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following the let go of her first Bollywood movie Jannat, Sonal Chauhan has become the new blue-eyed girl of the Bhatt site. Sify.com catches up with this fresh heartthrob of Bollywood during her breezy visit to Kolkata for the promotion of her film.Till the shooting for Jannat started, I did not have the remotest idea that I will take up the theater. I was into part time modelling and wanted to become a journalist. But never thought I will land up being a heroine in a Hindi film. Kunal Deshmukh, the director of Jannat, saw me at a eating place in Mumbai. He came to me and asked for my contact number. In a week, I was on the floors killing. I don`t have formal training in acting. But now that I have made up my mind to become an actor, I feel that a formal training is very much compulsory. I will soon join an acting school.

let know us about your character in Jannat?

My nature Zoya is not a typical 20th century girl. She knows her limits and know how to react in different situation. Unlike a characteristic girlfriend, she refuse gifts from her boyfriend Arjun (Emraan Hashmi) and prefers shopping with her pay.

go forward booking has begun for the Indian film Jannat which release this Friday and has already entered the record books as the first film to be screened in both Pakistan and India.The Emraan Hashmi starrer about match fixing, directed by Kunal Deshmukh and shaped by Mukesh Bhatt, has been cleared by the censor board in Pakistan, where the government allows Indian films to be screened on a case-to-case basis.”We are anxious about the movie and there is advance booking for it,” said Hammad Raza, the manager of Cinepax movies in nearby Rawalpindi.He said the film’s music had already become all the rage and this would be the first time that a movie would be released at the same time across the border.”We believe that it will draw huge crowds because it’s related to cricket and will be screen when the IPL will be at its peak,” said Raza.

Ironically, CD sellers are also expecting good business.”It will be illegal but the movie will be available at many shops,” said a CD distributor in Islamabad.He said he had by now got the master print for all those who didn’t want to take the problem of going to the theatre.A new Indian movie on DVD in Pakistan is available for Pakistani Rs 150, the price plummeting to Rs 100 or fewer after a month. though, films selling under patent cost Rs 300 or more.Songs from Jannat are already available in the Pakistani market. “The music of Jannat is selling well, but not to our expectation,” said Wajih Hussain, who sells music in Islamabad.The film’s lead actor Emraan is a known figure in Pakistan and has feature in TV ads being telecast by different television channels. In one gainful for a cell phone corporation, he says, “Now its my time to shine in Pakistan.” That may be true surely.

Notwithstanding the failure of its first Indian manufacture Saawariya, Sony is still keen on create inroads into the Indian market. Sony Pictures universal has inked an accord with Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) to coproduce three movies under attack at the Indian movie-buffs as well as the global audience.

Though there are no bureaucrat figures yet, both the company are likely to make investments to the tune of Rs 250 crore. The worldwide movement pictures company is keen on getting it right the next time, so much so that later this month Sony Pictures chairman Michael Lynton would be airborne to India to oversee the manufacture plans personally. Interestingly, the deal has been signed between the parent company and PNC rather than Sony’s Indian supplementary — Sony activity Pictures India.

PNC chairman Pritish Nandy told ET: “I believe that Indian creativity with Hollywood money is a lethal combination. We also believe that this contract will help us reach new markets. This is a serious coproduction venture with a serious and of good reputation global partner.” Mr Nandy added that this deal will help PNC utilise Sony’s vast global distribution and manufacture know-how. “The benefit plans are still being formulated and would depend on the budget of the movies,” he added.

Both the companies would start produce the first movie called Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram which would be a comedy. The movie would be made with a budget of Rs 70 crore and would be mainly blast at Las Vegas. Sony Pictures would be supervision the manufacture of the movie.

The Chennai Super Kings have plenty to consider after losing to the Deccan Chargers by seven wickets, their third successive defeat. Their top order unsuccessful again and their total of 144 was easily overhauled by Deccan, inspired by a blazing 54 by stand-in captain Adam Gilchrist. Besides struggling to come to terms with the defeat of their big-hitting abroad batsmen, Chennai’s bowling, which has taken only seven wickets in the last three matches, is also a cause for anxiety.Deccan’s bowlers browbeaten the helpful conditions early on to slice through the Chennai top order. Just as in the previous two matches, the batsmen floundered against the moving ball in the first over. Parthiv Patel dilemma with the bat continued as he survived a close lbw call first ball, was dropped by the bowler P Vijaykumar off the fourth, before RP Singh took a fine organization catch to dismiss him sixth ball. S Anirudh, son of former India batsman Kris Srikkanth, fell almost immediately after, miscueing a pull off RP.

