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In the '90s, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, the duo that groomed him in the art of composing for films, declared him as the "last of the originals." And with good reason too. In the hegemony that L-P (as the duo was called), Kalyanji-Anandji and R.D.Burman enjoyed in the second half of the '70s, it was Rajesh Roshan (this son of legendary composer Roshan) who challenged it successfully. If he took away Mehmood's banner from R.D.Burman with his own 1974 debut  Kunwara Baap , he even uprooted Laxmikant-Pyarelal for a while from Prasad Productions and Kalyanji-Anandji from the then-successful filmmaker Rakesh Kumar. Never had a debut composer hit the Binaca Geet Mala Annual top slot, which Roshan did with his very first recorded song, Mohammed Rafi's ' Saj Rahi Gali Meri Maa '. Never till then had any composer won a major Best Music award or sold a Gold Disc with his career's second film,  Julie , which also contained Hindi cinema's first fully English song

We all do crazy things when are in love so we don't really blame Raima Sen for her recent actions. The Bong bombshell posted pictures of herself and a mystery man recently holding hands and seeming completely in love with each other. Raima even tweeted, "I am getting married to Varun Thapar. And that's the husband." Before she could blink, the tweet got picked by various people and soon even Raima and Varun's family members started receiving calls asking them about the wedding plans. Raima quickly backtracked and tweeted, "Last nite was a joke and I'm not getting married. Varun is my best friend. Hope all my followers understand that I was just having fun with my friends guess need to be careful as not every follower is a well wisher." Well while we certainly didn't find this amusing, looks like Raima is indeed in a happy space if these pics are anything to go by.

Director Madhur Bhandarkar is known to be a very private person when it comes to his birthdays. But this year, actress Kareena Kapoor decided to celebrate his birthday in style. On Sunday, while dubbing for their upcoming film Heroine, Kareena surprised Madhur with a birthday cake and gathered all the crew of Heroine to wish the director on his special day. Madhur was pleasantly surprised! "I am either working or out on a family trip on my birthday. It was very sweet of Bebo to give me this birthday surprise," said Madhur. What is interesting to note is that the first day of the shoot of the Heroine began with actor Arjun Rampal's birthday celebrations, yesterday it was Madhur's birthday which was celebrated and as luck would have it the film itself releases on September 21 which happens to be Kareena's birthday. Must say this is quite a pleasant coincidence!