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Soha Ali Khan flags off India Independence Day Parade in Chicago

August 19, 2013 15:31 IST
Soha Ali Khan

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebs are tweeting.

Vidya Balan flagged off the India Day Parade in New York, and Soha Ali Khan was the Grand Marshall for FIA's India Independence Day Parade in Chicago on August 17.

Soha shared a picture of herself from the parade and tweeted: ‘With IL governor pat quinn at the Chicago indep day parade. I travelled across the world and yet I felt I was home!'

Deepika returns to Ram Leela

August 19, 2013 15:31 IST
Vishnudeva, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone

After the huge success of her film Chennai Express, Deepika Padukone returned to the sets of her next film Ram Leela, co-starring Ranveer Singh.

Choreographer Vishnudeva, who is shooting with the actors, shared a picture of them together and tweeted: ‘IN RAM LEELA SONG SHOOT.I AM VERY HAPPY TO WORK WITH RANVEER AND DEEPIKA THEY R TOO GOOD.'

Directed and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the film is said to be an adaptation of Shakespeare's epic love story Romeo and Juliet, and is set in violent times.

Ajay Devgn shows off his funny side

August 19, 2013 15:31 IST
Ajay Devgn with Kapil Sharma

Ajay Devgn, who is busy promoting his latest film Satyagraha, visited the sets of comedian Kapil Sharma's television show Comedy Nights with Kapil.

He shared a picture from the shoot and tweeted: ‘Shot 4 Comedy nights wth Kapil ystrdy! It ws supposed 2 b 4 Satyagrah bt jst turned out 2b really funny!! Fun!'

Satyagraha also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Kareena Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, and Amrita Rao, and deals with corruption in society.

Happy birthday, Gulzar!

August 19, 2013 15:31 IST
Gulzar

Lyricist Swanand Kirkire wrote a poem for veteran poet Gulzar, who celebrated his 79th birthday on August 18.

‘Yar Gulzar. Pyar Gulzar..Kal Nayaa tha, Ab Nayaa hai .. Naya hogaa Baras Hazaar !! Yaar Gulzar Pyaar Gulzar !!’ Kirkire tweeted.

Meanwhile, other people from the industry tweeted wishes for him:

Lata Mangeshkar: Namaskar. Aaj gulzar sahab ka janamdin hai. Main unko bohot shubh kaamnaayein deti hu. Unke saath kaam karna ek sunder anubhav hai,wo ek acche kavi to hai hi lekin utne hi acche wo film director bhi hai.

Karan Johar: GulzarSaab's Janamdin today...."mera kuch samaan....from Ijazat is a song I will thank him for....for the rest of my life.

Anurag Kashyap: happy birthday to the ever inspiring, never burning out Gulzar Sahab. Love you.

Anubhav Sinha: This day, 79 years back, God was at his creative best, and he designed a proof too.

Shahid puts on his dancing shoes

August 19, 2013 15:31 IST
Shahid Kapoor

Shahid Kapoor is busy shooting for a song with choreographer-director Prabhudheva for his upcoming Rambo Rajkumar.

‘Back on set #ramborajkumar .. Song 3 .. Time to nach deva style once again,’ the 32-year-old actor tweeted.

Meanwhile, Prabhudheva shared a picture of him from the sets and tweeted: ‘RR Day 55 - Fun on ... Dancing with Village wrestlers.'

The film, also starring Sonakshi Sinha, is slated to release on November 29.

Boman Irani celebrates Papeti

August 19, 2013 15:31 IST
Boman Irani

Boman Irani celebrated the Parsi New Year festival called Papeti, and tweeted: 'On this auspicious occasion we now have a darling daughter. Lisa. As a dad I can say it: she is gorgeous!!!!'

‘Folks want to know as to how we celebrate Papeti? Here goes: Pray for world peace & brotherhood & then have a Jolly good time!!!!!!’ he added.

Meanwhile, his colleagues joined him in celebration and tweeted their wishes:

Farah Khan shared a picture of them together and wrote: ‘Happy Pateti 2 @bomanirani n family..n 2 all my half relatives!!’

Nikhil Advani: Best wishes @bomanirani To you and the whole family. Lisa looks lovely!!!

Riteish Deshmukh: Sabhiko Papeti Mubarrak aur khaskar aapko mere Dost.

Anupam Kher: Papeti Mubarak to All and a Special one for @bomanirani and family. Love & Happiness Always.:)