New York: People magazine has named Gwyneth Paltrow as the World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2013. The 40-year-old actress tops the magazine's annual list of the 'World's Most Beautiful,' announced Wednesday.
Commenting on her selection, Paltrow says: "Around the house, I'm in jeans and a T-shirt. I don't really wear makeup."
She credits her workout routine for keeping her looking young and feeling strong.
Paltrow is married to Coldplay rocker Chris Martin. They have two children, Apple, 8, and Moses, 7....
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11:05 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Beautiful Country, a book by Gunjan Veda and Syeda Hameed, beautifully chronicles stories from an India that is not yet on the radar of the 24x7 media. The stories from Andamans, Varanasi, rural Maharashtra, Naxals-affected Chhattisgarh, the Northeast and several other regions of the country depict the struggles and triumph of the common people despite all the odds. ...
02:23 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Katherine Boo won the national book award for nonfiction for 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,' which sheds light on the lives of India's poor as well as government corruption. Author Louise Erdrich took the top fiction award for her moving novel 'The Round House,' about a woman raped in a Native American community, at the annual national book...
11:31 AM, Nov 15, 2012
He is a poet, musician and writer who has got a huge boost now that his debut novel has made it to the shortlist of this year's Man Booker Prize. So you can bet that Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis is fated to move from the fringes towards the main stream of readers consciousness. The book is a hard read but if one manages to get past the prologue and stay invested...
06:02 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Yesteryear actor Mohan, whom we have seen in popular films like 'Mouna Raagam' is planning to make a return to cinema with two films. The news was confirmed by the actor himself recently and he dropped a few breadcrumbs on what the projects might be. Mohan is gearing up to remake the popular Malayalam film 'Beautiful', and in addition to playing a role in the film, he is also expected...
05:15 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Telugu director Sekhar Kammula says he has nothing against working with big heroes, and admits he loves working with newcomers as his story demands them. "I love working with newcomers because my story demands it and moreover they're fun to work with. It's easy working with them because I can effortlessly connect and extract the best out of them," Sekhar told IANS over phone from Hyderabad. "The bigger responsibility is...
03:24 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Unlike other directors, Sekhar Kammula is definitely more of a dreamer. He prefers the lawn in the great outdoors to the closed a/c rooms and empty chairs. As he settled comfortably cross-legged for a chit chat, he laughed off a volley of questions. Ahead of the release of his latest film, 'Life is Beautiful', he seemed to be in an introspective mood. "All that I have ever wanted to do...
07:08 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Amala Akkineni accepted to do the role in 'Life Is Beautiful' only after much cajoling. Saying that Sekhar Kammula is a thorough professional. While Amala adds quickly that she is not willing to restart her second innings in cinema. In this interview, the yesteryear actress minces no words in saying that family and social work come first for her. Answering questions on her role, Akhil and more, Amala gives her...
01:07 PM, Sep 14, 2012
As the much-awaited 'Life Is Beautiful' hits the screens, Sekhar Kammula speaks, in this exclusive interview with IndiaGlitz, about what made him do the movie, how he feels about working with debutantes, why he thinks 'LIB' is the toughest movie he has ever made and more. Saying that Anand's commercial success gave him the much-needed confidence, Kammula says in his characteristic style that, "risk never mattered to him after that"....
11:46 AM, Sep 14, 2012
New York: Indian author Siddhartha Deb has been named among the winners of the 2012 PEN Awards, considered the most comprehensive literary awards programme in the US, for his non-fiction work on India, which is described as a "gripping analysis" of the country and an "important book" of current times. Deb's book 'The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India' won the 'PEN Open Book Award', which...
08:58 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Yesteryear heroine Amala's decision to make a comeback in the industry, with a film titled 'Life Is Beautiful', has made her friends and well-wishers happy. One among them is Khushboo, who too is a popular yesteryear heroine as well. The actress has expressed happiness on her good friend starting her second innings. "I was waiting for it for a quite a long time and it happened only now with 'Life...
04:03 PM, Aug 28, 2012
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03:33 PM, Jul 29, 2012
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05:09 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Kerala: One of the much applauded films of last year Beautiful will be soon remade in Hindi. The movie will be made for the Bollywood audience by V K Prakash himself who has already got the dates of Ranver Shorey, and Vinay Pathak for the lead roles. Konkana Sen Sharma will be the heroine of the movie while the original scriptwriter- actor Anoop Mneon will appear in a small role...
12:00 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Shekar Kammula is planning to release the audio of 'Life Is Beautiful' on July 27. The movie's release date has been confirmed as August 15. LIB's music is by Mickey J Meyer. The movie, which has been in the making for one-and-a-half-years, stars newcomers Abhijeet, Sudhakar, Kaushik, Zara, Rashmi, Kavya, Naveen, Vijay, Sanjeev and Sri Ram in the main roles. It has been shot at a special colony set erected...
07:27 PM, Jul 13, 2012
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01:58 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Just as the same size and shape of varied colour of sweets wrapped up as 'Poppins', a movie is being planned with eight lead stars of Mollywood, appearing as four couples of equal importance. Yes, the new movie by VK Prakash will be titled 'Poppins' and will have the equal length emotional stories of four couples played by Anoop Menon-Ann Augustine, Jayasurya-Meghna Raj, Kunchakko Boban-Nithya Menen and Indrajith-Padmapriya. The movie...
03:32 PM, Jun 12, 2012
She looked a million bucks when she turned sizzling hot at this Artic event on April 26. Shriya Saran has managed to be behind the greasepaint for nearly 10 long years as she leaves a stamp in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi cinema. "I feel blessed to be part of the industry. I'm very grateful for being appreciated by people for all along. This film world always makes me feel special....
11:15 AM, May 18, 2012
When I first started reading, 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' by Katherine Boo, it didn't strike me as a different book. I mean I had read the similar story in Suketu Mehta's, 'Maximum City' (Honestly I didn't think much of it), though it was in brief. It was still more or less the same - Mumbai and its dichotomy (like every major cosmopolitan), its slums, its smells and sights and the...
05:45 PM, Mar 26, 2012
