New Delhi, March 2 (Inditop.com) Three years ago, Biddu, the musician who gave India the Bollywood cult number “Aap Jaisa Koi…”, decided to swap his guitar for the pen – partly because “music was not the important thing in the world any more”.
“Record sales were dipping and the X-box was moving in – unlike 15 [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) Oscar-winning British actor-filmmaker Ben Kingsley is all praise for Indian women directors Nandita Das and Leena Yadav. But he now wants to make his own film in India instead of doing more Bollywood movies.
“I’d like to make a film of my own in India, (but) you are not going to [...]
Kandhamal (Orissa), Feb 24 (Inditop.com) Reena Rana, a tribal woman in her 20s, is waiting for her five-year-old son to be returned to her. Her husband married another woman a few years ago and Reena had to leave his house. She is voiceless, like many other tribal women in Orissa’s Kandhamal district who are victims [...]
Kolkata, Feb 23 (Inditop.com) Valmiki, legendary author of the epic Ramayana, was said to be a reformed robber, a subject on which poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote the dance drama “Valmiki Pratibha”. Now it is being staged by convicts who have found in it their own route to reform.
“Valmiki Pratibha” (Valmiki’s Genius) is being staged in [...]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (Inditop.com) Bollywood and Indian music are often discussed in Hollywood and are slowly becoming a rage, say members of popular American band Backstreet Boys.
“Bollywood is constantly mentioned in Hollywood. Indian music is very influential and is slowing becoming a rage in the US. Even Indian movies are big there like ‘Slumdog [...]
Sapera Basti (Delhi Border), Feb 22 (Inditop.com) Their flutes still hypnotise, their orange turban-dhoti-kurtas are still intact. But as the saperas, or snake charmers, belt out their tunes at parties and weddings, in the back of their minds the picture is a little incomplete. They are bereft of their snakes.
At the Sapera Basti or snake [...]
Paris, Feb 21 (DPA) History has been unkind to Giacamo Casanova, reducing his contribution to Western culture to the use of his name as a synonym for womaniser and philanderer. Casanova has particularly fallen out of favour today, in a world in which safe sex, women’s liberation and political correctness have made pariahs of men [...]
New Delhi, Feb 20 (Inditop.com) Famous American singer Richard Marx, who says he knows of Shilpa Shetty and “Slumdog Millionaire”, is in India for the second time. But he is now looking forward to visiting the country over and over again.
“I hope this is the beginning of coming to India every year or two to [...]