Actress Priyanka Chopra is sporting quite a few bruises after she and Shahid Kapur fell off a bike while shooting for Vishal Bharadwaj's film Kaminay.

The accident took place in Pune while a scene that required Priyanka to ride a bike with Shahid on the back seat was being shot. The two were riding the bike on a slope that was slightly muddy when the two-wheeler skidded and the two fell off. And to make matter worse, the bike fell on top of them.

Industry's blue eyed boy and the new romantic icon of the youth, surely has a huge fan following amongst the girls. According to an eye witness shahid who is presently staying at Taj in Pune, shooting for Vishal bharadwaj KAMINEY has a huge problem getting to the sets. Invariably the campus crowd in Pune has got the news of Shahid shooting in Pune and the girls have been mobbing and gate crashing on the sets for autographs.

MUMBAI: SFM which launched its 45th station in Pune recently, plans to incorporate entertainment ingrained with social messages in its programming in the cultural capital of Maharashtra.

PUNE: Be it on friendship, patriotism, 'ishq-mijazi' (love) or 'ishq-e-haqiqi' (divine love), Hakim Raazi Adeebi's 'shayari' or Urdu poetry is par excellence.

For Pune's senior most and popular poet, shayari is an inseparable part of life. "Life is a poetry," says the 88-year-old Unani practitioner in his 4x4 shop near Shivaji market in Pune camp.

The hip and happening residential location of Aundh in West Pune flaunted a "Classic" fashion statement like never before. The Royal Classic Group (RCG), which revolutionized the country’s male fashion scenario with signature style Classic Polo T-shirts, opened the city’s first Classicpolo showroom at Aundh.

Karpaga is the first transgender in India to don the leading role in a mainstream movie. She makes her debut as a heroine in a Tamil film Paal, to be directed by D. Sivakumar.

Many transgenders have played lead roles in short films and documentaries earlier. But, this is the first time a transgender is featured as heroine in a commercial film, director D. Sivakumar said. The film stresses on the need for families to accept transsexuals besides exploring their emotional and physical conflicts.

The first thing that Akshaye Khanna loves to talk about, when we meet him, are his fond memories of the city.

It was an evening that the visitors simply loved. And, it wasn’t difficult to see why.

At a popular partying joint in the city, talented belly dancers from Canada put up a great show. The music was really cool, and the feet of everything started moving, as they heard the sounds with which the dancers performed their mind-blowing moves.

Not only did the soiree have a great gathering, it was marked by a spirit of fun which no one could have missed out on.

MUMBAI: Thirty-year old Saurav Dey is not paparazzi but two years ago he trailed Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie when she was filming A Mighty Heart in Pune and made a documentary Chasing Angelina Jolie that won him an Indian Documentary Producers' Association (IDPA) award held in Mumbai last Saturday.

A third year student of the Films & Television Institute of India (FTII), Saurav received the best student documentary (Golden Trophy) award for his unique project, which was a part of his second year academic project.

Indo-Asian News Service

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Size-zero models have become a rage among young girls and they are starving themselves to be like them, but Rangeela star Urmila Matondkar disapproves of this and says staying slim doesn't necessarily mean being on a starvation diet.

The actress says the secret to her much talked about figure is a combination of diet and exercise.