Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was discharged Friday from the Lilavati Hospital here after being treated for an abdominal condition, has thanked his fans for their good wishes but has hit out at the media for being “insensitive” while reporting on his illness.

“My sincerest thanks to all who gave me strength to fight another medical battle. The fans and well-wishers. The media friends who wrote in on my mobile. Friends who visited me at the hospital and those that wrote in. Strangers who I never met or know,” Amitabh wrote on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com Friday.

Born on October 10 as Bhanurekha Ganesan , Rekha shot her first Telugu movie at the tender age of 12. At the age of 15, she debuted as a heroine in successful Kannada film Goadalli CID 999 and her Bollywood debut in 1970 Sawan Bhadon made her a star. She learnt Hindi but played glamorous roles till the commercial and critical success Do Anjaane happened in 1976 with Big B. 1978 was a very luck year for her. She earned her first Filmfare nomination for her nuanced portrayal of a rape victim in Ghar and another Filmfare nomination for Muqaddar ka Sikandar, one of the biggest hits of the 70s.

Oct. 11: Fans ready to wish Amitabh Bachchan a happy 66th birthday turned to prayer when the film star was admitted to hospital with abdominal pain.

The actor was taken to Nanavati Hospital in Juhu in the morning, but was later shifted to Bandra’s Lilavati Hospital where he remains in suite 1101, accompanied by wife Jaya, daughter Shweta, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya.

Bachchan had suffered a near-fatal stomach injury on the sets of Manmohan Desai’s Coolie in 1982. In 2005, he underwent abdominal surgery.

Mumbai (PTI): The indefinite strike called by Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) entered the third day on Friday with bodies of workers and producers holding negotiations to thrash out the differences.

Yashraj, Mehboob, Filmistan, Film City and other studios continued to remain shut. Shooting of daily soaps has been the worst hit. FWICE, which has over 1.5 lakh members in 22 unions covering different crafts of the film industry, are demanding stipulated wages on time and regulated working hours. They are also opposing producers, hiring workers who do not belong to any of the unions.

Genelia D’Souza, Imran Khan’s petite and perky co-star in ‘Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na’, brushes off rumours of any relationship with Riteish Deshmukh with a “we’re just friends.”

Genelia teamed up with Riteish for her first Hindi film ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’ and they were seen together once again in ‘Masti’. While ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’ bit the dust at the box office, ‘Masti’ hit bull’s eye. But the film’s success didn’t help much in shaping her career.

Katrina Kaif seems to be riding the crest of a bright new wave of success. The things have been happening to her career within just a matter of time, sometimes surrounding like a fairytale coming true.

She has given six blockbusters back to back in the recent times and as a result she has been signing some of the very best films. The actress seems to have her kitty full of projects and directors and actors are just dying to work with her. If the latest hearsay is something to go by then the actress has apparently bagged the lead role in a film which will be directed by the eternal romantic filmmaker of the Indian silver screen, Yash Chopra.

Once upon a time there was a film maker called Vikram Bhatt who hit gold with whatever he made. Films like ‘Fareb’ (adulterous drama), ‘Ghulam’ (action social), ‘Kasoor’ (courtroom drama), ‘Raaz’ (musical horror) and ‘Awara Paagal Deewana’ (action comedy) traversed genres and proved to be blockbusters.

Then started a bad professional phase for this Bhatt protégé who has now delivered an astonishing 11 back to back box office duds. With his last success being ‘Awara Paagal Deewana’ (2002), it has been nothing short of a harrowing five years for the film maker who is longing to taste success.

The Urban Lear

Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Preity Zinta, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah, Prosenjit, Jishu
Director: Rituparno Ghosh

Ratings: * *

The film, ‘The Last Lear’ has a good performance of Amitabh Bachchan who tries to play a man who worked long in Shakespearian Theater and he starts living in the Shakespearian stories only. His skills in theatre is exploited by a movie director as he is called to perform a role in modern cinema. The actor is left with fatal injuries after the shoot. The film tries to say that cinema as a medium is less powerful and unrealistic, when compared to stage.

Akshay Kumar has given the maximum number of hits in the last one year and now the box office collections of his new release ‘Singh Is Kinng’ has cemented his position as the number one star.

“But I don’t want that. I’m not a superstar. I’m not saying this for effect. I’m only here to entertain people. I keep telling my wife I don’t want to be either No.1 or No.2. I just want to be alive and kicking in the film industry,” Akshay told us.

Akshay describes ‘Singh Is Kinng’ as an entertainer.

Starring :Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav, Sohail Khan

Director: Rumi Jaffery

Producer: Afzal Khan

Banner: Shabbo Arts

Music Director: Sajid, Wajid

Rating: ***

Known to be inspired by 2003 released Hollywood flick ‘Bruce Almighty’, God Tussi Great Ho has the spontaneous performance of Salman Khan but the depiction of script is a problem. Comedy is non uniform in the film and a few scenes are impressively acceptable. The songs of the film are choreographed well but the songs are rather disappointing for not being innovative.