The actress will be seen playing a veteran who has words of wisdom to share with Kareena in the film. She has five scenes which are crucial part of the plot.

" Apparently Helen has been an admirer of Madhur Bhandarkar films. "She was watched films made by Madhur Bhandarkar and loved the heroine oriented themes that he has come up with.

In fact Helen has liked films like Chandni Bar, Corporate, Fashion to name a few. She is happy to be a part of Heroine and is looking forward to be directed by a talented director like Madhur Bhandarkar," said the source.

When contacted Madhur confirmed that helen was in the film."I was surprised when she said that she liked my films.

I am glad that she has agreed to be a part of my ambitious venture." (less)

But the cake was not the only excitement, as crew members even tasted kheer kadam, which Bipasha Basu had brought. A source from the unit said, "Everyone was happy as the long shoot schedule abroad had come to an end.

It was a surprise by Helen ji , who wanted to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the shoot." While Helen had got the cake, Bipasha, who wanted to celebrate the last day with sweetness all over, brought the kheer.

"She got 25 to 30 kgs of kheer and made it a point that everyone eats it. Infact she personally served it to everyone," said a source (less)

One was a chartbuster, said she hates the term 'item song' and finds it derogatory. "Salman has spoken to me about the song and he wants me to do the number but I haven't decided If I will do it.

And I just hate the term 'item song', why can't it be called a song. When Helen aunty used to do songs back then they were never termed as item numbers.

I don't want my songs to be called by this name," said Kareena, who was in the capital to attend the India Today Conclave. The actress will also be seen doing a mujra in her upcoming film Agent Vinod .

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One was a chartbuster, said she hates the term 'item song' and finds it derogatory. "Salman has spoken to me about the song and he wants me to do the number but I haven't decided If I will do it.

And I just hate the term 'item song', why can't it be called a song. When Helen aunty used to do songs back then they were never termed as item numbers.

I don't want my songs to be called by this name," said Kareena, who was in the capital to attend the India Today Conclave. The actress will also be seen doing a mujra in her upcoming film Agent Vinod .

The film will release on March 23. Tweet (less)

She has been nominated an incredible 17 times, the seventeenth being this year's Best Actress nod for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady . If she wins, it will be for the third time.

She previously won Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs Kramer in 1980 and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice in 1983. Beginning with The Deer Hunter in 1979, Oscar nominations have come thick and fast for Meryl Streep.

In the Eighties, there was hardly a year when she didn't feature on the Academy lists. Each time, she has been in illustrious company: 1982 : Nominated for The French Lieutenant's Woman .

Other nominees included Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon. Katharine Hepburn won.

1983 : Won for Sophie's Choice . Nominated with her were Julie Andrews, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Debra Winger.

1984 : Nominated for Silkwood . She lost to Shirley Maclaine.

1986 : Nominated for Out Of Africa . Other nominees included Whoopi Goldberg and Jessica Lange.

1988 : Nominated for Ironweed , losing to Cher for Moonstruck . Also nominated were Glenn Close and Holly Hunter.

1989 : Nominated for A Cry In The Dark , losing to Jodie Foster. Keeping company were Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith.

In the Nineties and early Noughties, she skipped a few years in between appearances: 1991 : Nominated for Postcards From The Edge . Other nominees included Julia Roberts, Anjelica Huston and Kathy Bates who won.

1996 : Nominated for The Bridges of Madison County losing to Susan Sarandon. Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Shue and Emma Thompson were also nominated.

1999 : Nominated for One True Thing . Cate Blanchett and Emily Watson were nominated with her.

Gwyneth Paltrow won. 2000 : Nominated for Music Of The Heart , with Annette Bening, Janet McTeer and Julianne Moore.

They lost to Hilary Swank. 2003 : Best Supporting Actress: Nominated for Adaptation , losing to Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Kathy Bates, Julianne Moore and Queen Latifah were also nominated. But was back with a bang from: 2007 : Nominated for The Devil Wears Prada , losing to Helen Mirren.

