Review: Fukrey doesn't really work

NAGPUR: In a bid to curb entry of private vehicles in the park, the local advisory committee (LAC) of (TATR) has proposed an additional Rs1,000 charge on them. The charge will come in force from next tourism season beginning on October 1, 2013. At ...

Amit Kumar doesn't think living in a time warp is a bad thing. Or so he lets on. He doesn't believe in the words 'retro' and 'comeback', gestures at Rahul Dev Burman's photograph in the room like the late music composer is sitting next to him and is, at present, working to 'bring back the melody and lyrics in songs' by way of an online project with his younger brother Sumit Kumar. There's also his version, amongst countless speculative theories, of why his singing career never ...

As Indian cinema turns 100, we look at the film folk who work behind the scenes, without whom moviemaking would not ever have been possible. Make-up man Shashikant Mhatre has worked with some of the biggest movie stars, and is a treasure-trove of untold stories from behind the scenes. Rediff.com's Nishi Tiwari met him recently. Often, those enticing kohl-lined eyes, scarlet lips and that near-perfect hint of colour on the cheeks that makes our hearts skip a beat owe much to the hands of ...

New Delhi: Keralites have outshone others in the UPSC civil services examination 2012. Three of the top four belong to the state, including the top two. The top 50 has eight candidates from the state. Haritha V Kumar (Roll No. 075502) from ...

The final results of Civil Services Examination, 2012 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) were announced on Friday. A total number of 998 candidates have qualified and have been recommended for appointment including 457 General ...

In Aashiqui 2, what probably started as an interesting story idea -- troubled artists, dynamics in a relationship -- eventually got buried under the debris of random motifs from previous hits delivered by the Bhatt camp, writes Nishi Tiwari.I wasn’t sure how Mohit Suri’s Aashiqui 2 qualified to be called a sequel to Mahesh Bhatt’s 1990 hit romance film starring Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal, so I looked up the word.Going by the dictionary definition, a sequel means, ‘A ...

With films like Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and, more recently, Talaash to her credit, Reema Kagti is emerging as a formidable force in Bollywood. Nishi Tiwari glances at the talented writer-director's cinema-crazed world, as Talaash prepares for its television premiere on Sunday, March 30. Reema Kagti is fresh out of stories to tell. After a long and exacting struggle to take her ambitious second directorial project Talaash off the ground, having it release amidst ...

The Bengali babe makes a transition from bimbette to Mum Incredible in Aatma. Raju Nihalani reviews the horror film.The last horror film I saw was Bhoot some years ago. It so spooked me that I change channels every time I glimpse horror on the telly. Some friendly persuasion compelled me to watch Suparn Verma's Aatma last evening. I am glad that I did.Flanked by women -- one of whom watched only a part of the film, covering her eyes to the scary parts; the other digging her elbow into my ...