"What is Twitter?," asks Naseeruddin Shah of Kalki Koechlin in the trailer of new film Waiting. It sums up the unlikeliness of their friendship, which begins in that most tragic of locations - the waiting room of a hospital.

Shiv and Tara, the characters played by Mr Shah and Kalki, are strangers united by grief. Their respective spouses are unresponsive in hospital and the older Shiv helps the younger Tara cope with loss. "Khana, sona, nahana nahi rukni chahiye..yeh ruk gaya..toh saab kuch ruk gaya samjho," is his advice.

Directed by Anu Menon, Waiting co-stars Suhasini Maniratnam, Rajat Kapoor and Arjun Mathur. It releases on May 27.

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Mumbai Police have asked a local court to issue a notice to a company headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA, for information on the 'imposter' who actor Hrithik Roshan says corresponded with Kangana Ranaut.

"If the court does not issue the notice then the police will not be able to probe the complaint further due to lack of information," the application, filed by cyber crime cell Inspector Kalpana Gadekar, said.

The police have already written to American firm Mail and Media Inc., which runs 'email.com,' and were allegedly told by the legal department that they needed a court order to provide information.

Last month, Hrithik Roshan filed a police complaint claiming that the email ID 'hroshan.email.com' was being used by an 'imposter' to correspond with Ms Ranaut and others.

Kangana Ranaut allegedly thanked Mr Roshan for his praise of her work in Queen at a party in 2014, to which he told her that he hadn't seen the film. Ms Ranaut alleges that she had received an email from him about Queen, one of many mails thay had allegedly exchanged over six months.

Ms Ranaut and Mr Roshan reportedly dated after starring in the films Kites and Krrish 3. Hrithik Roshan's lawyers claim they have evidence that the alleged affair never happened and that Ms Ranaut is stalling the police investigation. Mr Roshan sent Ms Ranaut a legal notice in March after she appeared to refer to him as a 'silly ex' in an interview.

Kangana Ranaut has accused Mr Roshan of 'slut-shaming' her by circulating private photos and mails.

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A lot has been said about the death of Television actress Pratyusha Banerjee and to put all speculations to rest her TV industry friends have broken their silence. Kamya Punjabi, producer Vikas Gupta, Shashank Vyas and Adaa Khan among others came together to talk about the reason behind Pratyusha's suicide.

In a conversation with the media, Vikas, Kamya, Adaa, Shashank and others revealed that Pratyusha's boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh had physically assaulted her and she never had financial problems. Producer Vikas told reporters that he offered her a lead role in a show, but she refused to take it due to some personal problems. Pointing at her financial status, Vikas said that she never had money problems; in fact, the makers of reality show "Power Couple" are yet to give her the final amount for her stint in the show.


"She was doing very well professionally. She had no shortage of work she had earned a lot of money and her money was taken care of by Rahul. She was not in depression at all. The only problem was she was in a disturbed relationship," Vikas said at the press meet in Mumbai, according to IANS.

"He had raised his hand on her and we have proof of it. It was not a great relationship. Unfortunately, we have not been called by the police to record our statements," he added.

Pratyusha's close friend Leena, who was also present at the press meet, told reporters that the "Balika Vadhu" actress called her a night before she committed suicide. Leena said that Pratyusha was not happy with her relationship with Rahul and she wanted to come out of it.

"Prior to the day she committed suicide, she called me at 3 a.m., and she was crying very badly. She said, 'I can't live my life like this, and I want to come out of it'. She said she wants to fight back and wanted to come out of it. She just wanted to get married to Rahul and have a child, this was her plan," Leena added.

Leena also mentioned that Rahul's ex-girlfriend Saloni Sharma used to torture Pratyusha and physically attack her. They also said that a CCTV footage is also accessible, which shows Saloni attacking Pratyusha in front of Rahul.

Kamya further said that Pratyusha called her one day to tell her that Rahul was "cheating on her." "Pratyusha had told me, 'Rahul is cheating on me, what should I do?' She didn't want to give up on this relationship and wanted this to work," Kamya said.

When a reporter asked them about reports claiming that Pratyusha was pregnant, Vikas replied, "she would have been alive today, if she was pregnant." He said Pratyusha wanted to marry and settle down and have kids.

