Hrithik, Farhan and Abhishek go fida over Vivek's... Ducati!

Vivek Oberoi recently bought a black-and-yellow Ducati 1098 last week and drove it to Hrithik Roshan's birthday party on Saturday night.

Says a source close to Vivek, "VO bought the Ducati just a couple of days ago. His friend Ashish helped him choose it. When he rode it into Hrithik's party, Duggu and Abhishek Bahchan went fida over it while Vivek took b'day boy Farhan Akhtar out for a drive at 4 am. He picked Akhtar up from Shah Rukh's home in Mannat where they went to, after Hrithik's birthday."

Vivek Oberoi on his Ducati 1098.
pic/ Pradeep Bandekar

Eager student
Vivek is quite the bike enthusiast. "VO has done many bike stunts in Prince. In fact, action director Allan Amin taught Vivek how to ride bikes as Vivek had to do the stunts himself. Often Vivek would go to the car park at Allan's residence and learn about bike control and cruising. Vivek earlier had a bike, which he exchanged for this one. He keeps only the old vintage classics and changes all other cars and bikes. VO even launched Dilip Chhabria's Imperator Sedan at the auto expo last week," adds the source.

Vivek even performed some exciting bike stunts at the Apsara awards last week. He says, "I couldn't have had a better start to 2010. I had to perform a bike stunts through fire and though I felt confident with Allan Amin being there and setting up the whole thing. Although, I do get a bit nervous when fire is involved. It went off really well. God (Shah Rukh Khan) gave me a big hug and said 'Well done!' "

Vivek bonds with Bachchans

after 2009 ended hopefully. Vivek Oberoi, who went on every channel and newspaper saying he has mended his ways, has apparently been accepted (no evidence to say that it is unconditional) by the Bachchans.

At another Bollywood function on Friday, Vivek was again strategically seated right behind Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan. (Somebody up there seems to like him... last time it happened was at the annual Police Mela in December when he was next to Ash!) And, the pictures seem to suggest that he was in a very animated conversation with the Big B and Mrs B, though Abhiash and Vivek ignored each other.

A few months ago this bharat-milap would seem implausible. The rumour mills even alleged that though the Big B and Vivek had been signed to endorse the same brand, they wouldn’t share the same frame even for a commercial.

Now to think that all this bitterness is a thing of the past. One of these days Vivek may find himself forgiven by Salman Khan also. Or is that being too hopeful?

'Plastic smile and heart': Vivek on Ash, films

In a revealing interview to Farah Khan on her show on Star Plus, Tere Mere Beech Mein, Vivek Oberoi spoke his mind about his ex -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan , films and his infamous tiff with Salman Khan.

The revealing promos of the show were aired on many news channels on Thursday night. Tere Mere Beech Mein will be aired on Sunday.

When Farah quizzed him on what triggered him to call a press conference to vent his anger against Salman, Vivek replied, "Uss waqt mere aaspas bahut log the aur woh apni 'RAI' dete the.' Farah interrupted Vivek saying, "Accha word chunna aapne, 'RAI' (You choose a good word 'RAI' (Opinion)

Vivek amended the word saying, "Mashwarra dete the and I went by their word. Moreover I was young that time and my father (Suresh Oberoi) too was not in town when I took that decision."

Vivek also said that it hurt him when people whom he trusted didn't stand by him during his hour of crisis.

Vivek was dating Aishwary Rai in 2003. She had just split up with Salman Khan, who then called Vivek and threatened him to stay away from Aishwarya. In response, Vivek called a press conference in April 2003 and told the media about how Salman misbehaved with him.

Post the debacle of their film, Kyon Ho Gaya Na and then Vivek's Home Delivery , Aishwarya broke off with Vivek.

On a final note, Vivek said, "There is less plastic in Tupperware factory than our film industry. People with plastic smile and plastic heart."

Vivek Oberoi visits ashram, cancer patients on 33rd birthday

Instead of ringing in his 33rd year with parties, Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi chose to spend his birthday Thursday at an ashram here and with cancer patients, says a source close to the actor.

'There is no party, no dinner, no celebration that has been planned by Vivek for his birthday. Every year on his birthday, he visits Barbhaya ashram here and later he visits some cancer patients, most of them are kids,' the source told IANS.

The actor, who became popular with Ram Gopal Varma's 'Company' and Shaad Ali's 'Saathiya', was apparently busy buying gifts for the kids Wednesday evening.

'He himself goes out and buys small gifts for the kids. He spends about two to three hours with them and it gives him a lot of joy,' the source added.

Vivek has been off the Bollywood radar for quite sometime now. But he is ready to jump back into action with Karan Johar's 'Qurbaan', which stars Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. He will also be seen in Tips' 'Prince', in which he has performed death defying stunts and is being touted as his most ambitious movie ever.

He will also start shooting for Varma's pet project 'Rakta Charitra' from Sep 25.