Category: Entertainment
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Madonna says she was raped at knife-point as teenager
News East West NEW YORK: Pop queen Madonna has come out with a shocking revelation that she was raped at knife-point when as a teenager she came to New York from Michigan to try her luck in the 1970s. “New York wasn’t everything I thought it would beIt did not welcome me with open arms.…
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Deepa Mehta’s brother plans film on Sunny Leone
News East West MUMBAI: Will Deepa Mehta make a film on the real life story of Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone who entered Bollywood with Mahesh Bhatt’s Jism 2? According to a report in the Times of India, Sunny Leone has been approached by Deepa Mehta’s photo-journalist brother Dilip Mehta with a proposal to make…
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When Hrishikesh Mukherjee said: `A wrong Lata is worth more than all right singers in Bollywood’
By Subhash K Jha I think of that moment in Hrishida’s Aashirwaad when the old and dying Ashok Kumar stumbles into his estranged daughter’s wedding to bless her before kicking the bucket. Only Hrishikesh Mukherjee could have written that sequence. Anupam Kher tells a very interesting story about Hrishikesh Mukherjee. “We were shooting for his…
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The Lunchbox review: Probably best directorial debut since Satyajit Ray in Pather Panchali
By Subhash K Jha Film: The Lunchbox Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Writer and director: Ritesh Batra Rating: **** ½ (4 and a half stars) MUMBAI: In Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar desolation was defined and epitomized as much by Shabana Azmi’s face and physicality as it was by the architectural ruins where Sen shot…