The Smile Pinki team -- director Megan Mylan, Dr Subodh Kumar Singh, Pinki and Ghutaru -- chat with Rediff readers.
The International Indian Film Academy Awards in Bangkok began on a high note as the Bachchan Parivar arrived in the Thai capital to attend the annual event.
If you bring out the sportsman in you to the fore in the rain, there won't be a shortage of options.
Fifty Dead Men Walking, written and directed by Kari Skogland, is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography, also called Fifty Dead Men Walking.
Here's tracing the lives of the Slumdog kids, six months after the Oscar.
As A R Rahman received his Oscars at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, everyone back home was cheering -- including his older sister Reihana, who is the mother of budding music composer G V Prakash. She talks to Shobha Warrier about the excitement at home.
India is too great a country to have its reputation made or broken by a single movie.
Indian cinema has gone from winning two Oscars in all its lifetime -- a lifetime achievement Honorary Oscar for Satyajit Ray, one for Bhanu Hathaiya for Costume Design in Gandhi -- to adding three more in the same day. Wow.
Sukhwinder Singh will not perform at the Oscars this year.
Forbes.com's inaugural Forbesies Awards are out. Check out the winners!
The British filmmaker who helmed films like The English Patient is no more. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Choa, a Hong Kong-born choreographer, and his son, Max, an actor.
Adlabs theatres will screen the movies over a week.
Smile Pinki, nominated for Best Documentary -- Short Subject, has gone largely unnoticed.
Academy Awards to expand Best Picture nominees to 10 films.
American soul, funk and R&B legend Isaac Hayes was found dead Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. The Academy Award-award winning musician was 65. His body was reportedly found near a piece of exercise equipment, and no foul play is suspected. Best known for the Oscar-winning Shaft theme song, the talented singer, songwriter and composer was always a music prodigy, even throughout an impoverished childhood.
'On the face of it, it is a WYSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get -- reality series, but actually it is a show that perpetuates societal biases, stokes typecasts and stays sadly superficial,' notes ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
Rising star James McAvoy talks about his crucial career breaks and Wanted, the new big-budget action movie with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.
No one will outshine the Oscars stage this year.
According to news reports, Keira Knightley has been roped in to play Eliza Doolittle, the role played by Audrey Hepburn while Daniel Day-Lewis has been described as a perfect candidate for Rex Harrison's role as the pig-headed professor, Henry Higgins in the 1964 remake of the musical, My Fair Lady.
Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman revealed at a recent press conference -- one meant to promote her upcoming film Australia -- that she's not quite certain about her future in the film industry, adding that rather than continue to act she may instead have more children.
Academy award winning actor Al Pacino, who had a longtime wish to don the character of Napoleon, is now getting a chance to play the French emperor in an on-screen adaptation of children's book.
The film industry praises Aamir Khan's directorial debut Taare Zameen Par, as it goes to the Oscars next week.
The 43-year-old musician, who won the Oscars for Best Original Music and Best Song for his compositions in Slumdog Millionaire at the 81st Academy Awards, arrived at the Chennai airport from Dubai by an Emirates Airways flight at around 2.30 am.
Actor Aamir Khan's debut directorial venture Taare Zameen Par, a sensitive story of an eight-year-old dyslexia child, was selected as India's entry to the foreign language category for Oscars at the 81st annual Academy awards.
Slumdog's Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar tells rediff.com about her experience in Los Angeles and her Oscar night.
This is nearly 3 per cent of the total number of cable and satellite TV viewers--an extremely good number, considering past coverage data -- say media planners.
The whole world is goning ga-ga over Slumdog Millionaire's victory at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. L K Advani congratulated the team for winning eight Oscars.
The 81st Annual Academy Awards, if trends are anything to go by, seem to be more or less on the same page with me this season, which is a peculiar feeling indeed since I'm used to ranting about the results. However, this year the Academy's likely winners and my who-should-win picks are uncannily mirroring each other, a fact displayed in this list of the nominees. The Academy picks are marked by the [A] sign, my picks are marked by the [R] sign.
Oscar nominee Resul Pookutty on his journey from a small village in Kerala to the Kodak theatre in Los Angeles, where the Academy Awards are held.
If experts are to be believed, critically acclaimed Slumdog Millionaire is at 2-7 odds of winning the prestigious Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture.
Noureen DeWulf, ranked one of Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 last year has just landed herself a lead role opposite Matthew McConaughey in New Line's The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
The critically acclaimed film lost out to Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par, as India's official entry to the 81st Annual Academy Awards in the Foreign Films category. Now, producer Ravi Rai has decided to enter Tingya in the Oscars race independently.
Aamir Khan is optimistic that his film Taare Zameen Par will make waves at the 81st Annual Academy Awards in February.
Indian-origin British filmmaker Asif Kapadia says he lived with the idea of making a documentary on Diego Maradona for 25 years, since the 1990s when he was a film student and read a book on the legendary footballer.
Companies that stand out in terms of their December 2007 results.
Reader Diviya Garg spotted the actors in Leeds after the IIFA awards.
Oscar 2015 host Neil Patrick Harris has several big shoes to fill in.
The producers of Nachom-ia Kumpasar sent their entry to the Oscars privately in two categories -- Best Foreign Film and Best Background Score.
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