NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner’ which premieres worldwide on May 25. Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the Guinness Book [...]
NEW DELHI: Denied permission to celebrate, a drunk Shahrukh Khan got into a messy scrap with a Mumbai stadium’s cricket officials, after the former’s team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat the Mumbai Indians. Shah Rukh and his entourage which religiously follows the matches of their team the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), had wanted to celebrate [...]
American rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has joined the list of celebrities and public figures who have thrown their support behind President Barack Obama’s stance on marriage equality. The rapper said that bans on same-sex marriage are “holding the country back.” “What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to [...]
CAIRO and KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian lawmaker has said that “Middle East culture” is as dangerous as allowing American pop star Lady Gaga to perform in the Southeast Asian country. The statements came after Indonesia refused to issue Gaga a permit to perform at her sold-out Jakarta concert as Islamists in the country attacked her [...]
New Delhi: Two feminine ends of what was once India’s most poignant love triangle saga, finally find themselves under one roof; that of the Indian Parliament. The smoldering-forever Rekha Ganesan and the once-bubbly-now-dogged Jaya Bachchan, both renowned actresses of Indian cinema, shared space under the grand dome of the Indian Parliament’s Upper House, the Rajya [...]
NEW DELHI: South Indian mega film-star Chiranjeevi, who plunged into active politics with moderate success a few years ago, has run into real-life trouble with the Indian tax authorities conducting a raid at his daughter’s Bangalore home and seizing loads of cash. According to the Income Tax officials, as much as $ 70 million of [...]
NEW DELHI: Big screen Bollywood star Amir Khan is making waves on the Indian television now, raising social issues through a new television show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ (Truth Always Prevails). Khan’s show has managed to attract eyeballs of millions of Indian television viewers and if in its first episode he succeeded in rankling political establishments and [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Gay television characters can be a mode to tolerance and understanding, say Malaysia’s LGBT community. But the government disagrees, and they barred gay television characters from being shown on the country’s airwaves last month, in a move that has activists frustrated that the government is pushing the conservative tide against the community. “We [...]
NEW DELHI: Elusive in India, former Miss World and Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is likely to unveil her five month old daughter Aradhya at the Cannes film festival later this month. It will be Aishwarya’s 11th appearance at Cannes and the first post motherhood. Aishwarya will once again be the face of L’Oreal, the [...]
BANGKOK: According to government sources in Thailand, Lady Gaga‘s Bangkok stop on her Born This Way Ball tour will be the largest concert Thailand has ever witnessed. The announced comes only a day after Indonesian clerics threatened to demonstrate the American pop star’s arrival in Indonesia. Gaga’s gig takes place in two weeks at Rajamangala [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: The kids sit silently in front of the television. The elder brother turns slightly and watches as his father quickly turns the channel from a program that they say is too violent for the kids to watch. It’s a Tamil drama from India that shows violence, and Yussif, the father, won’t let his [...]
JAKARTA: Lady Gaga is under threat again in Asia. And again it is Indonesia’s Islamic groups who are fighting against a concert scheduled by the American pop star for June 3. The ultra-conservative Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has threatened to mobilize some 30,000 protesters to demonstrate against the star if the performance in the capital, [...]
JAKARTA: Britain’s Morrissey has, in a letter, called on the Indonesian government to immediately close a zoo in Eastern Java known for its animal abuses. The zoo has seen hundreds of animals die and others disappear in mysterious circumstances in recent years, which has left the global animal rights community in a fury. The former [...]
A Tunisian court on Thursday fined the director of a TV station to $1,550 for airing the Franco-Iranian film Persepolis, which Islamic activists saw as an insult to Islam as it contains a scene that depicts God. The fine came as a relief to many, as the charges could have carried up to three years [...]
NEW DELHI: Bollywood’s voluptuous actress Vidya Balan whose raunchy biopic ‘The Dirty Picture’ on India’s queen of semi-mainstream sleaze actress created waves across the country, has just been entrusted with a ‘Clean’ detail by the Indian government’s sanitation campaign. Balan has just been made the ambassador for India’s sanitation campaign by the union rural development [...]
New Delhi: In a country where pot-bellies and bulging midriffs are not exactly uncommon, Indians, it appears are suddenly ‘outraged’ that arguably the country’s most beautiful woman Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has put on post-pregnancy weight. Aishwarya, 38, with her cold, sculpted fair-skinned and porcelain-like features has held the country in awe ever since she featured [...]
New Delhi: Canadian born porn star of Indian origin had to wear a burkha, a full body cloak worn by Muslim women, to a meeting with a producer keep a film deal under wraps. The raven haired Sunny Leone, who was named Penthouse pet of the year in 2003, became a household name in India, [...]
New Delhi: ‘Vicky Donor’, a quirky Bollywood film about the travails of an unusually virile, but broke sperm donor, has left the ribs of an otherwise moralistic mainstream Indian audience, tickling. The relatively low budget film directed by Shoojit [...]
New Delhi: We know he’s ‘smoking’ hot, but Shahrukh Khan is fast turning out to be the bad boy of Bollywood, at least during cricket matches. After being taken to task over smoking during a cricket match at the popular Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2009, Khan’s lighting of the [...]
CAIRO: One of Egypt’s best known actors, Adel Imam, has been handed a three-month hard labor sentence and a fine of about $170 for insulting Islam in roles he portrayed in film and on the stage. The films include “The Terrorist,” “Terrorism and the Kabab,” among others. Egyptian author Alaa al-Aswany, whose international best-seller “The [...]
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