Mumbai: Last year quite a few Bollywood films made record collections of over Rs 100 crore at the box office, but Akshay Kumar claims that in next five years things will change so much that even Rs 400 crore won't seem a big amount. "After five years, Rs 400 crore will be too small. Hits and flops keep on coming in its own way. I personally feel keep on working....
02:29 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Kolkata: Mirroring real life, celebrated actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty and his mother Monika are enacting mother-son relationship in the Bengali feature film 'Flop-e' made by debutante director Pritam Sarkar. "This is the first time we are acting as mother and son on screen," said Sabyasachi, who has starred in films like Rajkumar Santoshi's 'Khakee', Mira Nair's 'The Namesake' and Pradip Sarkar's 'Parineeta'. The leading Bengali actor portrays the role of a...
06:25 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Lalitpur (Jhansi): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a rallying spree across Uttar Pradesh, the state where he has much at stake in the forthcoming elections. However, on the first day of his five-day tour of the Bundelkhand region, the Congress leader was in for a disappointment because of the dismal turn-out at his rally at Lalitpur. Empty chairs greeted the few who had braved the cold to listen...
02:39 PM, Jan 18, 2012
In this episode of Now Showing, Rajeev Masand reviews 'Players' and 'The Darkest Hour'. ...
01:47 PM, Jan 07, 2012
In this special edition of Now Showing, Rajeev Masand talks about the best movies, hits and flops and what the cinema taught us in 2011. ...
11:59 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New York: Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren't always pretty. Here are seven products created under his direction that failed commercially or functionally: 1. Apple III (1981): The successor to the very popular Apple II was focused on business users and priced accordingly. Unfortunately, the hardware was unreliable. Apple lost the business market to the IBM PC, launched the...
09:47 AM, Oct 06, 2011
Kolkata: Bengali film Flop-e, on a corporate honcho wanting to taste failure, starring Paoli Dam and Sabyasachi Chakraborty, will be the first to have a London premiere next month during the Durga Puja celebrations. "The storyline of the film is very unique and unusual. It's about how a corporate hotshot who has never tasted failure in life wants to invest in a business that is going to flop," said director...
08:07 PM, Sep 14, 2011
London: Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston's signature fragrance is reportedly a flop. Aniston launched her self-titled aroma in British department store Harrods earlier this year but sources claimed the actress has refused to promote the perfume, leading to poor sales. "Jen chose her perfume. But other than launching it at Harrods in London, she's done no promotion. No one knew where to find it and now everyone's lost interest. They can't...
02:07 PM, Dec 30, 2010
2010- a year of big movies, big stars, big budgets and yes, big flops too. Here's a list of the top five duds of this year. ...
02:14 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Mumbai: There was a time when Akshay Kumar was considered one of the most dependable actors in the film industry. However, off late the actor's films haven't been able even draw a good initial at the box office. Khiladi Kumar needs to worry as not only has his Diwali release Action Replayy failed at the box office, it's had one of the lowest openings ever for any Akshay Kumar starrer....
02:30 PM, Nov 10, 2010
Big budget films that were released this week, turned out to be disasters at the box office. ...
04:22 PM, Oct 26, 2010
![Sony decides to stop selling floppy disks]( "Sony decides to stop selling floppy disks")
The Japanese electronics giant has cited falling sales as the reason behind this decision. ...
02:31 PM, Apr 27, 2010
Former Olympian Samiullah said Pakistani players lacked the spirit and stamina for such a big event. ...
11:28 AM, Mar 05, 2010
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