Kamat sets store by Goa’s glamour quotient

October 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - It will be a six-day star-studded extravaganza. The second edition of the HDIL India Couture Week will see top notch Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt and Saif Ali Khan walk the ramp for the fashion pageant that kicks off here Sunday.

October 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - Kareena Kapoor is leaving nothing to chance this time. Determined to match strides with the formidable scene-stealer Kajol in the Hindi version of "Stepmom", the actress has been quietly attending acting workshops with the film's director Siddharth Malhotra.

October 3rd, 2009 Hoo, directed by V Ravichandran is promising to be a romantic comedy. The sets have been made by art director Ismail.

October 2nd, 2009 PANAJI - Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, a Goan director who won an award at the 34th Toronto film festival, Friday criticises the state government for giving a cold shoulder to filmmakers and allowing businessmen to control creative and cultural endeavours in the state. "I do not want to dig into the past.

October 2nd, 2009 Vir Das, India’s answer to popular western stand-up comic Russell Peters, is finding himself isolated these days on the sets of Yash Raj. A source from the sets says, “The entire team of Parmeet Sethi’s film is very young, enthusiastic and energetic.

September 21st, 2009 PANAJI - The Goa government has announced a cash prize of Rs.25 lakh to filmmaker Laxmikant Shetgaonkar whose film "Paltadacho Munis" won an award at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The decision to honour the filmmaker was taken Monday at a meeting of the governing body of the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG).

September 19th, 2009 Everyone on the sets of Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd.’s ‘Blue’ was in for a pleasant surprise yesterday afternoon when none other than Shah Rukh Khan dropped on the sets to meet Akshay Kumar! The team of ‘Blue’ was shooting for a special number ‘Fikrana’ and the BLUE theme song with Akshay Kumar and Zayed Khan. While the crew was in the middle of the shoot, SRK walked on to the sets and greeted Akshay Kumar.

September 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Though Bigg Boss is among the most watched reality shows on Indian television, the latest version featuring Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will see the show surpassing last year's popularity, says Colors TV channel CEO Rajesh Kamat. "After the tremendous success of 'Bigg Boss' last year, we want to take it to even higher levels this year - in ratings, in novelty and in appeal.

September 1st, 2009 The sets of director Rajsekhar’s Parole had an unexpected visitor recently. Prakash Rai, who is a friend of B Suresh and was in Bangalore around that time, dropped in to see the shooting of the film.

July 23rd, 2009 Anjana Sukhani is proud to admit that 'Jashnn' is one of the major milestones in her film career so far. Though she has featured in multi crore extravaganzas like 'Golmaal Returns' and 'Salaam E Ishq' before, it was high time that she gets a role, which allows her enough scope for displaying histrionics.

July 20th, 2009 BEIJING - A 14-year-old boy in China's Sichuan Province has been drinking gasoline to become a "valiant fighter" like his hero Optimus Prime in the movie "Transformers: Revenge of the fallen", a media report said. "Since the boy watched the film, he started drinking gasoline to become a valiant fighter," the West China Metropolis daily said citing his father.

July 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - After making the gritty and acclaimed "Mumbai Meri Jaan", which revolved around the 2006 serial train bombings in the city, one expected the shy yet brilliant Nishikant Kamat to delve deeper into terrorism. But the filmmaker wants to make a masala entertainer instead.

July 1st, 2009   After making the gritty and glorious Mumbai Meri Jaan you would expect the ultra-shy self-effacing quietly-brilliant Nishikant Kamat to go deeper into the same realistic terrorism territory. But Nishikant has had his fill of terrorism.

June 30th, 2009 Album: "Luck"; Music Directors: Salim Merchant-Sulaiman Merchant; Lyricists: Shabbir Ahmed and Anvita Dutt Guptan; Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Satya Hinduja, Salim Merchant, Shruti Pathak, Naresh Kamat, Shruti Haasan, Clinton Cerejo, Anushka Manchanda and Robert Bob Omulo; Rating: *** Composer siblings Salim and Sulaiman Merchant have once again churned out a potential hit album with "Luck". The soundtrack of the film, which stars Sanjay Dutt and Imran Khan, is powerful, hip, edgy and very impressive.

May 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Child actors of popular television shows may have caught the fancy of many a viewer, but one may not get to see the cute kids of "Uttaran" or the naughty little boy playing Lord Krishna any more as they are now set to grow up on screen. Two prime-time hits of Colors entertainment channel will take a generational leap in the coming weeks.