Esha Deol married Bharat Takhtani in a lavish ceremony

After a lavish sangeet ceremony, followed by the mehndi ceremony, veteran actors Hema Malini and Dharmendra's elder daughter Esha Deol got married to businessman Bharat Takhtani in a traditional South Indian ceremony at Isckon temple in Juhu, a western Mumbai suburb, this morning.

Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Abhay Deol with girlfriend Preeti Desai, Manoj Kumar, Vinod Khanna and Vyjayanthimala made it to the wedding.

David Cronenberg to Guest Star in Syfy Pilot 'Rewind'

The Canadian director joins a previously announced cast that includes Shane McRae, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Jennifer Ferrin, with Jeff Fahey also doing a cameo.

TORONTO -- David Cronenberg will guest star in Syfy’s drama pilot Rewind, now shooting in Toronto.

The Canadian director-actor, whose latest movie, Cosmopolis, will screen in competition in Cannes, joins a previously announced cast that includes Shane McRae as an ex-Special Forces operative joining the Department of Homeland Security, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jennifer Ferrin, Robbie Jones and Keon Mohajeri. Jeff Fahey (Lost) also will guest star in the time-travel thriller pilot from BermanBraun and Universal Cable Productions.

Jack Bender (Lost, Alphas) is directing the pilot penned by Justin Marks, who also will executive produce with Tom Spezialy, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein.

Rewind revolves around a group of military field operatives and civilian scientists who travel back in time to alter events and avoid a devastating terrorist attack.

Star Keisha Castle-Hughes for Greenpeace

Keisha Castle-Hughes, Best Actress Oscar nominee for Whale Rider

Keisha Castle-Hughes

New Zealand star and youngest ever Best Actress Oscar nominee, for Whale Rider, Keisha Castle-Hughes has spoken for strong global climate treaty on the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, as it visits Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

"I get really upset over situations that are morally unjust. Pacific Islanders have hardly contributed to climate change, and yet are bearing the brunt of the problem." said Ms Castle-Hughes.

Keisha Castle-Hughes is very interested in the Pacific and learnt a great deal about the region growing up. Ms Castle Hughes explained, "I grew up with a lot of Pacific Islanders. At one point I attended a Tongan language church and lots of students at my high school were from the Pacific."

Esperanza is drawing attention to the impact of climate change. Aitutaki is one of many small islands in the Pacific already bearing the brunt of climate change. Impacts include rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, changing weather patterns, and threats to food security due to ocean acidification and salination of soil.

Warmer temperatures are also bleaching Aitutaki's coral reefs, a prime tourist attraction. Castle-Hughes will meet with tourism officials in Aitutaki to discuss what needs to be done to ensure climate impacts don't destroy this crucial industry.

Keisha is keeping in touch with her fans while on board the ship through hourly tweets, and daily Facebook and blog updates, where she tells of her desire to make sure her daughter and future generations are left with a healthy planet.

"I get really upset over situations that are morally unjust," Castle-Hughes said. "Pacific Islanders have hardly contributed to climate change, and yet are bearing the brunt of the problem."

The New Zealand based actress, who rose to fame at the age of eleven as the lead character of Paikea in the film 'Whale Rider', said she has always been interested in the Pacific. Whilst growing up, Ms Castle-Hughes' mother was keen for her to learn about the region.

"I've always been interested in the region. I grew up with a lot of Pacific Islanders. I attended at one point a church in the Tongan language and lots of students at my high school were from the Pacific," said Castle-Hughes.

The Pacific Islands are facing some of the first and most dramatic effects of climate change, and their people are among the first climate refugees in the world.

The remote island paradise of Aitutaki, well known by Australians as a prime tourist spot and favourite honeymoon destination, is already being affected by climate change as warmer temperatures bleach the coral reefs, which are a major tourist attraction.

The threat climate change poses to the tourist industry, much like that in Queensland, will devastate the local economy.

Castle-Hughes is meeting with tourism officials in Aitutaki to discuss what needs to be done to prevent climate impacts from totally destroying this crucial industry.

Greenpeace is urging Australian and New Zealand Governments not to derail the AOSIS demands at the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum in Cairns, and to agree a fair, legally binding climate change treaty at the Copenhagen meeting in December.

Norse time had by all [Almighty Johnsons]

Maybe it was collective smoke inhalation but TAJ seemed to run out of puff for a while there soon afterwards.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

So the Almighty Johnsons finally came to some sort of a conclusion last night. And not for the first time in the two seasons of this, the strangest local show to sustain more than one season on prime time, we of the fanclub were left wondering: What just happened?

The second season about the family of Auckland blokes, who are the dysfunctional embodiment of various Norse gods, had started well off the back of the first.

It even managed to sustain a little life-imitating-art for a while there with Keisha Castle-Hughes' character Gaia going through bit of a wild patch just as the actress was popping up on the front pages for much the same thing.

But season two risked climaxing a little early with the death of Eve Gundersen, the resident emo-cum-psycho wife of Ty and the daughter of sleazy lawyer Colin Gundersen, aka Loki, God of Fire.

Keisha Castle-Hughes as Gaia in The Almighty Johnsons.

The show's main narrative seemed to peak when Axl Johnson, in one of his first big decisions as Odin, banished his reincarnated mum, Agnetha - who had previously been a tree - to the woods for knocking off her daughter-in-law for making her boy Ty's life a misery. Father Colin, unhappy at Odin's judgment, burned down the forests.

Maybe it was collective smoke inhalation but TAJ seemed to run out of puff for a while there soon afterwards.

Fortunately, it was actually saving its breath for a run of episodes which have been among the maddest and funniest in the show's often mad and frequently funny two seasons.

Why? In short, some Maori turned up. Not just any Maori, but a trio of deities: Maui, Punga and Rongo. Like the Johnsons, they had been hiding out in suburbia. And like those Pakeha, they had come to the conclusion that Gaia was their Papatuanuku, just as Axl figured his flatmate might be Frigg, the goddess he was destined to be with.

And so warped Norse mythology collided with the front row of Maori legend.

It could have been nasty, especially after Maui and his mates kidnapped little Miss Whale Rider. But no; calmer minds and a hui in a garage prevailed.

And if you've ever been a Pakeha trying to agree on a waiata at such an occasion, the scene where the Johnson boys burst into There's Something About a Magpie - an ancient ode to the Hawkes Bay rugby team, and the family is from down that way after all - was pretty much the greatest scripted moment in New Zealand comedy in a very long time.

Elsewhere, some of the biggest laughs have come this season from TAJ characters on the periphery, especially Ben Barrington's Olaf, the boy's surfer-stoner oracle of a grandpa and Rachel Nash's Ingrid, whose wonderfully daffy presence reminds of Ashley Jensen from Extras and Ugly Betty.

It's also going to be hard to shake the image of Shane Cortese's mad bad and dangerous-to-know Colin, when the actor returns as nice guy Mac in Nothing Trivial. He's been a hoot in a suit.

That all was all part of the lead-up to last night's big Gaia moment.

She emerged from her goddess baptism as neither Odin's nor Maui's new missus but a reincarnation of another deity felled a few minutes earlier by a crossbow wielding Scandinavian god-botherer.

Oh well, these things happen in the The Almighty Johnsons, a show which has amusingly disappeared up its own comic cosmology. I, for one, would like to see them happen some more.