'When you need something, you must keep crying'

I was on a short vacation to India. My four-year-old niece GG (short for G Gomathi) decided to join her mom and me on a visit to the nearby grocery store. She was laughing and giggling until we......

TV industry: Musical chairs for top management

Shortage of talent with media experience has seen over 20 top executives in the broadcasting and distribution companies jump ship and join another company in the same business in the last one......

Govt backtracks, to make CAS voluntary

After being operational for nearly three years in select parts of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and over six years in Chennai, the Conditional Access System (CAS) for television is being given a quiet......

Curtains go up on entertainment summit today

Over 2,500 delegates from 20 countries expected to attend Ficci-FRAMES convention in Mumbai. The curtains go up on Tuesday for FICCI-FRAMES 2008, slated to be the biggest global convention in Asia......

Sony flops in Bollywood

Hollywood's first big foray into Bollywood has received a bruising reception in India with websites that track box-office sales branding it a flop. Sony Pictures' co-production of locally made......

PIX: TV's bahus put their bikinis on!

They're bold, beautiful and totally unrecognisable! Television actresses are usually typecast as demure women in saris. In real life these women are very different from their onscreen avatars. They......

PIX: Himanshu Soni, Sheetal Singh's lavish Jaipur wedding

Television actor Himanshu Soni, who shot to fame with the mythological show Buddha, got married to actress Sheetal Singh on November 27 in Jaipur. And, as expected, their friends from the industry......

PIX: Karan Patel, Ankita Bhargava's sangeet ceremony

Actors Karan Patel and Ankita Bhargava who are all set to getting married on Sunday, May 3 celebrated their sangeet ceremony on Friday, May 1 at Hotel Novotel, Juhu in the......

Valentine's Day Special: 'The real romance began after marriage'

This Valentine's Day, five TV actors debunk negative theories about holy matrimony. It is often said that marriage kills romance. But some of our married television stars beg to differ -- according......

Reader's speak out!

Name: Amit DasSubject: Resurgent PakistanMessage: The Pakistanis before landing in India were seen as minnows in front of the formidable, star studded Indian team. They started the 1st test......

Readers corner: Speaking out!

Got something to say? Mail usName: RanjeetSubject: SRTMessage: Sachin's batting has given me so much pleasure since 1989, that it is with a heavy heart, I will make the bold suggestion that he has......