Posters of Guzaarish rouses protest from doctors
Being famous comes with a certain bit of responsibility and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is certainly realising that. Her upcoming film Guzaarish is already marred with controversies and the film is yet to release. What with the film’s posters creating a stir within the medical community.
The posters of Guzaarish show the stunning Ash holding a cigarette as she gazes at Hrithik Roshan. The idea of it hasn’t gone down well with the doctors who believe that this gives out a wrong impression to the youth of India. Ash being an extremely popular with the youth, they are deemed to follow suit if they see her smoke.
Apart from being miffed with the movie producers, the medicos are also upset with the BEST, for allowing the posters to be displayed on their buses.
As a mark of protest, Doctors for You, a non-profit-organisation has decided to wear black badges on day of the release of the film.
In 2005, Union Minister of Health, Dr Anbhumani Ramadoss, had banned on-screen smoking but that ban was revoked in 2009. Now, Dr. PC Gupta from the Healis Sekhasaria Institute of Public Health plans to send a letter to Aishwarya requesting her not to use this particular scene for promotion as it wrongly promotes smoking as an act.
Will the filmmakers take this in the right spirit and withdraw this promotional material is yet to be seen.
Omi Vaidya to host reality show Chhote Ustaad
Only recently did we inform you of 3 Idiots actor Omi Vaidya bagging two plum projects with top filmmakers namely Madhur Bhandarkar and Abbas-Mustan. Now Omi has bagged yet another big assignment, this time on the small screen.
Omi would be seen hosting the music and entertainment reality show ‘Chhote Ustaad’. The show, which will be aired on Star Plus, will see talent from both India and Pakistan vying for top honours. Acclaimed playback singers Sonu Nigam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will be seen as judges on the show.
Considering that Omi has hosted award functions in the past, it will be interesting to see how he manages this task at hand.
Kangna to star opposite Chirag Paswan in One And Only
Maharashtra has witnessed it. Now, it’s turn for Bihar to follow suit. We are referring to the ‘Bollywood Calling’ phenomena that strikes the sons of the politicians. First it was Riteish Deshmukh, the son of Maharashtra’s ex-Vilasrao Deshmukh. Now, it’s Chirag Paswan, the son of the Bihar MP and former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who is all set to make his acting debut with One And Only.
The film, that’s being directed by Tanveer Khan (Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante), has the curvaceous Kangna Ranaut playing one of the lead roles. If the reports are to be believed, then, the film happens to be a love story, which has Chirag paired opposite three actresses, viz., Kangna Ranaut, Sagarika Ghatge and Neeru Bajwa. One And Only is being produced by producer Anuj Saxena’s Maverick Productions.
India-Pakistan cricket series in USA
November 1, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Kolkata- India: Union Minister of State for External Relations, Shashi Tharoor suggested that the cricket series between the archrivals – India and Pakistan – could be organized in a neutral place, such as the USA.
Kolkata- India: Union Minister of State for External Relations, Shashi Tharoor suggested that the cricket series between the archrivals – India and Pakistan – could be organized in a neutral place, such as the USA.
Points out that the United States there are many cricket enthusiasts, Tharoor, who had his education in the country, hoped that the Indo-Pak cricket series would be very appreciated by citizens of the United States.
“We have a large population of patriotic Indians and Pakistanis in the United States and a handful of cricket enthusiasts as well. It is a very good way to organize a cricket in third countries and terror strikes have killed Cricket between the countries,” Tharoor said.
“It’s great to see a baseball stadium in the United States and in tight cricket match, even though the stadium is a small-Cricket is the standards,” he added.
Chaos Reigns in J&K Assembly for 3rd Straight Day
SRI NAGAR: Pandemonium reigned in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) sought a judicial probe into state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s alleged involvement in the 2006 sex scandal.
Accusing the CBI of defending Omar Abdullah, senior members of the PDP tore up a letter issued by the CBI in connection with their investigation of the case.
The CBI letter states that neither Chief Minister Omar Abdullah nor Union Minister for Non-Renewable Sources of Energy and Omar’s father Farooq Abdullah is figured in the list of suspects that were involved in the 2006 sex scandal.
Assembly Speaker Akbar Lone confirmed that he had received a communication from the CBI to this effect.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had said on Tuesday that there was no mention of Omar Abdullah in the CBI list.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Governor N. N. Vohra had refused to accept Omar Abdullah’s resignation, saying that the latter should continue in office till a final decision is taken on the matter.
Abdullah had formally submitted his resignation to Vohra, hours after a senior PDP leader had alleged in the State Assembly that Abdullah was involved in the sex scandal.
PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Beigh levelled the allegation that Abdullah was involved. Beigh even traded charges with Farooq Abdullah during a heated television debate on Tuesday night.
Beigh said he had list of names who were involved in the scandal and Abdullah was listed as number 102.
The sex scandal surfaced in 2006 with the arrest of a woman, Sabina, who allegedly claimed during her interrogation that she used to send girls, including minors to politicians, senior policemen and bureaucrats.
Among the 17 people chargesheeted by the CBI are G A Mir and Raman Mattoo, both ministers in the then PDP-led Government, and Mohammed Iqbal Khandey, former Principle Secretary to the then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
Chaos Reigns in J&K Assembly for 3rd Straight Day was first posted on July 29, 2009 at 5:14 pm.
Omar Abdullah Threaten to Resign
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister of held Kashmir Omar Abdullah has threatened to resign after PDP member accused him of involvement in sex scandal.
CM Omar has declared the accusations baseless and said he will tender his resignation to the governor.
Omar Abdullah Threaten to Resign was first posted on July 28, 2009 at 1:42 pm.
Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker
SRINAGAR: There was ruckus in the Assembly of Indian occupied Kashmir on Monday with legislators of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalling the proceedings by shouting slogans against the Indian government over the Shopian murders.
The PDP legislators gathered near the speaker’s podium and Mehbooba Mufti even tried to fling a microphone at the speaker.
The incident occurred after PDP leaders started raising slogans over the Shopian incident in which two women were raped and murdered in May.
Led by party president Mehbooba Mufti, PDP legislators started shouting slogans like “Produce the killers of Shopian” as the assembly session began.
After repeated requests by the speaker failed to restore order, he ordered the dismissal of the PDP MLAs from the floor of the House. The MLAs, however, refused to leave and police officials had to forcibly escort them out of the assembly.
Pandemonium continued in the assembly till the PDP legislators were taken out of the House.
Mehbooba Mufti later accused the Speaker of using “unparliamentarily” language and acting more like a “ruling NC worker” in the House.
Mehbooba Mufti said, “I took on the Speaker as he was ordering PDP MLAs out.”
“We did nothing wrong. Speaker was at fault, she added.
PDP MLAs led by Mehbooba Mufti are now staging a sit-in dharna outside the assembly.
Meanwhile, the bail applications of IoK police officers Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Rohit Baskotra, arrested in connection with the sensational Shopian murder case, will come up for hearing on Monday at a court in Shopian.
The pleas of the two officers were moved on Sunday before the sessions court by senior Supreme Court lawyer Asim Mehrotra who flew into Srinagar to argue the case on behalf of Mattoo and Baskotra.
Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker was first posted on July 27, 2009 at 3:05 pm.
