Yangon: Officially at least, America still calls this Southeast Asian nation Burma, the favoured appellation of dissidents and pro-democracy activists who opposed the former military junta's move to summarily change its name 23 years ago. President Barack Obama used that name during his historic visit on Monday, but he also called Burma what the government and many other people have been calling it for years: Myanmar. That single word was...
08:43 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Yangon: In a historic trip to a long shunned land, President Barack Obama on Monday showered praise and promises of more US help to Myanmar if the Asian nation keeps building its new democracy. "Our goal is to sustain the momentum," he declared with pride as the first US president to visit here. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets as Obama packed in diplomacy and soaked in his...
01:48 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Los Angeles: Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has hinted that he is already planning to retire after his tenth movie. The 49-year-old has directed cult films like 'Inglourious Basterds', 'Kill Bill', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Reservoir Dogs' and his eighth directorial effort, 'Django Unchained' is all set to hit theatres, Ace Showbiz reported quoting Playboy magazine. "You stop when you stop, but in a fanciful world, 10 movies in my filmography would be nice....
06:03 PM, Nov 17, 2012
Los Angeles: Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has no hard feelings towards Will Smith after the movie star walked away from his upcoming western 'Django Unchained'. Tarantino, 49, eventually cast Jamie Foxx as Django in the upcoming movie, but he says Smith was the initial frontrunner for the role and the two movie buffs met up to discuss the film shortly after he had written it, the Collider reported quoting Playboy magazine....
11:31 AM, Nov 16, 2012
This Diwali has not been fair to Kannada film fans. Normally biggies hit the screens during the festival, but this time circumstances have not favoured big producers and directors to release their movies on the occasion and add to the festive mood. Now their films are expected to come out Nov 23. After the fantastic historical film 'Kranti Veera Sangolli Raayanna', a series of immature attempts from non-film people are...
04:47 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday interacted with netizens and answered their questions on Google+ Hangout. The one-hour session began at 8 pm India time and was aimed at interacting with non-resident Indians (NRIs) in particular. Members of the IAC said on Saturday that they had been receiving a lot of queries from NRIs ever since Kejriwal announced that he will be forming a political party....
08:00 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Just a week ago, the Kannada film industry felt proud for the huge response to a well- made historical film like 'Kranti Veera Sangolli Raayanna', based on the life and times of a revolutionary guerrilla fighter, who fought against the Imperialist British empire. The whole of the southern film industry took notice of the movie, and now, one gets to see a disaster like 'Super Shastri'. The story of the...
04:42 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Richa Gangopadhyay, the 'Mayakkam Enna' and 'Osthe' girl, hit the news columns a couple of days ago when it was claimed that she was in a relationship with photographer-actor Sunder Ram, who was her co-star in 'Mayakkam Enna'. It was also said that Sunder threatened to commit suicide since Richa refused to marry him. However, the actress has dubbed these reports as output of fertile imagination. "Sunder is my friend...
04:19 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Koratala Shiva directed 'Mirchi', starring Prabhas, will hit the marquee on January 11, 2013. The film's music is composed by by Devi Sri Prasad, it sees Anushka Shetty and Richa Gangopadhyaya as the female lead actresses. Sathyaraj has a crucial role, while Nadia Moidu is playing Prabhas' mother. Brahmanandam is the ace comedian, who seems to have a larger role. It has to be seen if Prabhas and Brahmi strike...
04:19 PM, Nov 09, 2012
South Africa's assistant coach Russell Domingo says that Tahir will add variety to the team's bowling attack which is pace-dominated. ...
03:08 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Los Angeles: 'Django Unchained' star Jamie Foxx is in early negotiations to play a negative role in sequel to 'The Amazing Spider-Man'. If the talks go through, the Oscar-winner will take on the role of Electro, a villain who controls electricity and was introduced to the Marvel Comics universe in The Amazing Spider-Man #9 back in 1964. Foxx gave a hint about being approached for the role by tweeting, "Dressed...
06:39 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Puri Jagannadh has replaced Richa Gangopadhyaya with Taapsee Pannu in his film Iddarammayilatho. Amala Paul is the main heroine of this film which will go on the floors later this month. This Bandla Ganesh production was launched officially recently. Puri is happy to be teaming up with Devi Sri Prasad. The ace director had wavered for some time on whether to rope in DSP for Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu. He...
05:45 PM, Nov 02, 2012
After the exit of two heroines, the shooting of Ongole Gitta has been disrupted by cyclone Nilam. Informing about the same, Ram posted on Twitter saying, "Shoot disrupted due to heavy rain n wind..I doubt if we could continue tomorrow..location flooded..#OngoleGitha ....please be safe people." This Bhaskar directed movie has Krithi Karbanda of 'Teen Maar' and 'Mr Nookayya' playing the heroine. Music is by GV Prakash. It is produced by...
05:32 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Richa Gangopadhyay might have walked out of Venkat Prabhu's 'Biriyani', which has Karthi Sivakumar in the lead, since she was not happy with some changes made to the script. But the actress says she is keen to work with the director in the future. "I like Venkat Prabhu's style of filmmaking. And I am hopeful of working with him," she says. Denying any difference of opinion with Venkat Prabhu, she...
01:30 PM, Nov 02, 2012
This is an exceptional film in the history of Kannada cinema. A historical film 'Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna' is laudable for its rich effort and well controlled performance by character artists and chilling performance from challenging star of Kannada cinema Darshan. The power of this film is powerful dialogues for Darshan. He reminds his father Toogudeepa Srinivas when he delivers high pitch dialogues. 'Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna' is about 19th century freedom...
06:39 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Director Quentin Tarantino has hinted that his upcoming film 'Django Unchained' is part of an unofficial trilogy. The Oscar-winning director has let out that the new film, revolving around the life of a slave-turned-bounty hunter, is the second in the trilogy which began with 'Inglourious Basterds'. Tarantino, who was named Director of Our Lifetime in the 200th issue of Total Film magazine, said, "I don't know, Inglourious Basterds...
08:06 PM, Oct 29, 2012
The winner, who must demonstrate strong participation in cricket, will have half his or her tuition fees paid for the duration of a degree at the University of Wollongong south of Sydney. ...
02:49 PM, Oct 29, 2012
It is known that Nagarjuna has a film lined up with 'Poola Rangadu' fame director Veerabhadram. When the director narrated the story, Nag was impressed with it and decided to produce it on his home production banner, Annapurna Studios. Over the months, the writer-director has perfected the script. Titled as 'Bhai', the movie is slated to be released in April or May 2013. Thus, when the film goes on the...
11:57 AM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Supporting his senior colleague, Union Minister V Narayanasamy on Wednesday said no action can be taken against Law Minister Salman Khurshid "simply" on the basis of allegation of misuse of funds by an NGO headed by him. Noting that the UP Government is conducting an inquiry into allegations against Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust run by Khurshid and his wife, the Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office said...
01:59 PM, Oct 24, 2012
