Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Rating: R Length: 120 minutes Release Date: Jan. 23, 2009 Directed by: Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan Genre: Drama/Romance/ThrillerStars: 4 out of 5 Few movies manage to incorporate a profound and resonating theme throughout the piece while keeping its pacing and...

Hollywood vs. Bollywood: Only the Names Look and Sound Alike

--The Indian film industry that is colloquially referred to as Bollywood is actually older than its American counterpart that gave rise to this popular moniker. Whereas the American film industry only reached Hollywood, California in 1910, Bombay, today called Mumbai but ...

Azharuddin Ismail, Slumdog Millionare Star, Moves Out of the Slum

Azharuddin Ismail, one of the child star's of slumdog millionaire whose family's shanty house was demolished earlier this year, is moving out of the slum and into an expensive suburb of Mumbai. It seems that life...

Cebu inmates dance to Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire

The Cebu inmates, the dancing prisoners from Cebu in the Philippines who became instant sensations due to their dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller, are back with their lastest mass dance to Jai Ho from Slumdog...

Rubina Ali, 9-Yr-Old 'Slumdog' Child Star, to Publish Life Story

Rubina Ali, the 9-year-old child actor who starred in Danny Boyle's 2008 hit film Slumdog Millionaire, will publish a book about 'the story of her life' growing up in Mumbai's slums later this year. Ali's book "Slumgirl Dreaming: My Journey to the Stars" will be published in...

Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, Slumdog Stars, Confirmed as a Couple

Freida Pinto and Dev Patel lit up the screen as fated lovers in last year's Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire and now Patel's mother has confirmed that the two young actors are also a romantic couple off screen....

Humanitarian news; filmmakers donate US$747,500 to Indian charity

Money will be distributed to “Plan”, whose charity helps improve the lives of children in developing countries.  The donation, in particular, will help the children of Mumbai.  " "Having benefited so much...

Who Does that? SlumDog Millionaire Saga Continues

 A newspaper (Tabloid is more appropriate) — owned by News International Ltd., the main British subsidiary of News Corp., which also owns "Slumdog" distributor Fox Searchlight Picture- thinks of doing a remarkable stint operation and puts it into play and the rest is...

Jennifer Aniston Named Sexiest Woman in Hollywood by Details

Jennifer Aniston has been crowned Hollywood's Sexiest Woman in a new poll by Details Magazine, beating out actress Megan Fox and model Gisele Bundchen for the top spot.A notable new inclusion in the top five is...

Q & A with Vikas Swarup at the Jaipur Literature Festival

Thanks to the enthusiastic, charismatic and giving spirit of author William Dalrymple, I recently attended the Jaipur Literature Festival, which takes place every year in January, in the city of … you guessed it! JAIPUR. This year Amitabh Bachchan, Tina...

The Mozart of Madras

The lady was well-deserved. One of my favourite composer, A. R. Rahman has won the coveted award for Slumdog. "HOLLYWOOD: Indian composer A.R. Rahman’s double Oscar win for “Slumdog Millionaire” is his...

Mother of ‘Slumdog’ child celebrates Oscar haul in Mumbai

Attending the Oscars is a huge achievement for a nine-year-old Rubina Ali. However, at 12 am yesterday night, one of the Slumdog stars Rubina Ali (9) called her family from Los Angeles feeling homesick and wanting...

Slumdog millionaire the Oscar star

2009-02-23 06:46:39 - Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles for this year’s Oscars venue.Shinning star of the Oscar is “Slumdog Millionaire” on top of race at the 81st Annual Academy Awards stole the show with eight...

Oscars 2009: Slumdog Millionaire sweeps the board

With eight Oscars in its kitty Danny Boyle's crowdpleaser  Slumdog Millionaire had a runaway sucess at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood. British director's Mumbai's poverty ridden melodrama won in all...

A R Rahman wins two OSCARS (2009) for Slumdog Millionnaire Jai Ho

India erupted into joy and celebration with A R Rahman winning two OSCARS in a matter of ten minutes. In his acceptance speech at The Golden Globe awards he had wished that as Indians are crazy about OSCARS, I...

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