Does the Ilu Ilu charm still work?

Vivek Mushran made headlines as the Ilu Ilu boy in Subhash Ghai's Saudagar. One has seen him of late doing television shows like Kasautii Zindagi Kay and Son Pari. If Poonam Dhillon, Rati Agnihotri, Avinash Wadhavan, Rahul Roy and more recently, Vikas Sethi and Chaitanya Chaudhary can shift to television from Bollywood to television successfully, why not Vivek? The guy keeps a low profile though and doesn't even grant interviews to the media. Not very media savvy, huh? "I knew it all along!"M Kavita Kaushik's one cool gal. All along, while her friends were planning a surprise bash on her birthday last week, the leggy lass, seen most often on Sony's CID, was wise to their tricks. "I knew it when they said let's go for a drive, that they would drive down to a nice nature spot near Pune, 'cos I love nature! We had a huge party there, came back to Mumbai, and then when some of them took me out shopping again, I knew they wanted to do up my house for the party!" laughs Kavita. "By then, I couldn't hold myself back anymore, and when I returned, I tried to act surprised, but finally dissolved into giggles and told them I knew their plans all along!" Poor Karan Grover, Rituu Raj and company, who planned the bash for weeks! Shiamak Davar to share centrestage with Will Smith! Filmfare Awards have always been special, but this time around, our Bollywood biggies will have some firang company! Will Smith will groove with Shiamak in the Filmfare Awards. Happened to catch the curtain raiser on Sony which was being hosted by Javed 'Exactly' Jaffri and Gaurav 'Nandu' Gera. Fairone Filmfare Awards will be held on the 25 February at MMRDA Grounds, Mumbai .Javed Jafri is the main anchor of the show and he will be accompanied by Cyrus Barucha, followed by Tabu, Lara Dutta and Feroz Khan. There will be performances by Shamita Shetty, Lara Dutta, Madhuri, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan. The grand finale wil be by Shaimak Davar wherein Wills Smith will shake a leg! Raining cameo's in Woh Rehne Wali Mehlo Ki! Every other show these days is trying hard to add the glamour quotient to it. And Woh Rehne Wali Mehlo Ki might not be doing just that but is roping in Maninee De and Gaurav Gera for a few episodes in cameo roles. Maninee plays a village belle while Gaurav also plays a village boy in the show. Interestingly both of them have been good friends from the time they worked in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi. "It's a cameo role where I play a village boy who comes to the town to donate kidney and it is about his relations with the family," says Gaurav Gera who will start shooting for the show from day after tomorrow. "I play a character which is completely un-Maninee. I play a loud character very unlike my nature. It is an interesting role and I am in the show with my favourite co-actor Gaurav Gera. I am dressed in Indian wear", chirps Maninee. Role reversal! Not many know that Rajshri Thakur (Saloni in Saat Phere) was the first choice in the casting of Mamta for the lead role. But the makers realised that she was too intense for the role and hence they decided to cast Neha Mehta instead. At the same time, Anchal Dwewedi, who plays Kaveri in Saat Phere was offered the role of Tanisha ( the negative character in Mamta). Not to forget both Rajshree Thakur and Neha Mehta are doing a good job in their respective shows on Zee.