Lahore: The performing arts council in Lahore has decided to ban all song and dance performances based on Indian films because of the presence of “vulgarity” in them and to promote only classical dances in Pakistani theatre.

The decision of the Lahore Arts Council (LAC) has, however, infuriated producers and artistes who believe the council was trying to damage their business, the Express Tribune reported.

The decision was made to facilitate quality theatre, a council spokesperson said.

Chaudhary Zulfiqar Ahmad, chairman of the Commercial Theatre Producers’ Association, said: “How many films are made in Pakistan annually? From the handful that are made, how many have songs that we can use in our plays?”

Off late Sneha has been closely involving with charity and social work activities. For the last few years, she has been celebrating her birthdays with underprivileged children. Now she has gone one step further by donating her eyes. The actress announced this at an event organized by Raja Eye Care Hospital (P) Ltd in Chennai on Tuesday (Feb 15).

Sneha has said that she is really happy and proud to be associated with RREB for this humanitarian cause. She has also urged her fans to donate their eyes for the visually challenged people.(telugucinema)

The couple registered their marriage today in Mumbai, ahead of the grand celebration in Goa on the 19th.

Lara Dutta is Mrs Mahesh Bhupathi! The actress registered marriage with the tennis star in Mumbai today. News is, a marriage registrar was called to Mahesh’s Bandra house to solemnize the wedding.

Mahesh blogged, “Meet Mr and Mrs Bhupati folks!”

The civil Ceremony happened around an hour back in Mumbai.”

Media wasn’t allowed to capture the pictures today as the ceremony was private. It was attended only by Mahesh and Lara’s family at the groom’s Bandra residence.

SAO PAULO: Three-time FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldo, whose goalscoring genius led Brazil to the 2002 World Cup title, confirmed his retirement on Monday at the age of 34.

The tearful Corinthians striker announced his decision at a press conference in Sao Paulo.

“I’m stopping my career as a professional footballer,” he said, his voice breaking. “It’s been a beautiful, emotional, marvellous career.

“These last two years, I’ve had a long series of injuries, from one side to the other, one leg to the other, one muscle to the other. The pain pushed me to think about the end of my career.”

As announced earlier, Ram Gopal Varma has completed the shooting of Dongala Mutaa in just 5 days. The film’s shoot began on Feb 9th, and was wrapped up on Sunday, February 13, 2011.

It’s been shot on plain normal shifts that is from 9 am to 6 pm without a single shift being extended. The speed of the shoot is attributed to the unique structure of the production process – 4 Canon cameras were used to capture every shot in multiple angles simultaneously, with absolutely no lights or additional equipment such as dollys, jibs etc. The entire film has been shot hand-held and in natural light.

We give you tips on what not to do this V-Day.

1. If you are thinking of proposing to the one you love on Valentine’s Day, then boy, do we have news for you. The idea is not only a hundred years old, but it borders on the lines of being lame.

2. If you think imposing a life-sized stuffed teddy bear (unless your eye candy is ten years old) or a ginormous red heart on the recipient of your affection is going to get you brownie points, think again. Get a life… and some originality, perhaps?

Mumbai: The Box Office success of ‘Dabangg’ and the huge popularity of ‘Bigg Boss 4’ gave a new impetus to Salman Khan’s Bollywood innings.

Buzz has it that Salman has not only hired a brand manager but also become money wise and got himself rid of all distractions in form of women and sycophants.

NTR will wed his fiancee Lakshmi Pranathi on May 5. The official Lagna Patrika (writing wedding cards) ceremony will be held at Pranathi’s residence at 8:05 AM on Sunday (Feb 13) morning. Except NTR, his family members, and his close friends, no one was invited for the ceremony. But the wedding ceremony will be held on grand scale.

Sachin Tendulkar has achieved just about every individual accolade in cricket and holds an almost divine status in India, where the TV audience soars every time he goes out to bat.

However, his 21-year international career is missing one notable achievement: a World Cup title. That adds to the pressure on India, which is co-hosting the tournament with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and will stage the April 2 final at Mumbai, Tendulkar’s home town.

CHENNAI: A city magistrate court extended an arrest warrant against filmstar Rajnikanth’s wife Latha Rajinikanth and daughter Soundarya Rajnikanth on Wednesday, but recalled it after the financial dispute was settled out of court.

The bailable warrant was issued by XXIII Metropolitan Magistrate court in Saidapet on a complaint filed by businessman Sumerchand Bafana of Teynampet. According to the complainant, Soundarya and Latha Rajinikanth had obtained a loan of Rs 20 lakh from him for business exigencies in August 2009. They issued two cheques, dated December 1, 2010, towards repayment. But the cheques were dishonoured by the bank. Bafana filed a complaint on December 24, 2010 at the magistrate court.

NEW DELHI: Income tax officials are conducting raids at residences of Bollywood actresses Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif for suspected tax evasion.

