Candles of the Week

Amrita must be thanking her stars and Saif for being blessed with such lovely children. Back from a hard day’s work she found her children, Sarah and Ebrahim, giving her a surprise birthday party. Sarah spent her three months’ pocket money to buy flowers and decorate the house. They also invited seven of Amrita’s closest friends and wisely left Saif and Rosa out. Mom couldn’t have had a happier birthday!

Shilpa Shetty

Shipshape Shilpa

If sexy Shilpa dons the simple Juhi look, will her fans be happy? After all, it’s her sizzling Baras ja ai badal baras ja that makes her fans pour all their love (and lust) on this hourglass hottie. But, yes, Shilpa is more keen on getting the ‘actress’ tag than adulation over her shipshape figure. So this time she’ll be seen in a role of a mother of a five-year-old and the silent sacrificing wife of Sunny Deol in Anil Sharma’s Apne, where all the three hot-blooded Deols ? Dharmendra, Sunny and Bobby ? come together for the first time! Even for the director, Shilpa wasn’t the first choice, the role was first offered to Juhi. Now it’s Shilpa who’s got into the, er, skin of the character.

Juhi and Sridevi

Sridevi and the female contraceptive

This time it was Sridevi who grabbed what Juhi Chawla threw away. No, it’s not a film, but a female contraceptive ad we are talking about! Juhi refused the ad because she felt embarrassed doing it, haaye Ram! But Sridevi seems to have no qualms in spreading knowledge whatsoever, especially if it pays well. With Bonny Kapoor’s No Entry seeing ‘Exit’ at the BO, it seems Sridevi is back where the bucks are. This ad was earlier also offered to Preity Zinta and TV artiste Smriti Iraani. But their reason for thumbs down was ? it’s so downmarket!

Sushmita Sen

Kiss and make up?

Urmila didn’t forgive this chap for spreading stories about her during the film, Naina. Now Anuj Sawhney has done it again. He is talking about his real hot kissing scenes with Sush in Chingaari though all of it was hardly true, countered Susmita Sen. But Sush seems to have forgiven the bachcha or so she says. Initially, she had fumed through the ears and even refused to participate in the publicity campaigns with him, but just before the release she’s giving interviews saying that she has forgiven the chap and thinks he’s just a harmless braggart. What she didn’t specify is, did they kiss and make up?

SPOTLIGHT

Rimmi and (below) Preity Zinta

Bottompincher Rimmi

These must be the funniest things one has heard in a long time. The obsessive disorders of heroines in Bollywood!

Sample this. Preity Zinta’s obsessed with eyebrows! If she finds anyone near her frowning she immediately starts setting it right. Yes, even if she doesn’t know the person properly. She admits that she can’t stop her hands from moving up towards any crooked eyebrows in sight. The man who gets straightened most often by this obsessive female is Karan Johar.

Here’s another. A far quirkier obsession, you’ll agree. Well, she pinches bottoms! Yes, we are talking about Rimmi. Be it her costars or someone she knows she simple loves to squeeze any shapely bottom she can lay her hands on! She’s done that to Abhishek and Hrithik and many more, but it’s also true her hands don’t just seek her male costars. She does it to all irrespective of gender, age, sex...