Bollywood News:
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Aishwarya Rai And Amitabh Bachchan To Perform At Live Earth Concert 2008
Date:
09/21/2008:
Amitabh Bachchan
and
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
are once again going to perform live on stage together. Last time they were part of the
The Unforgettable Tour
and now they will be dancing at the Live Earth concert to be held
at the Andheri Sports Complex on December 07 2008 in
Mumbai
, India. Jon Bon Jovi and Shekhar Kapur will also be performing on stage.
The event is being organized by Al Gore, former vice president and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and Kevin Wall.
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Taare Zameen Par To The Oscars
Date:
09/21/2008:
Taare Zameen Par (2007)
has been selected by the The Film Federation of India (FFI)
to represent India at the Oscars and 81st Annual Academy awards in the foreign film category. The film
is a directorial debut for
Aamir Khan
and was well received all over the world by the Indian audience.
Within India the film received six key awards at the Nokia 14th Annual Star Screen Awards.
The awards were received for best director, Best Supporting Actor and for Best Dialogues,
Best Story (Amol Gupte), Best Child Actor (
Darsheel Zafary
) and Best Lyricist (Prasoon Joshi).
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Imran Khan In Cape Town For Luck
Date:
09/17/2008:
Imran Khan
is currently in Cape Town, Africa to shot for movie
Luck (2008)
being directed by Soham Shah. The movie also stars
Shruti Haasan
,
Sanjay Dutt
, Mithun Chakraborty, Ravi Kissen and Danny Denzongpa.
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Gul Panag On Cover Of Maxim India September 2008 Issue
Date:
09/12/2008:
Miss India in 1999
Gul Panag
gave a great phoot to Maxim for the September 2008 edition of
Maxim India
. The photos will be part of the Maxim India September 2008 edition. Her next big release is
Hello, one Night At The Call Center (2008)
due out in October 2008.
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Raj Thackeray Accepts Amitabh Bachchan Apology
Date:
09/11/2008:
A big deal was made of what Jaya Bachchan said at the music launch of
Abhishek Bachchan
, upcoming movie,
Drona (2008)
. Now B Big has formally apologized in a public press conference for comments made
by his wife. The apology has also been accepted by Raj Thackeray. Now
Amitabh Bachchan
can concentrated in his movie,
The Last Lear (2008)
, releasing this Friday, September the 12th.
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Sherlyn Chopra New Album Dard e Sherlyn
Date:
09/08/2008:
Sherlyn Chopra
has just released a new album, it's called Dard e Sherlyn. The album has
caused quite a stir in the music industry with the racey video and the songs.
Special security measures has been in place for all her promotional events
since Sherlyn could come up with the diamond encrusted bikini top and golden
hot pants that have been worn during the video.
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Aishwarya Rai And Rajnikanth Shooting For Enthiram
Date:
09/08/2008:
Shankar�s
Robot (Enthiram) (2008)
is now
Enthiram (2008)
(Tamil for Robot). The title of the movie had to be changed since
Shahrukh Khan
�s Red Chillies has already registered the movie
name Robot with Association of Motion Pictures and TV Programme Producers
(AMPTPP) in
Mumbai
. Now that the name has been resolved, the crew left for the
USA last week to start to shot two songs composed by
AR Rahman,
starting September 8. Other details provided by Producers Ayngaran International
Films Pvt Ltd and Eros International include Mary E Vogt will design the
futuristic outfits, Stan Winston Studio (USA) will do the animatronics and
Yuen Woo Ping is in charge of the stunts. Visual effects (VFX) will be
provided by Hollywood companies ILM, Tippet, Cafe EFX and Centro and
Menfond based out of Hong Kong. The movie stars
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
and
Rajnikanth
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Mary E Vogt has worked on the costume designer of Men in Batman Returns,
Black, and Inspector Gadget. Yuen Woo Ping has worked on Crouching Tiger
Hidden Dragon, Matrix and Kill Bill. Stan Winston Studio has helped with Predator,
Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, Iron man, Terminator and I Robot.
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Celina Jaitley In King Con
Date:
09/03/2008:
Celina Jaitley
will play the role of a Kleptomaniac stripper in the upcoming movie
King Con (2009)
opposite
Govinda
. The movie will be shot in London.
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Temptation Reloaded 2008 In Germany
Date:
09/06/2008:
Now that the
The Unforgettable Tour
has finished its world tour, its is going to be
Shahrukh Khan
that will come out to mesmerizes the audience with a live tour. The
tour is called
Temptation Reloaded 2008
and set to begin with a live performance in Berlin, Germany on October 17, 2008, followed
by Munich, Germany on October 18 and Frankfurt, Germany on October 19. The
tour will also include other stars from Indian cinema like
Aamir Khan
,
Priyanka Chopra
,
Malaika Arora
, and
Arjun Rampal
. Comedian Kaya Yanar will also be part of the tour.
