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At war, ‘n’ lovin
it!
Splitsvilla 2 is a
battle-ground where love is war, literally!
@#%^&* What do you think? @#$5^&* why did you &^%$ and @#$5^
shouldn't have @##$%^& if that were the state @## he comes up to me
and @#%&* says @$%^&* I'll see you *****. What show is it when
the number of beeps exceed the number of dialogues? Don't blame them,
they've brawled, bawled, bragged, bickered, bothered and (even beeped!)
done everything, just everything possible on national television and
bewitched you! Goes without saying, reality shows are the subject of
dissection, oops…discussion, the current favopurite Splitsvilla 2, to
be precise.
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Suyash Rai |
Rahul Dwivedi |
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Aayi Baisakhi
 Bollywood stars brought a splash of pizzazz and pret to the holy town of Amritsar in a
pre-Baisakhi bonanza
Badges on the pockets of Bollywood stars read Dithe Sabhe Thav Nahi Tudh Jeheya (I have seen all places, but none can compare You) as common devotees paid obeisance at Harmandar Saheb on Friday.
Bollywood plus TV stars along with their family members, as many as 178, came to perform sewa as part of the langar started by Surinder Kaur
Badal, wife of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. A majority of actors and actresses were clad in white apparel.
Photo by Vishal Kumar
Baisakhi festivities
Little Champs
City kids brave another season of reality show auditions
Reality, with all its trappings, never fails to impress us. With the same ingredients, it manages to serve a new course meal every time. So it is obvious that when reality calls, we rush to embrace it with our arms wide open. Chandigarh, by now the darling of reality show hunts, saw another reality treat on Friday, with Zee TV coming for a talent hunt for their Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil champs.
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Bollywood actor Lara Dutta at the launch of Aircel's GSM services in Mumbai.
Photo: PTI
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Femme fête
Woman-09 offers clothes, jewellery, chocolates and more
Who says women are the weaker sex? They can effortlessly drive away the recession blues by indulging in as simple an activity as shopping. All right, we know, shopping for some might be the last thing on mind and if that's the case then take some valuable lessons from women. It is easy. All you have to do is forget your budget and splurge money. Need a practical demonstration? Visit 'The Woman-09, an exhibition being held at Shivalik View that offers everything that should be a part of woman's wardrobe and also items of home décor that one will feel compelled to take home.
Designer deals
Sole factor that usually keeps people from buying designer clothes is the sky rocketing prices. And here comes an opportunity for the city people to buy some at very affordable prices.
Radhika Dhawan, director of First Row has brought to the city range of designer clothes from the house of twenty leading designers of India. She cites her reason for coming here, "Unlike people of Delhi or Mumbai who prefer to wear designer costumes, people of Chandigarh are brand conscious.
Bon Appetit
To grill or not to grill!
Yes….that really Is the question! If you chomp away at grilled fish and prawns at weddings, thinking they are a healthy option, then allow me to dispel the illusion. They are liberally slathered with ghee or oil and consequently laden with a mean number of calories. Sometimes I feel we’d do better having shallow fried kebabs or flash fried chunks of chicken, paneer, mushrooms, anything, than the generously basted pile of snacks repeatedly pushed under our nose at parties.
Hot news
Assamese woman munches world’s hottest chillies, sets record
A demure 26-year-old mother of one in Assam is all set to have her name entered in record books after having munched 51 of the world’s hottest chillies in two minutes in front of celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay.
Anandita Dutta Tamuly performed the bizarre feat Thursday night before hundreds of people at the tea growing town of Jorhat, 300 km east of Assam’s main city Guwahati, for a Channel Four Television show on global food being anchored by Ramsay.
Ready to cook
Godrej introduces American and Italian snacks
Godrej Tyson Foods Ltd. today announced the launch of Pizza Pockets and Crispy Onion Rings under its ‘Yummiez’ brand of ready-to-cook snacks. The snacks are vegetarian and were formulated as a result of consumer research and insight. Yummiez is 100% natural, contains no preservatives, no artificial color and no transfat.
Slimming snag
People who have been taking Chinese slimming capsules, available on the Internet, reported serious health problems that include nausea and poisoning, according to a report.
Since 2005, the poison emergency centres in Freiburg and Göttingen, Germany, have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking Chinese slimming capsules.
Zara hat ke
 Bollywood stokes curiosity with unusual film titles
Whether it's Karan Johar's Wake Up Sid or Farhan Akhtar's Kartik
Calling Kartik, the trend of coining unique or unusual film titles has
caught up with
Bollywood filmmakers. From the use of numbers to a mix of English and
Hindi words, producers and directors say they try to grab viewer
attention right from the word go - which is the film title.
I love challenge
 There is no method to my madness: Deepa Mehta
Known for her daring choice of subjects in filmmaking, director Deepa Mehta has now taken up yet another challenge that of adapting Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children into a film.
The Booker prize winning title by Rushdie incorporates ambiguous themes of 'magic realism,' said to be almost impossible to be portrayed on the visual medium.
But that has not deterred the director who in her own words "loves challenges" and took the project because of its
formidable nature.
Couple of odds
While his association with actors like Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna
and Sharmila Tagore resulted in some of Hindi cinema's most memorable
films, movie mogul Shakti Samanta failed to create a similar onscreen
magic with Amitabh Bachchan.
Back on track
Lindsay pampers herself after break-up
A week after confirming her dramatic split with DJ Samantha Ronson, Lindsay Lohan has finally decided to move on by getting a new look and a tattoo for herself.
The actor stopped by Shamrock Social Club in West Hollywood around midnight on Wednesday to get her wrist tattooed.
Millionaire matchmaker
After her break-up from John Mayer, Jennifer Aniston has been offered help by celebrity matchmaker Patti
Stanger, who has promised to find 'Mr Right' for the actor. Aniston has often been labelled as 'unlucky in love' because of her divorce from Brad Pitt and failed relationships with Vince Vaughn and Mayer.
But the host of the reality show Millionaire Matchmaker, Stanger says that Aniston can find love in a 50-year-old business tycoon.
Health food
FMCG player Shakti Bhog Foods Ltd is planning to foray into the biscuit and packaged mustard oil categories as it seeks to diversify its business and emerge as a Rs 10,000-crore company by 2013-14.
Launch PAD
Joy in a bottle
For the summer season, Coca-Cola in India has unveiled the second series of its ‘Open Happiness’ campaign for brand Coca-Cola. The global communication initiative is all about inviting people to welcome small moments of joy and happiness into their lives. The idea really is to pause, enjoy a bottle of Coca-Cola and also enjoy life’s simple pleasures.
Desperate dreams
After doing reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashian, the 28-year- old is keen to crack Hollywood.
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