Mallika Sherawat to worship Obama!

The actress who's constantly getting Hollywood offers has bagged her third Hollywood film. The hottie has been signed for a film titled Politics of Love with Brian White, an African-American actor, dancer, football player, lacrosse player, stock broker and youth activist. Set during the

2008 US Presidential election in which Obama made history by becoming the country’s first black President, the film is about a romance between a black Republican (White) and an idealistic, Obama-worshipping Democrat (Mallika). In 2009, Sherawat finished shooting for her first Hollywood film, Hissss, also starring Irrfan Khan and directed by Jennifer Lynch. The film, based on the legend of Naga, is an independent co-production between the United States and India.

Mallika Sherawat goes topless

Mallika Sherawat continues to make waves in the run up to the release of her movie Hissss in which she plays a snakewoman. In the latest, the actress, presently residing in Los Angeles, has posted a topless pic of her on her Twitter account and asked her followers: “is this too much”.

In the pic, a kohled-eyed Mallika poses topless and has her breasts covered with her hair. There’s snake-skin pattern in the background and on Mallika’s body.

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Desi Girl' heads to Hollywood

Now, telly viewers know her as the real desi girl. The attractive and vivacious Roshni Chopra is happy after her win on the reality show ‘Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl’. Her career has finally got a boost and now the lady claims that she is on board for a Hollywood project too.

She successfully played a screen vamp in the popular serial ‘Kasamh Se’ and even hosted ‘Fourth Umpire’, the pre and post match cricket show on Doordarshan. Now Roshni has several TV shows lined up for her. Not just that, she will also be seen in Vikram Bhatt’s thriller movie Phirr, which will mark her entry into Bollywood.

Though Roshni is tight-lipped about her Hollywood project, she is happy to talk about ‘Phirr’ in which she plays a law professor. About participating in ‘Desi Girl’ she says that the show helped her to grow up as an ‘individual’.

Juggling both TV and films. Atta girl!

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Ranjita to pen 'how to survive a scandal'

CHENNAI: Three months after the telecast of the controversial tapes that allegedly showed her with godman Nithyananda in a compromising position, actor Ranjita is busy working on a self-help book, tentatively titled 'How to survive a scandal'. And the book draws on her experience.

"I am writing this based on my experiences in the past six months, and there are so many people out there feeling traumatised and suicidal," the actor told TOI in an exclusive interview, the first after the controversy broke. "My book will help people come to terms with personal problems, and I am in talks with a couple of publishers," she says.

"I am also writing a fiction, aimed at the youth of today, but the one drawn from my experiences will come out first," says the actor, pushing back her smartly cut hair. 'Autobiography Of A Yogi' and other books by renowned spiritual gurus line the shelf in her living room. "I was always a bookworm and you move from fiction to philosophy. I am especially fond of Indian spiritual writing," says the actor, who came to Chennai early this month. While struggling for the right word or the perfect phrase, she also took time to meet up with CB-CID officials in connection with the Nithyananda case.

Asked why she went underground when the controversy broke, Ranjita goes quiet for a minute. "I do not want to hang on to the past. I want to move on. I was very hurt and went through stress and trauma. I decided to hibernate for a while," she says. "The media was writing so many negative things about me, and some were fabricating interviews. Things piled up one on top of the other. You need time to deal with such things, to reconcile, but people think actors do not deserve that kind of time," she says with a rueful smile.

She quickly adds that her husband, sisters, parents and in-laws were pillars of strength. She has a short role in 'Raavanan', but she is yet to watch the film.

‘We fight everyday’

Prim and perfect at every single outing, it’s hard to fathom that there are times when even Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and husband Abhishek fight. But, in an interview in Vogue India’s July issue, Abhishek clears the misconception. Asked how often they fight, the actor says, “Oh, every day.”

But Ash is quick to correct him, “Not everyday baby. We didn’t fight yesterday. Or the day before. They’re more like disagreements, not fights. They’re not serious, they’re healthy. It’d be really boring otherwise,” says the actress.

And, when they do have their ‘disagreements’, it is always Abhishek who makes up. “Women don’t make up! In three years, she’s made up like, four times. But we have a rule — we don’t sleep on a fight. And in defence of all men, I want to say, half the time why we give in and say sorry is because we’re just so sleepy and want to go to bed!”

That said, the two have their moments, although not all of them may be conventional. Asked about the most romantic thing he’s done for Ash, Abhishek replies, “So this is for men everywhere —don’t believe that bit about a candlelight dinner on the beach being the most romantic thing in the world. I tried that for our anniversary last year in the Maldives, and it was a disaster. First, the wind keeps putting the candle out. Second, there’s sand in your food so it tastes like crap.”

Ash also shares the first time it hit her that she was married. “It was on our flight, going off on our honeymoon to Bora Bora. The stewardess welcomed me on-board saying, ‘Welcome, Mrs Bachchan’. And Abhishek and I just looked at each other and burst out laughing! And it hit me, I’m married! I’m Mrs Bachchan,” she concludes.