Stylishly Sufiana!

Kapil Mehra, the flamboyant steel, cement and coal businessman brought in his birthday this week with some amazing Sufi fare at a plush suburban Bandra club.

Having been in the field of entertainment for over a decade, Mehra's choice of percussionist Hiten Panwar and his Sufiyana band were very well received by the audiences, as he seemed to know exactly what his distinguished guests comprising of the who's who of the corporate and entertainment world would be enthralled with.

Some of the celebrity guests seen at the party were actors Yukta Mookhey, Vipul Roy, politico Sanjay Dina Patil, Asif Bhamla, Simi Chandoke, Bobby Khan, Krishnendu Sen, Romeer Sen and Kajal Sen of Katha Group, Yogesh Lakhani of Bright Advertising, Ackruti Nagpal, art curators Bharat Patel and Ajay Kant Ruia, Dilip Piramal and wife Shalini Piramal, casting director Shahid Hasan and many others.

Here is looking forward to more such entertaining nites from Versatile Mehra who is incidentally a very good singer, and has cut his own musical album as well.

Prabhudeva Is A Fan Of Varun Dhawan!!!

When he made his acting debut with Student Of The Year (SOTY, 2012), among other things, one facet stood out prominently – his dancing skills. Yet, Varun Dhawan was a bundle of nerves on the day of his first-ever stage performance at the Zee Cine Awards.

However, he wouldn’t have thought that the person to calm his nerves would be dancing guru Prabhudeva.

Varun was very nervous while he was sitting in his room before the show. That’s when Prabhu sir walked in and wished him good luck. He told Varun about how he still gets nervous during stage performances. He even mentioned that he really liked Varun’s work in SOTY, says an eyewitness.
Of course, Varun was excited after hearing such encouraging words from a senior actor, filmmaker and dancer. The eyewitness adds, Before leaving the room, he told Varun to put all his energy into the performance and just give it his best. He also told him that he was looking forward to watching him dance on stage.
That’s not all. After the show got over, Prabhudeva even sent a message to the young actor, saying that he was thrilled by what he had seen. What’s also interesting is that a couple of days ago, Varun had presented Prabhu sir with the Best Choreographer award at another award function, says the eyewitness.
When contacted, Varun only said, It was a very sweet gesture on his (Prabhudeva’s) part. The actor has just started preparing for his next film, which is a remake of the Telugu hit, Kandireega

Kangna the face of Mumbai Heroes

Bollywood team of Celebrity Cricket League, Mumbai Heroes, have decided to retain actor Kangna Ranaut as the face of their group this year too. "She wasn't around in the first season; as a result we didn't win any matches. But she was with us in the second season and we won a few. I hope she continues to remain our lucky charm," says Vikas Kapoor, the co-owner, who owns the team along with actor Sohail Khan. He adds, "She discusses the game regularly and encourages the players, inducing a positive vibe. That's the kind of people we want."However, this year Kangna might not be the only star representing Mumbai Heroes. The owners are planning to rope in two more Bollywood leading ladies as brand ambassadors because some of them have expressed their interest to be associated with the team. "We will be announcing a couple of more names in the coming future. We may have two more ladies as there are some who want to come on board," says Vikas.Meanwhile, Sohail, who was reportedly not playing this season, seems to have changed his mind. He has started practicing for the league.The team includes Bobby Deol, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonu Sood, Apoorva Lakhia, Shabbir Ahluvalia, Kabir Sadanand, Ashish Chowdhary, Angad Bedi, Varun Badola, Raja Bherwani, Sunny Dulgach, Sachin Joshi among others.With Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) set to begin on February 9, players from Bollywood team Mumbai Heroes have started practice sessions to take on seven other teams — Chennai Rhinos, Kerala Strikers, Telugu Warriors, Veer Marathi, Bhojpuri Dabanggs, Karnataka Bulldozers and Bengal Tigers — in the The team’s 21 players started practicing on Thursday at the Air India ground, Kalina, under Suniel Shetty’s captaincy. “The team didn’t fare well last year, but we hope a more regimented training schedule will be a catalyst for success,” says Suniel.
Also, Salman, will be attending all the matches to cheer his team.

AFTER WRITING INKAAR, MANOJ TYAGI GEARS UP FOR A BILINGUAL

Two times National Award winning writer/director Manoj Tyagi will soon direct a Bengali Bilingual supernatural thriller film. Sakshat has been written by Manoj and will be his second directorial venture after his last critically acclaimed film Mumbai Salsa. “This is my first attempt at a bilingual and I have always been intrigued by topics of supernatural and horror,” says Manoj. The film will be produced by Raj Behl of Shri Balaji Mudra Films TV & Video.

Manoj has written many award winning films like Satta, Page 3, Corporate, Jail and Heroine along with Madhur Bhandarkar, Apaharan and many more. He has also written the story of Sudhir Mishra’s next Inkaar and co-written the screenplay and dialogues with Sudhir. “Storytelling is an art for which understanding of life is very important. The core of writing is emotions and not just mere understanding of writing,” explains Manoj.

Manoj had been inspired to write the story of Inkaar after a conversation with a friend of his who works as a Human Resource head in a corporate firm. His friend was tackling a sleazy sexual harassment case at that time and this helped Manoj make a strong foundation for a story that was liked by Sudhir a lot to make a film out of it. “Inkaar will stand out as a film because the audience will enter the theatre thinking they will leave siding with one warring party, but will leave with a confusion about which one is better than the other,” says Manoj.

Deepak Entertainment a new production house launched with announcement of film Parents at Classic Club,Andheri West

Kishore Janghid and Murtuza Hussein of Deepak Entertainment invited friends and people from Bollywood to come for the get together.They also announced their film Parents at the party at Classic club .They also showed the audio visual of Sanjay studio which they have started in Ahmedabad.Hanif Chipa and Rakesh Sabarwal received every guest at the party.Kishore Bhanushali,Misti Mukherjee,Manisha Kelkar,Swaroop Khan were the early guest came for the party.Shravan Rathod came his friends as he is also the music director of the film.Kishore Janghid told media that film will start in March.He also introduced Dolly Tomar who is lead of film Parents to media and guest.