Madhuri Magic: Off the Air?

(From Indian Express)

IF there's really someone somewhere, here's hoping she is watching the much-hyped Madhuri marriage show Kahin Naa Kahin Koi Hai. Insider sources say that the serial has run into rough weather as no couples are coming forward to get hitched on prime time. Add to that falling TRPs, and it's enough for UTV to stop production after recording 44 episodes. No confirmation of this was available from either Sony or UTV, though. Zarine Mehta of UTV says that they had been signed on to produce enough airtime for 11 weeks. ''It's the channel's decision whether or not to continue the show,'' she says. A SET spokesperson says that though the research feedback recorded a high likeability factor, the TAM ratings are definitely not supportive. In fact, the nosediving TRPs have been a cause for concern right from July 29, the day the serial went on air (4.18 in the Mumbai market for individuals above four years in cable and satellite homes and 3.27 in a Hindi-speaking market comprising the cities of Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kanpur, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh). Definitely not the stuff happy endings are made of. Losing the Meal-Ticket WHILE shooting for his forthcoming film Jeena Sirf Merre Liye in Paris, Tusshar Kapoor misplaced his Emirates return air-ticket and created quite a chaos... The airline's Paris office couldn't do much to help, and eventually producer Vashu Bhagnani had to pull some strings to get his Mumbai travel agency to reissue a fresh ticket so the young actor could return to good ol' Mumbai. Quite unlike him is Kareena Kapoor, his co-star in the film, who guards her passport and her documents with her life. After the Cover, The Cover-Up ALL of Mumbai's socialite set is gossiping about the fallout between Parmesh Godrej and the Roshan parivaar. Upon urging from Rakesh and Pinky Roshan, Mrs Godrej agreed some months ago to redesign the Roshan home in Juhu. According to the grapevine, Mrs Godrej insisted she wouldn't charge a penny for the job if only Hrithik would support the charity cause she endorses. That agreed upon, Mrs Godrej began work on the apartment, but recently abandoned the job when she read somewhere a ''careless'' remark attributed to Hrithik, that his new home was being redesigned jointly by Mrs Godrej and his wife Suzanne Khan. The high-flying industrialist wife was appalled by Hrithik's comment and went all out to announce in the media that Suzanne had absolutely nothing to do with the redesigning, and that every stone and every piece of marble laid in that house was as per her own ideas and initiative. The house, we learn, is about 90 per cent done already, but Mrs Godrej won't finish the job. Meanwhile, the real story, we hear, has something to do with Suzanne's mum Zarine Khan (herself an interior designer) being a little upset that she wasn't commissioned to do the job. In turn, Suzanne was keen to hog some of the credit herself... Who's Afraid of Bharat Shah? THE very same Bollywood stars who turned a blind eye and a deaf ear when film financier Bharat Shah was arrested for his alleged nexus with the underworld are now once again giving him their attention, and indulging his every fancy. A whole swarm of film folk will fly to Antwerp shortly for the weddings of Shah's niece and nephew (Priti and Vishal), who are getting married on the same day. Live-show organisers G S Entertainment ...