Delhi 'starry-eyed' as galaxy of tinsel stars make tryst with capita

New Delhi, Sep 22 (UNI) Delhi resembled a 'star-lit galaxy' in the past few weeks as a host of celebrities from the tinsel world of Bollywood descended on the capital for a tryst with the 'star-struck' cinegoers in the city.

Thousands of Bollywood fans in 'glamour-struck' Delhi were indeed left 'starry-eyed' amidst the presence in their midst, in the past few weeks, of stars like Hema Malini, Urmila Matondkar, Kajol, Arjun Rampal, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Dev, Shiney Ahuja, Nisha Kothari, Preeti Jhangiani as well as filmmakers Ramgopal Verma, Nagesh Kukunoor and Onir.

The first week of the month witnessed the presence of yesteryear actor and Bollywood's 'original dancing star' Mithun Chakraborty in Delhi, along with actor Ashmit Patel, newcomer Geeta Basra and young filmmaker Aditya Dutt for the premiere of the film 'Dil Diya Hai', which is Aditya Dutt's second directorial venture, at Wave cinemas in Noida.

Though the much-popular Emraan Hashmi was not present at the remiere, the presence in their midst of 'dancing star' Mithun Chakrobarty send hundreds of star-struck fans present at Wave cinemas in a frenzy to have one 'dekko' of their favourite 'Mithunda' (as he is know to the legion of his fans), thus showing that the charisma of Mithun is intact even more than two decades since he entered the hearts of cinegoers with 'Disco Dancer'.

Last week saw model-turned-actor Rahul Dev in Delhi for the promotion of his latest film 'Kachchi Sadak', the last film in which the late Amrish Puri acted.

For Rahul, it was a homecoming of sorts since he has been brought up in Delhi and also received his education here. Accompanying Rahul were former Miss India Asia pacific Parmeeta Katkar and actor Rahul Singh, the lead actors of 'Kachchi Sadak', and the director Sanjay Singh.

Also making his tryst with the people of Delhi after a long time was filmmaker Ramgopal Verma, who was here for the promotion of his latest film 'Shiva', touted as a remake of his 90s film of the same name.

Accompanying him were actors Mohit Ahlawat and Nisha Kothari, the film's lead pair.

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