Mumbai, Dec 19 (IANS) Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar is the latest celebrity to sit on the couch across filmmaker Karan Johar on his celebrity chat show “Koffee With Karan”.
Akshay took to micro-blogging website Twitter to share how Karan was trying to make their session a “steaming one”.
“Not a coffee drinker but here I am on the sets of ‘Koffee With Karan’, with Karan trying his best to make it a steaming one,” Akshay tweeted.
Even the “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” director posted a photograph of Akshay and himself.
“Akshay Kumar in the Koffee house today,” read the caption of the photograph.
“Koffee With Karan”, currently in its fourth edition, airs on Star World.
With its new tagline – “Behind the Scenes. Beneath the Sheets”, the chat show has already featured guests like Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor and Aamir Khan. This weekend, watch out for Bollywood’s “Gunday” Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor.
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Big B gives sneak peek into fiction show
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan shared an intriguing photograph of himself from his upcoming fiction show via his blog.
In the photograph, he is seen lying on the ground with his formal suit all dusted.
“A dust bearing recline! From the serial for TV,” he posted with the photograph.
Amitabh has been popular as the host of reality game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, but this new yet untitled show will be his first stint in a fiction show. The show is directed by Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by Endemol and Amitabh’s Saraswati Creations.
The show will air on Sony Entertainment Television.
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Life OK turns two, launches ‘Hatim’
Hindi general entertainment channel Life OK celebrated its second anniversary with the launch of its new show “The Adventures of Hatim”.
The channel completed two successful years Wednesday. It also marked the second anniversary of popular mythological show “Devon Ke Dev Mahadev”, read a statement.
On the occasion, actor Mohit Raina, who rose to fame as Mahadev in the mythological show “Mahadev”, introduced actor Rajbir Singh, who will be seen as Hatim in the channel’s new show, and welcomed him to the family.
Also present on the occasion were Ajit Thakur, general manager, Life OK and Aniruddh Pathak, creative director, Life OK. The second anniversary of the channel was celebrated with a cake-cutting ceremony.