Faruk Kabir – Rukhsar to host grand wedding reception

They married secretly a year ago. Now exactly a year later, filmmaker Faruk Kabir and his actress-wife Rukhsar are under fire for having kept family and friends in the dark about their marriage. Buckling under the pressure of outrage, the two have decided to host a belated reception for all their friends and family.

Says Faruk, “Only my sister and mother and her two close friends were present at the Nikaah. Rukhsar lost her beloved grandmother and then her mother before the marriage. And her father can’t travel. So she had no real family at the wedding. I think we owe it to our close relatives friends and colleagues in the film industry to have them share in our moment of joy.”

Faruk Kabir says he decided to reveal his secret marriage with actress Rukhsar on an impulse.

Says the director of Allah Ke Banday, “We got married on 23 March 2010 at a wedding that was only attended by my parents and sister. We didn’t even invite any of our closest friends. She had some issues to resolve and we thought it would be best to wait. I was also embroiled in delays and financial crises while shooting Allah Ke Banday. She has been a part of my life for six years now. So everyone in the family knew about her existence in my life. We decided to make it public on an impulse. I just spoke about it on Facebook and it caught on.”

Faruk’s greatest joy and relief is the fact that his mother and wife get along like a house on fire.

“Fortunately no fire in the house at all. They are more like mother and daughter than daughter-in-law. I’ve suddenly become the outsider in our home. They spend all their time making plans from which I am excluded. They go shopping together and they don’t even tell me,” grumbles Faruk good naturedly. Faruk’s sister Sonobar Kabir who is a singer-actress is also deeply bonded to Rukhsar.

Attock: Husband burns his wife

Husband has burnt his wife alive in Attock, trendpk.com reported on Friday. Alias mother and sister blamed that her husband wanted to get married with another lady.

Details: Naeem burnt his wife Alia alive in Jasiyan village near Attock. Alias sister Naseem while talking to trendpk.com said that her brother-in-law used to torture her sister and he burnt her sister because he wanted to marry his brothers wife. She told that her sisters 45 percent body was burnt and she was referred to Rawalpindi as there were fewer facilities in the local hospital.

Rani’s gaalis might just create trouble for Jessica at the censor board

There’s trouble ahead for the much talked-about real-life drama No One Killed Jessica. Rani’s character of an intrepid investigative journalist chain smokes and mouths gaalis non-stop. In the trailer, Rani’s shocking use of the term ‘g..nd phat jaati’ has been managed with a beep. But if the film’s makers get down to deleting every expletive Rani’s character utters there would be huge gaps in her dialogue.
According to sources, Rani’s character’s flow of profanities is so non-stop that if the censor board decided to beep her gaalis, Rani’s dialogue soundtrack would have more beeps than words.
Laughs and protests director Rajkumar Gupta, “It’ not that bad, really. You are making it sound like a non-stop abuse binge. My film is not that. But yes, Rani’s character is very brutal and graphic in her speech. I don’t know if, as you say. Rani is the same way in real life. I didn’t know her before I shot with her. But she was thoroughly professional in mouthing squirmy words.”
While in real life Rani Mukerji is very comfortable using the ‘F’ word and ‘G’ word in English and Hindi, her co-star Vidya Balan in No One Killed Jessica is not quite the type who will mouth maa-bahen galis at the drop of an oath, no matter what the provocation. Not that Vidya is a prude. But she does mind her language. Rani is just the opposite and it shows on screen.
Now the question looming over No One Killed Jessica is, would the censor board allow Rani’s character to speak her mind so graphically? The censors are known to clamp down heavily on lurid language unless it is in a Vishal Bhardwaj film. Paradoxically, Vishal’s rustic characters are allowed to mouth maa-bahen gaalis. Jessica producers – UTV who co-produced Bharadwaj’s Kaminey are hoping that the same language in an urban context is permissible.
Says Rajkumar Gupta, “We voluntarily beeped out Rani’s expletive in the trailer because it was to be screened on the home-viewing medium. But now when we submit the film for censorship, we will go with the entire language content intact hoping the censor board would see the context and not just the hard-hitting nature of the language.”
While Rani Mukerji is said to be gung-ho about the language, Vidya Balan is apparently dreading how the dialogues would sound in a pindrop-silent theatre with dolby sound.
Says the director, “Let’s just say, both Rani and Vidya said what they had to. They were thorough professionals.”
Another area of discomfort for this controversial film would be the legal ramifications of showing real-life people, particularly the hostile witnesses in the real-life Jessica Lal murder case. Apparently, some of the key witnesses are already inquiring about the content and getting ready for legal action.
Says Rajkumar Gupta, “We’re ready for any eventuality. I made the film the way I wanted to as a mix of realism and cinematic entertainment. No One Killed Jessica is not a documentary on the Jessica Lal case. But it is about her sister’s fight for justice. And if the real-life characters recognize themselves they are welcome to react how they want.”
Or else Rani will let loose a volley of the choicest.
Laughs Gupta, “We are hoping for a U/A (parental guidance) certificate. But even if we get an Adults certificate we’re okay with it.”

