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The Wrong Kind of Influence
The health minister of India has asked that Bollywood take drinking and smoking out of their films. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss feels that the actors in their roles in films should set a better example for the audience. “Earlier, most villains were shown consuming alcohol. Now heroes have started to portray alcohol consumption more often.” [...]
Bollywood fans boost tourism in Britain
Keen to visit the popular film shooting locations in the country, cinema lovers from India and other countries are flocking to Britain, boosting its tourism by 2 billion pounds. The euphoric interest shown by Indian tourist in visiting the places where several Bollywood films were shot, have prompted the Britain’s tourism authorities to come up [...]
Sajid Nadiadwala To Buy 100 crore Television Channel !
Sajid Nadiadwala of NGE (Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment) has announced that in a strategic move that his company has agreed to acquire a 50 percent stake in a high profile television channel. Channel name has been withheld because an official announcement is soon to follow. The investment is based on an enterprise value of RS. 100 [...]
Shibani Kashyap’s rocking performance at IPL
Popular singer cum composer Shibani Kashyap is sure having one hectic time these performing at almost all the IPL matches these days. The singer recently enthralled crowds at Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad singing and dancing to her hit numbers ‘Zinda’, ‘Kashmakash’ from Rohit Shetty’s Sunday and many more and also bonded with Aussie cricketers Glen [...]
Bollywood Business Talk with Taran Adarsh
There’s a direct co-relation between the incoming calls that I receive on a Friday, with the status of a film. If it happens to be a low-budget fare with no curiosity attached to it, my phone remains silent most of the times, except for a few regulars who, anyways, will never stop calling.
But if the [...]
Vinay Pathak to star in a comedy title Dasvidaniya
One More Thought Entertainment (OMTE) announced its new film Dasvidaniya in association with Vinay Pathak and Shashant Shah’s Lemontea Productions. This situational comedy is being directed by Shashant Shah with an ensemble cast which includes Vinay Pathak himself apart from Ranvir Shourey, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Saurabh Shukla, Gaurav Gera, Suchitra Pillai, Sarita Joshi, Suresh [...]
Three top TV news anchors get Padma Shri
New Delhi, (IANS) Three well-known faces of Indian news television have been honoured with the Padma Shri awards announced Friday. They are Barkha Dutt, managing editor of NDTV 24X7, Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief of the news channel CNN-IBN, and Vinod Dua, a popular anchor and analyst with NDTV India, the Hindi arm of NDTV.
Barkha Dutt, who [...]
ROADIES 5.0 - The Game Goes International!
Saturday, 7 pm, IST time to tune into MTV ‘coz for all you adventure freaks out there, I sure hope you are not missing out on the Roadies 5.0. The game goes international for the very first time as the roadies hit the exotic islands of Bangkok & Malaysia. After their stint with bike riding, [...]
M Night Shyamalan to visit India, will receive Padma Shri
Very few directors of Indian origin have been able to make a mark for themselves in Hollywood and probably one of the most prominent among them is director Manoj Night Shyamalan.
M.Night Shyamalan, as he is known as in Hollywood, is the person responsible for giving us the shivers through his films like The Sixth Sense, [...]
B.R. Chopra honoured with ‘Phalke Ratna’ award
Mumbai, April 30 (IANS) Legendary filmmaker B.R. Chopra was Wednesday conferred the Phalke Ratna award here while superstar of the 1970s Rajesh Khanna was honoured with the Phalke Legend Actor Award.
The honours were given away on the 139th birth anniversary of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian movies.
Others Bollywood veterans who were awarded by [...]