Pics - Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi sangeet ceremony: The media was kept away from the sangeet ceremony of Lara Dutta and Mahesh Bhupathi on Friday evening, but the couple was seen enjoying a romantic moment.
The ceremony was held at Club Fresh on the Candolim beach in North Goa. Lara reportedly wore a marigold-coloured lehenga designed by Manav Gangwani, while Mahesh looked dashing in a 'chikankari' kurta.
A lot of people were seen dancing to Bollywood and Hollywood numbers.
DJ Whosane set the music ball rolling while group Lucent Dossier from Los Angeles performed aerial acts on the occasion.
Lara and Mahesh already tied the knot in a civil ceremony earlier this week. They will now have a church wedding on Saturday in Goa.
A lot of people were seen dancing to Bollywood and Hollywood numbers.
DJ Whosane set the music ball rolling while group Lucent Dossier from Los Angeles performed aerial acts on the occasion.
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"I have been a diehard cricket fan and follow the game religiously. I have been offered several projects but this is cricket season. I am taking my passion for the game into account, which is why I have decided to do the show. I hope that my knowledge about the game and its players will attract my fans both in India and Pakistan," The Express Tribune quoted Veena Malik, who is currently in India on a three-month visa, as saying.
In her first 'crick-o-tainment' show that will hit the small screen on February 19, Malik will serve as the host with two panellists- Ketan Sharma and former Indian cricketer and national coach Anshuman Gaekwad.
While Sharma and Gaekwad will highlight the technicalities of the game, Veena Malik, who has reportedly been paid 10 million rupees for this show, will bring spice and interest to the more colourful aspects of the players.
"This show will be a mixture of cricket and entertainment. I will also discuss famous love affairs of various cricketers," said Malik.
When asked which team she would support for the World Cup 2011 campaign, Malik replied: "Of course I will support the Pakistani team in its matches. But I also have sympathies for the Indian team."
Apart from this, she will also participate in a programme titled "Bigg Toss," in which 14 contestants will all live in a villa, where they will be divided into two teams and choose the players of their choice.
Based on the performance of their chosen players, the teams will be given marks, and the team whose players perform better will win the show.
"The participants will also discuss their favourite players but according to the show's format, the participants can only choose Indian cricketers," said Malik, explaining the dynamics of the show.
Other participants of this show include Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh's father Yograj Singh Bundhel and Bollywood starlet Rakhi Sawant.
How do you make sense of a woman who's an incorrigible potentially-loathsome serial spouse-killer who when challenged about her weird passion for changing husbands by divine decree rather than the law of the land, turns around and says, 'This heart of mine, it's to blame.' Wicked laughter follows. And dammit, we are amused!
How does one make head or 'tale' of such a woman? Well, the first thing a director with a canny sense and sensibility does is sign Priyanka Chopra to play the wretchedly unfulfilled, genetically incomplete woman, a living, throbbing warning against the institution of marriage!
Priyanka, not for the first time, proves she is leagues ahead of all competition. She approaches this strange and sensual creature of the night from the outside and then quietly makes inroads into the woman's heart and soul. We can actually see the character's snarled inner-world on Priyanka's face! We don't even know when and how she does it. Priyanka is that kind of a player.
Vishal Bharadwaj has earlier made films about gangs and gangsterism. Every time the dark brooding atmospheric surface seemed to suggest a life of sinister suppressions. Those unspoken, intangible thoughts and visions that often guide a human being to his or her doom are outlined in '7 Khoon Maaf' with supreme poetic elegance.
This is Bhardwaj's most fluidly-narrated film to date. Of course, having Gulzar on board helps. He pens Urdu poetry for Irrfan Khan and rock poetry for John Abraham. For Priyanka poetry is not needed. She creates a kind of indecipherable poetic statement for her deeply dysfunctional character who kills 6 husbands and moves to the 7th at the end of the film with the profound satirical grief of a woman who has discovered that this world has no true love to offer her.
