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Check out the top newsmakers of the year |
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By: Subhash K Jha |
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2008-12-31 |
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Mumbai:  These were the people that stayed top of the mind all of 2008 the good, the bad, and the mad
They came, we saw, we groaned. Overkill was the order of the year. Everyone wanted a slice of the action. Broken marriages vied with steady relationships for top attention. Rakhi Sawant and Rakhi Vijan went from Bigg Boss to big bytes without skipping a beat. And all of their hijinks kept us from succumbing to our depression in a year of terrorism, recession and worse. A close look at the top newsmakers of 2008.
Shah Rukh Khan Aditya ChopraSolo, SRK made news throughout the year even when he had no releases. Things he said, didn't say. Places he went to, didn't go... any which way SRK made news. Year-end he finally showed up on screen, teaming up with Aditya Chopra after eight years for a film that has broken all the rules. Yes, only Rab could've made the SRK-Adi jodi.Aamir KhanStanding... er, tall next to his 6-foot nephew, or promoting his own film Ghajini at the end of the year in a hairstyle that defied gravity, Aamir sure knows how to pull the plugs... and sock it with his new, bulging muscles. Kareena SaifFrom the tattoo on the arm to the tattu (pony) on the Alps... everything that this golden couple did in 2008 made news. From their open confessions of mutual affection to separately-expressed agony over 26/11... even Pataudi-Sharmila didn't get so much attention. But then, they didn't live in the era of tattoos, love bites and sound bytes.Priyanka ChopraShe came into her own in 2008, Priyanka's smouldering performance in Fashion followed by the impish diva act in Dostana left the competition sweating. Amitabh BachchanHe survived another bout of illness and attacks from political outfits that claimed he didn't belong to Mumbai. By the end of the year, everyone wondered who Mumbai belonged to! AB survived all the attacks, God and man-made. From Sarkar Raj to Raj Thackeray, he braved them all. And found time to write blog entries almost every single day. Time management to koi insey seekhe.A R RahmanIn an era when music has been reduced to a series of programmed noises, A R Rahman brought us four full-blooded melodious scores. From the period passion of Jodhaa-Akbar to the peppy new-age hip-'hope' of Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na to the melodious balladry of Yuvvraaj and finally the triumph that was Slumdog Millionaire, Rahman showed us what separates a true composer from the band-baaja wallahs of la-la landSalman KhanFrom turning into a painter to painting a rosy picture to the media of him getting married to Katrina, Sallu had a colourful year. He also delivered four duds Yuvvraaj, Heroes, Hello and God Tussi Great Ho but will that stop our Sallu bhai from flaunting himself as a superstar? Never!Priety ZintaFrom playing the Punjabi kudi in Heroes to helming the IPL matches, to accompanying the Bachchans on their Unforgettable tour, Preity was here, there and everywhere.GovindaFrom slapping his director Neeraj Vora, to getting violent with a gazing fan on the set of his film, Chi Chi had his hands full. He lost his temper at strange men in red shirts in his vicinity, that were visible only to him, and he refused to mouth a dialogue which has the word Bal (hair) it because he had 'bal'-bachhche. No wonder everyone is speculating about his mental 'bal'ance. John AbrahamDear John dropped his pants! He got beefcake out of the closet. Many felt John went a little too far in flaunting his physique. But he sure knows how to market his assets.Akshay KumarHe raked in the moolah in Singh Is Kinng in a turban, modelled for denim jeans shirtless, dubbed for a Thai animation film. Yup, it was full on re invention time for King Khiladi.Rahul MahajanHis fast-talking closet-politician's act on Bigg Boss had the nation in splits. A whole soap opera could be scripted on Master Mahajan's machinations and antics inside Bigg Boss. Yup, he put the pep back into our television. Dare we call him the male version of Rakhi Sawant?
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