Actor Emraan Hashmi might have played the role of a lover boy in several Bollywood movies in the past, but he won’t opt for roles that don’t have “any depth” or “logic”. The 34-year-old, who started his career with the 2003 movie Footpath, went on to do commercial films like Zeher, Kalyug, Jannat and Raaz [...]
After playing a director in The Dirty Picture (TDP), Emraan Hashmi may be seen as a filmmaker again in Raaz 3, but says this time he is playing a character who hankers after profit, not the art. “In The Dirty Picture, I played an artistic director and here I play a 2012 director. He (the [...]
If Vidya Balan gained 12 kg to play southern sex siren in The Dirty Picture, Pakistani actress Veena Malik claims she has put on 5 kg for the Kannada version of the film and that her dialogues have not been dubbed. “I had to put on five kg for the role because the script demanded [...]
Pakistani actress Veena Malik, set to sizzle in the Kannada version of hit Bollywood film The Dirty Picture, aims to go a step ahead of Vidya Balan’s act in the original. She maintains the two films are different.” I have not seen the The Dirty Picture in Hindi, though I have heard that Vidya Balan [...]
Item girl Rakhi Sawant is all set to star in the Bengali remake of The Dirty Picture and she says she will be better than National Award winning actress Vidya Balan. The 33-year-old will play a sex siren in the untitled film to be directed by Bengali actress-turned-politician Shatabdi Roy and she says her film [...]
A tight budget, a difficult theme and a curvy actress to dress! Stylist Niharika Khan worked with all odds in The Dirty Picture, but says her struggle to make Silk, played by Vidya Balan, look more silky than vulgar in the hit movie has paid rich dividends in the form of a National Award. “I [...]
Vidya Balan, who won the best actress National award for her bold and beautiful performance in The Dirty Picture, says she has achieved a lot more than she ever expected to in her seven-year Bollywood career. “I am feeling very good. Actually, I am speechless to tell how wonderful and happy I am feeling,”the 33-year-old [...]
Bollywood star Vidya Balan wants to improve her vocabulary, on the one hand, to express her feelings towards the success of The Dirty Picture. On the other, she is looking forward to a break and says post that she will do some ‘dirty dancing’. After working non-stop for more than two years, she now wants [...]
Vidya Balan, whose film count includes mostly female-oriented themes, says the film industry has changed over the years and co-incidentally she has become the face of this change.“I believe that change doesn’t happen overnight, it takes time. I am lucky that today when we are feeling the change, it’s a co-incidence that I have become [...]
Vidya Balan came out of her comfort zone and delivered a blockbuster like The Dirty Picture. And now the actress is keen to do a film on extramarital affairs or a biopic on late prime minister Indira Gandhi. Talking about her choice of scripts, she said, “Action is not something I would want to do. [...]
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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