A chock-a-block shooting schedule, hectic itinerary and non-stop promotional events — all this lead to a lot of stress for movie stars, including Priyanka Chopra. She says her stress buster is “sitting with parents and putting my head in my mom’s lap”. “When I get really stressed out, I go and sit with my parents and I put my head in my mom’s lap and everything feels okay and nothing really matters. So for me, that’s my biggest stress buster,” the …

Finally the date has been set for the release of director Bala’s Avan Ivan. The film is going to hit the screens on June 10, 2011. Avan Ivan has been much hyped for its making and all those who have watched the special screening are raving about it to no end. Avan Ivan is a comedy film starring Vishal, Arya, Madhu Shalini, and Janani in the lead roles. Vishal will be seen as a squint eyed boy and Arya plays his brother. Both of them have gone for …

Actress Priyanka Chopra praises "Ishqiya" and congratulates filmmaker-composer-singer Vishal Bhardwaj and her wife Rekha for winning national awards for the movie. The rural drama was the directorial debut of Abhishek Chaubey and Bhardwaj produced it and even composed music for the movie that saw Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan in the lead roles. At the 58th National Awards, announced in the capital Thursday, Rekha was named the …

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was named the worst actor and Sonam Kapoor the worst actress at the third annual Golden Kela Awards Saturday night, a spin-off of Hollywood's Razzies awards, which recognises the worst in cinema. While Shah Rukh won the award for Karan Johar's "My Name is Khan", where he played a patient of Asperger's syndrome, Sonam got the award for her home production "Aisha". Ironically, Shah Rukh has also won the Filmfare award …

Music maestro A.R. Rahman has bagged two nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards for his work in Danny Boyle's "127 Hours" and the film frat is hoping that the composer triumphs again at the gala event Sunday. His colleagues and friends wish him luck and are hoping he brings the golden statuette home again, having bagged two Oscars for the best original score and the song in 2009 for rags-to-riches drama "Slumdog Millionaire". This time, Rahman has …

Bollywood actres Priyanka Chopra has shot down reports that she has been roped in to star opposite Aamir Khan in Yash Raj's "Dhoom 3". "I have not been approached for 'Dhoom 3'," Priyanka told reports here Tuesday. The actress was present along with director Vishal Bhardwaj at PVR cinemas in Select Citywalk Mall for promoting her upcoming film "7 Khoon Maaf". Asked if she would like to be a part of the film, Priyanka added, "I don't answer hypothetical …

The 55th edition of Bollywood’s most popular Filmfare Awards announced its nominees. Like the previous year, this year also the award will be presented by Idea Cellular. The nominees are: BEST FILM 1. 3 Idiots 2. Dev D 3. Kaminey 4. Love Aaj Kal 5. Paa 6. Wake Up Sid BEST DIRECTOR 1. Anurag Kashyap(Dev D ) 2. Ayan Mukherjee(Wake up Sid) 3. Imtiaz Ali(Love Aaj Kal) 4. R Balki(Paa) 5. Rajkumar Hirani(3 Idiots) 6. Vishal Bhardwaj(Kaminey) …

'Lage Raho Munnabhai' has won the four awards at the 54th national film awards announced today. The blockbuster movie got the award for the best popular film, best screenplay written by Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra and the best lyrics which were created by Swanand Kirkire for the song "Bande Mein Tha Dum". Dilip Prabhavalkar bagged the best supporting actor award for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in 'Lage Raho Munnabhai' …

First weekend performance of latest release After two good Fridays which gave two successful films in quick succession, RACE and ONE TWO THREE, it was a dull start to the weekend in spite of three films releasing on the same day - SHAURYA, KHUDA KE LIYE and BHRAM. As was pretty much on the cards even before the release of the three films, SHAURYA and KHUDA KE LIYE had their hopes hinging on word of mouth while the promotion of BHRAM was so poor …

Masumeh is looking forward to the release of Sanjay Gupta's 'Dus Kahaniyan', a compilation of 10 different stories about relationship & emotion with a definitive message. Masumeh plays the lead in one of the track 'High on the Highway' written by Vishal Bhardwaj. Incidentally Masumeh has been associated with Vishal Bharadwaj since 'Maqbool', in which she received rave reviews for her performance. Says Masumeh, "It's a pleasure to be associated …