Police bar Sonali Bendre from inaugurating lounge bar

KOLKATA - Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre, famous for her roles in movies like “Sarfarosh” and “Hum Saath Saath Hai”, had a rude shock Thursday evening when city police prevented her from inaugurating a lounge bar housed in an illegally constructed shopping mall in the city.

Sonali Bendre Interview: Acting can wait!

After judging India’s Got Talent Sonali Bendre feels ‘blessed’ that she never had to face similar judgement in life. The actor in conversation with IBNS correspondent Sreya Basu

Orissa dance group wins ‘India’s Got Talent’ contest

MUMBAI - Orissa-based The Prince Dance group was declared the winner of TV reality show “Indias Got Talent at the grand finale here late Saturday night after several relatives and friends of the group, apart from state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, corporate houses and social activists joined hands to vote en masse for them.

Patnaik sends SMS for Orissa dance group’s success on TV

BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday said he had sent an SMS to vote in favour of a dance group from the state that has reached the final round of TV reality show “India’s Got Talent”, which will be telecaast live Saturday.

Campaign heats up in Orissa for dance group’s success on TV

BHUBANESWAR - After relatives, friends and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, corporate houses and social activists have launched a campaign in Orissa for the success of 26 kids who have reached the final round of TV reality show “India’s Got Talent”.

Orissa prays for dance group’s success on TV

BHUBANESWAR - Hundreds of slum dwellers are visiting temples in Orissa’s Ganjam district every day to seek blessings for the success of 26 kids who have reached the final round of TV reality show “India’s Got Talent”.

No ‘Short Kut’ to success for Amrita Rao (Film Snippets)

MUMBAI - She has been hogging the limelight for her dare to bare act in “Short Kut: The Con Is On” that releases Friday. But Amrita Rao says she believes in hardwork and not taking shortcuts to achieve success in life.

Shekhar Kapur wanted to be India’s Simon Cowell, but couldn’t be

NEW DELHI - When internationally acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur agreed to judge the reality TV show “India’s Got Talent”, he hoped to be the Indian counterpart of American TV show judge Simon Cowell. But soon he discovered that he simply “couldn’t be as harsh”.

Sonali and Ash are family- and we never knew!

Sonali Bendre has been off films for a while but is still connected to Bollywood, thanks to TV and producer/director Goldie Behl.
She’s close to the Bachchans as Goldie happens to be a chum of Abhishek Bachchan. The friendship with Bachchan Jr. is still quite strong, despite the fact that both the movies these two did together- ‘Bas Itna Sa Khwab Hai’ and ‘Drona’ turned out to be superflops.

I won’t be kind to poor performers: Kirron Kher

NEW DELHI - After playing mother to Bollywood superstars like Aamir Khan in “Rang De Basanti”, Shah Rukh Khan in “Om Shanti Om” and Abhishek Bachchan in “Dostana”, Kirron Kher is set to play a judge on the new reality show “India’s Got Talent”. The actress says she won’t be kind to poor performers.

Shahid Kapur turns photographer (Film Snippets)

MUMBAI - Actor Shahid Kapur, who had taken a fancy to bikes and splurged Rs.1.5 million on one, has now found a new interest. He has been attracted to photography.