Monday, January 9, 2012

SRK, Katrina film goes on the floors

NEW DELHI: New Shah Rukh Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer directed by Yash Chopra is set to go on the floors Monday. "Launching my dad's film today with a little pooja at YRF...shoot starts tomorrow with @iamsrk and Katrina Kaif..Dad directing after Veer-Zaara," actor Uday Chopra wrote on microblogging site Twitter. This for first time that Shah Rukh will romance Katrina on the big screen in the yet to be titled film, which also features Anushka Sharma. Yash Chopra returns to direction after seven years his last directorial venture was cross-border love story Veer Zaara in 2004. The music of the new film will be composed by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar will pen the lyric...

Devotees throng Bhitai’s shrine

BHIT SHAH: Desperate to find her mentally handicapped missing daughter, an elderly Baloch woman, Ganj Bakht, has come to the shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. Despite the weather being bitterly cold, she is staying in the open courtyard of the shrine along with many other women. “I am a Sawali and have come here to ask Bhitai to find my daughter Shah Bibi,” she said as she wrapped herself in a sheet of cloth to protect herself from the cold which increased in its severity after the sunset of the 13th of Safar – the day the three-day Urs of Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai began. “Shah Bibi became mentally ill after she was divorced by her husband two years ago and then she went missing,” Ganj Bakht sobbed with her...