The Oscar winning music composer hopes music can relieve the ongoing tension between India and Australia following racist attacks.
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Aamir Khan's production is missing from the final list of nine films in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Doordarshan's Visaranai Commission, directed by Vasanth, is a beautifully crafted, hard-hitting dose of real life; a must watch.
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Check out the winners and shakers at the International Indian Film Academy in Colombo.
Budget to match that of smash-hit sci-fi Avatar, the most expensive movie made till date.
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.
Fans of the maestro are going to love this Tamil soundtrack.
A few years back eminent filmmaker Roman Polanski couldn't enter the United States, even if it was to receive the much sought after Best Director Oscar.
Mesmerised by the cinematic kitsch of Mumbai's underbelly, Americans are seeking palliatives to the horror stories tumbling out of the Byzantine world of investment banking.
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.
A look at the Ninth Indian Television Academy Awards held recently in Mumbai.
Slumdog Millionaire bagged 10 Oscar nominations at the 81st annual Academy Awards.
Senior diplomat Vikas Swarup on Saturday assumed charge as Spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry.
The Academy Award winning actor whose film Robin Hood opened the prestigious Cannes festival, has been in talks with Indian financiers and plans to star in the production too.
Even as Bollywood copes with its worst financial turmoil, with no film having been released for over two months, its award shows are raking in big moolah.
India has highest number of entries, with five actors included in the list.
Rising star James McAvoy talks about his crucial career breaks and Wanted, the new big-budget action movie with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.
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.
Here's a look at the Oscar nominations, 2010.
Aseem Chhabra tries to guess which movies will be a part of Oscar history, if only as a nomination.
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.
The Tamil song 'Na Na' has been shortlisted for nomination in the original song category for the 82nd Academy Awards.
After eminent writers Nayantara Sahgal and Ashok Vajpeyi, Malayalam novelist and Aam Aadmi Party leader Sarah Joseph today said she would return the Sahitya Akademi award in protest against what she called the "growing communalism" and "life threat faced by writers" in the country after Narendra Modi government assumed office.
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.
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Smile Pinki, nominated for Best Documentary -- Short Subject, has gone largely unnoticed.
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.
7 fashion lessons we learnt from the Oscars red carpet.
The Smile Pinki team -- director Megan Mylan, Dr Subodh Kumar Singh, Pinki and Ghutaru -- chat with Rediff readers.
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.
The FIR, filed on Thursday by M Goviappa Nagaraja, alleged that the 21-year-old reigning Commonwealth Games champion, along with his brother Chirag Sen, had fudged their age to get into playing age-group tournaments since 2010.
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