
New Delhi: The Shahenshah of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan is turning 70 on October 11, 2012 and the Bachchan family is celebrating the event in style on October 10 with a book launch and an Indian contemporary ballet performance by Nritarutya performed to Harivansh Rai Bachchan's poem recited by Amitabh Bachchan himself. The event is being held at the Reliance Media Works, Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai.The invite was sent on behalf...

05:54 PM, Oct 10, 2012

Amitabh Bachchan has been unlike any Indian. No one man has straddled so many generations; endured the adulation of billions of people not just in India but across the world, and has not let stardom take away either his humility or his ability to connect not just with his admirers but more than that with causes that he has readily endorsed and supported. To call him a star would be...

04:36 PM, Sep 21, 2012

New Delhi: Modern technology has overshadowed the feel of original music, rues Amitabh Bachchan, who is recording his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan's 'Madhushala' in his voice. The megastar is also skeptical about the poetry connecting with today's youth. "...singing the verses of Madhushala, the 'alaap' and lending orchestral brilliance to the basic structure that I made in an impromptu setting on my piano. What a different world this is... "We...

12:01 PM, Mar 26, 2012

New Delhi: Mostly seen in a clean-shaven look, Shah Rukh Khan is finding it hard to grow a beard for a music video for his forthcoming film 'Don 2: The Chase Continues'. "Doing a music video for Don2... beard struggling to grow back. I really enjoy being Don... all that I am not I get to do," Shah Rukh posted on twitter page. The 46-year-old is sporting several looks in...

12:38 PM, Nov 29, 2011

New Delhi: The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, which has awarded Amitabh Bachchan an honorary doctorate, will launch a Students Exchange Programme in the name of the megastar's father, the late Harivansh Rai Bachchan. "And today an inauguration of a student exchange Bursary in my Father's name between India and Australia .. Proud !!" Big B posted on his twitter page Friday. "Back from another emotional ceremony at...

06:26 PM, Oct 21, 2011

It will be the meeting of two acting legends in Paris as Amitabh Bachchan has invited southern screen god Kamal Haasan to attend his poetry recital in the romantic city. "Kamal Haasan (is) shooting in Paris, (he) messaged me, (I) have called him for my recital," Amitabh posted on his Twitter homepage Sunday from Paris. Big B, 67, is in the French capital, for the recital of his legendary poet...

01:09 PM, Jun 14, 2010

The Bachchans released the pictorial interpretation of
Madhushala. ...

03:13 AM, Dec 10, 2009

Amitabh will release some of his father's important works to mark the day. ...

03:56 PM, Nov 02, 2009

Amitabh Bachchan turns 66 on Saturday. ...

02:45 PM, Oct 11, 2008

As Bachchan recited lines from Harivansh Rai’s
What did I gain or what did I lose, it looked like he went back in time. ...

05:08 PM, Jan 09, 2007