Akshaye-Dino ki gehri dosti

Akshaye Khanna	Dino Morea

But the latest real-life buddy buzz going around, is that Akshaye Khanna and Dino Morea are going gaga over their newfound friendship on the sets of Aap Ki Khatir.

During the London schedule they have shared their food (both just love to dig into Chinese fare), blanket and even overcoats while watching television in their motel.

They also indulged in some male bonding over glasses of wine that saw them pouring their hearts out about the well-kept secrets. So if you want your share of secrets concerning the two, you can rely on either of them to come up with it.

What's Kunal's stress buster?

Raima Sen and Kunal Kapoor

Kunal Kapoor and Raima Sen's official split may have become stale now. Here's the latest dope on why the couple called it quits. If sources are to be believed, Kunal's streak for perfection has made him become a celibate almost. Explains a close friend of the actor, "Kunal always wants to give his best shot.

A relationship is a responsibility and if he can't handle it properly, it's unfair to the girl. In this case, it was Raima. In fact, while shooting for Meenaxi, he had put a close to his former relationship with Dipannita Sharma. But everything has happened amicably."

So should we brand him a stressed-out individual? Gals, you have better options in life. So move on…  

Pyare Mohan's BBC connection

Indra Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Viveik Oberoi and Ashok Thakeria

Producer Ashok Thakeria is pleased as punch. He says, "I am getting an excellent response for my first promo of Pyare Mohan, on the song, Har Mohan Ki Koi Radha. I also recorded a music video, on the UK band TrickBaby, which is being picturised on Fardeen and Vivek in Film City.

This song, composed by Anu Malik, called 'Pyare Mohan' was played on BBC in their Asia Afternoon programme on request and the response of the viewers was terrific. It's an English song with some Hindi words."

Thakeria and the director of Pyare Mohan, Indra Kumar, also had a music release party at Film City yesterday.

"There's another song, 'I love you my angel,' which has been picturised on Vivek, Fardeen, Esha and Amrita which is a very cool concept. We have used the motion control camera for the song. It's the only camera in India which is like a big tank. It's a new concept we have tried here where the hero and his identical image is playing across the screen wooing the girls."

Pyare Mohan, the story of two guys — one, blind (Vivek Oberoi); the other,  deaf (Fardeen Khan) and their comic capers, will release next month.

Urvashi-Amrita spat on Kandy sets

Urvashi Dholakia

One of the recent episodes of Balaji's Kandy Floss on Sony saw Urvashi Dholakia walking out of the sets in a huff.

The discussion was on the sacred institution of marriage between Urvashi and Amrita Saluja (Time Bomb). So what happened? Says Urvashi, "There was a discussion on marriage going on when Amrita said 'pati parmeshwar hai'.

Now I know that might be true in her case, but for me it was unacceptable. I had been married 11 years ago, but till now I haven't needed a man to get me where I am. I love and respect people and I believe marriage is a sacred bond, but no human being can take the place of God for me, even though God exists in all of us.

There were too many contradictions in Amrita's statements and I felt the discussion was going nowhere, I made my comments and I walked out." 

Well said, Urvashi!

Smita's day out

Smita Bansal and Aneeta Arora at the Abydoss spa

Telly actress Smita Bansal is currently seen on the floorboards in Mahesh Dattani's Mad About Money, while on the small screen she will be seen in Shrishti Behl Arya's Twinkle Beauty Parlour on SAB.

The other day, the actress took time off to indulge in a bit of self-pampering. She was spotted at the Abydoss Spa at Juhu on Tuesday, which is a therapeutic day spa specialising in destressing.

Smita was introduced to spa therapy by her good friend Moulli Ganguly. Incidentally, the spa owner is Dr Aneeta Arora who was Miss Bombay 1972 and had acted in TV shows like Reporter on DD and Hasratein on Zee.

Shooting for dailies, is very stressful and everybody needs to destress, then again you need to have a friend like Moulli Ganguly, who shares the address of the spa she goes to. Are all actors who do more than two dailies listening?

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Jamnadas Majethia (JD) and Aatish Kapadia

While his next proposed TV venture Remote Control (yes, it's the name of a serial) currently stalled, Jamnadas Majethia (JD, as he is called) is gearing up with buddy, writer-director Aatish Kapadia to start a non-comedy soap (yet untitled) and a Bollywood movie very soon.

"Not for nothing is our production banner called 'Hats Off'... we have our thinking caps on all the time," quips  JD who refuses to be complacent, following the success of  their Instant Khichdi, Baa Bahoo aur Baby ,Kudkudiya House No 43 and Sarabhai vs Sarabhai.

Currently JD  and his team are  busy with various  'khichdis' cooking in their software kitchen.

"We are working on a new soap, for Star One which is a social family thriller adapted from this Gujarati best-seller novel Resham Dunk (Soft Sting). The cast is being finalised shortly. But this time, the serial will not have the Gujju ethos and ethnic ambience, but a cosmopolitan set-up," he informs.

Raza's Bollywood

Q What would Anil Sharma tell his non-vegetarian friends if he turns vegetarian?
A Ab Tumhare Hawale Mutton Saathiyon.