Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Music mogul Rick Ross is reportedly recovering at his Miami home after a health scare landed him in a Florida hospital. According to TMZ, the 42-year-old hip hop mogul was discharged early Monday morning following a four-day hospitalisation. Ross was found “unresponsive” in his Miami mansion. According to a Davie Police Department report obtained by the People magazine and first published by The Blast, someone at the Miami mansion belonging to Ross, called 911 at 3:34 a.m. for emergency medical support saying a person matching Ross’ description was “breathing heavy”…

Read More

Hours after winning her second Best Actress Oscar, Frances McDormand almost lost her gold statue, when the trophy went missing at the annual Governors Ball party. The actor went to attend the party after the award ceremony with her filmmaker husband, Joel Coen. The security was soon able to recover the trophy and returned it to her. “I can confirm that after a brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited last night. They celebrated their reunion with a double cheeseburger from In-N-Out,” McDormand’s representative told People magazine.…

Read More

James Ivory, screenwriter and co-producer of the drama “Call Me by Your Name” today created history as he became the oldest Oscar winner. Ivory, 89, won the Oscar for adapting Andre Aciman’s 2007 novel of the same name for the Luca Guadagnino-directed film. This is his maiden Oscar win 30 years after his first nomination. Before Ivory, Ennio Morricone was considered the oldest winner in a competitive category. He was 87 when he won the award for original score for “The Hateful Eight” in 2016. Wearing a shirt emblazoned with…

Read More

Indian stars Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi, who passed away recently, featured in the In Memoriam section at the 90th Academy Awards today. The In Memoriam segment of the Oscars pays tribute to artistes who have passed this year. Shashi Kapoor, besides his Bollywood superstar persona, was an active figure in international cinema working in films such as “The Householder”, “Shakespeare Wallah”, “The Guru”, “Bombay Talkie” and “In Custody”. Sridevi, a pan Indian star, died on February 24 in Dubai suddenly, leaving fans and family shocked. She was 54. Others who…

Read More

Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the fields of arts and politics at a ceremony in the UK’s Parliament complex. The annual ‘Political and Public Life Awards’ presented by Britain’s Asian Voice weekly newspaper, now in its 12th year, recognises individuals who have made a significant impact on public life or made a difference in their local communities. The ceremony at the Members’ Dining Room in the House of Commons building on Thursday evening was attended by parliamentarians, business and community…

Read More

One of India’s most popular festivals, Holi, the festival of colours, is today. And Bollywood biggies have been busy wishing their loved ones and fans on this special day. While Bollywood won’t be celebrating the festival with as much enthusiasm due to Sridevi’s untimely death, yet the actors have flooded Twitter with warm wishes for their admirers on the special occasion. While Amitabh Bachchan was one of the first ones to wish his fans with the tweet, “Happy Holi .. the colours of life be within you ever…” Priyanka Chopra is working on the big…

Read More

They may have been one of the most romantic pairs on screen, but Kamal Haasan and late female superstar Sridevi shared a bond like that of siblings. “Sridevi en thangachi (Sridevi was my younger sister),” Haasan said, decades after he was paired opposite Sridevi in a number of Tamil films such as ‘Guru’, ‘Varumayin Niram Sivappu’, ‘Vaazhve Maayam’ and ‘Moondram Pirai’, the last one being also remade as Hindi classic ‘Sadma’ in 1983. Sridevi, who died of accidental drowning in her hotel bath tub in Dubai last week, captured millions…

Read More

Noted Odia Bhajan singer Arabinda Muduli passed early today morning following a cardiac arrest. He was 56. Muduli was taken to a private hospital after he complained of chest pain but he breathed his last while he was being admitted there, family sources said. A musician, singer and lyricist, Muduli enthralled the audience with devotional songs and had won the hearts of millions of people in Odisha and elsewhere. Born on September 1, 1961 at Khanati in Khordha district, he was a devotee of lord Jagannath and sang only Bhajans.…

Read More

Sridevi’s fans were seen queuing up outside Celebrations Sports Club near her residence in Lokhandwala, where her body is kept for ‘darshan’ (public viewing), to pay their last respects to the Bollywood diva. Long queues of fans holding flowers in their hands and chanting prayers were seen as the body of the actor was brought to the venue at 9 am along with an entourage of family members. Nearly 200 policemen were present at the venue to keep the crowd in check. While the gates for the general public opened…

Read More

Actor Rani Mukerji today remembered Bollywood diva Sridevi as a “guiding light” in her life, saying her untimely death is the most painful thing she has dealt with after her father’s demise. The actor said she felt close to Sridevi, known has India’s first female superstar, considered her an “inspiration personally and professionally.” “For me it’s the most painful thing I have dealt with after my dad’s passing away. And her face is coming in front of me again and again. The love she had for me was so tremendous…

Read More