Shreyas Talpade’s Thai connection (Film Snippets)

MUMBAI - Talented Shreyas Talpade is travelling to Bangkok so often for his film shoots that the actor jokes he might apply for citizenship in Thailand.

I have been to Bangkok so many times and for so many of my films from ‘Bombay To Bangkok’, ‘Golmaal Returns’ to ‘Paying Guests’ that I better take citizenship there. I am now thinking of applying for a ration card there, he joked.

Though we were more around Pattaya than Bangkok for ‘Paying Guests’, I am again going back to the Thai capital for some of my upcoming films. I really like that place, he told IANS.

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I’ll go back to politics: Shekhar Suman

He might have lost the recent political battle against actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, but that has not deterred Shekhar Suman. He is set to try his luck again.

Im definitely going back to politics. Politics just becomes a springboard to come closer to people. Its about connecting with them and I believe it’s payback time as I owe a lot to my state Bihar and my people there, Shekhar told IANS.

I care for the people there and politics is now going to be an eternal process for me. I’m going to open a 200-bed hospital for paediatrics and cardiac problems in Patna. And Ill also try for some acting institutes there as people back home dont really have any other place to go but Mumbai to hone their acting skills, he added.

The actors contested from Bihar’s Patna Saheb parliamentary constituency during the April-May Lok Sabha elections.

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Arshad is an improviser: Neeraj Vora

Writer-director Neeraj Vora’s Short Kut - The Con Is On might not have struck the best chord with critics and audiences, but he is all praise for Arshad Warsi’s acting skills.

Arshad is a fantastic improviser…he doesn’t waste a situation and comes out instantly with an apt performance to make up for anything gone wrong on the sets, Vora told IANS.

I know that because I’m also an improviser and so we gel very well, he added.

Also starring Akshaye Khanna and Amrita Rao, the film was panned by the critics.