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Shahrukh Khan Receives Notice The Bombay High Court
Date:
09/04/2008:
Today, the Bombay High Court issued a notice to Indian cinema actor
Shahrukh Khan
in regrads to an illegal construction in the backyard of his palatial
bungalow Mannat at suburban Bandra, Mumbai. The is in reference to
apartnelty 32 violations of law in the construction. The PIL was filed by
social activist Simpreet Singh and contained allegation that the construction
was done by merging 12 flats meant to house the poor.
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Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai In Dhun
Date:
09/03/2008:
Abhishek Bachchan
and
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
will paired in another movie together. This one is a remake of Abhimaan, in which his father,
Amitabh Bachchan
and mother, Jaya Bhaduri, starred opposite each other. The movie will be made
by Rajiv Menon, who have given us movies like Sapnay and the Tamil, Kandukonde Kandukonde.
Currently the couple are shooting for Mani Ratnam�s
Ramayan (Ravana) (2008)
and upon it's completion they will start to work on
Dhun (2009)
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Shoaib Malik Denies Affair With Sayali Bhagat
Date:
09/02/2008:
Shoaib Malik, Pakistan cricket team captain, has denied reports out him making
secret trips to India to meet up with former Miss India and Bollywood actress
Sayali Bhagat
. However Shoaib did admit that the two had met up during the inaugural season
of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
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TV Shows
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09/22/2008:
Seventh season of the Dancing With The Stars television show made is
return on Monday night September 22, 2008. The question now is who will
win the title this year. The pairs this year are: Kim Kardashian and Mark Ballas,
Susan Lucci and Tony Dovolani, Cody Linley and Julianne Hough, Alex Mazo and Toni Braxton,
Karina Smirnoff and Rocco DiSpirito, Cheryl Burke and Maurice Greene,
Brooke Burke
and Derek Hough, Kym Johnson and Warren Sapp, Cloris Leachman and Corky Ballas,
Ted McGinley and Inna Brayer, Lacey Schwimmer and Lance Bass, and
Edyta Sliwinska and Jeffrey Ross.
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09/11/2008:
The forth season of
Indian Idol
is set to take off on Friday, September 19, 2008
on Sony TV. This season the panel of judges will be Anu Malik, Javed Akhtar, Kailash Kher and
Sonali Bendre
. The registration for contestants began on April 1st, 2008 with audition have taken place in
Ahmedabad
(May 7 and May 8), Amritsar (May 9 and May 10),
Bangalore
(May 12 and May 13, Guwahati (May 13 and May 14),
Kolkata (Calcutta)
(May 20th), Varanasi (May 16 and 17) and Delhi (23 May).
The final 100 probably have been choosen and final 30 will be choosen by
October 2008. The Grand Finale of Indian Idol season 4 is scheduled for
on or about February 2009.
So are you ready for another fun season of
good music and be part of Indian Idol 4?
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India News
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09/22/2008:
Next month, India will attempt to launch a lunar probe that will have the mission
to travel to the moon. The probe is named Chandrayaan. The planned launch dates
are between October 19th to 28th with backup dates in December. Chandrayaan has to
still undergo final testing like high temperatures, vibration and acoustic tests.
Chandrayaan will carry 11 payloads with five from India, three from the European Space Agency (ESA),
one from the Bulgarian Space Agency (BSA) and two from NASA.
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09/01/2008:
Tata has suspended work on the Nano plant at Singur, Kolkata. The company
silently pulled out all its staff from the besieged Singur factory on Thursday night.
Now the company will have to prepare a plan to relocate the plant for the
now famous Nano car manufacturing. The company will try to relocate the already
trained staff at the alternate location as much as possible.
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Hollywood News:
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Kate Moss Gold Sculptor
Date:
08/31/2008:
Marc Quinn, a British sculptor, is ready to unveil his latest creation to the
world, a $2.8 million, 110 pound solid gold statue of the supermodel,
Kate Moss
. Qninn in 2006 had created Sphinx, a painted bronze statue of Moss in a
somewhat provocative yoga pose. So far the London museum has so far only
released a close up photo of the statue's face. The statue will be on display from Oct. 4 through Jan. 25, 2008.
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Kara DioGuardi Added As Judge On Americal Idol
Date:
08/26/2008:
Kara DioGuardi
will has been signed to appear on the next season of the popular tv show
American Idol 8
as the forth judge along side Simon Cowell,
Paula Abdul
, and Randy Jackson.
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Money, Finance, Technology News:
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09/29/2008:
Google has announced the long awaited phone. The phone is called G1 phone,
running Android software is manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese manufacturer,
and will will be offered exclusively by T-Mobile. The G1 is going to provide some
competition for Apple�s iPhone. The G1 has some nice functions and features that
are building upon the Apples iPhone and BlackBerry. It has a qwerty keyboard which
slides out, and a �trackball�. It also allows to download digital music from amazon.com,
with easy access to Google applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Maps.
