Looks like this is a season of marriage for Indian cricket stars. Following the likes of Harbhajan Singh, Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik etc, star bowler and one of the most eligible bachelors in Team India Irfan Pathan is all set to tie the knot in February.

As per the reports, Irfan’s bride-to-be’s name is Safa and the handsome medium pacer is expected to hold a press conference soon to reveal more details about his nikah. Already, wedding preparations are in full swing at the 31-year-old’s household, with his doting brother Yousuf Pathan overseeing the proceedings.

The nikah may take place in the first half of February. Revealing the news about his nikah, Irfan said he is looking forward to a good year professionally and personally. Irfan is currently trying hard to get back to the Indian cricket team.

The latest Indian cricketer to get hitched is Yuvraj Singh, who exchanged the ring with his model girlfriend Hazel Keech in November last year in Bali, Indonesia.

Actor Manoj Bajpai is all geared up to make a comeback with one of his best ever performance whose glimse was caught in teaser of ‘Aligarh,’ a film in the backdrop of homosexuality, mysterious death, criminal minds.

Manoj’s performance in the film, directed by Hansal Mehta, is touted to be one of his best acts after watching the engaging teaser.

Hansal’s ‘Aligrah’ is based on the tale of professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras of Aligarh Muslim University. Siras, a gay professor, was expelled from his post after sting operationg caught him with Auto-Rickshaw puller. Siras’ mysterious death was then a puzzle for journalist Rajkumar Rao.

Rao then as a journo presents the story of the professor before the world. ‘Aligarh’ was lauded at 59th BFI London Film Festival, 20th Busan International Film Festival and 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.

Sports stars turning film stars is nothing new. In Tollywood, we had star athlete Ashwini Nachappa making a splash on silver screen almost a couple of decades ago and most recently, Hyderabadi badminton hottie Jwala Gutta sizzled in a special club song in Nithiin’s Gundejaari Gallanthayyinde.

Now, yet another Telugu badminton champ PV Sindhu aspires to turn an actress. In her recent interview after her victory in the Malaysia Masters, the 20-year-old said that she would love to act in her biopic. “I would love to act in a film if it is based on my life.

But then it all depends on who is making it and how much time it would require for me shoot. If everything falls into place, why not,” said the champ who has just been honored with a Padma Shri by the Indian government.

Since a biopic on yet another Hyderabadi badminton star Saina Nehwal is in the making, one can surely expect filmmakers to showcase Sindhu’s life story on celluloid.

These are certainly not the days for fluke hits and that too for a young wave like Raj Tharun. We have seen him enjoying hattrick hits with Uyyala Jampala, Cinema Choopista maava and Kumari 21F. Now with his Seethamma Andalu Ramayya Sitralu getting mixed and below average talk, lets see what this young hero missed.

There were heroes who kickstarted their careers with back to back hits from their debuts like Tarun, Uday Kiran, Nithin, Ram and the list goes on. Scoring a good hit gave them the boost up to more energy and kick, but wrong choice of scripts later pulled them to flop zone.

Raj Tarun chose different stories each time till now, even though almost all his characters look alike its the uniqueness in scripts that helped him. But his latest offering Seethamma Andalu Ramayya Sitralu story is as old as mountains and his choice for this story itself seems to be a blunder.

Aimless youth getting rejected by his childhood love and his struggle to get her is a story that was beaten to pulp long back. Weaving some satires and fun with hero’s friends does not become the saviors.

The break-even may be a dream for this film as the fellow release Kalavathi got some brownies already. Craze for Raj Tarun among youth may be a chance to save this film upto some extent. There is no much time to recover, as there is huge line up for next few weekends.

Not many celebrities are throwing big fat parties on their birthdays these days, but keeping it rather simple with some good deeds to help poor and worthy. Shruti Haasan is never a party animal and the beautiful actress spent her birthday in a simple yet meaningful way.

On the event of her birthday, Shruti celebrated it at Little flower blind home and gave a start to Save Blind children campaign under Ungullukka charitable trust. Not just that, She arranged food for 1000 kids today and distributed 12 lakh rupees worth goods to the blind school.

Shruti stands by her words in Srimanthudu, about giving back to society in a best possible way. Shruti Haasan is beautiful both inside and out!

‘Aged’ beauty Trisha Krishnan has wowed all with her stunning glam treat in Kalavathi (Telugu dubbed film of Aranmanai 2). Trisha’s physique & figure is going to give her peers, young heroines run for their money. In a beach song with Siddharth (Padesave…Padesave), Trisha goes all out in showcasing her beauty. Her skimpy and raunchy outfits are expected to take youth for ride.

One can’t stop raving about Trisha after watching the song. In addition to Trisha’s beauty, the song was shot well against the picturesque locales making it a visual treat for audiences.

Since recently she also broke her engagement with Chennai-based business man, Trisha seems to be proudly displaying her ‘single’ tag and sending signals that she’s ready to fall in love yet again. Let’s wait and see who’s gonna be that lucky chap.

It is well known that veteran character artiste Nasser’s second son luthfudeen Baasha is making his debut as a hero in a Tamil film. The film’s shooting, which was going on in Singapore, came to a sudden halt with its heroine Salony Luthtra walking out of it after several days of shooting.

In her latest interview, Salony bared it all and revealed the reason behind her sudden exit from the film. “I liked the story which the team narrated. But when I went to the shooting spot, I found things were different and also realized there were other heroines too. That’s when I decided not to go ahead with the  film, said the actress.

Salony further said that she is ready to act in any film that offers her substantial character and that she needs to find the trust and comfort in the film’s script. This yet to be titled film is being directed by Padmanabhan Dhanapal, who earlier directed Krishnaveni Panjaalai. The film also stars Aishwarya Rajesh and a popular model from Singapore.Salony is also doing a crucial cameo in Prabhu Deva’s debut home production, Vinodhan.

They are more like friends than father-daughter. They are beautiful and multi-talented. They are Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan and ofcourse his beautiful daughter Shruti Haasan.

The other day, Shruti met Kamal Haasan on her birthday and got a Papa’s kiss. Kamal in his usual humor says ‘Used to bend down for a kiss. Now she bends a little. Might also be her high heels’.Shruti is in her thirties now and all grown up, in height and heights too.

They may not have brought him any luck, but looks like Puri Jagannadh has turned a lucky mascot for two sultry hot Mumbai sirens. While it was Rogue’s former beauty Amyra Dastur who first signed Jackie Chan’s Kung Fu Yoga, it’s his Loafer’s Mega heroine Disha Patani’s turn now to sign this mega international project.

There’s more to the story. Disha will be romancing none other than Jackie Chan himself in Kung Fu Yoga. Disha will be playing the role of an archaeology professor who trains Jackie Chan’s character in yoga and martial arts in his mission to find the Indian Magadha treasure in Tibet.

Disha being a trained yoga enthusiast has helped her in bagging the offer. Kung Fu Yoga also stars Sonu Sood in a crucial role. Interestingly, Sonu also worked with Puri Jagannadh in Ek Niranjan and Super.