“I’ll be in Nairobi on my birthday because I have a concert there. My family will also be with me,” Sonu said in an interview.

“I would want to give myself some time this year. I have worked a lot in the year gone by. I want to go to the mountains or the beaches and just chill out and spend time with my family. I could not do that last year. Besides everything else personal space is a big requirement for me and I would like to give it to myself. I need some ‘my’ time,” he added.

Sonu, who married Madhurima in 2002 and has a three-year-old son Nevaan, revealed that 2010 had been one of the best years of his career.

“Last year has been one of the best years of my life because so much happened in this one year that it was difficult to keep a count. Last year I was in Los Angeles on my birthday and at that time I was about to start ‘Chhote Ustaad’ on Star Plus. The whole season was so great and fulfilling.

“Then I did so many concerts. The best part was my performances at the award shows. That earned me a lot of appreciation from everyone. My comic timing was appreciated and also my acting and singing skills. Then the tremendous success of ‘X Factor’ and my first single ‘Let’s go for glory’ for ICC World Cup got me acclaim.

“Apart from that, my performance with Jermaine Jackson at IIFA and Britney Spears collaboration – all that happened last year. So it was quite an eventful year.”

Sonu began his singing career at the age of three, when he joined his father on stage singing Mohammad Rafi songs and also accompanying him on his singing appearances at weddings and parties. At the age of 19, he moved to Mumbai with his father to begin his Bollywood singing career.

His initial years in Mumbai proved to be a struggle – he started by singing covers of Mohammad Rafi songs in albums released by T-Series and after some time he was labelled a “Rafi clone”.

His first film break was for a song in the film “Janam” (1990), but it never got an official release. Meanwhile Sonu took up radio commercials until his big break came in the form of popular TV show “Sa Re Ga Ma”, after which success has been constantly knocking on his doors.

He started hosting “Sa Re Ga Ma” in 1995, which soon became one of the most popular shows on Indian television. The format of the show gave Sonu a chance to showcase his singing skills as well as his natural charm and audience appeal.

Then his song “Accha sila diya” for the film “Bewafa Sanam” (1995) boosted his popularity and singing offers started pouring in.

He rose to fame with composer Anu Malik’s song “Sandese aate hain” from the 1997 war movie “Border” and it helped him get rid of ‘Rafi Clone’ tag and in the same year he crooned Nadeem-Shravan composed chartbuster “Yeh dil deewana” (”Pardes”). Since then, he has created a unique style of his own.

Over the years Sonu has become a major force in the Indian music industry. He is recognised for his versatility in singing and his excellent range by singing romantic, rock, sad and patriotic numbers.

Some of his popular numbers are “Ishq Bina” (”Taal”), “Panchhi nadiyaan” (”Refugee”), “Suraj hua maddham” (”Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham”), “Kal ho naa ho” (”Kal Ho Naa Ho”), “Main hoon na” (”Main Hoon Na”) and “Shukran allah” (”Kurbaan”) among many others.

He didn’t limit himself to Hindi songs – his body of work has songs in Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, English, Bhojpuri, Urdu, Nepali, Chhattisgarhi and Marathi.

Looking back from where he started and where he has reached, Sonu became sentimental and said: “I couldn’t have wished for anything more. When I started I didn’t know that being a singer I will be recognized. People will stop me at signals and knock on the windows of my car. I’ve been given so much love that its amazing.

“I just came here to become a playback singer and the fame, love and adulation that I have received is amazing. I’m really thankful to the almighty and the people who love me and bless me,” he added.

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Katrina, dressed casually in a pair of shorts, a white t-shirt and a bright orange inner, holds a guitar in the song, and looks like a complete rockstar.

The 27-year-old shot for the song at Agra fort, and a crowd of over 1,000 gathered in no time, according to a source from the sets of the movie, which is being made under Yash Raj Films banner.

Hence, the filmmakers were lucky to get authentic shots of the crowd. But it was quite a pain to get Katrina out of there.

A team of policemen was called to escort the actress out, and she was taken away in a police van.

