From Chandigarh to China for Saumya

September 10th, 2009 Dance Premier League, has been creating news all through its audition phases. After auditioning in Chandigarh, Amritsar and Delhi, Salman Khan, the heartthrob of millions went all the way to Delhi to hand pick the North team.

August 31st, 2009 By Subhash K Jha Everyone in Punjab wants a glimpse of his or her soni kudi Harleen from Love Aaj Kal in Punjab. And Giselle Monteiro, hearing the clamor for her in the land of the five rivers was supposed to join her director Imtiaz Ali in Chandigarh recently.

August 29th, 2009 Rishi Kapoor has brought back Russian actress Kseniya Ryabinkina, who played a trapeze artist in Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker (1970), for a role in his upcoming film, Chintuji. Chintuji is closely based on Rishi Kapoor’s real life.

August 25th, 2009 Director Neeraj Pandey whose film, A Wednesday, was critically acclaimed, is set to make another fast-paced film which promises to be different from his first one. This one will be based on an incident that took place on 19 March 1987, when 26 men, pretending to be income tax officials walked into Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri’s Opera House branch jewelry store and took away wealth worth lakhs of rupees.

August 13th, 2009 By Subhash K Jha So overwhelming is the response to Love Aaj Kal in Punjab that Imtiaz Ali is now taking time off from his schedule in Mumbai to head for Chandigarh for a while this week, on a very heavy demand from the Punjabi public. Says Imtiaz, “Punjabiyat and the Punjabi culture were very much a part of both Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal.

August 8th, 2009 Exiled Uighur activist say she is 'woman of peace'MELBOURNE, Australia —An exiled Uighur activist whom Beijing blames for recent deadly riots in China said Saturday that she is a "woman of peace," as she attended an Australian film festival for the screening of a documentary about her life. Rebiya Kadeer, a U.S.-based activist who has denied instigating last month's ethnic violence in western Xinjiang province, was escorted into the sold-out screening of "10 Conditions of Love" at the Melbourne International Film Festival through a back entrance as a small group of protesters demonstrated nearby.

July 31st, 2009 By Subhash K Jha Deepika says her character in Love Aaj Kal is exactly like her. “It was so much ‘me’ that sometimes I felt maybe I wasn’t doing anything on camera.

July 28th, 2009 Japan: Activist visit won't affect ties with ChinaTOKYO — The visit to Japan of an exiled Uighur activist who China blames for this month's ethnic riots will not affect relations between Tokyo and Beijing because its approval was not politically motivated, the government said Tuesday. China's Foreign Ministry expressed "strong dissatisfaction" Monday with Japan for allowing a visit by Rebiya Kadeer, the U.S.-based dissident who heads the pro-independence World Uyghur Congress.

June 25th, 2009 Gorgeous actress Neha Marda from Sphere Origins’s Balika Vadhu speaks about her favourites in life. Your favourite car…  LAURA Your favourite perfume… ESI MIYAKI Your favourite meal… THAI AND PUNJABI Your favourite restaurant… RED BOX, CHINA GATE AND MAINLAND CHINA Your favourite drink…  COSMO Your favourite getaway in Mumbai… BANSTAND AND NARIMAN POINT Your favourite getaway outside Mumbai… GOA Your favourite outfit… PATIALA AND CHUDIDARS Your favourite actor/actress… HRITIK ROSHAN AND KONKANA SEN Your favourite film… JAB WE MET - SAMPURN

June 5th, 2009 Yao Ming voices role in Chinese animated filmBEIJING — Having appeared in a documentary and played himself on the Simpsons, Houston Rockets star Yao Ming finally gets to voice a whole different character for an upcoming Chinese-language animated film. Yao plays the father of the main character in "The Magic Aster," a traditional tale of good versus evil that promises to be more earnest than the famously irreverent Simpsons.

May 29th, 2009 You heard this here first. Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan Will be dancing at the 10th IIFA awards to be held in Macau from June 11.

May 20th, 2009 With most of the big budget extravaganzas being city centric nowadays, very few films are shot in Indian villages. When films are shot in Mumbai and other big metro cities, fans do come in large number but don’t really go berserk seeing their favourite top stars in real.

May 15th, 2009 Rakhi Sawant, the Controversy Queen is gearing up for her Swayamvar on National Television with NDTV Imagine's show Rakhi Ka Swayamar. The item girl is happy and elated as she has received 15,000 proposals till now, and feels that it will be a big challenge for her to choose just 15 out of the whole lot.

May 9th, 2009 Amitabh Bachchan’s been promoting the IFFA quite hard this year again. He has to, after all he’s the brand ambassador of the ten year old festival.

May 3rd, 2009 It was a great evening at Firangi Paani-Chembur on 7th April 09 as the known personalities graced the launch party of Firangi Paani in Chembur. The team and jury members of Dance India Dance (reality dance show on Zee TV) were seen having a merry time together.