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Saillesh Gulabani Well above all it would be marriage with Ashita Dhawan that will be the highlight of this year for me. Professionally too I am on an all time high. I am doing two very popular shows - Sasural Genda Phool on STAR Plus which is fetching the channel a TRP of over five and then I am doing Bandini as the lead. I think the year in totality has been eventful for me.

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Ronit to establish Security training school

The actor has tied up with South Africa's Dynamic Alternatives to start a training school for security recruits

Bollywood's security arrangements are about to get far stronger.

Actor Ronit Roy, garnering raves for his performace in Udaan, owns the most sought-after security agency in Bollywood. His clients range from Shah Rukh Khan to Lalit Modi.

Ronit is now all set to expand his security business into a large training institution for security men. Unknown to all, the actor-entrepreneur has entered into a pioneering business alliance with South Africa's Dynamic Alternatives (the world's largest security consultants and trainers, a natural by-product we presume of coming from a nation with a notorious crime rate) to start a school for the training of security recruits in India.

Ronit has almost sealed the deal for a 25-acre plot for the school on the outskirts of Mumbai in Panvel. This would mean a massive upgradation of security arrangements in the entertainment industry, especially Bollywood.

Explains Ronit, "So far we have to depend on whatever manpower is available to us. Now we can train men with the most advanced techniques of protection and combat, thereby making security for celebrities stronger."

Sad news for afternoon soap addicts. The regular afternoon soap Bandini, produced by Balaji Telefilms will go off air shortly. The abrupt ending of this show is bound to come as a rude shock to its viewers; it happens to be the longest running show on TV and has completed 500 episodes.

A source from the television industry says, "The channel gave a one month notice to the production house. The serial had to be wrapped up within that period."

Adds another source, defending the channel in question, "The show is ending with a smooth flow. There is a mega hour long episode on January 29, which is the last date. The channel didn"t end it abruptly.

The lead actor of the show, Ronit Roy told us that he had to switch over to other commitments."

When contacted, explaining that Ronit"s other commitments was the reason why the show had to end, Ekta Kapoor says. "Ronit is not available for four months due to his other work commitments.

Moreover, he is out of India, so I can"t ask him to shoot for me at the same time.

Frankly, he had informed us since quite some time. Four months is a very long time and we could not build such a big bank of episodes with him. Hence we are left with no other option. We had to tell the channel to pull the show off air".

Though sad, Ronit however denies this and says, "I"m not exactly aware of the reason why Bandini is shutting down. I"m as sad as anyone else connected to it. I"m not in India in February and March but I guess it must have been a collective decision."

Sameer Nair, CEO, Turner General Entertainment Networks India Private Limited, does not blame Ronit Roy. He maintains, "It was a mutual decision between the channel and the production house that Bandini would go off air in January.

It was a popular show and we had a great experience with it.

And as all good things come to an end, why should this be and exception?"

Ronit Roy turns a crusader Staff Reporter

Launches a new campaign against HIV/AIDS from the Capital

Photo: R. V. Moorthy

A Different role: TV star Ronit Roy during the launch of the campaign against HIV/AIDS in the Capital on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: In his new avatar as a social crusader, television star Ronit Roy on Saturday launched an innovative campaign to fight the deadly HIV/AIDS across the country.

As brand ambassador of the campaign, Roy will wholeheartedly support the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's movement that includes free distribution of contraceptives as well as a "stay negative" campaign.

"Today I am playing a different role. I stay in the hearts and homes of millions of television viewers. They are my family and have given me so much love and affection over the years. So I need to give them something in return by enlightening them about an epidemic that is incurable. We have seasonal diseases like mad cow, bird flu and swine flu but to defeat HIV, which has been in the world for quite some time, a big-scale and efficacious campaign is needed," said the popular actor addressing media persons here.

Asserting that the media could act as a powerful tool to send across the message and keep the life-threatening disease at bay, Roy said talking about sex should no longer be taboo.

"Even though our soap operas are traditional and my role in my ongoing TV serial Bandini is also in that mould, I will still support the campaign on the small box. There is nothing to be embarrassed about the subject as everyone is vulnerable to HIV," he said.

"We need sex education in schools and parents shouldn't feel shy or ashamed to talk about this subject to their children. Wherever I travel in the country I wish the people good health. A lot of lucrative offers to promote contraceptives were offered to me but I declined. I am proud that I am supporting the campaign free of cost as this is part of my social endeavour," he added.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation US senior global policy director Terri Ford said stopping the spread of HIV was a tall order.

"We have affordable drugs to save the lives of those affected by the deadly disease. There should be dissemination of the fact that HIV is preventable; people need not suffer, women don't have to become widows and children don't have to be become orphans. Contraceptives are affordable prevention tool."

HLL Lifecare Limited chairman and managing director M. Ayyappan said the traditional promotion of contraceptives by the Government as a family planning tool to curb population explosion was understandable: "Now the Government is seriously thinking of repositioning contraceptives. The awareness level has to result in a behavioural pattern. We have a long way to go."

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Asia Pacific bureau chief Chinkholal Thangsing said if global AIDS control was defined as an absolute reduction in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, then contraceptives are the key to successfully achieve that goal: "The huge success of the recent World AIDS Day – one million test campaign – during which men, women and children lined up across the globe to be tested, demonstrates that people want to know their status. The campaign is aimed at bringing public-private partnership support for renewed contraceptive usage by distributing it free of cost to 10 million individuals, non-government or government agency. To achieve global AIDS control an aggressive reintegration of contraceptives is critical to success."

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