“Mere Brother Ki Dulhan” also features Imran Khan and Ali Zafar.

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“One (of) the best gift my parents ever gave me was my piano ..it has been my friend through all the agonies and ecstasies of life,” Celina posted on her Twitter page.

The 29-year-old was last seen in comedy film “Thank You”.

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The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened marginally down at 18,194.15 points, closed at 18,197.20 points, down 0.07 percent or 12.32 points from its previous close at 18,209.52 points.

The benchmark Sensex was range bound throughout the day. The index touched a high of 18,334.27 points and a low of 18,131.86 points in the intra-day.

The 50-scrip S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange also witnessed sluggish trading. The index closed 0.10 percent down at Rs.5,482 points.

ICICI Bank jumped 1.99 percent at Rs.1,037.75 after the bank reported 30 percent rise in its quarterly profit.

Maruti Suzuki, up 1.81 percent at Rs.1,207.90; Bharti Airtel, up 1.43 percent at Rs.437; Bajaj Auto, up 1.27 percent at Rs.1,461.50; and ITC, up 1.09 percent at Rs.208.30 were among the other major gainers on the Sensex.

Majors Sensex losers were: Jindal Steel, down 4.65 percent at Rs.584.95; Jaiprakash Asso, down 3.58 percent at Rs.67.35; and ONGC, down 2.44 percent at Rs.269.90.

- New bill officially intended to be called National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011

- Current law, the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, archaic and needs updating

- Need to balance concerns of farmers, those whose livelihoods depend on land being acquired, and industrialisation

- Proposed as the first federal law on the twin subject of resettlement and rehabilitation of families affected and displaced

- Land for public purpose but under private projects can be acquired only if 80 percent of those affected agree

- Public purpose defined as need for national security, infrastructure, village or urban development, and needs from natural calamities

- Urgency clause in rarest of rare cases only for national defence security purposes, emergencies and natural calamities

- Market value of land defined as what is determined for stamp duty or average sale price of similar type of land in the vicinity, ascertained from sale deeds in preceding three years, whichever is high.

- Also, market value in rural areas will be multiplied by three

- In urban areas, the award amount would be not less than twice that of the market value determined

- In rural areas it would not be less than six times the original market value

- For land owners and those whose livelihood depends on land, subsistence allowance of Rs.3,000 per month per family for 12 months, Rs.2,000 per month per family as annuity for 20 years, indexed to inflation

- Also Rs.50,000 for transportation and mandatory employment for one member per affected family or Rs.200,000 if job not offered

- Acquirers must also provide for social infrastructure, apart from acting on some special provisions for members of Scheduled Tribes

- Indiscriminate acquisition calls for return of land to original owner if not used in 5 years for purpose stated along with one-fourth of the award amount

- Strict penalties against violators and disciplinary action against public servants for mala fide actions

“Thales and Dassault Aviation today signed a contract for the upgrade of the Indian Air Force’s Mirage-2000 fleet,” a press release from Thales and Dassault Aviation here said Friday.

A company spokesperson here said it was a “commercial contract” between the firms and the Indian government.

The cabinet committee on security had approved the deal earlier this month.

But however, the team managed by saying that the film will continue the shoot as the producer asked both of his sons to go produce the film. But the shooting of the film for the last two weeks has been stalled. Even Vikram confessed that Ramesh’s sons will be producing the film but now with the shooting being halted; rumor is that the producers of this film will change. The discussions with the change of hands are going on and it will be made official very soon. Snoopy sources reveal the name of Kalaipuli S Dhanu, as he is in race to snap the film.

Raja Pattai is a complete commercial film that is directed by Suseenthiran.

However let us wait for the official confirmation from the filmmakers of Rajapattai.

