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Neil Nitin Mukesh is back from Kenya but with a lot of pain. Heavy duty action scenes for "Shortcut Romeo" took a toll on the actor. "Back in the city. Mumbai. Can't wait to hit the bed. The action scenes have taken a toll on me. In excruciating pain on the shoulder blade," Neil posted on his Twitter page late Wednesday night.

aya Bachchan and doting daughter Shweta Nanda are taking turns to take care of Amitabh Bachchan at the hospital here following his abdominal surgeries amid indications he will be discharged Friday or Saturday. The 69-year-old was admitted to the seven-star SevenHills Hospital Saturday and he underwent two surgeries. He was to be freed Monday but it was put off after he developed acute pain.

A man of few words, Prateik is a natural actor thanks to his legacy, but the 25-year-old says acting is such a vast subject that he can't learn every nuance even if he gets to spend decades in front of the camera. "I am enjoying it. Yes, I am comfortable, as I said I take time to open up. Coming to terms with it, I am enjoying," said Prateik, the son of Raj Babbar and the late Smita Patil.

Actress Esha Deol, who got engaged to her long-time beau Bharat Takhtani here last week, has thanked everyone for their wishes and blessings on the new phase of her life. "Bharat and I thank u all for ur good wishes and blessings! Love you all very much! Mwah!" Esha posted on her Twitter page.

Success comes slow in classical music, but sarod players Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan have no qualms about it. When IANS asked the duo for their take on the limited scope that Bollywood offers to Indian classical music artists, Amaan said: "It does not make difference to us. There is audience for our art too and we do not believe in becoming superstar overnight as it happens in Bollywood."

Pakistani actor Ali Zafar, busy promoting his upcoming film "London, Paris, New York", says cinema can help to promote Urdu, which he feels is on the decline in theatre and movies. "I feel the use of pure Urdu has declined. It is important to keep it alive as it is a beautiful language. It should be used in mainstream theatre and Bollywood. It's important for the new generation to learn Urdu," the 31-year-old said at a promotional event of the movie.

Bollywood's bad man Gulshan Grover and actress Mahima Chowdhary have urged people to help free animals from zoos, where they lead a caged and restricted life. The two actors came out in support of animal rights organisation People for Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) campaign "Fashion For Freedom" at the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) Wednesday.

Southern actor Dhanush denies that he has any brand association with Emami or its brand Navratna that were reported to have partnered for in-film promotion for his Tamil film "3". "I have no association with Emami or the brand Navratna and thus the brand has no promotional privileges as brand associates.

Actresses Dia Mirza and Sameera Reddy, designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil's muses, graced their show on the first day of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion week (WIFW) Wednesday, kick-starting the five-day fashion extravangza with a touch of glamour. While Dia looked pretty in a black jumpsuit with pleats on the waistline, Sameera looked bright in a pink-coloured one-shoulder gown.

Former beauty queen and actress Dia Mirza says that she admires Priyanka Gandhi for her effortless and easy style of dressing. "Priyanka Gandhi is herself most of the time and her style is effortless and easy. This is what I like most about her and I think it is a fashion statement in itself," Dia said during the first day of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW)

Vidya Balan, who has been on a success spree after her films "No One Killed Jessica" and "The Dirty Picture", took a lot of time before zeroing on to Sujoy Ghosh's "Kahaani." "Sujoy came to me with a script, which I didn't like. Then he said I will bring to you one idea after another till you like it. I thought he was just saying it. But he actually came with a lot of ideas to me and I liked this one a lot and asked him to develop it and that we will see.

Actress Celina Jaitley holds the movie "Will You Marry Me?" very close to her heart because it is during the shooting of the movie that her husband, hotelier Peter Haag proposed to her. Haag popped the question, and the duo tied the knot in 2011. The actress recalled the special moment, and said: "Yes, it's true that Peter proposed to me while I was shooting for 'Will You Marry Me' and it was the best surprise.

Pooja Misrra grabbed attention for her weird getup and fights on the fifth season of controversial reality show "Bigg Boss", but the media mileage notwithstanding, the VJ says she would not be part of any such shows in future. "Thank you so much, no more reality shows for me after 'Bigg Boss'.

Priyanka Chopra, a trained singer herself, says she grew up listening to numbers of Whitney Houston, who died in Los Angeles last week. "Dedicated this morning to the beautiful Whitney...Listening to her greatest hits while getting ready..she's the voice I grew up on...," Priyanka posted on her Twitter page.

If there's one place where you'll see the extreme sides of friendship, animosity and love then it is has to be `Bollywood' where friends and foes to take great steps to express their feelings. And Salman Khan truly exemplifies all the three aforementioned feelings. Be it Love, Anger or Friendship Salman has been there done that. Salman Khan recently proved this yet again when he recommended `Bodyguard' fame director Siddique

Actor Shahid Kapoor has apparently chose to walk out from filmmaker Karan Johar's forthcoming flick citing date issues. Buzz is that Shahid from a long period was keen on working under Dharma Productions. The actor even was approached before this by the filmmaker but somehow due to several reasons the 'Kaminey' actor wasn't able to work with Karan.

After the super success of `Munni Badnaam' Choreographer cum filmmaker Farah Khan roped in her favorite muse Malaika Arora Khan for a raunchy item number in her brother Sajid Khan's next directorial venture `Housefull 2'. They have a successful track record as Farah's choreographed numbers like `Chaiyyan Chaiyyan' apart from `Munni Badnaam' too has been extremely popular

Writer-director Imtiaz Ali, whose last film "Rockstar" has been picking up honours almost at every award function, says he would never venture into remake zone. "I always believe that if a film has already been made, I would never remake it. That film is already so complete in itself that I would never want people to make fun of me by comparing my film with the original," the 40-year-old said at the launch of Nasreen Munni Kabir's book "The Dialogue of Devdas".

It seems that after the super success of `Agneepath' filmmaker Karan Johar just can't get enough of Hrithik Roshan and his strong on-screen persona. The highly famous filmmaker Karan apparently is now gearing to cast Hrithik in one of his productions yet again. The film will be apparently based on the mythology and for this he is planning to make an onscreen adaptation of Amish's `The Immortals of Meluha'.

It was difficult to match up to acting skills of Boman Irani and Arshad Warsi, says Amrita Rao who has teamed up with them in "Jolly L.L.B". "I am shooting for 'Jolly L.L.B.' with Boman and Arshad, two of the finest actors we have in Hindi cinema. I have to really polish my acting skills to match up to them. Boman has really, really surpassed the expectations of the audience and so has Arshad. I am happy to be working with them," the 30-year-old said here at an event here.