The raids started around 7.30am simultaneously at 12 sites, including the residences of the two actresses in the western suburbs. Priyanka’s home in Versova, Andheri West, was raided.

Also raided were the homes of their secretaries, their respective office premises and other locations, the official said.

The I-T department is investigating whether the two actresses have paid taxes proportionate to their known sources of income during the past year.

Director of several blockbusters and trend setter in comedy movies, EVV Satyanarayana died of cancer on Friday night at Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad. He had been suffering from throat cancer from long time and underwent to treatment in Mumbai last year and recuperated. But again his health was deteriorated last week and he was admitted in Apollo on Jan 19th. On Friday night, he passed away leaving his family and fans in sorrow. He was 52 and survived by wife and two sons – Aryan Rajesh and Allari Naresh – both of them are actors.

Actress Yamuna is known as the lady who used to play dignified roles on small and big screen. She acted in the film ‘Mouna Poratam’ that got great critical acclaim in early 90s. Later she acted in films like ‘Mamagaru’ and in due course of time with the blessings of Ramoji Rao she turned popular on ETV with various serials. Her portrayal with character name ‘Roji’ in the serial ‘Vidhi’ was very popular.

Freshly she was caught in a brothel case red handedly in Bangalore. She was trapped along with 40 other men and women by police cops at ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel.

Claiming that BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi was “physically unable” to commit rape, his wife Asha today demanded DNA and medical test to prove his involvement in the assault on a Dalit teenager in Banda.

“My husband is a patient of sugar and blood pressure for the last 18 years and his left kidney is also not working. With existing physical condition he cannot rape and being his wife I can say this with certainty,” Asha told reporters here.

“I demand that DNA and medical test of my husband should be conducted immediately,” she said.

Whatever brings publicity becomes a trend in Bollywood and there is no dearth of celebs who wants to hog limelight. They can go to any extent to grab attention and the latest to the list is Neetu Chandra.

Neetu was spotted in a party without a panty which shocked everyone. It definitely seems like a publicity stunt especially after Yana Gupta captured all the headlines when spotted without a panty. Neetu Chandra has worked with some prominent actors and film makers in the industry like Akshay Kumar, Abhay Deol and Madhur Bhandarkar. She has also worked in Telugu film Godavari and Tamil Film Yavarum Nalam which has been hit however as all know she has been missing from the screen & lime light for a while.

HYDERABAD: The Srikrishna Committee report has put the Telangana Congress leaders in the hot seat. Caught between a non-committal high command and the electorate that is increasingly becoming hostile, 8 Telangana Congress Lok Sabha MPs on Friday passed a resolution urging the UPA government to introduce a Bill on the creation of Telangana in the coming budget session of Parliament failing which they would to resign from their elected posts.

Just a few days after Mandira Bedi’s topless act for ‘Vogue’ made headlines, Bollywood’s Bong bombshell Bipasha Basu posed topless for ‘Maxim’ magazine’s January 2011 issue.

Although, shedding clothes and inhibitions for photoshoots and films is nothing unusual for the bold and beautiful Bipasha, this cover shoot totally impresses. With a perfect hairdo, sultry expression and sexy curves, Bips looks every bit of a seductress.

The picture is a side profile with Bipasha covering her breasts with her hands and though it is more of a backless picture, it doesn’t fail to turn up the heat. What say guys?

Congratulations are in order. February 19 has been chosen as the day when Lara Dutta will marry Mahesh Bhupathi, who recently divorced Shweta Jaishankar. The wedding will be held at a five-star hotel in Goa.

Says a source, “Lara and Mahesh love Goa. They both decided to convert their favourite holiday spot into a place that would be memorable to them forever.”

After marriage, Lara will shift to Bhupathi’s flat in Nibbana Society at Pali Hill. Mumbai Mirror dated April 22, 2010, had broken the story about Lara taking active interest in decorating that house.”

Prabhu Deva has finally come for out of the court settlement with his wife Ramalath seeking divorce from her. A joint affidavit signed by the couple was submitted in the 1st additional family court in Chennai on Tuesday (Dec 28) seeking divorce by mutual consent. The settlement, which will be formalised by a court decree after a period of six months, has brought to an end a rather stormy court battle.

Ramlath agreed to withdraw her petition, seeking restoration of her conjugal rights and to restrain Prabhu’s marriage with Nayanthara. In their joint petition, they say : “it had become very difficult rather impossible for them to live together or to lead a normal life.”

The Film Federation Of India on Tuesday indefinitely postponed its January 6 bandh, which would have brought production, distribution and exhibition of films to a halt. The announcement to call off the band was made by producers Mukesh Bhatt, Ramesh Sippy, T Agarwal and others at a press conference on Tuesday.

The Federation members said that they had met the UPA government officials, who had assured them that their concerns would be given due consideration before the amendments to the Copyright Act, 1957, were passed.