India joins club of nations capable of building warships

Kochi, Feb 28 (PTI) India today joined an elite club of nations capable of building large warships, with the keeling of the indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) at the Cochin Shipyard here. Defence Minister A K Antony pressed a remote following which the keel was placed in the building dock of the shipyard. ”This indigenous warship of the [...]

TERMINATOR SALVATION WORLDWIDE TRAILER DEBUT

LOS ANGELES ( Saturday, February 28 , 2009 06:48:01 PM)LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –
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Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, “Terminator Salvation” stars Christian Bale 
as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and 
its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in [...]

Clooney lends villa to Beckham

London, Feb 28 (PTI) George Clooney has lent his Italian villa to soccer star and his good pal David Beckham ‘to unwind’ as latter’s transfer battle to secure footballing talents continues. ’George has really taken David under his wing since the transfer trouble started. At the house, David is able to get away from everything, relax [...]

THE PINK PANTHER 2 with Steve Martin and Aishwarya Rai

Hollywood funnyman Steve Martin returns to the role made famous by Peter Sellers in this high-concept sequel to the 2006 comedy hit The Pink Panther. The worlds most valuable treasures are being stolen. The legendary Pink Panther Diamond is the latest to disappear, and Chief Inspector Dreyfus is assembling a team of international experts and detectives [...]

“Too heavy” Heidi Klum and anorexia

Sizzling German super model Heidi Klum was branded too heavy to be a super model recently. Heldi Klum had appeared on the cover of GQ magazine when Fashion designers Wolfganf Loopgave made some derogatory remarkes about her figure that ’she is too heavy to be a supermodel’. It’s strange that size zero figure is [...]

Dev Patel in the real “Who wants to be Millionare” for a cause

Slumdog Millionaire scooped eight Oscars on February 22, which included Danny Boyle’s Best Director award and A. R. Rehman’s Best Original Score and Bets Original Song. The most talked about film of the year has also given well deserved publicity to all the star casts of the film. It’s time to make best use of [...]

Gisele Bundchen weds New England Patriots Tom Brady

New England Patriots Tom Brady - the region’s most eligible bachelor - has tied the knot last night with his supermodel galpal, Gisele Bundchen, in a romantic twilight wedding in California. US Weekly magazine reported that the pigskin prince and his Brazilian bombshell traded “I do’s” in a small Catholic ceremony in St. Monica’s Church [...]

Tom Alter — Fusion of east and west

A native of the small city of Mussorie, Tom Alter is the son of American missionaries and has lived for years between the metropolis of Mumbai and the Himalayas.  As a child, he studied Hindi and Urdu, as a result, he speaks impeccable Hindi.” He has recently been awarded Padmasri by the Indian Government.

Alter  has vast knowledge of Indian [...]

Shabana Azmi in “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife”

Shabana Azmi had once confessed that she was on a perpetual hunt for interesting directors she could work with. Shabana’s search has resulted in her collaborating with Gurinder Chadha, the director of Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice. Shabana will play a hysterical Punjabi mother in Gurinder’s next film, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife. [...]

Suicide – Are the ‘Rich and Famous’ Immune?

By Ronda Suder Flannery
“He has everything. He’s selfish to try to commit suicide,” I overheard someone say shortly after Owen Wilson’s attempt to commit suicide via drug overdose outside his Santa Monica, CA home in August 2007. But was he really being any more selfish, just because he’s famous, than anyone else who tries to [...]

Smallville-Before Superman was Superman

by Justin L. Suder
The American television series, Smallville, first premiered in the fall of 2002. The show is based on the younger years of Clark Kent (Tom Welling), before he became Superman, living on the Kent Farm with his adoptive parents, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) and Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole). The Season 1 premiered in 2002, with [...]

Babies Having Babies

By Susan L. Stackpole

A Never-Imagined Today — ALFIE, CHANTELLE AND MAISIE
Movies and celebrity teens glamorize pregnancy to young teens, allowing them to slip into a fantasy world filled with idealized images of chic, slender moms effortlessly holding their babies amidst a flurry of giddy attention from loved ones. Hidden behind the camera lens is the [...]

