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Our headlines may come as a pretty big disappointment for the countless fans of Katrina Kaif, who were looking forward to a sizzling hot item number from their favourite actress in Shree Ashtavinayak's deep sea action adventure, BLUE. But what we are saying is true as it has been revealed by none other than Katty Baby herself, while talking to a leading trade expert.

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Says Katrina, ''I have a presence of exactly seven minutes and twenty seconds in BLUE. And I don't even have a song in the film.'' Katrina clarified that she knew pretty well about the length of her role and that is why she has always maintained that she is merely essaying a special appearance in BLUE. And that she was not fooled into doing the role, which she did only for the makers and Akshay Kumar, who is a dear friend. She also added that she is revealing this as she does not want her fans to be disappointed when they don't find her in an extended special appearance.

Well, disappointed we certainly are, as this was the general impression that was conveyed. But even this special appearance by the uncrowned queen bee of Bollywood will be rather special for her fans, who will be looking forward to a 'dhamakedar' Diwali through BLUE.

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After storming the box office in the very first weekend of its release, UTV Motion Pictures KAMINEY has now grossed Rs 63 crores within the first 10 days of its release worldwide.

Mesmerizing audiences across the nation with its foot tapping music, ace direction and the flawless portrayal of characters by the talented cast, the film grossed over Rs 50 crores across 1200 screens at the Indian box office. Despite its Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai release being rescheduled, KAMINEY continues to rake in the moolah with its stupendous success both in India and internationally.

CHECK OUT: KAMINEY Movie Review

This masterpiece from the UTV stables continues to rule the Box office with its 10 days collection recording USD 10,72,624 in the US, USD 3,49,251 across the UK and USD 6,42,233 in UAE. The box figures recorded in Pakistan were USD 1,47,000 and USD 1,83,183 in Australia

Spelling the Dhan te nan quotient all through, KAMINEY received the second highest opening in India, US and UAE, the biggest Hindi film opening of the year in Pakistan and one of the highest openings of the year in Australia.

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It is by now well known that director Tarun Mansukhani's hit comeback of John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan, DOSTANA, has been selected for the Second Annual iView Film Festival in New York. The icing on the cake is that DOSTANA is going to be the opening attraction (on August 29) of the two day festival at the Walter Reade Theatre.

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In fact, Tarun will shortly be traveling with John Abraham, Kirron Kher and Boman Irani for the iView festival. Before Tarun leaves, we decided to get his views and feelings regarding the same, and this is what the soft spoken director had to say, ''It feels fantastic, first because DOSTANA is our labour of love with a very bold and challenging theme, and secondly as it is not your typical festival circuit type of a film! I also feel honoured at DOSTANA being the opening film.''

Here's congratulating Tarun on DOSTANA's commercial and now critical success and wishing him the best for his upcoming projects!

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Shahid Kapur and Rani Mukherjee have become the new talk of the town these days with their on screen chemistry and hot sizzling bodies getting wet in the rain in the remix version of their upcoming film DIL BOLE HADIPPA.

CHECK OUT: DIL BOLE HADIPPA Music Review

Recently while chatting with an entertainment channel Shahid even praised Rani on her new looks by stating, ''Rani has never looked so good in the near past.''

The two gel well with each other and the sizzling chemistry can be seen in the new promos of the film. ''She is fun to work with and I had a great experience with Rani. I remember, in the song where she dressed like a Punjabi munda and had to do her own choreography. And she did some step of naagin which was quite amazing,'' he adds.

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At the recently held press meet about his forthcoming film WANTED, Salman Khan seemed to be at his hilarious best sharing some of the most memorable moments he had while shooting for the film.

Recalling how his producers decided to make him do some of the most challenging dance steps in the film, Salman said, ''I'm a great dancer in the league of Sunny Deol and Anil Kapoor. So, when Prabhudeva, who's directing this film moved his body like elastic and told me to do the same, I was amazed initially. Finally, upon realizing how good I was with my jig, the director made some tailor-made changes in the dance steps. I think this film showcases my best dance sequences till date.''