Also nominated were Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Kate Winslet. 2009 : Nominated for Doubt .

Other nominees included Angelina Jolie and Anne Hathaway. Kate Winslet won.

2010 : Nominated for Julie & Julia , losing to Sandra Bullock. Helen Mirren and Carey Mulligan were also nominated.

And there she'll be this year again. Do the math.

She's been at the Oscars nearly every year, give or take a few, and shows no signs of letting up. And while she's lost the Oscar many more times than she won it, there's no doubt whatsoever that being nominated in a Meryl Streep year gives four actresses sleepless nights like nothing else does.

Easier all round then to simply give her a category to herself and be done with it? Tweet (less)

Most of them fail to have a connect with the audience and even the ones that do are only partially successful. Like this one! Sid (Madhavan) is a divorcee and a divorce expert - he helps people seeking divorce, for a fee.

With Sonali (Bipasha Basu), he forms a clandestine company of Jodi Breakers who help such incompatible couples go their separate ways, without any legal complications. On one such assignment to Greece, they wrongly split a couple in love (Milind Soman - Dipannita Sharma).

Seized with guilt pangs, they subsequently decide to reunite the duo to make up for their mistake. And in process they themselves also expectedly fall in love.

Jodi Breakers derives its basic essence from 2010's surprise hit Band Baaja Baaraat , though ironically while that film was set on the backdrop of wedding planning business; this one has the backdrop of wedding breakup business. But beyond that the basic plot-points in the narrative of both films bear a striking resemblance.

Like Sid and Sonali maintain a purely professional relationship until they indulge into an impulsive lovemaking session just before the interval. Thereafter the awkwardness between them and the guy's non-committal outlook is clearly evocative of the Yash Raj film.

Moreover, like in that film, the estranged couple consequently comes together only for that one last assignment out of professional compulsions. Talking about the chemistry between Madhavan and Bipasha, while it's not bad, it's nothing more than functional.

The long-drawn-out kissing sequence or the one-night stand between them works only peripherally. The storytelling is such that it works towards the camaraderie between Sid-Sonali (Madhavan-Bipasha), while they are trying to rebuild the rapport between another couple (Milind Soman - Dipannita Sharma).

Shifting between these two couples, the narrative loses focus and you don't know whom to empathize with more. In the second half, the focus of the film shifts to Sid and Sonali's game plan to get the other alienated couple together.

With that being the nucleus of the narrative hereon, one expects the state-of-affairs to be eventful enough. However it never goes beyond the conventional zone and lacks to give the much-needed momentum to the movie.

The pace drops and at times the film ventures into super-soggy zone. Even the climax is tame though decent enough within the restricted scope of the story.

The dialogues range from the funny to corny lines but the toilet humour was quite avoidable. Madhavan takes center stage in the film and is cool, confident and convincing.

Bipasha Basu is decent enough but, at times, she puts this pretense to sound cute which just doesn't suit her. Omi Vaidya doesn't get much scope beyond a scene where he repeats his 3 Idiots wrong-speech act, but to good effect.

Dipannita Sharma plays her part well but is marred by partner Milind Soman who's quite expressionless. Helen is charming in her half-baked role.

Mrinalini Sharma tries to play the sexy vamp but gets limited scope. Don't expect anything path-breaking and Jodi Breakers will keep you happy for a 'couple' of hours.

Verdict: Above average (less)

He was 66. His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that Jones died of a heart attack near his home in Indiantown.

Jones complained of breathing troubles early in the morning and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, said Rhonda Irons, spokeswoman of the Martin County Sheriff's Office. In a 911 call released on Wednesday night, an unidentified woman anxiously pleads "Ambulance, please, hurry!" His home was about 27 miles from the hospital and a fire rescue unit rushed him to the hospital.

