Hrithik Roshan and his gorgeous wifey Suzzane Roshan stepped out for a cause, and in sizzling style, for the premiere of Breast Cancer docudrama "1 a Minute" in Mumbai on Wednesday, October 27.

Dressed in a black Velvet jacket, faded jeans and white tee, Hrithik sent hearts aflutter. While his gorgeous wife Sussanne looked an absolute stunner in a single shoulder dress and animal print shoes.

The film's premiere was organized by Priya Dutt in association with Nargis Dutt Memorial Charity Trust (NDMCT), but Priya's brother Sanjay Dutt was a no show.

Portions of profits from each ticket sale of "1 a Minute" will be donated to NDMCT with the aim to raise awareness and supporting the social cause in India.

The Namrata Singh Gujral directed and produced film will release on October 29 across PVR cinemas.

The movie stars Breast cancer survivors like Lisa Ray, Barbara Mori (Kites), Mumtaz (yester years Bollywood sensational actress), Namrata Singh Gujral (Americanizing Shelley and The Agency), Olivia Newton-John (Grease), Jaclyn Smith (Charlie's Angels), Melissa Etheridge (An Inconvenient Truth), Diahann Carroll (Claudine), brothers Billy Baldwin (Backdraft) and Danny Baldwin (VAMPIRES), whose mother is a survivor and finally Priya Dutt, whose mother, the famous Bollywood star Nargis Dutt, died of cancer.

Fifteen days after being convicted in a case of rash and negligent driving and for injuring two people, Bollywood actor John Abraham, on Friday, filed an appeal in the sessions court against his conviction. The Bandra metropolitan magistrate court had sentenced Abraham to 15 days of simple imprisonment on October 14.

"The lower court ought to have seen that either a person has committed a rash act or has been criminally negligent. He can't do both," said Abraham in his appeal.

Further, he added that the 'judge has misconstrued and has, without applying the principles relating to the acts of rashness and criminal negligence, convicted the applicant (Abraham)'.

The appeal also stated that though the police had recorded the statements of various witnesses at the time of the incident, except for the evidence of one of the victims, 'no other witnesses have been examined in respect to the alleged incident'.

According to Abraham, even the victim 'has not made out a case of either criminal negligence or rashness against him.

"The lower court has relied upon hearsay evidence in convicting the appellant (Abraham), said the actor in his appeal.

The incident dates back to April 8, 2006, when Abraham had rammed his Suzuki Hayabusa bike into two youngsters on a bicycle at around 11.15 pm on Carter Road, Bandra.

After the accident, Abraham took the victims — Shyam Kasbe, 22, and Tanmay Majhi, 19, both working at Judo Wine shop at Pali Naka — to Bhabha Hospital.

Abraham, who was also injured, later got himself admitted to Lilavati Hospital.

According to the police, Abraham was returning from Maureen Wadia's Gladrags show, while both the youngsters were returning after closing the shop.

The police later booked the actor under Sections 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) and 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code.

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu today launched Aircel GSM mobile in Rajasthan completing pan-India footprint for the service provider with lowest rates and packages, including pocket internet.

Basu, who made her first call from the newly-launched phone to Aircel chief operating officer Gurdeep Singh, said Rajasthan has made tremendous development and growth in IT sector, and will welcome this very service.

Singh said Rajasthan was the last destination to come with Aircel, and it will cover 23 districts with an investment of Rs500 crore in first phase, and Rs300 crore more in 2011-12.

Singh said Aircel would be providing innovative pocket internet cards to customers for unlimited browsing for a period of 30 days at Rs98.

He also announced the first 'Pocketapps Store' in association with Infosys this year, with a weekly charge of Rs7 with free download.

Besides, pre-paid, post-paid, inbult vas and data, international calling cards, and business pack for SMEs would be provided with new plans on competitive prices, Singh said.

Talking about her love for the state, Basu said: "Rajasthan's food, dresses and designs are great. We all love Rajasthan. It is full of culture, beauty and I always love to visit the desert state."

On Aircel's 'Save Our Tigers' campaign, she said that it was cruel that tiger population is dwindling due to alleged poaching. The programme needscomplete support of the government and non-government organisations.

"I am sure the new generation must be catching up with the campaign," she said.

When asked whether she comes on Facebook, Basu said social networking is her passion, as it keeps her hooked to her audience.

