In yet another shocking crime against women, an 18-year old girl was allegedly set on fire in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district by her jilted lover. Her family says the 42-year old man barged into her house and set her ablaze with kerosene oil. ...
04:48 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Here is a list of 10 best independent films, which left an impact at various film festivals during 2012. ...
01:16 PM, Dec 27, 2012
With most big-budget films biting the dust, it was the turn of the small-budget and non-stars films to take the pedestal. Out of the 113 Telugu films released, only a few elicited a positive response at the box office. ...
04:19 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Music maestro AR Rahman has unveiled his first solo single in over 15 years, in association with Reliance Foundation, to exemplify how love can dissolve boundaries and bring people together. The 45 year old singer composer has joined hands with Nita Ambani, chairperson of the foundation, to promote his message of love and global brotherhood. During the making of the single, titled 'Infinite Love',Rahman personally interacted with his fans and...
04:03 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: 2012 was widely considered as the year of the revival of the India Independent Film Industry. In the year 2013, we will have to make sure that the Indian Independent cinema movement is taken forward with the same zeal with which it was started. But how do we define an Indie? In the absence of a clear cut definition, any film funded and produced independently without the backing...
01:55 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Annie Zaidi writes poetry, essays, fiction of varying lengths, and scripts for the stage and the screen. She is the author of 'Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales', a collection of essays that was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award (non-fiction, 2011), and the co-author of 'The Bad Boy's Guide to the Good Indian Girl'. 'Crush', a series of illustrated poems, was made in collaboration with...
05:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Alappuzha: A middle-aged man hacked to death the mother of his daughter's lover at Punapra within hours of the girl committing suicide after he rejected the young man's plea to marry her, police said. The 17-year-old girl Haitha allegedly committed suicide by hanging, after which her father went to the home of her lover Aneesh and hacked to death his mother, who was alone at the time, they said. The...
01:46 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Aligarh: An undergraduate student was allegedly burnt alive and his face mutilated by acid by a group of unidentified persons, police said on Monday. The body of Rakesh, student of Varshney Degree College, was recovered on Sunday at his uncle's house in Raj Vihar locality in Kwarsi area, they said. While the motive behind the murder is still unknown, police are suspecting the reason behind it to be an alleged...
05:09 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: From the first program that Ada Lovelace created for the Analytical Engine to present day laptops and tablet PCs, Google has doodled the evolution of computers on the occasion of the world's first computer programmer's 197th birth anniversary. The doodle shows Ada Lovelace writing the pioneering computer program with a quill pen seated on a desk and the paper scroll she is writing her algorithm on twirls in...
06:45 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Cast: Rajat Kapoor, Tisca Chopra, Purab Kohli, Koel Purie, Tara Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Manu Rishi, Rasika Dugal Director: Sharat Katariya Sharat Katariya finds his inspiration in William Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and tries his best to adapt it to suit the Indian scenario and mindset. He weaves a tale of love, desires and forbidden fantasies around a magic love potion that keeps four parallel stories glued together. The...
11:52 AM, Dec 08, 2012
New Delhi: First time director Sharat Katariya's '10 ml Love' is going to hit the screens on Friday, December 7. The film stars Rajat Kapoor, Tisca Chopra, Purab Kohli, Tara Sharma, Koel Purie and Manu Rishi in prominent roles. '10 m Love' is based on William Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Sharat Katariya explains why he chose to make this film, "I always wanted to make a comedy film....
04:11 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The minute I finished reading, "Nobody Can Love You More - Life in Delhi's Red Light District" by Mayank Austen Soofi, I knew I had to interview him and ask him the questions that were lingering in my head. So here you go, a crisp and short interview with the man: 1. What prompted you to write this book? Who or what sparked the idea? The reason why I wrote...
07:19 PM, Dec 05, 2012
I am sure there have been many books written on the red light districts of the country. There are after all so many of them in every city, almost in hiding, in every nook. It is the world's oldest profession and it has been created by the world. So there are no sides that need to be taken. This is precisely what the book, 'Nobody Can Love You More: Life...
06:42 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Director Dasarath is all set with 'Love Story' that stars King Nagarjuna as the hero. Produced by D Sivaprasad Reddy the shooting of the film was held some time ago in Europe and now the next schedule is planned in Bangkok. The film would have a 25 day tour in Bangkok. While Nayan is pairing up with Nag in this movie, Meera Chopra is playing the second fiddle. Sources reveal...
06:11 PM, Dec 05, 2012
London: The end of frozen fingers! Having a touchscreen phone in winter can be a pain, especially when you have to constantly take your gloves off to use it. This may now be a thing of the past after a company came up with a pair of leather gloves that allow you to use your smartphone without taking them off. The Leather Touchscreen Gloves, by a Dutch firm, keeps users'...
03:09 PM, Dec 04, 2012
