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First Look: Vivek, Riteish, Aftab's Grand Masti

July 18, 2013 18:13 IST
Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Riteish Deshmukh in Grand Masti

Directed by Indra Kumar, Grand Masti is a sequel to the 2004 adult comedy Masti and stars Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani and Riteish Deshmukh in leading roles.

Riteish shared the poster and tweeted, "Masti boys are BACK with a bang! Check out another Jhakaas Poster of #GrandMasti ;)"

Grand Masti also stars actresses Maryam Zakaria, Kainaat Arora, Bruna Abdullah, Manjari Phadnis, Karishma Tanna and Sonali Kulkarni.

Happy birthday Priyanka Chopra!

July 18, 2013 18:13 IST
Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra, who recently released her single Exotic with Pitbull, turned 31 today and many of her colleagues turned to Twitter to wish her. Here’s what they said:

Bipasha Basu: Happy birthday @priyankachopra. Wish you happiness forever. Love n Hugs!

Alia Bhatt: Happy birthday to the lovelyy @priyankachopra have the greatest greatest year!!! Lots of love and hugs to you :)

Genelia Deshmukh: Happy birthday to the hottest ever @priyankachopra have a good 1 babe, lotsa love

Aashish Chowdhry: Happy birthday to the sweetest n the nicest daughter, friend, actor, person.. @priyankachopra .. Luv u lots.

Ken Ghosh: @priyankachopra happy bday! Have another great year!

Madhur Bhandarkar: My heartiest wishes to u on your Birthday. Have a successful year filled with success and glory. Happy Birthday.

Anubhav Sinha: Some people were created special. One was born this day. Love. Peace. Happiness. Hugs and the rest of everything special.

Raj Kundra: happy birthday Priyanka god bless stay happy and keep smiling. Missing u in my city ;) Lots of love.

Riteish Deshmukh: Happy birthday darling @priyankachopra have a great one. Wishing u loads of love n success.

Shekhar Ravjiani: Happy birthday PC!!! Lots of love and a big hug.

Prabhudeva: Here's wishing @priyankachopra a very very happy birthday. May god bless her and double her success n happiness with very passing year.

Vivek Oberoi: happy birthday beautiful! Hope u have a wonderful year ahead n all the happiness & success in the world!

Apoorva Lakhia: Happy birthday rock star @priyankachopra here to u and all the great things coming your way this year.... Rock on.

Akshay Kumar pays tribute to Rajesh Khanna

July 18, 2013 18:13 IST
Rajesh Khanna

Akshay Kumar remembered his father-in-law and veteran actor Rajesh Khanna on his first death anniversary today, July 18.

‘It's been a year today, yet the loss is still so fresh. I don't quite think any of us have accepted my Father in law's devastating departure... To Mr. Rajesh Khanna, they make very few like you, you are a Father, a Legend & a very treasured man, who will never be forgotten. You are in our hearts today & always. Love & eternal prayers, from your entire family,’ Akshay tweeted.

Khanna died of cancer at the age of 69.

Anurag Kashyap: My daughter hates my films

July 18, 2013 18:13 IST
Anurag Kashyap with daughter Aliya

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who recently watched Anand Gandhi’s Ship Of Theseus at a special screening, watched it again with his 12-year-old daughter Aaliya.

‘I had the privilege to see uncut 3hour version started at midnight & my daughter who hates my films sat through & loved it. Actors don't look like they are acting, as if @recyclewala like a lizard was on the wall/ in the room capturing them,’ the 40-year-old director tweeted.

‘3 stories,3 extraordinary actors. Neeraj kabi, sohum shah and Aida, a lot to learn from them and their surrender to thir roles. Especially Neeraj kabi and Sohum Shah, neeraj's physical transformation during his sickness is a performance/sight to behold. Sohum Shah who is also the producer, and you tend to look at that as suspect but what a gem , natural and real to the core,’ he added.

Other stars also showered praises on the film:

Aditi Rao Hydari: Ship of Theseus touches your soul- DEEP down and stays there @SOTfilm... Thank you Anand gandhi, Kiran rao and Aamir khan for this gem.

Alia Bhatt: Ship Of Theseus is Reflective, beautiful and moves you to the edge and beyond..physically and emotionally!!Go watch it !!!!

Sidharth Malhotra: Ship Of Theseus lives with u long after uv seen it, completely therapeutic experience,must watch guys...

Bipasha Basu wraps up shooting for Creature 3D

July 18, 2013 18:13 IST
Bipasha Basu with the cast and crew of Creature 3D

Bipasha Basu has finished shooting for Vikram Bhatt’s Creature 3D in Ooty.

Before heading back to Mumbai, she shared a picture of the entire team and tweeted: ‘Schedule of Creature 3 D wrap!Coming back tom to Mumbai!yayyyy!’

Meanwhile, Kareena Kapoor and Imran Khan wrapped up the third shooting schedule of their Gori Tere Pyaar Mein.

Director Punit Malhotra tweeted: ‘Wrapped my 3rd sched today. Major part of the cast of GTPM wrapped for the film as well:) Such sweet people, such a wonderful time we had... Will miss u all. As for the film... Long break ahead. Now just one last sched post the monsoons:)))))))))))’

Sonu Sood finished shooting for Bhai. ‘Final day of shoot for #bhai , had great fun shooting with my ROCKSTAR director @veerabhadramdir . A name that will make Telugu cinema proud.’

PHOTO: Sania Mirza bumps into Sonakshi Sinha

July 18, 2013 18:13 IST
Madhur Bhandarkar with the priest at Tirupati

Tennis player Sania Mirza, who was shooting at a hotel, bumped into Sonakshi Sinha and tweeted a picture of them together.

Sania tweeted:  ‘Guess who was shooting in the next room to me???'

Madhur Bhandarkar, who recently visited Tirupati, shared a picture of himself with a priest and wrote: ‘Had a great darshan at tirupati balaji.. Feel blessed in the company of the head priest.’