“I used to work as a clerk at a government office in Punjab. I was paid a salary of Rs 600 per month. I decided to leave the job, and pursue a career in acting. I knew that irrespective of how I fared, I would do better than making six hundred rupees. So I quit the job. At the time, it was unheard of. Everybody wanted government jobs. I studied […]
It’s an all-too-familiar Hollywood story: the out-of-work actor eking out an existence in cheap housing, earning minimum wage delivering pizzas, desperate for his big break. But for Jay Abdo — one of the Arab world’s biggest stars before the conflict in Syria made him just another anonymous refugee on the mean streets of Los Angeles — it has been particularly tough. Just a few years ago, the 54-year-old actor could […]
A Harvard student’s Facebook post on J Jayalalithaa, the powerful Tamil Nadu chief minister who died on Monday, has been shared over 30,000 times since it was posted on Tuesday morning. Jayalalithaa, 68, was buried with state honours at Chennai’s Marina Beach yesterday, next to the man who starred with her in many films and brought her into politics, MG Ramachandran or MGR. Lakhs of people paid their respects […]
Veteran Carnatic musician M Balamuralikrishna passed away in Chennai on Tuesday at the age of 86. According to The Hindu, the singer was native of Sankaraguptam, East Godavari District, and was born Murali Krishna. After his first concert at the age of 8, Musunuri Suryanarayana Murty Bhagavatar, a distinguished Harikatha performer, who was in attendance, gave the prefix ‘Bala’, and hence he became Balamuralikrishna. The 86-year-old veteran was not […]
The bitch, Shruti says, is the woman who stands up against the system. In Blush channel’s latest, Shruti Haasan reclaims the word ‘bitch’ in a powerful, self-written script. ‘Bitch’ is a casual abuse thrown at women for a wide range of things: being assertive about their identity, wearing their choice of clothes, having opinions…just about anything and everything. In this short video, Shruti tears into these biases that are used […]
Us music icon Bob Dylan stunned the entire world on Thursday as he bagged the Nobel Literature Prize 2016. You will be amazed to know that the 75-year-old legend has now become the first songwriter to win the prestigious honour. Bob was awarded ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. With this, he also takes home the eight million kronor ($906,000 or 822,000 euros) prize […]
Every decade, there’s a new Amitabh Bachchan built on the ghost of the previous decade’s Amitabh Bachchan. On Big B’s birthday today, we reveal how he has managed to stay a ‘big deal’for close to five decades. This is the busiest Amitabh Bachchan has ever been. Picture a typical day in the superstar’s life. He’s just back home from shooting the whole morning. Without a moment’s rest, by noon, wielding […]
Well, we have a great news for Indian cinema lovers. You will be amazed to know that Prabhas will soon be getting his own statue at Madame Tussauds Bangkok. Yes, you read that right. This development will reportedly make him the first South Indian with a wax figure. “He is not merely all about his unique style and macho charm in his screen presence but also a superstar who fully […]
The legendary ‘Bharat Ratna’ awarded singer, who started singing at a tender age of 13 has turned 87 years old. Lata Mangeshkar rose to fame during the 1950s for her compositions in epic Bollywood films like ‘Mother India’, ‘Devdas’, ‘Uran Khatola’, Deedar to name a few. Especially, her song ‘Aayega Aayega’ from ‘Mahal’ is still revered as one of the best. How can we forget the Nightingale of India’s patriotic […]
Auto Chandran’s caller tune is “Ulagam priandhadhu enakaaga”, the evergreen MGR song from “Paasam”, which means “the world was born for me.” It certainly seems appropriate for M Chandra Kumar, the 54-year-old auto driver from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. From running away from home and ending up in jail where he was brutally tortured, Chandran went on to become a celebrated author, who has penned as many as seven novels. It […]
