DD National to be relaunched as 'Desh ka apna channel'

In a bid to attract more viewers, public broadcaster Doordarshan is relaunching its National Channel with a "new look and feel", while positioning it as the country's "own channel". The channel......

Munnabhai MBBS wins National Film Award

Veteran Bengali filmmaker Gautam Ghose won the best director and screenplay award for his Abar Aranye while Marathi film Shwaas was adjudged the best feature film in the 51st National film Awards......

Manmohan is just another politician

It was a character in an Agatha Christie mystery who referred to murder being most difficult the first time, being driven by necessity on the second occasion, and becoming a habit subsequently.......

7 simple tricks to a happy financial life

We are a transition generation trying to find a balance between retaining our traditional values and also finding a way to ape the West in terms of lifestyle changes. Well, one of the areas that......

Zee in distribution tie-up with Rajshri

Zee Telefilms announced its tie-up with Rajshri Pictures for distribution of Hindi and other language films across the country.Zee's distribution business, which is through Padmalaya Telefilms,......

'Bodies lay strewn in Jallianwala Bagh for weeks'

'A lot of what you see on screen, particularly the night of the massacre, is pretty close to what really happened as it is based on survivor stories.' IMAGE: Vicky Kaushal in Sardar Udham.......

National Awards: Bollywood Clout At Work

'No small artistic film can even hope to win, except, maybe, as random tokenism,' asserts Deepa Gahlot. IMAGE: Anupam Kher in The Kashmir Files. Over the last few years, the credibility of the......

You Know What's Sadder Than National Film Awards?

We are back to being a country that talks about box office numbers as the measure of what an audience's real feelings about a movie are, laments Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Anupam Kher in The Kashmir......

National Awards: Alia-Kriti Share Best Actress Win

Photographs: Kind courtesy Alia Bhatt/ Kriti Sanon/Instagram R Madhavan's Rocketry: The Nambi Effect won the National Award for Best Feature Film while Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon shared the Best......

Sunfeast Open ball boy/girl contest

In yet another unique endeavor to popularize tennis and create ownership for the Sunfeast Open 2005 amongst the tennis loving youngsters in the country, Sunfeast (ITC Foods) and Disney Channel have......