Piggy Chops remembers Whitney Houston (Movie Snippets)

Priyanka Chopra, a trained singer herself, says she grew up listening to numbers of Whitney Houston, who died in Los Angeles last week.

"Dedicated this morning to the beautiful Whitney...Listening to her greatest hits while getting ready..she's the voice I grew up on...," Priyanka posted on her Twitter page.

Houston was one of the world's best-selling and highly-awarded music artists. She was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel. She was 48.

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Movies have given me lifetime of study: Mahesh Bhatt

Mahesh Bhatt is grateful to movies. The veteran filmmaker says he has learnt a lot, thanks to his association with showbiz, and considers it a lifetime of study.

"Movies have been good to me. It has produced great friendship, love, travel, hardwork, pain, fun and it gave me money. Also a lifetime of study," tweeted Bhatt.

"Study is a full-time engagement which includes books, reading people, reading situations, reading about the past and present. To study, you enter into a situation with your whole being, listen with your heart and take off into the unending skies of imagination. A filmmaker or a writer learns to read life while life is happening," he added.

The National award-winning filmmaker is credited with movies like "Arth", "Saaransh" and "Zakhm".

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Why is 'Will You Marry Me?' special for Celina?

Actress Celina Jaitley holds the movie "Will You Marry Me?" very close to her heart because it is during the shooting of the movie that her husband, hotelier Peter Haag proposed to her.

Haag popped the question, and the duo tied the knot in 2011.

The actress recalled the special moment, and said: "Yes, it's true that Peter proposed to me while I was shooting for 'Will You Marry Me' and it was the best surprise. I may do a lot of films but this experience will always be special and close to my heart even though I have done a special appearance in the film."

"Will You Marry Me?" is about a beach wedding, and it has been shot at many locations, including Dubai, Mumbai and Bangkok. It is directed by Aditya Dutt.

Celina is now happily married and based in Dubai, but shuttles down between there and Mumbai for work.