Category archives for: Bollywood

An evening of beauty and royalty  

Ms Tanya Bali from Brisbane, winner of Ms India Australia 2015 By  Neeru  Saluja Sydney recently witnessed the finale of a beauty pageant that showcased a combination of glamour, glitz and royalty. Bollywood Princess, actress Soha Ali Khan came all the way from India to judge the winners for Miss/Mrs/Mr India Australia 2015.     […]

A page from Princess Soha’s Diary

                              By Neeru Saluja The clock was about to strike midnight. And I had to talk to the princess before she heads home. Behold Cinderella lovers – this is not a fairytale story but an interview with our very own royal […]

Varun and Shraddha’s ABCD in cinemas

    By Neeru Saluja Neeru does a double interview with Varun and Shraddha, lead actors of ABCD 2 in cinemas now… He has the moves and she’s got the groove. He’s known for his dancing and she loves crooning. His six pack abs drive women crazy and she is one of the sexiest B-town […]

Let us remember Shashi!

By Neena Badhwar Shashi Kapoor, though now old and tired he may look, has been the most handsome, most romantic Indian actor who is etched in our Indian film memory. Even now when one comes across some of his movies on Youtube, he leaves the same impression after so many years. His movie ‘Householder’ is […]

Partho Sen-Gupta’s Sunrise makes its mark at SFF

    By Neeru Saluja In India, 100,000 children go missing every year. Half of them haven’t even been found as yet. Most of these children end up in human trafficking and are sexually exploited. While the statistics are shocking, imagine what the parents go through when their child is kidnapped. A missing child is […]

“I think, eat, dream and sleep acting…” – Adil Hussain

Adil Hussain – Star  attraction at this year’s Sydney Film Festival By  Neeru  Saluja Versatile actor Adil Hussain, known for his performances in ‘Life of Pi’, ‘English Vinglish’ and ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ will be arriving in Australia as a guest for the Sydney Film festival. Two of his films – Sunrise and Tiger are being screened […]

In conversation with Antonythasan Jesuthasan, star of Palme D’Or winner film ‘Dheepan’

  Antonythasan Jesuthasan’s personal story ‘Dheepan’ won Palme D’Or Award at Cannes Film Festival By Manju Mittal It was the most surprising and a pleasant win. I had spent hours with the director and stars of the most humble, quiet film based on Tamil Tiger refugees titled ‘Dheepan’. We sat together, talked, laughed, ate and […]

Indian entries in this year’s Sydney Film Festival

  From  Wednesday 3 June  to  Sunday 14 June, 2015, the 62nd  Sydney Film Festival offers Sydneysiders another exciting season of cinema amidst a whirlwind of premieres, red-carpet openings, panel discussions, international guests and more. Each year the Festival programming team curates 12 days of cinema sourced from world-famous film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto […]

India can at Cannes 2015

              Sonam Kapoor, Aishveryaa Rai Bachchan and Katrina Kaif made the red carpet experience worth watching   By Manju Mittal Cannes International Film Festival is like a dream, a meeting place for film lovers to share their passion for cinema. This was my second time in Cannes. I never […]

Kalki Koechlin’s Laila wins her best actress award

  By Neeru Saluja Kalki Koechlin is not wearing her ‘yellow boots’ or ‘designer shoes’ this time. She is walking her way to fame on a wheelchair. Her latest film ‘Margarita with a straw’ where she plays a girl with cerebral palsy is creating waves at international film festivals. The film has fetched her the […]