Rangoli is a popular art form among Indian women 50 Best Rangoli Designs and Patterns 2012

Rangoli is a popular art form among Indian women. Rangoli are painted on the ground in front of houses using colored rice powder -- sometimes supplemented by flower petals and other colorful materials. Rangoli are typically painted during the tamil month of Maarkazhi (between December 15th and January 15th).

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world are celebrating the end of 2011 and the start of 2012

The Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand, is partially obscured by cloud during a New Year's Eve fireworks display Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images

Millions of revellers across the world are celebrating the end of 2011 and the start of 2012.

In New Zealand a firework display off Auckland's Sky Tower at midnight (1100 GMT) saw in the new year. In Australia a spectacular fireworks display was held in Sydney's harbour.

The South Pacific islands of Samoa and Tokelau were the first to see in 2012 after skipping a day by jumping west across the international dateline. The change effectively erases Friday 30 December 2011 from their calendars.

In Brazil, revellers are set to enjoy a fireworks display on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to pack into New York's Times Square for the ceremonial ball-dropping at midnight.

In the UK, hundreds of thousands of people will gather in central London where large numbers are expected to watch the London Eye fireworks display. The South Bank area around the London Eye will be one of the focal points for the celebrations, with Trafalgar Square another popular place for revellers to gather.

Up to 250,000 people are expected to watch the Thames-side fireworks. There will be 12,000 fireworks, producing 50,000 projectiles, launched during the display, which is triggered by Big Ben's chimes and lasts for 11 minutes and 15 seconds.

All travel in London will be free from 11.45pm until 4.30am on New Year's Day. Road closures will be in place in the city from 4pm.

British Transport police have advised travellers to expect queues on their journey home from the centre of London.

Big crowds are also expected in other cities, including Edinburgh, where about 80,000 revellers are expected to attend the world famous Hogmanay street party. Primal Scream are headlining this year's sold-out Concert in the Gardens against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.

The New Year's Eve British weather is forecast to be mild but some rain is expected.

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Laxmi’s crush in Bigg Boss House

Bigg Boss house is a place where people meet, become friends and some become close friends. In the previous season, we saw Veena Malik and Ashmit Patel’s love blossoming on small tube. And, in the second season, we saw Anupama Verma and Aryan Vaid getting up close and personal. But, in Season five, it’s an unusual link-up where Laxmi has shown some feelings for the new inmate Akashdeep Saigal. V7ONLINE brings to you some exclusive uncensored masala from the house.

On day 25, Laxmi confesses to Shonali that she likes Akashdeep a.k.a Sky as a good friend. On this, Shonali reveals that Laxmi is very shy and quiet when Akashdeep is around. Further in the conversation, Laxmi talks about Sky’s looks and height saying that he is very thin and short and will not match her height. Contradicting this statement, Shonali immediately states that he is not thin at all and has a nice body and biceps.

It’s time to wait and watch if Laxmi will confess her feelings to the machoman Akashdeep Saigal.

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Shah Rukh Khan replace Salman as the new Bajirao

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is all to set to move on with Shah Rukh khan after endlessly waiting for Salman Khan to play Bajirao in his ambitious project ‘Bajirao Mastani’.

Bhansali’s film went through a lot of casting upheavals since he announced the film back in 2003 with Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai. The project went for a toss with Salman and Aishwarya’s split.

Even Shah Rukh and Sanjay Leela Bhansali had issues during the release of Sawaariya and Om Shanti Om. But, it seems both have resolved their issues and are all set to work together once again.

Shah Rukh has reportedly asked for a proper narration after he was offered the role. It’s time to see whether Salman’s arch rival actually accepts the project?

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Shakti Kapoor evicted : Bigg Boss 5

The Bad Boy Shakti Kapoor has fallen prey to the politics and tantrums of Pooja Misrra and other house inmates. The only man among the female brigade in the house initially, Kapoor was always seen as a weak candidate. And, even his fan following couldn’t save the actor on Saturday.

So, it’s women power all the way this week. Guess, what other male inmates have to say about the eviction.

