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After the boys Tez Talwar team showcased their individual and collective talent on Monday, the girl's Meethi Churi team is now ready to set the dance floor on fire! To prove their caliber, the girl's team first sent their sexiest member on to the floor ' Karishma Tanna, who kindles fire with "Zara zara touch me". Stroking the fire is a class act by Roopali Ganguly to "Aaja Nach le", re-living the Parveen Babi era is Manini De's sizzling performance of "Jawane- Jaaneman" and "Raat Baki". Jennifer Winget adds oil to the sizzle with a scorching rendition of "Ye Raat'.

Each week promises to be a fun filled fiesta as both the teams put their dancing skills to test and outdo each other on the dance floor! The Performance Episode of 'Zara Nachke Dikha' will air every Monday at 9:30 p.m., showcasing the exciting competition between both the teams. The Challenge Episodes, which will air every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., will provide an opportunity for weaker teams to bounce back. With no eliminations and no public voting, the show will be based on the jury's final verdict. These performances will be judged hugely talented and versatile Chunky Pandey and elegant Malaika Arora Khan and will be hosted by charismatic Karan Singh Grover and ravishing Shweta Gulati.

The Meethi Churi Ladkiyan take on the dance floor on Tuesday, July 15 @ 9.30 pm!

Spreading the message of love this Valentines Day, Star Plus presents a special performance packed evening called 'Salam-e-Ishq'. It is an occasion when all your favourite onscreen couples will pay a tribute to the eternal feeling of love. It is an evening where all the stars of Star Plus will join hands and celebrate love.

Through the performances, the evening will unveil the six phases of 'love' right from courtship to the final phase of living together happily ever after. The six segments of smashing performances will include mere khaboon mein, peheli mulakat, chedchad, pyaar mein mushkil, virah and finally the eternal love. The evening kick starts with a romantic performance of a dream sequence by the latest entrants of Star parivaar, Anjali Abrol and Kapil Nirmal from the show 'Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat'. The next phase of peheli mulakat showcases Pulkit Samraat and Suhaasi from 'Ek Chaabi Hai Padoos Main' depicting the meeting of a boy and a girl for the first time. They perform to romantic numbers like Kuch to hua hai (Kal ho Na ho), Ajab si (OSO) Salaam-e-Ishq (Salaam-e-Ishq).

From the shy start, the couple heads into the mischievous phase, chedchad where they tease each other and thus make the entire environment fun filled and lively. The 'Bidaai' leads Parul and Sara perform with the handsome dudes of 'Santaan', Aditya and Gaurav. This phase also showcases their onscreen parents Alok Nath, Vibha Chibber, Diwakar Pundhir and Samragyi join the celebration. Love has to pass through various testing phases and troubles in love are inevitable. The mushkil phase sees the charming Jennifer Winget from 'Sangam' along with Gautam Rode and Amit Verma from 'Baa Bahu Baby' beautifully portraying a dream sequence where the girl torn between her ex love and present love of her life.

This situation leads to Virah where the couple has to overcome barriers in love. Anas Rashid and Sayongita from 'Prithviraj' then perform on the painful track of Tanhhaiya. But sunset is followed by sunshine; every bad phase has a happy ending. Virah is followed by happiness and this phase showcase the most amazing onscreen couple Hussain and Juhi from 'Kumkum'. They perform on some of Bollywood's most romantic numbers including Tumko Malum Hai (Janemaan), Tere Bina (Guru) and Kehne Ko Jashna Bahar Aaye (Jodha Akbar). That's not all the cutest real life couple Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda dance their way on the peppy number of Kiya Kiya (Welcome).

Last but not the least, the love filled evening will unveil the surprise element as the stunning television couple Sharad and Divyanka Tripathi give a special performance on a medley of love songs. The romantic evening will have the vibrant and lovely couple Karan Grover and Kavita Kaushik as the hosts.

Apart from all the astounding performances by the real life and onscreen couples, be ready to meet the love guru who will give suggestions and comments on all the gorgeous couples of Star Plus.

So stay tuned to celebrate love and watch your favorite couples performing their best on 'Salam-e-Ishq', Sunday, 17th February at 10 p.m. only on Star Plus.

