An art exhibition entitled ‘Mystic Rituals’ and displaying the calligraphy of Arif Khan is starting at the Nomad Art Gallery, Saidpur Village today (Tuesday).
Arif has the command over the classical styles of khatt-e-kufi, meqdaat, naskh, shikasta, divani and nastaleeq and he has participated in various national and international painting exhibitions. Arif has executed monumental calligraphic works such as calligraphy of Surah Rahman.
In all his calligraphic caches of 38 paintings, one could find that his letters and words are not distorted. The use of colours such as red, green, blue and …

Ranbir Kapoor has decided to give up smoking as a b’day gift to girlfriend Deepika. Deepika Padukone couldn’t have had a better beginning to 2009 and her birthday yesterday. A source close to Deepika says, “Deepika didn’t like Ranbir’s smoking habit. As an advance birthday gift, he promised her that he would give up smoking for her.
From January 1 this year, after being a smoker for years, Ranbir has completely quit smoking. Lots of people tried to make him quit but they didn’t succeed. Now he has given it up …

Unlike Bebo and PC who decided to work gratis for SRK’s Billu Barber, Deepika kept her cheque. Stars, roped in for a song or special appearances, often waive off their fees. Amitabh Bachchan did Paheli gratis for Shahrukh Khan. Ditto in Om Shanti Om with Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt and a host of other actors. A little known fact: Deepika Padukone refused to accept any remuneration for Red Chillies’ (SRK’s production house) OSO, as she considered a debut film opposite King Khan, to be fee enough.
Now that …

Asin got her name established in the glam-world through south cinema and now the diva is making it big in Bollywood. After receiving positive feedback for her debut Hindi release Ghajini the diva seems to be on cloud nine.
According to our sources the stardom has started ruling her head now. The glam-doll recently showed her bit of starry tantrum on the sets of her upcoming Hindi flick where she would be seen opposite Bolly-star Salman Khan.
Manzoor Khan, the make up artist and hairstylist walked out of the film because they …

NEW DELHI: Although Bollywood has an array of big-ticket films lined up for release in 2009, Hollywood could prove tough competition with an
assorted platter of movies to woo Indian audiences, including “Changeling”, “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Seven Pounds”.
Bollywood films usually have an upper hand over international films in India, but there was no Hindi release in the first week of 2009. Interestingly, the year began with Baz Luhrmann’s period drama “Australia” followed by Colin Farrel-starrer “In Bruges”, Australian dance musical “Razzle Dazzle” and director John Jeffcoat’s “Outsourced” – all four opened …

Ajmal Amin Kasab might be interested in meeting him but megastar Amitabh Bachchan has clearly said that he found the idea of meeting the lone terrorist caught alive in the Mumbai terror attack – ‘repulsive’. He’s said, “I read news reports that during investigation he expressed a desire to meet me and watch my films. I wrote about it on my blog and sought views from fellow bloggers. Fifty per cent respondents felt that I should meet him while the remaining were against such an idea.”
He’s also explained why he …

Chhote Nawab and King Khan’s ‘gay’ camaraderie at award functions poking fun and mocking industry wannabes had often earned them both applause and flak from their targets. But now the seeming dostana between the two has gone bitter as actor Saif Ali Khan feels that Shahrukh was trying to settle some personal score with those particular targets of their witty repertoires.
The funny duo that invented the famous nareal awards and passed sarcastic remarks on the work of industry veterans seem set to part ways. Story goes that apparently not everyone …