The Sunday Good Time Blog

Islamabad, July 15 : Pakistan all-rounder Yasir Arafat has reportedly joined IPL team ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ owned by Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and captained by Saurav Ganguly.Yasir has taken seven wickets and scored 44 runs in his only Test. He has also taken four wickets in eight one-day internationals, besides scoring 48 runs.

The PCB gave the go ahead to Arafat to join the Kolkata team for IPL’s next edition scheduled in April-May 2009, reported the Daily Times.

“The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has also given him a green signal and encouraged the pacer to join the team,” the paper quoted sources close to Yasir as saying.

They added that Shahrukh talked to the all-rounder on telephone and personally finalised the initial details with him.

— ANI

Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:26pm IST

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Hollywood may be knocking at her doors but for actress Aishwarya Rai, working abroad is just another job, in a different language. Or so feels husband Abhishek Bachchan.

“For her, I am sure it’s just as big a deal to do a Bengali film as a film with, say Will Smith,” Bachchan told Reuters in an interview with Rai by his side.

“It’s not about Hollywood or India. Yes, we have immense respect for their industry, but we have equal amount of respect for our cinema or the regional cinema that exists in India,” he said.

The couple, along with Abhishek’s father, Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan, will soon travel across North America and Europe on the first leg of Bollywood’s ‘Unforgettable Tour’, which kicks off in the Canadian city of Toronto on July 18.

Going on the global concert tour together fulfills a promise the young Bachchan made to Rai before they were married in April 2007, at a time when they were just friends.

While shooting for the film “Kuch Na Kaho” some years ago, Bachchan couldn’t accompany Rai on a tour because he was busy working.

“I promised her that one day we would go on a world tour together. We didn’t know we’d be husband and wife then,” the 32-year-old actor said.

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The regional politics make the Bollywood city life little disturbing. Mumbai Pay nearly 46% income tax of whole country. The film industry is one of the biggest sectors where a lot of people try to test their luck and try to success in this field. Hindi speaking people come in Mumbai for making a career in film industry. Salman Khan is a star in Bollywood. As a star he is loved by all fans from all parts of the country. One comment about any community is not a good sigh for his star drams. ‘Me Marathi’ is a couple of word in Marathi that implies I am Marathi. It is a matter of proud to born as a Marathi. Above all every one born in India is an Indian. The proud feeling for country is above all.  Salman Khan is an Indian He should feel proud for his country at first not for Mumbai. People come from the state like MP, UP and Bihar work for Mumbai city. They work to keep this Bollywood on in 24×7 alive. The film Taxi No. 9211 showed that how a taxi driver works day and night is a stressful situation. Salmam Khan made ugly comment on their living and that why they are angry on Salman Khan and the burn his poster in road shows. Bihari Leader and Rail Minister, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav was not happy with the past incidents related to the harassment of Bihari people in Mumbai. Maharashtra is a place with a great history related to the greatness of Marathi and Shivaji. The great political leaders of Maharashtra trying to make the people living in this reason a most developed community. For this they are making ‘Maharashtra Nirman Sena’, a state rebuilding army (Sena). Salman Khan Support for this group make the non- Marathi people living in Mumbai angry about Salman Khan. This was a so hot topic that the Lok Sabha has also discus this matter.