Britney selling her lucky house

Pop singer Britney Spears is selling her home that has not been very lucky for her.

Spears has put her six bedroom mansion home in the Los Angeles suburbs on the market for 4 million pounds ($7.9 million) after living there for less than two years. She had to leave the house twice earlier this year to be forcibly hospitalised, reports said.

Her father Jamie Spears, who remains in legal control of her until Dec 31, sought permission from a court June this year to sell the home.

Spears is also rumoured to be viewing a new home in Los Angeles.

Harry-puttar

Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors, which Hollywood studio Warner Bros alleged was a copyright violation of their Harry Potter franchise, bears no similarity to the English film series and is actually the story of a lonely kid played by Zain Khan.

The film, which releases Friday, is directed by Lucky Kohli and Rajesh Bajaj. Produced by Mirchi Movies, it also stars talented Sarika along with Jackie Shroff.

“It is a fun film and a family entertainer. The film has nothing in common with the Harry Potter franchise as the story suggests. The Hari Puttar name has been in the news and has appeared at places for the last 18 months,” Munish Purii, COO of Mirchi Movies, said.

The story seems to be loosely based on hit Hollywood series Home Alone. It revolves around 10-year-old Hari Prasad Dhoonda (Zain Khan) or Hari Puttar, as he is fondly called.

Hari’s father (Zakir Khan) is a professor and is assigned to work on a secret project at a remote location in Britain. So Hari moves there from India with his father and mother (Sarika).

Hari’s father has access to confidential information that is stored on a chip and safely kept at his house.

Within days of their arrival in London, Hari’s aunt (Lilette Dubey) and uncle DK (Jackie Shroff) visit them with their children. The kids of DK’s boss also accompany them.

Now, accommodating so many children in the house becomes a problem. At one point everything goes for a spin for Hari - not only he is thrown out of his room, he is also ragged and ridiculed by all the other kids.

Hari suddenly feels unwanted. But then when people try and steal his dad’s secret chip, he displays valour and wit that shock everyone.

“It talks about the freedom of a child when he is left alone in the house with his cousin and the funny situations that follow when two burglars try getting into the house to get hold of a chip that his father has been secretly working on,” said Purii.

So far very few children’s films have made it big at the box office. But the legal controversy surrounding the movie may help draw some curious moviegoers.

Britney spears come back

Pop star Britney Spears, who is working on a comeback, will release her sixth album Circus on her birthday.

The album will be out on Dec 1. For the album, she has collaborated with Swedish pop producer Max Martin with whom she had worked on her earlier hits. Martin is considered a genius by many.

Both Martin and Spears had struck gold with her earlier hits like Baby, One More Time, Lucky and Oops! I Did It Again.

Spears is also catching up with her mom and celebrated her two sons’ birthdays at a family gathering. According to thesun.co.uk, Spears’ elder boy Sean Preston turned three and her younger one Jayden James had turned two just two days earlier.

Spears, 26 and her mother Lynne, 53, watched the two kids as they played with their gifts in their Los Angeles home.

, who is working on a comeback, will release her sixth album Circus on her birthday.

The album will be out on Dec 1. For the album, she has collaborated with Swedish pop producer Max Martin with whom she had worked on her earlier hits. Martin is considered a genius by many.

Both Martin and Spears had struck gold with her earlier hits like Baby, One More Time, Lucky and Oops! I Did It Again.

Spears is also catching up with her mom and celebrated her two sons’ birthdays at a family gathering. According to thesun.co.uk, Spears’ elder boy Sean Preston turned three and her younger one Jayden James had turned two just two days earlier.

Spears, 26 and her mother Lynne, 53, watched the two kids as they played with their gifts in their Los Angeles home.

Britney in charity

Britney Spears and her family have donated an autographed portrait of the pop star for charity, with a starting bid of $10,000 on an auction site.

The five-by-four-foot oil painting of the singer was given to the Los Angeles-based Promises Foundation, which provides behavioural health services to low-income women and their children.

“The Spears family gave us this painting out of their generosity,” the organisation’s director Lisa Rogg was quoted saying. “It was their idea for the auction.”

