Ria Lawrence (MID-DAY; September 13, 2016)

The annual Enchanted Valley Carnival (EVC), touted to be the country’s largest camping music festival, is poised to get bigger this year. The EVC will introduce an exclusive Bollywood stage this time round and will feature other popular genres such as international pop, electronica/dance music for the first time. We hear, Farhan Akhtar will play at the Bollywood stage with his band, Farhan Live.

The cherry on the cake, however, is that the festival promoters are in talks with the teams of American rapper Pitbull and English singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding to headline the international pop stage.

What’s more, murmurs of Mike Posner of ‘I Took A Pill In Ibiza’ and ‘Cooler Than Me’ fame being booked for the festival line-up. Additionally, the two-day event (December 17 and 18) has a age-no-barrier entry as opposed to previous years, making it a family fest ground.

Sonali Joshi Pitale (MID-DAY; March 11, 2016)

If the industry grapevine is to be believed, Jacqueline Fernandez is set to join the growing list of actresses to be teaming up with international artistes. The actress, we hear, is likely to feature in the next music video of American rapper Armando Christian Pérez, better known as Pitbull.

Says a source, “A few days ago, Jacqueline was offered to be part of a video with Pitbull. After several rounds of discussion with her team, she decided to go ahead with it. She has already given her nod to the rapper and is likely to shoot with him soon.”

Jacqueline remained unavailable for comment but a source close to her says, “The concept of his video is interesting and so, Jacqueline is keen to do it. However, she won’t be seen singing in the video; she will just shake a leg with him.” Two years ago, Priyanka Chopra collaborated with Pitbull for her music single Exotic and had even performed with him at the IPL opening ceremony in 2013.