A true Heroine
The final plot has been shot beautifully, a befitting tribute to a beautiful love story. She has tied the knot, and there she sits right in front of us, looking like a million bucks, all set to answer the questions about her married life! Kareena Kapoor comes to Chandigrah to meet the winners of Limca Meet and Greet with Kareena Contest, something that she loves to do. "This is the only time I get to meet my fans in person, and they get to know their brand ambassador as well. It is better than shooting for an advertisement," says the brand ambassador for Limca. It's time to move on to the much-awaited and apprehended question. The obvious one! How does it feel to be married? Given that the couple dilly-dallied with their wedding date for quite sometime!

Reality check: Kareena Kapoor Photo: Pradeep Tewari

Reality check: Kareena Kapoor Photo: Pradeep Tewari

Wonder wrap
Brush up your bridal diary with some velvet embellished, zardosi lined, gotta embedded to contrasting boarders sarees for this wedding season. An ultimate traditional as well as one of the most glamorous outfits for women sarees have endured the test of time and fashion. And with wedding season again on an upward swing it's the designer sarees that are storming the bridal wear trend.

Dinner date
The PFA-Chandigarh presents Dinner with Friends, a play by Feroz Khan. This Pulitzer award winning play is about four friends, two married couples. The play captures both the couples at different ages and stages of their lives, and we witness the effects of the breakup of one couple on the other, who first feel compelled to choose sides, and then begin to question the strength of their own seemingly tranquil marriage. Dinner with Friends was written by Donald Margulies. It premiered at the 1998 Humana Festival of New American Plays. The play received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Credited as one of the finest dramatists to emerge from India, the award-winning director is known for plays like Tumhari Amrita, featuring Bollywood veteran Shabana Azmi, and Kucch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai, a one-man play starring Anupam Kher.
Star value: Perizaad Zorabain and Tisca Chopra (below) will play the female leads in Dinner with Friends.
Star value: Perizaad Zorabain and Tisca Chopra (below) will play the female leads in Dinner with Friends

Hot picks
It's the beginning of winter and what better way to start the season than with some new additions in the wardrobe? In short, we get for you some latest trends for the winter wardrobe. While you can play safe with shapes--utilitarian, military-inspired and covered up, this winter is all about tone-on-tone, ornate fabrics, velvet, jacquard, lace, damask and embellishments; so don't hold back.

Photo: S Chandan True blue art
Government College of Art-10 wears a gala look any time of the year, but, the atmosphere was even more colourful on Monday morning as a certain groups of students got busy learning the intricate Jaipur blue pottery. An entirely handmade process, the inquisitive students were guided by their teacher Sanjeev Kumar and expert in the field, Gopal Saini.


Rocking time!
For Anita Shanti, the ability to read the energy of the crowd is a must for a DJ The young and hip crowd of Tricity gyrated to heavy music belted out by famous DJ Anita Shanti from Kazakhstan at the rocking annual Kingfisher Blue Global Fusion party hosted by Kingfisher Blue at Blue Blazer lounge in Sector 26 recently.
GROOVY Time: DJ Anita Shanti (L), youngsters enjoy good music and food.
Groovy Time: DJ Anita Shanti (L), youngsters enjoy good music and food

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Power-packed moves
What is the difference between power yoga and other forms of exercise?
Power yoga works on all the four aspects of fitness, flexibility, strength, stamina and stability, and provides the required elements of a complete exercise programme. Power yoga positively affects the internal organs and endocrine glands.

Aamir has the enthusiasm of a first timer: Kagti
Aamir is often tagged as Mr Perfectionist in Bollywood but Reema Kagti, the director of his upcoming film Talaash, says the actor's enthusiasm and sincerity are that of a first timer. The film, slated to hit theatres on November 30, also stars Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor and Nawazzudin Siddiqui in pivotal roles. Aamir is playing a cop for the third time in the film after Baazi and Sarfarosh.

Don't get typecast, Farhan warns Priyanka
Bollywood's desi girl Priyanka Chopra has reached Hyderabad for the shooting of the Zanjeer remake and actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar has warned her against doing too many remakes and getting typecast. "In Hydrabad for Zanjeer. Starting a new film always makes me nervous," Priyanka tweeted.

Paris praises Silver Linings Playbook
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has praised veteran actor Anupam Kher starrer Hollywood movie Silver Linings Playbook. The film, directed by David O Russell, opened the recent 14th Mumbai Film Festival. Hangover star Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence of Hunger Games play the lead in the movie while Robert De Niro and Kher are in pivotal roles.

Movie buff: Paris Hilton

Movie buff: Paris Hilton

No birthday celebration
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who will turn 90 on December 11, has shot down reports that he will have a grand birthday bash, insisting he and wife Saira Banu are yet to recover from the demise of Balasaheb Thackeray, Yash Chopra and Rajesh Khanna.

Protective dad...
Actor Matt Damon hopes his daughters never follow him into acting because Hollywood is so unfair to women. The 41-year-old, who raises Alexia, 14, Isabella, six, Gia, four and 23-month-old Stella with wife Luciana, is horrified by how Hollywood treats women and would never want that for his own kids.

Couple of problems
Teen pop star Justin Bieber and girlfriend Selena Gomez's reunion is getting rocky. Two days after Bieber, 18, and Gomez, 20, reunited, they had a public showdown at Yamato, a Japanese restaurant in the San Fernando Valley, California, Just five minutes after entering the restaurant, the pair who split earlier this month after two years of dating, emerged again – with Gomez looking visibly "mad".
Showdown: Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez

Showdown: Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez

Career shift
Right from its inception, Kunal Kapoor was actively involved in the writing process of his recently released film Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana and the actor says he wants to take his new found interest forward. Kunal, 35, is currently busy putting together few scripts for films.

Beating the odds
Hollywood star Ben Affleck says his actor father's failures motivated him to succeed at an early age. The 40-year-old Argo star landed his first role in US educational science series The Voyage of the Mimi when he was 12, around the same time his father Timothy was trying to make it big.

Guidelines for friendship
Actor Taylor Lautner says he does not want to be too difficult to get to know . The Twilight Saga star, who has been romantically linked to Taylor Swift and Lily Collins in the past, is often on guard when he makes new female friends.

The second shift
Model and Bigg Boss house contestant Karishma Kotak left the house when she heard the sad news of her father passing away. Now, she is back in the house with new energy and promise. Here she talks about the same.


ACT II: Karishma Kotak

ACT II: Karishma Kotak

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