How do you feel when something great happens to someone else? Happy? Jealous? Motivated? Discouraged? Let me start from the beginning.

I have a friend who has always wanted to be an actor. Much more than I wanted to. He's a couple of years younger than me, but he knows so much more about it than I do; he spent years training in theatre, dance, language... you name it. He moved to Bombay a little over a year ago to start his career, and I've seen him through it all. The countless meetings and auditions, photos sent to producers and directors. The hope before each meeting that this will be the one; this is going to be the day that we'll all talk about years from now when people ask, “So how did you get started in the business?”

By Stacey Yount

It all started with a tweet by Imran Khan saying he listened to Miss Malini's radio show on 94.3 Radio One in Mumbai. Malini then tweeted Imran with an invite to come be on her show and spin whatever song he liked... he said yes and thus Pirate Radio was born. Malini told BollySpice, "Pirate Radio was entirely Imran Khan's idea, I was just really excited to get him on the show and his only condition was that we call it that! So thank you Imran, you're a rockstar! I was blown away with his selection of music and just what a nice, clever funny guy he is." You can read our report about this first show here!

Sitting with friends and family, celebrating Diwali by playing cards. Them, not me. I can’t play cards to save my life, it never made any sense to me. I’m told Ace is highest, but a pair of anything beats an Ace. Also, 2,3,5 is the lowest possible hand you can have, but because of how rare that is, it’s the highest. Anyone else confused yet?

Still, it’s the family being together that matters. Diwali is a big deal for us, and I feel that we often lose sight of what’s really important in all of this. People go nuts with buying new stuff, playing cards and gambling away huge sums of money... they spend tens of thousands of rupees on crackers, which have always infuriated me.

I’ve said time and again that I’m not a dancer. It doesn’t come naturally to me, nor have I ever seen the fun in it. People seem to like it though, and they spend hours jerking their bodies around to a beat (sometimes off beat as well), and I’ll confess that I have often sat and laughed at people in nightclubs.

However. Complain though I may, and ridiculous though it may seem, dancing is an integral part of Hindi films. Yeah yeah, we all go on about new age cinema this and evolving audience tastes that, but crank up the volume on Ahun Ahun and suddenly everyone’s doing pelvic thrusts.Let’s all just face it, shall we? We’re Indian, and we like our heroes and heroines to express their feelings in song and dance, dammit!

Gone are the days when the ramp was only meant for saucy models. Now Bollywood celebs strut and sashay the catwalk quite often. But can the ramp become a battleground for ego tussle? The upcoming HDIL Couture Week in Mumbai seems headed that way.

If Aamir Khan will don ‘Being Human’ clothes for Salman Khan, Karan Johar has got Aamir’s bhanja and his Twitter follower Imran Khan to walk with Shahrukh Khan during the couture week. In a ramp-age of sorts, Salman has managed many other celebs for ‘Being Human’ show - they include Saif Ali Khan, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Govinda and, not to forget, Katrina Kaif.