Mumbai: Many powerful producers, not just Mukesh Bhatt, are up in arms against Javed Akhtar for fighting for copyright amendment in favour of lyricists and singers. Ever since he became vocal about intellectual property rights two years ago, Akhtar has been writing no lyrics or dialogues for any of the big banners in Bollywood except his son Farhan Akhtars banner. Yashraj Films, Dharma Productions and other prestigious production houses have...
06:38 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Popular superhero Shaktimaan, who ruled the television in the late 90's has now been recreated in animation. The show is currently being broadcast on Nick and soon the series will be distributed internationally. Six times Emmy award winning writer Jeffrey Scott has penned down the scripts for Shaktimaan in Animation. "Shaktimaan in animation is nothing short of magic. It has retained all the right elements of Shaktimaan and...
07:02 PM, May 17, 2012
New York: Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilia as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq feet Ambani mansion and its contents continue to fascinate people not only in India but also abroad. Vanity Fair, which interviewed Nita last November, will publish a few pictures from inside Antilia in its...
03:18 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Neil Nitin Mukesh lives it up with locals in Fiji where he is shooting. Rumoured girlfriend Sonal Chauhan who is his co-star perhaps was not around. Prateik has found a new fan in Asha Bhosle The young man is being felicitated at an awards ceremony in Pune today along with the veteran singer. And Asha Bhosle was thrilled that Prateik too was taking home the honour. Asha, it seems,...
12:04 PM, May 16, 2012
After delivering a blockbuster like Magadheera two years ago, it was felt that actor Ramcharan, son of Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi, would be occupying the pivotal place in the industry that indisputably belonged to his actor-turned-politician father. Unfortunately, his next film, Orange, produced by his uncle Naga Babu and directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar, was a flop. Therefore, Ramcharan took a longer time to accept a film and to select a commercially...
06:18 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: After her debut flick Jannat in 2008, Sonal Chauhan went missing from the big screen except for a brief outing in Bbuddha Hoga Tera Baap last year and a few South films. Of late, the starlet has been more in the news for being spotted with Neil Nitin Mukesh than her film commitments. She also begins shooting for a film with the actor later this month. Reason enough for...
04:35 PM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: Tata group firm TCS on Wednesday replaced Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries as the country's most valued company in terms of market capitalisation, as investors rallied behind the shares of the IT giant. At the end of Wednesday's trade, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) commanded a market value of Rs 2,48,116 crore, higher than Reliance Industries' Rs 2,43,413 crore. While RIL shares fell 0.25 per cent in an overall lacklustre market,...
04:23 AM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: FMCG major ITC on Tuesday replaced Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) as the most influential stock on Indian bourses. Based on its weightage on the stock market's index Sensex, RIL slipped to the second position after ITC. At close on Tuesday, ITC grabbed the top slot in terms of Sensex weightage, which is measured by the value of a company's free-float or non-promoter shares that can be freely...
06:44 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Washington: Caught on the wrong foot over the detaining of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan at a US airport twice, Washington has asserted it was not a case of racial profiling or a pattern. Suggesting that Khan was not 'detained', but 'simply delayed', State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters Friday: "I wouldn't necessarily look at this as some sort of pattern but rather two separate incidents." "Obviously, we've expressed...
03:51 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New York: Unfazed by his detention at a New York airport by US immigration authorities for a couple of hours, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, joked about the incident later at Yale University, where he was honoured as a Chubb Fellow. Khan, who has millions of fans in India and around the world, was detained at New York's White Plains airport, about 35 miles from New York, when he arrived...
06:25 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: Almost every hit film from the Bhatt camp is now getting a sequel and producer Mukesh Bhatt says that movie franchises have proved lucrative for business in every film industry. While 'Jannat 2' and 'Raaz 3' are already in the making, 'Aashiqui 2' is all set to go on floors as well while plans are being put together for 'Jism 2' and 'Murder 3'. "Global talent hunt for...
07:55 PM, Apr 04, 2012
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