When the term “item number” was yet to be coined, Prabhu Deva was ruling the roost in the 90s with songs such as Urvashi and Muqabla. Two decades have passed and now he is a well-established Bollywood director with two back-to-back blockbusters in his folio. But Prabhu will soon go back to his first love — dancing — in not one, but two item numbers in two different films.

If the audience wants to see the Heroine in action, they will have to meet the Joker first. That’s because Akshay Kumar’s much anticipated film has been postponed to September 14, the date that was chosen earlier for Kareena’s film.

John Abraham had a nasty surprise awaiting him this week, when he read reports linking him to the Sanjay Dutt-Sanjay Gupta fallout. John is working with Sanju’s nemeses Sanjay Gupta and Kangna Ranaut in Shootout At Wadala, and there were murmurs that Sanju could make things difficult for his pal.

Here’s one man who’s learnt from his mistakes. Vivek Oberoi, who paid the price for being too outspoken for his own good, is keeping a low profile these days, even as his contemporaries wage war against each other.

Nearly four years after its release, Tarun Mansukhani’s Dostana is still considered the epitome of homosexual humour in the film industry, and inside jokes still go around town branding those with gay tendencies as doing a “Dostana turn”.

Emraan Hashmi, who plays a magician in his next film Ek Tha Daayan, says that he has not taken any inspiration from Hrithik Roshan’s act in Guzaarish.

If you thought Asin was South India’s biggest export to Bollywood, wait till you see the upcoming releases.

The year 2012 will see Sonam Kapoor learn a whole new language: Tamil. All this is apparently in a bid to impress Mani Ratnam, in whose film Sonam will be seen next.

Saif Ali Khan may be partying in the Swiss Alps right now, but on the work front his list of worries doesn’t seem to end.

Shah Rukh Khan had to battle a few anxious moments when his detractors tried to badmouth Don 2, soon after its press preview.