Indian tennis star Sania Mirza [ Images ] is all set to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik [ Images ] in April, two months after she broke her engagement with childhood friend Sohrab Mirza.
Confirming the news, Malik wrote in his Twitter page, "Thanks for all your support.

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March 24, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher are finally going to get married after a six year engagement. The wedding was an extremely private affair. Only six guests were invited to the traditional Jewish ceremony. It took place on March 15 in Paris.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Just after the release of Lahore, leading lady of the film Shraddha Das tells Jyothi Venkatesh that though she has no barriers as far as exposing in films, she would not go to the extent that Mallika Sherawat is ready to show her skin, because she has her own limitations.

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March 24, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): As easy as it may seem but acting isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. One requires great powers of mental and physical concentration. Actors, in particularly TV stars, have to grind it out in tough conditions .Since most TV shows highlight rural life, actors often have to do without the usual luxuries associated with an urban studio.

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March 24, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):One of the dailies of Star Plus, ‘Tere Mere Sapne’ had recently seen the misfortunes in the lives of Sarju (Radha) and Radha (Ekta Tiwari) when both of them are striving to hide their relationship with the family around. Radha gets kidnapped and thus the family, especially Sarju is in cold sweat which provokes him to disclose the truth.

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March 24, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):‘Dance India Dance’ is left with 6 contestants as this week DID has seen it’s another contestant face eviction and jack was shown the door. As the parampara says, the next week too one stupendous contestant will be eliminated and one celebrity will grace the stage. Dia Mirza, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jeetendra, Salman and many more has marked their presence. Soon the stage will witness the celebrities shake a leg with the contestants.

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March 24, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Imagine TV’s ‘Kashi’, a show which puts light on education system that prevails in downtrodden villages where a lower class girl is not allowed to take education along with higher class folks. To show the location as a proper village, the locations chosen are barren open places without shade for the actors.

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March 24, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):Shilpa Shetty Kundra’s tryst with reality shows continues as she’s drafted in as a celeb judge on Colors show IPL Rockstar, say various media reports.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): After the uproarious welcome given by critics to Love Sex Aur Dhoka its director Dibakar Banerjee is teaming up with his Oye Lucky Lucky Oye hero Abhay Deol all over again , this time for a political thriller.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): By Politics, cinema, youth and youth icons Ranbir and Katrina just got closer. April would be a month of academics for Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. Prakash Jha plans to take the Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani pair on a tour across the country to address students at hand-picked campuses on issues such as politics and cinema.

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March 22, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Producer Sajid Nadiadwala is spending sweaty sleepless nights. The entire unit of his film Anjaana Aanjaani came back from the US in the beginning. But the negative stock of his shot footage is still in the US, awaiting a flight. This is so because there was no direct flight from San Francisco to Mumbai before Monday.

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March 22, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Box Office took an entirely predictable route over the weekend gone by with each of the four new releases seeing just the kind of foot falls that were always expected from them. Whether it is 'Love Sex Aur Dhokha', 'Shaapit', 'Lahore' or 'Idiot Box', there were no surprises in store as far as box office numbers were concerned.

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March 22, 2010(Sampurn Wire): Dibakar Banerjee was in Kolkata on Wednesday. Groups of people who saw him disembark at the airport mistook him for actor Rajit Kapoor (of Shyam Benegal’s Suraj Ka Satwan Ghoda and Mammo fame). The identity-crisis continued all over the city throughout the day even when he introduced himself as a director, people wanted to know if had switched from acting to direction!

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March 22, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra have never confirmed their relationship in public. Sure, they’ve been rumoured to be dating for years now but neither of them ever discussed it. In fact, Rani has always denied it and Aditya hardly makes public appearances, so he naturally prefers to keep his private life quiet. But all lies and pretence went out of the window when they appeared together for a party last Wednesday.

