Former Miss India, Amruta Pakti, who debuts in the movie Hide & Seek, which opens on March 12th, is keen to do more in Bollywood soon. “I’ve no limitations on what genres of films I would like to do as this is a learning phase,” she says, “I want to grow as an actress instead [...]
Tanushree Dutta has been pleased to get offers from down South. “Well, the deal is when we go down South, we get offers opposite the South superstars,” she says, “So, we get the biggest of the big budget movies there and some of them much, much bigger than an average Bollywood production. So, it makes [...]
Former child actor Baby Shamili has now dropped the Baby tag and is simply Shamili. The former star of Mani Ratnam’s Anjali, in which she played a mentally-challenged child and for which she won a National Award, has bagged a role in Rama Narayanan’s new movie Kutti Pusasu. She will begin shooting as soon as [...]
In a scene that would make Alfred Hitchcock proud, American actress Neelakshi Singh will be chased by five helicopters in her new movie provisionally-titled Runaway Love. The film is also likely to be dubbed into English. “Five helicopters, 15 cars and an equal number of motorbikes will be used for a particular chase scene in [...]
Former Miss India, Niharika Singh, will be making her movie debut in the film Miss Lovely, opposite Nawaz Siddiqui. The film explores the Indian porn industry of the 1980s and focuses on the real-life exploits of Rajesh Singh, also known as Bunty. Bunty was eventually jailed for his involvement in pornography and the film promises [...]
Lara Dutta, currently looking forward to the April release of Housefull, loves social networking and has developed a habit she calls 8×8. At 8pm every evening, she answers eight questions at random from her army of admirers. Recently, we’ve learned she loves sailing and would like to have been the magical winged horse Pegasus. With [...]
The Norway Tamil Film Festival, running from Feb 6th to 9th has proved to be a great hit. Promoted by the local Tamil community in Oslo, which numbers over 10,000, the festival was inaugurated by Kollywood directors Sasi Kumar, Mysskin, SP Jananathan, and Samudrakani. Amongst the films shown at the festival were Poo, Anjathey, Pokkisham [...]
After the monster hit Ayan, in which she starred opposite Suriya, Tamannah is now about to set the screens alight opposite Allu Arjun in the movie Badrinath. She takes over a role originally earmarked for Hansika Motwani. The Mumbai-born actress is currently filming Thillalangadi opposite Jayam Ravi. It’s a remake of the Tollywood blockbuster Kick [...]
Meera Jasmine is not standing idle whilst waiting for the release of the much-anticipated Kannada movie Hoo, now scheduled for later this month, with its record-breaking audio sales and which also stars V.Ravichandran and Namitha. Meera is now busy working on Paattinde Paalaazhi, her first Malayalam film in two years. The movie tells the story [...]
Blender’s Pride Glamhunt is launching its own beauty contest in the north-east in an effort to find the next supermodel to follow in Monikangana Dutta’s footsteps. The final will be at the Shillong Club in Guwahati on February 19th. “The objective of the event is to search for and identify the right talent and create [...]
Katrina Kaif’s sister Isabel Kaif, who is on the verge of launching her career in Bollywood, is involved in an unsavoury affair with a video clip circulating on the net that apparently shows her in a compromising scene with a man. The clip has now gone viral after being banned by the more responsible video [...]
After a gap of about a year following Mussanje Maathu, Ramya’s legions of followers will be justly relieved to see her back on screen in Just Maat Maathalli with Sudeep – but why the big gap? “It wasn’t a deliberate decision,” she explains, “It’s just that the scripts I heard weren’t acceptable to me. I [...]
Anita Hassandani, or Natassha as she has been known down south, featured in the scary Krisshna Cottage with Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar and has now turned to doing item numbers with the hit song Kalaver King. “It’s a fascinating number and I really enjoyed dancing to it,” she says. Anita is pretty much a [...]
The two men who attacked Kangana Ranaut’s sister, Rangoli, with acid have finally been brought to justice. Avinash and Prem Singh received five-year sentences for their vicious attack in 2006 which left Rangoli with extensive burn injuries to her face and torso. “While we cannot get back the years my sister lost, I am happy [...]
Money Hai Toh Honey Hai actress Hansika Motwani is the latest star to suffer problems on the net by having her Facebook account hacked. She has reported it to Mumbai’s new cyber division but is unable to provide any further clues to its origin. “I was really very worried as I was not able to [...]
Having now completed her duties as Miss India Earth, Tanvi Vyas is now focussed firmly on building her movie career and Bollywood is her target. To begin with, however, she has signed up for the lead role in romantic Kollywood movie Eppadi Manasukkul Vandhai, opposite Vishwa – or How You Came Into My Heart. She [...]
As the week finished, Bangalore Fashion Week appeared to be gaining in majesty and glamour and has now established itself as a centre for fashion in the sub-continent. New Bollywood star Zarine Khan sashayed down the ramp for Ramesh Dembla along with top Sandalwood stars Pooja Gandhi, Sanjana, Meghana and Aindrita Ray. “The BFW has [...]
Australian Barbie girl Elise Jensen took a brave decision when she left her home in Wollongong, telling her mother she was going to become a Bollywood movie star, but after months of hard work it appears to have paid off with a role in Turban Victory. “I’m so proud of the courage she’s shown in [...]
Returning from her Panvel farmhouse to Bandra, Rakhee Gulzar, married to the Oscar-winning lyricist, discovered that she had been burgled and about 7 lakhs of gold jewellery was missing. The lock on the front door had been smashed. “Preliminary investigations suggest that the robber entered the house after breaking the lock on the main door,” [...]
Top Sandalwood actress Biaenca Desai is looking forward to being in Weekend. “I’m acting opposite Arjun Sarja in the Tinu Varma action thriller, which will also star Sayali Bhagat and Rajneish Duggal,” she explains, “I am always getting offers from Bollywood, but until now, I wasn’t happy with them because my character was not given [...]
Vidya Malvade makes a striking addition to the cast of Siddharth’s Striker, along with Padmapriya and Nicolette Bird. She’s full of praise for her co-stars, in particular model Nicolette. “Nicolette is a very beautiful girl and is a nice actress too,” she says, “She plays an important role in the film. In the movie she [...]