Ek Ajnabee goes to Hollywood

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Birthday Babes…

Amrita lonely today

Amrita Arora

Amrita Arora is celebrating her birthday all alone today. The bright and bubbly pretty girl was supposed to throw a lavish party and bring in her birthday but she has cancelled all those plans and now wants to have a party in the latter part of February.

Why? "Just ya…" says Ammu and she further adds, "I will be going out for dinner tonight with my family and friends. Usi's (boyfriend Usman Afzal) not here. He was here last week but had to leave on January 28 for London for his training. He will be back in a few days, which is when I will have the party around February 9," she trails off. Don't be so sad, girl. We are sure the world loves you, and that your Fight Club gang will throw a party in your honour.

Going 31 on Jan 31

Preity Zinta

Preity gal turns a year older today and what better day than this to share those lesser-known facts about the real woman. A home bird by nature, she's a decent cook and whips up delicacies for family and friends whenever she is in town.

Apart from Ness Wadia, she's crazy about shoes and is a proud owner of several pairs.

Her New York trip during the shoot of Kal Ho Na Ho saw her taking bartending lessons in the evenings, which saw her getting tipsy on quite a few occasions in a bid to taste all the drinks behind the bar.

We know she's a foodie, too. Bet that magic fridge is still on her wishlist. Any inventors/magicians out there? Please respond.

Preity gets talking about her experiences in filmdom and her birthday resolutions on Jabardast Janamdin to air on Star Gold at 4 pm today.

Ash beats SRK

Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai defeated Shahrukh Khan to win the title of the Most Popular Desi Celeb.

Aishwarya defeated SRK by a convincing margin in a popularity contest conducted by the emerging website for celebrity news, desifans.com. To a 32.2 per cent share of vote for Shahrukh, Aishwarya won a staggering 67.8 per cent.

The Star Wars clash started way back in September 2005 with two strong groups, the desi male celebs and the desi female divas. Round by round, stars were eliminated and Aishwarya Rai beat Sania Mirza for the female title while Shahrukh emerged victorious defeating master blaster Sachin Tendulkar to clinch the male title.

Naya kya hai?

Aarti Chabria

With everybody and his uncle launching one celebrity calendar after another, this one comes as no surprise. Gold's Gym launches its calendar today.

It has dual pictures on each month, of a patron including the likes of Tania Zaetta, Riteish Deshmukh, Ishha Koppikar, Preeti Jhangiani, Aarti Chabria, Anupama Varma and others.

The peculiar choice of celebrities aside, wonder what's gonna keep us from tearing our hair out at the mention of another calendar launch?

Ek Ajnabee goes to Hollywood

Bunty Walia

Producer Bunty Walia is maha excited. "My brother and I got a letter from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Hollywood last week asking us if we could give them the screenplay of Ek Ajnabee to put in their permanent library collection, which means it will be read by people all over the world. It came as a bolt from the blue. We are thrilled!" he says.

So, for Walia's sake, we will ignore the fact that it wasn't an original script to begin with. He goes on to add, "We have moved onto our next project Just Punjabi, which we will launch in 2007.

It will be directed by Apoorva Lakhia and the cast includes Mr Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Abhishek. Aishwarya is on my wish list of heroines." Strangely, the previously flop Ash-Abhi jodi is most wanted on-screen these days…

Smriti's on cloud nine

Smriti

One of the reasons as to why Smriti Z Iraani is beaming these days is the success of her Gujarati play — Maniben.com that opened on Sunday night in Tejpal auditorium.

"I am overwhelmed by the response I got for the play. Of course, without Zubin, it would have been impossible for me to achieve what I have," she says.

Produced under her own banner Ugraya Entertainment along with Megha Arts, the play revolves around a Kathiawadi rustic woman who after her marriage to a diamond trader finds herself landing up in Pali Hill. As far as her stint with theatre is concerned, Smriti made her debut last year with Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum with her Kyunki co-star Apara Mehta.

Raza's Bollywood

Q. What would you say if Mallika Sherawat's acting assets are not utilised properly?

A. What a 'waist' of talent!