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March 22, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Shahid Kapoor, who toned his body up quite a bit for Kaminey, seems to love that look of his and finds it perfect. His refusal to listen to first-time director Parmeet Sethi and choreographer Ahmed Khan on the sets of Yash Raj Films’ Badmaash Company, his refusal to do retakes and his crabbiness have already been in the news for a while now. Just when one thought that he wouldn’t create anymore trouble for the film unit, Shahid had to be difficult again yesterday.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):If original casting choice for 'Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai' would have remained intact then Ayesha Takia would have played the central protagonist in this Milap Zaveri directed film and Jacqueline Fernandez a.k.a. would have been the second lead. However, as luck would have it, Jackie ended up finding herself playing the main lead while Sonal Sehgal was roped in for the second lead.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire): Whilst tending to her fractured leg, Shabana Azmi has now found an inventive way to spend her time around the house. She has lately been learning Punjabi at home for the dubbed Punjabi version of Gurinder Chadha’s It’s A Wonderful Afterlife.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):Playback singer Sonu Nigam’s stage show in Johannesburg almost ended in a disaster as he miraculously escaped getting burnt whilst performing at the Emperors Palace. The planned fireworks at the show almost horribly went wrong as Sonu accidentally walked right into the path of a flamethrower.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):Pandit Hari Prasad’s classical music school, Vrindavan Gurukul, was inaugurated by Amitabh Bachchan in Bhubaneshwar on Sunday. Also present at the event were Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patniak and Jaya Bachchan.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):Seems like the tides have turned and its pretty lady Priyanka Chopra’s turn to cheer for her father! She recently launched her father, Ashok Chopra’s album. Titled ‘Haal Mureedan Da Kehna’, this one is a devotional music album.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): For a highlight sequence in Sajid Khan directed 'Housefull', Akshay Kumar gets all troubled due to a monkey which snatches Deepika's mobile and runs away. This is the same monkey which has worked in a mega blockbuster like 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and hence came with it's own tantrums on the sets of it's first Bollywood outing.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Men are not monogamous; Aamir will definitely vouch for that. In the forthcoming film ‘THE GREAT INDIAN BUTTERFLY’, Aamir Bashir continues his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, with whom he had a live-in-relationship, and finds it perfectly normal, though this could affect his present married life.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): A large number of Lata Mangeshkar and Mohd Rafi’s evergreen melodies from the 1950s will be used in the Bollywood-inspired play Kingdom Of Dreams featuring Vivek Oberoi, Isha Shravani and Gauhar Khan. It will be staged in May at the newly constructed theatre in Gurgaon near Delhi.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Come April 2nd, 2010 and Big Cinemas will release ‘Leaving Home: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean’. Indian Ocean is a 19 year old band which has enjoyed worldwide success and has garnered truck loads of fans. The film will be released across 6 cities in the first phase.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Vivek Sharma, who directed many big banner movies like “Bhoothnath” and “Kal Kissne Dekha”, is in a big chaos right now. He would have never thought of this, but currently he is in fact worried about the issue. The music for his upcoming two movies “Dil Can Fly Idhar Udhar” and “Daaman” which will be released in a short time was stolen from the car.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):One of the bong beauties of small screen industry, Jennifer Winget aka Dr. Riddhima of ‘Dill Mill Gayye’ shares some tips and her stance on Fashion with TellyCafe.com. The gorgeous babe has many beauty tips which she has made a part of her daily routine to keep herself fit and to the point. And this may be the reason why Jennifer has this kind of crystal clear beauty which mesmerizes people around.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):This summer, TV channels are burning the dance floor to boost their GRPs. The three major channels, Colors, Star Plus and Zee TV will soon launch a dance reality show each. Colors have come up with Chak boom boom, while Star Plus is coming up with the second season of Zara Nachke Dikha. Zee TV is continuing its Dance India Dance series with the introduction of DID Little Masters.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):The film industry’s perfectionist, Aamir Khan who till date has turned down several offers from the small screen, will finally be seen on STAR CINTAA – ‘Super Stars Ka Jalwa’ for his first ever stage performance.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Women! Oh pretty women! Some are tender as the touch-me-not plant who shut themselves when touched by rough objects. Moonmoon Dutta (aka Babita Iyer of Taarak Mehta ka ooltah chashmah fame) is one delicate beauty who allegedly hates physical contact from certain co-actors. Dutta’s ‘touch-me-not’ attitude hasn’t gone down well with the unit members. Thus the director allegedly kept her out of few episodes.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Do you remember the second runner-up of ‘Indian Idol 2’ (Sony TV), Anuj Sharma, the one who sings in Sukhwinder style? Well, he has finally come out of that Indian Idol title phase which had been with him for past year. He has finally invented something new also with his genre by releasing his first solo album named ‘Khwaab’.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Barun Sobti who was last seen in the most popular lovey-dovey show on Star One, ‘Dill Mill Gayye’, will be soon spotted in DJ’s next on Sony TV.

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March 23, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):A successful satire is one which is enjoyed even by the person who is being spoofed. However, legendary Bollywood actor Manoj Kumar isn’t one who takes jokes upon him lightly. Apparently, King Khan too wasn’t spared after Kumar took offence to his impersonation by Khan in the film Om Shanti Om. The veteran actor had filed a defamation suit against the director Farah Khan, producers Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan for projecting him in bad light.

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March 23, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):Once actors craved to be part of it but it seems the prospect of working in an epic like Mahabharata isn’t enticing anymore. Star Plus’s long over due Mahabharat is slated to come post Indian Premier League. However, the production house (Swastik pictures) is having a tough task at hand to pick the right cast. They’ve been conducting random auditions and have approached reputed actors to be part of it. However, a few names have turned down the offers for different reasons.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire): At 18, he became the youngest man to win Sa re ga ma pa Challenge when he won the title in 2007. Kolkata’s Aneek Dhar hasn’t cut the ice in Bollywood but the young singer has an enviable list of fans, one that figures two cricketing Gods of the country. We’re referring to none other than the great Sachin Tendulkar and former India captain Sourav Ganguly. The latter is in fact like a family to Dhar. After all, Bengalis gel well within their own community..

