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Bollywood, celebrate the return of Rambhaaaaaa!

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Rambha's biggest Bollywood connection so far has been David Dhawan. So it was brilliant to see her free of that camp and playing a super sexy bar dancer in Shashanka Ghosh's Quick Gun Murugun . HT Cafe says the wig cost the producers of the film Rs15 lakh. Worth every rupee, I say. In the same publication, Ghosh says Rambha's character Mango...

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Prince dance group wins India's Got Talent

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So after a finale episode that lasted more than 3 hours, Prince dance group from Orissa were finally declared winners of the first edition of India's Got Talent . The all male group of bodypainted dancers is comprised mainly of daily wage labourers and I for one couldn't stop cheering! They've been the most innovative group since day one...

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My (humble) 8-point reaction to Shah Rukh Khan's detention

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Now that we've stopped breathing fire and yelling everyone who opposes our point of view on actor Shah Rukh Khan's detention in Newark, here's my take on the matter. 1. Vivek Oberoi may need publicity. SRK certainly doesn't. He's big in India. And he's certainly big overseas. If you look at the last few decades of Bollywood's...

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Kaminey: Is Charlie gay? SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT

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None of the reviews had even a line about Charlie's sexuality. But I'm convinced that the bad boy avataar of Shahid in Vishal's Kaminey is gay. Maybe Vishal didn't tell Shahid about this. Maybe Charlie's a guy who hasn't figured out his sexuality yet. Maybe it's just Vishal's private angle. But clearly, Charlie has the...

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Love Aaj Kal or Jab We Met?

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Like all of you, I was dying to see Love Aaj Kal . I couldn't make it for the press preview at Delhi's historic Delite cinema, and finally ended up seeing it one day after it opened at the DT Cinema at Saket's DLF Place. Not many people know of the existence of this new theatre and that's the only reason we got tickets I think. All the...

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Swayamvar finale: Rakhi, Elesh and Jesus

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So Rakhi got engaged to Elesh. We all knew that would happen. Manas was just a decoy, people. She was hardly going to marry a man several years her junior. The finale opened with Ram Kapoor whose smirk seemed to indicate that he still couldn't believe he was on this show. All three grooms-to-be prayed, completed assorted "wedding" rituals...

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Luck review: This film will blow your mind (literally)

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When a film starts with a group of blindfolded men darting across several railway tracks where Indian railways trains on steroids zip to and fro and manage to knock off all the men except one--Sanjay Dutt of course because " hathyaar hai inka luck "--you are almost sure you know what's coming. When this cuts straight to the song Azma luck...

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Our politicians are more indecent than Sach Ka Saamna

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The government thinks Sach Ka Saamna , my current favourite television programme, is indecent. Personally, I find our politicians more indecent than the real people who are spilling their guts aided by some quiet encouragement from anchor Rajeev Khandelwal. I know India loves this show--there are more than 100 comments on my previous post about Sach...

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If Rakhi Sawant went on Sach Ka Saamna...

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What would happen if you combined television's hottest new shows Rakhi Ka Swayamvar and Sach Ka Saamna ? The reason I'm asking is because often, when I watch Rakhi Sawant on television, I wonder: who exactly is she trying to fool? Don't get me wrong, I'm as addicted to the show as all of you are, but at times the show seems more fiction...

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My (two minute) Harry Potter review

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So I don't know Harry as intimately as my niece Tara does. I don't eat, drink, inhale all the minutae of life at Hogwartz and I don't know all the rules of playing Quidditch. I'm not into the Rowling books (though I wish I had even a tenth of her imagination) but I've seen most of the movies and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...

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TV review: Sach Ka Saamna will put Star on the comeback trail

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Trust an Indian television channel to market a risque, daring show as an agnipariksha . Star Plus' Sach Ka Saamna , which begins tonight, is a fascinating look at the way we really live, behind all our put on hypocrisy and bland exterior selves. Was chatting with a couple of colleagues over coffee and we all agreed that the first half hour in Dev...

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TV review: Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Definitely Bachao

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Sony Television's new show comes to you "Live from the Jungle". Make that "whining B-grade celebrities live from the jungle". They're predictable city slickers who look like they want to escape the jungle even before they've reached base camp in a Malaysian rainforest. They struggle through ankle deep water and slip often...

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Burger King's oh-so-brief relationship with Indian Goddess Lakshmi

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Burger King's logic for this ad, which it had to promptly withdraw after zillions of self-righteous Hindus protested, was a punchline about a sacred snack. I guess someone at the company googled "Cool Gods" or some such. And Lakshmi's lotus fit beautifully over the beef chilli con carne Texican Whopper. Contrast Burger King's complete...

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Sting claims Rakhi Sawant's swayamvar is fixed

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Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. This is India. These things happen. And Rakhi Sawant is certainly not the saccharine Yash Raj heroine she is modelling herself on in the new NDTV Imagine show Rakhi Ka Swayamvar . On this show, which promises it will end with Rakhi's marriage, the actress talks super politely to the men who've been handpicked...

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