Kerala Boatrace

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate the 57th edition of Nehru Trophy boat race, the country's biggest and popular water sporting event at Alappuzha in Kerala on August...

Oscars Academy votes out Weinstein for 'sexually predatory behaviour'

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has ousted Harvey Weinstein with immediate effect, after allegations that he sexually harassed or assaulted a number of women over the past three......

Polanski will be out of jail tomorrow

Filmmaker Roman Polanski is expected to be released from jail on Friday and put under house arrest, say Swiss authorities. The 76-year-old director has been in Swiss custody since his arrest in......

Switzerland regrets not arresting Polanski earlier

Switzerland has regretted not arresting Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski on his earlier visits to the country, a media report said. Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf has claimed that......

The 100 Best Films, RANKED

My exposure to cinema was by watching mainstream Hindi films, with occasional big budget Hollywood products thrown in. It was not until I was in my late teens that I was introduced to world cinema,......

10 BEST Bollywood Mystery Movies

'Mystery is when the spectator knows less than the characters in the movie. Suspense is when the spectator knows more than the characters,' Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock proclaimed once.......

Why Prem Granth deserved better

Rajiv Kapoor was the true inheritor of his father Raj Kapoor's mantle, especially in the use of music and songs, feels Subhash K Jha. Prem Granth (1996), the only film that Rajiv Kapoor directed,......

PIX: Jessica Chastain, Irina Shayk in Cannes

American actress Jessica Chastain looked electrifying in her purple Givenchy gown that looked quite similar to Sharon Stone's cobalt number from a day earlier, as she attended the All Is Lost......

Senna, Ali hog limelight at Cannes Film festival!

Three years after Senna, the hit film biography of the late Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, sporting documentaries about Jackie Stewart, Muhammad Ali and Pele are competing for attention at......

Prakash, Yuki advance in Chennai Open qualifiers

A few years back eminent filmmaker Roman Polanski couldn't enter the United States, even if it was to receive the much sought after Best Director Oscar. On Sunday, his namesake Peter Polansky was......