Category: Bollywood
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Hong Kong cinema comes to New Zealand
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New Zealanders have an opportunity to take a sneak peak into Hong Kong culture, art and trade. The third Hong Kong Festival opens on 4 August in Auckland, and provides a journey of past, present and future of Hong Kong through a string of events including: a photo exhibition, movies festival,…
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KK gives karismatic performance in New Zealand
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Performing in New Zealand for the first time, Bollywood singer KK left no stone unturned for his fans who had a feast at Auckland’s TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre. Whether it was Awarapan Banjarapan (movie Jism) or Ding Dong (movie Kuch To Hai), KK revelled in all genres of singing to the 3000-strong audience…
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I’m not into porn – Poonam Pandey
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Poonam Pandey’s latest strip act, has brought her back in limelight, almost a year after she first promised to strip when the Indian Cricket Team won the world cup. The Kingfisher calendar girl tweeted her nude picture soon after Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL 5 final. However, the 21-year old…
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Why buy when you can adopt?
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Don’t buy a dog. Adopt. That’s the message Bollywood actor Imran Khan wants to give his followers. Following in the footsteps of his uncle Aamir Khan, who is a Bollywood icon known for making movies with social messaging, Imran is supporting an advertising campaign by People for Ethical Treatment for…
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Review: No Dum in Dum Maaro Dum
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GENRE:Â Suspense CAST: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar, Aditya Pancholi, Harry Key, Rana Daggubati DIRECTOR:Â Rohan Sippy RUNNING TIME:Â 2:12 RELEASEÂ DATE:Â Opened 22 April Junior Bachchan should be worried. Most reviews of Dum Maro Dum have given a thumbs down to the Abhishek Bachchan-starrer movie. Bachchan’s three past movies have flopped on the…
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Kanishtha Dhankhar becomes Miss India
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Delhi’s Kanishtha Dhankhar has won Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011 title at the grand finale held in Mumbai. Hasleen Kaur won Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2011 and Ankita Shorey won Pantaloons Femina Miss India International 2011. Last year’s Miss India winners Manasvi Mamgai, Nicole Faria and Neha Hinge crowned the…
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Indian student wins NZ television scholarship
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Taking clue from her interest in keeping a scrapbook of news events during a weekend shift at a local newspaper, a young Indian student became certain of her media calling. Keen to study media, Nilam Patel, applied for and won a prestigious scholarship that will not only see her complete…
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American Indian leader objects to vulgarity in Bollywood
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“Unnecessary violence and vulgarity of Indian films” is concerning a US-based Indian community leader. Rajan Zed, the US-based president of Universal Society of Hinduism, is urging India’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to retrain its team in “what India stood for†and what were our moral perimeters. Zed wants…
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Indian actor gets jail for raping maid
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Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja has been sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonmnet (RI) for raping his maid. The victim had turned hostile during the trial in a fast-track court. Ahuja is also fined Rs 3,000. Sessions Judge P M Chouhan acquitted Ahuja of less serious charges of criminal intimidation and wrongful confinement.…
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PETA asks Poonam Pandey to strip for animals
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While aspiring Indian model Poonam Pandey reiterated her promise to remove clothes if India wins the ICC Cricket World Cup in Mumbai on Saturday, an NGO has appealed to the 19-year old to strip for animals. In an open letter to the Kingfisher model, PETA India’s chief functionary, Poorva Joshipura,…
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Who the hell is Rebecca Black?
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Rebecca Blake became a popular name almost overnight when her YouTube music video went from a few views to close to 25 million views in less than a week. The 13-year old singer apparently became a music sensation for the “worst song ever”. “Truly, undeniably awful,” is how Hypervocal.com describes…
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Holi Khele Raghuvira becomes the favourite Holi song
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On the Holi morning, Indians are busy searching and downloading their favourite Holi songs, with “Holi Khele Raghuvira” leading the trend. The close second is Amitabh Bachchan’s Rang Barse from Silsila. Interestingly, both the top songs have been filmed on Bollywood’s first superstar, Amitabh Bachchan. Rang Barse was also the…
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Gul Panag Married
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Gul Panag got married in the typical Bollywood style yet in the most unusual way. The Bollywood actress, who is always active on Twitter disappeared from the microblogging site for a couple of days before returning with an unusual tweet: “#InOtherNews, got married yesterday. Super fun it was.” The former Miss India,…
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Changing the lives of 5 ordinary Indians
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Nat Geo ‘Mission Army – Desh ke Rakshak’ Television reality shows in India are in for more competition. Geographic Channel is all set to give its viewers unprecedented access into the most prestigious and revered institution of the country – The Indian Army. In a country with stiff job competition, Indian…
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Is British model Hazel Salman’s new love?
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Are British model Hazel and Salman Khan in love? While Bollywood’s most eligibile bachelor recently expressed his desire to focus on his work and not get distracted by women, it seems women can’t leave him alone. The latest woman in Salman Khan’s life is British model Hazel, if rumours are to…
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Using media to give the voice to the community
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Bollywood actor Abhay Deol is supporting a good cause in Goa. He met a group of community filmmakers from slums and villages around India trained by Video Volunteers, a media organization for which Deol serves as an ambassador. Says Deol, “As a filmmaker, I try to make films that are…
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Where Katrina Kaif comes before Sachin
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India might be a cricket-crazy country, but there’s something Indians love more than cricket – it is Bollywood. At least that’s the indication of the Google’s Zeitgeist, which is the search engine company’s barometer for hot searches for 2010. In the Google Zeitgeist list of fastest rising people in 2010…
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Two Bollywood and news channels now in the US
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Indians living in the US will now have access to two of India’s leading television channels. English news channel, TIMES NOW, and Bollywood entertainment channel, Zoom, can now be viewed across the US. This should come as good news for a very large Indian diaspora that is always interested Bollywood,…
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Win a date with Katrina Kaif
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Impress Katrina Kaif with your dance moves, and you could be sitting across the dining table with Bollywood’s hottest star.
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Dhoom 3 – Katrina, Priyanka or Frieda
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The plot seems to thicken about who will Aamir Khan’s co-star be in Dhoom 3. Â The buzz in the industry is that Frieda Pinto has been approached for the lead role.