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Cannes, May 14: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan dazzled the red carpet at Festival De Cannes wearing a studded champagne coloured couture gown by Kuwait's designer Ali Younes. The 42-year-old actress, who made her debut at Cannes in 2002, is celebrating 15 years of representing India and L'Oreal at the French Riviera. The beauty queen made her opening appearance of 2016 as she arrived for the screening of

Mumbai, May 14: Seasoned actor Irrfan Khan says he never digs into his personal experiences to draw inspiration for his onscreen characters as he feels it can turn “dangerous”. Irrfan’s next movie “Madaari” features him as a father who loses his child. Being a father of two sons, did Irrfan dig into his own emotional reservoir to play the grieving father in “Madaari”? “Never! I never do that

Los Angeles, May 13: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is busy filming "Baywatch" and she says night shoots have made her "oblivion of sleep". "Oblivion... Such an interesting word.. Oblivion of sleep.. N so much more Tonight.. #Nightshoots #Baywatch," Priyanka posted on Twitter. The 33-year-old "Quantico" actress is playing the villain Victoria Leeds in "Baywatch" movie which also stars Dwayne

Mumbai, May 13: Director Nagraj Manjule's 'Sairat' has collected huge numbers within just 11 days at the box office and has become the top grossing film in the history of Marathi cinema. It has taken over this mantle from Zee Studios' 'Natsamrat Asa Nat Hone Nahi', directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The makers of this love story, featuring Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar, believe that by next week, it

Mumbai, May 11: Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt says enacting a hockey player was physically quite challenging for her and she had to push herself to look convincing on screen. Alia, 23, will be seen in a completely deglam avatar as a migrant Bihari labourer, who is a hockey player, in director Abhishek Chaubey's "Udta Punjab". "It was hectic and physically very demanding kind of a film. I had to

Mumbai, May 11: Bollywood actress Zareen Khan has bagged a role opposite actor Irrfan Khan in director Sai Kabir's next, "Divine Lovers". Earlier, there were reports that Kangana Ranaut and the "Jazbaa" actor were slated to work in the film. However, owing to date problems, the movie never took off. "She (Zareen) fit the bill perfectly as we wanted a girl with Pathani looks. The film is an

Mumbai, May 10: Oscar winning composer A R Rahman says he sees a lot of parallels between his life and that of Brazilian football legend Pele. Rahman, who has scored music for a film on the former soccer player, says his father (also a music composer) went through something similar as that of Pele. "I can see a lot of parallels in Pele. My father was helping all other people, but he died the same

Mumbai, May 10: Actor Irrfan Khan, who recently completed a decade in Hollywood, says the perception of moviegoers across the globe about India, especially its cinema, has changed with time. "The perception of international audiences has changed with time about India, especially its cinema. Right when we as an industry started growing and Indian films picked up the pace in film festivals around

Mumbai, May 10: Known to push himself while playing different characters, Nawazuddin Siddiqui says his role in “Raman Raghav 2.0” was so demanding that he was reciting the movie’s dialogues while being half-conscious in a hospital once. Raman Raghav, also known as Psycho Raman, was a psychopathic serial killer who terrorised the streets of Mumbai in the mid-1960s. Directed by Anurag Kashyap, the

Chennai, May 9: Suriya’s latest Tamil-Telugu sci-fi thriller 24 happens is his first film to join the $1 million club in North America. According to the film’s North America distributor Cinegalaxy Inc, the film achieved the mark on Sunday. Directed by Vikram Kumar, the time-travel thriller also stars Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nithya Menen. Suriya plays triple roles and his performance as the