Goodbye, Bollywood's 'Zohra Jabeen' Achala Sachdev

Achala Sachdev was 91 years old: Yesteryear actress Achala Sachdev, who featured in the popular song 'Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen' from the film 'Waqt',

has died following a prolonged illness. She was 88.

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Piaggio's iconic Vespa returns to India

A fashion statement: The much awaited launch of the Piaggio Vespa has taken place with a price of Rs 66,661, ex-Maharashtra.

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Casual Summer Dresses

Summer’s the time everyone flaunts their favourite breezy dresses. And B-town beauties aren’t to be left behind. We spotted some of them looking gorgeous in summery outfits. Who do you think looks the hottest?

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India's best dancer is Rajasmita

India's best dancer: The search for India's best dancer finally came to an end on April 21.

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Review: 'Vicky Donor'

 

John Abraham turns producer with a forward-thinking, avant-garde movie that holds worldwide appeal. In fact, a lot of actors' foremost production centres around themselves, capitalizing on their star power, but John's initiative of opting for an offbeat theme and choosing a newcomer to enact the principal lead needs to be lauded. Above and beyond, the endeavor to transport the issue of artificial insemination out of the closet and presenting it in a light tone in the backdrop is an added move that merits acknowledgement.

A youth-centric movie with a humorous theme, 'Vicky Donor' is fundamentally a romantic comedy between a Punjabi boy and a Bengali girl set against the backdrop of sperm donation. Nonetheless, director Shoojit Sircar takes a light-hearted, optimistic look at the issue, coming up with a film that entertains and enlightens the viewer vis-à-vis infertility and artificial insemination. 'Vicky Donor' may be a diminutive film in terms of budget and costing, but when you see the issue it tackles, it does not give the impression of being an undersized film.

Director Shoojit Sircar takes giant strides as a raconteur, balancing the two halves adroitly. While the first hour tilts towards light moments, the drama, or the twist in the tale, comes up in the post-interval portions. We'd like to make a special mention of the screenplay [Juhi Chaturvedi]. Not once does it deviate to the tried and tested track. It's engaging content from commencement to conclusion and along with a set of impeccably cast actors, it's one joy ride you can't afford to miss. Having said that we'd like to add that the movie loses some steam [for a few minutes] in the post-interval portions, but, thankfully, 'Vicky Donor' doesn't get unbalanced. The movie accomplishes what it sets out to do -- it enlightens and entertains and that, in my opinion, is no puny achievement.

The music of 'Vicky Donor' is better than expected. 'Rum Whiskey' [appears twice in the movie] is addictive, while 'Pani Da Rang' [both male and female rendition] adds a lot of weight to the soundtrack. The dialogue, penned by Juhi Chaturvedi, are in sync with the mood of the film. The North Indian dialogue-baazi, especially the conversation between Ayushmann's mother and grand-mom, stands out in the film.

It's a performance-oriented role and Shoojit Sircar has, very aptly, chosen a deserving candidate for the assignment. Ayushmann is a complete natural, has all the trappings of a fine actor and delivers a super confident performance. We'd like to single out two sequences that make you appreciate that he's an artiste of caliber and aptitude. One, when he reaches Kolkata to fetch his wife and two, the finale, when he visits an orphanage. Annu Kapoor is an exceptional actor, no two opinions on that, and he's outstanding here. The gifted actor adjoins enormous humor to his character and his mode of selecting a sperm donor on the basis of personality, race, academic ability and other factors evoke immense mirth. Popular television actress Yami Gautam makes an imposing debut. She adds enormous value to the movie by her acting, screen presence and striking looks. She's truly admirable towards the latter part of the film.

Dolly Ahluwalia is exceptional and so is Kamlesh Gill, who enacts the part of Ayushmann's progressive grand-mom. In fact, the grand-mom is quite a scene-stealer! Jayanta Das, enacting the role of Yami's father, is proficient. John Abraham manages to pack a punch in a song.

On the whole, 'Vicky Donor' is a small film with a big heart. The makers have had the courage to bring a diverse issue out in the open, narrating a daringly different story without getting preachy. Witty, funny and also emotional, 'Vicky Donor' is forward-thinking, progressive commercial cinema which vastly enlightens and hugely entertains!

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The world's first Intel-powered smartphone

Intel inside: Intel, in association with Lava, has announced the launch of the XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside.

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Alternate Perspectives

"Empire State" by American photographer and filmmaker Randy Scott Slavin, who makes us view the world in another light. In his Alternate Perspective series he can take up to a hundred pictures of a scene to build up a 360 degree image before stitching them together to make a stereographic projection.

Alternate Perspectives

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The tallest tower in the world

Journalists were given a sneak peek of the magnificent views from the world's tallest tower, a month before it opens to the public. The 634-metre (2,080-foot) Tokyo Sky Tree is the world's second-tallest structure behind the 828-metre (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa in Dubai

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Watch This Friday Vicky Donor

In an environment where the job pressures are high and couples lead an erratic and unhealthy lifestyle, Dr Baldev Chaddha, a well qualified fertility expert, runs a fertility clinic and a Sperm Bank in Dariyaganj, New Delhi, that guarantees a high quality and specialized sperm for the purpose. Unfortunately he has more failed cases to his credit than successes.

