The usual dusty small-town India greets us as a small group of people associated with the NGO Caring Friends travel over two-and-a-half days through Aurangabad and Jalna to understand the problems in the region and what help could be given. On the face of it, people seem to be going about their normal life. Where are the signs of distress that we had read in the media? Don't girls and...
11:08 PM, May 06, 2013
Kannada film 'Madarangi' has been passed with U/A certificate by the regional censor board. 'Madarangi' from Krishna Talkies is produced by Nagappa featuring his son Sunil Krishna. The actor is already is already making news on the social media. The song 'Darling Darling' has been lauded by the audience and the song is gone popular with the young crowd, says the director of the film Mallikarjun. The film will features...
06:22 PM, May 02, 2013
Coimbatore: A fire at Axis Bank in Avinashi near Coimbatore has left four people dead. All four dead were women employees of the bank. The bank was on the third floor and there was no emergency exit at the bank. The fire has been doused and the situation was brought under control. The cause of the fire is not known yet, but a short circuit is suspected. ...
12:52 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Cast: Siddharth Suryanarayan, Ashrita Shetty, Kay Kay Menon, Avinash, Deepak, Ajai, Kalai, Vivek and Naren Director: Manimaran One of the reasons 'Udhayam NH4' deserves a watch is because it happens to be a first of its kind road film executed to perfection in Tamil cinema history. Presentation and racy screenplay keep this film engaged in what is otherwise a run of the mill love story milked dry over the years....
06:23 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Nagpur: Aadhaar cards will henceforth bear date of birth of the holder, facilitating people to avail benefits of several government and non-governmental schemes which require age validation. Till now, only year of birth was mentioned in the card, but now, it has been agreed in-principle to insert the date of birth, said city-based RTI activist Avinash Prabhune, who pursued the matter with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and...
12:45 PM, Apr 09, 2013
With the arrest of four persons, including steno of a Supreme Court lawyer, local police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a racket involved in printing and circulation of counterfeit currencies here. Police, who were on the trail of the accused for some time, seized fake currency with a face value of Rs 1.75 lakh, packed in 8 plastic bags from them when they arrived near a hotel in Lokmanya...
01:44 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Kannada actor Sharan is playing lead with actress Asmita Sood for the film produced under the banner of Media Vision production. ...
11:07 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The Kannada film is co-produced by Rajaneesh, Prasad Rao, Ambarish, Avinash, Jagadish. ...
06:28 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The audiences have become more open towards offbeat films, and thus 'Listen Amaya' has a good chance to excel. ...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Avinash Kumar Singh, director of the upcoming film 'Listen Amaya', says he and his wife wrote the film for Farooque Sheikh and Deepti Naval. "As writers when we write a script, we have this idea that we are writing for so and so person. When we wrote it into a feature film, we wrote it for Farooque Sheikh and Deepti mam, and we knew we wanted people of that calibre,...
10:55 AM, Jan 22, 2013
New Delhi: Violence at the Manesar factory of India's largest car maker Maruti last week had left one of its senior employees dead and 90 others injured. But what exactly happened on that fateful day? A senior Maruti official recounted the horror to CNN-IBN. On the day, he was busy negotiating with the workers before the violence broke out. On July 18, the day began as usual at Maruti Suzuki's...
06:49 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Andhra Pradesh: OS Avinash is directing Tanish in a film titled Telugabbai. This is not the story that takes place in your typical Telugu neighbourhood though. The entire film was shot in Malaysia. This soon-to-be released movie is currently in post-production. "This one is a youthful romantic love story. All those elements which the youth and family audience want are there in Telugabbai. Tanish's look, Tashu Kaushik's glamour, and the...
04:34 PM, Jul 11, 2012
The 'Jugari Cross' Kannada cinema siblings Aravind and Avinash - grandsons of unforgettable comedy actor of Kannada cinema Hasya Chakravarthy Narasimharaju are back after a gap. 'Jugari Cross' starring Avinash and Harshika Poonacha was quite interesting film in the first attempt of director Aravind. It did not click in the box office. SD Aravind is turning producer like how his father Narasimha Raju did 40 years ago from 'Professor Huchchoraya'....
07:01 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Ganesh-Bhavana starrer 'Romeo' reaches its young target audience through its styling and visualisation. The film's director PC Sekhar, who has done many corporate films, again proves he focuses more on visual strength of a film. It is better for technically competent directors like Sekhar to realise that storytelling on screen does not limit to stylish presentation, but it is much more than that. The story goes on like this --...
05:47 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Veteran character artist Bank Janardhan son Guruprasad is showing exemplary presence of mind in his first film as director. On schedule Guruprasad a software professional has completed the first schedule of shooting after muhurut at Shirdi Saibaba Temple in RT Nagar. The second schedule is on schedule at Shimoga and surroundings. After this schedule the team of 'Agni Mushti' starring Naveen Krishna and Karthik reach Bangalore for the third and...
06:08 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Kavitha Lankesh's 'Crazy Loka' is an ordinary attempt from a director who made a promising film like 'Preethi Prema Pranaya'. It has the weakest script and a mindless narration which can irritate the audience. It is a film one doesn't expect from a talented director like Lankesh, and one wonders how a superstar like Ravichandran accepted such a weak role? It is baffling to see a matured director like Lankesh...
06:12 PM, Jun 09, 2012
London: Rare paintings by Rabindranath Tagore, MF Husain and Jahangir Sabavala, so far based in private collections, are due to be auctioned at the annual summer sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian art by auctioneers Bonhams in London on Thursday. The sale includes works by well-known Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan artists, including SH Raza, Jamini Roy, Avinash Chandra, FN Souza , B Prabha, George Keyt, Sadequain, Jamil Naqsh...
08:59 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Some people make films for themselves, and some others for juveniles. 'Daruvu' is a film made for the low brow. Even those given to mean enjoyment in an inebriated condition in the most godless hamlet would find this film cheap. Ravi Teja's peculiar mien and his knack for adapting to typical roles like that of 'Vikramarkudu' have a flip side to them. His strength has been vulnerable to maltreatment, and...
10:26 AM, May 26, 2012