Abhijeet Sawant reacts over Tuesday’s late-night brawl

Abhijeet Sawant’s run-in with the law on Tuesday night on an empty stretch of road in Juhu has left the singer shaken but certainly not scared.

Speaking on Wednesday afternoon about the series of incidents leading to the ugly spat with a mob on the road, the soft-spoken Sawant said he felt he was being targeted only because he was a known face.

Says the singer, “On Tuesday night I attended a singers’ association’s meeting with my friends and colleagues. Among them was Prajakta Shukre. After the meeting we all left. Prajakta was in her Honda City. On the way she banged her car into a scooter which had two people on it. She called me in panic. And I immediately rushed to the spot to help her, as any friend would.”

Abhijeet, who is happily married, is appalled to read Prajakta being referred to in the papers as his “girlfriend”.

Protests the singer and reality-show host, “She is like my sister. Hum donon mein bhai-behen ka rishta hai. So I rushed to her rescue. When I got there I saw the situation was very bad. The mobs were getting very edgy and aggressive. When I tried to intervene they got rough with me and held my collar.”

Abhijeet denies being drunk or getting abusive with the public on the road. “Throughout I kept my cool and when the cops arrived we went to the police station.”

The injuries to the two boys on the scooter, says Abhijeet, are minor.

“There have been reports that we were drunk. That isn’t true at all. Prajakta got into a bit of trouble. And I helped her out. I don’t think that’s wrong.”

WikiLeaks: Zardari feared coup, named sister as successor if killed

LONDON: President Asif Ali Zardari had informed the US ambassador to Pakistan that “he had instructed his son Bilawal to name his sister, Faryal Talpur, as president” in the eventuality of his assassination, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

According to the latest cache of WikiLeaks published by the British daily, Zardari has made extensive preparations in case of his own assassination.

Last year Zardari told US ambassador Anne Patterson, that if he was assassinated, “he had instructed his son Bilawal to name his sister, Faryal Talpur, as president”.

Zardari is frank about the strength of the Taliban. “I’m sorry to say this but we are not winning” the war against extremists he told US Vice-President Joe Biden in 2009, one of the leaked US cables state.

“I am not Benazir, and I know it,” he told US ambassador Anne Patterson after his wife’s

Ekta & Tusshar Kapoor attended the NY Festival separately

Ekta Kapoor loves her only sibling Tusshar to death. But when it comes to providing space, she’s next to none. A totally non-interfering ‘Didi’, Ekta carried her hands-off policy to a new high when Tusshar and she attended the Tenth Annual Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York. Not only did Ekta and Tusshar travel separately from Mumbai they also did their own thing in New York and believe it or not, met only at the venue of the Festival!

Tusshar confirms this when he candidly says, “Ekta and I travelled separately to New York. She was with her friends on one flight, I went later on my own, crashed out the minute the flight took off and woke up when we were to land in NYC, so I was grateful for not being in company on flight. In New York, I shopped the whole day and only then attended the Festival. That’s where I met Ekta.”

Tusshar admits the celebrity-siblings like to give each other space. Rohit Shetty, who has just delivered a whammy of a hit Golmaal 3 which features Tusshar Kapoor, is all set to direct a comedy for producer Ekta Kapoor. But guess what! Tusshar is not too keen on being part of a hit team when sis Ekta is proving the financial backing.

Tusshar, who turned 35 this month, is evasive on this issue. “Yes, Rohit is committed to direct a film for my sister. But I think he’s first planning to direct an action film for Ajay Devgn. When the film produced by my sister happens we shall see. Right now I am just so happy to be part of a film that is so successful.”

Success on his own terms, and not arranged by his tycoon sister. That’s Tusshar’s policy. A rarity in an industry where youngsters are on the prowl for godfathers and patrons.
Everyone has noticed how Ekta and her brother Tusshar Kapoor have been occupying individual spaces as much as possible. However, the reason for it is not anything as scandalous as sibling rivalry.

