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The Champions League Twenty 20

Somerset Batsman Wes Durston in actionDuring The Champions League Twenty20 - 14th Match, League A between Diamond Eagles and SomersetPlayed at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad.

Championship League Twenty20

Tillakaratne Dilshan of the Delhi Daredevils celebrates taking the wicket of Herschelle Gibbs of the Cape Cobras .The Airtel Championship League Twenty20 game between Delhi Daredevils v Cape Cobras at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India, on Monday, October 19, 2009.New Dehli.

Champions League Twenty20

Cornelis de Villiers of the Eagles celebrates victory with team mates after bowling Rory Hamilton-Brown of the Sharks to win the game during the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 group D match between Diamond Eagles and Sussex Sharks at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium Delhi.

Airtel Champions League

Owais Shah of the Delhi Daredevils plays a shot during the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 group D match between Delhi Daredevils and Wayamba Elevens at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium.

Airtel Championship League

Brett Lee of the NSW Blues celebrates the wicket of Edmund Joyce of Sussex during the Airtel Championship League Twenty20 game NSW Blues v Sussex at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

Hollywood calls on India’s favorite son: A.R. Rahman’s got a new life in L.A.

MUMBAI, India — Hollywood is finally getting to know A.R. Rahman, the short, humble and deeply religious man who took two Oscars home to southern India for his work on “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Indian police keep crowds away from set of Julia Roberts film ‘Eat, Pray, Love’

MIRZAPUR, India — Young boys climbed trees and villagers crowded rooftops in a tiny dusty village in northern India Sunday to catch a glimpse of Academy Award winner Julia Roberts shooting her new film, “Eat, Pray, Love.”

From a receding glacier, an SOS to the world

ROHTANG - From a ridge atop the fast receding Rohtang glacier, renowned filmmaker Shekhar Kapur Tuesday made a plea to the world - Fight global warming so that 1.3 billion people dependent on the Himalayas for their daily water can live.

Bollywood stars delight cancer-affected kids on Cancer Rose Day

MUMBAI - On the occasion of National Cancer Rose Day, Bollywood actors Sunil Shetty, Mahima Chaudhary and Shreyas Talpade spent time with cancer afflicted children here on Monday.

Apurva Agnihotri’s pregnancy woes!

CANDOLIM - Television actor Apurva Agnihotri is yet to become a father in real life, but the actor has already had a brush with the ordeals of pregnancy when for a reality show he donned an empathy belly to experience what a nine-month pregnant woman goes through.

Julia Roberts’ security shell hard to crack (Scenes from Pataudi)

PATAUDI - Almost 350 security men, bulletproof cars and a chopper too - that’s what it takes to secure Hollywood star Julia Roberts, who is here with her three children to shoot for the movie “Eat, Pray, Love”.

Shabana Azmis Birthday Blues

By Subhash K Jha

Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson become official divas on VH1 special

NEW YORK — There’s a new class of divas in town — and they’re ready to rock with attitude.

For Bhansali, Rajeev Khandelwal refuses to chop his locks

MUMBAI - His long curly locks helped him bag an important role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s production “Chenab Gandhi”. And now Rajeev Khandelwal refuses to crop them even though another film is going on the floors first and requires him to sport short hair.

Date pe Date: Akshays film to release after 10 years

While Akshay Kumar is not counted among actors who pull his film shootings on for more than three to four months, his film, Hello India has been ongoing since 1999. The movie began filming in 1999, after which it was shelved within 15 days. The team renewed the project in 2003 and shot for it right from the beginning. Again, the film was done away with after it had finished shooting for about 30 percent. The film was taken up again in 2008 and it is almost done, but its release is still being delayed. The reason behind this is that Akshay’s recent films– Chandni Chowk to China, Tasveer 8×10 and Kambhakkt Ishq haven’t done very well. So, the producers have decided to wait until Akshay’s upcoming films, Blue and De Dana Dan release and are hits. The release date is set to the end of January 2010. However, director Shabnam Kapoor claims that this isn’t the reason behind the film’s delay and that it is being released late only because there are still four hours of shooting left where she needs to bring together the entire cast of the film.

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 up for 5 awards at 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards

LOS ANGELES — Calle 13 leads the list of Latin Grammy nominated artists with five nods.

Abhay Deol’s performance lauded at Venice film fest

NEW DELHI - Riding high on the success of his hit Dev D in India, Bollywood actor Abhay Deol bagged rave reviews for his performance in the film at the recently concluded Venice Film Festival.

Calle 13, Luis Enrique among nominees at 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards

LOS ANGELES — Calle 13 are among the artists up for album of the year at the Latin Grammys.

Synopsis: I AM OMAR (2009)

CAST: Rahul Bose, Arjun Mathur, Abhimanyu Singh (from GULAL)

LOCATION: Shot in Mumbai

OMAR is a film that reveals the nexus between the police and Male sex workers to blackmail and abuse gay men. In India because of the archaic law created by the British, which has been long discarded in UK; law under article 377 criminalizes homosexuality, whereas any man caught in a homosexual act can be imprisoned for life. The police to harass and extort money from gay men very often use this law.

