Lata Mangeshkar sang "Ae malik tere bande hum", a song that inspired prisoners in V. Shantaram's film "Do Aankhen Barah Haath" in 1957. Now Madhur Bhandarkar has the singing legend render a new-age 'prison anthem' in his latest movie "Jail".
 
"We want ...

Grammy nominated American boy band group Backstreet Boys are pinning high hopes for their second shot at fame with a comeback .This time they want to be as big as the English rock legends Rolling Stones.
 
The nineties pop group who enjoyed a string of hits including "Quit playing games ...

Indian pop queen, Sunidhi Chauhan, enchanted the South Africans with a whirlwind tour of two cities at the weekend, belting out all her frenetic-paced hits with stage energy to match.
 
After performing in Durban the night before, the troupe played into the early hours of Sunday at the ...

Frank McCourt, whose 1996 book "Angela's Ashes" brought him world fame, died on Sunday at age of 78.
 
McCourt's brother, Malachy McCourt, also a writer, said that his brother suffered from metastasized melanoma and had become gravely ill with meningitis.
 
McCourt had been ...

Dev Patel, the British-Indian actor, who starred in the Oscar winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", may star in the Hindi remake of Tamil hit movie "Nadodigal".
 
Addressing reporters in Thriuvananthapuram on Sunday, the "Nadodigal" director, Samuthirakkani said ...

"Aamir is one of India's finest actors. Though he doesn't agree that he is a perfectionist, he just likes to work hard... it is a good thing. Even I like working hard, so I'm a lot like him professionally," Imran told IANS in an interview.

"I feel that if I am putting my name, ...

Director: Mazhar Kamran
Producer: Abha Sonaika
Cast: Sonali Kulkarni, Nakul Vaid, Sushant Singh, Sarbani Mukherjee and Aditya Srivastav
Lyrics: VK Sonakia, Yash Malviya
Music Director: Vivek Priyadarshan
 
Meghna Sengupta, who is a correspondent working at a news channel in New Delhi, ...

After eminent personalities like Sachin Tendulkar, Mukesh Ambani, Sunita Williams and Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor will be receiving the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Award.
 
The 28-year-old is going to be presented with the 12th Rajiv Gandhi Award in the best actor category. ...

The iconic US news anchor, Walter Cronkite, who helped to set the tone of US journalism in World War II, the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing and the Vietnam War, died on Friday at the age of 92.
 
Cronkite, who was born in St Joseph, Missouri in 1916, had been ill for several months ...

From Sridevi to Shilpa Shetty, a string of B-town babes have experimented with their looks. The latest tinsel town newbie to join plasticity bandwagon is Shruti Haasan.
 
But, Shruti is a courageous girl who has no fears in accepting her nose job as the actress recently told a newspaper, ...

The Bollywood choreographer, Terrence Lewis, who won the award for “Slumdog Millionaire” is going to Cleveland for give a workshop on Friday, July 24, 2009. 
 
Belly dance has gone Bollywood in recent years, a popular trend of merging both art forms. Now, the dancers of all ...

After tickling the funny bone of the audience with his comedies, Bollywood director David Dhawan is considering an offer to direct the remake to 1981 cult hit "Chashme Buddoor".
 
"I have been approached by Studio 18, who have the rights to the movie. Though nothing has been ...

According to the renowned Bollywood film director, Ram Gopal Varma, his latest film "Agyaat" is based on real life weird incidents that his unit members had experienced while shooting his 2000 movie "Jungle".
 
"Agyaat", a spooky crime thriller about a film unit ...

The renowned Carnatic and Tamil film playback singer D.K. Pattammal died here Thursday. She was 90.
 
She never used to sing with males and if she had to sing for a duet, she herself rendered the male voice. She first gave a performance at the age of 13 and was the first woman who did ...

Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma, Ronnie Screwvala, Sheel Nimbalkar 
Cast: Nitin Kumar Reddy, Priyanka Kothari, Ravi Kale, Ishrat Ali, Harvey Rosemeyer
Written by: Nilesh Girkar, Puneet Gandhi 
Music: Bapi , Tutul 
 
A film unit goes for a shoot deep ...

Director: Imtiaz Ali
Production: Saif Ali Khan, Dinesh Vijan
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Rahul Khanna, Florence
Music Director: Pritam
 
Is love today different from what it was in the past when lovers like Laila-Majnu or Romeo-Juliet perished in each ...

The Karva Chauth Vrath-- a festival that celebrates wedded bliss -- is a few months away, but the item girl has already observed the fast for not one but five men in the run up to her "swayamvar".
 
Rakhi, who surprised many when she decided to marry through NDTV Imagine's reality ...

Creations from top-rung fashion designers like Ashish Soni, J.J. Valaya, Manish Arora, Raghavendra Rathore, Rina Dhaka, Ritu Kumar, Suneet Verma, and Tarun Tahiliani will be on sale for a fund raising fashion show for underprivileged kids on July 24.
 
Organised by Khushii that works for ...

Vikas Swarup, whose book “Q&A” was turned into the Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire", will be India's consul general in Osaka, Japan.
 
On his first visit to India after the Oscar glory, Swarup, the author of "Q&A" , is upbeat about his new avatar ...

The Indian-origin Canadian comedian, Russell Peters, has been ranked among the Top 10 Earning Comedians in the world by Forbes. Jerry Seinfeld tops the list with $85 million. Another Canadian Howie Mandel is also in the list.
 
Born in Toronto to the Anglo-Indian Bengali couple, Eric and ...

Tariq Ali, the Pakistani-born writer, political activist and filmmaker had considered that he had switched for good from non-fiction to fiction in 1990 after the Berlin Wall fall. But he had switched back again to non-fiction when the United States decided to invade Afghanistan and ...

Renowned Marathi actor Neelu Phule passed away on Monday morning in Pune after prolonged illness. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni passed her condolences saying that the void created by his demise would be hard to fill.
 
Phule was one of the finest actors in performing ...

Folk legend Bob Dylan has taken up a new job -- he has been commissioned to create art pieces with iron and lead.
 
The singer well known for his hit number "Blowin' in the Wind" admits his foray into art has been an unexpected success, but now he is inundated with offers to paint ...

Aanchal Gupta and her students danced all the way in their annual extravaganza on Saturday night; but, this year there were also special performances by cancer survivors.
 
This special show Dance with Joy — Fighting Cancer, Living Life was dedicated to the unconquerable spirit of ...

After his award winning performance in Buddhadev Dasgupta`s “Character”, actor Rajit Kapur is all set to display his acting skills once again in yet another movie of Dasgupta.
 
The film, the shooting for which is scheduled to start in September, will have Kapur essaying the ...

Munshi Premchand, the great Hindi litterateur, the works of whom continues to touch the lives of thousands with his simple storylines and use of colloquial language, are now available in audio format.
 
Premchand`s famous short stories’ collections has been made into an audio book of ...

Former Indian cricket captain Saurav Ganguly and Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty along with several other film and television actors played a soccer match to raise funds for the victims of Cyclone Aila on Sunday.
 
The Vidyasagar stadium at Barasat, 30 km from Calcutta, was packed with ...

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe won't be following his co-star Emma Watson from the wizard franchise to university as he insists he gets enough education from acting.
 

Watson is making a move to the US this autumn to pursue a degree in liberal arts, but 19-year-old Radcliffe has passed ...

Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx has upset singer Rihanna by embarrassing her in front of revellers at a Las Vegas nightclub.
 

"The Ray" actor was cracking jokes for fellow party-goers at Sin City's Tao hotspot when he spotted the R&B star and repeatedly asked her to join him on ...

"Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Parker's husband Tony Parker has whisked the actress around Europe on a sports-themed summer vacation.
 

The actress admits basketball player Parker can't abandon his passion when he's not playing for his team San Antonio Spurs, and she ...