New Delhi: When you have the right to vote at the age of 18 and can choose the prime minister of your country, why you dont have the freedom of choosing your life partner? In most of the families, it is a difficult task for children to tell their parents that they are in love. Many get the acceptance of their families before or after the marriage, while many others...
02:41 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran actor AK Hangal finally made his much awaited appearance in the TV serial 'Madhubala: Ek Ishq Ek Junoon' on June 1. The actor played himself only where he in a way started the real story of the serial. Hangal, 97, put the name of a new born baby in the serial who is going to be the lead heroine of the show in the coming weeks. A...
09:41 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Auto sales in India moderated in May with the country's largest car makers Maruti Suzuki, General Motors, Ford and TVS Motor posting declines in their numbers due to post-Budget price hikes, high interest rates and rising fuel prices. Hyundai Motor, Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra, however, witnessed sales going up. During the month, the country's largest two-wheeler maker Hero MotoCorp registered its highest ever monthly sales. Maruti...
09:38 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor AK Hangal came out of retirement at the age of 97 to shoot for the television serial Madhubala. The veteran actor stepped out of his house for the first time in five months for the shooting of an episode of Madhubala in which he has done a cameo. Hangal pulled off his part in a single-take shot. Hangal has been active in filmdom since 1967 and played...
05:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: He takes tentative steps towards a cluster of people, guided purely by his senses, and the oppressive silence that warns him that something is not right here. The gentle timbre of his voice rings through the air heavy with mourning "yaha itna sannata kyu hai bhai"? Thirty-seven years after AK Hangal shot that iconic scene from 'Sholay', the silence at the studio where the television serial Madhubala was...
03:47 PM, May 31, 2012
Mumbai: When Bollywood film-maker Kunal Deshmukh set out to make 'Jannat 2', a raunchy tale about arms dealing with plenty of swearing and bare skin, he ended up shooting two versions - one for cinema audiences, and the other for television. Deshmukh was not being extravagant. Like many Indian movie producers and TV broadcasters, he walked a tightrope of catering to the tastes of a rapidly modernising but largely conservative...
03:34 PM, May 30, 2012
Ace photographer Dabboo Ratnanai has shot MS Dhoni and other cricketers during the shooting of a TV commercial. ...
12:39 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: With medical students as audience members, fourth episode of Aamir Khans television show 'Satyamev Jayate' focused on health care services in our country. Aamirs guests on the show included doctors, victims and families who lost their loved ones due to negligence of doctors. The show started with the story of VS Venkatesh who had to go thorough four surgeries because of an infection in his leg. He later...
02:27 PM, May 27, 2012
Hyderabad: There is some relief for YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the disproportionate assets case. The Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered that the accounts of his media company Sakhi TV be defreezed. But the Fixed Deposits held by his companies will remain frozen. The leader of YSR Congress is under investigation for owning disproportionate assets. The state government had earlier issued orders to attach Jagan Reddy's properties, which...
01:08 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: A US couple's prank went sickeningly wrong after they placed their child inside a washing machine, which suddenly started to whir into action. CCTV footage showed the couple frantically tearing at the door of machine dryer, but all in haste. The toddler was eventually freed by a member of staff after over a minute of being caught in the whirl. The couple s shared horror turned to anger at...
03:50 AM, May 21, 2012
Guwahati: The Assam government on Saturday announced that its planned TV channel would go on air in January 2013 and it would focus on sectors like agriculture, education, health and tourism. This was decided at a meeting of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi along with senior members of his Cabinet and other senior state government officials in Guwahati. "The main aim of the channel would be to bring a progressive turn...
06:46 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: With the 22-second teaser out, speculations have arisen about the third episode of much talked about show 'Satyamev Jayate'. The short and crisp promo shows the host Aamir Khan talking about the passion of Indians. Khan deliberately denies cricket or movies to be the passion referring to some thing else (still unrevealed). The chat show, whose earlier two episodes dealt with social issues like female infanticide and child...
06:22 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Actress Sushmita Mukherjee, fondly remembered as the Kitty of the 1980s show "Karamchand", is set to feature in "Madhubala - Ek Ishq, Ek Junoon" that will go on air on Colors May 28. Her character, Daima, will be that of a lady, who in the olden days, was a substitute to a doctor or nurse. She makes an entry when she is called to predict the gender of...
11:40 AM, May 19, 2012
Los Angeles: Time was when TV talent shows set out to turn wannabes into stars. These days? Not so much. It's the celebrity judges who are raking in the cash and using TV contests not only as a way to re-launch a fading career, but to further boost a thriving one. For music stars in an era of weak record sales, the trend spells victory for their bank account, but...
03:23 PM, May 18, 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
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