Bollywood

Indian police arrest boyfriend Suraj Pancholi in actress Jiah Khan's suicide

Tag: Actress, Aditya Pancholi, Arrested, Bollywood, Cinema, Entertainment, Indian Cinema, Jiah Khan, Mumbai, Suicide, Suraj Pancholi, Zarina Wahab

June 11, 2013

Police in Mumbai have arrested Suraj Pancholi, Jiah Khan's boyfriend on charges of abetting her suicide. A letter she wrote alleges that Pancholi cheated on her, physically abused her and forced her to have an abortion.

Bollywood actress Jiah Khan committed suicide in Mumbai, India

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Farooque Sheikh: “Great films will be made when we have great audiences”

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

May 21, 2013

By Geeta Goindi

Rockville, MD – Squarely putting the responsibility of good films on viewers, acclaimed actor Farooque Sheikh has categorically stated that they are liable for the quality and caliber of cinema.

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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

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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

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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

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Indian wedding row in South Africa escalates, diplomat suspended

Tag: Bollywood, Community, India, Indian-born Aaskash Jahajgarhia, Jacob Zuma, President Jacob Zuma, Scandal, South Africa, Wedding, World News

May 2, 2013

JOHANNESBURG: The row over the landing of a private aircraft on a military airport for a lavish Indian wedding in South Africa snowballed into a political scandal today with a senior diplomat suspended and President Jacob Zuma deciding not to attend 'the marriage of the century'.

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Bollywood star Aamir Khan featured on Time cover

Tag: Aamir Khan, Actor, Barack Obama, Bollywood, India, International, Kamala Harris, Malala Yousafzai, P Chidambaram, Pakistan, Social Awareness, Time Magazine, Time Magazine Cover, USA, Vrinda Grover, World News

April 19, 2013

Washington — Bollywood star Aamir Khan has been featured on one of the seven special covers of the Time magazine listing the world's 100 most influential people.

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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.

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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.

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Indian film 'not just Bollywood'

Tag: Asian Film Festival, Bollywood, Cinema, Entertainment, Filmmaker, Films, India, Indian Cinema, Indian films, Movies, World Cinema
Indian 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. &quot;Nonsense! Nonsense!&quot; 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.

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