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Actress Madhuri Dixit said that she is yet to bag the right script to make a comeback.

The 48-year-old actress, who was last seen in 2014's Dedh IshqiyaGulaab Gang, said that she has not bid adieu to acting and is judging reality shows more because dance is her passion.

"Acting is my first love. As soon as something that I like comes to my table, I will surely say yes to that film offer. Right now, I am busy with dance shows as dance is my passion," said Madhuri. Madhuri does not miss facing the camera because her family has always been her priority.

"Everybody has their own dreams. Having a family and children were a big part of my dream. When I was in Denver, I was living my dream. My priorities are very straight. I know what is important for me. And whenever I do anything, I plan very well," added Madhuri.

But Madhuri keeps a tab on the work of her Bollywood contemporaries and her co-stars. She recently watched Fan and was floored by Shah Rukh Khan's performance.

"I saw Fan. It was a lovely movie. Shah Rukh Khan as a fan was excellent. It was a lovely performance and his role of a superstar was also a very balanced and controlled act. They have not tried to show him that he is nice. He has his own fragility, ego and grey areas," said Madhuri.(Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan's Best Roles: 10 Times he Made a Fan of Us)

Madhuri said that she is lucky that she has never encountered such an obsessive admirer in her career.

"We always have people around us. It's amazing that they like you when they don't even know you. They just see you onscreen, have their own perceptions and start liking you," said Madhuri.

Madhuri, along with choreographers Terrence Lewis and Bosco Martis, will be judging the dance-based reality show So You Think You Can Dance - Ab India Ki Baari.

"The concept of the show is very different. We have divided them into two groups -- stage and street. They are dancers. They are passionate about what they do. What is difficult is that they have their stories, own lives and own struggles and how some of them have been disowned by their families for taking up dance as their career option," said Madhuri.

Madhuri, who is involved with dance since she was three, considers herself lucky to have supportive parents and now husband.

"My parents were very supportive and so were my in-laws and husband. My husband and I are like a unit, who work together. So, if I am going to be absent, he takes over and when he is busy, I do it. I wish everyone could get such a family," said Madhuri.

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The staggering Sunny Leone has turned writer for the progressive Juggernaut productions who have discharged an application which will have fresh out of the box new books by extremely fascinating writers, one of them being Sunny. Prior to the arrival of her stories, the performing artist gave a meeting to Hindustan Times where she talked finally about building up her characters and composing intriguing cozy experiences. Here are a couple passages from the meeting –

On her choice to compose –

Indeed, Juggernaut came to me and they proposed the thought. I adore perusing stories. I read more scripts now than I do books however I've generally been entranced with possibly having the capacity to make something you've found in your brain so I thought, 'alright, this is something else, it'll be testing. I've never done it and we should see what happens'. Turned out it was a smidgen more troublesome than I suspected!

On not going on the lines of Fifty Shades Of Dim –

Individuals are not generally open to discussing these things. On the other hand they don't need some person to know they're understanding it. I'm certain there are a ton of ladies out there with their 50 Shades of Dark book, who have secured the front with some kind of paper or have it just on their Arouse. I think this will give us a smart thought of whether you have to bring it up a score or tone it down much more. It is really manageable in that sense. It's a test to witness what's going to. I'd preferably be agreeable and work upwards than toss such a great amount up that it's a lot to handle. We don't realize what our gathering of people will resemble.

On dreams and the mile-high club –

There are relatively few individuals who are a piece of the mile-high club. I'm not a portion of it! Regardless of the fact that you're perched on the plane and you're considering 'alright I'm with my person and how about we check whether we can do this… " you get terrified! You need to have a considerable measure of guts to have the capacity to do it. So when you're expounding on it, you need to think, 'alright, what might I need it to resemble?' That was a piece of that procedure. I truly preferred ensuring the characters appeared to be ordinary. The motivation originates from all over. We needed to remember that the stories identified with the Indian business sector. In one, a fruitful lady headed home on that last flight of the night winds up meeting a person. At that point, the one at the call focus… Individuals are pulled in to power, to individuals in higher positions. They won't not be drop-dead lovely but rather that feeling of power is something that gets individuals going; they believe it's hot and they need to be with some person like that. Whether they can deal with it later or not, that is an alternate story. In that specific story, they didn't take it assist thereafter.

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