Alexandra Byrne, costume designer for Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age won the first Oscar at the 80th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday evening for Best Costume Design. Alexandra Byrne was also the costume designer for Shekhar Kapur’s previous movie Elizabeth.
Watching George Clooney on screen after seeing our Bollywood bozos like Ajith, Vijay, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra et al prance around like hippopotamuses in heat in movie after movie is like the sight of water to a lost traveler in the vastness of the merciless Sahara. “Do I look […]
At the U.S. box office, the Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai combo has proven to be a lesser draw than the Shahrukh Khan-Deepika Padukone duo. According to U.S. box office numbers, Jodhaa Akbar came in at No-19 with a weekend gross collection of $1.3 million although it was a four-day weekend because of the President’s Day holiday […]
Shahrukh Khan Stopped at US Airport Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan does not like America, according to an interview he gave recently to the The Times (of London not the Mumbai rag Times of India). Shahrukh Khan minced no words about America in his interview with Anil Sinanan, Times Bollywood Film Critic: I don’t like America. […]
American auto giant General Motors has reported a mega-loss of $38.7 billion in 2007. The massive loss was mostly due to three reasons: * A charge related to unused tax credits in the third quarter * GM produces some of the crappiest cars that no one wants to buy * Decades of poor management GM’s […]
 Nov.26, 2008 – Terrorists Strike Mumbai; 80 Killed; 250 Injured Bollywood star and Bombay blast convict Sanjay Dutt has scored a hatrick with his recent third marriage. The Bad Boy of Bollywood married his girlfriend Manyata on Monday. Manyata is wife No-3 for 48-year-old Sanjay Dutt, a former drug addict and the son of late […]