MUMBAI: Speaking out for the first time on joining politics, the elusive Tamil superstar Rajnikanth, said that God has given him an actor‘s role, but if he gives him a politician‘s role, he will accept it.

Rajnikanth was responding to questions at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards in New Delhi last evening, where he accepted the award for Entertainer of the Year from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The presence of Shah Rukh Khan at the venue also provided a rare interaction between two of Indian cinema‘s biggest stars.

NDTV Indian will be telecast tonight on 26 January, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. with a repeat on 27 January, 11:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. only on NDTV 24x7.

MUMBAI: Tact and diplomacy be damned when the ?Brooding Tiger of Bollywood? Ajay Devgan loses his cool. In a moment of brutal honesty, the actor told Taran Adarsh on the latter?s show ?B Biz? on Zee Muzic, ?Today I‘m the happiest person knowing Cash hasn‘t worked at the box office?. This, coming from an actor about his own film, is a SHOCKER!!! Rarely, if ever, has any actor spoken with complete disgust about his own film, regardless of any differences he may have had with its makers. Our surprise is doubled by the fact that it comes from the usually controlled Ajay Devgan. What went so awfully wrong with Cash that Ajay disowned the film? Did he have issues with Director Anubhav Sinha? Was he infuriated on seeing his scenes edited from the final cut of the film? Ajay Devgan Ko Gussa Kyu Aaya?

MUMBAI: When you think of women and action the first images that tend to flash our mind are those of Lara Croft or Kill Bill and with a slightly younger generation it would be one of the women super heroes.

MUMBAI: Viewers will get to see Bollywood‘s sexy siren, Mallika Sherawat respond to brain teasers in tomorrow‘s episode of Kaho Na Yaar Hai, which has Sonu Nigam as her competitor.

In a question-answer round, she was quizzed about the time taken for 3 eggs to boil, if one egg took 3 mins, and she promptly replied 9!!!

Her silly response had Sonu Nigam and all others present on the sets in splits?

Watch out for all this and much more fun in the first episode of ‘Reliance Mobile Kaho Na Yaar Hai‘, featuring Mallika Sherawat and Sonu Nigam on Star Plus, Friday, January 18 at 8 pm.

MUMBAI: Zee Cinema, the No. 1 Hindi Movie channel is proud to announce the World Television Premiere of Fool ?N? Final.

MUMBAI: As the show takes a more serious turn with seven nanhe stars singing away to glory in the race to become Amul‘s Star Voice of India Chhote Ustad, the show sees more stars and celebrities gracing the sets and wanting to meet these singing prodigies.This Saturday, the viewers are in for a treat as Alka Yagnik takes her seat as a celebrity judge in the Retro Raat which celebrates the golden period of Indian music and pays tribute to the legendary Kishore Kumar, Rafi , Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsale, Manna De and many more who have become immortal with their everlasting music.

To keep up to the mood of the evening, the judges and the little kids were dressed colourfully with bell-bottoms and bumble-bee glasses; like the stars from 70s and 80s. And it didn‘t stop at this; Abhaas and Kunal Ganjawala went into the Sholay trance and did the Jai-Veeru act while Shreya Ghoshal, usually known for her soberness, quickly image changed into Basanti and mimed Hema malini. Also Yaadon ki Baraat was recreated as Abhaas, Kunal Ganjawala and Pritam did a small parody on the title song. Truly the mood was retro!

Amongst all this fun, Alka Yagnik referred to Shaan and Abhijeet whose presence was missed on the Star Voice of India sets. "Coming on Star Voice of India Chhote Ustad is like coming to my home ground. I had judged the first season of Star voice of India and coming back here is like coming back to my family. I am missing Shaan, Abhijeet here", she said.

Anvesha, Prakriti, Jayant, Vyom, Sonia, Aishwarya, Areeb rocked the stage as they sang one melodious songs after another leaving everybody nostalgic with the musical and titillating number from 70s and 80s. While all the kids performed their songs par excellence, Alka yagnik who was completely floored by Aishwarya‘s singing, promptly removed her gold chain and gave it to Aishwarya. "In fact, I rang up Gajendra Singh to say that Aishwarya is an excellent singers and I am looking forward to hearing her in person", said Alka Yagnik on this emotional moment. She was also happy with fact that girls are finally recognized unlike earlier when she was judging the show. Also she congratulated the Chhote Ustad team for giving this platform to young kids who are the future of the music industry.

Stay tuned for more excitement and music on Amul STAR Voice of India ? Chhote Ustaad, 18 & 19 January at 10 p.m. only on Star Plus!