Priyanka Chopra has been hit by a spate of tax demands over a four-year period, starting with orders to pay up on a luxury watch and a luxury sedan which she claimed were gifted to her. The Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) shot down Chopra’s explanation that a LVMH-TAG watch worth Rs 40 lakh was a gift to her from the company selling it and not part of her professional income. A similar reasoning by her regarding a Toyota Prius car, valued at Rs 27 lakh, has also been refuted by the ITAT.

The value of both items was treated as taxable perquisites in the hands of Chopra, under section 28(iv) of the Income-tax (I-T) Act. These are just two of the issues decided by ITAT in a series of orders, passed on January 16 this year, covering four years from the financial year 2006-07 onwards.

Some issues, such as addition to her taxable income for notional rent from her penthouse or a gift of jewellery worth Rs 17.06 lakh from the production house, Red Chillies Entertainment, have been remitted back to the I-T officials for a fresh relook, as the ITAT agreed that the additions were not based on any incriminating material seized during the search operations.

Young Rebel Star Prabhas celebrated his birthday yesterday in a grand manner. Prabhas received a lot of wishes from fans, followers and the film personalities. The latest buzz is about a surprise gift from his dear friend Anushka. Apparently, Anushka has sent a special designer watch to Prabhas and surprised him on his birthday. The news has been revealed by a leading media house Bollywood Life. Prabhas loves to have a lot of wrist watches and Anushka who loves to give gifts selected a good designer watch and sent it to Prabhas.

Both Anushka and Prabhas are good friends for a long time. They teamed up for a couple of interesting films that did well at the box office. There are rumours that both of them are going to marry but the actors denied the news and said that they are just friends.

On the works front, Prabhas is busy with Saaho and Anushka is busy with Bhagmathi.

Jr NTR is known for his friendship and costly gifts to his friends. Now his gift to director Bobby has made the news.

He has been working with director Bobby for his present movie Jai Lava Kusa. This movie has triple roles of NTR Jr. Among three, one is said to be a uniquely designed special character with negative shades. Other is a hilarious one and the last is rumored to be a cricketer. Impressed with Bobby’s characters design and creation, NTR gifted a luxury branded costly watch to Bobby which worth 4 lakhs. Bobby is expected to make an official announcement sooner or later about this issue. NTR Jr earlier gifted a nice watch to his Temper director Puri and a car to his Janatha Garage creator Siva.

The movie Jai Lava Kusa is expected to be made with huge hype with controlled production under the care of producer Kalyan Ram. Rashi Kanna is one among three lead heroines in this movie.

Sensational actor Amir Khan came up with a new episode now. After the controversial “PK” poster, Amir Khan’s interest fell on Rani Mukharjee’s latest film “Mardhani”. He asked all the children not to watch Rani Mukherjee’s “Mardhani” as it contains high quotient double meaning dialogues and sequences.

Amir Khan felt that it is not good for the children to see such films which have abusive language. It is a noted fact that Rani Mukharjee requested the Censor Board to bring a new certificate into the force for this flick. As per this certificate, children will be sub-divided into below 12 and above 12. She aspired to resend this flick for a new certification.

Speaking on this, Amir stated that she might have a different opinion on this, but the flick is not safe for kids to watch. He further advised parents not to take their children for high-violence films. Few people commented on these statements saying that, “How far is it safe for children to watch PK as it has nude scenes?”