CHECK OUT: BSK plans a publicity extravaganza for WANTED!

The film which was shot in Greece seemed to remind Salman of his love for the canines. Recalling an incident that became a regular feature of their shooting experience in Greece, Salman added, ''I love the canines of Greece. They are so friendly unlike their Indian counterparts. While I used to walk down from my villa to the shooting location, I would always bring along 40 to 50 dogs with me on the sets. It was a hilarious experience. The crew would stand stunned at the sight as if I am the King of dogs.''

The film which stars Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia in the lead has been directed by ace choreographer Prabhu Deva and is all set to hit the screens this festive season.

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Vishal Bhardwaj has done it. His KAMINEY has hit the bull's eye, hence continuing cheers for Bollywood, which has now seen fourth big money spinner in a row.

Even though the film didn't release in Mumbai and Pune, two major centers for any Bollywood movie to succeed in a major way, KAMINEY has marched along strongly. In its opening weekend itself, the film has netted 17 crores, hence ensuring that Shahid Kapoor now has his biggest opening ever. Same holds good for Vishal Bhardwaj too, who now has a bona fide HIT in hands after critically acclaimed OMKARA, THE BLUE UMBRELLA, MAQBOOL and MAKDEE.

What's working tremendously in the favor of KAMINEY is the fact that it's target audience, i.e. youth, is patronizing the film in a big way. Also the film has broken the class barrier as it is working across A, B and C centers with not just multiplexes but also single screens showing a favorable response.

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Moreover, unlike number of films that open with a bang and then start going down as weekdays progress, KAMINEY has been holding steady with extremely strong word-of-mouth and all around positive reviews keeping this thriller going strong day-after-day, show-after-show! With the film finally opening in Mumbai on Monday, there is a renewed vigor in the film's collections, which is going to come handy to first week's collections.

Meanwhile LIFE PARTNER is fighting it out at the box office and is finding patronage amongst family audiences, especially the interiors. With close to 7 crores coming in the first weekend, this medium budget movie has gained decent reviews and word-of-mouth. Considering the fact that the next big releases, DIL BODE HADIPPA and WANTED, arrive a month from now, it is only a happy situation for this Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor and Fardeen Khan starrer that should be able to consolidate it's place at the box office in weeks to come.

With the success of KAMINEY and survival of LIFE PARTNER, Bollywood can finally heave a sigh of relief. What seemed like a lost cause till a couple of months back appear to be a happy scenario today. Here is keeping fingers crossed for many more HITS coming Bollywood's way.

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Talk to people who liked/loved/adored KAMINEY and chances are that 90% (ok, let's make it 80%) of them would have made the statement as above. This has been a common expression of those who have watched the film and though the lingo is pretty youth centric, the fact is that this was the audiences targeted for this Vishal Bhardwaj film and it's this very segment that has made KAMINEY a success that it is today.

The film is being appreciated for it's 'cool quotient' and those who don't really have many good things to say about this superb effort by the makers are being looked at as minority. Worse, they are being questioned if they are not being 'cool' enough! A quick round amongst the 'mango people' fetches following reactions.

CHECK OUT: Don't leave your brains behind for KAMINEY

Says 32 year old Bimal Sharma, a VP at a leading real estate company, ''For someone like me who has worshipped Guy Ritchie's LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS or Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS, a film like KAMINEY was God-sent. I just look so suspiciously at some of them out there who have complains around the film's narrative. My question to them is that 'Hey, have you ever seen anything outside conventional Bollywood cinema?''

There are some like Neha Sharma, 27 years of age, who attribute the film to excellent marketing. She says, ''The film has worked mainly due to some brilliant product placement. Seriously, it has been pitched amongst the audience in such a way that it made one feel as if it would be a sacrilege if not seen in the first weekend itself. Add to this the fact that you would be called so 'un-cool' and not 'intelligent enough' if you say a word about KAMINEY! That's the way film has been projected! I am glad that I loved the film though I feel pity for those who perhaps haven't but can't dare to come out in open and state the same.''

