Expressing shock over the 'unilateral decision' of an employees body on pay scale revision, Tamil Film Producers Council today announced suspending shooting on January 23 for an emergency general council meet to discuss the issue. While pay revision was decided once in three years after consultations between TFPC and Film Employees' Federation of South India (FEFSI), the latter had gone ahead with announcing a 'unilateral' scale ...Read More

India's only hope at the Oscars this year, filmmaker Sohan Roy's DAM 999 Tuesday failed to secure a place in the final nomination list of the 84th Academy Awards. The movie stood a chance to feature in the best picture, best original song and best original score categories. The nominations were announced at the Sameul Goldwyn Theatre here. Roy's DAM 999, a $10 million film, tells the tale ...Read More

He is all of 21 and can boast of over 38 million YouTube hits for his song. But Anirudh Ravichander, composer of the phenomenally popular Tamil-English number Kolaveri di, is already trying to move out of its shadow. "Kolaveri di is in the past now; I am trying to move on to new projects," Ravichander told IANS in an e-mail interview. "Although I'm enjoying the success, I ...Read More

South star Rajnikanth, who had been in and out of hospitals for a greater part of last year, has now been given a clean chit by his doctors. This has paved the way for him to don his daredevil mantle all over again. As a result, Rajni has decided to perform the stunts himself in daughter Soundarya's Kochadaiyyan. Earlier it had been decided to simulate the ...Read More

If Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie had attended the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) earlier this month, political parties — spurred on by the electronic media — would have made it an election issue, say Muslims in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. It would have been easy because “The Satanic Verses”, 13 years after it was banned in India, continues to offend most Muslims of all denominations, even ...Read More

A photo exhibition of reigning Bollywood queen Kareena Kapoor has been organized by co-star Imran Khan, who clicked random pictures of her while the shoot of their upcoming release Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu. Imran is set to hold the exhibit on Friday at Art Gallery at Cinemax, Versova. The young actor has always maintained he is a huge fan of Kareena and captured some candid ...Read More

Mumbai: After thrilling action and high voltage drama, this was perhaps expected to happen. The ugly spat between Shah Rukh Khan and Shirish Kunder that took the Tinsel Town by storm has settled for good to restore peace between the actor and the director. One would have certainly anticipated this from Shirish, for Shah Rukh had an army of supporters at his end and the director ...Read More

Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh, who is marrying long-time love Genelia D'souza later today, set the mood for the wedding with this tweet a few hours ago: "Saw the Last sunset as a Bachelor." His bride-to-be though has stayed off Twitter in the last few hours before her wedding. Her last tweet on Feb 1 where she thanked her friends. She tweeted: "@shahidkapoor hw sweet sk,, ur ...Read More

Abhishek Bachchan couldn't have asked for more. The actor will be honoured for his efforts towards creating a greener environment at a function here and Hollywood action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger will present him the award. Schwarzenegger, also the former governor of California, will be in the capital Thursday to be a part of 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit presided over by ...Read More

Urvashi Dholakia, best remembered as the nasty and vampish Komolika of Kasautii Zindagii Kay, is set to play Komolika again! But this time, the popular actress will essay a positive part with a cameo in TV serial Saubhagyavati Bhava. Urvashi will be seen as Komolika Rana, a psychiatrist, in the show produced by UTV Television, and aired on Life Ok. And even though the "Komolika" tag ...Read More