Rishi Kapoor and his son Ranbir are getting ready to step into Rishi’s grandfather Prithiviraj Kapoor and father Raj Kapoor’s roles in Raj Kapoor’s Awara. And with the remake of Awara, the Kapoors’ illustrious home banner RK Films would be grandly revived. Before that the Rishi Kapoor and wife Neetu Singh would be seen on [...]
Filmmaker Abhishek Kapoor, who introduced Sushant Singh Rajput to filmdom with Kai Po Che!, is all set to roll the cameras with the actor again for his next film, which will be widely shot in Kashmir. “The film is set in Kashmir and Delhi. So, naturally the script lends itself to be shot in the [...]
Details have been emerging of Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut A man of Tai Chi, a Chinese co-produced kung fu movie. Set in modern-day China and filmed in Beijing and Hong Kong, it has dialogue in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. he told reporters he started to think about directing about five years ago.
Security is so tight at the festival this year that the star of the new Coen brothers movie Oscar Isaacs was nearly locked out of his own premiere. “I went out to take a piss and they wouldn’t let me back in, I missed the first half hour of the film!” the US actor who [...]
The audio launch of Nani’s upcoming film Paisa was a glitzy affair with the entire cast and crew of the film gracing the event.
Justin Bieber’s giant win at the Billboard Music Awards marked a bittersweet moment for the pop star. Said an emotional Bieber: “I’m 19 years old. I think I’m doing a pretty good job. And basically, from my heart, I just really want to say it should really be about the music. This is not a [...]
Reese Witherspoon and ex-husband Ryan Phillippe got together on the sidelines of their son Deacon’s soccer game on Saturday in LA’s Brentwood District. Reese was accompanied by her husband, Jim Toth, while Ryan had his girlfriend, Paulina Slagter, by his side to cheer on Deacon. The group mingled during the match.
Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper is reportedly taking cooking lessons from well-known Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay to prepare for his role in director John Wells’s Chef. Cooper is playing a cook named Adam Jones, who destroys his career with drugs before getting clean and trying to open a restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars. Ramsay, [...]
Jennifer Lawrence and her brother Blaine Lawrence are reportedly being stalked by a Canadian named Han Cong Zhao. Han, 23, was said to be remanded on bail after Judge Annette Karem at the Kentucky court heard he sent Blaine 200 messages and a threatening voicemail. “You got me really upset, when I am upset, wait and [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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