Irrfan Khan has had truly a year at movies, with two diverse films doing exceptionally well at the box office Irrfan has become a new definition of hero in Bollywood. Irrfan Khan has always made us proud of being a part of content-driven world cinema as he continues to keep adding feathers to his cap. Irrfan Khan is the actor’s actor, the poignant star who perhaps doesn’t look it, but […]
The latest ban on the display of non-vegetarian food because it hurts people’s sentiments got us thinking…how on earth can someone come up with such absurd bans, right? Well, to our surprise, when we researched laws from around the world, we found that we are all surrounded by a crazy bunch of bans, and not just in India. Here are 11 insane things that are banned around the world and […]
The proposed US Bill — Protect and Grow American Jobs — is riddled with “onerous conditions” and places “unprecedented obligations” on both Indian IT companies and clients using H-1B visas, software body Nasscom has cautioned. Nasscom said it has flagged its concerns around visa- related issues in the US with the Senators, Congressmen and the administration, and will engage further in a dialogue over the next few weeks over the […]
The first eclipse of 2018 will be a lunar one. It will happen on January 31 during the middle of the night, and the Pacific Ocean will be turned toward the moon at the time. Central and eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and most of Australia will get a fine view of this moon show in the evening sky. However, for the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, […]
Singer Kesiraju Srinivas from Andhra Pradesh was arrested inHyderabad here on Tuesday on charges of sexual harassment. Srinivas, who holds the Guinness World Record for singing in most languages (76) at one concert, has denied the allegation and said he had never misbehaved with her. A case against the singer, also known as ‘Ghazal Srinivas’ was registered on December 29 following a complaint by a woman, a radio jockey. The […]
There were several other content-driven films glorified Hindi cinema this year and won several accolades abroad. While some brainless movies and also in 2017. Hence, before the beginning of the New Year that, for sure, has a lot of good films in store for Bollywood, here are some of the films that you shall watch before you enter 2018. Watch the Trailers of these Movies:
As a presidential campaign with predictable results kicks off in Russia, opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced his dark-horse bid despite the government’s warnings that he will be disqualified before the ballots are printed for the March election. In a small forest and dacha community on the outskirts of Moscow, exactly 742 supporters raised small red voting cards in support of the whistleblower turned opposition leader, who over the past half-decade […]
A special CBI court in Ranchi convicted former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in one of the six fodder scam cases on Saturday. Lalu, alongwith 15 others, has been found guilty while former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra and five others were acquitted in the case. The sentencing will be on January 3, 2018. The fodder scam is a collective term for a set of 64 cases, of which […]
Srinivasa Ramanujan’s birth anniversary on December 22 is celebrated as National Mathematics Day every year. Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematical prodigy, hastily scribbled formulas after formulas on loose sheets of papers. He told his wife, Janaki Ammal, his work would bring laurels and perhaps bring them out of poverty and want on day. The illness did not permit him to write, yet he wrote first on a slate and then copied final […]
Nawazuddin Siddiqui can be a chameleon when it comes to his films. If he was Saadat Hasan Manto a few months back when the Nandita Das film’s first look landed, last night he transformed into Balasaheb Thackeray. The actor is playing the role of Shiv Sena leader in a biopic and his transformation is shocking. The signature style of Thackeray has also been shown in the teaser. Starring Nawazuddin in […]
