The cast and crew of Smile Pinki are touring India, to spread the message of the film -- cleft lip operations -- and the greater vision of Smile Train.
Your top choices for a vacation destination that could whip up a storm in your cup are Darjeeling in West Bengal, Munnar in Kerala, Palampur in Himachal Pradesh, Ooty in Tamil Nadu, and Assam.
In what many movie observers believe is one of the biggest surprises in years, Dev Patel, 18, has just been nominated along with Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight), Josh Brolin, (Milk), Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt) for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Best Supporting Actor Award.
The Oscar winning music composer hopes music can relieve the ongoing tension between India and Australia following racist attacks.
The Mumbai-born actress, who shot to worldwide fame with the Oscar-winning movie, has been offered several "stereotypical" roles in India but is adamant not to star in an all-singing, all-dancing Bollywood movie.
Shah Rukh Khan talks about the tie up with Fox productions and marrying the sexy Megan Fox.
Raja Sen's brief take on trying to make sense of the Mumbai girl's unprecedented career beginning.
Rubina Ali describes Nicole Kidman as 'strange' in her autobiography.
Find out what the 25-year-old actress admitted in the November issue of Britain's InStyle magazine.
The Slumdog director wants to make another film in Mumbai.
Amidst recession and dwindling restaurant revenues, a prominent Indian restaurant in London has launched what is billed as the 'world's most expensive curry' priced at 2,000 pounds a portion.The upmarket Bombay Brasserie, owned by Taj Hotels, announced the new dish called 'Samundari Khazana' to coincide with the DVD launch of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
Lakshman Somasundaram applauds Indian villagers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel for making baseball history.
The Slumdog Millionaire star posed in a series of provocative outfits for the photoshoot, which she had taken part in to promote her new film work.
The director, who cast Azaharuddin, 10, and Rubina Ali, 9, as young Latika and Salim, is saddened by the reports that the young children have lost their shanty homes in a demolition drive in Mumbai.
Chennai erupted into spontaneous celebrations as the music maestro bagged two Grammies.
Dev Patel's been working hard on M Night Shyamalan's adaptation of the massively successful Nickolodeon animated series, The Last Airbender, here is the first look of the film.
The names of Oscar winner Resul Pookutty and eminent Ayurvedic physician P K Warrier, selected for Padma Shri award, had not been recommended to the centre by the Kerala government, according to the state information commission.
The Slumdog star is set to star with the hunk in the film titled Black Thirst, which will be directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Resul Pookutty spoke to Aseem Chhabra about his favorite directors and the reasons why he would work with them again.
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
An India Festival organized by the Indian Association of Greater Athens, Georgia, a discussion on Vikas Swarup's book Q&A which formed the basis for the Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, and yoga and Indian dance demonstrations were among the programs of the March 25-April 3 India Week at the University of Georgia at Athens sponsored by Asha-UGA.
Arjun Rampal recently shot for an ad with Nicole Kidman when she came down to India last month. The two are endorsing Schwepps, a beverage company.
Jolie recently revealed plans to adopt from India when she met the child stars of multiple Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, she has pushed ahead of her colleagues Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, to become the highest paid actress in India.
The Slumdog Millionaire actress will be seen in a new film by writer-director Julian Schnabel (of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly fame).
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.
He may have turned the big 50, but actor Anil Kapoor shows no signs of slowing down as he will walk the ramp for designer Anamika Khanna at the ongoing Delhi Couture Week to promote his upcoming home production Aisha.
The comic book movie, which has seen various efforts to bring it to the screen over the last two decades, grossed over the weekend a decent but unspectacular $83 million, nearly 55 percent of it in North America. Slumdog, which was number one film for just one week in its dream run worldwide, made about $18 million. It lost about 35 percent of its box-office clout after having soared to the top amidst post Oscar celebrations.
Being in the heart of the Silicon Valley was an education in itself. Today it is the most exciting area of synergy between the US and India and Indian achievement.
Since the reporter arrived at their chawl, Fahim's family have met him twice. His eldest brother Abu Bakr Ansari says, "There were two cops with him when we met. He couldn't talk to us freely. He looks OK. There are so many questions I wanted to ask, but could not. The police have not harassed us," he adds. "It seems that they had kept us under observation for two months and realised that we were just doing our work. Knowing that we are innocent, they let us alone."
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.
Oscar winner Resul Pookutty along with his wife and Irrfan Khan arrived at the Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The Booker prize winning author dismissed the film publicly in a speech at Altanta's Emory University, saying it "piles impossibility on impossibility". The writer called the book and movie nothing more than "feel-good" and complained about various portions of the story.
Mumbai-based Longines has been choreographing for 15 years. He has won many dancing titles over the years. But his biggest reward may have been the moment Danny Boyle thanked him for his work in Slumdog Millionaire, on the Oscar stage. He spoke about his experiences.
A R Rahman on Monday created history by becoming the first Indian to win two Oscars for his score in Slumdog Millionaire which swept the Academys, winning eight awards including one for sound engineer Resul Pookutty. The film, named the best at the Oscars, also fetched Danny Boyle the Best Director award, Simon Beaufoy best Adapted Screenplay and Anthony Dod Mantle the best Cinematography award. The rags-to-riches drama was also awarded for best Editing
The film's director Danny Boyle had to fly down to India to warn the children's parents to stop demanding flash homes and cars.
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.
The musical genius is finally getting his dues, and all because of Slumdog Millionaire.
Bolstering its chances for the Oscars scheduled later this month, the film based on India's diplomat-turned author Vikas Swarup's novel went into the ceremony with 11 nominations and won prizes for best film, best director, original screenplay, music, cinematography, editing and sound.
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