This is their first trip to India but members of BBC Sound System, a band from Senegal, have seen many Bollywood films, love the sound of tabla and say Raj Kapoor is famous back home.“My father was an African and the first film that…

Actress Lisa Ray, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the plasma cells last year, isn’t letting the disease affect her – she is determined to fight it and has sought spiritual solace near Ganga in Rishikesh.“I’m back from Rishikesh (in…

The Indian Film Festival 2010 has commenced in Australia and New Zealand. Interestingly the festival is giving special honours to Rani Mukherji by organizing a ‘Rani Mukherji Retrospective’. Being tagged as ‘Queen of Bollywood’, the event is screening Rani’s films including ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’,…

Amitabh Bachchan will receive a lifetime achievement award at the sixth edition of the Muscat International Film Festival starting March 13.“In a few days it will be Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman and the International Film Festival, where there shall be decoration for…

International R&B singer Akon, who is here to record songs for Shah Rukh Khan’s film “Ra.One”, says he is a big fan of the Bollywood superstar and that he will not only have shows in India during his world tour but would also do more…

Model-turned-actress Celina Jaitley announced wine as the colour of the season at the Lakme Fashion Week here Friday.“It is a privilege to launch the colour of the season as Lakme has always predicted the coming trend rightly. This time, Lakme has predicted a colourful…

Actress-anchor Mandira Bedi’s waist is shrinking by the day and she is looking her fittest ever, but she says she is now ready to “experience the joys of motherhood”.“Koshish jaari hai (attempts are on),” Mandira, who tied the knot with filmmaker Raj Kaushal in…

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu sashayed on the ramp in a yellow and beige sari at the inaugural show of the Lakme Fashion Week here Friday for her close friend and designer Rocky S.The actress, who is mostly seen in bright and happy colours was…

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is set to cross the 200,000 mark in Twitter followers, visited the headquarter of the micro-blogging website in San Francisco after being especially invited there.Priyanka tweeted about her visit to the headquarter where she met Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder.…

Oscar-winning sound engineer Resul Pookutty says he was inspired to start his own NGO as he was inundated with requests for financial help after he won the Academy Award.“Over the last one year, so many things happened in my life. I received a huge…