People For Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an organisation that fights for stopping the cruelty shown towards animals around the world. Every year the organization conducts a "Cutest Vegetarian Alive" award...

Abhishek Bachchan has a mean sense of humour. He should really air it more often. On a special Koffee with Karan show to promote Dostana, he made this statement: These days in Bollywood, all the actors are fighting over who the 'King' is. I just want to make it clear that I don't care who the King of Bollywood is. We (points to John and himself) are the queens."...

Rohit Shetty's Golmaal Returns is in the middle of a controversy with Shakuntala Bhatia claiming that the film is based on her late husband director-producer Rajendra Bhatia's film, Aaj Ki Tazaa Khabar (1973). She has filed a complaint with the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association claiming a compensation of Rs 5 crore from the producers, Shree Ashtavinayak Cine-vision. Rohit says, "The fact is we don't know who to pay...

Rakhi Sawant's has gone from being in a relationship to being single. The item girl, who was living in with boyfriend Abhishek Awasthi for over a year,...

A birdie from the KHANdaan chirps to say that the Katrina Kaif - Malaika Arora Khan cold war has now reached sub-zero temperature... 

This movie is the reflection of the times we live in. Alas, the motive behind the movie is right, but the execution is poor. Four different middle-class characters are shown who live beyond their means courtesy the plastic cards. Arjun Rampal is a DJ and lives life king-size. He has all the cards available in the market and he also uses false addresses to get new cards...  

Madhur Bhandarkar is known to make realistic films and Fashion follows the trend. It is a take on the fashion industry and what all goes behind the glam and the glitter. The film’s protagonist, Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) is from a small town, Chandigarh, who dreams to make big in the fashion world. ...  

Heroes is a movie about three soldiers who fought in the Kargil war and how it affected the lives of their families. It does not talk so much about the three soldiers, but it shows how their families cope after losing them in the war. The movie is shown through two young men Ali (Vatsal Seth) and Sammy (Sohail Khan) who decide to make a film on “Why young men should not join the defence services” to pass their film making course...  

The old adage laughter is a universal language certainly bodes well for hilarious Punjabi comedian Sugar Sammy. Born Samir Khullar, Sugar make us laugh with his hilarious and provocative take on multicultural issues such as arranged marriages. Sugar hit the stage at the age of 19 while he was working as a night club promoter. Since then, Sugar Sammy has toured the world, put out a CD entitled Down with the Brown. Sammy focused on marketing and cultural studies at McGill, and while many standup comics are barely fluent in one language, the Montreal native not only speaks but performs in four: English, French, Hindi, and Punjabi. -By Jessie Lally

The road has been long and at times turbulent for Tisca Chopra, but each ebb and flow has resulted in her reaching new personal and professional growth.
Tisca grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan where her father was the Principal of the India International School. While being a good student, she began her interest in acting at a young age and was in every school play. She recounts her first role as playing baby Lord Krishna at the age of two. Coming from a family of educators and writes, her natural choice of a profession would have been to teach or write. In fact, her dad wanted her to become a war reporter like Christiane Amanpour. However, life has its own plan. She studied marketing and advertising at The Xavier’s College in Mumbai where her classes were in the evenings, which led her days to be free. "I started to model to kill time and make a bit of pocket money. That became huge. I did ads for all the leading brands and that got me film offers. I kept turning them down because I could not see myself as an actor. Then one day I said what the hell….and that is how films happened."... -By Jessie Lally