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Rajinikanth in Ra.One is not the real

A piece of disappointment for Rajini fans, the minute long cameo of the real-superhero Rajinikanth aka Chitti of Robot was actually graphically created in the film Ra.One.

Highly placed sources reveal that Shah Rukh’s talented VFX team had already created the replica and imaging of Rajinikanth. But, the South legend’s flashing visit to SRK’s studio in Mumbai was put to life by performing real motion capturing technique.

Motion Capturing (MoCaP) is one of the great new frontiers in the world of movie making and is becoming a crucial tool in complex digital effects.

A source elaborated, “The VFX team of Red Chilies had already created a graphically designed flawlessly looking face of Rajini, after taking textures from Rajini’s Robot sequences. Sensors were put on the face of Rajinikanth and his facial expressions were captured through MoCAP”.

“Rajini was also made to wear Chitti’s attire and walk in and out of the sporty Benz car, his entire body movements especially the facial expressions were captured and real motion was put to his computer generated face and body,” disclosed the sources.

As per sources, in haste to meet up the deadline of release, Rajini’s voice was also recorded on the VFX machine and not in a professional dubbing studio making it sound shabby.

Visual graphic expert revealed, “The entire activity took around a couple of hours, perhaps if Rajini sir would have not made it to Mumbai we would have to use a body double to do the needful”.

Robert Zemeckis has produced three films entirely using MoCap: Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol. Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have also used the technology in their productions.

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Pooja Misrra have a bad past : Bigg Boss 5

After many days, the contestants in the Bigg Boss house took a sigh of relief. On the auspicious day of Diwali, the house mates received gifts from their family members. Everyone was happy receiving gifts from their loved ones and some of them were even teary-eyed.

But, there was one inmate who seemed least interested in the gifts sent by her friends – Pooja Missra.

The Diwali celebrations carried on with the housemates being provided with crackers along with the idol of Goddess Lakshmi, so that they could conduct the pooja.

The overjoyed inmates conducted the pooja with zest and the Bigg Boss house was lit with candles and diyas. To add to the Diwali celebrations, Bigg Boss sent in a special big dark chocolate cake.

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Why Aamir Khan so secretive ?

His contemporaries — actors Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan have already got a firm foothold in Tellyland. But that hasn’t deterred actor Aamir Khan from making plans of debuting on the small screen as a host and also as a producer. The latest actor to join the TV star bandwagon, Aamir however confesses that it wasn’t an easy decision to make, as he doesn’t know much about TV shows and the industry. However, now that he is set to come up with his show soon, the non-conformist actor-filmmaker is keeping the details of his upcoming show a secret, just like his roles in his upcoming films and even their titles.

The star is secretive and is keeping mum on his show’s concept or what it will be called. “Firstly, my show isn’t like Oprah (Oprah Winfrey’s chat show)! I hardly have seen that show. When I was in America, I must have watched it a couple of times, but that’s it. And of whatever I recollect of it, my show isn’t like it. In fact, my show is a different concept and not ripped off from anything, therefore I have been intellectually and personally challenged more than ever. But I have not come to a conclusion about the name of the show yet, so I can’t say anything on that for now,” says Aamir.

Ask him about his upcoming film starring actors Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor and Aamir quips, “I’m not very good at marketing. So I don’t know if I should even start talking about a film that will only release in June. And as far as the name of the film is concerned, it’s a suspense thriller. And hence we thought for a suspense film, why not keep the name of the film in suspense for now. Film’s name apart, my show’s name too is in suspense for now, so suddenly I feel that there is too much of a suspense in my life.”

As for his debut on TV, Aamir feels that may be the beginner’s charm would make things right. “Every thing has two sides — good and the bad. Likewise in my case too, there are a few drawbacks. One of them is that I don’t know much about TV industry, I lack in terms of knowledge. And the advantage is that because I don’t know much, I will love to do things my way. But then that sometimes surprises people around and they tell me it doesn’t happen like this here. So I question them back and ask why it doesn’t happen this way here?” he smiles.

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Rajinikanth Will save Ra.One

Rajinikanth was last seen in the Sci-Fi movie ‘Robot’ which received huge response from the audience and went on to become a mega-hit. His Chitti avatar charmed his fans. Now they can witness the Chitti magic once again in ‘Ra.One’.

