MOVE OVER SELFIES, IT'S SKETCI-IIES FOR SRK!

It 's a fun way to engage with his fans And he has more than 8 million of them on Twitter.

We're talking about Shah Rukh Khan's recent Twitter obsession. You see, he s set his fans a bit of homework: to make a sketch of him and send it in He has been putting them up for open scrutiny, duly numbered, and with a l ine of analysis or appreciation

It's turned into SRK's very own art exhibition where the art is, er, all about him There are some fascinating near-professional portraits by obviously experienced painters, some stick drawings by little kids, some comic- book style art, even a hastily created line drawing (made on the back of a notebook page probably on a bus ride)

Some re-create his film posters, some are painstakingly painted versions of his official portraits, and some are pure imaginative works far not been proper ly articulated;' she said. " I am happy and relieved that they think my rendition does justice to their sacred teachings''.

But the world 's second-richest actor loves them all!

So minimalist yet so close to likeness. One can do so much with lines when used with passion, he commented on one particu l ar portrait.

On another one: Looks like I'll have to work out a lot more on the waist the kamar looks a bit kamra like. But very nice, thanx.

And on one that looks nothing like him, he still had the grace to say: Is this me??!! How did you know I look like this when I wake up!!!

And the gentleman that he is, he remembers to thank each fan for their work.

Looking at all these sketches, he tweeted, I have to declare Selnes are passe. I think it's 'Sketchies' for me from now on.

1 million YouTube views for Sunny Leone's new numbe r Bollywood 'Baby Doll' Sunny Leone s new song Pink lips i s turning out to be a chartbuster. Her fluid moves in the number have al ready managed to attract over one million views on YouTube ever since it was re l eased on July 2.

The song is composed by Meet Brothers and cho r eographed by Uma-Gaiti.

The cho reographers were under pressure to deliver something bigger and better than Baby doll, Sunny's previous hit number. The new song is a promotional track for the movie Hate Story 2, which releases July 18.

The Vivek Agnihotri directed film stars newcomers Jay Bhanushali and Surveen Chawla. The makers of the film are claiming currently that it is not an erotic thrill er. Which means in Bollywoodspeak, that it is one, so come al ong to the theatres to see it!

The process was time -taking but for the 84- year-o ld, it i s never too late to l earn.

" It wasn't easy, I can tell you that," \ Lata confessed. "But getting the pronunciation and diction absolute ly ri ght has al ways been important for me Early in my career, I had got myself Sanskrit and Urdu teachers who would come to my recordings at studios to sit and teach me the languages during the breaks''.

"Years later when I recorded the Bhagavad Gita for my brother, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, I hired another Sanskrit teacher to make sure that I got the nuances correct;' she added

Lata feels it's very i mportant to be 100 per cent co r rect in articulating re li gious and spir itua l thoughts

"Centuries of thoughts go into these teachings One can't be careless with relig ious sentiments I am happy to learn languages through my singing and to polish up my diction. Every artiste remains a student al l their life I am no exception," she said.

Great work, Lataji. Hope the young divas in the industry take a leaf from your book lftaar hug for SRK, Sa l ma n makes head l i n es

The two leadi ng Khans of Bo ll ywoodShah Rukh and Salman - hugged each other with warmth as they came face to face at an iftaar party in Mumbai on 6 July

The date i s important, because this is such momentous news

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Mangeshka r t re a ds the Jain path

Record i ng an album of bhajans and chants for the Jain communit y, Lata Mangeshkar had to get herself a linguistic teacher to guide her through all the traditional stuff

Lata says doing album was a specia l challenge

"The Jain community felt that their religious teachings and mantras have so

All is finally well wit h the worl d, as Shah Rukh and Salman have made up after years of bitterness! Nobel Peace Prize for the person who held the party that got the two great Khans together! ! Now India can go back to solving its minor prob lems - peace with Pakistan, economic development, eradicating h u nger and poverty stopping violence against women

We wish the press in India would cool it on the Great Khan Thaw. It was just a

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bit of lftaar goodwill. Which happened last year as well, and will no doubt happen next year too

What say we leave the Khans alone but not before we try a Caption Contest on the right of this page!

