‘Vande Mataram controversy uncalled for’

November 9th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Rihannna has launched her own perfume and is hoping that no man can resist her fragrance. Rihanna, who was spotted walking outside a club in Los Angeles recently, has even had a scientist test the perfume.

November 4th, 2009 more images Dismissing the 'fatwa' by Jamait-e-Ulema Hind against Vande Mataram, renowned lyricist, poet and film scriptwriter Javed Akhtar says, “This controversy is old and obsolete. Vande Mataram is part of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s novel Anandamath.

November 4th, 2009 more images more imagesMUMBAI - Veteran Bollywood scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar believes the controversy over the national song "Vande mataram" is obsolete and those who have any objection to it should simply not sing it. He was referring to the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind Tuesday asking Muslims not to sing the song on the grounds that some of its lines were "against the religious principles of Islam".

October 7th, 2009 Actress Divya was recently in the midst of a controversy because of her face-off with the dancers of Just Maata Maathalli. She had to apologize to them later and this has left her red-faced.

October 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Filmmaker Karan Johar's latest flick "Wake Up Sid", which was embroiled in a first-day-first-show controversy Friday, was running peacefully in 42 cinema halls in Mumbai and another 150 elsewhere in Maharashtra Saturday. The film had faced protests from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Friday for having used 'Bombay' instead of 'Mumbai'.

September 25th, 2009 LONDON - British pop star Lady GaGa is courting controversy yet again for posing topless for a promotional Internet ad for her upcoming tour. The singer, who will be performing with American rapper Kanye West during the Fame Kills tour, features topless in a slow-motion 30-second clip.

September 11th, 2009 Chamkaayisi Chindi Udaayisi, Nidhi Subbaiah’s last film created quite some controversy at her absence from all the promotional events. She believes that her directors and producers may have been angry with her for speaking about not being comfortable shooting for a song on a beach in Bangkok.

September 1st, 2009 Film: "Do Knot Disturb"; Music Directors: Nadeem-Shravan; Lyricist: Sameer; Singers: Sonu Niigaam, Anuradha Shriram, Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, Jigar Saraiya, Nitika Kanwar, Earl D'Souza, Neeraj Sridhar, Anushka Manchanda, Sowmya Raoh and T.K. Karthik; Ratings: ** The hit composer duo of the 1990s, Nadeem-Shravan, who created chartbusters for movies like "Aashiqui", "Saajan", "Deewana", "Raja Hindustani", "Pardes" and "Dhadkan", return after four years with the music of "Do Knot Disturb".

August 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan on Saturday said that he was "angry and humiliated" for being detained at the Newark International Airport in New Jersey, and asserted that the incident was "absolutely uncalled for". "It was absolutely uncalled for I think, me having just finished working there for more than a month, just a couple of weeks ago.

August 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is angry for being dragged into a controversy over entering a temple with her shoes on, and says that people have used her name just to get publicity. I have no idea why these stories have been concocted and it is obvious that this is the easiest way for some people to seek publicity! This is ridiculous, they have to stop making scapegoats of celebrities.

June 18th, 2009 Since last few days Mumbai tabloids have been carrying reports about how a miffed Katrina Kaif has walked out of Sanjay Gadhvi’s 7 Days in Paris because of her to be co-star Imran Khan’s constant interference in the scripting. We caught up with Katrina at the New York press meet where she cleared air about this so called controversy.

June 14th, 2009 Allah Rakha Rahman, simply translated as God Save Rahman. How appropriate for the man who has become the toast of the world with his score for blockbuster "Slumdog Millionaire", who can be credited with taking the Indian sound across the seas and who has for long comfortably straddled the worlds of not just classical and popular music but also Bollywood and Broadway.

June 13th, 2009 Much is being talked about Neil Nitin Mukesh’s nude scene in his upcoming next, Jail directed by multiple National Award winning director, Madhur Bhandarkar. The photos of this nude scene are already making the rounds on the net and in the print medium.

May 28th, 2009 LONDON - An oil painting depicting pop star Madonna nude with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie will be put up for an auction this week. Titled "Madonna and Guy", the painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson created a flutter when it was released in 2005 and is now expected to fetch up to 22,000 pounds, reported telegraph.co.uk.

May 5th, 2009 SRK has maintained and always emphasized on the fact that he’s King Khan and only likes to be the king, the winner at all times. So when something untoward happens to challenge that status, he’s mighty unhappy and shows it blatantly.