The movie is released in Tamil and Telegu version too and the fact that Rajinikanth has zillions of fans down South is expected to impact the Box Office collection for King Khan’s movie.

‘Ra.One’ released on 26th Oct and from the past three days, Rajinikanth’s fans have been enjoying their superstar’s presence on screen, even if it’s merely for a few seconds. In fact, they are celebrating the festival with the tribute paid by SRK to the Chitti avatar of Rajinikanth.

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Will Siddharth-Shonali flirting turn into a love story?

People in the Bigg Boss house have come close and one can see a lot of flirting around going on in the house. Of all the men, Siddharth Bharadwaj has become the new Kishan for all the gopis. He was first seen flirting with Vida Samadzai during the pool party and now his latest eye-candy is Shonali Nagrani.

On the Diwali morning, Shonali got very emotional as she was missing her family. Seeing her cry, Siddharth lent her his shoulder. He tried his level best to change Shonali’s mood with his silly jokes.

Lakshmi was observing this; she later called Siddharth and teased him taking Shonali’s name.

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Big B infuriated by Twitter imposter

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is left fuming after an imposter used his identity on Twitter to criticise Shahrukh Khan's latest release Ra.One.

The 69-year-old actor has come out strongly against this attempt to malign his relationship with the King Khan.

"Attention !!! Someone using my fake ID and writing rubbish... My ID is @SrBachchan... fake ID being disgustingly used is @SrBachhann (sic)," he wrote on Twitter.

"Fake ID of mine being used to write opinions on Ra.One... I have not even seen the film and shall always wish the best for ShahRukh (sic)," he added.

The imposter bashed Shahrukh's superhero film, which released yesterday, saying, "Saw #RA1. What a WASTE. Even the worst of Abhishek's like Drona were much better. May be SRK's mid age crises (sic)."

Bachchan also warned the miscreant saying he would not tolerate such negativity and malice.

"Of late a great amount of negative, malicious, completely untrue remarks being written against me... I shall bear with silence... but beware the fury of a silent man .." Bachchan said.

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Shah Rukh Khan to work with Lady Gaga After Akon

However reportedly, after collaborating with Akon for ‘chammak challo’, SRK is all set to work with Lady Gaga for a post release promotional track. Due to Lady Gaga’s busy schedule things could not be worked out earlier, but now she has finally found time to work on a song which will be used as post promotional teaser.

Music composers Vishal-Sekhar have already composed a tune for Lady Gaga to record. Akon’s chammak Challo is already a chartbuster; let’s wait to see whether Lady Gaga’s song becomes another hit track of the film?

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Ra.One : Movie Review

Movie Name: Ra.One
Star Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Armaan Verma, Arjun Rampal
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Producer: Gauri Khan
Music Directer: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
Genre: Sci-Fi

Story: The story is about a father and his relationship with his son. Shekhar Subramanium (Shahrukh Khan) tries everything possible to impress his son, but Pratik (Armaan Verma) believes that his father is not so cool. In an effort to impress his son, Shekhar designs a game which changes their lives. The game which was meant to be played, starts playing with their lives, marking the entry of Ra.One and G.One.

Story Treatment: With months of promotional activities, Ra.One has tremendous curiosity value attached to it. The story juggles between Sci-Fi and Bollywood drama and leaves the audience enthralled in parts. The first half depicts various shades of a father-son relationship whereas, post interval the action unfolds. However, the script tends to lose its track by making the efforts tasteless. Comparisons with Rajinikanth’s Robot and SRK’s Ra.One are bound to happen, especially in sequences built upon the same track. For instance, the train chase sequence brings back flashes of Chitti and his robotic skills, when compared with the aerial G-One.

