• An email exchange from October 2012, purportedly between filmmaker K C Bokadia and Mr Kejriwal, has recently been released to the media by sources and appears to contain two requests from Mr Bokadia that the taxman-turned-politician star in a film he was directing. • As Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Yami Gautam gear up for the release of Badlapur, Bollywood is already showering praises on the movie via social media. Karan Johar, who introduced Varun Dhawan in his home production Student of The Year, took to Twitter to express his views on the performances. He wrote, “#Badlapur is absolutely stunning! @Varun_dvn made me so so proud! He is exceptional!!! And it's doesn't get better than nawaz!! Must watch!!” • Actor Aamir Khan has been told to mind ‘his own business' by stand-up comic Russell Peters, who is touring India currently. The Canadian comedian said, “Seriously, who is he, the so-called artist, to say that he found it violent and that AIB and rest involved should have been responsible? He did not even see it! Someone please ask him to shut up and take care of his own business.” • Roy braves negative reviews, earns Rs. 28 crores in 3 days. Roy, director Vikramjit Singh's debut film in Bollywood, also features Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez in pivotal roles. It deals with a protagonist who couldn't distinguish between his real and virtual worlds. The songs of the film are a hit and that helped it in getting picked initially. Roy was released on February 13, 2015. • Honey Singh is back with ‘Birthday Bash'. Four months after he turned ‘Alcoholic' for The Shaukeens, he would now be heard again for a Bollywood flick. The song is titled ‘Birthday Bash'. • Ekta Kapoor - Imran Khan collaborate for Bhoole Se Naam Na Lo Pyaar Ka. The movie is supposed to start rolling this September 2015. • Nimrat Kaur became an overnight sensation with the much acclaimed film The Lunchbox. After her role as an ISI agent in the Emmy award winning terrorism drama Homeland, Nimrat will now be seen playing a lawyer in Anthony D'Souza's biopic on the cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin. • The All India Bakchod roast, which was uploaded on YouTube on 28 January and taken down a couple of days later, continues to be a subject of never-ending arguments. The members of AIB, stand-up comedians who used to be fairly active on Twitter, have gone eerily quiet on social media following the lawsuits slapped against them. To add insult to injury, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has now come out and very sanctimoniously declared that the AIB Roast was ‘violent' and that he had scolded friends Karan Johar and Arjun Kapoor for participating in it. While most of Bollywood has either stayed quiet or backed AIB, actor-turned-interior designer Twinkle Khanna has now written a column on The Times of India underlining the hypocrisy behind raging at the roast in a bid to save Indian culture where the real issues of the country are getting no attention. She points out that while the entire country is busy being offended at trivial things like these, nobody seems to be outraging over serious issues. She explains how very few people seem to be leading an outrage brigade against the Sardar Patel statue in Gujarat or the Sivaji statue in the Arabian Sea. The statues will cost the states thousands of crores and Khanna asks why no one sees the irony in that, considering that only 10 percent of the country's children have the means to study beyond higher secondary. Compiled by Mariam Nihal
