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On October 8, Bollywood’s first-lady Gauri Khan turned a year older celebrating her 44th birthday bash hosted by best friend Maheep Kapoor, wife of actor Sanjay Kapoor at her Bandra’s plush residence.

Shah Rukh Khan had dropped in to wish his Begum and also took Twitter to share his love for Gauri by writing “Happy Birthday to my wife Gauri. May you smile today, as much as you have made the family smile. Love and Happiness always…”

The high profile party was attended by who’s who from Bollywood, with the guest list including the names like Hrithik Roshan, Farah Khan, Zoya Akhtar, Karisma Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Rhea Pillai and Shweta Bachchan amongst others.

Amongst the young brigade Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha and Mohit Marwah paid their visit Gauri’s grand birthday bash.

While her contempraries are learing ballets and gymnastic, actress Chitrangada Singh puts her step forward to learn the art of shoe mending to play a female cobbler in her next film ‘Babumoshai Bandookbaaz‘.

Scripted by Kushan Nandy, film ‘Babumoshai Bandookbaaz‘ is an action-thriller set in the badlands of West Bengal. It stars Chitrangada is her deglam look with zero makeup. Her imperialistic acting skill with the blend of Bengali dusky features have garnered her this particular role. Before the film goes on floor, she is honning her shoe mending skills with the help of a real cobbler in Kolkata and is also learning Bengali dialect to mouth her dialogues.

‘Babumoshai Bandookbaaz‘ also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a pivotal role.

A month back, the hands of Priyanka Chopra which had adorned boxing gloves, are now wearing green-coloured bangles that a Maharashtrian bride wears. If your guessing about PeeCee’s marriage then your highly mistakenly. This Punjabi kudi has gildded the Maharashtrian look for her upcoming periodic film ‘Bajirao Mastani‘.

Priyanka will be seen as Kashibai, wife of Peshwa Bajirao. Though, her look is kept wrapped. She provided the glimpse of her periodic role by unveiling her grandeur hand wearing green-glassed bangles with the precious stone studded Maharashtian jewellery. She posted this picture with a caption “And it begins … #Day1 on Bajirao!! God bless. Blinders on.. The rest can do exactly that. Rest in Peace.”

‘Bajirao Mastani‘ is a periodic love story of Maratha general Bajirao played by Ranveer Singh and a warrior princess Mastani played by Deepika Padukone.

Last week, B-Town’s Sinha family celebrated the engagement ceremony of their elder son Kush Sinha with London based NRI Taruna Agarwal at Taj Lands hotel in Mumbai.

The low-profile ceremony of this arranged match was attended by 30 guests only, which included Yashwant Sinha, Pankaj Nihalani, Subhash Ghai and Venugopal Dhoot. Punam S. Sinha, Sonakshi Sinha and Luv Sinha played a perfect host of this grand eve; Shatrughan Sinha remained occupied in his close friends.

It is said that Kush and Taruna will exchange their marital vows next year in January. Let’s see, who’s who will attend their wedding or Sinha’s will again keep it low-profile.

Parineeti Chopra recently experienced “life enriching” moment on her two days visit to Indian army jawans camp in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

The actress visited the borders to host a special TV episode on the lives of these brave hearted soldiers. She was so impressed and inspired by them, that she took Twitter to address their courage by writing “What an honour to spend time with the jawans.”

Further she tweeted, “It’s been a life enriching experience for me and my team, we never realise the difficulties faced by the Indian army to keep us safe. Living in the desert and braving the heat, they live a gruelling life away from their families just to keep all of us secure.”

Parineeti posed for pictures with these army officials and also learned rifle shooting during her stay.

Govinda‘s daughter Narmada will drop her birth name to mark her debut in Bollywood. She will be launched as Tina Ahuja opposite Punjabi superstar Gippy Grewal in Sandeep Kang‘s forthcoming film.

While, there are many who adopt screen name on Numerology’s prescription. Govinda‘s daughter has a different reason to change her name. As per the sources, she is popular amongst her friend circle with the name Tina, which happens to be her nick name. And, as she is about to mark her Bollywood debut, Tina sounded a way cooler than Narmada (her original name).

It is said that Narmada’s real name will remain untouched on legal documents and name Tina will be confined to the screen only.

Here we got the exclusive look of Saif Ali Khan from his upcoming film ‘Happy Ending‘, where he will be seen playing a Hollywood scriptwriter.

Immersed in his character, Saif has posed for the first-look as if he is envisioning a particular sequence of the film that he is writing for.

Two films old actress Ileana D’cruz will play Saif’s love interest, while his real life wife Kareena Kapoor will come across as his ex-girlfriend. The film also stars Preity Zinta in an exciting role. Therefore, it will be interesting to watch this Hollywood writer juggling with these pretty ladies on celluloid.

This year Mumbai Film Festival has got an unconditional support from Bollywood. As, first of all the film industry raised funds to back the prestigious film fest and now they are back to support it by shooting free of cost promotional video campaign for the upcoming Mumbai Film Festival 2014.

Creative advisor Shakun Batra managed to get the young stars Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Dhawan, Siddharth Malhotra, Huma Qureshi and Imran Khan on the board, along with the prominent filmmakers Imtiaz Ali and Rajkumar Hirani. The promo features these B-Town dwellers emphasizing the need to keep MAMI alive in the city and share stories about why the annual cinema celebration means so much to them.

The initiative grounded by Anupama Chopra, will be directed by the National award winning directors Satyanshu and Devyanshu Singh.

MAMI 2014 will begin in Mumbai from October 14 onwards.

In the year 2007, Anil Kapoor and Nana Patekar entertained the audience being Majnu Bhai and Uday Shetty, respectively in the film ‘Welcome‘. And now they are back to recreate the same fun-filled magic with the sequel ‘Welcome Back‘, but there’s a twist in their character.

These bad men will turn white collared quitting their prior illegal businesses and mafia connections. ‘Welcome Back‘ will feature Anil and Nana as an honest citizens of India. They will just switching their job profile, while their inner character trait remains to be the same.

Directed by Anees Bazmee, ‘Welcome Back‘ also stars the fresh pair John Abraham and Shruti Haasan.

Yesteryear actresses Sridevi and Tabu are neighbors residing in Mumbai’s Lokhandwala Complex, though they rarely meet each other. But recently, something strange occurred and Sridevi dropped in to pay a surprise visit to Tabu, along with her daughter Jhanvi.

That strange thing was none other than the latest release ‘Haider‘, which brought goose bumps to Sridevi. She was highly amazed by Tabu‘s personified character Ghazala inspired by Shakespeare’s Gertrude. Therefore, she drove straight to Tabu‘s house after watching the film Andheri’s multiplex to give her rave reviews.

It is said that talks got so deeply constructed over the time that Sri and Jhanvi ended up dining at Tabu‘s place.

Cheers to the friendship of these B-Town ladies!