Popular TV actor Shabbir Ahluwalia has emerged the winner of the third season of “Fear Factor-Khatron Ke Khiladi” after weeks of gruelling tasks involving underwater stunts, fighting off creepy crawlies and jumping off dangerous heights.Shabbir succeeded squash player Ritwik Bhattacharya, after facing two risky…

Bollywood music composer and singer Anand Raj Anand has composed what he calls a “common man’s tribute” to the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games. He will also be performing the two songs live at the opening ceremony.His two songs- “Invitation” and “Celebration” – have a…

Music composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, who are set to perform during the Delhi International Cultural Festival that will run in tandem with the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games, hope to lift with their performance the spirits of people miffed by the allegations of corruption surrounding the event.“On…

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is a happy man. His wife Kiran Rao’s directorial debut “Dhobi Ghaat” premiered to an overwhelming response at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).The film, which was shown at the Elgin Garden Theatres in Toronto, received tremendous acclaim from the…

After working with Ranbir Kapoor in two films, director Siddharth Anand feels the young actor has the potential to follow in the footsteps of megastar Amitabh Bachchan as the “complete Hindi film hero”.“The day Ranbir does an action film and does it well, he…

Bipasha Basu, who was just seen in “Lamhaa” and is now getting ready to do a film on honour killings, feels issue-based films should be made with small budgets to make them “commercially viable” and stars shouldn’t charge any fee to work in them.“Don’t…

The Hindi box office will soon be laden with sequels like “Race 2″, “Don 2″ and the third instalments of “Dhoom”, “Golmaal” and “Phoonk” as Bollywood walks in Hollywood’s footsteps to make filmmakers feel secure and keep a captive audience in good cheer.“It is…

The decision of producer Vipul Shah and his wife actress Shefali Shah to come back to theatre after 14 and 10 years respectively has received a thunderous response from the B-town fraternity. At a special show held yesterday in Mumbai which was attended by who’s…

Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar is scared to direct the remake of his father’s 1991 hit “Agneepath”, famous for portraying megastar Amitabh Bachchan as the “angry young man”.The 38-year-old says action isn’t quite his thing.“I am happy directing films on love, romance and drama.…

Here’s a beauty queen with a difference. Like her peers, Miss India Worldwide Canada Amin Dhillon also wants to join Bollywood, but only as an item girl.Amin, 26, who is also a budding author, said she is “very keen on doing item numbers in…