Star Cast: Shahrukh as Shekhar is innocent, crystal sharp and natural. King Khan as G-One tries to carry the aura of superhero with immense poise, but is caged as a ‘family superhero’ rather than messiah of all. Kareena Kapoor (Sonia Subramanium), as always, manages to be easy on the eyes with her great looks and acting calibre. She also makes one realise that even in a superhero film, a heroine is a must. Armaan Verma is a superb pick for his role, as he sinks into the character perfectly, sometimes even outshining established stars like SRK and Kareena. Rajinikanth, rightly referred to as the ‘Real Superhero’ in the movie as well, steals the show within few seconds of his entry and makes the crowd clap and whistle with his mere presence. Arjun Rampal walks away with the cake for his deadly looks and impresses as the real bad man. Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka Chopra are wasted. Satish Shah’s presence induces a few funny moments. Shahana Goswami plays her part well.

Direction: What’s noteworthy about Anubhav Sinha’s work is the fact that he has paid attention to the quaint essential bit on the technological front and also, infused the right amount of emotional dose required for the movie to be termed an entertainer. The director makes his star cast look the best, yet loses few points as the track is led astray. At the same time, Anubhav understands the demand of Bollywood fans and tries to keep all the elements.

Dialogue/cinematography/music: Dialogues are a concoction of emotions with a message which runs throughout the movie, almost forming its soul- Victory of good over evil. Cinematography is excellent, while music is decent. Chammak Chhallo, which is already riding high on the popularity chart, lives up to the hype created, while Dildaara displays the love and emotional saga between Kareena and Shahrukh.

3ups and Down: Ra.One is surely crafted as a kids’ entertainer. Compared to Chitti, the emotional side of G-One takes a hit. SRK’s fans, who have been missing him on the silver screen after ‘My Name Is Khan’, can grab this opportunity to see their hero in a never-seen-before avatar. The movie is a joyful cinematic experience for game enthusiasts.

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Mika Singh and Rakhi Sawant are friends again

Singer Mika Singh and item bomb Rakhi Sawant seem to have finally buried their hatchet.

The unexpected happened, when Suniel Shetty and the star cast of an upcoming film met up to celebrate Diwali a day before, along with Shweta Bhardwaj and Mahakshay Chaktaborty. The highlight of the evening was surely when long-time frenemies Rakhi Sawant and Mika Singh came together.

While the actress ignored the singer initially, Mika was insistently friendly, until Rakhi couldn't ignore his overtures any longer. So, the duo made up once again, fed each other sweets as Mika showed her how to make his trademark V sign. Also seen at the event was Mahesh Manjrekar.

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Hrithik Roshan ignoring his health

The workaholic Hrithik Roshan is not having an easy way out. Spotted at Mumbai's Breach Candy hospital a week back, the actor is advised to take some rest. But, the actor is not ready to make his director suffer and is all set to resume shooting for his forthcoming film ‘Agneepath’ at Madh Island.

According to reports published in a leading Daily, the actor has been suffering from Repetitive Stress Injuries (RPI's) due to his busy schedule, and has been advised 10 days of bed rest.

Hrithik’s 14-16 hours of shooting schedule is causing a continuous pressure on his joint muscles and his back, increasing his stress levels.

Apparently, Hrithik is not much happy with the bed rest as he is keen on finishing the Agneepath shoot and has to even start shooting for Krrish 3.

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House inmates fighting to gain TRPs in Bigg Boss 5

The female participants of Bigg Boss house have proved that two female actress can never be good friends. They can only be jealous and will only end up finding reasons to insult each other. The environment in the house has gone from bad to worse; first it was Pooja Misrra picking up fights with Pooja Bedi, now almost all the participants fighting with each other.

Here's the latest from the house:

When all the participants are working hard to win the task of making diyas, Pooja Misrra is seen relaxing in her room and when Siddharth comes to wake Pooja up, she refuses to cooperate and takes up a fight with him. Siddharth leaves the room in anger and starts discussing the problem with Mandeep. Thereafter, while Mandeep and Sidharth are in the middle of a conversation, a sleepy Pooja barges into Siddharth’s elbow and almost slips from the stairs.

Then, a furious Pooja starts abusing Siddharth, accusing him of pushing her with his elbow intentionally. Finally Siddharth loses his cool and starts abusing Pooja. Mandeep tries to intervene and explain to Pooja that it was a genuine accident and not an intentional move.


