Rani Mukerji, apparently, took Vidya Balan under her wing when these two were shooting for Rajkumar Gupta’s Who killed Jessica Lal? in New Delhi.

Visitors to the set say it was pleasant to see the once hoity-toity Rani share jokes and tips with Vidya. Of course Vidya is thrilled.

She was overheard saying, “Rani is such a doll. She is so simple and uncomplicated. We get along like a house on fire.” Honestly, Rani was this sweet-natured girl even earlier. For those who remember history, Rani was best friends with Preity Zinta, Aishwarya Rai and even Kareena Kapoor in the initial phase of her career. It is only after she made it to the position of Queen Bee that she started keeping a distance.

Her new found ‘friendly’ nature could only mean two things. Either Rani has rediscovered her old self (which is great) or she’s making an exception for Vidya, the current flavour of the season, who no one can ignore.

Actor Preity Zinta is a very busy woman these days.

First of all, for the next one-and-a-half months her prime objective will be to ensure that her cricket team does well in the ongoing T20 tournament.

Then, once the tournament is over, she will take up a cause in a big way—she wants to campaign against corruption that ‘prevails at every tier of the state government’. For this she has decided to turn into an activist. “I had wanted to become an activist for a long time. I think the time has come,” says Preity.

In the midst of all this, we ask her about rumours of her wanting to sell off her stake in her cricket team for ‘personal’ reasons. She rubbishes them saying, “I plan to stay with the team as long as I can. Personal relations or equations don’t matter when we are working. My relation with the other owners and members of my team is as cohesive as any other team in the tournament.”

Coming back to the activist streak in her, Preity says Maharashtra would have taken long strides towards development had it not been for the ‘disease’ of people expecting their palms to be greased at all levels. “I don’t want to sound as if I am comparing Maharashtra with another state. But I’ve been to Gujarat and I saw that the level of corruption there is much less. When I saw that I wished the same thing would happen in Maharashtra,” she says.

When asked what she would promote during her campaign against corruption, she says, “I will advocate that a cut be given to government employees against every ‘lucrative’ project that is passed or completed by them. Or, maybe a part of the profits after a project gets completed successfully. In most private companies you get the work done and then you are rewarded with a small portion of the profit that comes in. I think if that system is put in place, then the government would soon be corruption free.”

Shilpa Shetty and hubby Raj Kundra may be busy touring with their IPL team- Rajasthan Royals but that hasn’t stopped them from expanding their other business interests. Shilpa and Raj recently announced the opening of their new nightclub called ‘Royalty’ in Mumbai. The high end club is located at the same place where popular hotspot ‘Poison‘ was earlier situated.

After their closely fought match against the Mumbai Indians on Saturday, Shilpa and Raj threw a lavish bash at their new club Royalty. The bash saw some bigwigs in attendance including Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Harman Baweja, Ameesha, Kabir Bedi, Shamita Shetty and Jackie Shroff.

One will have to wait and watch if this nightclub turns out to be a hotspot for Bollywood’s party animals in the days to come.

IshQ Bector said that he would gift Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone 100 teddy bears if she agrees to feature in a video.

Bector may have a music-bank of over a hundred-and-fifty songs, but when it comes to dedicating one for that ‘special someone’, he dreams only about the sensuous Deepika Padukone. That could be the reason why he has devoted an entire song titled “Tu hi meri angel, tu hi meri dream girl” to the Bollywood charmer.

“It’s an out-and-out fun romantic number and if Deepika agrees to feature in its video, I’ll gift her a hundred teddy bears,” says IshQ, with a mischievous smile.

The mad-max music import from Canada, who has written, sung and composed the song, intends to release it as a single, or try to get it added in one of her upcoming films like ‘Lafange Parinde’, ‘Khelenge Hum Jee Jaan Se’ or ‘Break Ke Baad’.

Let’s see! If IshQ plays his cards jee jaan se, the Padukone gal might just fulfill his ‘angelic dream’ and even get to enjoy the company of a hundred teddies.