Extern Salman from city: Police

A section of the city police is in favour of externing actor Salman Khan from the city for two years for his repeated misconduct.

"This is what we would have done by now if the person concerned was an ordinary person," a police official said. Krishnaraj, father of actress Aishwarya Rai, has already lodged three complaints of misconduct against Salman at Bandra police station. Read on...

Bond never dies

Through the 1960s, Bond's stock rose both as a cinematic and literary property and as a symbol of the emergent new Britain. He wasn’t quite a Swinging London type--too old, too much in bed with the establishment, too enamoured of the mores and creature comforts and vices of the greying generation.

But he was perhaps something more: a palpable icon of British economic, stylistic and, yes, sexual potency, one of the few emblems of the "special relationship" between the US and the UK. If there was, in some fusty intellectual corners, a resistance to Bond’s pleasure-seeking antics and his geopolitical hard line, it was more than swept away by the box-office for the films, which reached a height in 1965 with Thunderball and its global gross of $141m. Read on...

Deewangee: A Preview

A brief synopsis of this Aneez Bazmee directed thriller starring Ajay Devgan, Urmila Matondkar and Akshaye Khanna. Produced by Nitin Manmohan, the music has been scored by Ismail Darbar. Read on...

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