Danny Boyle, the director of the film Slumdog Millionaire, which is set in Mumbai, paid homage to the Indian city after his film bagged top honour at the British Independent Film Awards.
But the icing in the cake will be the presence of its Oscar winners -- music director A R Rahman, lyricist Gulzar and sound engineer Resul Pookutty -- at the special screening.
Yesterday was premiered in London, and quite a few celebrities made sure to attend.
Billionaire Gautam Adani on Wednesday shared a personal note on the development of Dharavi in Mumbai, days after the Maharashtra government issued a resolution to award the Dharavi redevelopment project to his conglomerate on July 14. In the note shared with the media, Adani said his first tryst with Dharavi in Mumbai was in the late 1970s, and the slum settlement continues to amaze and inspire the billionaire to date. "When this opportunity to renew Dharavi came calling, I seized it with both hands," he said.
Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize winner The White Tiger will now be seen in a theatre near you.
The star couple met on the sets of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.
Like Slumdog Millionaire, RRR will remain a one-time phenomenon until another big, larger-than-life, Indian film connects with the critics in the West, predicts Aseem Chhabra.
Mahesh Thorat keeps toiling in the city's sludge with the hope for his pot of gold someday.
It was the only way Sulmdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle could get the best out of the actor.
Celebration time for Slumdog Millionaire's India team.
We look back at international movies shot in India.
The 44-year-old singer-composer had won his first Golden Globe in 2009 in the same category for Slumdog Millionaire, the Mumbai-based potboiler, which was again directed by British filmmaker Boyle.
Slumdog is a hopeful look at today's India. It is a powerful reflection of a country that was tied up in shackles with flawed socialist visions. Everybody -- from the slum dwellers to the middle class young adults who work in call centers to the rich elite and even the gangsters -- wants a piece of the booming India, And nothing seems to be able to stop them.
Live chat with Harish Kotian at Olympics opening ceremony.
Maxim India's March 2009 issue is all set to hit newsstands, and the lovely Ms Pinto's covershot is a picture of bliss.
Looking at upcoming international films that have been/will be shot in India.
All eyes turn to London on Friday for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, an exuberant journey from Britain's idyllic pastures through the grime of the Industrial Revolution and ending in a contemporary world dominated by popular culture.
RRR threw a lifeline, or so it seemed -- to a world that was down in the dumps. Keeravani and his Naatu Naatu just happened to be in the right place at the right time, notes Saibal Chatterjee.
The 25-year-old actress, who shot to global fame with her small role as Latika in Danny Boyle's multiple-Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, will play Caroline, a primatologist in the 20th Century Fox movie.
Congratulating Freida on her outstanding success, Ambassador Prabhu Dayal said it was not important whether the movie was directed by an Indian or not as long as the storyline and the entire backdrop was Indian.
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Anil Kapoor talks about his balancing act with Slumdog Millionaire and Yuvvraaj.
Danny Boyle, who has directed some of Hollywood's best known names like Leonardo DiCaprio (The Beach) and Cameron Diaz (A Life Less Ordinary), just directed Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor in Slumdog Millionaire.
As Anil Kapoor celebrates his 65th birthday on December 24, Namrata Thakker takes a peek into his FABULOUS life.
S S Rajamouli's period action film RRR has scooped nominations in two categories at the Golden Globe Awards: Best Picture, Non-English, and Best Original Song, Motion Picture.
'People are already talking about what my character will do in Mirzapur season three.'
Sukanya Verma goes down memory lane to recap the desi sightings at the Oscars.
In Danny Boyle's biopic, reports Aseem Chhabra from the Telluride Film Festival, 'we are left with Jobs -- the man, a genius as well as (what Steve Wozniak calls him in the film), an asshole!'
It was heartening to see so many women -- young and old, many in hijab and burqa shaking their bodies, raising their arms and singing with complete abandonment.
We remember some of Nitin Chandrakant Desai most influential works.
Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity.
The composer thanked other artists for the making of the song.
'Today if you look at the way India is growing many people are saying the sleeping elephant has finally woken up, is dancing!' 'I have travelled extensively, in about 60 countries. In all these the moment you say India, the first thing they mention is either an actor's name. Or they start humming a song.' 'I wanted to be in Bollywood. It is the most powerful medium we have in this country. That's soft power.' Listening in on Shobhaa De, Kabir Khan, Vikas Swarop and Saffron Art CEO Hugo Weihe speak on India's Soft Power, Hard Influence.
A pick of just 10 watchable (a couple of them admittedly in the so-bad-it's-fun category) foreign films starring Bollywood stars in significant roles are available to watch on streaming platforms.
Aseem Chhabra celebrates 40 years of the prestigious Telluride Film Festival.
'That night -- when Gandhi won Best Picture at the 1983 Oscars -- belonged to India and it meant a lot to a young student like me, who was trying to establish his Indian identity among the Americans around him.' Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com, who worked as an extra on Richard Attenborough's acclaimed biopic, salutes the late legend.
Alternating between brat and boy, deception and decency, Ishaan Khatter speaks with a passion that will be heard Beyond the Clouds, predicts Sukanya Verma.
'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.
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