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PAKISTAN CRICKET TEAM GETTING ABUSED

June 29, 2013

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FUNNIEST CRICKET VIDEO OF ALL TIME, MARK RICHARDSON CRAMPING IN A TEST MATCH

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Manna Dey in critical condition - Indian Express

June 09, 2013

Legendary singer Manna Dey is in a critical but stable condition after being admitted to a hospital here due to chest infection.

The 94-year-old singer was taken to the hospital yesterday after his health deteriorated.

"No change at all (in his condition). He is stable," a senior doctor at Narayana Hrudayalaya, told PTI.

Born in Kolkata, the Dadasaheb Phalke awardee currently resides in Bangalore after spending more than fifty years in Mumbai.

Having recorded more than 3,500 songs in a number of languages including Hindi and Bengali, he regaled generations of listeners with his romantic ballads, intricate raga-based songs, Qawwalis and fast-paced modern numbers, lending his

voice to a number of Hindi and Bengali film stars.

His popular tracks include Poocho Na Kaise Maine (Meri Surat Teri Aankhen), Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen (Waqt), Zindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli (Anand), Yeh Dosti (Sholay) and Ek Chatur Naar (Padosan).

Dey was being treated at his home for the past couple of weeks.
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 review: The Deol trio fails to impress! - Zee News

‘Yamla Pagla Deewana 2’, directed by Sangeeth Sivan and starring the Deol trio –patriarch Dharmendra and sons Sunny and Bobby, hit the silverscreen amidst magnified hype this Friday.

The Deols earlier struck an emotional chord with the audiences worldwide as ‘Apne’ in 2007 and took you through a laugh riot as ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ in 2011.

And as always when the Deol trinity gets together for a movie, you do expect some action. Don’t you?

Dharmendra as Dharam is a con man, who makes a luxurious livelihood along with his younger son Gajodhar (Bobby Deol) in Varanasi, despite having an affluent elder son Paramveer (Sunny Deol) in the UK.

As the film opens, Paramveer’s undying faith in God is introduced to the audiences. He is indeed a one-man army who doesn’t refrain from calling spade a spade. Nonetheless, Paramveer’s father and brother take pleasure in conning people despite being supported by him financially and otherwise.

The two thugs - Dharam and Gajodjar - lay a trap to get hold of a UK-based businessman Sir Yograj Khanna (Annu Kapoor), who travels overseas to seek Yamla Baba’s (Dharmendra) blessings.

And with him comes his pretty daughter Suman (Neha Sharma), a diehard fan of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. Dharam wants his son Gajodhar to impress Suman and thus make way to a plush visit to the UK along with Khanna, the multi-millionaire.

As the father-son thug duo land in the UK, they realise that they have indeed asked for trouble, for they weren’t aware that Paramveer works for Khanna.

And with this rendezvous, the film proceeds ahead but with negligible velocity.

Coming to the performances, the Deols are as always far too impressive but what matters more here is that the script proves to be a complete disaster. The Deol magic can do little to lift the fate of the film high, for there is least to talk about.

Neha Sharma and debutant Kristina Akheeva as Reet are a treat to watch. And since it’s a film about the Deols, the two beauties have indeed very little to offer.

Nonetheless, actors Anupam Kher as Joginder Armstrong aka Dude, Johnny Lever and Sucheta Sharma come across in avatars that are mindless to the core.

Addressing his film as ‘over-the-top comedy’, filmmaker Sangeeth Sivan, prior to the release of the film, had said, “If you are a reviewer or a critic who doesn`t like over-the-top films then don’t review it. You will put your sensibilities into it and it is not meant for you.”

Alas! Even mindless comedy should have the potential to tickle one’s funny bone, isn’t it?

Had the director been equipped with a much better script, he could have perhaps treated a nonsensical film with élan. But something somewhere has certainly gone terribly awry.

The songs are good, but could have been a lot better.

‘Yamla Pagla Deewana 2’ has action aplenty but terribly fails to impress. Even Einstein (the orangutan) fails to cast his charm.

The Deols could have certainly come up with a much better one!

To sum it up, the first franchise ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ is a much better watch.



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Deepika wants to take her parents to holiday - Times of India

June 08, 2013

Priyanka Chopra's father, the affable Dr Ashok Chopra is unwell. Seriously unwell.

The cancer that struck the doctor a few years ago has returned. He's currently at the Kokilaben hospital and according to a friend Priyanka, "in a very very critical condition."

A self-confessed Daddy's girl is very anxious and worried. She has now postponed all rehearsals for Omang Kumar's Mary Kom bio pic.

Till last week when her dad's condition deteriorated, Priyanka went about her work as normal. Only those close to her know what she's going through. Priyanka was attending the rehearsals for the Mary Kom bio-pic while attending to her Dad in her free time.

