Not more than a decade ago, when Shahid Kapoor hadn’t yet got his break in Bollywood and was struggling to enter films, he used to live in a tenement in Andheri’s MHADA colony. Today, as well all know, Shahid Kapoor is one of the sought after stars in tinsel town and he pockets crores for every movie he does. Last week, a visit by Shahid to a studio in Andheri brought out old memory and old companions from the tenements.

Some of the people who were Shahid Kapoor’s friends from old times gathered outside the studio, hoping to meet the star. However, they were uncertain if Shahid Kapoor, a famous star now, would even take out time to meet them. But guess what? Shahid Kapoor did a Krishna to all his Sudama friends. The actor came out of the studio to meet his old buddies. He bonded with them, joked and laughed with them and even let them take photographs with him.

Well, stardom certainly hasn’t gone to Shahid’s head.

This is something that usually happens only in a Bollywood film. But, this time round, it’s happening in real life and how. Ironically, the people involved in this are the B-town residents. We are talking about the family of legendary late Kamaal Amrohi, which is in news due to their property dispute that’s worth over a staggering Rs.600 crore!Shandar, one of Kamaal Amrohi’s three children, has now filed a case against his sister Rukhsar and brother Wasim stating that they have falsely pledged his shares in ‘Mahal Pictures Pvt Ltd’ (that owns the famous Kamaal Amrohi studio), to a company in Pune.

As he was struggling his way through the cops to file a complaint, entered Preity Zinta, his ‘adopted’ daughter (who, of late has been tweeting about how difficult it is to file an FIR these days), who offered to shoulder his cause ahead.For starters, Shandar always took Preity Zinta as his daughter ever since he saw her films. No wonder then, he had announced that he would pass on all his property to Preity. Shandar, on his part, opined that he is battling not for money but for justice and that Preity is helping him fight it, despite strong opposition from the other family members.

Even as we publish this news, we just got the update that the High Court has adjourned further hearing on Shandar’s plea till March 11. Watch this space for further updates.

After Aamir Khan and Javed Akhtar’s verbal row making headlines the past week, Sonu Nigam and Vidhu Vinod Chopra are the latest ones to join the list.The duo got into a heated discussion over some copyright issues. Things went from bad to worse between them compelling other members of the committee to interfere and resolve. The argument was triggered with Sonu proposing that the producers should keep 50% of the movie’s profit while the music director and the singer should keep 25% each.

Vidhu clearly disagreed, and to his defense retorted that the losses should then be equally born by the music director.  The situation got out of control when Vidhu told Sonu to f*** off, in retaliation to which the infuriated and shocked Sonu demanded that the director mind his language.The incident was confirmed by Sonu Nigam who said whatever happened has happened. As for Vidhu, he confessed his ill tempered tongue in the face of the heated excitement. He claimed further, having nothing against Sonu.

In fact, right after the meeting, Vidhu went up to the singer to sort the issues, a fact that has been affirmed by Sonu, and the argument was resolved.What remains however, is the instigating matter of conceding greater chunk of the profits to the music director and singer for the film. The committee is yet to make its final call.

Acclaimed Bollywood actress Kajol who is married to actor Ajay Devgn for 11 years now, was voted the favourite ‘bahu’ (daughter-in law) in a poll. As part of the upcoming International Women’s Day celebrations on Monday a poll in which 250,000 women participated.In the poll, 43.08 percent women said Kajol was their favourite Bollywood daughter-in-law.

Besides Kajol, others vying for the position were Aishwarya Rai, Gauri Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Malaika Arora, Twinkle Khanna and Kiran Rao.“The women’s day poll is part of the constant research that shaadi.com conducts in its attempt to gauge the preferences of its members. The results show that today the women are looking to be more independent and are willing to adopt stronger roles in their life.

Following the footsteps of celebs like Priyanka chopra, SRK and Karan Johar Shilpa Shetty too newly made her ‘debut” on social networking website Twitter. But compared to other stars Shilpa got cold response from the netizens. Priyanka and Mallika have made the record number of people follow them on the site. Recently Priyanka got the chance to visit HQ of Twitter.

But for Shilpa it was a dim opening on the social networking website.Shilpa’s colleagues from Indian Premier League (IPL) are using this platform to air theire views on different matter. IPL commosioner Lait Modi, team franchisee SRK, Preity Zinta and players like Shane Warne and Yuvraj Singh are all over on Twitter.

But only director Karan Johar is following her on the social networking site. Shilpa debuted on Twitter on 26th February and around 4000 Twitters are following her. Where as Priyanka and Mallika have crossed 1 lakh followers mark in few days only. Shilpa is not following anybody on this site either.

