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Mumbai, Jun 30: Parineeti Chopra has managed to make a mark for herself in Bollywood, but the actor says she still keeps ¬banking sector as an alternative career option. The 25-year-old, who made her Bollywood debut with Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl (2011), said, “I have a back up plan and I think ¬everyone should have one. The day when my films start flopping, I will go back to banking. To run my house

Hyderabad, Jun 30: Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan says though she loves doing commercial films, she would not mind being part of off beat movies if an exciting offer comes her way. "Commercial films have their own charm. I love doing commercial masala films. In my career commercial films like 'Golmaal Returns', 'Bodyguard', 'Ra.One' and others did well at the box office," Kareena said in an interview

Kolkata, Jun 29: National Award winning actress Vidya Balan on Saturday confessed her love for football is just limited to Argentinian forward Lionel Messi's good looks. "I just know Messi because he is good looking! My friends tell me when Messi's game will be telecast, that time I switch on the TV and watch...else I don't have any interest," she admitted to reporters here while promoting her

Mumbai, Jun 28: Actress Kareena Kapoor, who has worked with some of the biggest banners, says that she has no complaints about the remuneration structure in the film industry as she is "paid really well". While actresses like Vidya Balan and Priyanka Chopra feel there is disparity in the remuneration system compared to actors in Bollywood, Kareena shares a different opinion. "I get paid very well

Mumbai, Jun 28: One of the first witnesses to record his statement in the Preity Zinta-Ness Wadia case, businessman and mutual friend, Danish Merchant, wants Wadia to apologise to the actress and finish it off. Merchant, who was seated next to Zinta on the day of the incident, recounts, “I was sitting next to her when Ness approached her and they had an argument. Preity was deeply disturbed after

Mumbai, Jun 27: Legendary Singer Lata Mangeshkar remembers her long association with late, noted Bollywood music director Rahul Dev Burman, affectionately called 'Pancham Da', on the occasion of his 75th birth anniversary on June 27 and says "he died too young and too unhappy." "For a composer as talented as Pancham to be almost jobless was a living death. Pancham was very unhappy. He would

Mumbai, Jun 27: The Marine Drive police on Thursday recorded the statement of the sixth witness in the case filed by Preity Zinta against Ness Wadia, for allegedly abusing and manhandling her, during an IPL match at Wankhede Stadium on May 30. Businessman Jay Kanojia, whose name was provided by Zinta in her initial statement to the Marine Drive police on June 13, when she filed the complaint, told

Mumbai, Jun 26: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's driver was arrested by the Bandra police yesterday for raping a minor. The 17-year-old survivor used to work as a maid at the house of a Bollywood actress. The accused, Rajendrakumar Gautam alias Pintu Mishra (34), a resident of Asalpha in Andheri (East), allegedly befriended the survivor on the pretext of offering her a job and then lured her to a hotel

Mumbai, Jun 26: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has revealed how he once went missing on a crowded railway station thanks to his fascination for trains. The 71-year-old actors, who is the son of noted poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan, reminisced the journey he used to undertake from Allahabad to Karachi to meet his grand parents. Bachchan was two-year-old when the incident took place. "I

Mumbai, Jun 25: Actor Ranbir Kapoor rues that rumours about his personal life have turned his life into a "reality show". He says he feels "bad" for his parents, who have to face the embarrassment as a result of loose talk. "There were so many stories that I am leaving my parents; my dad has asked me to get out of the house, and all of that...So I feel really bad that my life has become like a