Says a source from the Mary Kom crew, "Priyanka was religiously attending each and every rehearsal. She doesn't talk about her father's illness with anyone. Nothing in her outward behaviour suggests anything irregular in her life. Only her close friends know what she is going through."

Back in 2005 when she was shooting for Rohan Sippy's Bluffmaster her father was first diagnosed with the illness. Priyanka had not shared her agony with anyone on the sets.

"It's the same now. Priyanka hasn't told anyone at her work place how unwell her father is. When she does all the pugilist practice for her Mary Kom role it's almost as though she's venting all her grief through her fists. But now she has postponed all rehearsals," says the source from the Mary Kom team.
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'After Earth' will be released on June 7 - After Earth wallpapers


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Sonakshi, Ranveer unveil the music of Lootera

Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh make a handsome couple as the duo pose on stage for the shutterbugs at the music launch of their upcoming film Lootera. Wonder if they share a crackling chemistry as well!
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Priyanka Chopra's father is critically ill - Indian Express

Priyanka Chopra's father, the affable Dr Ashok Chopra is unwell. Seriously unwell.


The cancer that struck the doctor a few years ago has returned. He's currently at the Kokilaben hospital and according to a friend Priyanka, "in a very very critical condition."


A self-confessed Daddy's girl is very anxious and worried. She has now postponed all rehearsals for Omang Kumar's Mary Kom bio pic.


Till last week when her dad's condition deteriorated, Priyanka went about her work as normal. Only those close to her know what she's going through. Priyanka was attending the rehearsals for the Mary Kom bio-pic while attending to her Dad in her free time.


Says a source from the Mary Kom crew, "Priyanka was religiously attending each and every rehearsal. She doesn't talk about her father's illness with anyone. Nothing in her outward behaviour suggests anything irregular in her life. Only her close friends know what she is going through."


Back in 2005 when she was shooting for Rohan Sippy's Bluffmaster her father was first diagnosed with the illness. Priyanka had not shared her agony with anyone on the sets.


"It's the same now. Priyanka hasn't told anyone at her work place how unwell her father is. When she does all the pugilist practice for her Mary Kom role it's almost as though she's venting all her grief through her fists. But now she has postponed all rehearsals," says the source from the Mary Kom team.


Priyanka Chopra posted this picture, holding her dad's hand on Twitter.


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Movie Review: Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 will give you a headache

Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 


(source) One of the most worrying things in Mumbai this week is the billboard cluster of six (or is it eight?)Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 posters on Bandra’s Turner Road. Double the madness, it insists. Double the hotness, double the action, double the fun.

Considering they’re drawing comparisons with the first Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), this is not saying very much. To say I don’t remember YPD would be misleading. The truth is that I walked out seven minutes into the film. It was unbearable. Almost equally unbearable was having to later discover that it was something of a hit at the box office.

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But I’d barely given the first film a chance. Maybe I’d missed something? So I forced myself to keep an open mind as I eenie-meenie-mynie-moh’ed myself into a seat at the empty cinema hall for the sequel to the “Deol funfest”.

Blade and wrist? Brain and hammer? Fire and skin? Pen and eyeball? Rat poison and aaloo samosa? Whichever combination seems to your mind the quickest and least painful way to go, take it. And go. Not to the cinema, but out of it.

Directed by Sangeeth Sivan, YPD2 brings back all the Deols — Dharam (Dharmendra), Paramveer (Sunny Deol) and Gajodhar (Bobby Deol). Why is anybody’s guess.

This time the money-hungry Dharam and his conman son Gajodhar leave Benares for the UK, to visit their straight-as-an-arrow son and brother Paramveer, who is a highly annoying, turbaned do-gooder. He is so earnest and try-hard that it makes your brain bleed out of your nose.

There is another agenda, of course. For Gajodhar – of the fictitious Oberoi Oberoi and Oberoi Industries fame – to marry Suman (Neha Sharma), daughter of assumed billionaire Sir Yograj (Annu Kapoor) for money. Except, it turns out she’s not his daughter, but *like* his daughter. Semantics, semantics. His real daughter is Reet (Kristina Akheeva), who very quickly becomes the apple of Param’s needy eyes.

Trying very hard (but mostly failing) to add comedy to the film is good old Johnny Lever, first talking like Shah Rukh K-k-k-Khan, then ‘disguised’ as a sardar (Bunty Singh), then a Chinese man named Bunty Chong, then a Japanese fellow named Bunty Hiroshima. One scene has him introducing himself as Bunty Hiroshima and his partner Babli Nagasaki, and they’ve come “to report ke plan bomb ho gaya”.