Star Plus in association with Fox Television Studio is all ready to roll out its new show Sangam. The love saga revolves around the lead character Ganga, a small town intelligent and ambitious girl. who falls in love with Sagar aka Chaitanya Chaudhary. Slotted at 7.00 pm on Star Plus, the show has

Jennifer Winget in the lead.

"Ganga believes in following her dreams and doing the best for her family. She strives to fulfil her father's hopes and dreams," she says.

On being asked how she can relate herself with these two characters she said, "Sneha is a completely different character from what I am playing in Sangam. The reason for me to take up this show is that though Kasautii has given me recognition but I was always looking for strong characters. This is completely different from what I have done in the past. I am looking forward to this venture," laughs out Jennifer.

Other actors such as Chaitanya Chaudhary and Shaleen Bhanot will carry forward the story to another level. Last seen in Kahiin Toh Hoga, the actor say, "I play Sagar, a calm guy who believes in family values. The story unfolds when the plot reveals that Ganga is not the only girl in his life. He's already committed to a girl since childhood chosen by his family. But later Sagar realises that he has fallen in love with Ganga and now its time to decide on his love or family values," he adds.

Shaleen, who essays the role of Madan, the bad guy in the story says, "I love to essay a negative role as it gives me an opportunity to show my creative side. Madan also loves Ganga from the bottom of his heart and wants her at any cost. It's a completely different role from what I have played earlier," adds Shaleen.

Just imagine, if you get a magic wand which can grant you 'just two wishes'

Now, this one's just for fun! We got into a futuristic mode and asked a select bunch of our TV stars which two wishes they would want fulfilled; if they got hold of a magic wand. And here's what they said!

Jennifer Winget

To go back to see old Mumbai of 1950's and 1960's, the black and white era. Also, I want the power to read the minds of people.

TV queen Ekta Kapoor's much awaited bash at Krishna bungalow was a blast. Apparently, a belated birthday celebration it had all the hotties from TV in

attendance. Ekta true to herself made an entrance at about 1:30 am. And the place just sizzled after that, as she went around with her cocktail test tubes and forced them down her cast's and friends' throats.

Until she arrived brother Tusshar made up for her absence, looking smart and clean, standing close to the bar, giving the likes of Ken Ghosh, Manish Malhotra, Urmila Matondkar, Issha Kopikar, Neelam Kothari, and Goldie Behl company.

Hiten Tejwani came flexing his hairy biceps and with wife Gauri looking slim as a reed and headed straight for the drinks counter. Shabbir Ahluwalia looked sharp with his hair tucked into a peak cap (which later Ekta pulled off and tried for a moment before flopping it back on to his head). All the other Ekta regulars were in attendance: Yash and Gauri Tonk, Chaitanya Choudhary, Eijaz Khan, Anita Hassanandani, Reva Babbar (she needs to lose a few pounds), Narayani Shastri, (making a fashion statement by wearing a dress which displayed her broad hips), Ali Hassan (why has he disappeared from the screen), Manasi Verma (the graceful dancer is gradually gaining weight), Bobby Darling (she went into a clinch with Shabbir as soon as she entered Krishna), Roshni Chopra, Sanjeeda, Rakshanda Khan (she hung around with Anita, Ken, Salil Chaturvedi and a young kid who is being touted as the next biggest thing to hit film after Jaaved Akhtar), Ali Asgar (he is awaiting the release of his films), Gaurav Gera (he spent time with the affable Sony programming head Anupama Mandloi).
Kiran Karmakar and his wife Rinku, Chetan Hansraj and his wife Lavina, Pawan Shankar and his gorgeous wife Yukti, Rajeev and Raakesh Paul, the prodigal Prabhat Bhattacharyya, sweet Nikhil Aryya, the chocolate pin up Naman Shah, Urvashi Dholakia, Jennifer Winget, Preeta Puri, Mushtaq, Anupam Verma, Suneeta Menon, Amit Tandon, Vikas Sethi, Sanjit Bedi, Kushal Punjabi, Aamir Ali, Hiten Paintal and Kishwar, Anoop Soni and his wife, creative director Nivedita Basu, The channels too were represented: Aparna Pandey from Zoom, Sony's Gursheel Walia, and as mentioned earlier the likeable Anupama Mondloi. Shockingly, no one senior from Star or Zee was visible to the team.

