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Salman gave an earful to contestant Kushal Tandon, a TV actor, on his bad behaviour towards her.

MUMBAI (Web Desk) - Usually a great attraction for the show, superstar Salman Khan has been getting both pats on the back and brickbats on the microblogging site Twitter for being partial towards "Bigg Boss-Saath 7" contestant and actress Tanisha Mukherjee.

Salman gave an earful to contestant Kushal Tandon, a TV actor, on his bad behaviour towards the actress and many appreciated his stand. But others felt that the popular host is biased when it comes to Tanisha and allege that he defends her due to the fact that she is actress Kajol s sister

"A clear cheat by Salman Khan today (Saturday) to support Tanisha ... why because she is from Mukherjee family or she is a relative of Ajay Devgn," said a Twitter user Shweta.

While others think that Armaan Kohli and Tanisha s Bollywood background is what is making the Salman choose them over the others.

"Salman Khan is so partial towards Tanisha Mukherjee and Armaan Kohli. Bollywood is backing them and so is Salman Khan," Pratibha tweeted.

Salman was visibly upset when he featured on the show Saturday because of the fight between Tanisha and Kushal and even said this would be his last season as host.

Many twitterati supported his stand.

Brown is accused of punching a man who tried to get a picture with the singer.

WASHINGTON (AP) -  Chris Brown's misdemeanor assault charge in Washington, D.C., could further complicate the R&B singer's unsettled legal situation. Additional time behind bars remains a possibility for the singer both in the District of Columbia and California where Brown remains on probation for his 2009 beating of his on-again, off-again girlfriend Rihanna.

Brown emerged from a Washington court on Monday flashing a peace sign after spending more than a day in custody on a charge filed after a man accused the Grammy winner and his bodyguard of punching him and breaking his nose outside a local hotel.

Brown's arrest early Sunday comes at a crucial time for the singer, who is releasing an album this winter and is under a deadline to complete hundreds of hours of community service to satisfy his sentence for the Rihanna attack.

His day and a half in custody are the longest time the scandal-plagued singer has spent behind bars and the case represents the most serious accusations he's faced since his attack on Rihanna. Brown left the courthouse to cheers from supporters, some of whom clapped when a judge announced he would be released.

His time in custody was much longer than the few hours he spent at a Los Angeles jail after the Rihanna attack. In contrast to Brown's LA court appearances, which routinely happen in the afternoon when his case is the only one on calendar, Brown appeared in a crowded D.C. courtroom and had to wait until the end of the day for his case to be called and his release granted.

Brown is accused of punching a man who tried to get a picture with the singer and two other people near Washington's W Hotel early Sunday, according to the man's account in a police report. The report states Parker Isaac Adams, 20, said Brown told him, "I'm not down with that gay s---" and "I feel like boxing." The exact context of Brown's remarks was not immediately clear.

The man told police Brown punched him in the face, and a court filing states the man's nose was fractured. Brown's bodyguard, Chris Hollosy, stepped between them and also punched the man before grabbing Brown by the arm and leading him toward his tour bus, according to the report.

In an interview with police, Brown denied hitting the man and said he was on his tour bus when Hollosy got into a fight with Adams.

"We understand that his security acted to protect Mr. Brown and Mr. Brown's property as he was authorized to do under District of Columbia law. We are confident that Mr. Brown will be exonerated of any wrongdoing," Brown's lawyer, Danny Onorato, said after Monday's hearing.

Brown, 24, had a squeaky clean image before his attack on Rihanna on the eve of the 2009 Grammys, but since then has had several flare-ups that have been reported to authorities and noted by Los Angeles prosecutors.

Brown broke a window after a 2011 "Good Morning America" interview in New York and was accused of snatching a woman's cell phone in Miami after she tried to snap pictures of the singer. He was also slightly injured in a New York nightclub brawl and earlier this year, was accused of being involved in a fistfight with Frank Ocean's entourage over a parking spot at a West Hollywood recording studio.

He was not charged in any of the incidents, but they have kept his public image tarnished, even as legions of fans continue to support him. Many of Brown's more than 13 million Twitter followers continue to come to the singer's defense and attack his critics on the site.

The release of singer's latest album, "X," was delayed earlier this year and is due to be released in the coming months. Brown's career since the Rihanna attack has been a mixed bag: his 2009 album "Graffiti" bombed but he found success with the back-to-back pop hits "Yeah 3x" and "Deuces," which was one of 2010's top R&B songs.

He also earned his first Grammy win for his album "F. A. M. E." and received several nominations for his follow-up "Fortune." The album featured 2011's most popular rap song, "Look At Me Now."

