
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: 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

Salman Ahmad of Pakistan based Sufi rock band Junoon talks about his Bollywood debut and favourite Bollywood musician. ...

08:19 PM, May 11, 2012

New Delhi: 'The Three Musketeers', in its 2011 version, has nothing new to offer in the story line " but in 3D it is an absolute delight. If you are one of those who like old world adventure " Pirates of the Caribbean style " no lasers, no scientific mumbo jumbo, no transforming monster trucks morphing in to robots, just good old school sword fencing, antique revolvers and gunpowder "...

04:33 PM, Oct 14, 2011

Los Angeles: British starlet Juno Temple looks set to become Hollywood's hot new export, with four upcoming films set to hit theaters in the next year, including 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Dark Knight Rises'. Temple, 22, the daughter of film director Julien Temple and his producer wife, Amanda, made her big screen debut alongside Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench in the 2006 drama 'Notes on a Scandal', but it...

05:28 PM, Oct 07, 2011

Cape Canaveral: An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, sending a robotic scout on its way to Jupiter to sniff out details about how the solar system formed. The rocket carrying NASA's Juno spacecraft lifted off at 12:25 p.m. (1625 GMT), the first step in a five-year, 445-million mile (716-million km) journey to the largest planet in the solar system. Launch was...

02:31 AM, Aug 06, 2011

Jaipur: A growing concern to preserve vernacular and classical literature and to popularise it through translations is gradually occupying centre-stage at the sixth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival underway here. "The new generation has limited access to classical and vernacular literature because most of us speak English. Ask me to name one writer in Tamil, Punjabi or Hindi, I won't be able to. I would struggle to name one even in...

08:36 PM, Jan 22, 2011

Jaipur: There was Standing room only by the time Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's session got underway on Day 1 of the Jaipur Literature Festival. And he certainly lived up to all the hype, and was surprisingly even funny. His girlfriend Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, demure in the background, will be on a panel with him come Saturday. This festival is getting bigger each year. They are expecting 50...

11:15 AM, Jan 22, 2011

Jaipur: JM Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Junot Diaz, Martin Amis, Jay McInerney amongst the literary stars who converged at the landscaped lawns of the 17th century Diggy Palace in Jaipur, reflecting the eclectic spirit of the sixth edition of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, which promises to be the "biggest and the best". As they gathered for an informal dinner on Thursday night, they pledged to debate, discuss...

10:40 AM, Jan 21, 2011

Orhan Pamuk, JM Coetzee, Vikram Seth, Patrick French, Junot Diaz -- the list would please the lover of the written word. These and over 215 writers from India and the world, including seven Booker Prize and five Pulitzer Prize winners will hold centrestage at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival scheduled between January 21 and 25. The five-day event that will unfold at Diggi Palace, will witness book readings, debates, performances,...

01:27 PM, Jan 17, 2011

Priyanka Chopra's svelte figure has inspired Govinda to shed weight. The two are paired opposite each other in their next release, Junoon-The Madness of Love. The much-delayed K C Bokadia film stars Govinda as a man who ends up telling lies to impress his love, played by PC. Govinda lost 10 kilos to look good opposite the actress. The stills don't look too promising, though. The film is scheduled to...

04:26 PM, Sep 14, 2010

The filmmaker is quick to deny that his film is a copy. ...

03:37 AM, Jun 25, 2009

Music of
Hai Junoon from the movie
New York is said to be a copy. ...

05:05 PM, Jun 19, 2009

The concert by the Dal Lake was one of the best musical events in the city. ...

02:44 AM, May 30, 2008

Kolkata: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday picked Kolkata Knight Riders as the hot favourites to win the ongoing Indian Premier League season five. Ganguly said: My sixth sense says that KKR will win IPL this time. In sport there are several winning moments, I see them with KKR. Luck, it seems, is also with the KKR, Ganguly said referring to the toss won by Gautam Gambhir on the ...

03:35 PM, May 26, 2008