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One of the lead actors of Rumi's Jaffri's LIFE PARTNER Tusshar Kapoor may be a self confessed believer in live-in relationships, but his choice is very clear about the kind of life partner he wants in real life. And the list is very long and a demanding one indeed.

CHECK OUT: Will LIFE PARTNER prove another PARTNER for Govinda?

Tusshar says that his life partner should be interested in films. Apart from films, she should also be interested in sports. The girl should be independent, sensitive, caring as well as intelligent. She should have strong family values and respect his family. These are some of the qualities that the GOLMAAL star wants in his wife to be, but till he comes across someone as perfect as he wants, he will wait patiently as he has plenty of time ahead. And as of now he is just keen on concentrating on his career, which is finally heading in the right direction after GOLMAAL RETURNS.

Till then we can only wait and see what kind of (reel) life partner his heroine Prachi Desai turns out to be, when LIFE PARTNER hits the screens on 14th August!

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Actress Prachi Desai rubbishes the recent rumours of her request to shoot in a bathtub with a shawl for her upcoming film LIFE PARTNER.

The actor exclaimed, ''I was really shocked and surprised when I heard about this! I laughed at this weird piece of news! Having said this, I am absolutely aware that such things can be blown out of proportion, and could be a publicity stunt. The song ''Teri Meri Yeh Zindagi'' showcases how post marriage, the relationship between each of the two couples flow, one who have had an arrange marriage and one who have had a love marriage''

CHECK OUT: Prachi won't take a bath with Tusshar!

Elaborating on the sequence, ''If you see the song, you will notice that the bath tub is in a valley below a tree in the evening and does not have any water! It was meant to be a cute piece where the couple is enjoying the company of each other, rather than being a bath sequence!''

She further goes on to add, that had it been a bathroom sequence, the director or she would have had some say in it, and that the tub could have even been something like a couch since the sequence was meant to be cute. Signing off she concludes, ''This is absolutely pointless. At the end of the day, I am a director's actor, and should the character require it, I will do it because it is my job. I will do it as an actor and not as Prachi Desai the person!''

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More than his movies Bollywood actor Shahid Kapur, right from the beginning of his career, stayed in the headlines for the alleged link-ups or affairs with his beautiful co-stars. And which is why his on-screen pairings, be it with Amrita Rao in ISHQ VISHK, VIVAAH or Kareena Kapoor in FIDA, JAB WE MET or Vidya Balan in KISMAT KONNECTION or lately Priyanka Chopra in KAMINEY, formed a huge talk of the town. Needless to say, Shahid's chemistry with each of his co-stars on-screen worked wonders for the film everytime and people loved his pairing with some of the most regarded actresses of Bollywood.

While we think Shahid looks best with each of these hotties, we would like to hear from you guys (...hey gals) as to who looks best with Shahid, suits his persona and who forms the hottest pair: Is it Shahid-Kareena or Shahid-Vidya or Shahid-Amrita or the latest jodi Shahid-Priyanka?

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KAMINEY has been offered 'A' certificate by the Censor Board and Vishal Bhardwaj is understandably unhappy. Though the film is less than a fortnight away, Censors have advised Vishal that if he wants a U/A certificate of the film, he would have to cut a few scenes and make certain changes.

Says a source close to Vishal, ''He is really upset about the trouble that he has got into because of the attitude of Censor board folks. They have been arguing that the film is violent par film mein violence toh hai hi nahi. There aren't any gory scenes or the kinds that would make you look the other way. It's all 'implied violence' where you get a feel that something wrong has happened or would happen. But then nothing untoward actually happens onscreen.''

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Next few days are extremely important for the film since post LOVE AAJ KAL euphoria (which incidentally stars Shahid's ex-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor's current boyfriend Saif Ali Khan), KAMINEY is the next BIG film of the season. No wonder, the makers of KAMINEY and the film's cast and crew have to work extra hard and go the whole hog to make KAMINEY as the only film visible to audiences once it hits the screens on 14th August.

