Entertainment

Here is a new trend of directors emerging in the 21st century. Lack of a lavish budget has thus created a new breed of directors called Indie or Independent directors. One of them is Shailja Gupta. This Kolkata-born director is originally from a Marwari family. Armed with a B.Com from ...

Accomplished comedy actor Paintal of Rafoo Chakkar (1975-acted with Rishi Kapoor) fame has been around in the field of movies from the early 1970s. Born Kawarjit Paintal into a Sikh family, he is now teaching acting besides working in movies and the small screen. He says that it is only ...

Famous more as Gangubai from her act of the same name in one of the comedy reality shows, Saloni Daini studies in 5th std. Her claim to fame is being not only the youngest stand-up comedian, but also having acted in comedy flicks like No Problem in 2010. Having taken ...

Neeti Palta has the distinction of being one of the few female Stand-up Comedians in India. She has been performing at various locations like the leading Coffee Chain – Costa Coffee in the Delhi circuit. Besides being a stand-up comedian she has been an advertiser, writer of children’s comedy show ...

Where do you usually go for a party? To a restaurant? To a discotheque? A club perhaps? What if there was a whole resort dedicated to parties? Yes. Now for the first time in India, SinQ Group has developed a whole resort for parties in Goa, which will be inaugurated ...

Remember Sanam Teri Kasam (1982), Jigarwala (1991) and Dulhe Raja (1998) and a plethora of other movies? Be it a romantic, action or comedy flick Guddi Maruti was almost always around as mostly the heroine’s obese side-kick. Tahira, which is Guddi’s real name, took the art of making us laugh ...

Down the years, Bollywood had humour tracks with male and female artists. Though it used to be ‘clean humour’, much of it involved making fun of people’s obesity. Initially Indian films were screened in Indian theatres only. With the advent of technology and the internet, people from different countries were ...

The new movie, Angry Indian Goddesses is about celebration of life, friendship and womanhood. These girls, they find hearts and lose heads but what holds them back, is what will set them free. This was told to us by the director of the movie Pan Nalin. After Kary Arora, the ...

More and more women are joining male dominated careers. One of them is the first female DJ and the 5th female music composer in Bollywood, Kary Arora. Not resting on her laurels of being India’s top female DJ, she ventured into music composition, writing lyrics, rapping and grunge singing and ...

He was noticed in Style (2001), Golmaal (2006) 3 Idiots (2009) and has a penchant for comic roles. Mumbai-born Sharman Joshi set foot in acting field via theatre after completing B.Com from NM College, Mumbai. He considers theatre as his training ground. Late theatre personality Satyadev Dubey suggested him to ...