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Gladrags threatens to sue Ms India Earth Harshita



Mumbai: Newly-crowned Pantaloons Miss India Earth Harshita Saxena has run into a legal trouble.
At a press conference convened in Mumbai on Tuesday, President of Gladrags beauty paegents Maureen Wadia claimed that Harshita is a model from her company and under contract with them.
Maureen also said Harshita could not participate in any other beauty contest and threatened legal action against the beauty queen.
Harshita was the third runner-up at the glittering Miss India event held at the Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai on Saturday night.
Simran Kaur Mundi of Mumbai was crowned Miss India Universe 2008 and Parvathy Omanakuttam of Kerala won the Miss India World crown.
All the three winners will represent the country at the international beauty pageants during the year.
They were selected from among 28 finalists in the presence of prominent personalities from the field of fashion and Bollywood.

Bachchan goes all the way

Amitabh Bachchan is quite busy these days but it is quite surprising to see that in spite of his hectic film schedules, Bachchan is busy in promoting Ravi Chopra’s much delayed film Bhoothnath. After unveiling the first look of Bhoothnath he has given most of his time for its promotion. He was part of a smartly planned promotion of Bhoothnath with Amul Star Voice of India Chhote Ustad as the film talks about his relationship with a kid. Bachchan shot for the promo of Amul Star Voice of India Chhote Ustad grand finale. Not just that he was also present with the cast and crew of Bhoothnath at the grand finale event that happened in last week. Though Bachchan hosted a big game show KBC on television, this is for the first time that he is promoting his film through any television show. A unit hand informs that Amitabh is going all the way to promote his long stuck movie Bhoothnath. “He was present with the complete team of Bhoothnath . He was there till the end of the show. Since Shah Rukh who has done a guest appearance in the film, will not be part of the promotion. Thus the complete responsibility of promotion is on Bachchan’s shoulder.” It is believed that Bachchan is dedicatedly helping out his director friend’s film which was stuck for due to unavailability of SRK and Bachchan’s dates. But now when the film is complete and all set to release in May, he is putting all his efforts to promote it.

Mumbai, April 7 (IANS) In an apparent attempt to take the wind out of his detractors’ sails, superstar Amitabh Bachchan Monday expressed gratitude to Maharashtra, saying the state has “given me so much in the last 40 years - my wife, my children and so much love…..Jai Maharashtra”.

Speaking in chaste Marathi on the newly launched IBN-Lokmat Marathi news channel, Bachchan said he owes a lot to Maharashtra in whose capital his film career has blossomed.

Switching to Hindi after winding up his Marathi salutation with “Jai Maharashtra”, the Bollywood icon said his father Harivanshrai Bachchan had many friends in the Marathi literary circles and was very happy to see the Marathi translation of ‘Madhushala’ - his celebrated poetic work in Hindi.

Bachchan also recalled his own association with several distinguished Maharashtrians in different walks of life including Shiv Sena leader Balasaheb Thackeray and his participation in Marathi literary meets.

In the eye of a storm following the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena questioning his commitment to Maharashtra, the superstar had said that the constitution has given every Indian the right to live and work anywhere in the country.

In the panel discussion that the channel conducted on the controversial issue, its editor Nikhil Wagle drew viewers’ attention to Bachchan’s little known gestures for Marathi individuals like ailing Dalit poet Namdeo Dhasal and films like the Oscar-nominated “Shwaas”.

Source: http://www.freshnews.in

Srinagar (PTI): Tulip garden, a famous tourist spot in Srinagar, has caught the imagination of Bollywood this time with film producers making enquiries about it, to project it as a possible location for silver screen movies.

Director of Floriculture G Q Naqash said at least two prominent film makers from Mumbai have been making enquiries about the possible shoot in the garden.

Named after former prime minister, the 'Indira Gandhi memorial tulip garden' is 2700 ft long and 1400 ft wide. In total, 12 lakh tulips of 60 varieties spread a rainbow of different colours in the garden.

A day after its inauguration by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi last week, the garden has landed in controversy with the Hurriyat objecting to naming the garden after Indira Gandhi.

But it did not deter tourists from visiting the garden, as it witnessed over 10,000 people during the first five days after it was thrown open to the public.

The state Governor Lt General (Retd) S K Sinha, who visited the garden, said it is yet another and significant addition to the garden enrich city of Srinagar.

The sprawling garden laid in terraces will have a water stream running in the midst of tulip beds with Zabarwan in the backyard.

The Governor was impressed by the rainbow effect of the 30 hectare garden, the home for 12 lakh tulips of 60 families (varieties)- red, orange, purple, white, pink, parrot and yellow.