By now every hopeful mother-in-law and her eligible son in town know, Ekta Kapoor is a recluse. Even when it comes to her own brother Ekta has a completely hands-off approach letting him make all his career decision independent of their home production Balaji Films.

Pritam opts for sister over Pankaj Kapoor’s Mausam

When it comes to his music, Pritam Chakraborty is likely to forget everything else. But not at Bhai-Dooj .For the occasion come what may, he has to be in Bengal for with his only sister Sangeeta.

This year, however, a work-related emergency came up just when Bhai-Dooj was around the corner. Pankaj Kapoor needed three songs for Mausam. Fast. Pritam was whisked away to Khandala by the fastidious first-time director and asked to compose the required songs.

Says a source, “Pritam was told not to budge until the songs were in place. However, when Bhai Dooj, arrived there was no way Pritam could be kept away from his sister in Bengal. Pritam took off promising to be back the next day.”

On his return to Mumbai on Sunday, Pritam confirmed that he had indeed taken time off from Pankaj Kapoor’s music to be with his sister in Bengal. “This is something I’ve to do for myself and my sister. In Bengal, we aren’t too sold on Raksha-Bandhan. Bhai-Dooj is our festival for siblings. It’s an annual ritual. I always make sure to be with her. But this year because of Mausam I had decided to make an exception. However, when Bhai Dooj arrived I felt very guilty about letting my sister down. I took Pankajji’s permission he was very sweet.”

The good thing about the emergency break is that Pritam has locked in on the tunes for Mausam. Pritam has been briefed to avoid doing his typical ‘Nagara’ numbers in Mausam. And that’s where the problem starts.

The leading lady Sonam Kapoor’s illness disrupted the Mumbai schedule of the film. Now the Mumbai portion which will represent the fourth seasonal interlude of the Pankaj Kapoor’s film, has been pushed forward to next year. The unit has decided to pre-pone its lengthy 2-month Punjab schedule which now starts next week.

There’s only one major problem with this reshuffled schedule. The film’s music composer Pritam is not ready with the songs.

Says the flustered over-worked tunesmith, “I’ve just returned from a live concert in Nigeria. The journey itself is so long and tiring. I’m insanely jetlagged. I’ve been told by Pankajji that the Punjab schedule has been pushed ahead of schedule. They need three songs for the Punjabi interlude.”

Pritam has not even started preparing for the songs. But he isn’t in a panic. “They’ll start their Punjab schedule with talkies and dialogues. In the meanwhile I’ll get the songs ready.”

Though known to deliver Punjabi-Bhangra ditties at the drop of a hat, Pritam is this time on more delicate grounds. “They call me Pritam Singh in Punjab. They are convinced I’m just pretending to be Bengali. I’m identified with brisk balle-balle type of songs like ‘Mauja Hi Mauja’ and ‘Twist’. But for Mausam, I’ve to love ballads in the Punjabi style which is trickier. But I am sure I can manage.”

In the memory of Sanjeev Kumar

He broke all the rules of stardom and yet was a star, a romantic hero and an all-rounder par excellence. 47 was no age for one of Hindi cinema’s brightest talents to go, but on November 6, 1985, Sanjeev Kumar passed away, leaving fans, friends and the Hindi film shell-shocked.
Gulzar remembers Sanjeev Kumar
“For me, he was the complete actor. I have always said that I had two anchors – one was Sanjeev Kumar, and the other was R.D.Burman.
What most people do not know is that I knew Haribhai (as I called him) from the late 1950s. We were both with the Indian National Theatre where I would write for the plays and he was a stage actor. Sanjeev was a student of P.D.Shenoy, who was also teaching at the Filmalaya School of Acting and later turned film director.
Sanjeev was just over 20 years old, and he was playing a father! Leela Chitnis was playing his wife and Manvendra Chitnis his son, and what a performance Sanjeev gave as the old man! We struck a rapport somewhere, began sharing cups of tea – which was the best way to cement friendship and practice economy simultaneously! We also began to discuss acting, and realised that he was quite a knowledgeable man.
Sanjeev was born for excellence and for getting compliments! One day, after the performance, Sanjeev happened to meet Prithviraj (Kapoor)ji, who did not recognise him without make-up and told him, “That old man was really wonderful!”, thrilling Sanjeev no end!
Then one day, he overheard a Gujarati lady say, without knowing that Sanjeev was a Gujarati too, that he looked a lot like Joy Mukerji, who was a big name and was the son of S.Mukerji, the Filmalaya chief! Sanjeev was so happy that he resembled a successful film hero as he thought that he thus had a brighter chance of becoming a star!
So far as movies are concerned, our first film together was Sunghursh, in which I was the dialogue writer. To say that Sanjeev Kumar matched both Dilip Kumar and Balraj Sahni was an understatement! I still recall the first shot he gave – a chess sequence with Dilipsaab. What confidence he displayed – and what precision! I overheard Dilip Kumar asking H.S.Rawail, the producer-director, “Iss ladke ko kahaan se dhoond ke laaye aap? He is such a good actor!”

