Actress Priyanka Chopra is one of the stars who couldn’t make it to the polling booth as she was busy with her prior work commitments.
“So unfortunate when scheduling keeps you away from some of the most important things. Wish I could have been in India to exercise my most basic... to vote as a citizen. Kudos to all who did,” she tweeted Thursday when Mumbai went to poll.
She is currently in Tampa Bay, Florida in US for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Weekend and Awards. The “Krrish 3” star will also enthrall her fans in Las Vegas soon.
Accomplished actor Irrfan Khan will spend the rest of this year living out of a suitcase as he will be shooting for two films - "Jurassic World" and "Piku". This week he leaves for the US to begin shooting for Colin Trevorrow-directed fourth part of the phenomenal "Jurassic Park" franchise. The film is to be shot in Hawaai and New Orleans.
Here's a new colour -- the Kangana Ranaut of "Queen" and the Alia Bhatt of 'Highway' -- free-spirited and living life on their terms, much like young contemporary Indian women today. I'm loving it!
Neha Sharma, who started her career with southern films, has done a couple of Hindi movies but she still feels like an outsider in Bollywood and says "no one is your friend here".
Known for her sophisticated and ornate taste in expensive saris and jewellery, Kirron Kher disregards the advice that she must dress simply during her rallies as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Lok Sabha election from Chandigarh. She believes she doesn't need to "act" like a politician and that she'd rather be "real" to win votes.
Hindi cinestar Amitabh Bachchan finds Rajinikanth-starrer "Kochadaiiyan", said to be the country's first motion capture photo-realistic 3D animated movie directed by the southern matinee idol's daughter Soundarya Ashwin, as a mark of women empowerment "at its best".
Actor Arjun Kapoor was almost 140 kg before he forayed into acting, but leading a "balanced" lifestyle helped him lose excess weight. He laments how fitness has become more about the number of pack of abs that one has.