Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has been presiding over large-scale corruption in the State, with huge amounts of money being made and squandered by a small group of influential politicians and their friends and relatives. Loopholes in the rulebook have been cleverly exploited, with the Chief Minister’s son Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and a clique of favoured industrialists emerging as major beneficiaries.Covert has acquired documents to prove how insidious the entire operatio... Read Full Story
Best Film: Ashutosh Gowariker and Ronnie Screwvala for Jodhaa Akbar ; Presented by Bipasha Basu. An elated Ronnie Screwvala says, “This is exceptional. I am taking this award on behalf of Hrithik, Aishwarya and Ashutosh, on behalf of everyone actually. Ashutosh and UTV have worked together. We started our journey with Swades and now Jodhaa Akbar ... it’s been a great journey.” “I thank all the technicians who made Jodhaa Akbar the most award winning film.” – Ashutosh Gowariker Best Director: ... Read Full Story
'Jai ho' and 'Slumdog' have not only ruled the Oscars but have also emerged as the top 'HollyWords' that influenced the English language most in 2008. 'Jai ho' Oscar winning original score composed by A R Rahman from Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and the word ‘Slumdog’, from the same film, that was used to describe young slum-dwellers in Mumbai were named the top two Hollywood words of 2008 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM) in its 6th Annual Survey. ... Read Full Story
It's all happening in the city and it's being done chori chori chupke chupke.Can you believe, Rana has been shooting for months for a Sekhar Kammula film and there’s not a squeak on it. Pray why is this venture a top secret? Is it because of Rana’s star connections? Well, going by Sekhar’s track record, it comes across that he works better with debutants than stars. Maybe we could call him a star-crossed director! Does the director shy away from established stars or is it that stars c... Read Full Story
In LA for the Oscars Irrfan Khan met up with Julia Roberts for what turned out to be a memorable rendezvous.“On the day after the Oscars ceremony we were doing a photo-feature for a magazine when I was told Julia Roberts was closeby , and would I like to meet her? I said she didn’t know me . But I was told she did know my work. I ran to meet her . It turned out, Julia had seen The Namesake very recently. She was doing a photo-session when we met up. She was sooooo sooooo genuinely pleased to ... Read Full Story
