The city of bright lights and dreams was up and running for a cause Sunday. The Mumbai Marathon 2008 brought together stars and commoners on the streets of the country’s commercial and entertainment capital.

Vivek Oberoi was spotted at the Ayappa Temple in Sabarimala in Kerala earlier this week. While he’s been visiting the temple religiously for a decade now, this time around he’s actually been living like a monk for the last two weeks, a ritual undertaken by those who take the Sabarimala oath.

Ashutosh Gowariker can claim that even for a structure as temporary as the set of his film ‘Jodha Akbar’.

Kites incribed with couplets of Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi dotted the Pink City skyline along with thousands of others as Shabana Azmi, husband Javed Akhtar and Jaipur-born actor Irrfan Khan joined in Makar Sankranti celebrations on Monday.

Aamir Khan had to share the best director award with Shimit Amin as Taare Zameen Par and Chak De India both won major gongs at the 14th Star Screen Awards.

Movies sometimes have a strange impact on you and in this case, it has worked out something that even the jails could not. All it took for prisoner Laxman Tikaram Gole to see ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ and leaf through Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, ‘My experiments with truth’ to admit to his crimes.

After recieving effusive praise from critics across India and leaving many a cinegoer moist-eyed, ‘Taare Zameen Par’ has earned excellent reviews worldwide, while garnering excellent collections in the overseas territories.

“‘Radha Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayenge’ is about a mom, Supriya Pilgoankar, whose daughters aim to do something more with their lives than simply find suitable bridegrooms. And ‘Jasu Behn Jagatlal Joshi Ki Joint Family’ is a typical Gujarati joint-family soap,” she added.

An Israeli closure tightening its noose, internecine factional fighting and warnings of an impending humanitarian disaster have had little effect on the appetite of Gaza population for Bollywood blockbusters, a popular medium which lets them forget their hardships.

Now since five weeks, the first position is guarded by OSO, second by Saawariya and third by Jab We Met. The fourth and fifth positions have seen music from Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Aaja Nachle, Taare Zameen Par and now Welcome.