Lucknow, Oct 23 (IANS) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan seems headed for fresh trouble over a controversial plot of farmland in Daulatpur village of Barabanki district that he purchased last year.

The 1.383 hectare plot in Daulatpur, about 40 km from here, has been gifted to a proposed college named after his actress daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai.

Amitabh had last year gifted two parts of the land to the local 'gram sabha' or village council after he found himself in the thick of a major controversy and court battles on account of ownership of the land.

However, it was reported Friday that Amitabh had "gifted" the entire piece of land to the college.

A local village head, Raj Kumari Singh, has decided to challenge Amitabh's giving away the land to the college.

She said: "A land once gifted to a gram sabha cannot be gifted to anybody else."

Singh termed the latest land gift, executed through the superstar's local power of attorney in Barabanki Friday, as "illegal". She said, "I will file a formal objection against the move, which is violative of Uttar Pradesh land laws."

The Bachchan family laid the foundation stone of the college on Jan 27, 2008, at a high-profile bash in the village where they also flew in prominent politicians like Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, his Man Friday Amar Singh, former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and former Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah.

Lucknow, Oct 19 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who is here
to shoot for a film, was harassed by a group of hooligans in the
Kaiserbagh locality of the city.

Kangana is here with co-stars R. Madhavan and Jimi Shergil for the
past 10 days to shoot for Anand L. Rai's "Tanu weds Manu".

The incident took place Sunday at the Lal Baradari building where the
cast and crew were shooting a sequence for the film around 10 p.m. It
was a holiday, so a huge crowd, over 2,000, gathered around the
location.

"It was horrible. A group of youngsters came very close to Kangana,
Madhavan and Jimi and started passing lewd comments about her. Some of
them also tried to touch Kangana," a crew member told IANS.

However, the police denied the allegations.

"Keeping in view the huge gathering, we had deployed entire force of
about four police stations at the Lal Baradari. The director, however,
complained that due to the crowd they were having problems in shooting
as people were coming into the frames," inspector K.M. Singh of
Kaiserbagh police station told IANS.

No police complaint has been lodged.

"We will surely register an FIR if anyone from the crew approaches us
with a formal complaint," Singh said.

Rai, who had earlier directed the thriller "Strangers" starring Jimi
and Kay Kay Menon, is scheduled to film "Tanu weds Manu" in Kanpur,
Faridkot, Patiala and New Delhi in the coming days.