SRK vOTED INDIA’S MOST pOpULAR fATHER

India celebrated Father’s Day on June 16, and the day turned out extra-special for Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The doting dad of son Aryan and daughter Suhana, was voted India’s most popular father in a Father’s Day poll conducted by matrimonial site Shaadi. com. Surprisingly, the King Khan rocked up more votes than megastar Amitabh Bachchan, despite the latter’s famous son Abhishek and well-known daughter Shweta. The results of the poll, conducted among over 11,000 Indian women were announced a day before Father’s Day.

Shah Rukh received 34.83 percent votes while Amitabh was chosen by 31.58 percent of the women surveyed.

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar took the third spot with 18.61 percent. The poll also posed other questions to the respondents. In the survey for the country’s most popular fatherdaughter relationship, Big B took the top spot along with his daughter Shweta. Veteran actor Jeetendra and his film producer daughter Ekta Kapoor got 35.06 percent votes, followed by father-daughter duo Anil Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor (22.42 percent).

Also, 44.85 percent Indian women voted for Shah Rukh and his son Aryan as India’s most popular father-son duo. So once again, SRK reigns supreme in his role as a father – but this time, he’s not acting! Congrats!

Chopra, a doctor, had retired from the Indian Army in 1997 as a lieutenant colonel. He is survived by his wife Madhu, also a former army doctor, daughter Priyanka and son Siddharth. Bollywood celebrities turned out in full force for the prayer meeting the next day, comforting the Chopra family on their loss. Among the attendees were Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Shilpa Shetty, Karishma Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza, among many others.

There was an overwhelming outpouring of sympathy, with Bollywood celebrities eager to console the bereaved family, who were known to be close-knit. Our sympathies to Priyanka and her family.

Jiah khan investigation gets down and dirty

While Bollywood is still reeling over the suicide of Jiah Khan, Sooraj Pancholi, the actress’s alleged boyfriend has been placed in judicial custody and at the time of going to press, his bail hearing had been adjourned to June 21. Sooraj was arrested following a suicide note that was found at Jiah’s flat by her family a few days after her death. Jiah, formerly known as Nafisa Khan, hanged herself in her flat in Mumbai on June 3. Speculation was rife about the cause of her death, and a failed love affair with Sooraj and a flagging career were widely cited as the reasons for the young actress to take such a drastic step. However, the families are now battling it out with the Pancholis adamant that their son is innocent. Jiah’s mother claims that her daughter took the drastic step not due to the lack of assignments, but due to her troubled relationship with Sooraj.

But actor Aditya Pancholi and his actress wife Zarina Wahab stood firm by their son, as he was charged with abetting the suicide.

“Let my son stay in jail a little longer. It will make him tougher and wiser. He has done no wrong. So, this experience can only make him strong,” said Aditya while remaining calm on hearing the verdict that the bail hearing had been postponed.

Sooraj’s mother Zarina, on impulse, paid an unannounced visit to Jiah’s mother Rabiya on June 11. The meeting between the two grieving mothers apparently didn’t go too well. When contacted, Zarina she said she had indeed paid Jiah’s mother a visit. “But it was not to pacify her or to work out any compromise in my son’s favour. If he has done any wrong let him suffer the consequences,” said the veteran actress. “No, I went just as one mother reaching out to another. I suggested we go inside the house because there were a lot of media persons outside. Rabiyajiji was in no mood for any conversation with me. I wouldn’t want to discuss what we spoke about,” she added.

Jiah, who debuted in Bollywood with Ram Gopal Varma’s Nishabd, was in a disturbed relationship with Sooraj, with gory details of mental and physical abuse and abortion coming into the limelight, offering an insight into a murkier world beyond the glitz and glamour of tinsel town.

Opinion is divided on Sooraj’s role in Jiah’s suicide, perhaps because it’s not such a shocking story, after all. There are numerous young actors trying to make it big in Bollywood and befriending those connected with stardom. And while both families are distraught at their loss, we can only hope that the truth stands revealed.

Hrithik hype to kick off Krrish 3

Hunky Hrithik Roshan seems to have gone pretty quiet on the Bollywood scene, but there’s a reason for keeping out of the public eye. It’s because he intends pulling out all stops on the publicity front when promoting the much-awaited Krrish 3, the third part of the successful Bollywood superhero franchise. Apparently Hrithik is said to have kept aside an entire month to promote his home production across the world. The movie is scheduled for a Diwali release this year, so from the first week of October, the actor will be globetrotting to market the film.

“The idea is to reach out to as many fans as possible during that time, because Rakeshji (director Rakesh Roshan) hasn’t started any kind of promotional activity yet. Even Hrithik has been off the media’s radar for a while