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Mike John Myers, who has made a mark in this industry with works like Austin Powers Series, Shrek, Wayne’s World etc is all set to have a new look in his upcoming movie ‘The Love Guru’. The recent posed picture of Mike with Jessica Alba gives the world first look into the movie. Mike sports a long brown hair with curly mustache in the upcoming movie while co star Jessica shows off her sparkling set of teeth with a grand yellow dress.

The movie is based on Jessica portraying the owner of a hockey team and the love interest of Myers’ Pitka. Promoting the movie Mike said that the movie has a great sense of comedy and a life affirming message for one and all. As movie addicts across the globe would know that The Love Guru may have a similar feel to the movie ‘The Guru’ which starred Heather Graham. While reports have it that both Mike and Jessica had a tough time perfecting a Bollywood dance number which lead the movie makers change the steps and made them into Flamenco moves.

News has it that Shahrukh Khan has dropped two movies from different directors for a Karan Johar film. We all know about the friendship and bond the two share but SRK has now gone to the extent of letting other directors go by for being a part of Dharma Productions.

Shahrukh Khan not turned down just lame directors. The superstar has said a no to Rajkumar Hirani the brain child behind Munnabhai and a no to Shankar, the director of Shivaji, for the movie Robot. The reason being for the two drops is SRK’s terms did not get along well with Vidhu Vinod Chopra and there were creative differences for the movie Robot. Shahrukh Khan is known to be actively involved with the scripts of a movie and ready to give his creative inputs, but the superstar forgets that not everyone would want his opinions.

Cricket buffs, are you aware of the hum that Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has become victim of the killing looks of the Om Shanti Om hot and sexy star Deepika Padukone.

On the other hand, rumors say that from the day Dhoni invited Deepika to watch T20 Future Cup match, Bollywood’s another bombshell Priyanka Chopra, with whom Dhoni was going around, has also kicked him as per some gossips and now she says, Dhoni who?

Hot and sexy model turned star daughter of the former badminton champion Prakash Padukone, Deepika was invited to watch the T20 Future Cup match amid India and Australia on 21 October 2007 by Dhoni.

There seems to be no dearth of problems for the Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. First, it was his brother Faisal Khan who complained that elder brother Aamir had forcibly confined him to his house and now a non-bailable warrant has been issued against the star.

A local court in Madhya Pradesh had earlier served the actor with a bailable warrant regarding a case filed for disrespecting the national flag. Following the Aamir’s failure to appear before the court, the court has issued a fresh non-bailable warrant against the cine star.

Love is in the air and daughters everywhere are running off to their knights in armor. Why is it that parents are so often against the choice of their children?

First there was Priyanka Todi whose brief elopement had sadly ended in great tragedy. Now there is Srija, the younger daughter of the Telegu megastar Chiranjeevi. The angry father had previously expressed shock and anger at his 18 year old daughter’s leaving home to marry a 22year old IT guy. The Times of India reports that all is now well with the father wishing the newly weds happiness. But there is here more than meets the eye. We have to put this and other spate of high profile elopements in their right contexts. After all the film industry too is an important index which holds up a mirror to the intangible aspects of Indian society.

What is love? Is not love also what a parent has for her or his children? How is it possible for a 19 year old girl to decide once for all that she wants to be with someone for ever? After all, is marriage not forever? Is not marriage a societal bond, then how is it possible to discard one’s family and community in a marriage? It is rumored that Chiranjeevi’s attitude is deeply patriarchal and he had prevented the love-marriage of his elder daughter. The fear of caste reprisal is so strong that the Delhi High Court has stepped in and asked for the couple’s protection from any honor related violence. What we see happening is a subtle conflict between what is traditionally Indian and what is the view of a much more lively and contemporary legal system. On another level, we find that the idea of love and its consequent marriage is gaining momentum in Indian society.

Sanjay Dutt’s arrest and return to Yerwada prison was not something new. Beginning from his nervousness in the court, reaching Pune’s prison seemed completely a flashback of August 2, 2007 prison journey. He surrendered after obtaining the judgment copy convicting him under the Arms Act. Later he was escorted to Yerwada jail from Mumbai’s Arthur Road in a van. Meanwhile on his 130 kms journey from Mumbai to Pune’s prison, the police convoy had to dodge media vans at several places. The convoy taking Sanju Baba reached Yerwada prison at midnight. Like his August stay, his very first night was restless and later in the morning he refused to have his breakfast.

As a jail regime, he was then taken for a thorough medical check-up. He is once again expected to take up carpentry work in jail like his previous stay. Dutt’s lawyer Farhana Shah will move his bail petition in the Supreme Court next week and also challenge the six years imprisonment awarded to him by the TADA court.

Sanjay Gupta of White Feathers Films has been in the news recently for more personal reasons whether it is with issues between best buddy Sanjay Dutt or his weekend destination house in Khandala. The news though is that the director-producer has postponed the shooting of his upcoming movie ‘Alibaug’ because the set that the veteran art director Bijon Dasgupta designed was not up to the mark as per Sanjay’s requirements.

Ranbir Kapoor has been making his presence every where ever since the news was broken out that yet another Kapoor is set to make a mark in the film industry. The Saawariya star launched the Hindi version of ‘Raj Kapoor’ a compilation of memoirs on the icon’s personal and professional life, authored by Ranbir’s aunt Ritu Nanda.

The English version of the book ‘Raj Kapoor’ was launched in 2002 but failed to serve the purporse, hence a hindi version had to be launched. Raj Kapoor known as the showman has in his era entertainment the masses to a great extent. For making the book affordable to the common man prices of the Hindi version of the memoirs has been reduced comparatively.

Shahid Kapur and Kareena Kapoor’s breakup seems to be the most happening gossip of the town. After the duo accepting the end of their relation rumours and gossip mongers have not given up delving into the why’s of the breakup. The news is that Shahid’s alleged closeness with Vidya Balan was the reason the showdown finally hit its ultimatum.

The sources close to the couple said that Shahid and Kareena’s relation saw its end earlier in June itself and the final nail to the coffin was Shahid’s link ups with actress and co star Vidya Balan in ‘Kismet Connections’. For all those who kept contemplating who started it all off and who has the final word, sources reveal that Shahid ended up things because things were growing ugly between the two. The distance between the two which was created due to Kareena’s shoot at Ladakh for upcoming movie Tashan reinforced their different paths of life.

For the movie buffs in Tamil Nadu, the Tamil superstar Rajnikant is nothing less than a demigod is. Despite of advancing age and a receding hairline, the ‘Thalaivur’ is the reigning superstar of the state.

His fan following consists of children, parents and grandparents alike. Rajnikant’s fans are no more satisfied with confining the fame of the actor within the boundary of the state only and are bound to shower their superstar with international recognition. Fans of Rajnikanth want a wax statue of the Tamil superstar installed at the Madam Tussaud’s Museum in London.