Mumbai, June 5 (IANS) Actress Esha Deol has refuted rumours about being pregnant.

She took to micro-blogging site Twitter to set the record straight about her pregnancy.

“Sweet of the media, but I’m “NOT PREGNANT”,” tweeted Esha, 31.

“Would let the world know when that happens as it would be a proud moment for us,” she added.

Esha married businessman Bharat Takhtani June 29 last year. On the big screen, she was last seen in “Tell Me O’ Khuda”.

Shooting high octane action scenes for “Rambo Rajkumar” has left Shahid Kapoor bruised and battered, but he says he is still raring to go.

“10th n last day of the action sequence for ‘Rambo Rajkumar’ today. Body bruised and battered. Spirit raring to go,” Shahid posted on Twitter early Wednesday morning.

The movie is being directed by Prabhudheva.

Shahid also escaped a fire accident on the movie’s set in May. He had ended up with burn injuries on his back and hand.

By Jaideep Sarin

Chandigarh, June 5 (IANS) He was comedy’s famous Sardar and highlighted all that was nonsensical in society in his trademark style. For nearly three decades, comedian-actor-director Jaspal Bhatti entertained – and touched – the masses with his ‘Nonsense Club’ by highlighting social evils. After his tragic death in a car accident last October, his wife Savita Bhatti, wants to keep the flag flying high.

Faced with his sudden demise, Savita Bhatti thought that it would not be appropriate for her to drown in sorrow in the memory of a man whose aim was to bring smiles to the people’s faces and to entertain them.

“It was a hard time for us after his sudden death. But I decided to keep his Nonsense Club brand and his comedy style alive,” Savita told IANS in an interview.

Starting with an event in April this year, the first one after Bhatti’s death, the Nonsense Club re-grouped to bring out a satire on the plight of the Indian woman.

“We urged the government to declare women a commodity. Indian women are already being treated like market items. By labelling them so, it gives us the licence to do anything with them – buy and sell them, trade them, molest them, hurt them, dispose them of for a newer model. Literally do anything with them,” Savita Bhatti said.

The satire was against the rising crimes, especially rapes, against women and girls – including some as young as two and five.

Nonsense Club veterans Vinod Sharma, Lally Gill and Gurtej Tej were joined by students of Mad Arts, Jaspal Bhatti’s Film School, to sing a parody: “Yeh desh tha veer jawano ka, lekin ab hai shaitano, haiwano ka, is desh ka yaaro kya kehna, jaha ladki ka mushkil hai jeena…” (This country was of the brave but it is now in the hands of devils. What to say of this country, where life has become miserable for girls).

The event was organized at Bhatti’s favourite spot for his earlier activities – Chandigarh’s Sector 17 commercial hub. As earlier, hundreds stood to watch as the Nonsense Club staged its event.

“Jaspal Bhatti was the voice of the nation. He will continue to be the voice of the nation. We owe this to him,” said Savita Bhatti, the CEO of the film school.

“The Nonsense Club is not going to stop. We don’t want people to pity us. We are not here to prove anything to anybody. We will keep his legacy on,” she said.

Bhatti and a band of faithful friends had set up the Nonsense Club way back in 1982. At that time, Bhatti was a student of electrical engineering at the Punjab Engineering College (PEC) – also the alma mater of astronaut Kalpana Chawla. It was a runaway success with common people and the media for the way it highlighted issues.

The unique thing about the Nonsense Club is that it has no building, no permanent or life members, no venue and not even any regular meetings.

“The Nonsense Club has survived and done well in these three decades – delivering social messages to highlight the plight of the common man,” Bhatti’s long time associate and actor Vinod Sharma told IANS.

Among the earliest of street shows Bhatti did was the one to highlight the silting and drying up of Chandigarh’s famous Sukhna Lake in 1984 when the water level at the manmade lake went down. Bhatti and his Nonsense Club members ran into the dry areas of the lake, pitched wickets on it quickly and started playing cricket.

Among the issues Bhatti’s club has highlighted are bride-burning, the sale of bridegrooms, fuel price hike, Diwali gifts, black-marketing of cinema tickets, adulterated food, high onion prices, heavy school bags and sycophancy.

During his peak “nonsense” days, Bhatti rode horses, wrote and sang songs, had people throwing money at him and even faced criminal cases for hurting religious sentiments.

Mumbai, June 5 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan says that he is very upset over the suicide of actress Jiah Khan.

“I am very sad and also worried. It feels strange to talk about it. Sometimes there are situations when someone gets sad and depressed. They come with dreams and when it is not fulfilled, they give up. I want to say that to end your life like this is not good. I am deeply upset with what has happened with Jiah Khan,” he said at an event here Wednesday.

The 25-year-old Britain-born Jiah was found hanging at her flat in Sagar Sangeet Building in the posh Juhu area of northwest Mumbai around midnight when her parents had gone out.

Jiah shot into the limelight with her 2007 debut movie “Nishabd” in which she starred opposite Amitabh Bachchan. She was also seen in films like “Ghajini” and “Housefull”.

Actor Arshad Warsi, who is in Goa for the shoot of his forthcoming film, is in deep distress. The actor was to choreograph a song, but had to cancel the shoot owing to severe knee injury.

He told TOI from Goa, “I have Chondromalacia Patellae, a disorder which happens to people who overuse their knees. I have been constantly active. I was a sportsman who became a dancer and an actor. I have never let my body rest. My cartilage is damaged because of which my knee cap touches the bone, causing extreme pain. I am undergoing physiotherapy and acupuncture on a regular basis. I had to cancel the shoot as I have been asked to rest for at least a week. My family is here too.”

Though surgery can cure the problem, Arshad is against it. “That is the last resort. It’s fine for organs like heart and kidney, but bone and muscle problems can be worked out with the right amount of rest and exercise.”

The actor has not been asked to reduce weight, as is suggested in most cases of knee ailments.

“My thigh muscles are solid. My problem has nothing to do with my weight. Besides, I am not overweight. I have been asked not to exert the knees. The song will be shot later. I will be back in Mumbai soon for a comic action scene, which is not too heavy.”