Photographer Pradeep Bandekar catches showbiz folk going about their starry lives.
'My life was becoming very same-same. It was like a flat line. I have worked for 12 years and I survived in the big bad world of entertainment!'
Incessant showers lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday morning, leading to flooding in many low-lying areas and traffic snarls on roads.
The idol was first installed in Andheri, north west Mumbai, in 1996.
Voting began on Thursday in the by-election to seven assembly constituencies in six states -- a contest symbolic of the fierce turf war between the Bharatiya Janata Party and regional parties.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall in Mumbai and suburbs with very heavy to extremely heavy rains very likely at isolated places.
Mumbai has never seen a Ganesh immersion like this!
Fadnavis said he was not surprised at the Election Commission's interim decision on Shiv Sena's name and symbol.
The Mumbai traffic police on Wednesday dismissed the allegation that an ambulance was held up for Union Home Minister Amit Shah's convoy to pass, an official said.
Amrita Singh and Sara Ali Khan were guests at the Sardar Udham screening.
'The common man and especially civilised people of the state are not agreeing with what has happened and are extending their support'
Latke was a two-time Sena legislator from Andheri East assembly constituency in Mumbai city. Prior to his becoming an MLA, Latke was also a corporator in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
How does Pradeep Bandekar always know what the stars are up to?
'The margin of victory or loss would make both camps rethink their strategies for the 2024 assembly election in Maharashtra.'
The accused named in the FIR included son of a Bollywood producer, a talent manager and a producer, he said.
The Stars emerge and Rediff.com's Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar is there!
Rediff readers tell us how they are celebrating Ganeshotsav this year.
Police have filed an extortion case against Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police Akbar Pathan and two other cops, one of them arrested for the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran, on a complaint by a man who is an accused in a cheating case, an official said on Thursday.
Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar submitted in a court here on Friday that actor Kangana Ranaut's petition seeking transfer of the criminal defamation case filed by him against her was "devoid of any merits" and aimed at delaying the proceedings.
Hearing a petition by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray against the Election Commission's interim order freezing Shiv Sena's name and election symbol, the Delhi high court on Monday asked why it should not wait for the final decision of the poll panel on the dispute between the party factions.
The Thackeray faction also alleged that the Commission had uploaded its letter conveying the preference for poll symbols and party names on the poll authority's website, making it accessible to everyone, including the rival faction.
The court has indirectly 'threatened' her of issuing a warrant on two occasions in a non-cognisable, compoundable and bailable offence, where as per law regular presence is not required, the lawyer claimed.
Photographer Pradeep Bandekar catches showbiz folk going about their business.
Dressed in a blue tee and black track pants, Taapsee Pannu took on the media.
Rediff readers tell us how they are celebrating Ganeshotsav this year.
A key accused in the infamous PMC bank scam of Maharashtra was caught in Bihar while trying to sneak into Nepal, an immigration official said here on Thursday.
Rutuja Latke, the candidate of 'Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray' party for the upcoming Andheri (east) bypoll, on Wednesday moved the Bombay high court seeking a direction to the Mumbai civic body to accept her resignation as its employee.
In view of the prime minister's visit, a few roads in the area will be closed for vehicles, while traffic will be diverted on some other routes, the traffic police said.
The Bollywood actor had "no respect for varied communities of India, law of the land and authorised government bodies" and even made fun of the judiciary, it stated.
A girl, kidnapped almost nine years ago from the Gilbert area of Mumbai's Andheri, was reunited with her family on Friday in Mumbai.
Here is a different but classical kind of modak to try this Ganesh Puja season 2022.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's bypoll win in four of the six seats it contested has invigorated the party ahead of assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
'Eknath Shinde and 40 other traitors have become slaves of Delhi (Centre) to finish off the Shiv Sena'
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction has submitted to the Election Commission its three options of a trident, rising sun or mashaal (burning torch) for its poll symbol, sources said on Sunday.
Meet the stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar spotted over the weekend.
It will be the first major electoral contest in the state after Shinde's rebellion brought down the previous Maharashtra government led by Uddhav Thackeray in June this year.
The high court said it is needless to state that the EC will proceed in accordance with the procedure followed by the commission while adjudicating a petition under... Of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order.
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Film folk have been spotted around town, as they go about their daily routine.