I'm here to stay : Sidharth Malhotra

His success ratio is impressive. Modelturned-actor Sidharth Malhotra, who is currently riding high on Ek Villain, which has minted Rs 77.20 crore in its opening week, is confident he will play a long innings in filmdom

The 29- year-old was criticised for his inability to dance, or to emote well in his debut film Student of the Year, despite the fact that it passed off with flying colours at the box office, so he has a reason to believe that

Sidharth feel s that with Ek Villain, he has successfully converted the nonbelievers to be lievers and that he can't be easi l y written off.

"It was a first experience, this kind of box office success," Sid said recently "I feel like I've reached out to more people with this film than I ever had; so that's exciting. Now, I feel that I am hereto stay Others are also saying I deserve this place''.

He added, "It's satisfying to see that I took risks two years ago by choosing a genre and a character like this which

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is so different from what I've done before, and that's paying off It could've gone wrong. It's very satisfying as an actor to try something new and see that the audience is liking it"

The actor played romantic roles in his first two films

So far, the Delhi boy has had three releases, of which Hasee Toh Phasee is the only film that underperformed

Tell him he's won a lot of fans, thanks to his six-foot- plus good looks, and he'll challenge you.

"We are not just standing and posing, are we? Looks are part and parcel of our job no doubt, but to go beyond looks was also a challenge to me:' said the actor, who wants to keep reinventing himself.

Sidharth said his latest film "is also an endeavour to turn all the non-believers into believers".

"People who didn't see the craft or who weren't convinced about my craft, Ek Villain is the best answer I could give them;• he said "The film has opened up a new genre of films and scripts for me. I'm considering a remake of an English film called Warrior. After that is BhaveshJoshi. I'm not good for love stories alone, you know, there's also thriller and action!"

Akshay lip-syncs to female voice

If men dressing in woman's garb wasn't a trend enough already in Bollywood,

WJ-10 WORE IT BETTER?

5idharth Malhotra

here's Akshay Kumar trying out something new - he lip-syncs to a female voice in the song Johnny Johnny for the film It's Entertainment.

The song is the first to be released from the album of the film wh ich marks the directorial debut of writers Farhad-Sajid.

Akshay tries to get laughs with l ines such as Maine pi nahiii haanji main pee/a digayi.

Wonder whether the song will catch on.

On the decision to make playback singer Priya sing for Akshay, the director duo sa id, "Our song is light- hearted, and everyone is in in high spirits and i n a party mood. In a smal l subtle way, we are showing our support for women's empowerment''.

What the ?

It's Entertainment wi ll hit the screens

Aug 8

Poor Priyanka

There are some things Boll ywood actresses should never do. Like get on Big Brother UK (right, Shilpa Shetty?) or do an AMA on Reddit. AMA stands for Ask Me Anything, but of cou rse you knew that! Anyway, Priyanka Chopra agrees to do this, right, and thinks it will be a breeze just like winning Miss World or acting with SRK or singing with Pitbull. Poor darling, she had no idea what she let herself in for when she pressed 'enter' after typing "It's your chance to 'Ask Me Anything' on AMA reddit! Are you ready? Let's do this''.

The barrage of questions that came up included queries about her upcoming Mary Korn biopic, but also whether she's had work done on her face, whether she uses auto -tuning in her songs, and what's with her accent?

To that last one, she answered, she went to school in the US. The questioner came up with, "Wow, you went to schoo l?"To her credit, she shot back, "Wow, you always been a hater?'; and then stopped answering the questions which came on thick and fast about whether her dad was a pedophile, and why was a road named after him when there were other deserving people.

"I'll eat my hat if she answers that one;' came one comment

"I'll even watch her next movie if she answers," said another guy.

Ileana d'Cruz or Olga Kurylenko in Christian Dior?

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Which prompted the comment, "No need to go to extremes now!"

Now what we want to know is, when's Aishwaya Rai going to do an AMAthere's a couple of curly ones we want to throw h er way

Seniors nearing seventy set the new scenario

Itis d1e year 2035 AD aod Australia is now a Republic.

