I want to be the female Akshay Kumar: Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone is a fast learner indeed the actress seems to have perfected the twisty diplomatic ways of B-town quite fast. The long legged lass, who gained an easy access to Bollywood’s A-list directors and actors courtesy her dream debut flick OSO opposite SRK, has now switched sides and is swearing by loyalties to ‘Kinng’ Akshay Kumar.

The actress who will be seen in an all-new avatar in her upcoming flick opposite Akshay appears to be hell bent upon impressing Akshay. Even if she needs to ditch her godfather SRK, Dips seems to have no second thoughts about it. In a desperate attempt to allure Akki, the dusky beauty said, " I want to be the female Akshay Kumar".

The yet to be established actress, who until now had been an active member of the SRK camp, is much too smitten by Akshay’s irresistible macho charms. Speaking or rather gloating about how the ‘khiladi’ inspires her, Dips said, " It’s a once in a life time opportunity to do an action sequences with Akshay and I am glad I got that chance".

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24 beauties, 1 stage?

Get set to watch a never-before-seen scene on the ramp. At an upcoming fashion event in January, 24 former Indian beauty queens will reportedly walk the ramp and some of them will even perform on the occasion.

Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Dia Mirza, Zeenat Aman, Juhi Chawla, Sangeeta Bijlani, Meenakshi Sesadri and Diana Hayden are some of the names who have been approached to participate in the event. Some of them have already agreed and the last few deals will be finalised by mid-December.

This three-day event has been initiated by Reel Life Entertainment of film producer Vinay Sinha and United Multimedia of Mehul Choksey from the Gitanjali group and Sanjay Sharma.

Priti Shinoy of Reel Life Entertainment says, “This event will felicitate the Indian fashion industry.” She informs that their advisory panel comprising Kabir Bedi, Prahlad and Ashvini Kakkar, Ashok Salian, Ashok Pandit and others will formulate 26 different categories across all sectors in the fashion industry. And they will also shortlist four nominations from each category.

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Sanjay Dutt penning his autobiography

Fans of Sanjay Dutt can read about his eventful life in his autobiography, The Roar of a Lion, which he is now working on. “Sanjay Dutt’s autobiography is called The Roar of a Lion and it is almost half done,” a well-placed source in the film industry said here on Saturday, revealing the title that was the subject of much guesswork so far. The date for the book’s release has not been decided as Dutt is busy with his film schedules.

He had long been telling friends about his wish to pen an autobiography. When he told his wife Manyata about it, she backed him to the hilt. Meanwhile, Dutt’s filmmaker friend Sanjay Gupta too has commissioned a biography of the actor as a tribute to him.

To be penned by journalist, author and lyricist Neelesh Mishra, it will be in three volumes covering Dutt’s life in three phases.

The first volume will deal with the period when the star went into drug rehabilitation. The second volume will recount his marriage to Richa Sharma, their divorce and her tragic death, while the final volume will be about his legal battles, probation and life beyond all that

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