AB heads for Tirupati

I ndian cinema's biggest icon, Amitabh Bachchan, will spend a day at Tirupati on Thursday before going to Mumbai to celebrate his 60th birthday. Read on...

He will be accompanied by his wife Jaya, children Shweta and Abhishek, son-in-law Nikhil Nanda, and friends Anil Ambani and Amar Singh.

Gulzar and Jagjit bond with Leela

Ghazal genius Jagjit Singh and poet Gulzar are friends bonded by their passion for poetry and music.

In the late '80s, Jagjit Singh composed a soulful score for Gulzar's tele-serial Mirza Galib. Later the two wizards came together with a private album Marasim, which won cross -generational and cross-continental popularity. Read on...

Salman still in Marigold

With Salman Khan in the eye of a storm currently, rumours of all sorts are spreading like wild fire. A few days ago there was talk that the actor had been dropped from the Hollywood production Marigold, and that Shah Rukh Khan had bagged the assignment. “The news is untrue,” Siddharth Jain, Vice-President of Hyperion Pictures, India (who are producing the film), clarified to this writer in an exclusive chat. Read on...

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