The senior crowd was represented Deepak Parasher, Kailash and Aarti Surendranath, Madhuri Bhatia, Dolly Thakore, Bharati Acherakar, Sushmita Mukherji, Mita Vashist, Vikram Kapadia, and singer Sapna Mukherji.

The highlight of the evening was when one of the older totally sloshed TV actresses and pulled yesteryear film heroine friend's hair and asked her who she was. The film actress turned around and told her she was sick and frustrated. The altercation went on for a while close to the elevator before the older actress was sent packing home. Ekta too joined in the fun later with the film heroine and she indulged in some boisterous girlie banter.

The party continued till the wee hours of the morning and when the Tellychkkar.com team left it looked like it had a lot of life in it. Ekta, you rock! Keep going!

Girls are better cooks, but most chefs are men. Men are physically stronger but girls are more capable of getting what they want. So who is the better, the stronger, the more powerful of the two? The battle of the sexes has raged since Adam and Eve, but no one has ever been able to pronounce a verdict.

But that is exactly what STAR One is aiming to do with Zara Nachke Dikha ' a dance reality show that pits boys against girls in a bid to gauge who is better, at least when it comes to having the better pair of dancing feet.

Launched at the ITC Grand Central Mumbai on Monday evening, Zara Nachke Dikha will have eight boys and an equal number of girls trying to outdo each other on a dance stage over 11 weeks. "In a complete departure from the other dance reality shows seen on Indian television so far, Zara Nachke Dikha introduces the unique concept of pitting the men against the women, a format that is sure to capture the imagination of the audience," said Ravi Menon, EVP-GM, STAR One.

What will also set apart Zara Nachke Dikha from its predecessors is the novel process of elimination that STAR One and

producers SOL have hit upon. "The eight girls and eight boys will compete as two teams. Unlike other shows, there will be no elimination process every week. The weakest participant is penalised, but not eliminated, and the team will have to work doubly hard to get him or her back into the team," explained Menon.

The audience will have no say in terms of public voting with all the power vested in the hands of the judges till they come up with a final winner, or rather a winning team. Due to air sometime in mid July, the show producers are yet to decide on the host and the judges, but promise that they will be "the best in the business".

While Zara Nachke Dikha may boast of some uniqueness in its format, the participants are all familiar faces on television, many of whom have already tried their luck in one reality show or the other. The boys' team comprises Manish Goel, Chaitanya Choudhury, Gaurav Chopra, Amit Tandon, Vikas Sethi, Ali Asgar, Bakhtiyaar Iraani and child actor Amey Pandya. The girls in the battlefield will be Karishma Tanna, Maninee De, Rupali Ganguli, Jennifer Winget, Narayani Shastri, Mouni Roy, Delnaaz Paul and Swini Khara (little 'Sexy' of Cheeni Kum).

And they all have their reasons to participate in Zara Nachke Dikha. "This is my first reality show and there couldn't have been a

better debut for me than Zara Nachke Dikha," said Balaji man Chaitanya, while for television host and actor Maninee, the chance to rub shoulders with "some wonderful dancers and even better co-actors" was the reason.

But the clincher lay in the concept. "It's time we decided who is better between the girls and the boys," said one and all.

Looks like cry baby Jennifer 'Sneha' Winget has finally grown up! The actor has just signed on her first lead role with Fox production's new show for Star Plus titled Sangam.

"I play the protagonist Ganga and the story revolves around my trials and tribulations. It traces the character's growth from an ordinary girl to a woman of substance, Right now, I can't reveal more about the show," says Jennifer flashing her cute smile.

So what attracted you towards Sangam ? "It's a very positive and strong role; quite unlike my Kasauti character."

Just how kicked Jennifer is for the success of this show can be gauged by the fact that she was even ready to do some adventurous stunt shots (hanging from a dam) during their Panchgani outdoor recently.

"These scenes were essential and formed an important part of the narrative, hence I attempted them.

I wasn't really scared; in fact I was quite excited. Swinging in the air from left to right at that height was one experience which I'll never forget! Some of the scenes even required the safety harness to be removed, but by then the adrenaline rush was so high, that I agreed to it as well. My co stars Chaitanya Chaudhary and Shaleen were really shocked. They were literally begging me to change my mind," says this die hard Spider Man fan.

To us this sounds more like a scene from some outdoor adventure reality show rather than a afternoon slot soap opera. We wonder if she would try her hand at a desi version of the Survivor.