Slumdog Millionaire has received tremendous international recognition and highlighted Mumbai's underbelly. While some hail it as a grand endorsement for the city, others think of it as a sorry stereotype.
rediff.com correspondents met children in Mumbai's slums to find out what life really means for them.
The two stars of the Oscar winning film will appear in Lord Owen's Lady, a new picture about a Welsh nobleman who falls in love with an Indian girl.
Mohammed Ismail, died in Mumbai after a long battle with tuberculosis.
An Indian millionaire who owns an Internet gambling company has pleaded guilty to violating American laws and has agreed to forfeit $300 million as part of the deal.
Formula One's rulers gather in the millionaires' playground of Monaco on Friday to steer the sport away from its profligate past and towards a more cost-conscious future. With teams battered by the credit crunch and stunned by Honda's decision to quit, the FIA's world motor sport council is expected to rubber-stamp measures agreed on Wednesday to rein in spending.
The actor recounts his experience of shooting for Allen's untitled movie where he plays Freida Pinto's father.
Here's tracing the lives of the Slumdog kids, six months after the Oscar.
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.
Chris Kattan hopes his film will win millions of admirers, who will see a different kind of exaggerated reality than the one in Slumdog Millionaire.
Rubina Ali's amazing journey from a chawl to the Oscar red carpet, in her own words.
According to sources, the 24-year-old stunner was invited to a screen test for the 007 movie.
The good folks at Visa have just released their most recent Visa Asia Pacific Affluent Study. And this is what we have learnt from it about affluent Indians.
Tanushree writes in to say that Freida was her batchmate in the English Literature class of 2004-05, in Mumbai's St Xaviers' College. She shares her memories.
Guests were treated to an evening of polo and high-street fashion.
Mahalakshmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash and Tanvi Shah were the other three besides Sukhwinder Singh sang in Rahman's award-winning song Jai Ho. Here are their stories.
Some of you readers may have studied with her in school or college. Share your memories of times spent with Freida, maybe in the college canteen, maybe on the school playground, maybe in the neighbourhood where you and she live.
Celebrations after India's Oscar moment refuse to die down. Now, it is the telecom services providers who are laughing their way to banks, thanks to the Slumdog Millionaire's Oscar sweep.
Freida Pinto, the film's luminous leading lady who has been wowing the world on the red carpet and across television interviews lining up to the Slumdog's Oscar glory, has gone and signed up a film with director Woody Allen.
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.
The Slumdog Millionaire team at the Oscar red carpet.
Sukhwinder Singh will not perform at the Oscars this year.
From just another model in a city of so many aspiring to be the next Jesse Randhawa or Ujjwala Raut, in a few short months the Slumdog star has become the toast of Tinsel Town.
The Slumdog Millionaire star has been tagged by high-society, high fashion magazine Vanity Fair for its The Vanities Girls section. Every month, in The Vanities Girls, VF chooses a 'promising' young actress and gives her a full-page portrait. Freida is the chosen one for the March 2009 issue.
Join us in congratulating the musicians on their spectacular feat.
In case anyone thought Andy Murray would get carried away after winning his first title on home soil, he marked the occasion with an alcohol-free night before quickly switching his thoughts to Wimbledon.
We played 20 questions with America's wealthiest entrepreneurs--and they were willing to share.
Smile Pinki, nominated for Best Documentary -- Short Subject, has gone largely unnoticed.
Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail have been invited to attend a tea party at the House of Commons.
Based on Vikas Swarup's bestseller Q & A, the film however did not strictly adhere to the book. In fact, according to a guardian,co.uk report, the movie was given an extreme makeover.
Vidya Balan's biggest challenge is to look, sound and act like poetess Kamala Das, voice coach on board.
Oscar winner Resul Pookutty is upset with the fact that thousands of children are still homeless in India.
Freida Pinto and Evangeline Lilly are the latest beauties to join the list of celebrities to endorse products by cosmetic giant L'Oreal.
Campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti on Monday used abusive words to urge voters to choose between candidates.
With his first English language film Slumdog Millionaire shining among the top 10 films of the weekend on three continents, Anil Kapoor, who plays a complicated quiz show host in it, has set a record for an Indian actor.
A number of Hollywood celeb parents have expressed their desire to adopt Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali after her dad tried to sell her, it has emerged.
The girl's father, Rafiq Qureshi has been arrested for trying to sell his daughter for 200,000 pounds.
A multi-millionaire Indian-American couple, found guilty of virtually enslaving two Indonesian maids, has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to their former housekeepers by a US court. The court declared on Friday that the workers are entitled to double the amount of unpaid wages they were owed by their employees, Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani.
'You could be out of sight, out of mind but it may take just one song to bring you back and to let you know that your audience is still rooting for you.'