''Yes, this is an important movie for everyone, whether it is Shahid, Priyanka or Vishal. It's a unique competition and there is so much of widespread curiosity around the film. The last thing that each of them would want is worry about whether the film would be allowed for youngsters or not. Shahid especially is so popular amongst the younger generation and it would be a huge loss for him as well as his fans if the film gets an adults certificate,'' the source adds.

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So what's the team of KAMINEY planning to do now?

''We should get to know about it in a couple of days or so,'' he says, ''Right now they are just assessing the situation. However, one thing one fails to understand is the entire double standard game. On one side a hardcore action movie like GHAJINI, which has so much visible violence, is allowed for all age groups. On the other hand KAMINEY, which is much lighter when it comes to violence, is meted such treatment. It's unfair. The film in fact doesn't even have expletives as was in the case of Vishal's last release OMKARA.''

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Actor Fardeen Khan has taken the title of his forthcoming romantic comedy, LIFE PARTNER, quite seriously!

While the Abbas-Mustan/Studio 18 co-production releases worldwide next week, Fardeen airdashed to London last week to spend time with his real life partner, Natasha, and enjoy a quiet holiday with her.

CHECK OUT: LIFE PARTNER Movie Preview

Remarked a source, "Fardeen hadn't seen his wife for over two and a half months as he has been shooting non-stop in Goa for Ajay Devgan's home production ALL THE BEST. He has been missing her. Also, the unfortunate demise of his father has deeply affected him. He needed to escape from Mumbai and unwind."

Natasha Madhvani is the daughter of London-based businessman Mayur and yesteryear's actress Mumtaz. Natasha and Fardeen have been friends since childhood.

The couple will return to Mumbai in the week when LIFE PARTNER releases.

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LOVE AAJ KAL is JAB WE MET without the intensity of Geet. However, here you have the confused, so-called 'me stud man' image of Jai Vardhan Singh (Saif Ali Khan), which takes a beating and comes out fighting to salvage his love, or whatever it is that is left of it. So Jai who hogs the best dialogues and even screen space when he is required to listen takes Geet's place convincingly.

One scene is when Meera (Deepika Padukone) is getting married and asks her friends to call Jai (who also is at the reception) to meet her. Obviously, she has something to say, but what happens is Jai steals the show with his 'Amitabh-like' lines while you are left wondering what is it that Meera wanted to tell him. Point to note Imtiaz.

Imtiaz Ali has spun a two-layered tale of love and has Saif Ali Khan portraying love in today's time (Aaj) and love two decades ago (Kal). In both roles, Saif is super convincing. Love seems to be the flavour for Imtiaz and he handles the subject with a degree of confidence that has now become his trademark.

Jai and Meera meet and fall in love in London. After two years of courtship, Meera's archaeological background takes her to India while Jai has his dreams to work on a project in San Francisco. They decide to break-up and even have a 'break-up party'. How cool is that. Their meeting, falling in love, tender moments and even the break-up is capsuled well by Imtiaz. But somewhere deep down, both know that they can never be separated. For Jai, break-up means he is now ready to date more girls, while for Meera it is work and the prospect of meeting new men. Jai is the super-cool dude who does not believe in the philosophy of love. Not for him is the Romeo-Juliet kind of romance. This is Love Aaj.

Rishi Kapoor, who owns the restaurant where the 'break-up' party is held, reminisces of his love and how he wooed his girl to Jai. Patiently following her cycle rickshaw in the by-lanes of Delhi and even going to Calcutta to track her down after she had moved away. Saif Ali Khan plays the younger, vulnerable, and unsure in love Rishi. That was Love Kal.

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In both tales, Imtiaz weaves a pattern to display that whatever era you may have been in, Love has a singular momentum and you only love once. Both love stories are unraveled together and as they head to the climax, Imtiaz has you firmly in his grip.

The first half moves fast but you just get the feeling that the second half could have been tighter. It drags and you wonder why Imtiaz is letting his grip off the proceedings.

