Soha Ali-harvard university

Soha Ali Khan is on cloud nine. the actress has been invited by Harvard University to deliver a lecture on Hindi cinema in an interactive session titled-cinema-Then & now. what's making the oxford grad student's visit to Harvard even more special is that her mother,Sharmila Tagore, would be joining her during the session. Soha's works like "Khoya Khoya Chand", "Rang De Basanti" & "Antarmahal" will also be screened during the session.

over the course of lecture, she will pay tribute to icons of Hindi cinema like Madhubala, Meena Kumari, Waheeda Rehman & her mother Sharmila Tagore. "I'm quite excited & tense about my Harvard visit," says Soha who is quite overwhelmed. "I have never really delivered a lecture on cinema before, & I will be in front of the most academic followers of Indian films there. It's a really humbling experience that i have been chosen by them to speak about Indian Cinema and that my films are also being screened."

About her lecture, Soha discloses, "I have done a thorough research of the cinema we have created over the ages. i have a pretty huge period to cover in my lecture. I will specially talk about how certain actors and actresses who've contributed towards Bollywood in a big way and helped Indian cinema to shape up as it stands today."

She adds, "I will also talk about the actors and the directors ( from both commercial and the art-house genres). Though commercial films might be called brainless films, they are the ones that the masses like and thus cannot be ignored at all."

Deepika is Ekta Ragini For Her MMS

Ragini MMS", Ekta Kapoor's next, is apparently based on 22-year-old Delhi girl Deepika. " The film's insperied by what happened to me one night when I went out with my boyfriend, I was 19, "Deepika told us. She and her boyfriend had gone for a weekend to a house in the outskirts of Delhi. "The area was very dart. Somehow, I got a lot of negatives vibes in that place. But then you are with a person you trus, you know how it is. I did not pay attention. But I was very unconfortable throughout the whole night. All along, I felt somebody was watching us. said she.

After the night, Deepika was shocked to see the laptop they carried switched on, Her boyfriend has recorded the passionate unterlude. "I was with him for five month already. He suggested we go to this place his friend owned. It was our first night out." she explained.

She adds, "Wahaan zarror koi paranoramal activity ho rahi thi. It was very eerie." now no more with the guy she went out with, Deepika quipped. "I never met him after that incident."

When Ekta Kapoot was toying with the idea making a film on MMS scandals, Deepika's friend, who works at Balaji, asked Ekta if she would like to meet a girl who went through a real life MMS incident. Ekta met Deepika and incorportaed her story in "Ragini MMS".

"First I shared everything eith my frined in Balaji, then I also spoke to Ekta," Deepika said, who later ever signed a contract with the production house. However, the video taken that night in not live on the net. A source from Balaji said, "We guess she convinced her boyfriend never to do that".