As an actor and as a human being, Sanjeev Kumar earned immense respect from everyone right from his theater days. Far from being the miser he was said to be, he quietly helped out everyone who needed assistance, right from his theater friends to his staff and others. I know that he bought a taxi for someone, a machine for someone else and so on.
After Sunghursh, we came together in Aashirwad and then I approached him for Vinod Khanna’s role in my directorial debut Mere Apne. He told me, “You know that I can’t say ‘No’ to you. But please try and understand, this film belongs to the actress who will play the old lady.” But I always felt that jo aur koi nahin kar sakta hai woh Sanjeev to kar hi lega, so I approached him next for the cameo of Jaya Bachchan’s father in Parichay and he accepted it. After that, he would never ask me for the story and would blindly trust me.
An interesting story followed. I knew that no one else could play the deaf-mute to perfection in my third film Koshish. The gap between these two films’ releases was a month, and the main theatres in Mumbai for them were a few buildings apart as Parichay was still running. Sanjeev came to me and voiced his apprehensions, saying that he was playing Jaya’s father in Parichay but her husband in Koshish. How could the people accept that? I conceded that he had a point and went to producer N.C.Sippy. And Sippysaab simply said, “You forget what a good actor he is! People forget who Sanjeev is because he becomes the character. This will be a test for him and of my faith in him.”
As it happened, Koshish was also a hit and Sanjeev even got his second National award for it. In the same year, he was Jaya’s boyfriend again in Anamika. Among their later films, he also played her father-in-law in Sholay! Mausam, Namkeen, Angoor for me and Faraar, Arjun Pandit and Devata in which I was only the writer – Sanjeev was always a dependable force for me, and I also wrote lyrics for his Anubhav, Grihapravesh and Swayamvar.
On the sets of Namkeen, Sanjeev upset all the four ladies – Waheeda Rehman, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi and Kiran Vairale – because he would always report late. They would also blame me because I never chided him, so they would not speak to him when he arrived. Sanjeev would instinctively sense this, but remain completely indifferent! But the shot he gave would bowl them over and break their resolve! They would end up teasing him, suggest improvements in his wardrobe, bully him affectionately and finally tell him, “We forgive you only because you are such a terrific actor!”
Sanjeev had a great sense of humour – a must if one has to do all those comic roles that he did so brilliantly. Comedy is all about timing – you either have it or you don’t. Sanjeev was a rare actor – he was attracted only to roles. It did not matter what role it was. Like his nine roles in Naya Din Nayi Raat – who else could have done them with such distinction? One day, after his bypass surgery from which he never really recovered, he was standing late at night outside his home with Boney Kapoor – he never really changed his lifestyle for the better – and I was passing by and asked him how he was. He said, “They have put a vein from my leg in my heart, so it is learning to kick!” Earlier, he would drop into my home as late as 1 a.m. in the night and needed a Black Label every time. “If you can’t afford it, I will get it!” he would joke. My sister lived with me then and would love to cook a non-vegetarian meal for him that late. Sanjeev was mad about non-vegetarian food as it was never cooked at his home!

