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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NEW DELHI: In a stinging critique of USA’s allegedly discriminatory airport screening policy, India’s minister for external affairs has said that it had become a habit for the US airport officials to first humiliatingly detain Indian VIPs and then apologize for the action. Krishna’s comments come on the heels of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan’s [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s movie stars may now battle it out against each other in the country’s fast expanding tourism sector. After the country’s most celebrated actor Amitabh Bachchan was roped in to become the face of Gujarat tourism, a Western Indian state known to house the country’s only lion sanctuary and a host of other [...]
MUMBAI: Indian adult film star Sunny Leone is to make her Bollywood debut in the Hindi film Jism 2, a “regular” Indian movie. She told the Nashik Times that she hopes people “look past her former career” and focus on the film. The film, produced by Mahesh Bhatt is to be released sometime next year, [...]
LOS ANGELES: More and more people are downloading their films online these days, and research is now proving this to be the case in a threat to the DVD business. FOr the first time ever, more American movie watchers are expected to watch more movies online than on DVDs this year, according to a report [...]
Los Angeles (dpa) – Batman, eat your heart out. The midnight release of The Hunger Games in the US raked in 19.5 million dollars in ticket sales Friday, the most ever for an original film, industry website Deadline.com reported. The huge take beat out the previous record set by The Dark Knight in 2008, even [...]
Los Angeles (dpa) – American Idol, meet your future. A future, that is, where the entertainment is gruesome and violent and the reality of competition is a matter of life and death. This is the world of The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of the first of three best-selling teen novels, which opens around the [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi took to YouTube on Saturday to respond to the viral campaign against alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, who originally hails from the country. A video produced by the US-based Invisible Children group about Kony and his brutal Lord’s Resistance Army has been viewed over 100 million times [...]
LOS ANGELES (dpa): Woody Allen is in talks to film his next-but-one project in Copenhagen, continuing his penchant for basing his movies in European capitals, US movie trade journal The Hollywood Reporter said Monday. Allen, who began his career as an archetypal New York film-maker, won a screenwriting Oscar last month for his film Midnight [...]
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