Informer

On Tuesday, Manisha Koirala finally made an appearance with her beau Chris at Fame Malad for a special screening of Nandita Das' Firaaq on Tuesday.

Informer

Manya & man

Outing Time: Manisha Koirala and Chris., Pondering Pals: Tisca Chopra and Deepti Naval, Green Trump: Nandita Das, Back To College? Shahana Goswami

Both came dressed casually. While she was in a grey sweatsuit, he wore jeans and a white shirt with chappals.
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Also spotted were Deepak Chopra, Deepti Naval, Tisca Chopra, Shahana Goswami and Sukhvinder Singh.

Stars have fun over lunch...

The cast of Raja Menon's Barah Aana joined the winner of MiD DAY's Bollywood Lunch Contest for lunch at the Gitanjali Group office recently.u00a0

Barah Aana director Raja Menon, Naseeruddin Shah and Mehul Choksi of Gitanjali Group, tagged teams: The Gitanjali Group staff with the Barah Aana team.

Naseeruddin Shah along with co-star Arjun Mathur and director Raja Menon spent a fun afternoon taking photos, signing autographs and sharing their views on the film industry over pizzas.

Make-up nahin

Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail recently came to a standstill due to Mugdha Godse'su00a0 make-up. A source from the unit reveals, "She has a completely deglam no make-up look in the movie. She has the same make-up artist who did her face for Fashion.

The guy probably didn't get the brief for this film and painted her face too much.

When Mughda came to give her shot, Madhur took one look at her and sent her back and asked the make-up man to give the actress the no-makeup look to suit her role.

This entire procedure led to the waste of more than an hour."

Now let's hope this doesn't turn out to be like Lara Dutta's "no make-up" look in Billu. Because she looked the same to us, like she does in every other film.

View to a meet

A-list producers from the industry met up two nights back at a club in Andheri.

The meeting was just to inform the others in the production community about the strike which comes in affect from April 4 onwards against the revenue-sharing percentage with multiplexes all over the country.

Producers like Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Karan Johar, Ritesh Sidhvani, Farhan Akhtar, Yash Chopra, Ronnie Screwvala, Manmohan Shetty, Vashu Bhagnani, Ratan Jain, Ramesh Taurani, Mukhesh Bhatt, Sunil Lulla, Boney Kapoor and many others attended.

Actor producer Saif Ali Khan also made an appearance and mingled with fellow producers. Aamir Khan was also meant to attend the meeting but never actually showed up!

Upen's love

Upen Patel, who is currently shooting in South Africa for Hum Aap Aur Pyaar reveals a lesser-known secret. He says that he just can't talk to women he is attracted to.

He apparently gets totally tongue-tied in the presence of a good-looking girl!!u00a0 When asked, Upen laughs sheepishly, " Yeah, and I'm enjoying my single status, because whenever I'm in a relationship, I'm blind to everyone else in the world.

Right now the only thing I want to be attached to be my work. At the moment, that's the love of my life."

Ok, Upen we get it, you are trying to send out a message that you are serious about your work. What's with the hard-selling?

Yellow fever

Akshay Kumar loves his yellow shoes so much he wears that pair everywhere.

First, at a lunch he hosted for Kylie Minogue at his home and now at the 8X10 Tasveer event held earlier this week.

Sid signs up with Sajid

Yash Raj director Siddharth Anand who made movies like Salaam Namaste, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Bachna Ae Haseeno is done with his three-movie contract with the production house.

He has now signed up with Sajid Nadiadwala. A source reveals, "The cast of the movie includes Ranbir Kapoor.
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Talks are on and the dates are being worked out.

They are looking for a new female lead and are flying down Shivani Kapoor (cousin of Kareena and Karishma Kapoor) from London.

Siddharth thinks Shivani is apt for the role and she is being called to India so that Sajid and the rest of the team can give a green signal."

Spotted

Sunidhi Chauhan at a designer store at InOrbit mall wearing a neon green tee and carrying a yellow bag, without make-up and shopping with a gal pal.

RAZA'S BOLLYWOOD

Q What would have been the title of Subhash Ghai's Kisna had Emraan Hashmi played the title role in the film?

Au00a0 "Kiss"na.

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