What's in a name!

Kiran Dubey has two names. The actor's school friends call her Smita, while the rest of her friends and folks at home prefer to call her Kiran. Interestingly, her parents wanted to name her Milan before she was born, but chose to call her Kiran later.
"My neighbours were very fond of me and Smita Patil was a rage when I was to get into kindergarten, so my neighbours thought of naming me Smita. All my school friends call me Smita while every one else call me Kiran. In fact, I prefer Kiran to Smita but my passports and bank documents have both the names," says Kiran Dubey, who is incidentally a big fan of super cop Kiran Bedi.
The actor is happy with her ongoing travel reality show Jet Set Go on Star One, but intends to become a filmmaker in the future. Besides there are a few film offers in the offing too. Here's to you, Smita, Kiran...err, whatever!

Bollywood calling for telly stars!

Television stars are all over Bollywood now. The soon to be released Akshay Kumar starrer, Humko Deewana kar gaye has as many as five television stars - Bhagyashree, Neena Kulkarni, Anju Mahendroo, Delnaz Paul and Upasana Singh.

This is not all! Tanaaz Currim and Vivek Vaswani will soon be seen in 36 Chinatown. Lately there have been a slew of stars who have done commendable jobs on the big screen - Rohit Roy, Yash Tonk and Maninee De have all been part of big projects!

Who's next, we wonder!

JD finds Gattu next door!

Producer JD Majethia has taken a fondness for his neighbour's son. He's often heard talking about the little boy who keeps greeting him with an enthusiastic "Jai Shri Krishna" any time of the day.

JD has two daughters, Kesar and Misri, and unlike most actors he's not into discussing them with his colleagues. So it came as a surprise for all when he spoke boundlessly about this little kid, who lives next door. It was only later that JD realised who the kid was inspired by - he was play acting "Gattu" (Deven Bhojani in Baa Bahoo Aur Baby)!

No wonder JD finds him lovable!

Amit to hone his marketing skills!

Amit Khanna the naughty Veer in Star One's Yeh Dil Chahe More has been burning the mid night oil of late. No the actor was not only busy shooting for his show which has moved from road to home(from shooting in the lorry to back to the family) but he has simultaneously been preparing for his first year, second semester MBA examinations. The actor is doing his part-time post graduation from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Technology in Mumbai.
"I think education is must for everybody and comes in handy to fall back on anytime in ones life. I am doing my MBA and specialising in marketing and soon i might have to start getting my books on the sets," smiles the down to earth actor.
Here's hoping the actor puts the marketing skills he learns to push ahead his career as well.