Deepika comes out shining. Put her in the hands of a good director and she can do wonders. Imtiaz coaxes out a good performance from her. But believe me; this girl can do much, much better. She stands up to the much-experienced Saif Ali Khan in the lighter moments as well as the more intense ones. If she makes the right choices, she will be an actress to watch out for.

Saif Ali Khan makes a smooth transition from actor to producer. He may not have promoted his film with the force of a Ghajini, but he managed to create just the right kind of hype. Maybe, if Team India had to progress further in the recently concluded T-20 World Cup, the hype would have gotten bigger. Saif has shown a sharp business eye looking into every aspect, including the music by Pritam.

Love knows no language. Besides, it cuts through people from all age. Aaj, Kal and what have you. It is neat, clean and full of romance. This one is for ''The mango people. The Aam Junta'', as Saif's Jai says in one of his dialogues. Go for it.
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In a strange coincidence while his daughter Shruti Hassan makes her debut with LUCK her father Kamal Hassan has completed fifty years of his association with the motion pictures in India, and like an old war horse he still carries on.

If there are contours of method acting and the fault zones in the realm of portraying a character Kamal Hassan is one actor who has established new frontiers in the world of Indian cinema and it does not have any parallels. He is an actor in the real sense of terms who continues to persevere never bothered about the image but interested more in interpreting the characters that he plays. His latest release DASHAVATARAM is an ample pointer to this fact. Kamal Hassan also is one actor who has been single-handedly going into the realm of the glorious past of our history and interpreting history in the modern conceptuality.

He is into the world of acting when he was a child of six years of age and is bestowed with the unique distinction of being an actor whose works continue to represent India at the annual Academy Awards competition under the best foreign film category. His involvement with the world of creativity is not only relegated to acting, but he packs it with being a choreographer, a director, a lyricist and a singer to boot. The performance of a Don that he enacted in his 1987 film NAYAGAN directed by Mani Ratnam made even Time magazine to acknowledge his acting prowess.

Kamal Hassan blazed on the world of Hindi cinema with his epic performance in K Balachander's EK DUJE KE LIYE and underlined the importance about the fact that love does not have a language for its expression it can be conveyed through eyes. He did an encore of the same with SADMA. Interestingly enough Kamal Hassan has done quite a large number of roles where he enacted the character of a teacher, and one wonders if there is a latent urge to interpret the world in his own manner that finds expression through enactment of characters in the form of teachers. It is the prowess of his acting acumen that he could make a success out of a silent film PUSHPAK. Besides, he was an integral part of the finest romantic films that has been made in the Indian cinema. As a matter of fact his acting was brought out in a large motif when he was traveling and found that a group of tourists from Philippines were enjoying his acting like anything.

Kamal Haasan has this fetish for being at the cutting edge of technology and he has tried to do it with panache with his films. He showed this zest with aplomb in HEY RAM and then with HINDUSTANI where using the tools of technology he morphed the image of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on to the Indian screen.

Together with Rajnikant he stands as one of the tallest figures that the world of Indian cinema has ever seen, more so Tamil Cinema and the way he is still enticing the movie crazy public, South of the Vindhyas would indeed be having a real treat.

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Is that the magic formula to reach MTV Splitsvilla 2 finals? Swagata G Shah, a contestant of the reality show, claims so

There seems to be no stopping the skeletons pouring out of MTV's Splitsvilla closet. Just a few days after MiD DAY exposed the sleazy underbelly of the hit reality show, more former Splitsvilla series two contestants stepped up to speak about how the show was doctored from the word go; how finalists were chosen in the director's bedroom and how a top contender indulged in behind-the-scene doping.

Show-all pool party

The icing on the cake allegedly was the wrap-up party during which the 'favourite girls' spent an entire day and night in the pool with their 'mentors' and star VJ Nikhil Chinappa booked a room for the 'queen' who 'kept everyone happy' yet couldn't win. "After the show was over, we had a pool-side party.

After almost everyone had left we saw Joanna Magee (one of the top contenders and a finalist) and Sakshi Pradhan (the show's winner) in the pool with Hitesh (the show's director) and a few other men from the production team.

