Have you heard? Big B sends legal notice to pan masala brand

Amitabh Bachchan has sent a legal notice to a paan masala company for airing commercials featuring him after he stepped down as brand ambassador Last month on his 79th birthday he ended his contract and had returned the money he received Big Brsquos move followed the backlash for endorsing a product harmful to health The veteran superstar wasnrsquot aware that it ldquofalls under surrogate advertisingrdquo In September the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication appealed to Bachchan to not promote paan masalaStarry startOver the weekend the 52nd International Film Festival of India IFFI kicked off in Goa with performances by Salman Khan Ranveer Singh Shraddha Kapoor Mouni Roy and Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh Khan regaled with his trademark moves on chartbusters from the Dabangg franchise Singhrsquos livewire act cut across decades including Yeh desh hai veer jawanon ka Zindagi ek safar Pyaar hume kis mod pe le aaya Kapoor danced to motivational songs Kar har maidaan fateh and Badal pe paon hain Karan Johar who hosted the opening ceremony found it ldquoelectrifyingrdquo to be surrounded by the ldquopositive energyrdquo of cinema The filmmaker added ldquoMay we continue to celebrate cinema for decades to come with such zealrdquoNeat and trimIt was a Sunday done right for Arjun Kapoor He began the day by tucking into Turkish eggs prepared by ladylove Malaika Arora who posted that there is never ldquoa dull moment or a bad picturerdquo when he is around Kapoor then unveiled his look in Aasmaan Bhardwajrsquos Kuttey His long hair is now short and facial fuzz trimmed for filmmaker Vishal Bhardwajrsquos sonrsquos directorial debut Kapoor wrote ldquoWahi saal naya maal Moustache manrdquo The crime drama also stars Tabu and Radhika MadanMaking memoriesAhead of Dharmendrarsquos 86th birthday on December 8 son Sunny Deol whisked him off for a vacation to his favourite destination mdash Himachal Pradesh On Sunday Dharmendra shared pictures from their trip and wrote ldquoI am extremely happy My darling son took me for a holiday to beautiful Himachal Lovely trip a shy and introverted Sunny is opening up and getting friendly to his old papardquo Last month Deol had taken off with mother Prakash Kaur to the mountains Sunny is playing the doting sonHello TheaFugly 2014 and Raag Desh 2017 actor Mohit Marwahrsquos wife Antara Motiwalla shared the first glimpse of their daughter Thea who was born on October 20 ldquoOne month of loving yourdquo wrote Tina Ambanirsquos niece Marwahrsquos cousins Rhea Kapoor Anshula Kapoor and Shanaya Kapoor showered love on the newborn Marwah and Motiwalla tied the knot in 2018Itrsquos finally overThough Alia Bhatt has been busy attending the wedding festivities of buddies Anushka Ranjan and Aditya Seal the shooting of her longinthemaking Brahmastra is finally complete Over the weekend coactor Slow Cheeta shared a picture with Ranbir Kapoor and Saqib Ayub from the set of the mythological drama at Film City to share the news ldquoThis film has given me almost four years of amazing memories new friends and experiences that I will keep with me forever Itrsquos a wraprdquo wrote the rapper He added that Kapoor and Bhatt will be ldquoa treat to watchrdquo in Ayan Mukerjirsquos ldquomagnum opusrdquo The film also stars Amitabh Bachchan Mouni Roy and South star NagarjunaAlso Read Have you heard Something brewing between Siddhant and Navya Naveli Nanda