The Kapoor family is putting final touches to an ambitious plan — they intend to revive the RK Films’ banner 11 years after they temporarily folded up operations. The banner was set by the late Raj Kapoor in 1951. The film-maker’s eldest son Randhir Kapoor says, “We are working on it (revival of the banner). We have met a few people and we will make an announcement very soon.” The last film produced by the banner was Aa Ab Laut Chalein in 1999. That film bombed at the box office and post that the banner was temporarily shut down.

A source says, “Randhir had earlier spoken to his daughter Kareena (Kapoor) about doing a film. But she hasn’t been able to allot dates. That was the reason the re-launch got postponed. Otherwise it would have happened a few months ago.” Now, apparently Raj Kapoor’s grandson Ranbir Kapoor (Rishi Kapoor’s son) is keen revive the banner. The source says, “Ranbir wants to revive the banner. He has been trying to convince Randhir and Rishi to do the same. There is a script that the banner might be revived with and it may star Ranbir.”

The source adds, “The project with Kareena has been dropped as of now. So in all probability, this will be the first project where Rishi will direct his son Ranbir.”

Bollywood star Aamir Khan did not attend the 55th Filmfare Awards function on Saturday night (he prefers to keep away from film awards) but his movie 3 Idiots swept the event by bagging six awards. Besides being adjusted the best film, awards like best director, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male), Best Story, Best Screenplay and Best Dialogue went to 3 Idiots.

Rajkumar Hirani was adjusted the best director, Boman Irani received the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) award, Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani were awarded for the best story,Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi were awarded for the Best Screenplay while Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra bagged award for the dialogue in 3 Idiots.

Meanwhile, it was Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan, who took away the top honours. They were awarded the best actor and best actress honours for the excellent performance in their movie Paa.

After break and patching up again, Dino Morea now wants to get settled down once and for all. He’s thinking of taking the next step after reconciling with his party hopper girlfriend Nandita Mahtani. They are contemplating getting married this year! Nice thought…how timely. Last week, Dino was seen mingling with Nandi’s family at her brother’s wedding. A source close to the couple said they might get hitched this year. Dino and Nandi have been a couple ever since he and Lara broke up last year. And before that it was an on-off relationship for years. But this time they want to formalise their relationship.

The source added that they are very committed to each other, and marriage is the next step. All their friends believe that Dino and Nandi belong together, and are pushing them to get hitched. Though they dated other people over the years, they’ve remained quite devoted to each other and remained good friends throughout. Right now, the wedding plans are very hush-hush. Nandi and Dino don’t want any media attention until the details are finalised. Also, the two were waiting until after Nandi’s brother Bharat’s wedding last week. Well…the B-town would be free of at least one Casanova…what say Dino?

Dino however said that why is everyone trying getting him married so soon. The day he get married he will announce it to everyone. He doesn’t believe in hiding his marriage. Of course not. Those days of keeping a secret wife and portray a bachelor image are a passé.

Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan were cited as best actor and best actress respectively at the star-studded 55th Filmfare Awards ceremony here late Saturday. Hosting the gala night were Bollywood actors Shahrukh and Saif, whose one liners had the viewers in splits. Their on-stage chemistry was much appreciated by the Bollywood stars present at the ceremony at the Yash Raj Studios.”3 Idiots” was declared the best movie, while Rajkumar Hirani claimed the best director award for the movie.

Mohit Chauhan won the award for the best male playback singer for the song `Masakali` from the movie `Delhi 6`, while the female playback singer honours were shared by Kavita Seth and Rekha Bhardwaj.While Kavita was awarded for the song `Ik tara` from the movie `Wake Up Sid`, Rekha won the trophy for the song “Genda phool” from the movie `Delhi 6`.

Among the other highlights of the evening was a tribute to legendary pop singer Michael Jackson by Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor, who charmed the viewers with his perfect dance moves.

All the actors, who work with Abhishek, swear by his happy go-lucky-attitude. The Jr Bachchan may not be as hugely talented as his superstar father or may not look as glamorous as his internationally famous wife, Aishwarya, but he is loved and respected within the circle he works. Newly, on the sets of Ashutosh Gowariker’s ‘Khelenge Hum Jee Jaan Sey’, the actor prepared a special dish for the entire cast and crew.

And now, according to sources, everybody is addicted to that special dish. The recipe is very easy-to-make and takes just a few minutes. Here it goes – take a hot roti, smear it with lots of butter and special Australian honey, roll and tuck in.  The recipe is high on calories and perhaps, Abhishek is having them to look his part as he plays the freedom fighter – Surya Sen in the flick.

But unlike others, wife Aishwarya possibly does not approve of it, since she has an international figure to maintain. But Jr B is happy feeding his co-stars. Bingo!