Entertainment

Bollywood bad boy Dutt held in terrorist' jail

Tag: 1993 Mumbai Blasts, Actor, Bollywood, Entertainment, India, Jail, Mumbai, Sanjay Dutt, Solidarity, Supreme Court, TADA Court

May 18, 2013

The Bollywood star is being held in a cell designed for militants where he cannot see the light of day. Dutt surrendered on Thursday and is serving time for connections to the 1993 Mumbai bombing.

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is pictured in Mumbai on May 5, 2013

Read more »

DC South Asian Film Festival Celebrates Fine Independent Cinema

Tag: Bollywood, Community, Community Events, DCSAFF, Deepti Naval, Entertainment, Indian Ambassador to US, Indian Americans, Indian Cinema, Nirupama Rao, Pooja Batra, Washington DC

May 15, 2013

By Geeta Goindi

Read more »

Community Throngs to Star Heritage India Festival

Tag: Artist, Bollywood, Community, Community News, Culture, Entertainment, Heritage India, Indian Culture, Music, Singing, USA, Virginia

October 22, 2011

By Geeta Goindi

Children at the Star Heritage India Festival

Read more »

Janaki Rangarajan Wows Audience at Kennedy Center

Tag: Arts, Bharatanatyam, Community, Community Events, Community News, Dance, Dance Performance, Dr. Janaki Rangarajan, Entertainment, Indian Americans, John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC, Washington Performing Arts Society, World Dance Day

May 1, 2013

By Geeta Goindi

Delivers a Spell-binding Bharatanatyam Performance on World Dance Day

Read more »

Adnan Sami Rocks Warner Theater in Memorable Performance

Tag: Adnan Sami, Bollywood, Community, Community News, DC Concert, Entertainment, Music, Musical Event, Playback Singer, Singer, Warner Theater, Washington DC

April 17, 2013

By Geeta Goindi

WASHINGTON – There are musical shows and then there are epoch-making concerts like the one Friday night, April 12th headlined by Adnan Sami at the Warner Theater. It will pose a challenge to the organizers, Manish and Deepa Sood of Intense Entertainment, to top this class act.

Read more »

Chaplin impersonators mark actor's birthday in India

Tag: Actor, Adipur, Charlie Chaplin, Comedian, Entertainment, German, Gujarat, India, Legendary Filmmaker, Silent Comic

<p>Local impersonators from Adipur, Gujarat, celebrate the 40th annual parade marking Charlie Chaplin's birthday</p>

April 17, 2013

Now in its 40th year the annual parade in Adipur, Gujarat, marking Charlie Chaplin's birthday, features more than 100 participants, including brass bands, camel carts and open jeeps carrying life-sized cut-outs of the late actor. Men and women dressed in crumpled black suits and carrying canes practice the cheerful tramp's customary bowlegged walk as the parade made its way through the streets.

Read more »

Bollywood's 100th birthday celebrated at British film festival

Tag: 100 Years of Bollywood Cinema, Bollywood, Cinema, Entertainment, India, Indian Cinema, Media Museum, Movies, Mughal-e-Azam, Raja Harishchandra, UK, United Kingdom

April 10, 2013

A film festival in the United Kingdom is recognizing 100 years of Bollywood cinema with screening of such legendary classics like Mughal-e-Azam and Raja Harishchandra. Mughal-e-Azam was the most expensive film ever made.

Read more »

Indian film 'not just Bollywood'

Tag: Asian Film Festival, Bollywood, Cinema, Entertainment, Filmmaker, Films, India, Indian Cinema, Indian films, Movies, World Cinema

<p>Ask award-winning Indian filmmaker Kamal K.M. what he thinks about Bollywood and he throws back his head and roars with laughter. "Nonsense! Nonsense!" he cries.</p>

March 30, 2013

A Kerala-based independent filmmaker is hoping to bring more diversity to Indian film. Although Bollywood movies with characteristic song and dance routines are commercially successful, Kamal K.M. believes people should have more choice.

Ask award-winning Indian filmmaker Kamal K.M. what he thinks about Bollywood and he throws back his head and roars with laughter. "Nonsense! Nonsense!" he cries.

Read more »

1993 Mumbai blasts: Sanjay Dutt ‘heartbroken’ after SC verdict

Tag: 1993 Mumbai Blasts, Actor, Bollywood, Entertainment, India, Mumbai, Sanjay Dutt, Solidarity, Supreme Court, TADA Court

March 21, 2013

Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has to spend another three-and-a-half-years in jail in the Mumbai serial blasts case, today said he is ‘heart broken’ and under ‘emotional distress’ after the Supreme Court verdict.