Women Affairs

Time heals all wounds, especially in the entertainment business' and none would vouch for this truism of life more than super icons Shah Rukh Remember, they parted on a sour note after her hasty departure from his home production Chalte Chalte six years ago? She had already canned a portion of the film when Salman Khan reportedly landed on the sets... and, well, the rest as they say is history. Post that scene, SRK let Ash off the hook and took Rani Mukerji as his leading lady. And, since then, many big banners including Yashraj and Dharma failed to reunite the pair that created such magic in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas. Subsequently, though the Bollywood Badshah wasn’t invited to the Ash-Abhishek wedding, King Khan and wife Gauri posed with the Bachchans for the shutterbugs at the Drona premiere last year. And more recently, at Karan Johar’s birthday party on May 25, the two couples — SRK and Gauri, Ash and Abhi — spent quality time together. In the light of this thawing of rel...

Gossip about her alleged romance with Raj Kapoor made her quite unhappy as, while the showman enjoyed the subsequent publicity, the media never sought her opinion, says the yesteryears actress Vyjantimala Bali. "...During and after the release of Sangam, the fact of the matter was that RK was far too enamoured of getting publicity and grab the headlines. And the included the rumours that I was romantically involved with him. "It was all the manipulative doing of RK banner`s pr drive and unnecessarily this nonsense spread like a wild fire...," she shares in her autobiography, `Bonding...A Memoir`. "No body from the media bothered to seek my point of view. This was absolutely baseless and made me angry," she writes. "It hurt him and me in equal measures as like others even his family thought it to be true. But as far as my clean image and reputation was concerned, it remained untouched." Recalling another such instance she says, as far as publicity of a...

India's Supreme Court barred the media on Friday from showing nude photographs of a former Bollywood actress, said to have been taken by a camera hidden in the bathroom of the jail where she was imprisoned over a forgery case. Monica Bedi was sentenced to five years in prison in 2006 over a passport forgery case. Monica Bedi, who was released on bail from a jail in southern India last month, said the pictures shown by one TV channel on Thursday, whether "genuine" or "morphed", violated her right to life and dignity. "If indeed the photographs were taken by installing a camera in the bathroom of the prison it was a serious invasion of the right of privacy of the petitioner," her lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi told the court. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan agreed with Tulsi. "We direct all news channels ... to immediately stop telecasting the offending news item," the court ruled. Bedi, a small-time actress, was extradited f...