Jones' moppish long hair, boyish good looks and his British accent endeared him to legions of screaming young fans after The Monkees premiered on NBC in 1966 as a made-for-TV band seeking to capitalize on Beatlemania sweeping the world. Aspirations of Beatles-like fame were never fully achieved, with the TV show lasting just two years.

But The Monkees made rock 'n roll history as the band garnered a wide American following with love-struck hits such as Daydream Believer and I'm a Believer that endure to this day. Born in Manchester, England, on Dec.

30, 1945, Jones became a child star in his native England who appeared on television and stage, including a heralded role as "The Artful Dodger" in the play Oliver . He earned a Tony nomination at 16 when he reprised that role in the show's Broadway production, a success that brought him to the attention of Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems Television, which created The Monkees.

Hundreds turned out for auditions, but the young men who became the Monkees had no idea what ultimately awaited them. "They had an ad in the newspaper," Jones recalled on NBC's "Today Show" last year, "and then we all showed up.

" The Monkees was a band clearly patterned on the Beatle's film "A Hard Days Night," chronicling the comic trials and tribulations of a rock group whose four members lived together and traveled to gigs in a tricked-out car called the Monkeemobile. Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz starred with him.

Each part was loosely created to resemble one of the Beatles. At 5-feet-3 inches, Jones was by far the shortest member of the group -- a fact often made light of on the show.

But he also was its dreamboat, mirroring Paul McCartney's role in the Beatles. And as the only Briton among the four, Jones was in some ways the Monkees' direct connection to the Beatlemania still strong in the U.

S. when the TV show made its debut.

In August 1966, the Beatles performed in San Francisco, playing their last live set for a paying audience. The same month, the Monkees released their first album, introducing the group to the world.

The first single, Last Train to Clarksville , became a No. 1 hit.

And the TV show would caught on quickly with audiences, featuring fast-paced, helter-skelter comedy inspired as much by the Marx Brothers as the Beatles. It was a shrewd case of cross-platform promotion.

As David Bianculli noted in his "Dictionary of Teleliteracy," ''The show's self-contained music videos, clear forerunners of MTV, propelled the group's first seven singles to enviable positions of the pop charts: three number ones, two number twos, two number threes." Yet after the show's launch, The Monkees came under fire from music critics when it was learned that session musicians -- and not the group's members -- had played the instruments on their recordings.

They were derided as the "Prefab Four," an insulting comparison to the Beatles' nickname, the "Fab Four." In reality, Jones could play the drums and guitar, and although Dolenz learned to play the drums after he joined the group, he also could play guitar, as could Nesmith.

Nesmith also wrote several of The Monkees' songs, as well as songs for others. Tork, who played bass and keyboards on the TV show, was a multi-instrumentalist.

The group eventually prevailed over the show's producers, including music director Don Kirchner, and began to play their own instruments. Regardless, the group was supported by enviable talent.

Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote "Pleasant Valley Sunday," and Neil Diamond penned I'm a Believer . Musicians who played on their records included Billy Preston, who later played with the Beatles, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Ry Cooder and Neil Young.

Young tweeted on Wednesday that he was saddened by Jones' death. "The Monkees were such a sensation that it was a thrill for me to have them record some of my early songs," he added.

The group also released the 1968 film "Head," derided at the time as a psychedelic mishmash notable only for an appearance by Jack Nicholson. It has since come to be considered a cult classic by Monkees fans.

After two seasons, the TV series had flared out and was canceled after 58 episodes in the summer of 1968. But The Monkees remained a nostalgia act for decades.

And Jones maintained that the stage was the only place he truly felt at home. "Even today, I have an inferiority complex," he told the Daily Mail in an interview last year.

"I always feel I'm there at the window, looking in. Except when I'm on stage, and then I really come alive.

" After the TV show ended, Jones continued to tour with the other Monkees for a time, sometimes playing the drums at concerts when Dolenz came up front to sing. Many also remember Jones from a widely seen episode of The Brady Bunch that aired in 1971, in which he makes an appearance at Marcia Brady's school dance.