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire): Comedy Circus is a laughter riot but it’s also had its fair share of controversies. Warring partners, too much Pakistani influence, indecent content. Comedy Circus has seen it all. Perhaps, for the first time, Comedy Circus is now facing allegation of favouritism.

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Mumbai, Mar 20, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The battle for Music ka Mahamuqabla is over and in the end it’s Shaan’s Strikers who have emerged victorious. The ace Boyllwood singer beat music director-singer Shankar Mahadevan’s Rockstars.


The grand finale took place at Mumbai’s BPCL ground (Chembur) and was graced by eminent personalities such as  Amjab Ali and his two sons, Shantanu Moitra, Wajid, Mohit Tandon, Madhur Bhandarkar, and all evicted teams.


The fierce competition was symbolized through the theme of ‘fire and water’ with Shankar's Rockstars - Rahul Vaidya, Sharib Sabri, Sanjeev Kumar, Neetii Mohan depicting fire while Shaan's Strikers - Harshit Saxena, Anweshaa Dutta Gupta, Debojit Saha, Shadab Faridi deciphering water. And as nature has it, it’s water that extinguishes the fire.


Kudos to Shaan and his protégées.


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There’s high drama in Uttaran with Ichcha (Tina Dutta) deciding to marry Vansh. The last time our Ichcha took such a decision, her dreams were shattered as it was Tapasya who cheated Veer into marrying him. Marriage is on the cards again for Ichcha but this time it’s against her love Veer’s volatile brother Vansh. That has the viewers pondering whether there’ll be any last minute switch of sorts.

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March 20, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Hina Khan aka Akshara of Yeh rishta kya kehlata hai fame is a bit of an unknown commodity to the outer word especially to the media. As a result, not much is known about this girl.

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March 20, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Karan Kundra, aka Arjun of Kitani Mohabbat Hai fame, is destiny’s child. He never thought to be an actor but destiny had other ideas for him. Growing up as child, he was very fond of the evergreen show Aahat and never envisaged that one day he’ll be part of it too.

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March 20, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Whatever happens; happens for the best. No one can vouch for this more than Romit Raj. First he was all set to marry fellow actress Shilpa Shinde but the wedding was called off at the eleventh hour. The actor soon found true love in Radio One executive Tina Kakkar. The duo is all set to tie the knot on March 28 in Pune. Adding to this bliss is the fact that his upcoming show Thoda hai thode ki zaroorat has got further delayed. As a result, Raj can plan for a nice honeymoon.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Mammotty’s film, Pramaani, directed by B Unnikrishnan, has been given a ‘U’ certificate.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Nivedyam marked them as a great couple. Now, Vinu Mohan and Bhama will be coming together for another film after their debut. This time, they will be seen together in Koottukaar.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Manisha Koraila had acted in the female lead roles in blockbuster films ‘Bombay’ and ‘Mudhalvan’. Lastly, she was spotted performing female lead opposite Superstar Rajnikanth in ‘Baba’ and later avoided acting in Tamil films as she concentrated in Hindi films. After a long gap she is back in Tamil film through ‘Mappillai’, which is a remake of yesteryear super hit film with the same title.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): 18th Cross which happens to be the name of a prominent locality in Malleswaram, Bangalore, is also the name of a film. The film has been in the cans for four years now and is finally going to release. The director of the film, Shanker, holds his bad luck responsible for the delay in release. According to him, the film has been shot in 45 days and about 80 lakhs have been spent on its making. He has used a real life incident that happened at 18th Cross Malleswaram for the film.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Nagma was a popular and famous actress in the Tamil film industry, a few years ago. She had acted in many Tamil films including Rajni starrer Baasha, Kadhalan and Love Birds. She was also a leading actress in Hindi, Telugu and Bhojpuri. Then all of a sudden she quit film and forayed into politics. Off the late, she embarked a new journey of preaching about Christianity.

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March 23, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): When most of the expected films had flunked terribly at box office, Surya’s ‘Aadhavan’ proves to be a sure-footed winner. Yeah! His previous release ‘Aadhavan’ released on Diwali 2009 has now successfully completed 100 days. The film is produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin under the banner name of Red Giant Movies and is directed by K.S. Ravikumar.

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March 22, 2010, (Sampurn Wire):Priyamani, who is set to star in director-screenwriter-producer Ram Gopal Varma’s Hindi-Telugu-Tamil film, Rakta Charitra, admits that she was uncertain and afraid of working for the film in the initial stages.

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March 19, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):After ‘Dhee’ again Vishnu found a flop in his next film. After striving for about one and a half year and turning himself very slim to suit the character, Vishnu worked for ‘Saleem’ and the film bumped at the Box Office. After this, he had decided to be very careful while accepting any film.

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March 19, 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Think Music has been carving a niche with its immensely splendiferous endeavors in the past three years. Foraying into Tamil music industry with Surya starrer ‘Vel ’, the music company has now reached the farthest heights of fame in tinsel town.

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