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Notebook is Salman Khan's purest ode to love (Review)

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Film: Notebook ; Starring: Pranutan Behl, Zaheer Iqbal; Director: Nitin Kakkar; Rating: ****(4 stars) It is significant that Salman Khan is a producer on the tenderest most lyrical love story of his career. Salman has repeatedly expressed his version to physical love on screen, PDA at its most public if you please. He doesn't ever kiss his heroines. Neither does his new discovery Zaheer Iqbal, strapping young athletic debutant who demonstrates unexpected spurts of compassion at pertinent points in the plot. Zaheer is a lambi race ka ghoda. ThisA isA a romance where the lead pair doesn't meet. They touch each other's lives through words.  Not poetry, mind you. This is not an occasion to do a Pakeezaah on us. Director Nitin Kakkar whose last film "Mitron" is a neglected gem, creates a stirring alchemy in the romance. The mood is as somber as the Valley when the guns are silent. The narrative moves at its volition heedless of how rapidly the world moves...

Neha Kakkar willing to act, but has one condition

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It wasn't long ago when singer-composer Vishal Dadlani said Neha Kakkar is "unbelievable" in front of the camera. She says she is happy being a singer and that she will only take up acting if the offer is too good to refuse. "I am happy being a playback singer and performer. I will only take up acting if the offer is too good to refuse," Neha told IANS in an email interview. For now, she is busy judging "Indian Idol". It was back in 2006, when she participated in the singing-based reality show. She didn't win though. "I feel whatever happens, happens for a reason. I am just glad the way my journey worked out. It has been a tremendous learning experience," she said. Since then Neha has delivered many dance numbers like "Kala chashma", "Sunny sunny" and "Manali trance". Wouldn't she like to break the monotony? "I am doing that in fact. My song 'Mile ho tum humko', writt...