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Deepika Padukone's Maha Muqqabla!

Last updated on: February 17, 2010 18:13 IST

Image: Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone performs at the television reality show, Music Ka Maha Muqqabla, in Mumbai.

The actress and her Karthik Calling Karthik co-star Farhan Akhtar came on the show to plug their film, which releases on February 26.

Both the stars seemed to enjoy themselves. Farhan grooved to the song Rock on while Deepika danced to Tumko paaya hai sung by contestants Shreya and Aneek.

The show will be telecast on February 20 at 9.30 pm, on Star Plus.

Sudeep returns

Image: Sudeep

Sudeep strikes a pose next to a poster of his upcoming movie, Phoonk 2, in Mumbai on Tuesday.

The Kannada actor will reprise his role of Rajeev, a successful construction engineer, in the sequel directed by writer Milind Gadagkar and produced by Ram Gopal Varma.

Phoonk 2 is slated for release on April 9.

Tweeting with Lucky Ali!

Image: Lucky Ali interacts with his fans

Singer Lucky Ali interacted with his Twitter fans during a tweetup organised by Superchooha, the social media agency that manages Lucky's online presence.

Sporting a salt and pepper stubble, the singer interacted with his Twitter fans and spoke at length about his musical journey and his latest album Xsuie.

The crowd also got to jam with Lucky on one of his favourite songs Tu kaun hai.

Beauties take a stand

Image: Minissha Lamba, Neha Dhupia and Mugdha Godse

Minissha Lamba, Neha Dhupia and Mugdha Godse take part in a protest against Domestic Violence on Women, organised by a voluntary organisation, Wave (Women against Violence).

Toh Baat Pakki?

Image: Kedar Shinde, Tabu, Uvika Chaudhary and Sharman Joshi

The Toh Baat Pakki cast -- comprising of Tabu, Sharman Joshi and Uvika Chaudhary -- and director Kedar Shinde promoted the film in Mumbai on Tuesday. It will release this Friday.

Family day out

Image: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt and Shiloh Nouvel
Photographs: Michele Crosera/Reuters

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie walk aboard a taxi boat with their son Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt and daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (in red coat) in Venice on Tuesday.

Brit attraction

Image: Leona Lewis
Photographs: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

British singer Leona Lewis looked stunning as she arrived at the 30th Brit Awards ceremony at Earl's Court in London on Tuesday.

But it was pop singer Lady Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, who stole the show by scoring a hat-trick, winning three prizes including best international female and breakthrough act.

Gaga, 23, who arrived at the London ceremony wearing a three-tiered white dress and a tall white wig, also won best international album for The Fame.

She was in tears when it was announced that she had won her third award, for best international album. 'I was really excited to win the first two awards. This award means even more to me because I worked so hard on this album for so long,' the BBC quoted her as saying.
 
The star also collected the award for best British female, her first Brit accolade.

Team Patti

Image: Siddharth Kher, R Madhavan, Shraddha Kapoor, Dhruv and Vaibhav Talwar.
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar

Elsewhere in Mumbai, the cast of Teen Patti -- Siddharth Kher, R Madhavan, Shraddha Kapoor, Dhruv and Vaibhav Talwar -- promoted their film at BIG 92.7 FM studio.

Unveiling the City of Gold

Image: Kashmira Shah and Mahesh Manjrekar

Kashmira Shah and Mahesh Manjrekar unveil the first look of City of Gold -- Mumbai 1982: Ek Ankahi Kahani, at a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The film has been shot simultaneously in Hindi and Marathi languages.

The cast comprises of Satish Kaushik, Seema Biswas, debutant Karan Patel, Siddharth Jadhav, Ankush Chaudhary, Sachin Khedekar, Kashmira Shah, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Vineet Kumar Singh, Veena Jhamkar, Shashank Shende and Anusha Dandekar.