NEW DELHI: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has slammed Danny Boyle’s Golden Globe award winning underdog drama “Slumdog Millionaire” for
showing India in poor light.
“If ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,” Amitabh said in a posting on his blog on Wednesday from Paris, France.
“Its just that the ‘Slumdog Millioanire’ idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by …

With one eye on muscle-bound Bollywood megastars, young Asian men are increasingly hitting the gym in pursuit of the body beautiful.
Deepak Harbias from Hounslow is typical of the trend.
“I come to the gym about five times a week, I don’t have any fast food any more. I’m taking protein shakes and protein bars,” he says.
“After I left college I was at home for 10 months and put on weight. I knew I had to do something.”
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Shekhar Suman surprised his son Adhyayan on his 21st birthday by presenting him a lavish BMW 7 series. Shekhar told DNA that his son is a car freak and wanted this model for a long time.
“Adhyayan has a fascination for cars and he is crazy about the BMW 7 series cars. He wanted this car for a long time but I had told him that I cannot gift him this since it’s so damn expensive. He was little upset but I thought that he shouldn’t be given something like this …

Bollywood’s sexy siren Bipasha Basu doesn’t vouch for the idea of having girl pals in B-town and ends up bruising her relations with most of them.
Lara and Bipasha, who were the best buddies at some time are also not on speaking terms these days.
The catfight with Kareena on sets of Ajnabee was the favourite tea-time gossip. And now the latest addition in the list is is none other than her beau, John Abraham’s new found ‘good friend’ Katrina Kaif!
Both the Bollywood stunners don’t get along too well. Whatever John does, …

Mukesh Bhatt’s dream of retaining Kangana Ranaut’s nude scene in Raaz- The Mystery Continues has come to naught. The Censor Board Committee which saw the film last night has ordered the nude scene to be deleted if Mukesh wants the film to see the light of day.
Also, Raaz has been given an A certificate. However, Mukesh has the option of approaching the Revising Committee of The Censor Board.
In this scene Kangana is attacked by the ghost for the first time. According to our sources Mukesh Bhatt, who was present at …

As the first Indian musician to pick up the prestigious award for Best Original Score, AR Rahman has sure got us in the Chhaiya chhaiya mode. And the singer of the number, Jai Ho, a song of celebration that has snapped up the award for Rahman, is already “jumping with joy”. Sukhwinder Singh is all set to raise a toast, but is waiting for the composer to come back from Los Angeles.
“I’m yet to call up Rahman. It’s all because of the time difference. I can’t wait to give him …

Snipping instead of tweezing the brows might be all that is needed to control your brows. Here is how it is done.
* Brush brows straight up and then check for hairs that are too long.
* Snip any offending hair one at a time with a small pair of scissors.
* Brush brows downward and check again.
* Repeat the previous step, snipping any hair that seems to be too long.
* Brush brows into place and check for any hairs that still might need attention.
* Continue brushing and snipping until your brows can …

NEW DELHI: Actor Aamir Khan’s debut directorial venture Taare Zameen Par, a sensitive story of an eight-year-old dyslexic child, has failed to
make to the foreign language category for Oscars at the 81st annual Academy awards.
The film based was selected as India’s entry to the foreign language category for Oscars. Written by Amole Gupte, the film was released in 2007 and received critical and box-office acclaim.
Aamir Khan said ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is a film which is very special to him and all the audiences of Indian cinema.
“Well, I suppose the Academy …

Stories of differences between the Love Story 2050 couple, Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja, have been floating around for a while now. Now they did, now they didn’t. But we have confirmed reports from our source that the couple has finally split. Says our source, “This time it’s confirmed.”
The couple has ended their threeyear-old relationship. Our source close to the couple said, “There were problems between Priyanka and Harman earlier too but of late it had become very stressful to keep the relationship on an even keel. So much so …

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has asked the government to immediately ban broadcasting of the Indian TV channels in Pakistan.
A Senate body meeting, presided over by Committee Chairman Liaquat Ali Bangulzai, was held here on Monday. Senators Tariq Azeem, Tahir Latif, Nilofar Bakhtiar, Javed Leghari, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Muhammad Ali Durrani, Haji Adeel Ahmed, Naseer Mengal and Information Secretary Ashfaq Gondal attended the meeting.
Taking strict notice of the absence of Information Minister Sherry Rehman in the meeting, the committee chairman asked her to ensure her presence in …