True love...ah! Now that's an idea. At heart Vishal's dark elegiac film is about the search for true love. The relationship that Sussanna (Priyanka) forms with a young boy(Vivaan Shah) as she goes from one husband to another remains at the core of the film. In a macabre subversion of the almost-pure love that Susanna shares with Vivaan's character, at one point in the narration she tries to seduce the boy who's almost like a son. It's a dark ugly moment, almost repugnant in its incestuous resonances but in keeping with the character's insatiable appetite for destruction.
Vishal Bhardwaj brings to the storyboard a deep sense of tragic grandeur even as Susanna slips from self-gratification to delusional spirituality.
Priyanka Chopra has already proved herself way ahead of her contemporaries in her earlier works notably 'Fashion' and 'What's Your Raashee'. In '7 Khoon Maaf' she moves to another level, displaying a range of emotions and age-changes (minus prosthetics) that one last saw in Shabana Azmi's performances.
Priyanka's sequences with Irrfan Khan (playing a gentle poet who transforms into a sexual pervert in bed) are stuff poetic nightmares are made of. We can clearly see the cinematographer (Ranjan Palit) is not in love with the actress, but the character. His camera searches for intransigent images in Susanna's life, even as Priyanka's quest for the character's core takes her into areas of self-expression that are far beyond the reach of cinema acting as we know it.
A. Sreekar Prasad edits the life of Susanna with a surety that, alas,the character never comes close to achieving in her dealings with the opposite sex. Sreekar creates a symphonic seamless movement from one husband to another, sometimes joining segments in Susanna's life with visuals that would otherwise seem incompatible.
The husbands are all played by actors who have no qualms in stripping away their vanity to become the kind of suave but duplicitous untrustworthy spouses who cheat and betray for the sake of the opposite emotion to love. Irrfan Khan as a wolf in poet's clothing, Naseeruddin Shah as the affable old Bengali dietician (his Bengali accent is more dead-on than any true-blue Bengalis) and John Abraham as a stereotypical rock musician gone to poppy-seed, are pitch-perfect in their creating a drama of the callous for Priyanka's character.
But it's Neil Nitin Mukesh as her first legless army-man husband whose display of clenched menace jolts you.
As a storyteller Vishal Bhardwaj has never been more in command of his language. He punctuates Susanna's story with bouts of unexpected humour and poetry. Providentially the murders are committed in ways that appear more humorous than savage. And that's both a good and a bad thing.
The narrative shows a rare understanding of the gender dynamics and the sexual tensions between men and women. Priyanka Chopra's interaction with the unctuous and closet-horny police officer Anu Kapoor delectably illustrates the fable of the Temptress & The Besotted. And by the way Viagara never seemed funnier.
Priyanka Chopra goes from husband-to-husband with a mocking sigh of resigned surrender. She is not a victim. But neither is she the hero of the bizarre web of destruction and delusion that her character weaves around her.
However, the celebrity wedding at the Taj holiday village resort has provided Goa’s environmental activists an opportunity to once again bring up the issue of the massive beach erosion caused by the grounding of M.V. River Princess on the nearby Candolim beach in 2000.
Successive state governments have failed to salvage and tow the vessel, which, like a huge mythical ogre, has virtually gobbled up a sizeable section of one of the most prized stretches of sand in Goa, from Baga beach to Sinquerim.
The beach stretch has the biggest concentration of resorts and night clubs anywhere in Goa and sees lakhs of tourists soaking up the sun and the nightlife during the October-March season.
According to Fermino Fernandes, convernor of the River Princess Hatao Manch (RPHM), which has been leading the agitation to remove the beached vessel, the Lara-Mahesh wedding might just be the best time to highlight the issue of beach erosion, which is assuming serious proportions in Goa, whose economy significantly feasts on beach tourism.
‘We will use the Lara Dutta (and Mahesh Bhupathi) wedding to get the attention of the country to the River Princess issue,’ Fermino told IANS.
Fermino also said that he would lobby with the national media representatives, who are in Goa to cover the wedding to take note of the issue of beach erosion too.
