Mallika Sherawat, the Bollywood empress of sensuality, turns 37 today. ApunKaChoice wishes her many returns of the day.

For a girl from Rohtak, a small town in Haryana, it’s no easy feat to rub her shoulders with Hollywood glitterati, walk the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival (see photos), and court international media. Mallika has done that.

The bold, feisty, outspoken, hot and fiercely self-independent Mallika Sherawat celebrated her 37th birthday with kids today.

“Celebrating my bday with the kids, loving it :)” Mallika tweeted and shared a photo.

The little ones seem to have driven away the blues of the actress who was much hurt after facing insults by some contestants on the telly show ‘The Bachelorette India - Mere Khayalon Ki Mallika’ where she’s looking for her Mr. Right.

Mallika has now returned to the show and shown her characteristic confidence in being who she is.

“Fake people have an image to maintain, real people just don't care:)!!” Mallika tweeted.

We second that.

There were the routine chat sessions around the tables, but in hushed tones. The waiters served customers in their usual sluggish manner, but seemed markedly slower. For Kolkata's famous intellectual hub Coffee House was in mourning at the passing away of Manna Dey who rendered the famous song that for generations has been regarded as its anthem.

 Thirty years back, Dey recorded 'Coffee Houser sei addata aaj ar nei' (The chat sessions at the Coffee House have faded away) capturing the 'golden late afternoons' spent by seven friends at the joint and the successes, frustrations, tragedies and disappointments which they experienced in their later lives. The song, which told the story of artist Nikhilesh, guitarist D'souza, journalist Moidul, wannabe poet Amol, has steeped with nostalgia generations of Kolkatans - who spent such golden moments of their youth and student lives in coffee houses with dreams of a new world order or a career of creativity, only to lose their way in the labyrinth of harsh reality.

Manna Dey: Kolkata\'s Coffee House weeps for its balladeer Thirty years back, Dey recorded 'Coffee Houser' capturing the 'golden late afternoons' spent by seven friends. "Today, truly the Coffee House chat sessions got over. Coffee House lost its soul. Not only me, but whoever ever visited Coffee House will realise this. "Coffee House will remain... so will remain the chat sessions, but the man who made them immortal is now no more," Suparnakanti Ghosh, who composed the song penned by Gouriprasanna Majumdar, told IANS. On Thursday, a portrait of Dey was put up inside the joint on College Street and garlanded, with the aroma of incense sticks filling the air. Some of the youths played the song on their mobile phones.

At the entrance, a flex paid tributes to Dey. "Legendary singer Manna Dey is no more. He will never take part in the Coffee House chat sessions. On behalf of he Coffee House family, we pray for his soul to rest in peace". "Every time I hear the song, I remember my college friends. Some are doing well and some have gone away from this world.

It is a beautiful song of remembrance. It gives me joy and sorrow," said a one-time regular Shaheed Ansar. Situated in the heart of Kolkata, opposite the Presidency College, the Indian Coffee House was commissioned in 1942 by the Indian Coffee Board. Rechristened 'Coffee House' in 1947, it emerged as the meeting place for poets, artistes, literati and people from the world of art and culture. In the 1950s and 1960s, many Left leaders held brain-storming sessions at the Coffee House, while the Maoists or Naxalites as they were called, held court in the late 1960s and 1970s trying to woo the best brains to their doctrine of an armed revolution.

Animated discussions on sundry topics amid the smoke of infusion (black coffee) and baked fish, still mark the Coffee House. "Manna Dey is like a fixed asset of Coffee House. He and Coffee House are synonymous. The song is our anthem. Many foreign media houses have done story on Coffee House and they too have described the song as Coffee House anthem," said Dipankar Dasgupta, Coffee House administrative officer. "We have paid our tribute by garlanding his photo in the joint. We are also planning to organise a programme in his honour," said Dasgupta.

Last year, NBC announced that it was passing on a pilot from Sarah Silverman entitled "Susan 313." For the first time, viewers can watch that pilot in full.

The show would have marked Silverman's return to television after her acclaimed Comedy Central show, "The Sarah Silverman Program." Unlike that show, which had its roots in absurdist sketch comedy, "Susan 313" appears to have been conceived as a much more traditional sitcom in the vein of "30 Rock" or "New Girl."

"This isn't like, 'Can you believe they didn't pick this up?'" Silverman says in a brief announcement before the pilot, which is featured on the YouTube channel JASH. "They probably did the right thing. But we liked the show."

