Dance fuse

What happens when Manipur meets Kerala? You get a unique form of martial dance. Manipuri dancer-teacher Priti Patel is busy planning and rehearsing for a number of dance dramas that she will be bringing on stage later this year. Most of them will combine two traditional martial arts - Kerala's Kalaripayattu and Manipur's Thang Ta. "There will be a contemporary touch and a visual appeal to it," Patel says. And since drums will play a big role in the dances, she is hoping to rope in Bikram Ghosh. Nothing to beat that, we'd say.

Classic comedy

The Bard continues to wow theatre fans across the globe. And marking his 400th death anniversary with a fair dose of laughter is our own Rajat Kapoor. The director-actor is doing an adaptation of Shakespeare with I Don't Like It. As You Like It. Kapoor, who is fascinated by clowns, has cast well-known actors Vinay Pathak and Cyrus Sahukar as comic characters in the play. The production is part of Aadyam 2016, a theatre festival that carries on for six months in Delhi and Mumbai. And we are sure that in Delhi on Sunday, audiences will be laughing all the way to the shows.

Diet do it

When models or actors talk about diets, people take them seriously. So you'll find a whole lot of books on weight loss programmes by women with figures so svelte that size zero looks plump in comparison. The latest to join the bandwagon is Claudia Ciesla, who shot to fame with a Bigg Boss appearance a few years ago and some roles in Hindi films. The German actor, also a certified nutritionist, has written her first book Keep Eating Keep Losing: Weight-Loss Secrets, published by Om Books International. This is the book to pick up if you have hit a roadblock in weight loss, she says. And let your loss be your gain.

Kiss miss

Most women would give an arm and a leg to be kissed soundly by the hunk, Randeep Hooda. But not Kajal Aggarwal. The Singham actor, who is quite a sought after star in the South, yelled out when Hooda enveloped her in a passionate kiss during the shooting of Deepak Tijori's Do Lafzon Ki Kahani in Malaysia. She stormed off to her room because the kiss, we hear, wasn't part of the script. Director Tijori then convinced her to return, pointing out that Hooda had gone for the sudden kiss in view of the "emotional quotient" of the scene. Can that be termed sexual harassment at the work place?

Bone moan

Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani 2 seems to be jinxed. First he had his famous falling out with Vidya Balan, the star of Kahaani. And now that the two have patched up and are working for the sequel, it's Arjun Rampal's turn to give the director nightmares. No, Rampal is not fighting, but he has gone and injured his knee. "No pain no gain," the lead actor of the film tweeted on Tuesday. Rampal apparently went on to finish the scene - that too of a chase - with his bad knee. But shooting has come to a standstill for the moment. Ghosh's fans, however, need not despair - the film will be released as scheduled in November. And Rampal, knee or no knee, will rock.