Zubin Mehta, the internationally acclaimed Los Angeles-based music conductor of Indian origin, will enthral his fans at a series of charity concerts in Mumbai this October. The October 7-12 concerts, organised by the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation (MMMF), are to raise money for a music school that the 72-year-old maestro is planning to start in Mumbai. While four concerts will be held at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, the mega-charity event will be held at the Brabourne Stadium Oct 11, said an MMMF spokesperson. A Parsi, Mehta was born in Mumbai but moved to Vienna at the age of 18 to learn Western classical music. The MMMF was founded in 1995 to promote Western classical music and in the memory of the late Mehli Mehta, Zubin Mehta's father. In the 1930s and 1940s, Mehli Mehta was the driving force behind the Bombay String Quartet, Bombay Symphony Orchestra and the Western classical music scenario in the city. Zubin Mehta has been associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony , New York Philharmonic and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and is a lifelong music director with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He has collaborated with music legends around the world, including Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar and his audiences have included the royalty, rulers and other international celebrities. India conferred one of its highest civilian honours, the Padma Vibhushan, on him in 2001 and later he received the Kennedy Centre Honours in 2006.

If imitation be great praise, then Salman Khan must be feeling very honoured. While shooting for the latest episode of Dus Ka Dum, he came face-to-face with a mirror reflection of his. The 'Copy cat' is a dancer in real life. Salman tried to put the man at ease by sneaking up behind him as he was performing and striking similar poses. But the dancer was so overwhelmed when he met his idol that he didn’t know what to do. In fact, he turned around and walked away. Salman, with his trademark sense of humour, said: "Salman Khan sure has attitude!" How true, we say.

Kamal Haasan's 'Marmayogi', is all set to hit the floors very soon. A. R. Rahman joins hands with Kamal Haasan after a long gap for the movie. The music maestro, who is making waves in the Tamil and Hindi film industries had recently stated in an interview that Kamal has demanded many songs for the film, as the script had ample scope for music. To a question on Kamal's reported remarks that movies should be made without songs, Rahman said, 'I don't think so. If it is the case, then why would Kamal ask for more songs to be incorporated in 'Marmayogi'. 'Marmayogi' will have new and interesting music, says Rahman. The ace music director is a happy man for his 'Sakkarakatti' audio is doing terrific business, while 'Sultan - The Warrior' and 'Robot' are getting ready.

Y. G. Mahendran, known for his enthusiasm for stage plays has got his team to perform a drama titled, 'Sudesi Iyer'. This play is so successful that it has completed 50 shows and is still going strong. Superstar Rajinikanth went over to watch the play and was totally in appreciation of the enactment, Y. G. Mahendran and all his team players. He congratulated each and every member of the team and even proceeded to send than an appreciation letter. The superstar had stated in the letter his appreciation for the play in general and wished it to complete 100 shows. A pat from the superstar is indeed a great honor.

Mammootty's 'Parunthu' opened to big audiences as expected. The movie was released in 80 stations across Kerala to grab the maximum from the initials. The first day first show, opened as early as 12 am in some of the theatres in the Malappuram district with the typical Mammootty opening, while more than half a dozen theatres started their first shows as early as 6 am. The movie is said to be a good family entertainer according the opening day viewers.

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Thanks to the ever increasing sales of mobile phones in the rapidly developing Indian economy, Aamir Khan, Sharukh Khan and Abhishek Bachchan have been become part of a group of 10 celebrities from all over the world who have instrumental in increasing the sales of mobile phones using their star status and appeal. The list of the 10 celebrities was released by the famous U.S. publication, Forbes which is known for the rankings given to the richest persons in the world. Abhishek Bachchan appears in the advertisements of the Motorola mobile phones, Shahrukh Khan is the brand ambassador for Nokia while Aamir Khan lends his charm for promoting the phones of Samsung. The other famous international personalities who feature in the list are car racing driver Danica Patrick, football star David Beckham who promotes Motorola RAZR2 mobile phone, Tennis star Maria Sharpova who endorses Sony Ericsson Phones and world famous musicians Usher, Andy Lau, Rain and Fergie.

Film maker Apoorva Lakhia who after churning out a super hit 'Shootout At Lokhandwala' which gave the struggling leading man Vivek Oberoi a second life in B-Town is currently looking forward to the release of his next action thriller 'Mission Istanbul' which has been getting very good pre release reviews. But the successful director is not resting on these positive feedbacks and has gone ahead and finalized his next project. This one too will be having its share of great action moments but will be giving more importance to humour. The new movie has been given the title 'Generation X' and will become the launching pad of the winners of the reality show "Kissko Milega Ticket To Bollywood". To be financed by Popkorn Entertainment of Suniel Shetty and Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Motion Pictures, this film will start it's canning from August. Sanjay Dutt and Tusshar Kapoor have already been signed for the 'Generation X'. The four actors from 'Mission Istaanbul', Zayed Khan, Nikitin Dheer, Shabbir Ahluwalia and Suniel Shetty will also be doing important roles in the new movie.

Rajinikanth's P.Vasu directed Kuselan release has been confirmed for the first week of August (1 or 8th), depending on the completion of post production work. Some patchwork shoot of the film is happening in Chennai, while the graphics is yet to be completed. A grand 'Ganamela' by G.V Prakash the music director of the film and the singers who sang in the film will be held on July 19 in Chennai. This is a promotional event to further popularize the film’s music. Meanwhile Pyramid Saimira the distributors of the film are planning to launch a game based on Kuselan

Mohanlal becomes Mollywood’s highest paid actor with the signing of the new film ‘Nairsan'. According to some unconfirmed reports, Mohanlal is said to have been paid around four crores for appearing in this international movie project. The Superstar of Malayalam has earmarked a continuous 125 days for the shoot of this film, which will begin by the third week of August.