NEW DELHI: Bollywood hunk Akshay Kumar will no longer be able to say 'It twinkles!' on television while his wife Twinkle Khanna flashes a Micromax Bling phone. 

The Delhi High Court has restrained India's second largest mobile phone brand, Micromax, from selling or advertising one of its largest-selling women-oriented mobile phones 'Bling' as it acceded to a trademark violation filed by Delhi-based mobile phone maker Bling Telecom. 

According to the order, a copy of which is with ET, the court restrained Micromax, including its employees, agents, representatives, or anyone acting on their behalf, from using the trademark 'Bling' or any other name confusingly similar till the next date of hearing, February 8, 2011. 

The court order dated October 19, restrains the company from displaying the Bling ads on TV and print, for which Micromax paid a hefty undisclosed amount to Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna. Costing about . 6500, the Swarovski elements-embedded Bling is one of the largest selling women-oriented phones in the market from Micromax. 

The ad campaign, which has Twinkle Khanna displaying her shiny 'Bling' phone during a high street fashion show, was aimed at changing Micromax's image of a low cost handset company into a branded high fashion phone company. 

Micromax declined comment to ET on the issue. Bling Telecom chairman Rajiv Khanna said the company had filed for the trademark in July 2009 and has since introduced six models under the brand name. "We are the prior users of the trademark 'Bling' in relation to telecom goods," he said.

Deepika Padukone would never have dreamt that her off-the record boyfriend Sidhartha Mallya would choose Priyanka Chopra over her. At the launch of the Kingfisher calendar girls hunt 2011, Sid was asked who he thought has the perfect body in bollywood? While one hoped he would say Deepika, he surprised one and all.

"I think all of them are very beautiful and have great looking bodies but I feel Priyanka is particularly stunning." Deepika took the news sportingly: "I think I am blessed with a great face and body but her (Priyanka's) mental state and strength makes her successful and how she carries herself." Deepika also said she was glad to be chosen as a Calendar Girl before the company began the selection process via a contest.

Trisha is not disappointed with the mixed reviews that received for her performance in Bollywood film Khatta Meeta. She feels that the movie is not a flop movie as the media channels are projecting. Well about losing some of the Bollywood offers, the actress says that she is not worried, as the Hindi film industry is not her main concern.

Trisha says, "I am looking forward for the best offers irrespective of regional factors. I am really surprised to hear about media stories, which claim that Khatta Meeta is a flop movie. Well, I have got nothing to do with the film's results as everyone has their own roles in determining the film's results, not just the actresses."

The actress also utters that she has now started signing films that delineated her in a substantial character. It was very much illustrious with her previous film Abhiyum Naanum. She is currently busy with Ajith Kumar's 50th film Mangaatha and Telugu movie Kushiga, which is a remake of Bollywood movie Love Aaj Kal.

Howeever, she has already completed shooting for her next Tamil movie Manmadhan Ambu, in which she shares screen space with Kamal Hassan and Madhavan.

AHMEDABAD: It was a message on the alleged killer's Facebook profile that helped cops solve the Priyanka Ramanuj murder mystery. 

The storyline is more like a Bollywood film. Priyanka's fiance, Mahendra Sadhu, was forced to get engaged with her by his family. Priyanka had already faced a broken engagement prior to this. 

Mahendra had a chance encounter with an old flame at a garba venue during the Navratri festival. This was enough to get him planning Priyanka's murder. Mahendra wanted his old girl friend back but could not reject Priyanka without facing strong opposition from his own family. 

Priyanka, an MBA student, went missing on October 21 and her body was fished out of a sewage canal near Gota a couple of days later. According to cops, the body was decomposed and they could not find any external marks of injury. 

The cops got suspicious after learning from one of Mahendra's friends that he was romantically linked with another girl. The first breakthrough was literally posted on a social networking website. Cops read messages of Mahendra's lover. 

"Further investigations revealed that Mahendra had a romantic relationship with this girl in the past. The messages on his profile revealed that the romance had been rekindled. We then put Mahendra under the scanner," said Sandeep Singh, superintendent of police, Ahmedabad rural. 

Officials said that after killing Priyanka on October 21, Mahendra had got one of his friends to call up the other girl. Mahendra had told her not to contact him until the matter cools down. "We have found the girl's message of anguish from Mahendra's profile. She had blamed him for cutting off all contacts with her," said police investigators.