each other's lips off. And when they make love it seems they are waging war on the world.

Full-blooded, voluptuous and eminently earthy, Ishaqzaade is a pickled aromatic rollercoaster ride through the badlands where blazing guns mean, families are at one another's throats. The first-half of the narration builds up to an engrossing case for Parmar to inflict his uncouth and aggressive malevolence on Zoya.

The confrontation scenes between the two, written with the right amount of zing and sting, are first-rate. Remarkably the adversaries turned-lovers keep drawing attention to each other's religion without mincing words.

The two religions are almost thrown at one another as taunts. Riot or wrong, who can tell? What Habib Faizal wants to say-and we would be better if we pay heed-is, it is imperative to address the Hindi-Muslim divide headlong, or else blood would continue to be spilt each time two people from different communities 'dare' to love each other.

"Don't even think of it. An Indo-Pak war will break out," the Muslim girl warns the Hindu boy.

And then proceeds to break the self-imposed rule with a rush of rebellion and passion that seem to replicate the flow of adrenaline in the virile script. Ishaqzaade is written in blood, dipped in passion, and shot in vivid colours of life, strife and other bitter embers of the communal fire.

The director constantly attempts to bring alive the cluttured clamourous milieu of a lawless North Indian town. Faizal succeeds to a remarkable degree.

His characters speak an easily recognizable language from the Uttar Pradesh's heartland where even daughters are taught to fire a gun before they learn the alphabet. The supporting characters don't fake it even for a second.

Many scenes convey warmth and empapthy without a jot of selfconsciousness. The characters are all played by unknown local UP actors who are born to the milieu.

The director builds a believable arc of love and revenge. His lovers are so well-conceived on paper it would have taken two truly idiotic actors to ruin their characters.

Luckily Parinati Chopra and Arjun Kapoor are anything but incapable actors. They imbue the violent ambience with their own peculiar chemistry.

The bloodshed never stops, and the action is relentless. Hemant Chaturvedi's cinematography creates a world that is real and at the same time highly cinematic.

Life in Ishaqzaade is like that. It lets the central characters sort out the socio-political mess over which they have little control with the nozzle of guns.

Habib Faizal enters the Muslim and Hindu protagonists' homes, discovers their affectionate core and then watches them, non-judgmentally, as they turn into blood-thirst revenge-seekers. There are many reasons why Ishaqzaade is a remarkable film.

It enters the killings fields of Uttar Pradesh. It chases down our two protagonists and then watches them get into a crisis with no end.

In the end we are looking at two young vibrant people whom we love because they love one another irrespective of the differences. This is not a film which offers a pretty love story with gentle love songs.

Even the music (Amit Trivedi) sounds like a war cry. Apne hoton ki banshee bana le mujhe! As for Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor, never mind the destiny that lies in store for their characters in this film.

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The actor, who promised to be help spread autism awareness, when asked to be the face of the cause at a recent event, had an eight-point guide published through his NGO, Being Human on World Autism Awareness Day today. And since awareness is one of the biggest challenges around autism, the timing is apt.

It's always so heartening to see a man stick to his commitments, no? 8-point autism awareness guide Autism is not disease it is a disorder and can happen to anyone irrespective of class, creed , nationality and gender. Autism exists all over the world.

One out of every 110 kids born today have Autism. Autism is a neurological disorder.

There is no known cause of Autism, and no cure for Autism. Hence early detection and intensive therapy at an early age will help children overcome the challenges to a large extent.

Autism is a lifelong condition. But no matter what age, people with autism can improve.

Early detection does not always happen in India and parents should not be demoralized if they do not receive early intervention. Bad parenting doesn't cause Autism.

Less than 2 per cent of autistic people have extraordinary talents. Even they still may need help on basic day to day living.

Parents, grandparents, and siblings can learn techniques of working with and interacting with children and adults that can help the entire family. The key to successful management of Autism is acceptance of a child the way he or she is by the parents and the community at large (less)