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This is my first National Award, I'm hugely excited: Gautham Menon

Well-known film director Gautham Menon is quite excited that his film 'Varanam Aayiram' has bagged the National award for the best regional Tamil film. 'Though I have done several films, this is my first award. And to get a prestigious awa…

Director Bala dedicates his National Award to Balu Mahendra

Tamil director Bala, who has been adjudged best director at the 56th National Film Awards for his latest offering 'Naan Kadavul', has dedicated it to his mentor - director Balu Mahendra. 'It was Balu Mahendra who had groomed me and Akila B…

'Multiplexes are eating away good cinema'

Bollywood producer Pahlaj Nihalani, credited with launching actors like Govinda , Chunky Pandey and Suniel Shetty, says the profit-driven attitude of multiplexes is leading to the downfall of quality cinema. 'Multiplexes are gradually eating away…

Priyanka, Kangna win National Awards for Fashion; Arjun for Rock On

The 56th National Film Awards for year 2008 were announced today. Priyanka Chopra bagged the Best Actress Award for her role in Fashion . The actress who is currently in New York shooting for her forth coming film Anjaana Anjaani posted an obvious…

One New 'Idiot' ?

It's a waiting game that trailed off on a reverse track. Kangana Ranaut was asked to report early on the sets of director Anand Rai's 'Manu Weds Tanu'. And R Madhavan was asked to report late on sets, since the rivetting Ranaut would …

How Someone Who Hated Writing, Makes a Living Blogging

This is a blog story by Glen Allsopp who writes about viral marketing . A few months ago, I received an email from Deelip Khanal (who runs this site), asking if I would share my story with the readers here. At first, I was a little hesitant as I’ve s…

Guide to forum etiquette

The Internet has created many unique opportunities for social interaction. One particularly popular form of this online interaction is the message board, or forum. This is a guide intended to help you survive and thrive on a forum, and it assumes you …

NBCU Winter Olympics Losses Now Projected At $250 Million

Just a week ago the projection was $200 million. Of course, unless you’re an GE/NBCU auditor, the final number will be completely buried in the GE financials, so no one will ever know what it ends up being. General Electric Co. said Friday that it w…

Jay Leno Begins His Image Rehabilitation On Oprah

Presumably, when you want to rehabilitate your reputation there’s no better place to start than Oprah. Winfrey said on her talk show Friday that she was going to Los Angeles for a “one-on-one” interview with Leno to air on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on…

ABC’s 20/20 is #1 at 10pm on Friday

ABC’s “20/20” ranked No. 1 during Friday’s 10 o’clock hour in Total Viewers (6.4 million) and across all key Adult demos : AD18-34 (1.0/4), AD18-49 (1.5/5) and AD25-54 (2.0/6). “20/20” beat out its NBC newsmagazine competition in the time period, …

Conan Saves His Best Ratings For Last Tonight Show

Conan’s last turn as host of The Tonight Show garnered a 4.8 rating with adults 18-49 in the 25 local markets with Nielsen people meters. If those numbers hold up, not only is it a series high with adults 18-49 it’s 85% higher than the previous se…

Conan’s Final Monologue(s) – Spoilers

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me… The show ends with Conan and guests singing “Free Bird.” Here are the opening and closing monologues: Ladies and Gentleman, we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio. …

Video: Conan’s Final Tonight Show

It kind of felt like watching a wake. Here’s the full episode. Sorry to our friends outside of the USA if it doesn’t work for you, but you can read the transcript of his monologue and closing speech.

Blog Posting - Things You Must Know

If you are a blogger then you must have some knowledge and information about blog posting and its importance. The blog posts should be interesting enough so that your audience and visitors remain attracted towards your blog for a long period of time. …

Sonu Nigam records two 'Joker' songs for free

Sonu Nigam recently recorded two songs free for Krishan Chaudhery & Sunil Thadani's upcoming film Joker . The film, to be directed by debutant Vikram Tuli, deals with a father-son relationship. When Sonu heard the script of the film he got …

Vidya Balan and Rani Mukherjee in No One Killed Jessica

Till yesterday, she was the queen bee of the Box-Office. A few unfortunate Fridays and she was almost out of the rat race. Not just that, she also got slotted as an 'exclusive' YRF heroine. No prizes for guessing that we are referring to the …

Giselle Monteiro signed up as brand ambassador for Movil Mobiles

She came, she saw and she conquered... only to realize that she wasn't what she was...but she was what she wasn't! Well, this is what everyone who saw the Brazilian supermodel Giselle Monteiro in the smash hit Love Aaj Kal felt. For starters…

Anil Kapoor outstages his '24'co-stars, gets rave reviews

The American press has gone ga-ga over Anil Kapoor. The Los Angeles Times writes, "The most promising (actor) this season is Omar Hassan (Anil Kapoor), president of the Islamic Republic of Kamistan, who is negotiating a peace treaty with U.S. Pr…

"I'm starting my clothing line by middle of next year" - Ayesha

Was Ayesha Takia spotted in a burqa after marriage? Have her in-laws clamped down on her freedom to act in films? These are the rumours that one hears in the film industry. Ayesha Takia is more amused than exasperated by the attempts being made to pu…

Ranbir and Genelia to endorse Virgin Mobile

This pair was just waiting in the wings to happen, as he is the Gen-Next Superstar whereas she is the Gen-Next Cinderella. We are indeed talking about the fresh pairing of Ranbir Kapoor and Genelia D'Souza. While everyone has been waiting with ba…

Big B, Abhishek shoot Bingo's first episode at last minute

Abhishek Bachchan's game show Bingo goes on air tonight (Saturday), but the channel Colors was in a panic till few hours back. They were running around trying to put together the proposed inaugural episode featuring the host with his 'Pa…

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