Mumbai: Shruti Hassan, daughter of veteran actor Kamal Haasan has been showcasing desi, ethnic wears for quite sometimes now but it seems the actress is now gearing up to portray her glam side onscreen again in her Telegu flick, Balupu which also features Ravi Teja.

This appearance will be a huge contrast to the flicks done by the actress in her past which were either a traditional or a comedy.

The 27 year old will be next seen in Prabhu Deva's Hindi film, Ramaiya Vastavaiya and the Allu-Arjun starrer,Gurram.

Shruti made her mark in Bollywood with Luck that had Shruti, all glitz...

London: Actress Angelina Jolie made her first public appearance after her double mastectomy surgery and beamed with confidence as she stood next to her partner Brad Pitt on the red carpet.

Jolie came to attend the premiere of Pitt's forthcoming movie World War Z on Sunday here.

A leading daily reported that the 37-year-old is very happy with the impact that the news of her mastectomy has...

Mumbai: First, there were the entertainment channels. Then came the news channels, followed by infotainment channels. Now, niche channels are, well, increasingly carving a niche for themselves in the over Rs.370 billion ($6.5 billion) Indian television industry.

A win-win situation for advertisers, this is all thanks to the digitisation of cable TV and changing viewership patterns.

Indian...

Mumbai: Ace choreographer Shiamak Davar feels that musicals in India can develop only if television decides to promote it.

Davar, who has choreographed dance sequences in movies like Taal, Kisna and Bunty Aur Babli, is known for contemporary style of dancing.

"The state of musicals in India won't develop unless television brings it to the children and other people," Shiamak, who has...

Mumbai: Dimpled babe, Deepika Padukone threw a party at her home over the weekend for which she managed a desirable guest list.

Besides filmmakers like Karan Johar, Ayan Mukerji, Imtiaz Ali and Anurag Kashyap, many of her actor friends also arrived at the party.

Actors like Aamir Khan, Imran Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh were also in attendance.

Moreover,...

Los Angeles: Actress Penelope Cruz is reportedly set to play the Bond girl in the next edition of James Bond franchise.

The actress, who is expecting her second child with actor husband Javier Bardem, will start shooting for the movie after she turns 40 in April, 2014, reports a website - thesun.co.uk.

Cruz will also be the oldest actress to play the character after Honor Blackman, who was...

Mumbai: Star Parivaar Awards event is going to take place this month and it will be using 3-D mapping, hologram technology and multiple screens highlighting for different background effects - which will be a visual treat for the audience that is prepared to attend the forthcoming award function.

Holograms are an illusion of a live person that will be created on the stage and 3D mapping will be...

Los Angeles: Actor Will Smith made son Jaden perform scenes with real snakes in their upcoming sci-fi movie After Earth.

The movie revolves around the time when everyone has fled the Earth and a lot of scenes were shot in dense forest areas of Costa Rica.

"There are these snakes called fer-de-lances, and a fer-de-lance is the second most poisonous snake on the earth. We had snake wranglers...

Mumbai: Daily Soap Qubool Hai is the most popular show of small screen as the story is wonderful and every character in the show has carved their image before viewers. Lead pair Asad aka Karan Singh Grover and Zoya aka Surbhi Jyoti are ruling millions of hearts because of their wonderful chemisrty. But now it seems that the show has taken inspiration from a snail as the makers are playing...

New Delhi: Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is dissuading viewers from using mobile phones inside theatres. He has shot for a short film, which hit the theatres on Friday, where he is seen making the request.

The actor, who will be seen playing gangster Shoaib in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again, features as his character from the gangster drama while giving the message in the clip, helmed by...