A healthy, high performing donor is the need of the hour. Vicky Arora, a young, good-looking, Punjabi guy from Lajpat Nagar, is the only son and of no financial support to Dolly, a widow, who runs a small beauty parlor from home.

As luck would have it, a small brawl in the colony brings Dr Chaddha and Vicky, face to face, where Chaddha, concludes that Vicky could be that donor he has been looking for. From here on, Chaddha's days and nights are spent in convincing Vicky to become a donor till he finally gives in. Vicky finds his love interest in Ashima Roy, a pretty Bengali girl, who works in a Bank. But soon there hunky dory world comes crashing down because of Vicky's past as a donor.

Directed by Shoojit Sircar, the movie stars Annu Kapoor, Ayushman Khurana, Yami Gautam and John Abraham.


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What are Bollywood stars selling this summer?

Another sveltering summer is upon us and products like prickly heat talcs, air conditioners and soft drinks have claimed prime spot in the television commercial space.
While Shah Rukh Khan is espousing the merits of a certain talcum powder, his Ra.One costar Kareena Kapoor has been recently signed on by Coke to endorse their soft drink Limca for a cool Rs. 2.5 crore for a year.
Quite a few stars, in fact, are endorsing various soft drinks.
In these hot summer days, here's a look at the stars promoting cool soft drinks.

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Style - Hindi Comedy Movie

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Lake Sorvagsvatn

Sørvágsvatn (Leitisvatn) is the biggest lake of the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the island of Vágar between the municipalities of Sørvágs Kommuna and Miðvágs kommuna. The name Sørvágsvatn means 'The lake of Sørvágur'. In size it is 3.4 km2, more than three times the size of the second biggest lake Fjallavatn, which also lies on the island of Vágar. Among the locals there can sometimes be a fierce debate regarding the name of the lake. The inhabitants of Sørvágur take pride in the fact that the lake is named after their village. On the other hand, the inhabitants of Miðvágur want to name the lake Leitisvatn, since, on their side of the lake, the land alongside the body of water is called Leiti.Lake Sorvagsvatn

Pehchan Kaun - Navin Prabhakar

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Be happy dear bro n sis

Be happy dear bro n sis
Someone asked  me  how  long  I  planned  on  keeping  you  in  my  life.  I smiled and said...  how  do I choosebetween forever and always..

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Portraits On Floppy Disk

British artist Nick Gentry has recently decided to please us interesting and original works.
Portraits that he painted, made entirely from old floppy disks.
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10 Best Business apps for the Apple iPad

1. iWork



10 Best Business apps for the Apple iPad
With the revolution of tablets penetrating into personal computer’s market,
more and more users are ditching their personal computers to buy the tablets because of their portability, small size and almost as effective as to what a PC can do. The Apple iPad rules the tablet market at present and there are numerous productive apps which you can use for your business continuity. The iPad is rapidly getting acclaimed as the ultimate portable business device.

We present you 10 best apps for the Apple iPad which you can use for your business.

iWork is Apple’s productivity application for the iPad which includes Pages (for Word processing), Keynote (for presentation slides) and Numbers (for spreadsheets). The iWork for iPad is made compatible for multi touch input. According to Apple, you can open Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint files in the iWork app. You can also export your documents created with iWork to PDF format files.

Shah Rukh performs in Kolkata and more

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Happy Birthday Lara Dutta

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Beautiful Places of India

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Now with Extra Headroom

Now with Extra Headroom

Bollywood Celebs walks the Ramp for NGO- Beti

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Department item girl Nathalia Kaur's racy shoot

 
'Department' item girl Nathalia Kaur's racy shoot

Look out for her item song: Indian-Brazilian model Nathalia Kaur promotes Ram Gopal Varma's upcoming film 'Department' with a sizzling photoshoot. Department item girl Nathalia Kaur's racy shoot

Kareena Kapoor keen on doing Tollywood Remake

Tollywood’s blockbuster hit Arundhati will soon be remade in Hindi version. The curiosity surrounding the Hindi project is rising to peaks these days. Gemini Film Circuit has acquired the distribution rights of the Hindi version of the film. There has been buzz earlier that Anurag Basu might wield the megaphone for the film.

The latest buzz in the B-Town is that Kareena Kapoor is keen on playing the lead role in the film. Kareena is said to have watched the original version which featured Anushka and was pretty impressed. Though there isn’t any official confirmation on casting her, the chances of Kareena being zeroed in to the project are high, says the sources.

Kareena is currently has 4 films in her kitty. She is presently doing Bodyguard opposite Salman Khan, Ra.One opposite Sharukh and Agen Vinod alongside Saif Ali Khan. Kareena has also bagged Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine film.

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Karisma's stunning walk of fashion

Karisma's stunning walk of fashion: Karisma Kapoor walked the Ramp at the ABIL Pune Fashion Week and Aamir Khan promotes his television show Satyamev Jayate.

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Nature (Mountain & Clouds)

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Dancing Trees

If you look closely you will see that almost every single tree there is curvy and pretty unusual shaped. The first thing I was thinking about when I saw those unusual trees was bonsai. Yes, they look like they could got their weird shape via bonsai techniques but local residents do not know anything about such thing. This phenomenal forest was also the subject of the number of scientific studies in order to reveal the reasons of such behavior of trees in this particular area.

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