Category: Entertainment

  • Rockstar rocks with star performances

    Rockstar rocks with star performances

    In what can be seen as a combination of factors of working in favour of the movie, the Ranbir-Nargis starrer has exceeded expectation on the box office. Followed by a month-long extensive promotion of the film, including a house-full rock-concert by Oscar award-winning musician, A R Rahman, the latest movie…

  • Hong Kong cinema comes to New Zealand

    Hong Kong cinema comes to New Zealand

    New Zealanders have an opportunity to take a sneak peak into Hong Kong culture, art and trade. The third Hong Kong Festival opens on 4 August in Auckland, and provides a journey of past, present and future of Hong Kong through a string of events including: a photo exhibition, movies festival,…

  • I’m not into porn – Poonam Pandey

    Poonam Pandey’s latest strip act, has brought her back in limelight, almost a year after she first promised to strip when the Indian Cricket Team won the world cup. The Kingfisher calendar girl tweeted her nude picture soon after Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL 5 final. However, the 21-year old…

  • Review: No Dum in Dum Maaro Dum

    Review: No Dum in Dum Maaro Dum

    GENRE: Suspense CAST: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar, Aditya Pancholi, Harry Key, Rana Daggubati DIRECTOR: Rohan Sippy RUNNING TIME: 2:12 RELEASE DATE: Opened 22 April Junior Bachchan should be worried. Most reviews of Dum Maro Dum have given a thumbs down to the Abhishek Bachchan-starrer movie. Bachchan’s three past movies have flopped on the…

  • Kanishtha Dhankhar becomes Miss India

    Kanishtha Dhankhar becomes Miss India

    Delhi’s Kanishtha Dhankhar has won Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011 title at the grand finale held in Mumbai. Hasleen Kaur won Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2011 and Ankita Shorey won Pantaloons Femina Miss India International 2011. Last year’s Miss India winners Manasvi Mamgai, Nicole Faria and Neha Hinge crowned the…

  • Indian student wins NZ television scholarship

    Taking clue from her interest in keeping a scrapbook of news events during a weekend shift at a local newspaper, a young Indian student became certain of her media calling. Keen to study media, Nilam Patel, applied for and won a prestigious scholarship that will not only see her complete…

  • PETA asks Poonam Pandey to strip for animals

    PETA asks Poonam Pandey to strip for animals

    While aspiring Indian model Poonam Pandey reiterated her promise to remove clothes if India wins the ICC Cricket World Cup in Mumbai on Saturday, an NGO has appealed to the 19-year old to strip for animals. In an open letter to the Kingfisher model, PETA India’s chief functionary, Poorva Joshipura,…

  • Who the hell is Rebecca Black?

    Rebecca Blake became a popular name almost overnight when her YouTube music video went from a few views to close to 25 million views in less than a week. The 13-year old singer apparently became a music sensation for the “worst song ever”. “Truly, undeniably awful,” is how Hypervocal.com describes…