Mumbai, (IANS) Actress Preity Zinta, co-owner of the Indian Premier

League’s Mohali team, suffered a minor injury during its formal launch

in Mohali, on the outskirts of Chandigarh.

“I don’t know how it happened,” Preity said. “But in the melee at the

launch (Monday), an elbow came and hit me straight in the eye. I had to

go through the event with a black eye wearing dark glasses.”

Eyewitnesses said there was a huge rush at the launch, and somebody

appeared to have thrown something at Preity. As one of her bodyguards

lunged to catch whatever had been thrown, his elbow appeared to have

hit Preity in the eye.

After the event, the actress spent the evening nursing her eye with ice

packs.

“It will swell a bit. I guess it’s bound to happen when one is in such

situations,” she said.

The IPL Mohali team is led by Yuvraj Singh. The tournament starts

April 18.

5.Mayawati ‘inspires’, but could Bollywood get her nod please?
Apr 03, 2008

Mumbai, (IANS) Upon learning that some Bollywood producers are

planning films ‘inspired’ by her life in politics and out of it, Uttar

Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has advised them to err on the side of

caution.

She got in touch with Tarun Rathi, the Mumbai “in-charge” of her

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), wanting to know whether rumours in her

state about movie projects on her life were indeed true.

Rathi, taking his brief seriously, immediately dashed off letters to all

the associations of producers and directors in Mumbai, seeking to

know if anyone was starting movies on “Behenji Kumari Mayawatiji.”

“Our respected Behenji Kumari Mayawatiji does not want any

filmmaker to face any difficulty at the time of release of their films,”

Rathi explained in his letter.

If somebody had already started such a venture, Rathi wrote, he should

get in touch with him. Why? Because any such producer or director

must take prior permission from Mayawati, he said.

If the filmmakers went ahead with their projects without the

“knowledge of behenji or the BSP”, they would only be courting

unnecessary trouble, which, he said, Mayawati would not like them to

go through.

There are indeed some film titles, such as “Behenji,” “Mayawati,”

“Kumari Mayawati” and “Kumari Behenji Mayawatiji”, registered with

an association of producers. And a few of these movies have already

gone into production to 3.

Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan is already facing her wrath. Mayawati

first slapped a forgery case against him in a land deal in Barabanki in

Uttar Pradesh, but the apex court ruled in his favour.

Now, look at the discomfiture that Amitabh is once again facing for

not counting the worth of some overgrown palm trees in Barabanki.

The Barabanki district authorities Monday issued a notice to the

superstar accusing him of undervaluing the stamp duty on a plot of

land he bought in the area to open a girls’ college to be named after his

daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai.

Amitabh is known to be close to Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh

and Mulayam Singh Yadav, archrivals of Mayawati.