‘We will try our best to get the national media to focus on the River Princess. They only have to swing their cameras a little bit from the wedding venue to the boat, which is there for more than 10 years only because the government does not care,’ he said.
Several entertainment television crews are camped outside the resort since Friday morning, when both Lara and Mahesh arrived for the ceremony.
Sylvester D’Costa, who lets out rooms to tourists in the slightly upscale Candolim-Sinquerim beach belt, said the issue had not caught the attention of the central government and the star wedding might be a great inflection point.
‘For nearly 11 years now, the government has completely failed to drag the River Princess away. She has gobbled up the beach. Our livelihood has been affected by the erosion. Without beaches how can we have beach tourism. This is the best chance now,’ D’Costa (45) said.
According to data compiled by the state government and the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), a central government marine science agency, the phenomenon of beach erosion is grimly staring at seven beaches in Goa, with Sinquerim, being the most affected.
‘In all, 21 stretches which are spread over a length of 11.22 km (coastal area) have been affected,’ says the state’s Water Resources minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues. The 21 stretches include famous beaches like Sinquerium, Coco beach, Tiracol beach, Candolim beach in North Goa and Betalbatim beach, Arosim beach in South Goa.
A recent statement by the NIO says that more than 1.1 sq km of the beach in the vicinity of the River Princess has already eroded because of the change in sand pattern effected due to the presence of the large ship for a long period of time.
The M.V. River Princess, which was anchored at the nearby Mormugao Port, was swept away in a storm in 2000 and grounded on the beach. It was being operated at the time by a firm owned by mining magnate and a state legislator Anil Salgaonkar.
The 30-year-old actor, who will be seen in Yash Raj Films'' up-coming movie ''Mere Brother Ki Dulhan'', launched his album ''Jhoom'' yesterday, under the banner of Yash Raj Music in India and across the world.
Zafar's own record label ''Alif Records'' will release the album in Pakistan.
" ''Jhoom'' is a sufi album and it takes my music to another level. There are 12 songs in the album. It speaks about love at all levels - love with god, love with life...love with your family, friends and others," Zafar told PTI.
Zafar is popular in Pakistan for hit songs such as ''Channo'', ''Rangeen'', ''Chal Dil Merey'', ''Masty'' and ''Sajania''. He made his debut as a musician with the album ''Huqa Pani'', released in Pakistan in 2003 and worldwide in 2005.
" 'Jhoom' shows my journey as an artist. The album comprises softer and spiritually inclined songs, generically Sufi music. I think today''s music survives only for a month and I believe that music should be timeless," he said.
Zafar will be seen in ''Mere Brother Ki Dulhan'' alongside Katrina Kaif and Imran Khan. The film is set to release in July.
"Only after biggest failure comes the biggest success," Hrithik said, after his biggies,''Kites'' and ''Guzaarish'', failed to create magic at the box office.
"It has been ten years in the industry and I still believe, I am an aspiring actor. I still have to see and learn things," said Hrithik, who made his debut in 2000 with ''Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai''.
The 37-year-old actor, who will be seen as a judge on Star Plus'' dance reality show ''Just Dance'' alongside ace choreographers Farah Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant, said, "TV is a bigger medium...the size, it fools you. I was never inclined to television but the concept and the spirit of the show drove me to be part of it."
"I never thought I would do ''Guzaarish'' or ''Dhoom'' or ''Kites'' but I liked the concept...and so did it," he added.
About reports that he is being paid approximately Rs two crore per episode, Hrithik said, "I think I am paid well."
The auditions for the show will begin from February 27 while the show is expected to be aired in summer.
On dancing skills, the actor said, "I don''t think there is any God of Dance. I don''t think I am one. Dance is beyond doing those steps.. its an expression..an emotion."
Hrithik considers veteran actor Shammi Kapoor as the ultimate dancer. "He was someone who danced beyond steps and had his own expressions and movements."
The actor revealed that he considers King of Pop, Michael Jackson his mentor.
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