SRK's daughter pens first novella, a la Madonna's daughter, Lourdes

Pop singer and actress Madonna's daughter Lourdes was in news recently for writing a novella. Lourdes wrote a story for a Christmas book for her Material mom. Now Shah Rukh's eight-year-old daughter Suhana has done the same.Shah Rukh has been attempting to finish his autobiography for the last three years, however his beti has beaten him to it. She has finished writing a novella which has four chapters.A source reveals, "While Aryan is into sports and video games, Suhana loves to read and write. The novella she's written tells the story of a girl with six feet long eyelashes. When SRK asked her how it was possible for a girl to have such long lashes, she quickly replied back saying that the lashes were not real but just extensions." The actor is very proud of his daughter's writing and proudly shows the book off to his friends.All who have read the book are full of praise for the Khan kid. She obviously has inherited her reading and writing gene from her dad. The source adds, "Shah Rukh loves to read and has a huge library of both fiction as well as non-fiction books. He's extremely proud of the fact that at such a young age Suhana has managed to not just write one but complete four long chapters for her story."

Dulha Mil Gaya to release in July

Mudassar Aziz’s long awaited debut film Dulha Mil Gaya will hopefully release this year. The movie, produced by Vivek Vaswani and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Fardeen Khan, Tara Sharma and Johnny Lever, was postponed due to Shah Rukh’s lack of dates.Dulha Mil Gaya marks the return of SRK and Sushmita as an onscreen couple since Farah Khan’s Main Hoon Na released in 2004. But new director remains tightlipped about the project, saying, “It’s not the right time to talk about anything. When that time comes, we will announce everything.”Co-producer Anuj Saxena, however, is more confident, saying, “Dulha Mil Gaya, which has been delayed, is finally ready to release. If everything goes well, we will release it this July.” The film is also being co-produced by Adlabs and Insight Productions.Dulha Mil Gaya revolves around four main characters: Shah Rukh Khan as Raj Oberoi, Sushmita Sen as Lisa DD, Fardeen Khan as Shashank and Tara Sharma as Jessica DD. It movie has been shot extensively in Trinidad and Tobago and Shah Rukh Khan plays the role of a Trinidadian businessman.Director Mudassar has written the dialogues for the film Zindagi Rock before venturing into direction. He is also said to be helping Sushmita Sen with her historical film based on Rani Laxmibai.

Bollywood Star Cast Their Votes

From Aamir Khan to Anil Ambani, India's biggest celebrities on Thursday (April 30) came out in droves from their air-conditioned homes to wait in queue patiently for their turn to vote -- and urge the young to step out and exercise their franchise in the third round of the staggered parliamentary elections.In the great equaliser that are the elections, the stars of the silver screen and the celebrity industrialists were the cynosure of all eyes but got no preferential treatment.Among the early voters, when polling started at 7 a.m. in the 10 constituencies in Mumbai and Thane in Maharashtra, was industrialist Anil Ambani who voted in south Mumbai with a battery of media cameras clicking away.Dressed down - except for designer glares to shield them from the harsh sun - and ready to use their star power to urge people to do their duty, the stars hoped their message of patriotism would hit home.Aamir Khan, who broke his holiday in the US with his children, said after casting his vote: "I have travelled 48 hours to cast my vote, so people can certainly go out from their homes to cast their vote. If you love your country, this is the day to show it. I'm happy to see so many senior citizens casting their vote here. I appeal to the youngsters to come out and vote."Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was in South Africa for the Indian Premier League cricket matches, also made it a point to be in Mumbai on election day.Sonali Bendre, who was among the early voters, said: "Voting is our birthright. People sacrificed their lives to give us this right."Added veteran actor Rishi Kapoor: "It is our basic right to vote, so people should vote. We need to elect the right person."Echoing the sentiment, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar asserted: "Your vote is your voice. We want better infrastructure and security system.""People are becoming more responsible. We have large number of first time voters," is how the versatile Boman Irani put it.Director Kunal Kohli too urged people to vote saying: "It is an important election with important issues. I think terrorism and economic slowdown are important issues."Amongst the others who made it a point to vote were Farhan Akhtar, Karan Johar, John Abraham, Celina Jaitley, Sonam Kapoor and Rahul Bose.More than 13 million voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to choose among 196 candidates, including 17 women, in the fray for the third, final and smallest phase of polling in Maharashtra.The constituencies where polling took place on Thursday are Mumbai North, Mumbai North-East, Mumbai North-West, Mumbai North-Central, Mumbai South-Central, Mumbai South; Thane, Kalyan, Bhiwandi and Palghar.

IPL bollywood brigade flying back to India to vote

With the elections around the corner, Bollywood is pitching in by contributing to the awareness programs. Aamir Khan and other biggies of bollywood have already launched nation wide promos on TV.SRK has taken the process a step further by declaring that he will fly down from South Africa with his team on April 30 to cast their vote.Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan have also claimed that they will make sure they are in Mumbai so they can cast their vote.What is interesting is that SRK has requested Mallya to lend him his private jet so he can make the quick trip.Preity Zinta is also planning to head back to India to cast her vote.