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When push comes to shove
In the latest episode of Zee’s Pavitra Rishta,a shot required Ankita Lokhande to be pushed out of her in-laws’ house by her mother-in-law played by Usha Nadkarni. Now Usha unintentionally happened to push her so hard that Ankita tripped and fell down,hitting her elbow very hard on the floor. She’s been reeling in pain ever since. Time to go slow on the dumbbells,Usha?

Double take
For those of you who’ve heard paeans being sung about Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi but never got a chance to watch the classic,here’s your opportunity. Sony Pix will be airing the movie on Republic Day at 5: 30 pm and 9 pm. And here’s a bit of trivia you might not have heard before: Sir Ben Kingsley looked so much like Mahatma Gandhi during the shooting that many locals thought that he was Gandhi’s ghost. And you thought only Jesus was capable of rising from the dead.

The resurrection
Althogh Zee had originally planned to bump off Darshan Pandya,who plays the cancer-stricken father of Antara in Aap Ki Antara,an outpouring of fan mail asking the channel to keep Pandya alive has made it reconsider its decision. Since it’s going to be difficult to extricate Pandya from the grips of cancer,we hear that Zee is attempting to pull off an even more flamboyant feat: bring him back from death. We deserve a whack on the head for not seeing that one coming.