The website’s page shows several photos of Spears standing next to the artwork, as well as a letter of authenticity from her father Jamie.

The letter states: “I hereby verify that the portrait of my daughter, Britney, has been in our home since it was completed by the Daniel Maltman Studio.”

Pop star Pink has reportedly turned to Scientology

Pop star Pink has reportedly turned to Scientology to help her move on after her split from husband Carey Hart.

The pair’s two-year marriage ended earlier this year and friends reveal the singer has sought comfort from pal Juliette Lewis, who is introducing her to the controversial religion, reports said.

“Pink is in the beginning stages of checking out the religion, but she has taken to it and she wants to get more involved, a source said.

The religion is also popular with superstars Lisa Marie Presley, Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

Gwen Stefani is all set to design uniforms for the female staff of a top hotel chain

Singer turned designer Gwen Stefani is all set to design uniforms for the female staff of a top hotel chain.

Gwen, the founder of the L.A.M.B. label, has announced that she will launch an exclusive line of work-wear for W Hotels.

Starting this autumn, female staff members at the luxury hotel chain’s Living Room lounges will be outfitted in the custom L.A.M.B. design. And Gwen’s touch is instantly apparent: the black jersey dresses are combined with a fitted ’80s silhouette and asymmetrical styling with ’60s seam detailing and side vents, reports said.

When creating the design, she knew it would have to not just look good, but be functional for active employees.

Gwen said: “I wanted to design a super cute dress that I would be excited to have in my own closet and approached it in the same way I think about my clothing for a tour.”

She added: “We’ve designed a sexy and comfortable outfit for these women to wear out on their own stage every night.”

Indian rock music is superficial’

Acclaimed lyricist Javed Akhtar says Indian rock music is very superficial, with most songs having archaic lyrics, but he has experimented with words for his son Farhan Akhtar’s acting debut Rock On to make the songs interesting.

“In India, rock music is a very shallow and superficial genre. They dress and style themselves like American rockers but the words and lyrics are archaic and obsolete. The words in an average Indi-Rock number revert to trite filmy clich s like balma, baliye and mahiya,” Akhtar said.

“When they came to me to write lyrics for my son Farhan in Rock On, I wasn’t really sure I could pull it off. I had never done a rock album before and I’m not familiar with the genre.

“The language in Dil Chahta Hai was that of traditional lyrics… zamana, dewaana. In Rock On, where Farhan makes his debut as an actor, I’ve moved completely away from the traditional lyrics,” he added.

“In Rock On, I wanted to create a new idiom that I don’t think I had been able to do in Dil Chahta Hai in spite of its modern context and characters. There I was still falling back on traditional thoughts and rhymes.

“In Rock On I’ve experimented with words and thoughts. For example, songs about dreamers have been done to death. I’ve used the parallel of ‘Sinbad The Sailor’ to bring out the theme of derring-do. Then I was asked to write a song about an individual’s losses in a week. Writing about a laundry bill, denim jacket, chandi ka ring… you can’t use angoothee for ring… This is the lingo of rock,” the lyricist said.

Asked about Farhan’s performance in the film, Akhtar said, “I can’t separate the father from the critic. But yes, Farhan has acted very well. As for his singing, I leave that to the audience to decide.”

Bollywood superstar in another contreversy

" Punjab government didnt send any report to the union Health Ministry," this was statement given by the punjab health minister Laxmu chawla,after a controversial report that Bollywood super star was given a notice by the union health ministry,following the punjab government complaint on smoking in khalsa college in Amritsar.Added to the above statement given by Mr Chawla he also said "i dont know were these reports came.But we didnt failed any complaint against khan"

"I don't know where these reports are coming from. We have not filed any complaint (against Khan). I have again just checked with the health director. I cannot even say anything about whether he smoked there or not," Chawla said.

When asked with the college funtionaries,said they were shown a picture of super star Khan was smoking.But they coudnt recognise whether the backgroung was from there college.Many said its not from there college.Anyway no sikh organistion didnt make any protest against khan.