Underdogs to Milliionaire Slumdogs, 2009 Oscars Go to the Dogs

by Susan L. Stackpole
Slumdog Millionaire triumphs at the Oscars, taking home a total of eight golden statuettes. Slumdog¸ the little picture that could, seems to be continuing the theme of President Barack Obama’s campaign, “Yes We Can!”. Winner after winner expressed long-held dreams of winning, though never believing those dreams would ever be realized. Even [...]

Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Motion Picture Oscar and total Eight Oscars

So its out and the Slumdog Millionaire wins the most coveted Best Motion PIcture award at the Oscars.
Kate Winslet has won the best-actress Academy Award for the Holocaust-themed drama The Reader, while best-picture favourite Slumdog Millionaire has cruised to seven Oscars, including best director for Danny Boyle. A five-time loser at the Oscars previously, Winslet [...]

Jade Goody —- shows first ‘reality death’

British reality TV star Jade Goody, who came to India to participate in the second season of Indian show ‘Bigg Boss’, had been detected with cancer some time back. Goody was thrown out of ‘Big Brother’ after bullying Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty . 
Goody, 27, and a mother of two, is suffering from cervical cancer, Goody, from [...]

Padmini Kolhapure and Shakti Kapoor

The oh-so-young looking Padmini Kolhapure seems to have kept herself fit owing to acting and dancing. Wondering where she’s acting when you haven’t seen her on screen? At Rita Academy, Padmini conducts classes on acting and dancing while her sister Tejaswini manages the modelling front. Explaining how she is happy “doing what is my forte”, [...]

Rihanna pictures part of Celebrity Violence–A crime in public

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer, model, and former beauty queen. She also serves as the cultural ambassador for Barbados. She is the first Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award.
The celebrities fight start over small issues and someone described the latest war of the stars (between [...]

Anilgelina– Anil Kapoor meets Angelina

Anil Kapoor is young at heart, is a fact that is known all over. The yesteryear star is in the spotlight with his appearance in the movie Slumdog Millionaire and is getting to meet a lot of superstars in the international arena. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is winning awards and that is what is taking [...]

DR. GREGORY HOUSE with Hugh Laurie

House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show is an innovative take on the medical drama, solves mysteries where the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all [...]

Struggle to Stardom-The Power of a Dream (Part II)

By Susan L Stackpole. Susan talked about the dream of a commoner which can turn into reality and lead you to unprecedented success with a zeal and vigour, the stuff that winners and champions are made up of. A highly inspiring article, this is just a continuation and conclusion of the previous article. (read the Ist part here http://www.indiantvtoday.com/the-power-of-a-dream/2009/02/16/  [...]

Freida pinto dumps hubby post Slumdog millionaire

The controversies that Freida Pinto is embroiled in are directly proportionate to the adulation that she is enjoying post Slumdog Millionaire.
Freida Pinto, the current Hollywood toast of the town, is on the way up  to the celebrity ladder is in the lime light with the  fame of  ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. It seems she  wanted more lime light, unfortunately [...]

Struggle to Stardom-The Power of a Dream (Part I)

by Susan L. Stackpole
What is the power of a dream?  Are the words disappointment, failure, heartache, and rejection synonymous with success?  What about determination, faith, hard work, and perseverance?  The succulent fruits of success and recognition are years, sometimes decades, in the making.  The 2009 Grammy Awards were a cornucopia of celebrities, all of whom [...]

Kiran Bedi, The Super Cop in ‘Aap Ki Kachehri, Kiran Ke Saath’

Kiran Bedi needs  no introduction, as her work speaks volume and she is not only an icon but also a role model for millions and billions of Indians. I am feeling very honored and fortunate to pen down some words about a courageous lady with loads of substance. Personally, I am a big fan [...]

Can an ad hold your attention…..

Amidst the plethora of ads on the small screen with scantily clad women at locales that hardly have any relevance to the product, the product which is being advertised gets less attention than required however, some very simple ads stand out in the crowd. These simple ads garnished with tinge of humor leave a feel- [...]

A Chivas Regal Treat

Well this ad about the Chivas Regal whisky, sorry cd’s and cassettes in India is pretty cool and I think its very much in sync with today’s culture. The ad is first of all very smooth with a couple dancing away and followed by a nice group of people all around making merry. I think, [...]

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