"There is a fame epidemic," Simon Cowell, the boorish judge of television talent show competitions such as Britain's Got Talent and American Idol, once declared. You may be one of the celebrities featured in the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list and know firsthand how it feels to be famous. Perhaps a few of you would even caution us from coming down with fame, a recalcitrant bug that like zoster can...
06:58 PM, Feb 12, 2013
He ambled in trailing charm and cigarette smoke. An assistant placed a glass of whiskey in his hand. And we began to talk. Or rather, he did. ...
06:46 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Saat Rasta, known earlier as the Jacob Circle, is the vortex that joins five different areas of Mumbai. On that junction lies New Shirin Talkies, a non-descript theatre. Normally, the traffic on Saat Rasta roundabout is messy, but a week before Eid in 2010, at least three roads leading up to it were completely blocked. ...
12:59 PM, Feb 07, 2013
At the play-off hole of the 2012 Scottish Open, his position on the penultimate shot wasn't great and his fingers and wrists were hurting. His opponent Francesco Molinari, the Italian Ryder Cup star, who had led the European Tour event for the first three days, fluffed his putt. "Drive for show, putt for dough," they say. After the Who's Who of golf, including defending champ Luke Donald, Phil Mickelson and...
03:37 PM, Feb 06, 2013
In the last few months, two of Indian cinema's leading ladies got married. They're both talented, in great health, very attractive and at the peak of their careers. Will they fall prey to the accepted wisdom that marriage deals a death blow to the career of an Indian actress? ...
11:40 AM, Feb 06, 2013
There was a time in Tamil Nadu when these two songs would blare from every other tea shop loudspeaker, on All India Radio programmes (like Neyar Viruppam, or 'Audience Choice'), and on tape recorders in drawing rooms across the state. There were no similarities between the two, either in tune or in setting. One featured Rajinikanth, the undisputed superstar, and the other a five-year-old boy, the son of an ambitious...
12:15 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Forbes India Celebrity 100 No. 3: Watch any TV channel for an hour, at most, and you're sure to see at least a couple of suave cricketers in custom-made suits, hair styled, seasoned models with an attitude to match-nothing like their sweaty, muddy facades on the field-telling you why they prefer to ride a certain motorbike, drink a particular cola, brush their teeth with only that toothpaste, or use precisely...
12:07 PM, Feb 02, 2013
I do a lot of movies. I have done 63 movies in under 10 years. That's a hell of a lot. And the reason why I could do it is that I am not a lead actor, which means that my work in a film is 15-20 days' work, while a lead actor will work for about 45 days. That way, I can do more films but I am cutting...
11:42 AM, Jan 31, 2013
"I just can't work anymore. I have no time," exclaims Anurag Kashyap as he walks into his Yari Road office in Mumbai on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I ask him how long can he spare for the interview. "Honestly, I just have three minutes for you," he says with a chuckle. For a man who did almost everything one can possibly do in showbiz (direction, production, screenwriting, acting) in the...
10:52 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Here are top 10 celebs and their earnings in crores. ...
04:17 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Shah Rukh Khan has topped the inaugural Forbes India Celebrity 100 list, a ranking of India's biggest entertainers based on their income and popularity. ...
02:29 PM, Jan 24, 2013
