Dubai, Aug 17 (IANS) Bringing the Ganges river and the issues surrounding it today onstage is the next big dream of veteran Bollywood actor and internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer Hema Malini. “The next ballet I want to do is on our great river Ganges,” Hema Malini told IANS in an interview here. (more…)

Will some NRIs head back to India after watching the latest box office hit, “Singh is Kinng?” After watching the conscience pricking scenes during which the hero Akshay Kumar urges his friend to return from Australia to care for his old and ailing parents back home in Punjab, many NRIs will have to answer their consciences as to why they should not return. (more…)

New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Actor Suniel Shetty says that he’s doing fewer movies these days because he hasn’t got any exciting offers, not because he has become finicky about roles. “The truth is that since the last year or so, I haven’t got good film offers at all. Trash was coming to me in the name of scripts. I am not insecure that I would go for any role. I’m in a position now that I don’t need to compromise,” Suniel told IANS in an interview. (more…)

Bangalore, Aug 17 (IANS) Kannada actor Sudeep is now busy with his third directorial venture “Veera Madakari”. And apart from wielding the megaphone, the film star will also be playing a double role in the film. Acting, getting permission to shoot some scenes in a mall here and working out changes in dialogues of the sequence to be shot the next day - Sudeep is kept on his toes for the project that was earlier to be made by director Sadhu Kokila. (more…)

Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) Bollywood music director Bappi Lahiri had a memorable Raksha Bandhan Saturday with a group of physically and mentally challenged children. Lahiri and playback singer Shweta Pandit visited the children’s home run by Smita Thackeray’s Mukti Foundation to wish them on the occasion and get rakhis tied by the little girls there. (more…)

Mumbai, Aug 16 (IANS) Actor Saif Ali Khan may have had to cancel his big birthday bash, but he is happy that his 38th birthday Saturday coincides with the festival of Raksha Bandhan as his two sisters celebrate the festival in a big way. “There’s no one in town! All my friends from the industry are not here. In fact I had spoken to Shah Rukh (Khan). He had promised to fly back to Mumbai for my birthday. Very sweet of him.” (more…)