While jail time would put a dent in his career, others from the ultra-successful Lil Wayne to T.I. have made it to the top of the charts after prison stints.

Brown faces an August 2014 deadline to complete 1,000 hours of graffiti cleanup or other community labor. The additional service was added earlier this year after prosecutors accused Brown of failing to properly complete his service in his home state of Virginia.

In addition to penalties Brown would face if convicted in the Washington case, he also faces the possibility of up to four years in prison if a Los Angeles judge determines he violated his probation for the Rihanna attack.

Probation officials would need to investigate the new arrest for it to become an issue in California, which could happen before Brown's next probation progress hearing on Nov. 20.

Judges typically wait to see if a person on probation is convicted in a new case before imposing new punishments, said Los Angeles defense attorney Steve Cron, however Brown's notoriety may prompt earlier scrutiny.

LA prosecutors cited the "Good Morning America" and Miami cell-phone snatching incident in court filings earlier this year seeking modifications to Brown's probation. The office had no comment on the Washington arrest.

Cron said while Brown's fate depends on the facts in the Washington case, the singer's history might lead to some more time behind bars. "If the guy got hurt at all, I think he's looking at some jail time," he said.

Emile Hirsch will play John Belushi in a biopic on the comedian.

NEW YORK (AP)  - Production company Film 360 confirmed Monday the casting of Hirsch in the currently untitled independent feature. Directing will be Steve Conrad, who wrote the screenplay of the upcoming Ben Stiller film, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Conrad will also pen the screenplay, adapting the biography "Belushi."

The 28-year-old Hirsch has starred in Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" and the 2008 action film "Speed Racer." He co-starred earlier this year with Paul Rudd in David Gordon Green's "Prince Avalanche," and also co-stars in the upcoming Navy SEAL war film "Lone Survivor."

Production on the film is planned to begin in the spring.

One of the original "Saturday Night Live" cast members, Belushi starred in "The Blues Brothers" and "National Lampoon's Animal House" before dying at the age of 33 in 1982.

Michael Douglas is concerned about the impact his marriage troubles will have on his children.

LONDON (Web Desk) - The 69-year-old actor is taking a "break" from 44-year-old wife Catherine Zeta Jones and is worried his two children - Dylan, 13, and Carys, 10 - will be affected by what they read in the news.

He told the UK s Hello! Magazine: "I went out with them the other day and, you know, you can see some headlines in newspapers and magazines that might be upsetting and so as a sort of back-up, I said to them,  Okay, kids, now you might be seeing some things written down about your mother and me that will be wrong and infamous and you just have to know that these things are not always true .

"Dylan just looked at me and said,  Huh - you mean like when I read that you were going to die in three weeks? I said,  Yeah - like that.  "

Michael is keen to spend a lot of time with his children and is planning a trip abroad where he can enjoy some father-son bonding time with Dylan.

He said: "We all plan to do some travelling together next year. My son is very interested in Roman history and desperate to go to Rome, so we re going to take a trip together, which I m very much looking forward to."

The two-day weekend festival sprawled over 15 blocks, with dozens of bands.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Electric Daisy Carnival it wasn t. But while the inaugural indie music and food festival Life is Beautiful may not have drawn the massive crowds that the electronic music event attracts to Las Vegas, organizers are still calling it a success.

The two-day weekend festival sprawled over 15 blocks, with dozens of bands, including The Killers and Vampire Weekend, playing to crowds that seemed to skew a little older than a typical music festival.

Blocks sometimes seemed a bit empty, and some acts performed to sparse audiences. Lines were rare, and the event s two Ferris wheels sometimes turned with no passengers.

Organizers had expected about 50,000 attendees. On Monday afternoon, they had not provided the actual number of tickets sold. Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas  largest festival, typically draws more than 100,000.

There were a few minor hitches. The festival moved its main entrance Sunday, just as the biggest bands started to play, after a post fell down. And though organizers beautified the rundown neighborhood near the Fremont Experience with murals, potted plants and shipping containers painted with the festival s logo (a heart), they were not able to eradicate the smell of garbage that pervades the area behind the El Cortez casino.

As promised, the festival delivered plenty of bells and whistles. In addition to music and food, there was a repurposed motel featuring art installations in each room, a carnival-style strength tester, and pop-up performances by Strip acts, including Cirque du Soleil and Absinthe.

Rap star Kanye West, in town for a concert of his own, toured the footprint of the festival on Friday, and Zappo s Tony Hsieh gave a talk on to festival-goers on Sunday.

On Monday, organizers were boasting that Life is Beautiful had "made history with its unprecedented 15-bock footprint, and highly curated lineup of talented music, food, art and learning."