
New Delhi: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who gave Bipasha Basu her career's first big break a decade ago with Raaz, says the latest installment of the film will see the actress in a new avatar. Bipasha started her Bollywood career with Ajanabee but got her first box office hit with the horror movie. Bhatt, 63, says he has been on the sets and is happy with the way the Vikram Bhatt...

05:58 PM, Mar 20, 2012

New Delhi: Taking strong objection to banned athletes such as Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur training at the SAI centre in Sonepat, IOA acting-president Vijay Kumar Malhotra on Friday made it clear that the tainted ones cannot hone their skills at the "government's expenses". "These banned athletes cannot train at government's expenses at SAI centre," Malhotra said. Despite the one-year suspensions, handed to them in December last year, Akkunji, Mandeep,...

11:42 PM, Mar 02, 2012

Tangla: Dwarves in Assam have been written off by the society sadly as symbols of entertainment. Pabitra Rabha decided to give the men their dues in life and he has been doing this through the power of theatre. James Daimary was a circus clown for 18 long years. About two years ago James' prayer for a life of dignity was answered. It all started when he embarked on a new...

09:16 AM, Feb 27, 2012

Los Angeles: Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt says when he arrived at Hollywood in the late 1980s he was told he couldn't act and should take acting classes. The 48-year-old, who raises six kids with partner Angelina Jolie, said the first big-time role he auditioned for was 'The Accused', reported Us magazine. "My agent sent me out for two films. One of them was The Accused with Jodie Foster. I was...

02:38 PM, Jan 16, 2012

Los Angeles: Michael Jackson's daughter says she was inspired to be an actress after seeing her father in the film 'Moonwalker'. "My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act," Paris Jackson told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, according to a transcript of the episode to air Thursday. "I saw that and I said, `Wow, I want...

11:04 AM, Dec 15, 2011

London: Actor Brad Pitt says he may quit acting when he turns 50. Asked how long he would continue to act, the 47-year-old, on Australian chat show '60 Minutes', said 'three years', adding his days as lead actor are 'numbered'. The actor said he might move behind the camera when he steps out of the limelight, reports dailymail.co.uk. "I've really enjoyed the producerial (sic) side and getting stories to the...

12:47 PM, Nov 14, 2011

London: 'Twilight' star Taylor Lautner says his acting career made him a bit of an outcast when he was at school. The 19-year-old actor says his budding acting career meant he often missed classes and time with his friends, making his teen years more challenging for him than for other students, reported Pops magazine. "I had a lot of fun in high school, but was I viewed as maybe a...

11:45 AM, Nov 07, 2011

Mumbai: Singer Shaan showcased his acting skills when he donned different get-ups to represent some popular characters from Hindi movies at the 2nd Chevrolet Global Indian Music Awards (GIMA) recently. The melodious crooner played characters like Hrithik Roshan in 'Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai', Shah Rukh Khan in 'Main Hoon Na', Aamir Khan in '3 Idiots' and Ajay Devgn in 'Singham'. He sang too, and gave a Bengali twist to Shah Rukh?s...

10:49 AM, Oct 27, 2011

London: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow says acting became unimportant to her when she had kids with husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The 39-year-old, who has two children - daughter Apple, seven, and five-year-old son Moses - said she lost her sense of being an artist after she gave birth, reported Daily Mail. "When I first had my kids, I just didn't want to be anywhere else. Now they are older, I...

12:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011

London: Director Clint Eastwood is reportedly set to return to acting in a new baseball movie 'Trouble with the Curve', despite insisting 2008's 'Gran Torino' was his last time in front of the camera. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 81-year-old is planning to play a baseball scout who goes on a trip with his adult daughter. His longtime producing partner Robert Lorenz is set to make his directorial debut...

01:39 PM, Oct 07, 2011

London: Hollywood star George Clooney says directing a movie is more creative than acting in one. The 50-year-old actor, who loved the experience of working behind the camera as well as in front for political drama 'The Ides of March', believes the cast he assembled for the film helped him enjoy his time as a filmmaker, Contactmusic reported. "I enjoy directing, it's a very fun thing to do. Working with...

07:27 PM, Sep 09, 2011

Washington: The US lost at least $ 31 billion, and possibly as much as $ 60 billion to contract waste and fraud during contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a top independent commission has said. The Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC), an independent, bipartisan legislative commission established to study wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan in its final report, estimated that at the mid-range, waste and fraud during contingency operations...

11:46 AM, Sep 01, 2011

Moscow: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has agreed to participate in a documentary film about a day in his life. Putin was approached for the documentary while visiting the Seliger youth camp, in Russia's Tver region. The request was made by a young TV journalist working on the camp channel. "Ok," Putin said, shrugging his shoulders. He added that they should agree on a date to film. The camp is...

12:28 PM, Aug 02, 2011

Asha Bhosle is now moving out of recording studios to face the camera with her acting debut in the film 'Maaee'. ...

09:16 AM, Apr 26, 2011

Singing legend Asha Bhosle is ready to don a new role. She is making her acting debut in a Hindi film at the age of 77. Acting, she says, will not be a challenge because it runs in her family and singing too involves a certain degree of acting. "When I heard about the role, I knew that I will be able to do it because acting is in my...

11:21 AM, Mar 03, 2011