Noted theatre personality and Malayalam film actor P K Venukuttan Nair died on Monday following a brief illness, family sources said. ...
12:14 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran CPM leader P Govinda Pillai passed away in a hospital here after age-related health problems, his family said on Friday. He was 86. Pillai, popularly known as PG, had been admitted to hospital about a week ago. The soft spoken ideologue of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, died in a private hospital late on Thursday. A voracious reader, a popular orator and a very strong writer, PG had...
10:21 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: "I have never made romantic films. I have made films on human relations, and humans are complicated people," filmmaker Yash Chopra had said on his 80th birthday, ironically after a career spanning five decades of some of Hindi cinema's best remembered romance classics. He was the man who taught Indian filmmakers to dream big, painting a motley canvass of love, heartbreak, separation and drama. Chopra passed away in...
08:41 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran RSP leader K Pankajakshan, who passed away on Tuesday, was a doyen of Kerala coalition politics. He was elected to the state Assembly five times and had been minister for various terms in five ministries. Highly respected in political and social circles, Pankajakshan had been instrumental in stabilising RSP in Kerala politics before moving to the national scene as the national general secretary of the undivided RSP. Later,...
01:34 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Actor AK Hangal has passed away at the age of 95 years. He was admitted to Parekh Hospital in Santacruz in suburban Mumbai after suffering from a back injury. Born on February 1, 1917, AK Hangal was better known as Imam Chacha or Bipinlal Pandey, immortal characters he played in films such as Sholay and Namak Haraam. Avtar Kishan Hangal was a Kashmiri pandit by birth and he...
10:19 AM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: From the dizzying heights of fame to quiet shadows behind the arclights, Rajesh Khanna's life had a theatrical sweep, almost like one of his films. Bollywood's original superstar - simply the phenomenon to some - died in Mumbai Wednesday, leaving behind memories cast in celluloid of that famous crooked smile and head tilt. He was only 69. In an era long before this age of instant connect of...
02:46 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Kozhikode: He left with a promise that he would return to the city to sing again. And when the news broke amongst music lovers in the city of Mehdi Hassans demise on Wednesday, it was also confirmation that it was a promise he would not be able to keep. Hassan had performed at the Tagore Centenary Hall in 2002 - reportedly his last in India - and the performance came...
11:01 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Kannur: The mortal remains of eminent Malayalam writer and critic Sukumar Azhikode, who dominated Kerala's cultural scene as a literary critic for over five decades, were consigned to flames at Payyambalam beach with full state honours in Kannur on Wednesday. Union ministers, state ministers, government officials and a large number of the public were present at the funeral to pay their last respect to the departed soul. Earlier, members of...
04:25 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Thrissur (Kerala): Veteran Malayalam writer and orator Sukumar Azhikode has on Tuesday breathed his last but his razor-sharp tongue and hard-hitting speeches interlaced with characteristic humour will remain in the memories of many who have heard him at least once. Since his retirement as pro-vice chancellor of Calicut University in 1986, he became a most busy public speaker, even remarking once that he had decided to be based in Thrissur...
04:37 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Thrissur (Kerala): Malayalam writer Sukumar Azhikode died at a private hospital here on Tuesday morning, family sources said. He was 85. After being detected with bone cancer, Azhikode was admitted to hospital on Dec 7 last year and his condition deteriorated in the past few days. The end came at 6.33 a.m. Family sources said his body would be taken to his home here and then moved to the Sahitya...
12:01 PM, Jan 24, 2012
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As I sit down to write a sort of obituary of Begum Nusrat Bhutto, I find my eyes dried of tears. Before me rolls a ...
12:47 PM, Oct 25, 2011
Mumbai: Renowned Marathi music director Shrinivas Khale passed away at his residence in neighbouring Thane early today following brief illness. He was 85 and is survived by wife and three daughters. Sources said 'Khale Kaka' as he was fondly called was not keeping well for the last few days and breathed his last at his residence in Vasant Vihar at 1.10 am. The funeral will take place later in the...
12:14 PM, Sep 02, 2011
Los Angeles: Jerry Leiber, who with longtime partner Mike Stoller wrote "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Yakety Yak" and other hit songs that came to define early rock 'n' roll, died on Monday. He was 78. He was surrounded by family when he died unexpectedly of cardiopulmonary failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his longtime publicist, Bobbi Marcus. With Leiber as lyricist and Stoller as composer, the team channeled their blues...
03:31 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra, who attended late actor Shammi Kapoor's funeral on Monday, said there will never be anyone who can come even close to the 79-year-old actor. "I am so sad that I don't even feel like talking right now. He was a great actor. His style and his way of acting is cult and it will remain forever. We will never have another Shammi Kapoor in our...
05:22 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: His never-say-die attitude had begun to ebb, says megastar Amitabh Bachchan, whose wife Jaya had spoken to Shammi Kapoor a few days before he died. "He had got tired during the last two days. Never one to give up, he spoke, for the first time in a tone that conveyed that he had had enough, to Jaya a few days ago. 'I am tired, I can't take it...
04:53 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, an ardent Shammi Kapoor fan, says he will introduce the magic of the late actor, who passed away on Sunday, to his two sons - Hrehaan, five, and Hridhaan, three. "Legends like Shammi Kapoor do not die...he lives, inside us, around us. A journey such as his should be rejoiced, not mourned. Of course, we'll miss his physical presence terribly, but his magic lives...
04:38 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, who shared screen space with Shammi Kapoor in "Chamatkar" (1992), paid his homage to the late actor at his Malabar Hill home on Sunday evening. Shah Rukh, who came in a black BMW, did not stay inside the house for very long and also restrained from speaking to the media. Also present was actor Ranbir Kapoor, who is Shammi Kapoor's grandnephew. Shammi had recently...
12:01 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra's political fraternity on Sunday condoled the death of veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor. The 79-year-old actor was on dialysis for the last few days and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai where he breathed his last at 5:15 a.m. Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan expressed condolences on the actor's demise, saying that Shammi was an iconic figure and a rage for...
11:53 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Bangalore: Dancing King Shammi Kapoor's death early on Sunday morning has shocked many Kannada film personalities who were close to the flamboyant star who changed the course of film entertainment in his heyday. Director S.V.Rajendra Singh Babu, who helmed three Hindi films featuring Shammi Kapoor, was the first to express his shock about his favourite actor's death. "Yes, I know Shammi sahab was suffering from illness from a long time....
10:55 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Nephew Randhir Kapoor, grandnieces Karisma and Kareena, co-star Amitabh Bachchan, director Imtiaz Ali and many more visited the Blue Heaven Society on Malabar Hill to pay tribute to Shammi Kapoor, who breathed his last on Sunday morning at the Breach Candy Hospital. He was 79. He will be cremated Monday morning. Among the early birds from the film fraternity were Amitabh who came with wife Jaya, director Subhash Ghai,...
06:40 PM, Aug 14, 2011
