India welcomes 2015 with parties, prayers and charity

India welcomes 2015 with parties, prayers and charity

India embraced the New Year with boisterous midnight revelry and religious devotion. The celebrations however left two people dead in Hyderabad. In virtually every major city and town, people — mostly the young — welcomed 2015 with music and dancing. As the clock struck 12 midnight, firecrackers went off and motorists honked their horns. Indoor […]

Loud music, louder spirits rock Vh1 Supersonic

Loud music, louder spirits rock Vh1 Supersonic

Candolim (Goa) From international icons to national DJs, the message at the second day, Sunday, of the recently concluded Vh1 Supersonic 2014 was clear — as loud as it gets in terms of music and spirits is well. The four-day music festival started at Candolim beach in Goa with high octane performances by popular artists […]

Imran Khan makes his Bollywood debut with ‘Tevar’

Imran Khan makes his Bollywood debut with ‘Tevar’

Nikita Sharma, New Delhi With the recent inclination of adding the tadka of rap in Bollywood music albums, Sanjay Kapoor too plans to make the music of his upcoming production ‘Tevar’ a little peppy by roping in the Pakistani singer Imran Khan. Imran Khan has given some of the top chartbusters like ‘Amplifier’ and ‘Bewafa’ […]

“I have evolved as a person during the making of Tevar” – Arjun Kapoor

“I have evolved as a person during the making of Tevar” – Arjun Kapoor

Nikita Sharma, New Delhi Eros International & Sanjay Kapoor’s ‘Tevar’ featuring Arjun Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha and Manoj Bajpai is scheduled to release on 9th January 2015.’Tevar’ will mark the directorial debut of celebrated ad-filmmaker Amit Sharma. The plot of the film revolves around a local kabaddi champion from Agra, Pintu Shukla (Arjun Kapoor), who […]

Film fraternity comes out in support of ‘PK’

Mumbai, Dec 30 (IANS) While makers of “PK” are courting controversy for the film being anti-Hinduism, the film industry people like Karan Johar, Ritesh Sidhwani and Uday Chopra have come out in support of the movie. The Rajkumar Hirani directorial that features actor Aamir Khan as an alien, struck the controversy ever since its release. […]

Jennifer Lawrence in Ebola awareness campaign

Los Angeles, Dec 30 (IANS) Actress Jennifer Lawrence appears in a public service announcement about the Ebola virus with her “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Julianne Moore. “What would happen if you got Ebola?” Hutcherson asks Lawrence in the video, to which she replies: “I’d be fine.” “You have a […]

Make Aamir Khan’s ‘PK’ tax free: Agnivesh

New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh Tuesday advocated tax exemption for Aamir Khan-starrer “PK” in view of the movie’s “new message” that would encourage scientific temperament among students across India. Agnivesh welcomed “th film which takes a swipe at superstitious beliefs and false idol worship practiced by some people in the […]

Modi, Rekha named India’s hottest vegetarian celebs

Modi, Rekha named India’s hottest vegetarian celebs

New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and veteran actress Rekha have been named the hottest vegetarian celebrities by People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Early leaders Kangana Ranaut and Shahid Kapoor as well as Amitabh Bachchan, R. Madhavan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Hema Malini put up a real fight. But after […]

Film stars to play Santa for Mumbai kids

Film stars to play Santa for Mumbai kids

New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Film celebrities like Raveena Tandon, Boman Irani to Shreyas Talpade and Mandira Bedi will surprise the less fortunate children in Mumbai at an event Star Nite, to be held here Saturday. A dance event, to be held at Nehru Centre auditorium in Worli here, is being organised by Mumbai police’s […]