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She has no luck with love, but professionally Urmila Matondkar seems to be on an upswing. With EMI, Karzzzzz and Waar Parivaar keeping her in the spotlight, Matdonkar says she's happy, busy and single.

You know you will like Ashutosh Gowarikar the minute you meet him. His biggest attraction is not that he forgets he is one of India's best filmmakers, but that he makes you forget as well. He is happy to chat and is genuinely flattered when you tell him you've seen his movies a hundred times.

For years, Vidhu Vinod Chopra has wanted to make a film in English with an international cast. Now the buzz is that he is toying with the idea of remaking his 1989 superhit Parinda, starring Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar, Anupam Kher and Madhuri Dixit. The new film is tentatively titled Broken Horses.

Advaita Kala, Karan Bajaj and Jaishree Misra all have one thing in common - their novels, out for less than a year, already have Bollywood (and international) directors scrambling for movie deals.

We've heard all those horror stories of how files take three years to move from one table to the next in government offices. As with all horror stories, I thought they always happened to someone else - until I went for admission to a Masters course in DU.

She may have come to Delhi after a long gap, but Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta's visit to 'her favourite city' brought the fans flocking. Here to inaugurate the new D'damas showroom in Sarojini Nagar, the lady was surrounded by people drawn to the glamour of this beauty queen-turned-actress.

Not for nothing do they call her bold. After setting trends in the matter of kissing, baring and commanding huge fees for guest appearances, Mallika Sherawat has now made a demand that has so far been the preserve of male stars in Bollywood - she has asked for a share of the profits from her latest film, Ugly Aur Pagli.

Another treat for Shah Rukh Khan fans is on its way - his biography titled Shah Rukh Can will hit the stands next month. Priced at the Rs 395, it's an account of SRK's life, from his childhood in Delhi to the sets of Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain (this was being added to the book at the time this story went to press).

The blockbuster global Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Jabez Stone (Alec Baldwin) is a desperate, down-on-his luck writer who reaches rock bottom when his close friend, Julius Jensen (Dan Aykroyd), finds success. Thwarted in his attempts to get his work published, he meets a beautiful stranger (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who offers him a chance to get fame and fortune in exchange for his soul. Stone, having lost faith in himself, agrees to the offer.

She's planning to train for two months in daredevilry. Because plenty of stunts are on the agenda for an action thriller being produced by Studio 18. Katrina Kaif had jumped off a helicopter for Singh is Kinng, but that does not count as 'hardcore action'.

On Wednesday morning the fashion fraternity woke up to a shocker of a mail from Tarun Tahiliani. The designer who had kept quiet all this while, finally let it out in a no-holds barred email sent to FDCI members, a copy of which is with HT City.

Kabir (Ranvir Shorey) is a bookworm and a carefree guy whose life goes for a sixer when he meets the quirky Kuhu. He falls in love, knowing little that he'll be dancing to her tune, riding bicycles without seats and wearing stilettos. When Ugly meets Pagli one cold winter night at Victoria Terminus railway station, his life is turned around in unimaginable ways.

The film is a dark thriller, murder mystery sprinkled with some quintessential romance. Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant), a popular crime novel writer, is working on her new book and at the same time is under the French police scanner for her speculated affiliation with a serial killer.

An outpouring of grief followed the death of budding singer Ishmit Singh, the soft-spoken 19-year old boy from Ludhiana who won many hearts along with the winner's trophy on Star Voice of India in 2007. Ishmit drowned while swimming in a resort in Maldives on Tuesday morning. He reportedly had aqua phobia and it is feared that he went too deep into the water.

Brandon Routh, who played Superman and Clark Kent in Superman Returns, will play supernatural private investigator Dylan Dog in Ashok Amritraj's forthcoming film, Dead Of Night, based on the best-selling Italian comic-book series ,Dylan Dog.

After changing the face of Central Park, after changing the skyline of East Delhi, after changing the way we travel to Purani Dilli, Delhi Metro is now trying to change what many may feel is impossible: making Delhiwallas behave. Early this month, DMRC's flying squads nabbed 63 people in one single day.

It's the season of break-ups in Bollywood. Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor - all seem headed toward singledom again. What's different is that this time it's the women taking the call.

Sanjay Dutt's life has been full of controversies. Whether it was his experiments with drugs, his arrest and subsequent release or, most recently, his marriage to Maanyata, the actor seems unable to have a smooth life. But, he manages to bounce back. Is it in his stars?

Bollywood is jittery but closing ranks behind four of its biggest stars in the face of terror threats. Terrorists threats are a dime a dozen in Bollywood movies, say insiders. However this time there's a sense of urgency which has made it the talk of the town.