Another incident I recall was of Noorjahan, the famous singer, coming down to Mumbai – she adored Sanjeev and invited him for dinner at a famous restaurant. She was accompanied by her sister and brother-in-law and Sanjeev coaxed me into accompanying him, stating that he would need me if she began to speak in chaste Urdu that he would not undrestand! It turned out to be a memorable experience and I owe Sanjeev the privilege of meeting that great lady!
Lots has been written about why Sanjeev never married, but the truth was that he firmly believed that there was a curse on his family that the males would never live beyond the age of 50. His father had passed away early, and Sanjeev, as the eldest of three brothers, was very attached to his mother, because of whom, despite his success, he did not move to a bigger house but lived with her and youngest brother Nikul or Baba, and his family. In the ’80s, he helped Nikul launch a film, Do Waqt Ki Roti, which never released. Then suddenly Nikul died, strengthening his belief in the curse. Sanjeev died at the age of 47, and less than two years later, the second brother Kishore also died. It was strange!
Well, what else can I say? Sanjeev always knew his capability and would plan what he would do with the number of sequences he had in a film. He was a hero of his own kind, not in the cliched sense of the definition of a film hero. And I miss him!
(As told to Rajiv Vijayakar)
A torrent of talent
Like water, Sanjeev Kumar simply took on the shape of the role and film in which he was placed. The master of natural acting in the Ashok Kumar-Pran-Motilal-Balraj Sahni mould, Sanjeev Kumar had paradoxically dabbled in theatre before entering cinema. Coming from a lower middle-class family, Harihar Zariwala (his real name) got his first break in the cameo of a cop in Filmalaya’s Hum Hindustani (1960), since he was also a student of the Filmalaya School of Acting.
The stunt film Nishan (1965) was his first solo lead. The first turning-point came in 1968 when he stole the scene as the inspector in the Asha Parekh-Dharmendra murder mystery Shikar. In the same year, L.V. Prasad’s swashbuckling Raja Aur Runk was Sanjeev’s first A-grade solo hit, and the film saw the first of his many chartbusters, Phirkiwali tu kal phir aana. Both films proved Golden Jubilees.

Slowly, A-grade directors (Prasad again, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Dulal Guha, A.Bhim Singh, H.S.Rawail, G.P.Sippy, N.N. Sippy, Govind Saraiya) were coming forward to sign him in lead or parallel roles (Aashirwad, Anokhi Raat, Chanda Aur Bijli, Jeene Ki Raah, Bandhan, Satyakam) and Sanjeev even did his first negative turn in the Shammi Kapoor-Sadhana-starrer Sacchai.
In early 1970, H.S.Rawail’s Sungharsh was a box-office dud, but the world noticed that Sanjeev Kumar loomed very tall in the triangular histrionic confrontation with powerhouse performers Dilip Kumar and Balraj Sahni. Weeks later, Prasad’s Khilona hit the screen. As the lover-boy-poet who goes insane, it still ranks among the most magnificent essays of both his career and that decade.
In 1971 and 1972, the actor clinched two consecutive National awards for Dastak and Koshish. Haribhai’s simple looks never came in the way of powerful and variegated performances, like the lighthearted doctor boyfriend (Seeta Aur Geeta), the old musician (his cameo in Parichay), the middle-class husband in a discord with his wife (Anubhav) or the philandering executive (Pati Patni Aur Woh).
In the mid-’70s, Sanjeev did a whole parade of multi-hero films, unworried by what footage he had or whether the film would benefit him. Shashi Kapoor, Jeetendra, good friend Shatrughna Sinha and Amitabh Bachchan remained his favourite male co-stars.
And though he became a saleable hero only after Anubhav, Seeta Aur Geeta, Koshish, Anhonee and Anamika in the early ’70s, it was a rare filmmaker like B.R.Chopra and Mahesh Bhatt, who worked only once with Sanjeev Kumar. Besides Prasad, Atma Ram, A.Bhim Singh and Hrishikesh Mukherjee, even Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai, Ramesh Sippy, Gulzar, Shakti Samanta, Ravi Tandon and many more went that extra mile to cast him, or conceive subjects with him.
In 1974-’75, Sanjeev Kumar’s remarkable essays of nine roles in A. Bhim Singh’s Naya Din Nayi Raat (a remake of Sivaji Ganesan’s 1964 Navarathiri) and his magnificent portrayals as the husband of a political leader (Aandhi) and the Thakur of Sholay proved more landmarks. Not surprisingly, in 1976, Sanjeev was signed by Satyajit Ray for his first tryst with Hindi cinema, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, in which he again dazzled as Mirza. And let us not forget that K.Asif, in his only film after Mughal-E-Azam, chose Sanjeev for Love And God. Sadly, the film was to release only after both Asif and Sanjeev had gone. But Sanjeev was known never to leave his house for work without paying respects to Asif’s framed photograph in his living room.
The super performances Sanjeev gave in multiple films in middle-aged/old man roles (Arjun Pandit, Mausam, Zindagi, Trishul, Hum Paanch) outshone his ‘young’ roles later. But one could never typecast this actor in whose dictionary the word “limitation” did not exist. Apart from his “old” roles, the crème-de-la-crème of his oeuvre, included his comic roles in Seeta Aur Geeta, Manchali, Pati Patni Aur Woh, Nauker, Biwi O Biwi, Angoor and Hero, with his uncanny excellence at comedy through deceptively-casual tweaks of his voice, eyes and even hands! And for a man who neither had a romantic image nor was an adept dancer, Sanjeev Kumar inspired his composers to come up with amazing songs like Khilona jaan kar tum to / Khilona, Tere naam ka diwana / Suraj Aur Chanda, Hawa ke saath saath / Seeta Aur Geeta, Tere bina zindagi se / Aandhi and Dil dhoondta hai / Mausam. Mohammed Rafi even tweaked his voice to suit the actor.
When he died suddenly of a massive heart-attack, the actor had eight films on hand! Sanjeev Kumar proved conclusively that true talent always writes its own rules.
Screen India

