Simone for a cause!

Simone Sigh is looking to make a difference! The elegant lady whose claim to fame thus far was Sony's Henna and the low key Kasshish on Zee has recently completed an album on Protection of Girl Child for a Delhi based NGO. "Finding out the gender of a girl child is illegal and in many villages, the families get the foetus aborted. I took up this project because the issue still persists in India and it needs attention. It is a nice album made by a Delhi based production house and the songs have been sung by a Canadian-Punjabi singer," says Simone, who is currently in Chandigarh. Simone is also shooting for a new serial but chooses to keep tight-lipped about it. New star cast for dying Kkusum Kkusum is on the verge of ending after running successfully for five years on Sony yet the star cast seems to be expanding endlessly. Amit Behl and Nasir have been roped in Kkusum and have got good roles in the serial. While Amit Behl is playing Kusum's brother, Nasir is playing Kumud's love interest. "Kkusum might conclude by end of November and we have taken these two actors who have important characters and the story revolves around them. For the past five years we have been doing good work and plan to end it in a Balaji style," says director Jeetu Arora. "I play an NRI father who has lost his wife so returns to India with his two daughters to stay with his mother and sister and stays in a chawl with them. Nasir plays Kumud's tenant," says Amit Behl who is visibly excited about his role in Kkusum. Interestingly, the new arrivals on the show have no clue when the show is coming to an end -- they are just happy to be associated with Balaji Telefilms. Who wouldn't be? Kohinoor off to Goa! The cast and crew of SaharaOne's Kohinoor will be off to Goa in the wee hours of 11 November. It's sure to give them time off from their tiring 14 hour schedules! Loads of sunshine and sunbathing on the beaches ought to do the cast some good! Meanwhile, the show that has reached the heights of extreme drama and action, will now move focus to Goa, where Kali (Manish Wadhwa) will totter on the edge of betrayal. He will refuse, for the first time, to be part of evil acts. Shooting will continue in Goa for 10 days, after which the cast will return to Mumbai and resume work here. Shoma Anand Dubai bound! Shoma Anand, who's currently come back to the small screen as Anand Mathur's second wife in Zee's weekender Hum Paanch, is set to go to Dubai for her play Hungama Ho Jaye! The actress will leave for Dubai on 6 December. The play also stars Ravi Gosain, Raju Kher abd Ketan Trivedi. Shoma also plays Shanno's mother in Star Plus' Shanno Ki Shaadi, which is going bi-weekly soon. Shoma's sure got so'much on her plate! Kohinoor on the sets of Special Squad? Well, this is what too much TV does to you! You start recognising the sets of the shows so well, that when the same is used for different shows, you are quick to spot it! This happened to us when we spotted Ankur Nayyar in a mock bank in Kohinoor that looked uncannily similar to Special Squad's office. What's surprising is that there was no effort on the set designer's part to make changes in the SS set. Aryan's cabin in SS has been turned into the bank manager's office and the door to his cabin that had a hand painted on it, has been left untouched! It's fortunate that SS has gone off-air! What's surprising is that both the shows have nothing in common with each other except the fact that they had a common leading lady - Kuljeet Randhwa. Kitu takes it easy Kasshish is soon to end...so where does that leave the 'other woman' on the Ravi Rai show? Kitu Gidwani says she plans to take some time off for herself for the next two months. " I have been offered plum roles by Neerja Guleri, Sunil Agnihotri and the CID producers. But for now I am doing a couple of television ads and one episode of Darna Mana Hai for Star One," says the elegant lady. Of the three projects she has been offered, she says she is interested in just one. Which one?? She won't tell till December, she says. Stay glued to this space for more... Because we care! Most TV actors are busy making appearances during this part of the year and most are busy doing their Diwali shoping. But there are a few actors who are willing to take out time to support a noble cause. Mauli Ganguly, Anuj Saxena and Swetta Keswani turned up at the Tata Memorial hospital and spoke to patients and distributed gifts on 28 October. All the actors had sensitive moments and were very happy that they had managed to make these peolple smile. Sakshi Tanwar couldn't make it because she was going to Alwar, and Shweta Tiwari gave it a miss due to her trip to Chandigarh. Varun and Rajeshwari too couldn't make it because of their commitment to Nach Baliye. But the three who made it to the hospital sure made a difference in the lives of the patients there!