Rahman is usually very diplomatic when it comes to sharing his opinion and his cinematic sensibilities. In the recently released book The Spirit of Music by Nasreen Munni Kabir, he says it all, no-holds-barred. We learn that the kind of films that AR wishes to work in are experimental, the cinema that directors like Mani Ratnam make. In the book Rahman tells Kabir that “Mani Ratnam won’t think twice before experimenting. He always tries something new. That’s a great quality. One may fail in...

Anushka Shetty is too busy with her career to get angry at rumour hawks. She was at a press conference in Bengaluru recently, where a scribe tossed up that million dollar question: “Are you going to marry Naga Chaitanya?” An unflinching Anushka smiled and dipped her answer in sarcasm: “Leave along being engaged to Naga Chaitanya, you (the journalists) have married me off to even his father Nagarjuna with whom I have acted in many films. I have been married off to many Telugu heroes already....

Lauren Conrad and her boyfriend of three years have called it quits. What do YOU think went wrong? Almost as quietly as it began, Lauren Conrad and actor Kyle Howard have ended their three year relationship, reports E! News. “Sources close to the now ex-duo confirm that the breakup was a mutual decision and that no third parties were involved,” they report. One of the biggest reasons Lauren, 24, quit starring on MTV’s hit reality show, The Hills, was so she could maintain her personal life —...

It is indeed refreshing to see that Leela Samson, the recently appointed Chair of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), popularly known as the Censor Board, is looking at new methods of film classification. Now, there was a furore in the film world when Samson was appointed, as she is best known for being a dancer and therefore not a film person. What many people don’t know is that several prominent film people were offered the job, but they all declined the poisoned chalice/hot potato,...

Hema Malini is one of the few female actors whose ‘distinctive’ accent has made mimicry artistes’ jobs much easier. How many times have you heard people imitating her iconic line from Sholay - ‘Chal Dhanno! Aaj tumhari Basanti ki izzat ka sawaal hai!‘? Says Hema, “In a way it’s good to know that the character (Basanti) is still popular after so many years.” But this kind of flattery is not always a good thing. Especially when another one of her lines, or should we say ‘word’, becomes the cause...

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Up until about a year ago, the most direct line Kenny Wormald could draw from himself to Kevin Bacon in that famous game of six degrees involved a lifetime of staring at the television screen. Now, the 26-year old Boston native IS Kevin Bacon, for all intents and purposes. As the star of the new big screen remake of the iconic dance film "Footloose," Wormald is charged with breathing new life into Ren McCormack, a big city bad boy dance savior of Beaumont, Texas, the portrayal of whom launched...

Née Annie Hawkins-Turner, the 52-year-old for Atlanta, Georgia, has the world's largest natural breasts (as reportedly confirmed by Guinness) -- 102ZZZs. That's 3.5 feet of cleavage and each side weighs in at 56 pounds. Hawkins-Turner made headlines on Thursday after appearing on UK's "This Morning" to talk about her assets with hosts Phillip Schofield and Jenni Falconer. On getting her first bra when she was 10: "I don't know what size I was. I was just big. The only thing I remember about those...

Her annual school fees cost a yearly salary, but Caggie Dunlop bid farewell to her posh upbringing last night. The Made In Chelsea star sat drunkenly on the pavement outside the Mayfair Hotel, sitting on the concrete surrounded by cigarette butts. She seemed oblivious to the fact she was perched on the floor instead of a throne, as she cosied up to love interest Spencer Matthews.  Spencer, who also appears on the E4 reality show, looked delighted with the attention and reciprocated by...

A mother-of-three who started using a sunbed at 16 has died from skin cancer - after her body became riddled with 19 tumours. Donna Ballantyne, 39, went under the UV rays twice a week in unmanned coin-operated tanning booths. But nine years ago she developed a melanoma and spent nearly a decade fighting the disease as it spread around her body. She campaigned tirelessly to raise awareness of the danger of sunbeds after her diagnosis and raised more than £1million for cancer charities. Speaking...