Stephen Fleming was just about receiving into his groove when his rasping square drive off his former New Zealand team-mate Scott Styris was elegantly held by Rohit Sharma at cover point. And when S Badrinath was spectacularly held at backward point by Herschelle Gibbs in the seventh over, Chennai were in shambles at 43 for 4.Suresh Raina, who was live fluently when the wickets were tumbling around him, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, were again called on rebuild the innings. There was some tidy, but not threatening bowling from Sanjay Bangar and left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha as Chennai progressed to 82 with no any hiccups. Raina unleashed some lovely straight drives while Dhoni sensibly cut out the risks and kept the ball on the ground.

However, both Raina and Dhoni were dismiss in the space of nine balls and Chennai were in danger of being bowled out for the second game in succession. Raina once again unsuccessful to capitalise on his start, spooning a wide full toss from Bangar to wrap. Dhoni had been tied down by Ojha and perished when an attempted pull took a bottom edge and ballooned off his pads to Shahid Afridi at point.As in his previous two knocks, Albie Morkel needed to haul his team out of the hole created by top order. The crowd had been chanting for a six and there had been none till the 17th over, when a monstrous hit from Morkel sent the ball out of the sports ground. Four more sixes came off the last four overs, including two in the final one by Manpreet Gony, as Chennai pushed their score to 145.

After a quiet start to the chase, Gibbs showed glimpses of his striking abilities, lashing Makhaya Ntini for a six over cover and a four to midwicket, before being caught-and-bowled by the impressive Gony. Gilchrist, leading the side after VVS Laxman suffered a hand injury, had also been tied down by Gony but got going with a couple of pulled limits off Albie Morkel in the fourth over. He then tore into Ntini: the first ball was sent into the stands over his favourite midwicket area, the second was a lofted straight drive which ran away for four and the third was smashed back over the bowler’s head for six. Twenty runs came in that over and Deccan had raced to 50 for 1 by the end of the sixth.With Styris, promoted to No. 3, playing a stable hand at the other end, Gilchrist kept the barrage of boundaries coming before he cut a short and wide delivery from Morkel straight to Badrinath at point. By then, the required-rate had come down to around six - leisurely by Twenty20 standards.Rohit struggle initially against Muttiah Muralitharan but slammed a 17-ball 23, including a stunning straight six to get back the orange cap for being the tournament highest cumulative run-scorer. Styris remained unbeaten on 36 as Afridi smashed Joginder Sharma for two sixes and two fours in an over to total the victory.

This is Deccan’s second win and it lifts them off the base of the table. The most heartening aspect of the win was that their batting click as a unit, unlike the several sports competition in which it was absent to one batsman to carry the innings.

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Simon Cowell may have appreciated Carly Smithson (this week), but American Idol voters didn’t. in spite of rare admire from the hard-to-please moderator Tuesday night after her roaring presentation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s megastar,” the previous footage artist-turned-bartender-turned top 6 Idol finalist couldn’t rustle up enough support from the public to avoid getting cut on Wednesday’s results confirm. union her in the base two was her Idol roommate, Syesha Mercado, who now income to fight next week, when Neil Diamond will be the adviser. True to form, front-runners David Cook and David Archuleta were announce as secure early in the show; more astonishing, the judges’ harsh assessment of Jason Castro and Brooke White this week clearly didn’t hurt enough with voters to leave either at danger of removal.

The hour most important up to the voting consequence included a tape look by leader Bush and First woman Laura Bush to thank donor who pledge $65 million to the charity support by Idol Gives Back; one more outer shell by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who banter with Ryan Seacrest about his enjoyable week functioning with ”the children; a presentation of blood loss Love” by Simon Cowell protégée Leona Lewis; and a tape segment feature past Idol finalists Clay Aiken and Tamyra Gray chatting about their personal run on Broadway in Spamalot and Rent.

For total psychiatry of Wednesday’s consequences demonstrate and to position your own thoughts about Carly’s send-off, see Michael Slezak’s Idol TV Watch Yesterday’s poll fallout (see below) clearly show EW.com reader were not pregnant to be proverb bye-bye to Carly tonight; let us know where you think she deserve to come to an end this period by vote in our survey below.