I'm back. Yes, as promised, I have not forsaken you. I took an extended leave of absence for reasons I shall soon go into, but that's all in the past now. I'm here, you're here (well not 'here' where I am 'here', but 'here' somewhere, no doubt. Perhaps even there.) and we're back in business. Ok, explanation time. Where was I?

Here and there, mostly. Things got a little hectic with my shooting and promoting schedule, and I started to feel like I wasn't able to write my columns in a way that satisfied me.

By Roshmila Bhattacharya

Imran KhanImran Khan will be Coca Cola’s representative from India at the FIFA World Cup final. Fiancée Avantika Malik will not be with him since she is currently in Europe, but Khan will be taking along a couple of his friends because “it’s no fun watching football alone”.

He admits that he is not a football fanatic and has no favourites. But he did catch two of the quarter final match. “Spain was expected to go through but I was shocked by Germany’s 4-0 demolition of Argentina.

By: Shaheen Parkar

Imran Khan plays it cautious despite pipping Ranbir Kapoor's last solo hit's first-day collections to the post by a slender margin

Imran Khan now has a reason to smile wide. His film I Hate Luv Storys' box-office collections are ringing in the moolah. Opening day saw the Rs 18 crore film net almost Rs 7 crore nationwide while on Saturday the pickings rose to Rs 7.5 crore (net figures).

By Joginder Tuteja

I Hate Luv Storys has taken a fantastic opening at the box office, something which the entire team including Karan Johar, Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor were quite sure of once they wrapped up the film. Now that youth is patronising the film in a big way and spreading good word of mouth, Imran is expectedly pleased. More so because after the non-performance of Kidnap and Luck, it was Karan Johar who stood besides him.

Story: Jay Dhingra (Imran Khan) is an aaj ka chokra. He turns up his nose at anything that remotely resembles soppy sentimentality, even though he works as an assistant to a film maker (Samir Soni) who peddles the most improbable mush on screen.

Enter, the new art director, Simran Sharma (Sonam Kapoor) who eats, sleeps and is drunk heady on ishq-vishq and all that goes with it. A diehard romantic, she even has a perfect boyfriend called Raj (Samir Dattani) who gifts her a white chrysanthemum, each time he meets her.

Producer Karan Johar, director Punit Malhotra and the team of Dharma Productions I Hate Luv Storys have grown to admire and adore the light-eyed Imran Khan.

Imran, who plays Jay in IHLS, a guy who is a bit cynical about love has turned in such a convincing performance in the rom-com releasing worldwide on July 2; that Karan and Co are absolutely gaga about him. Punit says, “Imran is so dedicated that it is an absolute delight to work with him.”

By Taran Adarsh

The first thing that attracts you to I HATE LUV STORYS is its title. Let's face it, we adore love stories... at least I do. We idolise the characters decades after the movies have come and gone. The songs that come on our lips instantly while playing a game of antakshri are romantic songs as well. In fact, the biggest moneyspinners, let's face it, have been love stories, right? So how can we 'hate' a love story?