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09/17/2008:
Intel
announces new chip series called Dunnington. The Dunnington was
fully designed from scratch by I ntel engineers in Bangalore. The Dunnington
is the Xeon 7400 series of server chips marks Intel's first 'true' quad-core
processors and is produced on a single piece of silicon. The
Bangalore
design center also become the first team from Intel outside of the US to complete the
design of the 45-nanometer processor. With the release of Dunnington, Intel
marked a technical milestone by using a monolithic die, putting all of the
cores on a single piece of silicon.
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World News:
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09/18/2008:
Bakugan Battle Brawlers made it's debut in India on 15 September, 2008 on Cartoon Network.
The action adventure animated series will telecast from Monday thru Friday
at 5:30 PM on Cartoon Network.
Bakugan Battle Brawlers
is an animated series about the lives of Bakugan and the
Battle brawlers. The series debuted in Japan on TV Tokyo on April 05, 2007. The debut
in the USA was on February 24, 2008 on Cartoon Network.
Some of the main characters are Dan Kuso, Runo Misaki, Marucho Marokuro, Julie Makimoto,
Shun Kazami, Alice Gehabich, Masquerade, Joe Brown and Hal G. There are many different types
of Bakugans like Dragonoid, Tigrerra and Preyas, Hydranoid, Gorem and Skyress to
mentioned a few.
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Movie Releases August 2008:
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Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008)
Cast:
Ranbir Kapoor
,
Deepika Padukone
, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba
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C Company (2008)
Cast:
Tusshar Kapoor
,
Raima Sen
, Mahesh Bhatt, Karan Johar, Sanjay Dutt
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Chamku (2008)
Cast:
Bobby Deol
,
Priyanka Chopra
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Hijack (2008)
Cast:
Shiney Ahuja
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, K K Raina, Mona Ambegaonkar, Kaveri Jha
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God Tussi Great Ho (2006)
Cast:
Salman Khan
,
Priyanka Chopra
, Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Manisha Koirala
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Maan Gaye Mughal E Azam (2008)
Cast:
Rahul Bose
,
Mallika Sherawat
, Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay Menon,
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Phoonkh (2008)
Cast:
Sudeep
,
Amruta Khanvilkar
, Ahsaas Channa, Kenny Desa, Ganesh Yadav, Shankar Sachdev, K K Raina, Bharat Kaul, Kishore Kadam, Shrey Bawa, Javed Rizvi , Ashwini Kalsekar, Anu Ansari, Madhuri Purandare, Zakir Hussain, Geetanjali, Jyothi Subhash,
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Ramchand Pakistani (2008)
Cast:
Syed Fazel Hussain
,
Nandita Das
, Maria Wasti
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Rock On (2008)
Cast:
Farhan Akhtar
,
Prachi Desai
, Arjun Rampal, Luke Kenny, Koel Purie, Purab Kohli, Nicolette Bird
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Singh Is Kinng (2008)
Cast:
Akshay Kumar
,
Katrina Kaif
, Sunil Shetty, Javed Jaffrey, Ranvir Shorey, Kamal Chopra, Om Puri, Neha Dhupia
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Ugly Aur Pagli (2008)
Cast:
Ranvir Shourie
,
Mallika Sherawat
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Forthcoming Movie Releases For 2008:
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Aashayien (2007)
Cast:
John Abraham
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Agent Vinod (2008)
Cast:
Saif Ali Khan
,
Kareena Kapoor
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Aladdin (2008)
Cast:
Amitabh Bachchan
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Black and White (2008)
Cast:
Anil Kapoor
,
Shefali Shah
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Chandni Chowk To China, Made In China (2008)
Cast:
Akshay Kumar
,
Deepika Padukone
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Kajri (2007)
Cast:
Aamir Khan
,
Ayesha Takia
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Karzzzz (2008)
Cast:
Himesh Reshammiya
,
Urmila Matondkar
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One Two Three (2008)
Cast:
Sunil Shetty
,
Esha Deol
, Tusshar Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Upen Patel, Sameera Reddy, Tanisha Mukherjee
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Roadside Romeo (2008)
Cast:
Saif Ali Khan
,
Kareena Kapoor
, Javed Jaffrey
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Robot (2008)
Cast:
Rajnikanth
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Singh Is Kinng (2008)
Cast:
Akshay Kumar
,
Katrina Kaif
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Tashan (2008)
Cast:
Saif Ali Khan
,
Kareena Kapoor
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The Last Lear (2007)
Cast:
Amitabh Bachchan
,
Preity Zinta
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Toonpur Ka Superhero (2008)
Cast:
Ajay Devgan
,
Kajol Mukherjee
,
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You Me Aur Hum (2008)
Cast:
Ajay Devgan
,
Kajol Mukherjee
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Yuvraaj (2008)
Cast:
Salman Khan
,
Katrina Kaif
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