Astounding Poets of the Fall in India

Recently, Saregama Music Company launched the music album “Best of Poets of the fall”. The band comprises of singer Marko, guitarist Olli and keyboardist Captain. They started out their musical adventure from scratch in 2003. Marko sold everything he had to invest in pursuing the love of his life, music, with his buddies Olli and Captain. He moved into his folks’ basement, when he couldn’t keep a place of his own any longer. The guys then built a little studio of their own in Captain’s living room for the recording and producing sessions, and kept an office in Olli’s beat up old car. The result of the recording sessions was a novel blend of pop, rock, metal and industrial sounds.

Indias first hiphop and B-Boying movie finally arrives!

Well here’s some good news for all those dance lovers. This September will witness India’s first full fledged and hardcore dance based movie ‘Fast Forward’, produced by Anjum Rizvi of ‘A Wednesday’ fame.

We are not scared of competition: Sanjeev Bijli

NEW DELHI - They introduced the multiplex concept in India in 1997 and now when other players are increasingly entering the market, Sanjeev Bijli, joint managing director of PVR Ltd, maintains that competition does not bog them down as they always strive to do something different.

Court Trouble for crime thriller Baabarr!

Recently, film “Baabarr” got released under the production of Ridhi Sidhi films and is directed by Ashuu Trikha. ‘Baabarr’ is the story of 12-year-old boy who enters the world of crime at adolescence and eventually becomes the mafia lord of Uttar Pradesh.

Feature: Dil Bole Hadippa and Wanted give Bollywood a ray of hope!

Dark clouds, which kept hovering over had to go and they are all set to go this week to welcome bright sunshine day on Friday. Yes, after three consecutive disastrous weeks, here comes a ray of hope with two big films releasing on this Friday. Both the flicks have potential to impress the critics. And even if they don’t, there is nothing that can stop audience to witness for themselves the position of the films. Let’s have a look over these two bigges we are raving about, and see what makes them worth giving a shot!

Celina shops in Paris, Bangkok for Kannada remake of ‘Aitraaz’

BANGALORE - Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley is playing a glamorous woman in her first Kannada film “Sreemathi”, a remake of Hindi film “Aitraaz”, and the former Miss India bought all her costumes from Paris and Bangkok for it.

Zee TV synopsis for the weekend (18th Sep-20th Sep 09)

Saregamapa L’il champs

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ is world’s most successful reality TV format

LONDON - British show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ has become the world’s most successful reality television format.

Calling the shots: From Dancing to Directing!

The word Choreographer was coined in the later years of cinema. Initially, the director would direct the songs along with the script and then dance master came into the picture. Choreography soon got its due recognition as a well-defined career. Choreography and direction maintain a hand in glove relationship. Perhaps, thats why out tinsel town choreographers have been turning directors. Prabhu Deva is the latest entrant in the list who has been a league apart choreographer, and is often referred to have a rubber body. Prabhu has directed many films down south, but with his upcoming film Wanted he had stepped into Bollywood. The film stars Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia Azmi and is slated to release this Friday. With Prabhu becoming the latest example of choreographer turning directors let peep into the past and check out the choreographers who have already reinvented the career in direction.

Zeenat Aman finds Bollywood ka Brad Pitt!

Now there are a few things that will send a young actor to the seventh heaven. And one of them is being complimented by none other than the glam icon Zeenat Aman herself. So, who was the lucky one? Yuvraaj, the new prince charming of Bollywood, who is being launched in Sanjay Sharma’s Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun as Zeenie’s son and Rituparna Sengupta’s husband. While shooting for the film, Yuvraaj went to Zeenat’s van to call her for a shot. Zeenat was getting her make-up done and when she saw Yuvraaj, she was quite thrilled and surprised. She had really nice words to say to Yuvraaj, "Oh my God, you are looking like the younger version of Brad Pitt… so handsome and fresh!" That just made Yuvraaj’s day and he couldn’t stop smiling all day. Next thing, he was seen telling the whole unit about the compliment! Not surprising; as if getting a compliment from someone as gorgeous as Zeenat is not enough, he was compared to Brad Pitt himself!

Anything is possible in life -Dev Benegal on ROAD, MOVIE

What prompted you to make Road, Movie?

One of the things I really love about India is traveling. It’s so different, beautiful, stunning and raw. From early childhood, we would go on these long drives and go to different parts of the country and when I started working in movies, I would travel with the film unit to some remote part of the country. Road, Movie just came out of those memories of my childhood, and memories of my travels in India…of wanting to escape and get out into the open and experiencing the incredible raw power and beauty that India offers. It’s really about my journey.

Ancient Italian comedy set to enthrall capital

NEW DELHI - A leading Italian theatre ensemble will reinterpret William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”, “Romeo and Juliet” and “Othello” in the ancient theatrical tradition of Commedia dell’Arte (comedy of art) here at the India Habitat Centre Sep 27.

Rani pledges her eyes to promote eye donation

It is the gift of vision that is a boon for us. After playing a blind girl in Black, Rani Mukherjee spread awareness of the need of eye donation on Sept 11, 10.30 am. The occasion was the culmination of the Eye Donation Fortnight organized by The Rotary Club of Bombay Seacoast jointly with Lotus Eye Hospital. The Eye Donation Awareness Campaign was launched with a walk in Juhu area, near Lotus Eye Hospital, which seeks to spread knowledge and awareness of the need for Eye Donation with the help of banners and widespread distribution of leaflets and donor pledge cards.