Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, whose forthcoming film “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” courted controversy for allegedly “airbrushing” a key character’s sexuality, feels the world is changing for better for the LGBTQ community, but there are some prejudices that still …
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‘Notes of a Dream…’ has unraveled parts of my creative and personal life : A.R. Rahman
Oscar winning musician A.R. Rahman, whose biography “Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of A.R. Rahman” was launched here, says the book has been a journey for him and took him to those corners of his life which have …
Read More »India’s Newton out of Oscar race
India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars 2018, “Newton”, is out of the race for the honour. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday announced that nine features will advance to the …
Read More »James Cameron: Will have to wait longer for Avatar 2
Legendary filmmaker James Cameron says he has only just managed to shoot his first successful scene for Avatar 2 due to the challenges of filming underwater. The most anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning 2009 fantasy film has already had its …
Read More »Dia Mirza: Halle Berry a fan of Indian film industry
Actress-producer Dia Mirza feels lucky to have shared the stage with Oscar-winning Hollywood star Halle Berry, and says she was glad to see the former James Bond girl’s admiration for Indian cinema. The Indian actress met Berry during a closed …
Read More »AR Rahman: Human beings inspire an artiste
Award winning composer AR Rahman says an artiste is always inspired by human beings and what they go through. Rahman has come up with a 19-minute music piece titled The flying lotus, based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government’s move …
Read More »Salman, Aishwarya’s films to clash on Eid 2018
Superstar Salman Khan’s Race 3 and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s upcoming film Fanney Khan will clash at the box office on Eid-ul-Fitr next June. Race 3 director Remo D’Souza shared the film’s clapboard on Thursday night and captioned it: The …
Read More »Armaan Malik happy to sing with AR Rahman
Singer Armaan Malik is ecstatic for his dream “come true” moment as he recorded his first song with Oscar winning music director A.R. Rahman for the film 2.0. Malik has sung the track “Mechanical Sundariye”, which “talks about the unusual …
Read More »Akshay Kumar: Bollywood has lot to learn from southern cinema
National Award winning actor Akshay Kumar, who attended the grand audio launch of his debut Tamil film “2.0” here, said that the Hindi film industry has a lot to learn from southern cinema. Akshay along with filmmaker S. Shankar, megastar …
Read More »Rajkummar Rao: Wasn’t affected by ‘Newton’ controversy
National Award winning actor Rajkummar Rao said he was never affected by the controversy on his film “Newton”, which has been selected as India’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination. After “Newton” was announced as India’s Oscar …
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