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Film: Khap

Starring: Om Puri, Govind Namdeo, Manoj Pahwa, Mohnish Behl, Anuradha Patel, Uvika Chowdhary

Director: Ajai Sinha

Producer: Sangita Sinha, Siddhant Sinha

Banner: Ananda Films and Telecommunications Pvt. Ltd

Music: Annujj Kappoo

Rating : 2.25/5

Issue-based films tend to get themselves into trouble. And we don’t mean just the trouble caused by disgruntled parties, political or otherwise. The balance that needs to be struck between headlines and their cinematic interpretation often tends to get lost thereby defeating the noblest of purposes and the best intentions of conscientious filmmakers who look at the cinematic medium as more than just entertainment.

Ajai Sinha, who has his roots in meaningful television entertainment (serials like “Astitva-Ek Prem Kahani” and “Hasratein”), boldly takes on the theme of khap (community) justice in rural Haryana whereby any marriage between two individuals of the same gotra (clan) is punished by local village panchayats. It’s a powerful subject that needed a single-mindedly uncompromised treatment.

Sadly Sinha dilutes the theme with dollops of formula-baazi. There’s a teenybopper love-angle featuring two relative newcomers who need a crash-course in basic acting and grooming. The young lovebirds chat online with what they feel are sweet, cute and funny lines.

If only they knew! The entire treatment and development of their romance is redolent of amateurishness. Precious time is frittered away in gawkily composed and choreographed song and dances where the love birds coo sweet-nothings into one another’s ears.

You feel like pushing these two campus wannabes out of the way to watch the impending drama in a village of Haryana where the panchayat is a law unto itself.

The interweavement of characters into a dramatic circle embodying outdated customs and their clash with contemporary mores, could have acquired a greater validity if the narrative had focused more on hard-hitting rural prejudices rather than jejune urban affectations.

Om Puri as the village sarpanch is the pick of the plot. He gets the meatiest part with the best emotional graph. He doesn’t need to make much of an effort to make the part his own, and he doesn’t even try. Nowadays a kind of laziness has crept into distinguished actor’s repertoire.

It’s wonderful to see the talented Manoj Pahwa grab a pivotal role. Pahwa was hilarious as Ayesha Takiya’s delusional suitor in “Wanted”. Here he sinks into the role of a village elder who once watched his daughter being slaughtered for the village honour.

Ajai Sinha’s antecedents from television make themselves evident in the way the drama unfolds in episodic overtures covering huge time-frames with soft punctuation marks.

The film would have worked better with a more confident cast of younger players. The elders can only take the drama so far. “Khap” is finally betrayed by the wimpish and awkward portrayal of the urban young and by too many attempts to draw out a soap-opera-styled drama from situations that seem to plead for more finesse in presentation.

Nonetheless “Khap” should be commended for attempting a socially-relevant theme with some amount of detachment and equanimity.

Should love between cousins or people from within one family be sternly discouraged just because the village panchayat feels it is damaging to the social framework?

You decide.

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The Telugu dubbed version of the film is titled as Priya Priyathama and the dubbing rights for Andhra Pradesh are snapped by Sri Badhrakali Movies. The film is the remake of Bollywood super hit film Jab We Met, directed by Kannan. Bharath has a good market in Tollywood as his earlier films Kadhal and Chellamae have done a good business. And Tamanna is very popular in Tollywood even before turning as a hot property in Tamil.

The film received mixed reviews in Tamil as the audiences felt that it is the carbon copy of the Hindi version.

Kandaen Kadhalai is all about two youngsters who meet during a train journey. Let us see how the film works out the box office.

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KO has received rave reviews for KV Anand’s direction, Jeeva’s performance and also for it’s for the exotic locations. The film is a genuine hit and it is the biggest grosser in 2011 so far. The distributors, exhibitors and the screen owners are very happy with the collections. In the era of piracy and television serials, the film managed to pull the audiences to the screens for its brilliant making.

KV Anand has proved his mettle once again as a director with KO. Post to the success of KO, Jeeva’s career graph has gone to the upward direction and he is all excited about the film turning out to be a hit. In fact has taken Jeeva to the next level in his career.

The film stars Jeeva, Ajmal, Karthika and Piaa Bajpai in the lead roles.

Congratulations messages are pouring in from all sides for the team on the successful completion of 100 days!

We at Way2movies.com congratulate the whole team for completing 100 days successfully.