Monday 22 March 2010     Also Read:     'Sarrkar'..What could have been! Neena Gupta, Shweta Kawatra and Nikki Aneja --- no I am not giving you the cast of a new serial. We hear that they were part of the original cast of Zee's political saga, Sarrkar. Neena Gupta was to play Divya Seth's character, mother of Ronit and Rahul Roy; Shweta Kawatra was to play Shweta Salve's character and Nikki was to play Tisca's role. The only actress who seemed to have survived the pilot is Mouli Ganguli who plays the distressed daughter of the family. If the present cast is anything to go by, the original cast could be called a master coup of sorts. Why did Manish let go of this amazing cast…Only God knows…and of course Manish knows too.   Oops! We goofed up.... Remember the story we broke about Rakesh Bapat joining television? (Click here for related story) . Well, we said that the serial might be called Run or Saloni...well we were wrong. We stand corrected. It's called Rang, and this we have got from reliable source. But the funny part perhaps just begins here. Just after we put the story up, our print and electronic brethren picked it up and flashed it with aplomb...some said that the serial was called Run/Saloni and a televion gossip show, said the show was called Run and Saloni (wonder what that means). Our sincere apologies to all those whom we have misguided. Party...wait till I am 30! Urvashi Dholakia refuses to throw a birthday bash quite so soon. When we ask her about her birthday celebrations, she says, “I am not in Mumbai and will be back late evening. I have not planned anything for my birthday. But I will throw a big bash once I am 30 as most of my friends are waiting for me to get to thirty," she adds laughingly. [V] make music too! Bappi Lahiri, Adesh Srivastav, Sandesh Shandilya, Irshad Kamil....not bad for an audience when you are cutting your first album, eh? That's what [V]'s Super Singer Ravindra had when he performed on the occasion of the release of his first album at Planet M in suburban Mumbai this week. Ravindra performed three songs from the album, Baanke Lal (pee pee horn maarein), Mukammaland Hulchul. Pyaar mein kabhi kabhi aisa hota hai! Tassnim Sheikh is all set to buy her shippie fiancee 12 gifts which she can keep presenting him every two hours! Not to mention wishing him every five minutes! Too much?? Not really if you are as much in love with your fiancee as Tassnim is, anyway! Cell travails! Puja Ghai sure can't like the rains much. Just when she was exulting about her new role as Armaan's new secretary in Sony's Jassi..., she lost touch with the world! Literally. Puja dropped her cellphone in a puddle during last weekend's heavy downpour in Mumbai and the gadget went completely awry. "I lost all my contacts," wails the pretty lass.     Phone lagao aur Alto le jao ! Wondering how this can be possible? Then just tune into SaharaOne's Dial One Aur Jeeto. You could be as lucky as Kiran Verma, a mother of two from Noida who has won herself a Maruti Alto. We advise all the viewers to keep dialing the number and they never know next alto could be theirs!   By THE TELLY CHAKKAR TEAM Posted on 18 July 2005 9:30 pm More Grapvine Comment on Story