London (PTI): Indian beauty Frieda Pinto is reportedly set to feature as the next Bond girl opposite British hunk Daniel Craig in a 007 film. The actress, who has received global acclaim for her role as Latika in Danny Boyle’s multiple Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” was invited to a screen test for the spy film. [...]

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 [...]

Rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire” continued its fairy-tale journey Sunday, winning seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards and sealing its place as favorite for the Oscars later this month. Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke also gained Oscar momentum with acting wins — Winslet for her role as a former Nazi concentration [...]

Director Danny Boyle’s tale of a boy from the Mumbai slums who reaches the jackpot question on gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has swept all before it in the awards race. It won four Golden Globes and is favourite to win best picture at the Academy Awards – an astonishing feat for a [...]

London (IANS): Oscar-frontrunner “Slumdog Millionaire” is probably being targeted by an organised tinsel-town smear campaign with an eye on gate receipts, British and US newspapers say. “Could an organised smear campaign be about to derail the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?” The Independent said on Saturday after the film’s makers were hit by a [...]

Slumdog Millionaire: Simply Brilliant Rating: 4 out of 5 Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan Director: Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire opens with 18-year-old slum kid Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) being arrested on suspicion of cheating after being one question away from winning Rs. 20 million on India’s Who Wants To Be [...]

AR Rahman probably has a cupboard full of awards the way some Bollywood names have cupboards full of skeletons. In both cases, it’s usually a case of ‘what’s the big deal about one more’. But the Golden Globe puts him, literally, in the global league. At this point, looking back, which is the first award [...]

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 [...]

Music composer AR Rahman on Monday became the first Indian to win a Golden Globe award and is already looking forward to bagging an Oscar for his soundtrack for British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. “For the people of India to get an Oscar is a big thing. So for their sake, more than mine, [...]

India’s renowned singer-music composer AR Rahman turned 43 on January 6, 2009. Rahman, who has also been honored by the title ’Mozart of Madras’, was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1966 in Chennai. His birth name A. S. Dileep Kumar was turned to Allah Rakkha Rahman (AR Rahman) when his family [...]