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The highly-awaited season three of reality show Bigg Boss was launched on Sunday night with superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who returned to the small screen after a gap of four years. Big B will be donning the role of a "pop philosopher".

Ninety-year-old legendary playback singer Manna Dey - whose voice is behind the evergreen songs like Ae Mere Pyaare Watan, Poochho Na Kaise and Zindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli - is being honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema.

Eight decades and 30,000 songs later her voice continues to inspire a nation.

The Bharat Ratna awardee, who has lent her voice to songs in over 20 Indian languages, is known for her quest for perfection and undying spirit. From light classical music to film songs and from ghazals to bhajans and pop, she has sung a variety of numbers. Having worked with almost all top music composers and singers in the industry, Lata has also featured in the Guinness Book of Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most recordings in the world.

Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Dil Bole Hadippa and Wanted will benefit hugely with a long extended weekend. Both films will have an a five day weekend as it is a National holiday for Eid on Monday and Eid actually falling on Tuesday.