A 40 Lakh necklace on order as Kareena and Saif plan their big day! Kareena and Saif are getting engaged this month though they are tight lipped about their BIG day, it is heard that the wedding preparations are on in full swing. If buzz is to be believed, Bebo has placed an order for [...]
Raj Kapoor and Nargis in Awara – A retrospective on the great showman will have 13 movies of Raj Kapoor screened in Melbourne. From 16 February until 14 March, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne in conjunction with TIFF Lightbox, Canada presents Focus on Raj Kapoor, a spotlight on the late [...]
Popular French actress and singer Isabelle Adjani in Preity Zinta’s film ‘Ishq in Paris’ Year 2012 promises a high dose of entertainment for all Bollywood fanatics. Here is a list of the 58 Most Awaited Films of 2012. You may keep a watch on some of the star duos for example Sri Devi – Amitabh [...]
Move over all the Jalebis and Munnis! As the British-born ‘My name is Sheila’ girl Katrina Kaif has now taken the lead with ‘Chikni Chameli’. Industry members are smitten with the song. They feel it will definitely be a USP of Karan Johar’s remake of his father’s classic “Agneepath”, and overshadow “Munni”, “Sheila”, “Shalu” and [...]
By Neena Badhwar Dev Anand, the suave, debonair evergreen actor of Indian cinema is no more. He passed away in London at the age of 88 when he was there holidaying for a couple of weeks. Dev Anand died peacefully in his sleep of a heart attack. Dev Anand’s film career spanned six decades when [...]
Philip Glass presents a masterpiece opera of social change – ‘Satyagraha’ – an inspirational retelling of Gandhi’s formative philosophical experiences as a young man in South Africa. The minimalist score, sung in Sanskrit, features lyrics drawn from the Bhagavad Gita. Phelim McDermott’s visually extravagant production uses large-scale puppetry, acrobatics, and supertitles to create a moving, [...]
Farhan Akhtar By Neeru Saluja It all started in the summer of 2001. Fresh out of college, ready to embrace the corporate life and struggling to take the leap of love, he brought all of us 20 something’s an answer. Like a fresh breeze he gave us a reason to love and laugh with his [...]
By Neena Badhwar Shammi Kapoor, with his inimitable style, was the Elvis Presley of Indian cinema. He was a dancing sensation of the sixties who used to steal every one’s heart with easy yet a unique style of his own. For all NRIs who were lover of the Shammi Kapoor enigma followed him loyally [...]
Inspired by the huge success and influence of Bollywood movies, SBS is bringing a taste of Bollywood to Australia with a brand new commission, Bollywood Star. This four-part series, made for SBS by WTFN Entertainment (Bondi Vet, Keeping up with the Joneses), follows the search for an Australian Bollywood star: an unknown who will go [...]
Giselli Monteiro Helen in ‘Howrah Bridge’ By Neeru Saluja They look different to the mainstream actresses but audiences love them. They barely are able to speak Hindi but their fans love listening to them. They sometimes can’t perform the latkas jatkas like the aamchi Mumbai girl but when they dance on screen everyone whistles. [...]