RISING star Shivali is set to release her first English lan-

guage track Rise Up High, which she has written and which has

been produced by Arjun. The urban devotional singer, who delighted audiences with her unique releases The Bhajan Project and Urban Tem-ple, has kept the devotional theme in the new song and hopes to reach a wider global audience. You can

follow her on www.twitter.com/ShivaliArtist.

THE rumours that director Anurag Kashyap and his actress wife Kalki Koechlin are heading for a split just wont go away. Media re-ports have claimed they have grown apart and that mutual friends

are starting to take sides. Even though Kalki offered a denial of sorts, the fact

that the once loved-up couple havent been seen togeth-er in public for a while has only

added fuel to the strong rumours.

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ACTRESS Vidya Balan has been given a li-cence to thrill in a James Bond-style char-acter in forthcoming film Bobby Jasoos. Dia Mirza will be producing the interest-ing looking movie, which is due to go on the floors next month.

I am thrilled to be the lady James

Bond. The film will mark the arriv-al of Indias first lady detective. James Bond has become synony-mous with 007 and we will try to come up with something different and innovative, said Vidya.

Hit TV series CID has completed 1,000 epi-sodes. The longest-running investigative series on Indian TV has inspired people to take a stand against crime since it first aired 16 years ago.

Priyanka Chopra will be delivering an item number in forthcoming film Ramleela. Due out on November 15, the Gujarat-set romance stars Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh.

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RECENTLY re-leased promo sin-

gle High Heels has shown quite compre-

hensively that there is life after girl group Serese for solo singer Anita. The sexy singer told me she is being offered some inter-esting projects abroad and says her new song is all about empowerment.

High Heels is about showing the world what youve got, be-cause you know youve got it. I love this song because it really represents how I feel at this moment in my career. The fact that I was able to tie a homage to my favourite movie The Wiz-ard of Oz into the video, is just the icing on the cake, said Anita.

VIDYAS SHAKEN AND STIRRED

THE recent concert at Royal Albert Hall by Sunidhi Chauhan proved that there has never been anyone quite like her in the 100-year history of Bollywood. The dynamite diva was on fire as she combined the versatility of Asha Bhosle with the class of Lata Mangeshkar, the swagger of Beyonce, sexiness of Shakira, dance moves of Jennifer Lopez and power of Adele at the most explosive live performance of the year. The all-round skills make her a stronger con-tender for the title of the greatest live per-former in Bollywood history and those who have seen her wouldnt disagree with

this claim.

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ACTRESS Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is said

to be working hard to get ready for her come-back movie Happy An-niversary and will be

back to her stunning best. She stars opposite hus-band Abhishek Bachchan (pictured together) in the romantic drama based on the theme anatomy of marriage that will be directed by adman Prahlad Kakkar. The

big-budget movie, which will go on the

floors next year, will be predomi-nantly shot in South Africa.

Mallika Sherawat sustained minor injuries while shooting for her upcoming debut TV show The Bachelorette India Mere Khayalon Ki Mallika. The reality TV series will air from Sunday (7) on Life OK.

Singer Tej Hundal has teamed up with music pro-ducer Ravi Bal for the song Deewana, which is out now.