#MeatBan: 'Why no ban on ignorance?'

A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities:

The meat ban during the Jain festival of Paryushan has invited the wrath of many, including Bollywood stars, who turned to Twitter to rant:

Sonakshi Sinha: Why no ban on ignorance/negligence? What about the flood affected people of assam? Priorities people. Priorities.

Sonam Kapoor: Our country is going to remain a 3rd world nation because of the intolerant misogynistic close minded few.

Konkona Sensharma: When will we learn to live and let live?

Soha Ali Khan: Let's try to ban hunger before we ban meat?

Anubhav Sinha: Can actors accept 'Meaty' roles during those four days?

Rishi Kapoor: "Tarzan turns vegetarian". Says he-"Me Tarzan you Jain(oops sorry) Jane!

Kunal Kohli: #MumbaiMeatBan Workers will lose money. While I respect all religions, one religion can’t dictate what others eat.

Atul Kasbekar: I really think that people promoting vegetarian habits would better serve their interests in propagating info on its merits instead of bans.

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Karan Johar starts shooting for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

The shooting for Karan Johar’s next directorial Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has commenced in London.

Cast member Anushka Sharma tweeted: ‘Sooo today we start filming #AeDilHaiMushkil in london. Butterflies attacking. Excitement rolling. Send me your love & wish me luck guys!!’

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil also stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Ranbir Kapoor.

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Happy birthday, Akshay Kumar!

Akshay Kumar brought in his 48th birthday with a quiet family dinner.

His wife Twinkle Khanna posted a picture, above, and tweeted: ‘All set for the birthday boy's dinner #happybirthday.’ 

Meanwhile, Akshay himself marked the day by announcing his next project: ‘Thrilled 2 announce Neeraj Pandey & I are collaborating 4 a romantic thriller #Rustom releasing on Aug 12,2016!Hoping 2 be 3rd time lucky :)’

Akshay and Neeraj have worked together on Baby and Special 26 previously.

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Ram Gopal Varma: Thank you so much, Urmila!

With RGV's 1995 hit Rangeela completing 19 years on September 8, the filmmaker took to Twitter to let his followers know just how mesmerised he was by his leading lady's beauty.

‘On the eve of September 8th on the 20th year of Rangeela I have to confess all concerned that I was I mesmerised with Urmila and her beauty. Her face to her figure to her personality to her persona to everything else about her was just divinity for me.

‘She is a painting and I was the frame maker. A painting has a meaning only if it’s contained in a frame and a frame doesn’t have a meaning without a painting in it. But for a painting to be truly relished from the frame containing it, it also needs a right place to be displayed and that was "Rangeela",’ RGV wrote in a post.

‘The most motivating thing about "Rangeela" for me was to use the various aspects of film medium to contain Urmila’s beauty forever. I wanted to shoot her in a way to make her a bench mark for women because for me she was and she is a bench mark of a woman in every which way.

‘I would say that I never felt a more bigger high as a person looking at her and a bigger more cinematic as a director than when I used to watch her through my camera,’ he added.

‘Thank you so much Urmila, for giving me the most memorable film of both my career and my life and I want to thank you much more for making my career and my life much more richer by being in it,’ he signed off.

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Asha Bhosle celebrates birthday in NYC

Veteran Asha Bhosle, who is currently on a musical tour in the US, ushered in her 82nd birthday on September 8.

She shared a picture, above, and wrote: ‘Celebrating my 82nd on NYC street with musical director Nitin Shankar & relative Neeta Chitre.’ 

The legendary singer will be performing in New Jersey on September 13.

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On the sets of The Viceroy House

British filmmmaker Gurinder Chadha has resumed shooting for the Indian adaption of Hollywood thriller Oculus.

She posted a picture from the sets, above, and tweeted: ‘Unbelievable! Still smiling at 3am night shoot thanks to fab.’

Titled The Viceroy House, the film focuses on Lord Mountbatten’s last few days in India.

It stars Om Puri, Huma Qureshi, Manish Dayal, Lisa Ray, Adil Hussain and Saqib Saleem. 

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Shilpa Shetty spends time with Raj Kundra

Shilpa Shetty, who is vacationing in Maldives, took to Twitter to wish her husband Raj Kundra a happy birthday.

She posted a picture, above, and tweeted: ‘My Hero, my love @theRajkundra, wish you a verry happy Birthday.’ 

Raj Kundra ‏shared a picture of his birthday cake and wrote: ‘Thank you @TheShilpaShetty for the best birthday ever! Super surprise and loving it #Maldives.’