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La Tomatina Bangalore cancelled!!

If NDTV news sources are to be believed, the La Tomatina festival which was supposed to be held in Bangalore as well as Delhi has been cancelled. Well, personally, I am pretty happy with the news!
The people who know me know that I am not a big fan of wastage of any kinds of resources, [...]

Housefull 2 – New sequel on the block!

Nothing new about it. Get ready for another sequel of a successful comedy. How many times have we heard that before!
Many of you might surely have heard about this sequel quite some time ago, but I just felt like gossiping a little about it..  so am posting this up. The sequel is going [...]

‘Peepli Live’ goes to the Oscars!!!

This is one of those moments which makes you wonder – “Yeah, I thought it was great, but I didn’t imagine it would go all the way!!” Thats all I could think of when I heard the news. ‘Peepli Live’ will be representing India at the Oscars!
This comical satire on the plight of Indian farmers and [...]

“Mr and Mrs Iyer” team back with “The Japanese Wife”

Saregama films brings together the hit team of MR & MRS IYER – Director Aparna Sen and actor Rahul Bose in the upcoming film THE JAPANESE WIFE with star-cast Raima Sen, Chigusa Takaku and Moushumi Chatterjee. The film is set to release on April 09, 2010.
This time, too, Aparna Sen makes an unusual film with [...]

Hrithik might be seen in Hollywood flicks!!

Ever since the promos of his latest film KITES have hit the market; Hrithik Roshan is becoming hot property off shores. Buzz, is that many Hollywood filmmakers are impressed with Hrthik’s chemistry with co-star Barbara Mori.
Reports further suggest that many Hollywood filmmakers are keen to work with Hrithik and have already started sending feelers to [...]

MSU trio take away 1st prize at IIT Bombay TechFest

A day after civil engineering department students of Faculty of Technology and Engineering, MS University, secured third position in Bascule Bridge designing competition, students from metallurgy and material department stood first in Mech Compute competition. Looks like this time its raining awards for thes young enthusiasts who’ve participated in TechFest 2010, Asia’s biggest technical festival [...]

Climate change and Extremism battling heroine threatens to take over Harry Potter!!

Saci Lloyd, London based teacher of A-level students at an inner-city college, is fast becoming one of Britain’s most successful crusading authors.
Her first book, The Carbon Diaries 2015, shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards last year, already has a slavish following among teenagers in this country and in America. The futuristic story introduced the world [...]

Punjab Public Library (PPL), Lahore being restored

The Punjab Public Library is the largest and the oldest library in Pakistan. It was built in November 8, 1884 by then-Punjab governor Lord Aitchison, who donated 75 books from his personal collection. The library was originally built in the Wazir Khan Baradari which itself was built by Nawab Wazir Khan during the era of [...]

Judwaa to make a comeback!

This David Dhawan’s comedy caper had a blast at the BO with Salman’s double magic and memorable peppy music when it released in nineties. Now Judwaa is going to join the bandwagon of sequel!
Yeah, Judwaa 2 is the current buzz of the circles. And it is heard that the story has been finalised and Salman [...]

Film to expose cricket’s dark side

Mumbai’s betting racket will be exposed in a forthcoming Hindi movie titled World Cupp 2011, whose director and actor, Ravi Kapoor, says his tryst with betting, for which he got in touch with real bookies in the city, has formed the backbone of his research. Ravi will names these bookies in the movie, which will [...]