On the other side of the house, Shraddha is leaving no chance to insult Pooja Bedi. She calls Pooja Bedi a “tuchhi” in the industry and tells her that even her children would be ashamed of their 45-year-old mother trying to look and act like a young girl. An agitated Pooja Bedi is extremely furious at Shraddha and asks her to keep her mouth shut and mind her own business.

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Shraddha breaks down and loses her temper : Bigg Boss 5

Shraddha Sharma will never forget her birthday spent at the Bigg Boss house! Her day started with a fight with Pooja Bedi as she blamed Shraddha for breaking the rules by keeping the buckets occupied during bathing hours.

After a spat with Pooja Bedi, Shraddha got into an altercation with Vida Samadzai, as Vida continued to taunt and disrespect Shraddha and irked her on her big day. Even Mahek Chahal provoked her and called her two faced.
Finally, Shraddha was taken to the gardens by house captain Shonali, along with Pooja Misrra and Lakshmi. When they tried to play peacemakers, a very hyper and emotional Shraddha Sharma broke down.

It seems Shraddha’s bad days are far from over, as the fights are breaking out all over the house.

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Pooja Bedi nominated for eviction : Bigg Boss 5

The Bigg Boss house is becoming spicier with inmates picking up fights time and again and targeting each other. A trend of sorts has been set uo, wherein participants nominated for eviction, end up picking up fights with other inmates week after week,

This week, Pooja Bedi and Shraddha Sharma have been nominated for the first time and the same hasn't gone down well with them. The inmates nominated Pooja for eviction as they felt that she was trying to make groups in the house. After the nominations, Pooja and Shraddha took up a fight over a bucket.

Pooja is said to have entered the house and made a group with Juhi Parmar, Lakshmi, Raageshwari and some others. This behaviour didn’t go well with the other house mates and they nominated Pooja.

Also, Shakti Kapoor and Mahek Chahal have been nomintaed yet again.

Now let’s leave it to the audience to decide the fate of Pooja and Shraddha.

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Nargis prays for her debut in Bollywood

Rockstar has been in the limelight for its outstanding music and Ranbir Kapoor-Nargis Fakhri’s chemistry. The film is all set to release on the November 11 2011 and everyone associated with the film is busy planning innovative promotional strategies.

Recently, the team visited Punjab tour. They visited Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Chandigarh. During the trip, the team took out time from their promotional schedule to visit the divine Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Ranbir Kapoor, director Imtiaz Ali and producer Hiren Gandhi made it a point to visit the holy place at 4 in the morning, whereas the film's heroine, newbie Nargis Fakhri visited the temple the next morning at 11 am.

Hopefully this holy visit will help the film do well at the box office.

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Kareena Kapoor Told About Saif's brave

Actor Kareena Kapoor cancelled all her birthday (September 21) celebrations plans and flew to be by her beau, actor Saif Ali Khan’s side when his father, cricketing legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi succumbed to lung infection the next day.

“It was too personal a loss for me to even talk about it,” she says. “Saif is family to me and so is his family. At that point, all I wanted to do was to be with them in their times of crisis.”

It’s been reported that Saif broke down on the sets of his home production, Agent Vinod shortly after resuming work. Kareena refutes it saying, “Saif is a very brave person and knows how to handle himself very well. He is way too strong and private to even let anybody know what he is going through. His emotions and feelings are very sacred to him; he would never let it out in front of anyone. He is too dignified to do that.”

There are reports of her marriage to Saif, which was supposedly scheduled to happen in February, being pushed further. “I don’t understand these constant speculations especially when we both have always been open about our relationship,” retorts Bebo. “We have never lied or hidden anything, so if there’s announcement to be made, we’d do the same. Right now, we both are just completely focused on our film together.”

Besides looking ahead to her releases with the other Khans — Shah Rukh and Aamir, she’s also visibly excited about sister Karisma Kapoor’s comback to films. “Till date, it was just me who was busy, but now, Karisma too will be equally busy. I called her up thrice today, and each time her Man Friday picked up the phone and said, ‘Madam baat nahi kar sakti, shot mein hai.’ It was weird but felt great! I am extremely happy for her. At this age, she looks outstanding and has maintained herself really well. She looks better than most actresses today, and can give them a run for their money,” gushes Bebo.

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