Why Tom Cruise is grateful to Anil Kapoor

It's about time Anil Kapoor gets on Twitter!

The actor who is back from filming Mission Impossible 4 with Tom Cruise got a pleasant surprise when the Holywood star tweeted his thanks over a comment that Anil had made in a recent interview.

Kapoor, who plays an Indian in the action film, praised his famous co-star, saying, "Tom Cruise is very dedicated and hardworking. Some days he slept for just three hours. That is the kind of drive and dedication which makes you so successful. It (Hollywood) is like a Premier League," he said.

Tom Cruise read the interview and tweeted his thanks in Hindi!

Meanwhile, Cruise is not the only international star on our Bollywood list.

Akshay Kumar also thanked hip hop artist, Ludacris who's singing a song for his Indo-Canadian venture, Breakaway.

He tweeted: 'thanks buddy for your call this morning and your compliments about the Breakaway video.Can't believe you watched it without me.I look forward to seeing it on Dec 17, when I am there...I am sure its a killer viseo..cheers c ya soon.'

Getting to keep her IPL team has made Preity Zinta's day.

She tweeted: 'YEAH KXIP BACK IN THE GAME ! Even though my wisdom tooth hurts I cannot stop grinning :-) TING ! TING ! TING ! Thank u 2 all our supporters!  Appreciate all the support my fans & all KXIP fans have given us ! THANK U GUYS frm the bottom of my heart 4 being the wind beneath r wings!Reason 4 not retaining players; STAY in court 5pm & deadline 2 sign up was 12am midnight. Physically impossible so its a clean slate now!'

The fraternity also tweeted their encouragement. Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, 'Congratulations Preity !! You inspire us !'

Hrithik Roshan also tweeted his wishes. 'CONGRATULATIONS PREE!!!!!! Justice prevails!!! Like always ur d WINNER! N like always lookin even HOTTER!!ha ;)) love u!!'

For all Hrithik fans worried about their Greek god smoking, here's some good news.

We dig that model Yana Gupta can laugh at herself.

'Got a dilemma now..prada panties or gucci????,' she tweeted as she made fun of her recent panty-less outing.

Then there is Neil Nitin Mukesh. Don't let his serious avatar on screen fool you. This guy is quite the funny man. Sample his tweets where he recalls his shcool days. 'Once I was running down stairs in school. Missed one and flew down a 20 got up with a black blood clot on my chin.Looked like I had a goatee.And then a girl used to pull my cheeks a lot so to scare her I took a rubber snake.I was in class 4.Somehow I forgot and when I saw it I only freaked. Recently I went for parasailing and forgot to wear the harness.Was hanging for the 4 min ride. My hands were numb to pull down.was so stuck.'

Neha Dhupia got her laughs from this picture of Vishal Dadlani and tweeted, 'His name is sheila, sheila ki jawani!!!'

The music director and singer got his own back when he tweeted this picture, 'The eminently badly behaved @Neha_Dhupia and her rather large bum-pads! She says it's physiotherapy. Ha!'

Director Farah Khan had her own Sheila joke to share. She tweeted, 'Just heard,Sheila has her own bloody twitter account!@sheilakijawani !kya yaar.sm1 control her pls.hahaha.'

But it is Rahul Khanna who has the last word as he tweeted: 'Some very amusing Twitter lists I'm on: smartass-boulevard, bolly-fools, out-of-reach-ppl, funnies-and-wise-ish & does-not-follow-me-back.'

Dia Mirza celebrates her birthday today and may have many a suprise in store. She tweeted, 'Party time! Don't know where! Don't know who's going to be there! Just been instructed to get ready by Mom :)Air of mystery n I'm loving it!'

Even director Farah Khan, who's busy promoting her Christmas release Tees Maar Khan has reasons to celebrate. She tweeted with her trademark humour, 'Thank u all 4 ur wnderful wishes on r 6th anniv.yes vr happily married for 6 yrs.I'm happy n shirish is..well,married!☺'