Malayalam actor Thilakan talks about the controversies that surround his life, in an interview published in January 2008.
Seeking anonymity, a top Dubai-based industrialist told rediff.com, 'We are not at all happy with the proceedings leading up to the bidding. We were not taken into confidence by the IPL administrators. The picture has not changed even after the IPL governing council changed the disputed terms and conditions. It looks like they have already decided on the two teams.'
Shaji N Karun, who headed the National Awards jury, sings praises for the brilliant director.
Long before Resul Pookutty's Oscar blast, Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan used sound as a leitmotif in his films. For Adoor, known world over as one of the finest filmmakers ever from India, sound is as important as any other factor in a film.
Resul Pookutty on his Best Sound Mixing Oscar award for his work in SLumdog Millionaire.
Mohanlal will be the first actor in the country to have got such a prestigious title from the army. The only other celebrity to get this title is former cricket captain Kapil Dev.
P K Krishna Das, the Kerala Member of Parliament who was trapped at Mumbai's Taj Mahal Hotel, was rescued by the police and NSG commandoes at 9.45 am on Thursday. "It has been nightmarish 12 hours for me and two other MPs. The whole thing started around 0945 last night. We were about to have dinner at the Shamina restaurant. Suddenly, two gun-wielding men appeared out of nowhere and started shooting indiscriminately. I ducked under a table along with some others."
Rajaneesh Vilakudy salutes former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who will retire after the Test series against Australia.
Amid talks of a Nobel Prize in Economics coming home, an old couple from Tamil Nadu has bagged this year's Alternative Nobel Prize. Called the Indian Sarvodaya couple, Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan from Nagapattinam are among the four illustrious personalities to share the prestigious Right to Livelihood Award -- also known as the Alternative Nobel.
Quite a few cinematic gems will be showcased at MAMI this year.
Major Ravi's Kandahar will be based on the IC-814 flight hijacking.
Malayalam actor Thilakan talks about the controversies that surround his life.
If top industry sources are to be believed, Shankar will work with Rajinikanth in Robot, which was planned to be shot with Shah Rukh Khan in the lead and as producer. But the project apparently did not work out owing to 'creative differences', with Shah Rukh himself confirming the separation.
If there is a will, there is a way. That is what a tiny non-governmental organisation, which has its office atop a public toilet in a Mumbai suburb, has proved it by winning the 2007 Urban-Age Award. The Triratana Prerana Mandal (TPP) at the Milan shantytown shared the Rs $ 100,000 award with the high-profile Mumbai Waterfronts Development Centre.
Australian photographer Hamish Blair's photograph of fans making monkey gestures during the seventh ODI between India and Australia at the Wankhede stadium smudged India's image in the cricketing world.
What differentiates an original from a remake is class. And Priadarshan's latest offering, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, fails completely to match up to the Malayalam original.
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