Oh wait. The movie also stars Anupam Kher in a long-haired blond wig and astronaut costume. His name is Joginder Armstrong (if I didn’t hear it wrong, people call him Dude-ji). At one point he declares that his life’s mission is to erect the eighth wonder of the world: a gravity-defying mall. But I have no idea what he’s doing in the film in the first place. This could be because I walked out at the interval, though I seriously doubt he finds any defining purpose in the second half of the film.

Actually, this is one of the major flaws of YPD2: too many unnecessary characters. They don’t add to the comedy, just your migraine. What is the need to force-fit a woman who talks like a cat, or a flatulent Sumo wrestler, or an orang-utan who gets as much screen time as the three Deols? Ok, the orang-utan makes sense: he fits so seamlessly into the Deol family. But whoever thought it would be hilarious if Bobby Deol’s character mistook MF Husain for Zakir Hussain, and Leonardo da Vinci for Leonardo DiCaprio, go back to whence you came.

Through the 140-minute runtime, not one character is allowed to miss their chance to spoof another Bollywood film or actor. From Salman Khan’s most famous dialogues, to the world famous Shah Rukh K-k-k-Khan stammer (WHY ARE WE NOT DONE WITH THIS ALREADY?), to the ’70s formula of saving a girl from goons and winning her heart.

They’ve got 100 tricks up their sleeves, but not one works. In fact, all they do is distract you from an already-messy storyline, so by the end of it, you have absolutely no idea what’s going on. My suggestion is that if you’re at the movies and YPD2 is one of the options, take it off the list. Head straight to the next theatre. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.


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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan skips meeting Hollywood legend Al Pacino for daughter Aaradhya

June 07, 2013

(Source) Aishwarya is a doting mother and the actress just proved it once again as she skipped a meeting with none other 'Godfather' Al Pacino to be with her daughter.

While the Bachchan couple was in London for a short holiday, along with their bundle of joy, they had a chance to meet the Hollywood legend but Aishwarya chose to stay back as there was no one to look after her daughter. 

According to a source Aishwarya's mother Vrinda was leaving for India on the same day. And since there was no one else to look after Aaradhya, Aishwarya decided to stay back.

Hubby Abhishek attended the dinner date alone, while Ash stayed home looking after her baby.
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Deepika Padukone wants to keep her Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani glasses

(Source) Padukone's bespectacled look in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani has garnered much attention and the actress wants to keep the glasses she wore in the film as a souvenir.
In the first part of the film, the 27-year-old played a girl-next-door Naina Talwar, and is refereed to as chasmish by her on-screen friends played by Ranbir Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor.
"Naina is a special character for me. The glasses helped me live that part. I would like to keep them as a memory of her," Deepika said in a statement.
"She is emotional about the character, and the glasses were an important part of it. Also, people kept calling her chashmish (a term she was addressed as in the film too)," a source said.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, a coming-of-age romantic comedy film has been directed by Ayan Mukerji and produced by Karan Johar.
The film has already crossed the Rs 100 crore mark within just a week of its release.
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Torndado scene in Man of Steel to remain in film, director says

BURBANK, Calif. — In the upcoming film Man of Steel, Superman faces off against ruthless outcasts from his home planet. The last son of Krypton also encounters a more realistic force of nature on earth: a deadly tornado.
Man of Steel director Zack Snyder said there was never any discussion about altering the pivotal scene involving a twister following recent deadly storms in Oklahoma.

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Saif asks Kareena's manager to give her weekly off

June 04, 2013

(source) Saif Ali Khan has the best sense of humour in B-town. Since his wife Kareena Kapoor has been shooting non-stop for the last three months, the actor has seen very little of her. 

We heard he actually called up Kareena's manager Poonam and requested her to give his wife an off at least one day a week, so that she may spend time with him.

Last heard, Kareena has managed to squeeze three days off and she will fly to Jaipur next week when Saif shoots a clothing commercial in the Pink City.

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Jiah Khan died due to hanging, confirms post-mortem report

The preliminary post-mortem report of Bollywood actress Jiah Khan on Tuesday said that she died due to hanging.  The police also claimed that there were some marks on Jiah's neck. Her body was taken in an ambulance to Dr RN Cooper Municipal General Hospital in Juhu for post-mortem.
Earlier, the Mumbai Police is questioning Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi's son Suraj, who was said to be close to the late actor, in connection with her suicide, they said on Tuesday.

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Salman Khan to do a cameo in Atul Agnihotri's next - India Today

Superstar Salman Khan will do a cameo in filmmaker and brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri's next home production.

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Margalla Festival in full swing at Art and Craft Village - The News International

Islamabad

The 10-day Margalla Festival being held at the Art and Craft Village is in full swing and providing a rich source of recreation and entertainment to the residents of twin cities.

The festival, which started on May 31, is organised by the Capital Development Authority (CDA). The festivities of the event were divided on different days by presentations of all provinces and regions of the country.

