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Lip-to-lip kissing replaces air kissing at parties (TOI photo)

According to the Daily Telegraph , London Fashion Week and the GQ Men of the Year Awards were rife with the highly intimate kisses. “On the party scene, air kissing - that horrible “mwah, mwah” used by the kind of people who know your job title and dress size but forget your name - is out,” the paper said. “Instead, there’s a far worse social plague doing the rounds: being kissed on the mouth,” the paper added.

Australian body language expert Allan Pease, who has been lip-kissed by a stranger twice in recent weeks, said that the new trend was fast catching on. “I don’t know where it started but it’s certainly catching on. It’s big in Britain and it’s filtering through here too,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Pease as saying.

Continue Reading VIA Times of India.

Karsh Kale together with other celebrities are ready to set the stage on fire to help change the lives of thousands of children through, Project Ahimsa and Education Thorough Music (ETM)! Karsh Kale, Tina Sungandh, and many more celebs to rock on for a good cause.
The spectacular event will be held on November 13th at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. The concert, ‘Global Lingo’, will benefit Uganda’s House of Hope Orphanage for kids with HIV. It will also go towards Africa Live, a music program for kids in Ghana. Sounds like an amazing night! ‘Global Lingo’ was a massive hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco! It’s guaranteed to be just as awesome in NYC!
Project Ahimsa raises money for education programs around the world and has benefited 10,000 kids with over seventy grants, while Education through Music helps 9,000 children in NYC and 3,000 in California.  Project Ahimsa currently benefits children in countries like, Nicaragua, India, Tanzania, Thailand, Brazil, Guatemala, Cuba and now Uganda.

Advanced tickets are going fast for the Global Lingo event at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC on November 13th. Project Ahimsa, House for Hope, Africa Live! and Education Through Music have brought together acts like Karsh Kale (Live with special Guests), Nickodemus (Wonderwheel Recordings/ESL Music), Trendroid (Transport) and others with a myriad of hosts.

All proceeds benefit the aforementioned programs.

The Bilz and Kashif made it through a crazy cab ride in Mumbai! The boys continued to have fun on Kashif’s birthday when they chowed down some Maharaja Macs at McDonalds!
Check out the comedic footage of the boys on their October 5th-27th trip to the India here at Desi Hits.

Former Miss World Priyanka Chopra, who floored the audiences with her dare-bare performance in Fashion is waiting anxiously for audiences reaction to Dostana, which is her next release.

The beauty has confessed working hard on her body for the film. She says: “For Fashion, I had to put on six kilos and later had to shed chip by chip as the character progressed in the film. My body structure in Dostana is more toned than in Fashion as it is a completely beach film. I’ve worked very hard on my body.”

Since it’s a complete beach film, we would find Priyanka Chopra dressed chic and minimal clothes apart from bikinis.

Via Bollywood Buzz.
“To start with, lets us tell you that she is hot, so much so that people just pause when they look at her as they just can’t get their eyes off her! She is none other than the Om Shanti Om girl, Deepika Padukone, who also happens to be the cover-girl of the newly launched magazine called ‘Jade’! That she looks a million bucks on the cover will be an understatement. Instead let us tell you that the publishers of ‘Jade’ did not go wrong by choosing her to be the cover-girl of their launch issue! Poetically put, will launching a magazine be tough for a face that launched a thousand ships (read ‘products’)!”

Continue Reading HERE.

Sushmita Sen has been recently offered the role of Pakistan’s former lady Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by two prominent Pakistani producers Zaid Aziz and Henna Rai.This film would be a bilingual film made in both English and Urdu and would be shot lavishly in Pakistan and England.

Apparently, Sushmita is working hard for her character. She is reading up extensively on the life of Benzir Bhutto and also working on her Urdu diction.

Sushmita earlier declared her love for historical character and period films.

Its been a popular trend inspired from Hollywood flicks like Bond series to have a super sexy actress emerging out of the sea in a bikini. Most filmmakers promote this as the USP of the film.

Priyanka Chopra walking in a golden swimsuit in Dostana’s first promos, Minissha Lamba sizzling down in her pearly white bikini swimming carelessly in the Ocean or Kareena Kapoor flaunting her zero size figure in a electric green bikini in Tashan… Bollywood sure knows how to flaunt their leading ladies to grab eye-balls.

But how far does this tactic help in pulling crowds to the cinema hall? Can a bikini clad Kareena Kapoor, Mallika Sherawat or Bipasha Basu evoke so much interest and curiosity.

What do you think? Do Bikini scenes evoke your curiosity? Would you be interested to watch a film if the promos show the leading lady in a Bikini?

Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC will soon take place from November 13 through November 16. The opening night film is none other than Rock On!! Director Abhishek Kapoor will be attending the opening night to present his film and to interact with the DC audiences.

“I’m sure DC film enthusiasts will enjoy viewing Rock On!! at the Indian Visions Film Festival,” says Amanda Sodhi, Program Coordinator of Indian Visions. “And…” Amanda adds with a smile, “…the fact that Abhishek is attending will bring that extra bit of magik to our festival.”

Looks like DC film enthusiasts are going to have a magik-filled and rocking time at the film festival!

Please continue reading via New Kerala HERE.

Reena Bhardwaj is a British born singer of Indian origin. She is the first British Asian (Indian) Artist to win nominations for the Zee Zine Award for Best Playback Singer and nomination for the MTV India Award for best new talent. Her work has appeared on various Bollywood films. In 2005 Reena Bhardwaj appeared live on the presentation of Nitin Sawhney’s albums Philtre in Germany (Berlin), Spain and other countries; In 2007 at the Womad festival and with the Trilok Gurtu band on 25 July, 2007 at Festival Músicas do Mundo in Sines, Portugal and with Nitin Sawhney & friends incl. Natacha Atlas, Akram Khan, & Anoushka Shankar on 10 Aug 2007, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Reena Bhardwaj sings on the Nitin Sawhney’s albums Human and Philtre. She has performed on several Ministry of Sound CDs: Indian Sunset, Angel Beach, Kula Karma.

On the soundtrack of the film “Mangal Pandey: The Rising” she sings on “Main Vari Vari” together with Kavita Krishnamurthy (Kavita Subramaniam). She is the solo singer in the track “Yeh Rishta” composed by A.R. Rahman for the Hindi movie Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004) for which she got nominated for a couple of awards. She also sings a song each for the films “Baba” and “Tehzeeb”, both composed by A.R. Rahman. She has also sung for Basement Jaxx.

The actor speaks up about laughing through his first such role in a fun, non-offensive film.

Three days to Dostana, John Abraham is chilling at his sea-facing home dressed in a white vest and blue jeans.

The buffed-up actor asks his Man Friday to serve us, “mere wali chai.’ It arrives shortly, and it’s light and sweet. Just like his upcoming release promises to be. Here, John talks about playing his first gay character, his gay friends and what his girlfriend Bipasha Basu thinks about him cosying up with another man. Read on…

Continue Reading via BollywoodBuzz HERE.