Saira Banu: Saira Banu was born into a Urdu-speaking family in India on August 23, 1944. Her mom’s name is Naseem Banu, and she is the granddaughter of a courtesan, Chamiyan Bai, also known as Shamshad Begum (not to be confused with the famous playback singer of the yesteryear Shamshad Begum). She spent much of her childhood in London and was able to debut in 1961 in a Bollywood movie ‘Junglee’ opposite Shammi Kapoor. (more…)

Hrithik Roshan, Amrita Rao, Jiah Khan, Deepika Padukone, Arshad Warsi, Maria Goretti, Suzanne Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Neha Dhupia, Zeenat Aman, Sanjay Kapoor, Aamir Khan, Anil Kapoor, Danny Boyle, Freida Pinto, Saira Banu, Dilip Kumar, Sushmita Sen, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rajiv Kapoor, Genelia D Souza, Gulshan Grover, Divya Khosla, Tulsi Kumar, Irrfan Khan, Imran Khan, Avantika Malik, Konkana Sen Sharma, Randhir Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Padmini Kolhapure, Shruti Seth, Sophie Chaudhary, Arjan Bajwa, Loveleen Tandon, Sonam Kapoor, Dev Patel, Ishita Arun, Ila Arun, Jeetendra, Tusshar Kapoor, Ketan Mehta, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranvir Shorey, Sonali Kulkarni, Sudhir Mishra, Subhash Ghai, Genelia D Souza, Shabana Azmi, Vidya Balan, Raghav Sanchar were present at Slumdog Millionaire premiere on 22nd Jan 2009. (more…)

Bollywood’s living legend Dilip Kumar was on Monday conferred the Phalke Ratna Award, instituted in memory of the ‘Father of Indian Cinema’ by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy in Mumbai. Yusuf Khan (Dilip Kumar), who was selected for the honour for his devoted services to the film industry, received the award at a function marking the 138th birth anniversary of the poineering filmmaker. (more…)