Priyanka wants to slap cousin Parineeti

"She needs a slap. I will throw her into the gym right now. I never heard her say something like that, but she is someone who is effervesent, energetic and beautiful. I guess it runs in the family," said Priyanka.

Parineeti lost oodles of weight for her debut film "Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl".

Her next, "Ishaqzaade" will hit theatres May 18. It features Boney Kapoor's son Arjun as her co-star.

Eros to distribute 'Tezz' in India

The film features an ensemble cast of Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Boman Irani, Zayed Khan, Kangna Ranaut and Sameera Reddy. The cast also includes southern superstar Mohanlal.

"We are excited to be associated with a Priyadarshan film. The promos have evoked positive reactions and we are anticipating an encouraging response to the film," Nandu Ahuja, senior vice president, India Theatrical, Eros International Media Ltd, said in a statement.

'Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein' - moral lesson about life

'Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein' is a lesson about art of living. It's about living life for today.

Due to circumstances, one fine day, a workaholic IT professional, Aditya Pradhan (Sachin Khedekar) finds himself reliving this one Sunday over and over again.

As Aditya figures out his dilemma, we do, too.

It's his routine -- Sunday wake-up call followed by the events of the day that haunts him. His world is inhabited by the same people every day, but they don't know that Sunday is repeating itself. He is the only one who can remember what happened yesterday. In another sense, his tomorrow never comes.

Now, trapped in some kind of time warp, Aditya tries to seek help. He relies heavily on a blind man, Benaam Kumar (Anupam Kher). Benaam Kumar shares his wisdom and helps Aditya realise the importance of life.

The film makes the most of the sentimental possibilities in Aditya's rehabilitation. But it also has fun with the nihilism while Aditya attains nirvana.

"Chhodo Kal Ki Baatein" is painfully witty with resonant comedy. Its jokes are more apt to prompt gentle giggles than rolling in the aisle. Though the film is basically a comedy, there are underlying dynamics that are a little deeper. The story's premise starts out lightweight, but becomes strangely affecting and at times tedious.

Much as it attempts to not sound or seem preachy, trying to support its doctrine with anecdotes and examples, the second half still ends up like a lecture in moral science.

The film is packed with a storehouse of talented actors mainly from Marathi theatre, and their performances are loud caricatures of the characters they portray.

Sachin Khedekar is back in top form with a clever, varied role that draws upon the full range of his talents.

His character is believable and appealing. As in his previous movies, this time too, Sachin makes a transition from a supreme, selfish, money-oriented, egoistical person to a nice guy, and this time he does so with particularly good grace.

The talented Anupam Kher as the enigmatic blind man is disappointing. His character is not convincing enough to appeal. Also, Anupam does not seem to have graduated from what he has been doing forever.

Overall, the film is conceived as a sitcom style film.

The director, Pramod Joshi in his maiden Hindi venture, has sensitively handled this complex theme. The film tries to resolve too many complexities of the human mind debating over issues like 'ego Vs pride' and 'aim Vs vision' in a very straight forward, in-your-face manner, making it sound like a moral science class.

The edit, though crisp, suffers due to its repetitive narrative. The script could have been a bit taut. If only the songs were dropped, the film would have had a meaningful appeal.

This film is truly inspirational for the urban dream chaser to introspect their lives. It sucks you in before you know it, and has just enough unexpected originality to keep you from feeling bad about enjoying it so much.

Aamir enters TV with 'Satyamev Jayate'

Khan, who is the producer of the show, launched the theme song of the programme at Mumbai on Friday.

The song, sung by Keerthi Sagathia, has been written by lyricist Prasoon Joshi and composed by Ram Sampat.

Khan told reporters the show is more about 'connecting' with audiences than Television Rating Points (TRPs).

"I don't understand TRPs and GRPs (Gross Rating Points). I have no idea how to calculate it! I don't care about TRPs. It is important to reach out to the Indian audiences. If viewers want to see, they will see or else it is up to them," Khan told reporters.

Satyamev Jayate team has also opened page on micro-blogging Twitter where netizens can find updates and information on the show.

Promoting the show, Khan tweeted: "Hey Guys... Team SMJ is now on twitter and will keep you posted about my first TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' Follow @smjindia Love, a."

The show will be aired from May 6 on every Sunday at 11 am.

It will go live simultaneously on Star Plus and national broadcaster DD1.

The show will be dubbed in four southern languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada.

Ali Zafar mesmerises fans in true Bollywood style

Ali, who has become a popular name in Bollywood thanks to films like "Tere Bin Laden", "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan" and "London, Paris, New York", was dressed in a dhoti and an embroidered kurta.

He walked the ramp at the first ever Lifestyle Pakistan Expo for designer brand ChenOne, and came with a dhol to add zing to the show.