In the episode, Marcia Brady, president of her school's Davy Jones Fan Club, promised she could get him to appear before her classmates. The group eventually broke up over creative differences, although it did reunite from time to time for brief tours over the years, usually without Nesmith.

In 1987, Jones, Tork, and Dolenz recorded a new album, Pool It . And two years later, the group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

On Wednesday, flowers were placed on Jones' own Hollywood star nearby as fans mourned. All four of the Monkees came together for a 1996 album, Justus , and a subsequent TV movie Hey, Hey, It's The Monkees! that saw them still living in the same house and still traveling in the Monkeemobile -- just like old times.

Tork spoke of his former bandmate in an interview Wednesday night, saying "He was one of the funniest men and most talented I have ever known." Nesmith said in a statement "David's spirit and soul live well in my heart, among all the lovely people," using a phrase from a Beatles song that seemed to again cement the two groups' ties.

Jones, who is survived by his wife Jessica Pacheco and four daughters from previous marriages, continued to make appearances on television and stage later. But it was the fame of The Monkees that pulled him back to that era time and time again.

On his website, he recalled during auditions for the show when all four men finally were put together in a scene. "That's it," he recalled everyone around him saying: "Magic.

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"I hope I'm put near Posh because I happen to love Posh. Mind you I'm going to be a bit chunky next to Posh! She's a great girl so I'd be honoured to be put next to her," Mirren said.

"It is an incredible honour. It's a bit like becoming a Dame.

It's a recognition of your contribution to your culture and your country," she added (less)

Hindi film's original He-man Dharmendra's performance was the icing on the cake. The show that went on air on Sony channel has an interesting line-up of celebrity contestants, majority of whom are television actors.

There was dance, drama and comedy in the over two-hour special episode, hosted by actors Mona Singh and Sumeet Raghavan, where 11 out of 12 contestants were introduced in a unique way. Each contestant was accompanied by either their friend or idol and all of them danced away, keeping the essence of the show alive.

While actor and comedian Krushna Abhishek was introduced by a rocking performance on a medley of songs by his maternal uncle Govinda; his cousin sister, actress Ragini Khanna was joined on stage by her idol Helen. It was family time for Hema Malini, Dharmendra and Esha Deol as they came to encourage actress Mahii Vij, singer Anoushka Manchanda and boxer Akhil Kumar respectively.

The lead pair of Zee TV's popular serial Pavitra Rishta -- Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande -- who will be on a face-off on the show, were introduced by Kinshuk Mahajan and Parul Chauhan of Sapna Babul Ka..

.Bidaai fame.

Some star power was also added by actress Anoushka Sharma and her "Band Baaja Baraat" co-star Ranveer Singh, who came to show support for Meiyang Chang. Renuka Shahane and Shekhar Suman are among the older-aged contestants this time, but their energy levels and youthfulness seemed no less than the youngsters.

In fact, 50-year-old Shekhar gave tough competition to his actor son Adhyayan Suman on the dance floor in the introductory episode. "Babuji.

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" girl Yana Gupta got a sizzling welcome from singer Mika, who couldn't help but mention how "hot" she is. But the temperature on the show went up when judge Malaika Arora Khan gave a scintillating performance on remixed versions of Chhaiya chhaiya and her latest chartbuster "Munni badnaam hui.

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". Malaika also danced with the choreographers, who are going to teach the contestants how to put on their dancing shoes right! But what turned out to be a delight was her impromptu dance with mother-in-law Helen, who was equally thrilled to be sharing the same stage with her.

Choreographer Remo D'Souza, the second judge on the show, also displayed his prowess and moved impeccably much to the delight of the audience. As the best is often reserved for the last, Madhuri Dixit came in at the end, looking resplendent in a Sabyasachi Mukherjee suit.

Though her dance sequence was the most awaited, she only gave a "jhalak" of her moves, leaving everyone asking for more (less)