Riteish Deshmukh launches Marathi Filmfare awards

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

Riteish Deshmukh launched the Marathi segment of the celebrated Filmfare Awards.

Riteish posted a picture, above, and wrote: 'Happy to launch the First Marathi Filmfare Awards : finally they are here.'

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'Giving away the National Award is a disrespect to oneself'

Filmmakers Dibakar Banerjee, Anand Patwardhan and eight others returned their National Awards joined in solidarity with the protesting FTII students and against the growing intolerance in the country.

National Award-winning filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar criticised the move and wrote: 'In my view giving away the National Award is a disrespect to 1self & also 2 the actors, technicians,audience, jury members, & Hon. President.'

Anupam Kher tweeted: 'Some more usual suspects who never wanted @narendramodi to become PM in d first place have joined the #AwardWapsi gang. Some of these usual suspects of #AwardWapsiGang were instrumental in getting me out of Censor Board d moment Congress came in Power. This #AwardWapsiGang has not insulted the Govt. but The Jury, The Chairman of the Jury and the audience who watched their films.'

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Shahid gets ready for Rangoon

Shahid Kapoor has started preparing for his role in Vishal Bhardwaj's Rangoon.

The 34-year-old actor posted a picture, above, and tweeted: 'Time to prep for #Rangoon. Miles to go before I sleep. Keep it real you all. And believe. Because you can.'

The film is set during the World War II. It will co-star Saif Ali Khan and Kangana Ranaut.

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Sonali Bendre joins Twitter!

Sonali Bendre is the latest actor to join Twitter and her colleagues welcomed her.

Hrithik Roshan tweeted: 'Please welcome the beautiful , wonderful @iamsonalibendre to Twitter!! Lovely to have you here!'

Abhishek Bachchan ‏wrote: 'Welcome to the chaos @iamsonalibendre Crew, show the love to The Bhabs!!'

Priyanka Chopra: 'Well...it's about time! Welcome @iamsonalibendre to @twitter...the parallel universe we all inhabit! Twitterverse let's show her some love!'

Meanwhile, Sonali Bendre recently shot with Vidya Balan for reality show Mission Sapne. She posted a picture, above, and wrote: 'A woman of talent, a woman of charm! Such an amazing time shooting with the lovely @Vidya_Balan for @MissionSapne.'

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Nimrat Kaur heads to Jaisalmer

Nimrat Kaur is shooting for her film Airlift in Rajasthan.

'Traffic jams of the desert kind. En route Jaisalmer for the final schedule of #Airlift !! All on board,' she tweeted.

Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, the film is based on biggest evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Iraq-Kuwait War. It co-stars Akshay Kumar.