the singer Claudia Leitte celebrated 31 years in an impromptu birthday party in the middle of the concert she did in Palmas, Tocantins.

Claudia Leitte celebrated the arrival of his 31 years doing one of the things I like: pulling an electric trio. The singer won Surprise cake, prepared by his staff, to celebrate his birthday this Sunday, April 10, during a presentation in Palmas, Tocatins. The "Happy Birthday" being sung over the hundreds of fans who were there.   The official website of the singer , is available with a special video testimonials from friends of the singer as Sabrina Sato and Hebe Camargo, "All the best for you. you always keep this girl, why are you a girl that is very pure and very cool You are always fun and cheerful. Congratulations, "said Sabrina.

The new year will be full for Claudia. It will show in the United States, in addition to the Rock in Rio and is also preparing to launch its newest DVD.

I've seen all the films, and that I can't wait for July 15( Harry Potter)

There is a bit of embarrassment when I say I am a Harry Potter fan and that I've read all the books, some of them more than once, and that I've seen all the films, and that I can't wait for July 15. That's when the final film of the long-running series will be out and the rest of the world that does not care for Harry Potter can finally stop raising a ruckus about us heathens who have — in their eyes — made mountains out of JK Rowling's pitiful molehills.

These people, I think, are the reason for my embarrassment — these people who do not care for something and cannot be large-hearted enough to shrug their shoulders and turn the other away and not spoil it for the ones that do care. They make me think that the problem is with me, a grown-up whose face sprouted whiskers more than two decades ago and who, depending on the person you ask, is either in early middle-age or well into it today. I should know better — that is what these people say.

THEY MAY HAVE A POINT...

And when these people are people such as Harold Bloom, people who know so much and have written so much and have read so much and are revered so much, I almost think they may have a point, that I have indeed squandered a million brain cells on the literary and cinematic equivalent of mulch. In a Wall Street Journal article from 2000, Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes., Bloom contended that Rowling's prose is clichéd and makes no demands upon her readers. “In an arbitrarily chosen single page — page 4 — of the first Harry Potter book, I count seven clichés, all of the ‘stretch his legs' variety.”

Then he asks me, because I am one of those 35 million book buyers, why read Rowling. “Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.” Do you know of another single sentence that's been weighed down by so much withering scorn? Eleven years later, in his latest book “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life”, he's still lashing out at “the lemmings who devour J K Rowling... as they race down the cliffs to intellectual suicide in the grey ocean of the Internet”.

Not only have I been informed that I'm a lemming and that I'm in the wrong for reading Rowling, but my brow has been singled out for lowering itself. He then moves in for the kill by asking if there is any redeeming educational use to Rowling and why read if what we read will not enrich mind or spirit or personality.

THE REASONS

Now that the last Harry Potter book is in the past and the last Harry Potter movie is in the near future, I'd like to stand up for myself and anonymous others like me, clear my throat, raise my eyes from the points of my shoes to the people in the circle around and say: My name is Baradwaj Rangan and I like Harry Potter. I don't read always for redeeming educational use and not always for enriching my mind or spirit or personality. There are times I read just because the reading brings me joy, just as I listen to a vacuous pop tune because of the way it enters my ear and my brain, and triggers a few electrical impulses that result in a state of mild euphoria, the kind I feel when sucking on a piece of unredeeming and uneducational and unenriching hard candy.

SIMPLY ENJOY IT!

Pop culture, sometimes, is just hard candy, preferably orange- or strawberry-flavoured, and it's not to be grappled with, like a shard of spinach stubbornly stuck between the teeth, but simply enjoyed as it dissolves on the tongue. There are Harry Potter equivalents in all walks of life, and I wish I didn't have to feel embarrassed when I say I like this Harry Potter-like song or this Harry Potter-like slice of television or this Harry Potter-like work of bubblegum art.

Or that on July 15, I will be among the first at a theatre screening the last Harry Potter movie with light tears in my eyes at the last scene upon leaving behind a part of my life forever — seven books and seven movies about a boy with glasses and a girl with large front teeth and big brains (not that you'd know it from the films though, at least the bit about the large front teeth) and a best friend with red hair and a fatally ineffectual villain, the only one, probably, in all of pop culture without a nose. Surely there are greater sins than being temporarily in thrall to a piece of candy.

BOLLYWOOD pin-up Hrithik Roshan teams up with director Zoya Akhtar

While filmmaker Zoya Akhtar's debut flick LUCK BY CHANCE gained her enough critical acclaim and recognition, commercially it couldn't do well. Now, it seems her second outing ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA is eagerly awaited. Reason? ZNMD boasts of big stars and actors like Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin.

Zoya says, 'Hrithik Roshan is my favourite actor and he was a part of my first film LUCK BY CHANCE as well. Even if I was making a 1 crore film I would have approached Hrithik. Kalki is a very interesting actress and edgy. Farhan and Abhay are really intelligent actors and who wouldn't love to work with such talented lot?'
Quite surprisingly Katrina came in much later while rest of the cast was already finalised. In fact, Zoya even auditioned a lot of women before roping in the beautiful actress - Katrina Kaif. Reveals Zoya, 'Yes that's true we auditioned a lot of women before finalising Katrina. Actually we needed a half Indian and half Caucatian girl, who would be willing to ride a bike, scuba dive and one who is physically fit. I tested a lot of people from New york and London but nothing really interested me. Also, I didn't know Katrina at all, till I met her at a party. It was only at that time I realised 'Sh*t man. What am I doing. She is the one I was looking for'.'

Leaving aside the commercial aspect, ZNMD star cast is made up of actors, who come from different worlds. But Zoya considers it to be ideal combination of cast and quite elated to bring them together.

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'Isn't it interesting to cast people that make a heady mix? When you put actors together who don't usually come together or who come from different school of acting there's new dynamic and a new energy formed. Though they come from different worlds and have a different sense and styles of working, they do look like they belong together on a poster. And I think it's quite fun and exciting to have them together. Someone should take initiative to attempt something new. So why not me?' says the excited Zoya.

Zoya Akhtar's ZNMD, which is touted as guys' flick, does have scope for women as well. She says, 'Of course they do. You take any example RANG DE BASANTI or DIL CHAHTA HAI or ROCK ON or any boys film the women have very pertinent parts. I mean I don't write bad characters for women.'

Zoya is quite fond of films on raod trips and from long time she was looking forward to do something on similar lines and then ZINDAGI happened. 'I love roadtrips. And I have always wanted to do a film on road trips. My first film LUCK BY CHANCE was very interior movie set in Mumbai. So this time around I wanted go outdoors. I wanted to do something visually completely different. Reema Kagti, my co-writer, and me started talking discussing about it and the idea just came in. It is the fastest script written - just 3 months,' concludes the filmmaker.