He set the mood with his foot-tapping numbers including "Madhubala" from "Mere Brother Ki Dulhan", "Woh Dekhne Mein Seedhi" from "London, Paris, New York" and also grooved to some popular numbers from his albums.

A venture between the Pakistani and Indian governments, Lifestyle Pakistan Expo is a four-day event where 100 Pakistani fashion and lifestyle brands are exhibiting their collections at Pragati Maidan here.

Ali hopes the initiative bridges the gap between the two countries.

"(It's an) Excellent crowd in Delhi. May god bless a great future upon us. Hope Lifestyle Pakistan will help in bringing the two countries closer," Ali told reporters.

He danced at a celebration event, organised by the Pakistan government, to mark the launch of the exhibition.

The event witnessed 11 leading designers from Pakistan, including Kayseria, Saai by Sahar Atif, Ran Ja, Honey Waqar, Sadi Designs, Shireen Khan, Faizaa Samee and ChenOne, showcasing their collection on the ramp.

Pakistani singer Sanam Marwi, who was here with her troupe, also mesmerised audience with her Sufi and Sindhi songs.

Shah Rukh victim of US random selection system

With Khan reliving that experience on Thursday at a small airport in New York state, the question whether that parameter was designed deliberately to focus on people of certain names, religion, background, nationality or race has cropped up again. The possible answer is unlikely to placate a certain segment of Indian population that feels outraged at the actor's treatment.

At some level it is understandable that the whole security apparatus has been designed to not just take out potential terrorists in their first attempt but to disrupt their operation at any and every stage. No one at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is likely to acknowledge that the system works the way it does because of a built-in combination of intelligent and brute logic as well as preordained bias.

Khan's name or one that closely resembles his appears to be on a list of over a million others that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has compiled of people it thinks are, at the very least, of suspicious antecedents. Getting off that list for those like the actor who have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism has been known to be a nightmare in America. The list has been a subject of serious scrutiny and criticism by civil liberties groups which believe it is sweeping in its reach and more often than not throws up those who have absolutely nothing to do with any terrorist groups.

On the face of it, Khan may have been randomly picked out by the US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services' database. The system at the White Plains, New York, airport threw up Khan's name for any number of variable reasons. It is hard to speculate on the algorithm that triggered it.

Someone might argue that the Khan = Muslim = possible terrorist = detention logic, although profoundly offensive, seems to have been built into the system with the rationale that it is better to humiliate a thousand innocent Khans than let a potential terrorist Khan enter the US. However, this explanation does not make sense because Khan has been visiting the US for many years.


With his 2009 detention and subsequent embarrassment for the US authorities, some effort ought to have been made to ensure that red flags do not go up against his passport number and fingerprint again. Every visitor to the US and even permanent residents are fully fingerprinted on arrival every time. It is hard to comprehend why specific names attached to specific fingerprints and passport numbers cannot be exempted.

This time around though, the explanation could be that he arrived at a much smaller airport and by a private jet and managed to trigger the same action. The officials at White Plains, which is also known as the Westchester County Airport, had no choice once the red flags went up but to subject him to the standard procedures.

On the face of it, it may be compelling to argue that even a simple Google search, which shows 43,700,000 results against Khan's name, should have at the very least made the detaining officer question his action and taken much less than nearly two hours to clear him. Such a Google search should have stopped any reasonable immigration officer in their tracks to wonder that for a terrorist, Khan has managed a fantastic cover of being one of the world's biggest movie stars. Unfortunately though, the security parameters have been consciously designed not to adhere to standards of commonsense. They have been designed to be intrusive, as a result of which they do become excessive from time to time.

Perhaps behind creating a security system that depends as much on brute and random logic as intelligent sifting was the deeply embarrassing case of Mohammad Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 terror attacks. In 2005, Navy Captain Scott J. Phillpott, who was in charge of the Pentagon's counterterrorism project codenamed 'Able Danger', created a stir when he said that in January 2000 his team had identified Atta as a member of a Al-Qaeda terror cell operating in Brooklyn, New York. And yet Atta was able to travel in and out of the US unmolested. Atta's lapse was attributed to the fact that he first went by part of his name as Mohamed el-Amir and eventually traveled to the US in June 2000 as Mohammed Atta.
Security experts say that the random selection parameter is designed to make preventive determination more effective. They acknowledge that one of the negative fallouts is that many innocent people get singled out because of this parameter.

Katrina Kaif dreading fitness training for 'Dhoom 3'

The 27-year-old actress has started with intensive and specialised fitness training for her first action movie. She will be training for four hours every day at the Yash Raj studios.

"The sessions are basically to determine what my stamina is like and how much I can take. Which is what is scaring me," she said.

Kaif thinks that her body is not flexible, and just wants to stick to the sarees and eat what she wants to.