With the era of entidement weU and uuly over, the country is fuJJ to the brim w ith pollies retired on the public purse.

A chosen few are e lected every three years by mug punters fet:vend y hoping to be governed better, rather than be b itterly clisappointed.

\'{lidi d1e o ld age pens ion pushed further to seventy, d i e national scen e has taken o n a new loo k

The car parks at Geelong's Ford and Adelaide's Holden factories, that were once crammed with employees' cars, are now fuU of die ir gophers

The average age of assembly line workers is well past m id60s Wi th trem bling hands, diey continue to assemb le wheelchairs made from im p orted parts, for d1e mom1tiog aged population.

Some o f the wo r kers d1emselves are in wheelch airs wid1 the.i r carers srancfu1g behind them to take them to the next task on the conveyor be lt.

With d1e golden o ldies s till glued to d1eir jobs, there i s growing youth unemploym ent. So the government decides ro imp lement the carers corps.

Friday farewells are the favourite moments for d 10se mrning seventy. Those who are a few years in side d 1ar milestone w ish to grow older soon so they can pass diro ugh the pearly gates to pe n sion paradise.

Since purchasing power has shifted to the elderly emp loyed, retailers and boutigues have trained their sights on them. Advertising gurus are the barome ters of emerging tre nds. They now scouc nursing homes for models w ith fur rowed foreheads and crow's feet fo r fashion magazines and TV commercials. The \Vead1er g irl loo ks weU and uuly weathered.

Our mode.I worker! He worked t i II his last breath!

The 'old is go ld' wave has seen new acro n yms coined.

Like DOME (Don't O\1erlook Matured Experience) of the 90s, DOSE (Don't Over look Senior Employees) is in vogue.

OWL5 (Old Worke rs Love Servin g) represent mainly whitecollar workers and profess io n als like lawyers and doc tors who get better with age and experience

Pressure groups like SWAP (Senior Workers Awaiting Pension) and WOW (Worn Out Workers) vow co gain early entry to the pension portal s

To p lease them, the Industries l'vlinister, on remrn from an Indian s cu dy cour, tells them how hard peopl e work in India

He cites d1e examples of A m itabh Bachchan and R ajnikanth, who even after turning one hundred, are still working as heroes in Bollywood, dancing with girl s and fighting with chugs

L1 order co ramp up e m p loyment while als o facing an election, Prim e Minister Gavin R eed orders w heelchair ramps and disabled toilets fo r every house, whether the resident is an infant or infirm.

L1 the rush to fix new flush ing S)'S tems, some shonky o perators e m p loy inexperie nced youth and as a resul t houses get flooded. A disaster that can be likened to the p ink batt fires two decades ago.

The Opposi tion leader Sony

Ascot promises to bring the boats back, die orange ones u sed years ago to return d1e refugees, since smart Sum atran smugglers now use them to sh ip refugees safely to our shores at a much h igher pric e.

With an eye on voces from fringe groups, 'green graru1y' R osa Hanson -Old r olls her b ig, bead y eyes, while she opens basket weavi ng communes to up -skill the unemployed.

Edu cation is now the n ation's primary expor t earner Primary studen ts from Shanghai and South Korea stream into our sc hoo ls co escape their tiger mums and cough maths lessons, prefer ring the easy

Aussie option

After mo st of d1e min erals shipped out, the mines are a mega mirage. A portly coal magnate and politician plans to start

With the old age Rension Rushed further. to seven!}', the national scene has tal<en a new loo!< ft is 2035. The golden age of Oz has dawned.

Queens land Mlrage- type reso rts by filling die empty open-cur mines w ith sea water for tourists to swim and surf.

Some twenty years earlier, the editor of the April 2014 i ssue of Tndia11 I.ink, ad v ised young Indian migrants who came in their mousands to plan their financial future ca refuUy since t h eir chance of getting a pension is likened to lndia winning t he Soccer World C u p, His words have become so prophetic.

Those same young m igrants, skilled in IT and engi n eering, are now in the ir sixties, working as hard as ever plying their o ld (cleaning) carts in s hopping ma.Us and aged care homes.

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