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Malini's Mumbai What's cooking? Mandira Bedi Spotted Mandira Bedi and Sanjay Gupta spent a leisurely three hours at Rain on Wednesday night over drinks and dinner. Discussing their next big project, no doubt.

Dream on Darling: Bobby poses at the premiere

Cashing in

It was movie night on Wednesday with several celebrity premieres and the glitterati showed up in hoardes to watch Walk the Line. Anaida, Mansi Scott, Shibani Kashyap, Achala Sachdev, Reshma Bombaywala, Shawar Ali, Tapur and Tupur, Rahul Dev, Dolly Thakore, Preeti Jhangiani, Mukesh Bhatt, Suchitra Pillai and Dipannita Sharma made up some of the pretty and famous faces packing in the popcorn.

With five Oscar nominations this year, Walk The Line is a must watch (out in theatres today) that chronicles country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on a cotton farm to his rise to fame in Memphis where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Cash in the movie alongside Reese Witherspoon (the hot favourite to win best actress this year).

Catch the Oscars live on Star Movies on Monday (March 6) starting with a red carpet report at 5:30 am, or the primetime repeat at 8 pm.

Work hard, party harder: Gautam Singhania

Daddy's back

If you've been wondering where the dashing Gautam Singhania has been for the past many weeks, he's dropped off the party circuit temporarily to enjoy some quality time with his baby girl. In fact, any partying he will be doing is in her honour.

Vijay Darda of the Lokmat paper is hosting a bash to celebrate the arrival of baby Niharika for Gautam and Nawaz Singhania at the Chambers at the Taj tomorrow night.

Squeeze this in: Red-hot DJ Dego of Void

Club buzz

Two Israeli talents Tam Tam (Tamir Regev) and Dego (Oren Emanuel), who peg themselves as humans by day and DJs by night, plan to spin up a storm of trance tonight at Squeeze.

Known together simply as Void, they've been invited to once again 'revive the revolution' for real ravers. Sounds trippy.

Partnership: Venkatesh Prasad with wife Jayanthi

Venky's wardrobe

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Sharmilla Khanna and Venkatesh Prasad were recently spotted indulging in some retail therapy at the Hugo Boss store at the Grand Hyatt.

Venkatesh's fashion police was none other than his wife Jayanthi, who advised him against wearing pink and sent him on the less daunting mission of sock selection, while she picked out the right shirt for him.

Just friends: Shakira

Shakira: Robbie's a friend

Shakira says rumours she has been enjoying nights of passion with Robbie Williams in LA are well wide of the mark.

The Colombian singer is still with her Argentinian fianc of four years, Antonio De La Rua, according to the Daily Mirror.

Shakira, who was in London finishing her new video, said, "Robbie's a really nice guy, a beautiful person. We hung out a bit in LA but we're really just friends.

"Antonio's so great. It's been so hectic recently, touring my Spanish album and finishing my new English material, but he's so supportive.

"I've got the ring on my finger — and that's the most important thing!"

Ring mystery: Brad Pitt with Angelina Jolie

Angelina, Brad 'marry in secret'

Glitzy couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have married in secret, according to Hollywood gossip.

Angelina, expecting the couple's baby, was spotted wearing a gold band ring in Paris — where the actress, Brad and adopted kids Maddox and Zahara have been renting an apartment.

A US magazine hinted the couple may have got hitched.

It quoted a source saying, "Brad and Angelina have their own secret and the rings are part of it. In her mind, they are married."

It is also claimed Angelina (30) plans to give birth in June in Africa.

Insiders say she wants her new baby to have a "kinship" with 11-month-old daughter Zahara and son Maddox (4), who were born into poverty in Third World countries.

But the plan may have upset her family. Even Brad, (42), wants her to give birth in the United States.

Into the blue: Jessica Alba

Jessica threatens Playboy

Jessica Alba has threatened to sue Playboy lothario Hugh Hefner, after the March issue of his saucy publication 'suggests' she poses "nude or semi-nude".

The Fantastic Four beauty shot off a legal warning to the magazine mogul demanding to immediately stop distributing the offending issue, and the actress insists a "monetary settlement" is appropriate.