Arjun Rampal joins twitter

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) After Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar has brought another actor on Twitter, which is fast becoming a favourting haunt for for Bollywood celebrities. Rampal, who recently won the first national award for his role in 'Rock On', joined the micro blogging website today.

"Hello everyone, yes I am finally here thanks to Mr Kjo.....so lets discover what twitter is all about...right now on the sets of Stepmom (sic)," Rampal wrote. Johar had earlier encouraged Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan to join the website.

Rampal is playing the male lead in Johar's Hindi adaptation of 'Stepmom'. Kajol and Kareena Kapoor are the two other stars in the movie. The actor managed to have 1,625 fans follow his posts within minutes of his first tweet.

Other Bollywood celebrities, who are an avid user of twitter are Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Mallika Sherawat, Riteish Deshmukh, Preity Zinta, Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor and Anupam Kher.

Ajay Devgan plays prank on Katrina

Katrina is the latest victim of this serial prankster! Ajay Devgn made his Rajneeti co-star Katrina gift Nana Patekar a cake box containing old underwear, a single chappal and a fake moustache.

Recently, on the sets of Prakash Jha's Rajneeti, Ajay took Arjun Rampal and Manoj Bajpayee into confidence and pulled a joke on his leading lady.

The trio told the actress that it was Nana Patekar's birthday and they said that since he was in a bad mood, Katrina ought to wish him and present him with a gift box. Poor Katrina wasn't aware that the cake box actually contained some funny items.

A source from the unit reveals, "This prank was Ajay's brain child and he took everyone on the sets in confidence. The trio walked up to Katrina and told her it was Nana's birthday and that they were throwing a party for him. They told her that she had to dress modestly in Indian attire, as Nana was very particular about how women dressed."

Kat hurriedly dressed up in a salwar-kameez and walked up to Nana with a box given by Ajay. "When Nana opened the box he was shocked to find old underwear, a single chappal and a fake moustache as a gift. Kat was horrified."

A source close to Kat adds, "She was embarrassed and turned beet red. Everyone including Ajay, Arjun and Manoj started laughing hysterically. Nana finally told her it was a prank and that she should be more careful with Ajay from now on."

Chak De girl gets Fox-y!

Even as we saw glimpses of the Chak De! India girls on television and films, the most popular of all them simply vanished from the public eye. It has taken Sagarika Ghatge -- or the beautiful Preeti Sabarwal -- two years to make it back on screen.

Her new film, Fox, releases this Friday, and stars Sunny Deol, Arjun Rampal and Udita Goswami.

Sagarika tells Nithya Ramani where she's been, and what it's like to do a film without Shah Rukh Khan.

How has life treated you after Chak De! India?

Life has been good. People recognise me. It feels good to know that people know me. They appreciated my work in Chak De! India.

So why did it take you so long to sign your second film?

(Laughs) I knew that was coming. There were a lot of scripts but I always work on my instincts. I didn't feel like I should be a part of the films with the scripts that I got. So I waited until I was sure. And that was when Fox came my way.

'I've actually gotten bored of comedy and action'

Despite a number of flops, Akshay Kumar is still very much in demand. The actor, who is in London to shoot for his latest movie, a romantic comedy called Housefull starring Deepika Padukone and Arjun Rampal, spoke to Myleene Klassis on CNN's The Screening Room Xtra about his films, why he's the producers' favourite and what he has in common with Sylvester Stallone.

Here's the full transcript from The Screening Room Xtra (Myleene Klass -- MK, Akshay Kumar -- AK):

MK -- Akshay you are here in London making a new film Housefull. How has your experience in London? I hear you had some problems with the lead actress Deepika Padukone coming down with malaria.

AK -- Oh that happened just for four or five days, it was okay after that. We had a lot of work to do so we went to plan B. We couldn't go to plan A. So yes that was there but then it was okay. She was released so it was fine...

We're on schedule, we're actually two days earlier now. And the weather has been supporting us a lot.

MK -- Are you enjoying your stay in London?

AK -- I must tell you I've made three films here before and they've all been quite successful so it's been quite a lucky place. And now there's a 4th one.

Catch The Screening Room Xtra on CNN on September 3 at 2.15pm, September 4 at 8.45am, September 5 at 2.15pm, 10.45pm, September 6 at 8.15pm and September 7 at 8.15am.