They stayed there till the next day. I also heard a room was booked for Joanna through Cafe Mambo, a disc at Goa's Baga Beach, where Nikhil Chinappa performs.


Most contestants knew Nikhil had booked a room at Sun City Resort, Baga Beach, for Joanna.

She stayed on in Goa even after the show had ended," said Swagata G Shah, one of the contestants of Splitsvilla 2.


Threats to participants?

Interestingly, Swagata alleged former participants are being coaxed to sign a contract that forbids them from revealing details about the show to the media.

"Sharon Irani, the contestant manager working with the production company Colosseum, asked us to sign a new contract on July 24.



She said three or four other contestants had already signed the contract, whereas to my knowledge, they haven't. I have been receiving calls every day, asking me to sign it," said Swagata.

Sleeping with the boss?

Reportedly, Hitesh, who works with the production house Colosseum, which produced Splitsvilla 2 for MTV, abused his position to back Joanna in return for sexual favours. "When I re-entered the show, Joanna boasted she would win it.

I retorted, 'I don't sleep around for Rs 6,000 like you do.' I had heard about Joanna from people in Chandigarh, her hometown.

During this conversation, Hitesh pulled me out and said, 'You get out of Splitsvilla right now. I just want this chick [sic] out of the premises.

You can't speak anything against Joanna because Joanna se mujhe kaam hai. Tumse mujhe koi kaam nahi hai (Joanna is of use to me, you are of no use).'

If I had slept with him like Joanna did, I wouldn't have been voted out so early and given so little footage," said Swagata.

She alleged other contestants were scared of speaking against Joanna, because 'she was close to the top boss'. "I had seen Joanna kissing Hitesh at a party. But I am not sure if MTV was aware of these wrongdoings," she added.

Counterpoint

When contacted, an unflustered Hitesh refused to comment. "I am not authorised to say anything," Hitesh said, leading us on to the creative director of the show Rajeev Laxman.

Laxman, who is also from Colosseum, was more forthright. "It's all speculation. We don't have to explain ourselves to tabloids.

I don't know whether MTV was aware. As far as sexual favours go, I don't think anyone is aware. I don't need to respond to these stupid allegations from tabloids."

Shakshi backed the show. "I faced two rounds of auditions and made a wild card entry. Nothing was fixed. It was a reality show and the people behind it were professionals.

They were nice and friendly towards us. I don't want to comment on what others have alleged," said Shakshi.

MiD DAY tried to contact Joanna, While one of her cellphones was switched off, the other mobile went unanswered.

What's real?

Doubts were raised about Joanna's candidature too. "Joanna did not audition for Splitsvilla 2. She was selected for season one but couldn't participate.

So, she was given a chance in season two. Both Joanna and Sakshi seemed to be friendly not only with Hitesh, but other housemates like Suyash Kumar and Param as well," Swagata said.

Cheshta Bhagat, another contestant, agreed. "I heard about Joanna's escapades. But I am sure Sakshi Pradhan is a sl*t.

The MMS was recorded and circulated by Sakshi as Nalini and Varun (Nalini Negi and Varun Jhamb were contestants of Splitsvilla 2) had alleged in the MiD DAY article (edition dated July 22)," said Cheshta.

Doped out
"We saw Joanna smoke contraband stuff many times during the show. We saw her rolling grass or coke [sic] in paper.

But it was always off air. She would say she needed a strong drag before she faced the testing times," said Swagata.

Transport trouble
Reportedly, some clauses in the contract signed with the participants were not honoured. "The contract we signed specified our transport costs were to be borne by the show producers.

But I paid for my trip back to Pune from Goa. They just gave me Rs 1,500 for excess baggage," said Swagata Shah.

Gifts taken back
Swagata also accused Colosseum of cheating them of the gifts they received during the show. "The Vodafone sets gifted to us during the show were taken back.

We all received a certain number of clothes sponsored by Levi's but Joanna got extra pairs," she said.

Source : Mid-day.com