Mumbai: Giselli Monteiro, Barbara Mori, Amy Jackson... A slew of foreign beauties are playing key roles in Bollywood films. But director Abhishek Kapoor feels this obsession with "white girls" can be damaging to 'desi' actresses. "Our obsession with white girls playing lead in Indian films is extremely detrimental to the psyche of the Indian girl. As bad as selling fairness cream," tweeted the "Rock On!!" director. "Our Indian girls are...
11:33 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: There's some good and bad news. The good news is legendary boxer Mike Tyson will appear on the new season of popular reality television show Bigg Boss that forces celebrity guests to stay in confinement for a period of time for prize money. But here's the bad news. With cricketer-turned-commentator-turned-actor-turned-comedy show host Navjot Singh Sidhu joining Tyson in the house, the decibel level inside the house is likely...
04:25 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New York: A U.S. magazine has identified the mystery woman seen kissing singer Elvis Presley in a backstage theater stairwell in an iconic 1956 photograph. Barbara Gray, now 75 and living in Charleston, S.C., told Vanity Fair magazine that she didn't reveal her identity for the money or fame. "I just wanted to get my name on the damn picture," she said. Gray admitted that she become fed up with...
01:54 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Mumbai: Mexican actress Barbara Mori has signed her second Bollywood movie and reportedly she is being paid $300,000 (over Rs.1.3 crore) for her role in Fever, which also stars Rajeev Khandelwal. The Hindi film will be directed by Rajeev Jhaveri and Ravi Agrawal is producing it. A source said that the actress is being paid $300,000 for the film, in which she will play a linguist who is a second...
05:41 PM, Apr 18, 2011
Los Angeles: An all-star cast of performers honoured singer Barbara Streisand on Friday for her decades-long music career and philanthropy, in the MusiCares Foundation's annual Person of the Year ceremony. The event tied to the Grammy Awards brought together a diverse array of singers, from music legend Stevie Wonder to Lea Michele of the youth-oriented television show "Glee." Streisand, an eight-time Grammy winner, took a break from an evening otherwise...
03:46 PM, Feb 12, 2011
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'Kites' will be released in both shorter and longer version in US. ...
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