A Poetic Nostalgia of the year 2008

In March, hope transformed itself into a storm, with Aamir revealing his Ghajini cut, By now. it’s an universal fact that, for eras and decades to come, this Khan will continue to kick butt! April saw the ‘ever-so-clean’ Roshans getting into a ‘Krazzy’ controversy, Read More">They landed up coughing a whopping payout of Rs. 2 croresRead More

In March, hope transformed itself into a storm, with Aamir revealing his Ghajini cut,
By now. it's an universal fact that, for eras and decades to come, this Khan will continue to kick butt!

April saw the 'ever-so-clean' Roshans getting into a 'Krazzy' controversy,
They landed up coughing a whopping payout of Rs. 2 crores to Ram Sampat as the 'settlement fee'!
Amidst all of this, the technological virus happened to bite all of Bollywood's darling,
No wonder then, from Big B to practically every actor, started blogging!
This month also saw Kareena not just impressing Saif: her real life hero,
But also stunning the entire world with her Size-Zero!
While Malaika-Arbaaz did a 'Ponds' for the unexpected kicks,
Aamir's 'torching-decision' created a massive stir before the Olympics!

May witnessed Adi and SRK audition umpteen girls and ‘nighodi’, Only to zero down on Anushka to play the lead in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Also while Akshay was conferred a Doctorate, Read More">His hosting stint in ‘Fear Factor’ only increased the idiot box’s hit rate! When the Great Khali got all set to enterRead More

May witnessed Adi and SRK audition umpteen girls and 'nighodi',
Only to zero down on Anushka to play the lead in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.
Also while Akshay was conferred a Doctorate,
His hosting stint in 'Fear Factor' only increased the idiot box's hit rate!
When the Great Khali got all set to enter Bollywood with his gigantic body and safety kits,
Aamir, 'bloggingly', fed his feet-licking Shahrukh (dog) biscuits!
The cutie-pie Riya Sen got chosen as the Brand Ambassador for the IPL website,
Rakhi Sawant's chat-show enhanced her in scaling many a dizzying height!

In June, while we were searching for topnotch news amongst the known and the unknown,
The NEWS OF THE YEAR happened to be simply homegrown!
The prestigious 'PC World' helped the netizens in setting the records straight,
By awarding Bollywood Hungama as the 'Best Entertainment Website' of 2008!
After being voted as the Sexiest Vegan in Asia, Big B hit an all-time six,
While Mithunda was chosen by UTV and Virgin to be made into comics!
With so much happening with his peers, how could Akki be far behind…?
No wonder then, he got Snoop Dogg in Singh is Kinng to move and shake mankind!
Besides the Harman-Imran's face off, Bollywood had almost come to a period lull,
That's when Konkona pepped up the scene by winning the National award for Traffic Signal!

September saw the generous act of Madhur Bhandarkar donating his National Award’s prize money to the farmers, While Rock On concerts got organized all over the globe without any errs. Saif allegedly got embroiled in a controversy in Patiala for messing with a photojournalist, By receiving the Smita Patil Memorial award, Read More">Preity added yet anotherRead More

September saw the generous act of Madhur Bhandarkar donating his National Award's prize money to the farmers,
While Rock On concerts got organized all over the globe without any errs.
Saif allegedly got embroiled in a controversy in Patiala for messing with a photojournalist,
By receiving the Smita Patil Memorial award, Preity added yet another gem to her already glittering awards list!
Even as Bappi Lahiri's song 'Jimmy' got featured in the Adam Sandler's film 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan',
The Indian Tourism Board created a sensation of sorts by signing up with Aamir Khan.
The whole of 2008 saw many actors faffing about Hollywood…while only a few actually did dare,
One shining example is Anil Kapoor for his role in 'Slumdog Millionaire'.

Our hearts really bled in October when Big B got hospitalized on his B-day after falling ill,
The deletion of the 'condom' word in Hello brought Gul Panag's world to a standstill.
The ever so reclusive Farhan Akhtar announced his TV show that promised to be full of fun…
while RGV announced his media centric next film titled Rann.

Now that the year 2008 has ‘officially’ come to an end, We look back at events, happenings, moves, shakes and trends! Kickstarting the year…in the ‘debutante’ month of Jan, was Govinda, who, Read More">on the sets of Money Hai Toh Honey Hai… slapped an ‘onlooking’ man! It was also in this month when Koena Mitra gotRead More

Now that the year 2008 has 'officially' come to an end,
We look back at events, happenings, moves, shakes and trends!
Kickstarting the year…in the 'debutante' month of Jan,
was Govinda, who, on the sets of Money Hai Toh Honey Hai… slapped an 'onlooking' man!
It was also in this month when Koena Mitra got 'manhandled' at a party,
Even before she could react, the accused had become a quick departee!
While rumors gained momentum about Manyata becoming Sanju baba's Taj,
Aishwarya Bachchan's Girls' College came under the scanner, courtesy Thackeray Raj.

All of this followed the month of February that started very dull…
Till a trio shopped away to glory on SRK's credit card…wanting to make his bank balance null!
On the other hand, the media was all ears in listening to Priyanka 'Lux' Chopra's secret admirer and what he says,
While T-Series, against Ram Gopal Varma, filed a FIR case!
In the end, Priyanka's cricketing convo turned out to be a teaser for a leading brand of soap,
And eventually stepping into March... filled with expectations and hope!

July crowned the SRK-Salman fracas (at Kats’ B-Day) as the fight of the decade, For everybody associated with Percept Pictures, the memorial sting of Shoebite will never fade! August saw Katrina replacing Aishwarya Rai to make Nakshatra her home, Manoj Kumar made no qualms in dragging SRK, Read More">Farah and Sony TV to court over OmRead More

July crowned the SRK-Salman fracas (at Kats' B-Day) as the fight of the decade,
For everybody associated with Percept Pictures, the memorial sting of Shoebite will never fade!

August saw Katrina replacing Aishwarya Rai to make Nakshatra her home,
Manoj Kumar made no qualms in dragging SRK, Farah and Sony TV to court over Om Shanti Om.