A rumour has been making the rounds in Kerala media that Asin is going to do an international ad campaign with Jackie Chan, to be shot in Japan! Jackie Chan is the flavour of the season ever since he came for the audio launch of Dasavatharam in Chennai. Now Mohanlal is supposed to do the film Nairsen with him in September. At the Dasavatharam audio launch, Jackie was introduced to Asin and photographed together which may have lend credence to the story that Asin is going to do an ad with him. When contacted in Mumbai, Asin said: "It is a figment of somebody's imagination running wild. No such offer has come my way, and I don't thing that Jackie is endorsing any products."

There can never be a better title for a film than Fantastic when you have ace actors like Paresh Rawal, Konkona Sen Sharma, and Javed Jaffrey coming together for it. Sanjay Chhel announces his next film which is being produced by Percept Pictures. Fantastic is a romantic-comedy film. The film has a combination of some great actors, namely, Paresh Rawal, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neha Dhupia, Rahul Khanna, and Javed Jaffrey", says Sanjay Chhel, director of the film.The most intriguing fact about the film is that Konkona will be paired opposite Paresh Rawal. "Konkona will be playing a role of a typical woman from today's society and is paired opposite Paresh, that's not all; she also gets paired opposite Rahul Khanna, who plays a millionaire in the film, and opposite Javed Jaffrey as well. Neha Dhupia's character in the film is also something to watch out for. Rahul will shed his image of a simple look as he will be showcased as a flamboyant and maverick kind a character, his looks will be terrific and stylized; in short he will look different."So what is Fantastic all about? "Of course you do not expect me to tell you the story now. But I'll tell you this, it revolves around the society, page 3, lifestyle and such. I have written both the screenplay and lyrics for the songs as well", says Sanjay. This is part of the three-film deal with the Percept Pictures right? "Yes, I will be doing two other films with them one is an action comedy and the other is a sarcastically comedy flick. At present the films are still under scripting stages so there's nothing more to say to it."Fantastic is scheduled to go on floors by August end; meanwhile Sanjay Chhel also is geared up with Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam, which releases on August 22.

Mammootty had taken a 10-day break from monotony of continuous shooting. After completing Kutty Sranku's song and Chavittu Nadagam scenes, the star and his family went to Bali in Indonesia. Mammookka just chilled out and enjoyed the holiday. Now he is back to work and has rushed to Pollachi where the shoot of his new film Maya Bazaar directed by debutant Thomas Sebastin is to start. The film is about a daredevil motorcycle rider who also deals in buying and selling old cars. The film written by T.A Razak, is said to be an action entertainer and has Sai Kumar, Rajan.P Dev and Manian Pillai Raju in supporting cast.The buzz is that Tissca Chopra, who played the mother of wonder kid Darsheel Safari in Taare Zameen Par is going to play Mammootty's heroine in the film.

It was a joyous moment for Tamil cinema as 'Paruthi Veeran' grabbed six awards including the awards for best actor and actress at the 55th annual Filmfare Awards held in Chennai on Saturday. Veteran film personalities Sivakumar and Jayapradha were conferred the lifetime achievement awards on the occasion.Quite typical to any film award functions, the annual Filmfare awards at Chennai Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium witnessed variety dance performances by Poonam Bajwa, Rambha, Dhivya, Hanshika Motwani, Shobana, Namitha, Shriya, Raja and Vineeth. Members of dance master Kala's troupe accompanied them on stage. The awards function was graced by the who's who of Indian cinema besides noted politician Amar Singh. The list of awardees in Tamil:

After creating two hits with his first two ventures, Vinoo Mohan, the new young star from Mollywood is foraying into Tamil. He has been selected to appear in the lead of the new film directed by 'Basha' fame Suresh Krissna. The movie which stars Bharath has Vinoo in a role of great importance. The film tells the story of friendship between the two and is to be made bilingually. Meanwhile, Vinoo's new movie after 'Nivedhyam' and 'Cycle' is 'Sultan' in Malayalam which will grace the theatres next month. Directed by Sreepraksah, the movie is a campus based flick. Vinoo plays Sivarajan, a medico whose fiancée also studies in the same college. Vinoo's next movie is with director Sanal, who has also working on a campus flick with love, songs and action. The shooting for this untitled venture will start by the 20th of this month. Future projects of Vinoo include a movie with director Shaji Kailas and another alongside superstar Mohanlal.

The Mallu girl the talented actress of South India Navya Nair was lauded by superstar of Kannada cinema Dr.Vishnuvardhana on the sets of her second Kannada film 'Nam Yajamanru' at Mysore. "I know a very few actresses like Navya Nair who is full of potential and urge for acting", said Dr.Vishnu addressing the media that went from Bangalore recently. When she is not aware of the Kannada language Navya Nair can act so well speaks of her ability. She has the perfect quality of a woman. She is special, courageous and confident actress complimented Dr.Vishnu. Navya Nair is playing the co star in 'Nam Yajamanru' starring Dr.Vishnuvardhana, Vijaya Raghavendra, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Sona, Giri Dinesh, Umesh and others. The film has completed shooting recently in 60 days span in Mysore. National repute T.S.Nagabharana is heading the megaphone of 'Nam Yajamanru'.The beautiful Navya Nair's first Kannada film 'Gaja' opposite Challenging star Darshan has completed 100 days a few days ago and the news is that Navya Nair has signed another Kannada film opposite Darshan that is titled as 'Boss'.