New Delhi: 'Vicky Donor' star Ayushmann Khurana says his boy next door image is what made him popular among the audience and he would like to maintain that throughout his acting career. The 27-year-old VJ-turned-actor says he believes in being natural and is not willing to project a certain image onscreen even in his upcoming projects. "I have not drawn any boundaries for myself. I believe in being natural. Even...
12:35 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Juggling between advertising, script writing and motherhood, 'Vicky Donor' writer Juhi Chaturvedi is enjoying her new found celebrity status to the fullest. Based on sperm donation, 'Vicky Donor' has made her a star overnight. With some more films in her kitty, Juhi is all set to take Bollywood by storm. Box office success of films like 'Paan Singh Tomar', 'Kahaani' and 'Vicky Donor' indicate that the audiences want...
01:52 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Both Hate Story and Vicky Donor did good business over the weekend at single screens and multiplexes drawing in a nett Rs 6.60 crore and Rs 7 crore respectively, film trade analyst Taran Adarsh and the director of Hate Story Vivek Agnihotri said. While Vicky Donor impressed the multiplex audiences, Hate Story dominated the single screens outside metros. Agnihotri said this was a hopeful trend since this benefited...
08:23 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Mumbai: Be it Bollywood or Hollywood, fanfare has no limit. John Abraham, who has been constantly receiving e-mails and letters at his house ever since he mentioned his belief in sperm donation, recently had quite an experience. The actor-producer is said to have received a strange request from a married woman, who apparently is having trouble conceiving a child. The only option left for her is artificial insemination. Now, the...
01:20 PM, Apr 17, 2012
John Abraham was in the capital to promote his maiden home production 'Vicky Donor' along with lead actor Ayushman Khurana. ...
09:38 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Mumbai: The inspiration behind John Abraham's upcoming film on sperm donation actually came from the actor's close friends. The, couple who were married for several years, had to rely on a sperm donor to have a child they could call their own. A close friend of John says, "One of their friends told the couple about sperm donation. They finally followed this and looked for donation banks. They finally found...
03:53 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: VJ-turned-actor Ayushmann Khurrana has chosen to be different. With 'Vicky Donor', an uncoventional film on sperm donation, he is glad that his debut project deals with a common issue seldom talked about in the country. "This film will not only entertain you, it will enlighten you about sperm donation. It is very common in our country, but it's just that people don't talk about it," Ayushmann told IANS....
11:57 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Chennai: Desirous of having high IQ level progeny, a city-based couple have placed an online advertisement seeking a sperm donor preferably an IITian for artificial insemination for a compensation of Rs 20,000. The couple in their advertisement have said that the ideal candidate for sperms "should be an IIT student, healthy, no bad habits, tall and fair, if possible." Offering a compensation of Rs 20,000 for the donor and to...
06:51 PM, Jan 14, 2012
London: From whale sperm to colon cleansers to the shape of a woman's foot when she has an orgasm, celebrities did not disappoint during 2011 with their penchant for peddling suspect science in the world's media. In its annual list of what it considers the year's worst abuses against science, the Sense About Science campaign named U.S. reality TV star Nicole Polizzi, Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann and American singer-songwriter...
12:28 PM, Dec 29, 2011
London: Here's an advice for the tech-savvy generation - browsing the net on a laptop computer connected with wireless technology can damage sperm counts, a new study has claimed. An international team has discovered that a laptop, using wi-fi, which is placed near male reproductive organs reduced men's sperm quality and also their chances of experiencing fatherhood, The Daily Telegraph reported. The study, led by the Nascentis Centre for Reproductive...
05:39 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Mumbai: After Ranvir Shorey, Purab Kohli and Ranvijay Singh, it is time for another VJ to rock the cinema world. Active as a television anchor and VJ, Ayushman Khurrana will now be seen on the big screen in Shoorjit Sircar's quirkily titled film, 'Vicky Donor'. Ayushman plays a Punjabi cricket player-sperm donor in love with a Bengali girl, to be played by television actress Yami Gautam, known from the soaps...
11:16 AM, Oct 07, 2011
London: Scientists claim to have for the first time created viable artificial sperm using stem cells, a major breakthrough which they say could lead to new treatments for infertile men. A team at Kyoto University in Japan has created the sperm-producing germ cells in a laboratory and transferred them into infertile mice, which after the treatment were able to produce healthy offspring, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported. The development could help...
02:42 PM, Aug 05, 2011
London: Infertile women aspiring to be moms will soon be able to handpick the father of their child, thanks to a catalogue being compiled by the London Sperm Bank. The catalogue lists the personality traits, interests and even fashion sense of the sperm donors, thus enabling the aspiring mothers to pick the father of their child according to their needs, the 'Daily Mail' reported. It includes written statements from each...
01:20 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Los Angeles: To fans, he was movie star tough guy the Terminator. Then he turned to politics and was affectionately dubbed the Governator. But after acknowledging that he fathered a child out of wedlock, Arnold Schwarzenegger was swiftly given a new name -- the Sperminator. Schwarzenegger's admission on Tuesday that he impregnated a member of his household staff 10 years ago, while married to Maria Shriver and before running for...
12:05 PM, May 18, 2011
New York: The 2010 drama "The Kids Are All Right" featured two teens raised by a lesbian couple who decide to contact their biological father -- an experience that is unlikely to leave scars in real life, two studies said. The studies, published in Human Reproduction, also showed that the majority of donors who have contact with their offspring report positive experiences. "There is considerable debate about the potential impact...
01:02 PM, Jan 07, 2011
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