How was the experience of shooting for 13B?
It was great. It took seven years before Vikram (director Vikram Kumar) and I could get together to make a film. I was also tired of supernatural thrillers that relied more on sound effects than actual content to scare the audience. I wanted to do a film that sent chills down your spine, sort of like ‘Sixth Sense’. But this is better as it doesn’t show any ghosts but still manages to scare you.
This is also the first bilingual that I have shot …

The super success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire has been so overwheming that the lucky pair of Danny Boyle and A R Rahman are being flooded with offers.
Grapevine has it that Danny Boyle has been asked to direct James Bond’s 23rd film. And since Rahman composed such great music for Slumdog Millionaire, it might just be that the music maestro also gets roped in for the project.
According to unconfirmed reports, Barbara Broccoli, producer of the next James Bond film has approached Danny Boyle for the project.
“Danny’s intense involvement with the …

Speculation is rife that Indian business tycoon Arun Nayar and his star wife Elizabeth Hurley might soon be ending their two-year-old nuptial ties over the British model-turned actor’s busy schedule.
The couple got married in two ceremonies, first in Britain followed by a lavish ceremony in Rajasthan in 2007, after a much-publicised romance that began in 2002.
Now, two years on, the couple are rumoured to be heading for a splitsville and may announce their separation anytime, ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ quoted unnamed friends of the 43-year-old actress as saying.
According to her friends, …

“I keep coming to Delhi, but almost always, I’m here for work. I can never really go out on personal visits – I don’t have much of a personal life anyway,” says the actress.
That’s sad. But then, she’s also working a lot – having bagged the Filmfare award for her role in Fashion, she’s now working on Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey. But is it true that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was upset with her for calling Kajol ‘talented’ and Ash just ‘beautiful’ in her acceptance speech? “I don’t think Aishwarya said anything …

Put the colours on hold, says Bollywood. Still smarting from the terror attacks in Mumbai, two of the biggest stars — Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan — are skipping any Holi parties.
Bachchan’s party is usually a grand affair, but this year, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya are both likely to remain in Kolkata during Holi, shooting for Mani Ratnam’s Ravana. Big B blogs that in the past couple of years, his parents’ deaths took the colour out of Holi, and this year, “that joyous spirit has been dampened by …

Slumdog Millionaire actress Freida Pinto [Images] has reportedly landed herself a deal to front cosmetics giant Estee Lauder.
The 24-year-old, hit the Hollywood jackpot after being a part of Slumdog Millionaire [Images], which bagged eight Oscars [Images], seven BAFTAs and four Golden Globes.
Veteran director Woody Allen [Images] signed her to star in his upcoming film. And now, Freida is said to have bagged a six-figure sum to be the face of Estee Lauder’s future endorsements, reports the Daily Star.
The Mumbaiker, who is in talks over final negotiations over a 200,000 pounds …