New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The 10th edition of the Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema, starting here July 10, is providing young filmmakers a platform to showcase their talent by adding a section on short films. “A film festival should protect and exhibit those who have no platform. The audience is rejecting imitative cinema. A new kind of content is required that has depth. It is time creativity sprouts out of youngsters,” Neville Tuli, founder chairman, Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art said at a press conference here Wednesday. (more…)

Aamir Khan & his nephew Imran Khan with Salman Khan on 10 Ka Dum on Friday, July 4, 2008 at 9.00 P.M. Exclusively on Sony Entertainment Television. After the fun-filled celebrity episode with Yuvi and Bhajji, come the next celebrity guests… the elusive Aamir Khan, who makes an exception to be on Salman Khan’s show with nephew Imran Khan - the new Khan kid on the block. (more…)

Aditya Narayan, the heart-throb of millions, who debuted as an anchor in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007, shot for first episode as comparer of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’s new season recently. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 is what the new season of this very popular show has been named, quite possibly because its finale might be held in the beginning of 2009. The show will as usually air on Zee TV. (more…)

Rani Mukherjee on a road trip to promote Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic on July 1st 2008. (more…)

New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Bollywood’s two leading stars Aamir Khan and Salman Khan are set to relive the magic that they created in the 1994 comedy “Andaz Apna Apna”, but this time for the small screen. Aamir is appearing with his nephew Imran Khan on Sony TV’s “Dus Ka Dum”, which is being hosted by Salman. The episode will be telecast Friday. (more…)

London, July 2 (IANS) Nervous Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has had it with kissing on stage in front of Indians - a peck on the cheek is about the furthest she will go, even in London, she has made it plain.The last time she did it - during an AIDS awareness event in New Delhi with Hollywood star Richard Gere in April last year - furious Indian Hindu nationalists burnt her effigies and slapped court cases against her and Gere up and down the country. (more…)

New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Delhi-bred Kunal Nayyar went to the US to study marketing, but as luck would have it he became an actor and now features in the popular American TV show “The Big Bang Theory” as Rajesh Koothrappali.”It is quite crazy and weird. I went there as a student and became an actor,” said Kunal, who left India at the age of 18 to do his graduation in marketing.”It is interesting to play Rajesh as I see him not as a character but as a person trying to fit in America,” Kunal told to IANS. (more…)

Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) After years of adapting Hollywood thrillers, director duo Abbas-Mustan is now all set to Indianise the Hollywood flick “Italian Job”. But they are adamant on revamping the story.”Whenever we’ve adapted a film, we have completely Indianised the story. Though Studio 18 has bought the rights and we can use every frame from the original, we don’t want to do that. We’re going to Indianise ‘Italian Job’,” Abbas told IANS. (more…)

New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) It doesn’t matter if you have two left feet, you can still dance, asserts ace choreographer Shiamak Davar, who cites Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan as the best example of this. (more…)