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Aishwarya Rai And The Bachchans Visit Varanasi Temple
Date: 11/28/2006
Aishwarya Rai along with the Bachchans visited a Kashi Vishwanath Temple or Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi to perform a prayer. The reason for the puja was to commemorate the birth anniversary of Amitabh’s father, late Harivanshrai Bachchan. Since then the rumors of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan marriage have gone wild on the web. Aishwarya Rai is world know for winning the Miss World title and has starred in many Bollywood's biggest hits. Recently her 2 movies Umrao Jaan and Dhoom 2 have released and two more, Guru and The Last Legion (2007) is due to release in the next few months.

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11/28/2006
Ishaa Koppikar has been signed to play the role of a courtesan in yet to be titled film, is based on a popular novel Sanyasi Aur Sundari set in the Ashoka era, by Kalpana Lajmi. Just this month Umrao Jaan was released in which Aishwarya Rai played the role of a courtesan.

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Atul Agnihotri's Hello
Date: 11/27/2006
Atul Agnihotri's new film has been titled, Hello (2007) . It was previously known as One Night At The Call Center. The film stars Sharman Joshi, Zayed Khan, Celina Jaitley and Gul Panag, with guest appeareance from Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif .

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Shahrukh Khan To Host Kaun Banega Crorepati
Date: 11/27/2006
Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) has signed a deal to host the popular television show Kaun Banega Crorepati. The deal is for two years and an option to continue for another season. The show will begin to air in January 2007. The show was previosly hosted by Amitabh Bachchan .

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Zamanaat To Be Finally Be Released
Date: 11/20/2006
Zamanaat (2006) , took 10 years to make and set to release in the coming weeks. The film will feature Amitabh Bachchan in his clean shaven vintage looks. The film stars Arshad Warsi, circuit from Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) , Karishma Kapoor and South Indian actress Vijay Shanti.

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11/21/2006
Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage has been signed for a film to be produced by the trio Deepak Chopra-Richard Branson-Shekhar Kapoor. The film is an action thriller film based on the graphic novel The Sadhu written by Gotham Chopra. The film will mostly likely shot in India.

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11/21/2006
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have return back to their home in Hollywood with their 3 children Shiloh, Maddox and Zahara. Angelina Jolie was here to shoot for Micheal Winterbottom’s movie A Mighty Heart, a film on the American Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl who was abducted and slain by terrorists at Karachi in Pakistan in 2002. Angelina Jolie plays the role of Mr. Pearl’s widow Mariane in the film, which was produced by Brad Pitt.

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11/21/2006
Kaleidoscope Films has postponed the release of the highly awaited film Guru starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai by one week to be now released on December 29, 2006. The reason for the move was that Bhagam Bhaag has been slated to be released on December 22, 2006.

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11/14/2006
Zee Cine Awards will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year and the venue has been decided to be Bangkok. The awards will take place on 3rd March, 2007 at Impact Arena, Bangkok. Salman Khan is also slated to perform at the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IIFA) awards cermony being held in Goa later this month. Other Bollywood stars to make an appereance are Priyanka Chopra , Diya Mirza , Bipasha Basu , Esha Deol , Soha Ali Khan and Malaika Arora Khan .

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11/01/2006
Bollywood star Akshay Kumar brings Special Olympics torch to India. The torch was passed to Akshay by Pakistani Cricketer Wasim Akram at Wagah Border. It was lightened at The Lord’s stadium in London, then it went to Wagah and now Akshay will bring it to Mumbai for the Special Olympics which will begin on Nov 6, 2006.

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Rani Mukherjee In Controversial Situation On Set Of Chudiyan
Date: 11/15/2006
Rani Mukherjee is currently in Varanasi shooting for Yash Raj Film’s Chudiyan (2007) directed by Pradeep Sarkar where she got herself into some controversial situation when her bodyguards charged the media persons and also her fans. A political group has asked for her to apology in 48hrs or leave the city. She later did apologize to the media but also added that the media was trying to get too close to her and Konkana Sen Sharma.

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Aishwarya Rai summoned by Customs Department
Date: 11/15/2006
Aishwarya Rai has been sent a summon by the Customs Department to appear at their office at Ballard Pier. The report is that a parcel from Netherlands has arrived that contains 24,000 euros, a DVD player, a Ralph Lauren Polo Sport T-shirt and pair of binoculars addressed to her. The Customs Department opened the parcel in front of witnesses once the actress failed to come to the office. Aishwarya Rai who is currently shooting for Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Jodha Akbar (2007) is not in Mumbai and will possibly return by this weekend.

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Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan and Shiney Ahuja To Do A Short Film
Date: 11/14/2006
Saif Ali Khan , Vidya Balan and Shiney Ahuja will be starring in a short film on AIDS awareness to be directed by Mira Nair. This may be part of the of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Initiative in India to combat AIDS and create awareness.

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Amitabh Bachchan To Sign In Nishabd
Date: 11/13/2006
Amitabh Bachchan to sing a song in RGV’s Nishabd (2006) . His has also lent his singing voice to his next release Babul, Baabul (2006) . The song for Nishabd will be composed by Vishal Bhardwaj and lyrics written are composed by Munna Dhimani.

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Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan Off To Jodhpur
Date: 11/09/2006
Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan packed their bags and headed off to Jodhpur on jet plane to start to shoot Costume drama Jodha Akbar (2007) . Aish seems to star in many movies that required fancy costume from Chokher Bali to Devdas to Umrao Jaan to The Last Leagion and now Jodha Akbar. The movie is being directed by Ashutosh Gowariker who has previously directed Swades starring Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) and Lagaan staring Aamir Khan .

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Neha Dhupia To Perform Item Song
Date: 11/08/2006
Neha Dhupia has been selected to perform a item song for the movie Jimmy And Johny . The movie stars Sanjay Dutt , Saif Ali Khan , Bipasha Basu and Kim Sharma . The movie is being produced by producer, Mahendra Dhariwal and directed by Ajay Chandhok. Neha last appeared in a item song and brief appearance in Garam Masala.

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Aishwarya Rai celebrates her 33rd birthday
Date: 11/01/2006
Aishwarya Rai celebrated her 33rd birthday on Wednesday, Nov 1, 2006. She attented special midnight screening of her latest movie Umrao Jaan at Film City. He had visited Siddhi Vinayak temple in Mumbai with her family during that day. Aish was born on Novenber 1, 1973 in Bangalore, India and rose to stardom after she won the coveted crown of Miss World 1994. She made her film debut with Mani Ratnam’s Tamil film Iruvar in 1997 and in Bollywood the same year with Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya. Her 1999 film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam brought her success.

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11/08/2006
Britney Spears , singer and entertainer, filed for divorce from her husband Kevin Federline on Tuesday Nov 7, 2006 siting irreconcilable differences. Britney has asked for both legal and physical custody of one-year old Sean Preston and two-month old Jayden James and shockingly going to provide spousal support even thou she is protected by a definitive pre-nuptial agreement.

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10/23/2006
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are currently in Jodhpur, Jaipur to resume shooting for A Mighty Heart. They arrived in the Rajasthan capital by chartered plane with their three kids. Brad will be shooting a commercial advertisement for a Japanese company while Angelina will be filming for A Mighty Heart. They will be staying at the Oberoi Rajvilas resort.

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