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PREETI JHANGIANI WANTS TO MAKE IT BIG IN TOLLYWOOD AGAIN. GETS CAST IN AN INSIGFICANT FILM

Remember Preeti Jhangiani? The cute little kid who covered herself all over in Mohabbatein, and predictably after not getting any offers after that, decided to strip her way to stardom. But, unfortunately, there were no takers for her. So, many of her ilk, she has been hanging around the sidelines of the Hindi film industry on the lookout for bakras.

The dame, who had earlier acted in a couple of Telugu films, including Narasimha Naidu, opposite Balakrishna, and with Pawan Kalyan in Tammudu, has entered the Telugu film industry once again to try her luck. But this time, there are no big offers coming her way. She is cast opposite Rajiv Kanakala and Allari Naresh, in a film the latter are doing together.

But what is important is that the babe wants to settle down in the South, especially in Hyderabad, for which she has been learning to speak Telugu, we hear. Little wonder, why all the actors seek to cast their spell on the Telugu audiences when their heydays are over!!

RAJNI'S COOOOOOOOOOL STYLE BECOMES A RAGE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!

Rajnikanth in his latest Tamil flick Sivaji: The Boss sports a stylish pair of sunglasses, Amitabh Bacchchan plays a bespectacled 64-year-old cook in Cheeni Kum, and the major cast of Metro -- Irfaan Khan, Kangana Ranaut and Konkona SenSharma -- all sport zero power spectacles.

"No wonder 75 per cent of the people do not follow the optical store salesman's suggestion. They are influenced by movies and various magazines, newspapers and printed matter. Market trends keep fluctuating and things are much different than a few years ago when where one particular trend used to dominate for years. Today, fashion is changing very fast and the hot designs keep changing rapidly," says Tarun Sachdeva, of Eye Essentials, which deals in vision correcting aids, spectacle frames etc.

With more and more actors wearing glasses on screen, the common man is following suit and becoming choosy about the frames and quality of glasses. Multi-coloured and broad-sized frames are 'hot'. "Sunglasses and frames are available for Rs 1,000 and Rs 60,000," says Lalit Kalra, Director, Dayal Opticals. Also, with increasing brand consciousness people are aware of the varieties of frames and sunglasses available.

"They have fixed ideas about the type of brand they want," says Manoj Soni, Laurence and Mayo, Connaught Place. He says, "Earlier people might have been vaguely aware of some sunglass brands but nowadays due to huge advertisments in the media there is a growing awareness in the market about the wide variety of choice available to them."

Manoj Soni adds, "While customers may demand specific brands for frames awareness about lenses is still insufficient in the market." Vogue Prada, Versace, Bovigare, Gucci are the most popular brands. The latest trend is that of titanium metal because they are very flexible and strong and almost impossible to break," he says.