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President watches Slumdog Millionaire with Rahman

President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, music director A R Rahman and noted lyricist Gulzar on Sunday watched the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire at the Rashtrapati Bhavan......

'Slumdog Millionaire opens doors for me as a diplomat'

'If I get posted to a place, if people engage with me just as an Indian diplomat, I have X amount of leverage.''But when they look at me as the high commissioner of India and the author of Slumdog......

Is India still the 'slumdog' for the West?

SlumDog Millionaire has won over the Western audiences with its 'fairy tale in a Mumbai slum' storyline but back home the film has opened up a heated debate about the stereotyped representation of......

Slumdog novelist Vikas Swarup is new MEA spokesperson

Senior diplomat Vikas Swarup, whose debut novel was made into the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, has been appointed as spokesperson in the external affairs ministry. A 1986 Indian......

Mahayuti Win Will Boost Adani's Dharavi Plan

The Opposition had promised to scrap the Dharavi redevelopment project if it came to power.With the Mahayuti's massive mandate in the Maharashtra assembly election, that prospect has been laid to......

Slumdog Millionaire in your right pocket

My colleague asked me the other day if I wanted to watch Slumdog Millionaire. I declined saying I would watch it on the big screen. Did she have a pirated DVD, I asked. Well, sort of, she said.......

Slumdog: Big money for Indian companies

It's not just about the Oscars, Golden Globe and millions of dollars that Slumdog Millionaire has grossed globally, many Indian companies too are raking in big money from this Hollywood movie. Fox......

Adani's Dharavi dream: Producing millionaires minus slumdog prefix

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......

Slumdogs and fat cat bankers

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. Middle India is......

'There is more to India than just Slumdog Millionaire'

Two students of Indian origin, one from Chile and the other from the United States of America, would go back to their respective countries with cherished memories and cleansed of all the prejudices......

Slumdog Millionaire to release in India

After making waves overseas, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is all set to release in India in January. The film starsAnil Kapoor,Irrfan Khan and newcomers Dev Patel and Freida Pinto. For its......

Obama wants to see Slumdog Millionaire

The US President, Barack Obama, wants to watch Slumdog Millionaire, the White House has said. Slumdog Millionaire, the exhilarating rags-to-riches fairy tale set in Mumbai, swept the Oscars with......

Slumdog Millionaire wins Brit awards

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, an art house hit in America and Canada and which will roll out of across the United Kingdom next month, grabbed a trio of top awards at the British Independent......

11 BAFTA noms for Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, having conquered the hearts and minds of Hollywood -- winning 4 Golden Globe awards in the process -- now turns its sights on the United Kingdom. Also Read:......

A Slumdog Millionaire in Cannes

The success of Slumdog Millionaire has far-reaching for its cast, especially the children who play young Jamal, Salim and Latika. The latest to ride the Slumdog wave is Ayush Mahesh Khedekar [he......

PIX: Akshay, Tiger, Rahman light up IPL opening ceremony

There was dancing, there was singing and heavy dose of patriotism on a glitzy night at the Indian Premier League opening ceremony in Chennai on Friday. Power-packed performances from Bollywood......

51 Test Centuries Meets 800 Test Wickets

IMAGE: Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar and Muttiah Muralitharan at the trailer launch of the Sri Lankan spin legend's biopic 800 in Mumbai on Tuesday, September 5, 2022. All Photographs:......

Rahman, Ranveer Rock Ahmedabad

IMAGE: A R Rahman, Ranveer Singh, Neeti Mohan, Shweta Mohan, Mohit Chauhan rock the stage at the IPL 2022 closing ceremony at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, May 29, 2022.......