In the festival, June 1 was celebrated as Punjab Day and June 2 was dedicated to Sindh. June 4 would be celebrated as Balochistan Day. An exclusive show on AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan culture would be presented on June 6, whereas June 7 would be celebrated as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Day.

During the festival, horse dances have also been arranged for the entertainment of the visitors on daily basis.On Punjab Day, the visitors enjoyed their favourite colourful cultural events of the province. People of all age groups were amused by the prominent cultural group ‘Jhoole Laal’.

Mulazim Hussain, a renowned singer who earned great name in a music competition in India, performed before a large audience. People greatly applauded the traditional Punjabi dance ‘Luddi’.

The famous folk singer from Hazara, Afshan Zabi, performed in Hindko, Punjabi, Seraiki and Pushto and received great appreciation from the audience.Another folk music icon from Punjab, Gulshan Jehan, entertained the visotors with her melodious voice.

Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest, CDA Member Planning and Design Syed Mustafain Kazmi said; “On the direction of CDA Chairman Syed Tahir Shahbaz this mega cultural event has been arranged, which is representing culture of all provinces, including Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK.

Syed Mustafain Kazmi also appreciated the efforts of the CDA Sports and Culture Directorate for organising such a big cultural event.

He said that beautiful cultural colours of provinces provide ecstasy to the visitors in the beautiful environment of the metropolis. He said that people from all walks of life are visiting the festival to enjoy the cultures of their choice.

Syed Mustafain Kazmi said that recreational and entertainment activities not only provide opportunities to folk singers and artistes but also help promote our rich culture at international level.Earlier, he visited different stalls at the festival.The concluding ceremony of the festival would be held on June 9.


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I married before I lost my looks, says boxer Amir Khan - The Times

The boxer Amir Khan has revealed that he wanted to marry before he lost his looks.

The 26-year-old fighter married Faryal Makhdoom, 21, a student from the US, in a lengthy ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria in New York at the weekend. In an interview with Hello! magazine, which has published the official photographs, Khan said that he was a “changed man”.

The Bolton-born champion married the political science student in a week-long, elaborate Islamic ceremony.

He joked: “I had to get in there and tie the knot quickly, before I got beaten up in too many fights and lost


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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani collects Rs 75 crore, may enter 100 crore club in first ... - Indian Express

Ex-couple Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone's Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is breaking records at the box office and the rom-com has already collected a whopping Rs 75 crores in four days.


Reports are that at this rate the movie might enter the elite 100 crore club in its first week itself.


Noted film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeting the numbers said the movie is "rewriting the rules of the game". A double digit [13 cr] Monday? Most biggies don't reach that number on Sunday...



Taran further wrote that the movie will soon be entering the Rs 100 crore club.



It was the first time after their bitter breakup in 2010 that Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone came together for a movie.


Though the movie was panned by critics, the movie has clicked with audience especially youngsters.


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Film's songs Badtameez Dil, Diliwali Girlfriend and Ranbir's special song ghagra with his teenage crush Madhuri Dixit also played a major part in drawing people to the cinema halls.


Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani directed by Ayan Mukherji of Wake Up Sid fame is produced by Dharma Productions and also stars Kalki Koechlin and Kunaal Roy Kapur.


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Jiah Khan: Bollywood Star In Apparent Suicide - Sky News

Bollywood actress Jiah Khan has died in an apparent suicide at her home in the Indian city of Mumbai, police say.

Khan, 25, who made her debut opposite Indian acting legend Amitabh Bachchan, was found by her family, an officer said.

Police were interviewing her neighbours, the officer said, adding that no suicide note was found.
Khan at an event for Housefull in 2010
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The British-Indian star was born in New York in 1988, but grew up in Chelsea in London before moving to Mumbai for her Bollywood career.

In 2007, Khan started her career with the controversial film Nishabd (No Words), playing the role of a teenager in love with her best friend's much older father, played by Bachchan.

The movie received average reviews because of its provocative plot but Khan was praised for her bold acting.

The actress, who changed her name from Nafisa Khan, went on to star alongside actor Aamir Khan in Ghajini, a box-office hit.

India's film industry reacted with shock and sadness to the news of her death.

Bachchan told a reporter he was "shocked and disturbed".

Actress Sonam Kapoor tweeted: "Rip Jiah khan. Terrible tragedy. Very very shocking and disturbing news."
She made her Bollywood debut opposite Bachchan
"Nobody should be in so much pain and a state of such hopelessness. I hope her soul finds some respite in death. #ripjiahkhan."

Actress Bipasha Basu tweeted: "#Rip Jiah Khan!God bless her soul!"

Khan's latest film Housefull was a comedy released in 2010, which also starred Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone. 

She was also an ambassador for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) and featured in adverts for the animal rights group.

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