Ssharad Malhotraa rings in his birthday with a rocking party

Actor Ssharad Malhotraa, who turns a year older today, brought in his birthday in style. A rocking party was organised for Ssharad by his close friend Prateek Chakravorty, at the latter’s place in Santacruz. The actor, who will soon release his film short film Prem, Gajra Aur Chilli Chicken, unveiled the poster of the movie at the party too.The party had Sharad’s family and close friends in attendance. His girlfriend Pooja Bisht, was present along with  Ssharad’s sister Reema and brother-in-law Gaurav Pawa. They came all the way from from Kolkata for Ssharad’s birthday.“It was the perfect way to bring in my birthday. The party was super and I had a lot of fun. It was so nice of Prateek to organise it. I am also so glad that my didi and jijaji could make it. That makes my birthday even more special,” says Ssharad.The actor, along with his family are off to Goa today, to celeberate his birthday. Others who attended their party included Vineet Kumar, as well as Rajesh Shandaliya.  Prateek played the perfect host for the evening and made sure that each and every guest was taken care of.

Check out: Presenting a gritty new poster of ALTBalaji’s The Test Case

ALTBalaji’s most awaited web series is all set to stream on the ALTBalaji app and the website with its remaining 9 episodes this Republic Day, and the makers just released a gritty new poster of the show. The poster features Nimrat Kaur who plays Captain Shikha Sharma in the show. The Test Case is a story of the first woman combat officer, who struggles to carve out her own identity in a male-dominated world. This #ALTBalajiOriginal also stars Atul Kulkarni, Juhi Chawla, Samir Kochhar, Anup Soni, Rahul Dev and Akshay Oberoi and will be reporting back on 26th January 2018 on the ALTBalaji app and the website its remaining 9 episodes.

Ek Deewaana Tha team gets stuck in heavy snowfall in Manali

Being away from the hustle and bustle of the city to a hill station can be fun and rejuvenating. But what happens when the fun and frolic turns into the unexpected delay and full of unpleasant surprises! The entire crew of ‘Ek Deewaana Tha’ - Namik Paul, Donal Bisht, Vikram Singh Chauhan and producer Prateek Sharma, among others were on a four-day outdoor schedule at Manali. But little did they know that their moment of joy will be short-lived when they got stranded for good five hours owing to heavy snowfall.The crew was shooting the current track where Shiv (Namik) continues to plague Sharanya (Donal) and Vyom (Vikram) and had Namik buried under deep snow. Everything was to go smoothly as planned but soon things took a different course. Said Prateek Sharma, “Namik was shooting for the sequence and on Thursday morning, we were informed that his body double had to drop out, because of which Namik himself had to bury under the snow for almost half an hour. It was a difficult shot wherein we had to get Namik to breathe using a hollow wooden stick, and we somehow managed it well. Furthermore, we had to shoot in Manali, because our current track demanded a snow-based location. We travelled to Hatim Pass, situated 50-60 km away from Manali. But on our way back after the shoot, suddenly it started snowing heavily and we had to stop midway, leading to the entire crew being stranded. 

We could not make calls or reach out to anyone as the network was down. The snowfall continued and the situation went completely out of control. Luckily few villagers spotted our car and came to our rescue just in time. They helped us with blankets and food until the snowfall came to a halt. We then shoveled the snow along with the villagers to clear the road and get back on our ride. Obviously, we had to drive slowly which took us a lot of time to reach our hotel. However, we somehow managed. We thanked the villagers for their hospitality and help. If they would not have spotted us in time, we probably would not have made it back to our hotel.”

Priyanka Chopra’s new Marathi production 'Firebrand' begins

International icon, Priyanka Chopra, who savours venturing and excelling in varied arenas, publicly announced her new Marathi production, Firebrand, directed by Arunaraje Patil, over Twitter. With a vision to tell stories from remote parts of the country and to dive into regional cinema, the gorgeous actress’s home banner, Purple Pebble Pictures backed a comedy drama, Ventilator which went on to receive three National Awards.With a humungous response to its first regional production, the banner got the right encouragement to explore yet another story and announced its new film that saw its muhurat on the 9th of January, 2018. Priyanka tweeted, “2018 is here and we've hit the ground running with our new Marathi production 'Firebrand' directed by the amazing Arunaraje Patil, which began filming yesterday. All the very best team Purple Pebble Pictures, Madhu Chopra and Sandeep Bhargava.”

Aamir Khan Gives The Mahurat Clap For Total Dhamaal

Superstar Aamir Khan who has worked with renowned filmmaker Indra Kumar for multiple box office hits, gave the mahurat clap for 2018s much awaited comic caper Total Dhamaal!! The shooting of Total Dhamaal commenced today in Mumbai and Aamir graced the shoot with his presence for the very first day!

While Anil Kapoor directed the shot and director Indra Kumar assisted him, Madhuri Dixit switched on the camera and the mahurat shot took place with the presence of everyone including Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Javed Jaffery and Sanjay Mishra.

The hugely awaited laugh riot also has a casting coup with the hit duo Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit joining Ajay Devgn in the film. Total Dhamaal will also see the return of the comic gang of Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi and Javed Jaffrey along with Boman Irani.

Presented by Fox Star Studios, Total Dhamaal is produced by Ajay Devgn Films, Ashok Thakeria, Markand Adhikari, Anand Pandit and Fox Star Studios and is directed by Indra Kumar.