"Susan 313" was produced and developed by Ron Howard, and starred Silverman as Susan Farrow, a woman moving back into her old apartment building after the end of a 10 year relationship. Her costars in the pilot are Harris Wittels, Tig Notaro and June Diane Raphael as her neighbors. Jeff Goldblum makes a cameo as Susan's ex-boyfriend.

Stephen Lang is coming back to Pandora. According to Deadline.com, Lang will reprise his role as the villain in James Cameron's "Avatar" sequels. The slight problem that Cameron has to work out? Lang's character, Miles Quaritch, was killed at the end of the first "Avatar."

"I'm not going to say exactly HOW we're bringing him back, but it's a science fiction story, after all," Cameron told Deadline.com when announcing the news. Lang wouldn't be the first actor to have their "Avatar" character return from the dead in some form: Sigourney Weaver is also expected to come back for the "Avatar" sequels even though her character perished in the original film.

"Okay, here’s the deal. When you have a science-fiction series, a science-fiction franchise, you’re never dead, unless your DNA is expunged from the universe," Cameron told Vulture in 2011 about how Weaver could play a role in the second film. "And then there’s always time travel!"

Not mentioned as a possible "Avatar" bad guy: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Latino Review reported that Schwarzenegger was up for the part, but his involvement was denied by 20th Century Fox.

While most stars want to stand out on the red carpet, Gemma Merna made sure all eyes were on her when she attended the Inside Soap Awards.

The Hollyoaks actress wore a racy, eye-catching dress while flaunting her ample chest to the max as she arrived at Ministry of Sound on Monday evening.

The blonde beauty chose a yellow PVC number for the ceremony, which saw her co-star Danny Mac crowned sexiest male.

The 29-year-old, who plays Carmel Valentine in the Channel 4 soap, flaunted her slim frame in the figure-hugging number by new designer Zeynep Kartal.

Featuring a zip-up front and suede panels, the star's outfit may have shown off her top half however her legs were covered up as the dress fell well below the knee.

The Cleethorpes-born actress finished off her outfit with sparkly, silver heels and a large watch, which featured a black leather strap.

Her hair looked super glamorous in a loose waves, while being worn down, over one shoulder while her make-up was kept simple except for bright silver eye-shadow.

Gemma tweeted about her co-stars on Sunday to say: 'I am so emotional coz of how amazing @Hollyoaks is I'm so proud of my fellow cast they r just amazing!'

India may import onion to stabilise prices that have soared to Rs. 90 per kg in the national capital, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma said on Tuesday.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here, Sharma blamed hoarders for the recent spike in prices.

“We will import onion if there are proposals and requirements so that we can stabilise the prices,” he said.

However, the minister emphasised that there was enough stock of onion in the country.
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“We have enough onion stock in the country and the state governments must act firmly against the hoarders who are hoarding the onions which has led to the artificial scarcity and sharp escalation of prices,” Sharma said.

He also expressed hope that the prices would stabilise with the arrival of fresh domestic products by December-end.

Onion prices soared to Rs. 90 per kg in the national capital and they are being sold at around Rs.80 per kg in other parts of the country. The prices have more than doubled in the past four months.

India's ambitious space mission to explore planet Mars would be launched on November 5 from the spaceport of Sriharikota, ISRO announced on Tuesday.

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), 'Mangalyan', would be launched onboard PSLV C25 on November 5 at 3:28pm from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, some 80 kilometres from Chennai, an ISRO spokesperson said.

A decision on the launch date was to be taken on October 19 but postponed to Tuesday in view of bad weather in the South Pacific Ocean.

The powerful XL version of the Indian Space Research Organisation's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) would be used for the Rs. 450 crore mission.

Primary objectives of the mission are to demonstrate India's technological capability to send a satellite to orbit around Mars and conduct meaningful experiments such as looking for signs of life, take pictures of the red planet and study Martian environment.

Launch campaign has already commenced in Sriharikota from where the 1,350-kg MOM spacecraft is slated to be launched by the Rs. 110 crore Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

The satellite will carry compact science experiment instruments, totalling a mass of 15 kilograms. There will be five instruments to study Martian surface, atmosphere and mineralogy, ISRO said.

After leaving the earth's orbit, the spacecraft will cruise in deep space for about ten months using its own propulsion system and will reach Martian transfer trajectory in September 2014.

The spacecraft subsequently is planned to enter into a 372 kilometres by 80,000 kilometres elliptical orbit around Mars.