Evelyn Sharma goes through dust and grind to build homes on Women's Day

While most celebs headed to felicitation events, seminars or posted their views on Twitter on International Woman's Day, there was one who went through dust and grind. Actress and fashion philanthropist Evelyn Sharma joined some prominent women leaders from different fields in an initiative to build homes for underprivileged women. 

The Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani actress who was last seen speaking at Donald Trump's National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, drove down to the little city of Karjat adjoining the Sahyadri Western Ghats near the banks of the River Ulhas in Maharashtra, to participate in a house building activity arranged under the campaign ‘WOMEN BUILD India’ by the Habitat for Humanity organization. Evelyn is the youth ambassador for their 'Young Leaders BUILD' movement. 

In Karjat, Evelyn volunteered to build a home for Changuna Sarai who lives in Sarai Wadi with her family. Changuna and her husband Suresh Sarai are agricultural labourers. With their meager daily wages, they try to make ends meet. To add to their difficulties is a lack of proper sanitation facilities for her three daughters who are growing up. 

Overjoyed with the development, Changuna said, "My husband, my daughters and myself; we live with our extended family. We are ten members in all and have been living in an extremely small house. Our condition has affected the education of my daughters. The new house is a dream come true for our family. Now we won't have to worry about a roof over our daughters heads." 

'WOMEN BUILD India' is a part of Habitat for Humanity's strategy that aims to achieve holistic community development with shelter and sanitation at its core. Its objective is to make ‘Housing for All’ and ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ a reality by 2020. 

"It is encouraging to see how the Government of India is addressing these needs through various campaigns. As women leaders from different fields, we must play a part. This was one of the best days of my life," quipped Evelyn who is also the founder and managing director of Seams For Dreams Charity Foundation. Attagirl!

Rakhi Sawant launched music of film "KUTUMB" (The Family)

A grand evening for film "KUTUMB" (The Family) on 9th March 2017 at 'The Classic Club's, Andheri West, where versatile and controversial actress Rakhi Sawant launched the music of this film. A film made under the banner of Shyam Entertainment Pvt.Ltd. Its directed by Amit Shree Yadav, Produced By Shyam Avtar Kedia & Music by Aryan Jaiin.

Noteable point of this film is that actor Rajpal Yadav who is playing main protagonist in this film has rendered a Holi song for first time in his career.

Music was apriciated by each and every guest, as the story of film reflect a love bond between a family, where four brothers sacrifices their happiness for the fifth youngest brother, resembling Pandavas, rest is the story to watch.

Starring- Rajpal Yadav, Alok Nair, Ritu Sharma, Indrapal Yadav, Ashish Shukla, Raj Meena, Amit Singh, Vaishali Shrivastav, Nikita Jaiswal & Alok Nath

Holi weekend gets more colorful with final chance to catch your favourite performers on MTV Unplugged

Royal Stag Barrel Select MTV Unplugged season 6 has been entertaining the audience from last five seasons. However this has been one of the biggest  and by far the best season as it brought the musical prodigies together like A R Rahman, Shreya Ghoshal, Benny Dayal, Neeti Mohan, Jasleen Royal,

Amit Trivedi, Amit Mishra, Jubin Nautiyal singing unplugged versions of hit Bollywood numbers. MTV Unplugged season 6 is now gearing up for its 9th episode, and being a Holi weekend it will bring you the best of season 6 performances for the final time! Yes you heard it right; this is the only season which gave its fans a chance to watch their favourite singers’ performance time and again. Now for one last time MTV Unplugged season 6 will air again the best of this season.  In case you have missed the earlier episodes and even the replayed episodes, here’s your chance to enjoy this weekend!

Music maestro A R Rahman will weave some magic with the unplugged versions of ‘Mann Chand Re’ as well as ‘Aise Na Dekho’ (RAANJHANAA), while Shreya Ghosal will render popular romantic songs ‘Sun Raha Hai Na Tu’ (AASHIQUI 2) and ‘Agar Tum Mil Jao’ (ZEHER), whereas Jasleen Royal’s ‘Preet’ (KHOOBSURAT) will make you fall for your loved ones. Last but not the least, Jubin Nautiyal will make your Holi weekend bright and colorful as he croons to popular AE DIL HAI MUSHKIL title track. So sit back and enjoy this colourful holi weekend with Royal Stag Barrel Select MTV Unplugged season 6 on Saturday at 8.00 P. M.

Kareena Kapoor Khan adds another "first" to her credit - pays tribute to the Khans in a stage performance

Kareena Kapoor Khan who turned the postergirl for the modern- day working woman as she went on to break stereotypes and continued to work through her pregnancy , now adds another "first" to her credit. 

The star becomes the first actress in Indian cinema to do a stage performance in less than 3 months after giving birth to her son. 

What makes this performance a special one is that Kareena will pay tribute to Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and husband Saif Ali Khan. 

Kareena Kapoor Khan embraced pregnancy like no other Bollywood actress, flaunting her bump gloriously as she continued to work - Tonight, at an award show, the actress will take to the stage to dance to a medley of her hit songs from her films with the Khans. 

Sources reveal that the actress who has been paid a whopping amount for her first performance post pregnancy, will be will be styled by her close friend- designer Manish Malhotra.

Rasika Dugal in Zoya Akhtar’s next in Bombay Talkies 2

In 2013, four directors came together to commemorate 100 years of Indian Cinema, and they made critically acclaimed film Bombay Talkies. The film was an ensemble of four short films based on the theme of cinema that starred Rani Mukerji, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ranvir Shorey and Saqib Salim directed by Dibakar Bannerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar. All the stories were masterpieces in themselves with brilliant performances from each actor. Now four years later the quartet is coming back with a sequel to Bombay Talkies with all new stories to tell this time around. There are already reports of Bhumi Pednekar and Neil Bhoopalam roped in for the film by Zoya Akhtar, the fresh news is that joining the cast will be Rasika Dugal who plays a pivotal character in the film. The actress was last seen in Nikhil Advani's magnum opus drama POW - Bandhi Yudh Ke and now next she will be seen with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Manto which is set to be directed by Nandita Das. Rasika is all excited with these new developments in her career and is looking forward to work with Zoya Akhtar who is one of the few brilliant woman directors country has. 

When asked Rasika she said, "This is the first time I'm working with Zoya. She had watched my short film Chutney where she really liked my part and she called me to congratulate me for the award the film won and then she asked if I would be willing to play a part in her upcoming project. I was overjoyed because she one of the directors you want to work with. She's one of those directors who has the talent to have a very good mix between making a film of a high scale and great content. I have always admired her work, I was pretty thrilled when she called me for the part in Bombay Talkies 2. We shot end of last month and the shoot was for around 5 days"