Jessica Simpson Pregnant

Jessica Simpson Pregnant, Word on The Curb has it that Jessica Simpson is desperate to get pregnant by her boyfriend of four months, former NFL ace Eric Johnson. That is if a new scoop from the celeb gawkers at The National Enquirer is to be believed.

This sounds like an excellent plan, Jess. (A pause while Castina slaps forehead!)

“Jessica is crazy in love with Eric, so they’ve decided to make a baby. She always said she wanted to be pregnant by the time she was 30,” a chatty friend of one-half of The Singing Simpson Sister blabs in the Sept. 27 issue of the tab. “Her priorities have changed and all she can think of is motherhood,” the pal adds. “She’s happily eating for two – and she’s not in the least embarrassed.”

That’s a great reason to rush into motherhood –- a self-imposed deadline. Four months! We bet she hasn’t even farted in front of him yet and she’s already planning a baby? Girl, this just reeks of desperation. Even for Jessica. Have we learned nothing from the public relations nightmare that was The John Mayer/Dane Cook Years? And will you just take a look at the winner she’s selected to sperminated her lady parts!

On paper, former San Franciso 49er Johnson hardly seems father material. The ex-athlete was still married until earlier this year and has no job. Not that unemployment would matter to Jessica. The busty bombshell reportedly earned around $30 million last year from her clothing and shoe lines – and launched the Jessica Simpson Denim Collection at New York Fashion Week earlier this month.

(No, we don’t know who would buy that stuff either. But apparently people do. Lots of people.)

Another Simpson source spills the scoop that the star may already be with child. Not only is she already on the hunt for baby clothes and nursery decor, Jess is packing on the pounds at a rate that would make Gabourey Sidibe blush. She’s gone from 125 lbs. earlier this summer to a healthy 140.

“A pregnancy explains her sudden weight gain,” Pal No. 2 gushes. “Two months ago, she bragged she was in the best shape of her life on Eric’s vegan diet…The biggest tipoff though is that Jess has been hinting to friends that there will be some big news any day from her and Eric.”

Boy, does this chile need a healthy dose of good advice. So her goes: Jess, we implore you to think. Just think, ‘What would Papa Joe do?’ Got it? Now do the opposite.

Twinkle’s ‘Blast Before The Fast’ for Akshay

Akshay Kumar who was in Toronto shooting for a music video flew back on Sunday in time for a very special get-together being organized by his two most favourite women on earth.

Wife Twinkle and sister Alka got together to organize a grand pre-Karva Chauth get-together on Monday. Karva Chauth a day-long holy fast observed by wives for the well-being of their husbands, falls on Tuesday.

Says a source close to Akshay, “Twinkle and her sister-in-law Alka who get along like a house on fire, hit on this ingenious plan of an all star-wives meet a day before Karva Chauth. Their logic was, why shouldn’t wives have the time of their lives on the day before they undergo food-less penance for their husbands? They named their event ‘The Blast Before The Fast.’

And all Bollywood wives from Gauri Khan and Mrs Sajid Nadiadwala to Akshay’s mother and mother-in-law Dimple Kapadia are invited. Men, excluding Akshay Kumar are strictly barred.

Akshay has been getting pleading calls from his buddies asking if they could “drop in” at the party.

“But Alka and Twinkle have strictly forbidden male participation. They say it’s an evening devoted to the girls. The guys can take care of themselves,” says a source.

Akshay, who flew back to Mumbai on Sunday, immediately got busy with his wife and sister issuing all the invitations and arranging for the best food games and entertainment.

The Blast Before The Fast party is to be held at Akshay’s sister Alka’s spa Aroma Garden in Juhu.

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