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"When you play the role of a physically disabled or differently-ab led person, you discover how brilliantly people who are differently-abled live their lives;' the 56-year- old said about the fi lm

"We see how people who cannot see, fit themselves so well in the scenario So, this is a tribute to all the blind My role is dedicated to al I these people;' he added.

The actor, who has featured in around 400 films in his threedecade -long career, has no qualms in admitting that he faced hardships durin g the film's shooting.

"Most of the scenes were very difficult. There were scenes where I had to climb mountains as a blind man, and we have done an entire song that we have shot on a mountain and rivers. It was a little difficult;' said Anupam whose recent role in Desi Boyz was vastly different to Chhodo Kai Ki Baatein, which will release in early April.

Anupam will soon be seen in Chaar Din Ki Chandni, and he is also working on Deepa Mehta's Midnights' Children and on the remake of Chashme Buddoor. Anupam's plate may be full, but it's nice to know that the actor still finds some roles truly challenging.

Shekhar Suman's still shaking

Actor Shekhar Suman is quite upbeat these days, as he looks forward to donnin g the director's hat for Helpless, a medical thriller featuring his son Adhyayan in the lead

"I am looking at starting the shooting in May this year. The film has Adhyayan with Giselli Monteiro It's a medical thriller;' said Shekhar excitedly.

"Helpless talks about anaesthesia awareness there are times when a patient is unconscious but can still feel the pain. It is about a guy who undergoes heart transplant, and even under anaesthesia, he can hear everything - a conspiracy - but he can't do anything because his body is paralysed for that moment;' revealed Shekhar unexpectedly giving away most of the plot. How that conspiracy and his helplessness change his life forever is what the story is about''.

But the actor's small screen cult show Movers & Shakers is now back on the small screen, taking humourous digs at topical issues and people Social activist Anna Hazare is the special guest on the premiere episode of the show, which should be interesting And the still-youthful looking SO-something actor hopes to give a "red carpet welcome" to all those in news for "engineering scams".

"I think all these people who have recently been involved in scams will be especially welcome on the show, so that we can ask them how did they ever think of such scams it's amazing how they could think of the ideas So as a common man, I'd be curious to know;' said Shekhar, typically tongue - in- cheek.

But if there's one th in g Shekhar is adamant about, it's the end of his unsuccessful tryst with politics He recently resigned from the Congress party, and had famously lost to fellow actor Shatrugan Sinha of the BJP in 2009.

" No, never again;'was Shekhar's response when asked about his political plans.

Let's hope Shekhar sticks to what he's best at - satire!

John gives it his all!

John Abraham may look and behave like the Bollywood hunk he is, but when it comes to portraying a character realistically, the actor gives the role his all, and more. Take for instance his recent role in Shootout At Wada/a, in which John plays Manya Surve, the notorious gangster who was shot dead by the Mumbai police in 1982. The movie was inspired by the real life incident, and John said, "I can honestly say that I have put in every kind of effort to study this character, to work on the way he supposedly behaved. In fact, me and Sanjay (Gupta) went and met the people who knew him to find out how Manya Surve behaved and the way he spoke. There was even talk about the 39-yearold actor learning Marathi, but the idea was to understand the colloquial nature of the language and how Manya Surve the gangster was in everyday life, so John didn't have to stretch authenticity to quite that level. "As an actor I have rea lly given all my effort and worked really hard to do maximum research towards this film;' said John who plays the central character in the film which also features Anil Kapoor, Kangna Ranaut, Sanjay Dutt, Tusshar Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ronit Roy and Manoj Bajpai. John was last seen in Desi Boyz, so will he come out tops in Shootout At Wada/a?

Let's wait and see

RGV smitten by Nathalia

Ram Gopal Varma can't seem to get in enough praise for Nathalia

Kaur, the Brazilian model of Indian descent, who recently featured i n an item song for his movie, Department. RGV admits he initially approached Indian Canadian porn star Sunny Leone for the same item song, but things didn't work out and the song went to Nathalia instead. The filmmaker is in awe of the Brazilian model of Indian descent.

"I never ever hid the fact that I am a devotee of a woman's beauty. But not only in my entire career, but never even ever since I have consciously come of a mental and a physical age to perceive and admire the beauty of a woman, have I seen a woman more beautiful than Nathalia;'he said "Her beauty is truly electrifying and it just sparks out from every nook and curve of both her face and her body. Her face looks so classically beautiful and her body literally looks like the perfect embodiment of an ultimate female figure;' RGV raved fanatically, raising quite a few well -shaped eyebrows in Bollywood.

So it's hardly surprising that after being smitten by Nathalia's performance in the item number, he's now offered her a role in a romantic action thr iller, also featuring Rana Daggubati.

"Only because I saw first hand how good Nathalia is in dancing and in her

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From dancing to Dan dan in Department to starring opposite Rana Daggubati, it hasn't been that big a step for Nathalia A penny for porn star Sunny Leone's thoughts