Archive for April, 2009

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4Th Major Award For Mira Nair’s Little Zizou

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

The award-winning streak for The Indian Film Company-Mira Nair presentation, Little Zizou, continues. Writer turned director Sooni Taraporevala’s English feature won the audience award for Best Feature at the recently concluded Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA). The film was screened at the Arclight Theatre on Sunset Boulevard where it found an overwhelming response. [...]

Salman Khan’s Gracious Act!

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

Trust Salman Khan to be original, creative and generous! The actor has graciously allowed the makers of his most-awaited film Wanted to use a track that was recorded and produced in his voice for the film. Insiders who have heard the track just couldn’t stop raving about it. “Everything about the song is great. It [...]

Clarke Guides Australia To Victory

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Neet

Led superbly from the front by captain Michael Clarke Australia found their way from apparent defeat to victory in a tight one-day match against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi last night. Having struggled to reach 7-198 from their 50 overs on another slow pitch that assisted the spinners and made it hard for batsmen to force [...]

Shoaib In The Twilight Of His International Career

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Neet

Exactly eight years after hurling the fastest delivery in cricket’s history, Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar finds himself in the twilight of his international career. Shoaib Monday celebrated the eighth anniversary of the ‘fastest ball’ on the sidelines of his team’s third one-dayer against Australia in Abu Dhabi. It was on April 27, 2002 that Shoaib [...]

Mumbai Indians Beat Kolkata Knight Riders By 92 Runs

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Neet

The kind of powerful opening partnership the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya could combine to provide for Indians has been speculated for long, and it was here in the IPL on Monday that the duo finally provided a rare feast to savour. In the process, they also set up a mammoth 92-run victory [...]

Clarke Leads Australia Spin Treat Of Pakistan

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Neet

Michael Clarke’s all-round performance helped his team give Pakistan a dose of their own medicine as Australia won the third day-night international by 27 runs at Abu Dhabi Stadium here on Monday.
The 28-year-old hit a fighting 66 to anchor an otherwise struggling Australian innings which helped them reach 198-7 in their allotted 50 overs before [...]

Munna Weds Mulayam

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

IT IS a true, yet a harsh reality that Indian politics has the potency to turn a saint into a dacoit. We have seen it in the past and quite sadly, this power has only magnified over the years. The latest casualty of this plague has been our very own ‘Munna Bhai’. The actor turned [...]

Salman Khan Turns Singer For ‘Wanted’

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

The superstar has lent his vocal chords to a special promotional song of producer Boney Kapoor’s film Wanted Dead And Alive . The number has music by Sajid-Wajid, the composer duo who share very friendly rapport with Salman. The lyrics of the song are penned by Salman who incorporated some dialogues from the film while [...]

Priyanka Asked To Join Congress I?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

Before Sanjay Nirupam was fielded as the Congress I candidate to fight BJP’s veteran Ram Nayak for this year’s Lok Sabha elections, the Congress was very keen to put up the much-in-the-news Priyanka Chopra in place of Govinda. According to very reliable sources the discussions had gone very much ahead. “The Congress wanted a glamorous [...]

Feroz Khan’S Last Wish Was To Remake ‘Qurbani’

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

Feroz Khan’s last wish before he passed away in Bangalore was to finish his dream project – a remake of his 1980 blockbuster film “Qurbani”. “His last wish was to remake ‘Qurbani’ as ‘Kurbani’. He was very keen that the film be made again and was working towards it,” Rajkumar Tiwari, Feroz Khan’s manager of [...]