A very reliable source informs that the very romantic, Khoya Khoya looking Siddharth (yes, yes Rang de Basanti) and Soha Ali Khan are more than likely to become Mr and Mrs.

And what do you know, even the Pataudis have said okay. The source also adds that Siddharth’s parents were in Mumbai recently. They were picked up at the airport by Soha Ali Khan’s car and driven to her Lokhandwala house.

Think they approved of Soha.. and were driven back to the airport. Sweet no?

Sweet and sexy Soha Ali Khan could be dating her Rang De Basanti co-star Siddharth, if rumours are to be believed.

Siddharth and Soha Ali Khan both made seperate entries a few days ago at the premiere of Soha’s movie Khoya Khoya Chand. But, once everyone was inside and seated, Soha and Siddharth were seen sitting together enjoying each other’s company. Soha’s mum Sharmila Tagore was also close by and seemed to be very fond of this young chap.

As soon as the movie ended, both Soha and Siddharth made their getaways seperately so the media would not picture them together.

Source: Radiosargam

Chandan Arora’s Striker isn’t just a film about the game of carrom. Nor is it only about life in the slums.

It takes into view the entire sub-culture and slum life in Mumbai from the early 1980s to around 1992.

Says Chandan, “To be honest to my vision I need a kind of free hand that is affordable only with financial freedom, and that is why I am producing this film along with directing it.”

Hey Everybody

Hope you all had a very nice and safe Christmas!

Sorry about the downtime the site has been having. We've changed servers and hostings and thats why the site was down for a bit but we're back on track now. A few hiccups that are still occuring will be fixed in the coming week.

As for Siddh news I will be updating very soon. I would love if any of you wanted to contribute. Simply email me at prathna_tiwari@hotmail.com

For now thats all. Be on the lookout for updates
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-Prathna

India boasts the biggest, most passionate movie audience in the world. It is also home to about 2.5 million people living with HIV. Now, for the first time, India has harnessed the dynamic force of its film industry to address the HIV/AIDS crisis.

AIDS JaaGo means “AIDS Awake,” and this project is a vibrant wake-up call designed to put the power of Indian moviemaking behind a critical message. Working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) enlisted three colleagues to produce short films that bust open stereotypes and put forward new ways of thinking about the disease. In this Mavericks presentation, directors Nair, Santosh Sivan, Vishal Bharadwaj and Farhan Akhtar will join Ashok Alexander from Avahan (the Gates Foundation’s Indian HIV/AIDS initiative) to screen the films and discuss the urgent issues they raise. Can popular entertainment shift attitudes? Can Bollywood beat back AIDS?

In Nair’s short film Migration, Shiney Ahuja plays a rural labourer who leaves his wife for work in Mumbai, where he gets mixed up in a dangerous triangle with a frustrated wife, performed by Sameera Reddy, and her closeted husband, played by Irfan Khan. Sivan (also premiering Before the Rains at this year’s Festival) directs South Indian superstar Prabhu Deva in Prarambha, about a truck driver who helps a boy on a journey to find his HIV-positive mother. Bharadwaj (Maqbool, Omkara) presents Blood Brothers, a clever thriller about a man reacting to his HIV diagnosis, featuring Rang De Basanti star Siddharth. And blockbuster director Akhtar (Dil Chahta Hai, Don) tells the story of a young boy and his parents coping with the impact of AIDS in Positive, with Boman Irani, Shabana Azmi and Arjun Mathur.

In India, each short AIDS JaaGo film will screen before Bollywood blockbusters. All four will also be packaged together for broadcast on national television. Mavericks audiences will get a first look at these films and a chance to join the filmmakers in a thought-provoking conversation about the scope of HIV/AIDS in India and the power of the movies to change minds.