After spending barely 10 days in the house, former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds is now leaving the show. ...
01:22 PM, Dec 19, 2011
Mumbai: Veteran Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi will be narrating poems for a kids show on Disney Channel, while comic actor Omi Vaidya of '3 Idiots' fame will be lending his voice to a character on a cookery show meant for children on the same TV network. With Christmas holiday season around the corner, Disney Channel has come with two brand new short series 'A Poem Is' and 'Tasty Time with...
12:12 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Mumbai: Model and controversial housemate Pooja Mishra, who was evicted from 'Bigg Boss', will be re-entering the show as a translator for new celebrity contestant Andrew Symonds. Pooja was asked to leave the house few days ago after she indulged in violence on the show. "She (Pooja) will be entering the show again as a translator for Andrew Symonds," sources told PTI. "Till the time he is in the show,...
05:19 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds is the latest celebrity to enter the 'Bigg Boss' house and says he is looking forward to his stint on Indian television and is hoping to get an opportunity to understand Indian culture. "I don't know much about Indian culture. I know about it in bits and pieces. Hope to learn about it more," Symonds told IANS over phone from Mumbai. The sportsman, who...
12:53 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Meeting small-town India on Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), the hugely popular game show, has left him with a sense of inadequacy - of not being able to do enough for people - but it has also been exceptionally rewarding, says Amitabh Bachchan, who confirms that he will host the sixth season of the TV programme as well. "I feel we are so unaware of what the 'real India'...
11:18 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Patna: A woman wants Rs 20 lakh for her daughter's wedding, a man wants another Rs 20 lakh to meet an emergency, a priest wants donation in return for divine blessings, Sushil Kumar, whose tryst with KBC has reinforced the middle class's faith in fairy tales, is suddenly being approached by random strangers, demanding a 'small' pie of the Rs 5-crore cake. Kumar, a small-time computer operator who captured the...
06:29 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Mumbai: The popular music show, The Dewarists was hitting all the right notes, at least uptil now. However, the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to Star India and producers Babble Fish, alleging copyright infringement by the channel. The show was apparently originally conceptualised by writer and musician Manish Kumar, who has slapped a case on the channel through Open Mind (the company which planned to produce the show)....
01:51 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Patna: Sushil Kumar, the first to win Rs.5 crore on 'Kaun Banega Crorepati 5', has turned down an offer to enter the reality show 'Bigg Boss' for the sake of his image as an youth icon. "I was approached by the officials of the Endemol India and offered a place in 'Big Boss', but I refused," said Sushil. "More than any thing, my image is important for me. I don't...
06:34 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Mohan Kapur, who entered living rooms with the cable TV boom in the early 90s, is now making his mark in Bollywood. ...
03:48 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Mumbai: A television show based on the works of noted cartoonist R K Laxman and revolving around his creation, the life of the common man, will soon be aired on SAB TV. The show 'R K Laxman Ki Duniya' will revolve around the happenings in the life of the common man and represent his hopes, aspirations, troubles, and weaknesses in day-to-day life. Actor Atul Parchure will essay the common man,...
06:53 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Mumbai: Swami Agnivesh, the latest entrant in the controversial reality show 'Bigg Boss', says he is not participating in the programme for money but wants to use the platform to bring about a change in the society. Agnivesh is the fifth male contestant on the show, which is dominated by female contestants like Pooja Bedi, Juhi Parmar, Shonali Nagrajan, Mehak Chahal among others. "I am not doing the show for...
06:27 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Tonight at 10 Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' is the dream of every Indian?
11:07 AM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: Actor Dolly Bindra, who raised quite a ruckus in the fourth season of Bigg Boss, is convinced that some of this season's contestants have come prepared to play games and advised participants to relax and have as much fun as they can on the controversial reality TV show. "Nothing prepares you for what awaits you inside the Bigg Boss house. You go inside with a certain strategy and...
11:33 AM, Nov 05, 2011
New Delhi: The 'Bigg Boss 5' house, which has mainly women inmates, might see actor Ranbir Kapoor and singer Mohit Chauhan making a special entry this week. They will visit the sets of 'Bigg Boss 5 - Aapka Farman' to promote their forthcoming movie 'Rockstar'. But it is still not confirmed if they will enter the house and speak to the contestants in person. However, if sources are to be...
05:25 PM, Oct 25, 2011
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan is back in town to host the fifth season of the reality show Bigg Boss with fellow star Sanjay Dutt. Salman landed in Mumbai today from Dublin where he is shooting for Yash Raj Film's upcoming movie 'Ek Tha Tiger' with ex-flame Katrina Kaif. After undergoing a nerve surgery in the US in August, Salman had come to city last month only to attend the launch...
07:17 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Mumbai: After Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, it's Aamir Khan's turn to make his debut on the small screen. The actor will be seen in a yet-to-be titled show which he calls his 'most ambitious project'. The production of the show is yet to start and it will go on air next year. It is being jointly produced by Aamir Khan Productions and Star India. "This show is my...
07:11 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Mumbai: Simi Garewal had a special guest on her show 'Simi Selects India's Most Desirable', and this time it was another talk show host, filmmaker Karan Johar. The shoot took place at Film City recently. Says Simi, "You can imagine what happens when two chat show hosts get together. The conversation would just not end. Ten years ago, I had Karan and Kajol as guests on my earlier show. Later,...
11:35 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Mumbai: Art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai couldn't have expected a bigger adulation of his work, when megastar Amitabh Bachchan publicly expressed that whenever he bows down in front of the idols of gods and goddesses, sculpted by Desai, kept in his office, he feels he is bowing down in front of the artiste. "Whatever Nitin has took up to do creatively he has attained highest level of success. Whenever he...
09:30 AM, Aug 09, 2011
New Delhi: Popular TV actor Harshad Chopra, who plays the lead role in forthcoming show "Dharampatni", admits that his character, Mohan Galla, has "slight inspiration" from the life of Gandhi, but says it is not based on his life. "'Dharampatni' is not about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, it's not about Kasturba Gandhi. It's about Mohan Galla and Kastur. There is a slight inspiration in the fact that Mohan grows up to...
03:12 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone will appear as special guests on the fifth season of the game show "Kaun Banega Crorepati", which starts off on August 15 with megastar Amitabh Bachchan as the host. "One interesting candidate and the entire anxiety of the working of the show just flies past .. we had a few today and tomorrow is another day .. let us hope...
06:02 PM, Jul 31, 2011
