Balancing Bollywood and Hollywood
MUMBAI: Accomplished actor Irrfan Khan will spend the rest of this year living out of a suitcase, as he will be shooting for two films — Jurassic World and Piku. This week he leaves for the US to...
View ArticleSRK not to be part of Koffee with Karan season four
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan, who has appeared on all the previous seasons of the popular celebrity chat show Koffee with Karan, will not feature on it this season. This will be the first time...
View ArticleJude Law plays a crook in Dom Hemingway
NEW YORK: With an extra 20 pounds, impressive paunch and bad teeth, actor Jude Law, best known for his golden boy roles, transforms himself into a sleazy, ranting southeast London safecracker in the...
View ArticleFan reactions to How I Met Your Mother series finale
KARACHI: How I Met Your Mother came to an end after nine legendary seasons. After almost a decade, when we finally found out how Ted Mosby met ‘the mother’ Tracy, we also learned the real reason why...
View ArticleIn conversation with Chris Evans
LOS ANGELES: With a suit of stars and stripes, and a loyal Marvel fan base behind him, actor Chris Evans once again brandishes the shield of superhero Captain America in a new film. In real life, the...
View ArticleArth remake: Humayun Saeed and Humaima Malik to play the leads
KARACHI: Looks like Humayun Saeed’s stint with the big screen in Main Hoon Shahid Afridi was equally appreciated by the film-makers, as it was by the audience. Apart from doing good business on the...
View ArticleKapil Sharma’s birthday wish
MUMBAI: Stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma turned 32 on Wednesday, and said his wish is to host cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on his popular show Comedy Nights with Kapil, which has so far featured big...
View ArticleVasay Chaudhry - more than just a 25-minute sitcom writer
LAHORE: Before his films, particularly, Main Hoon Shahid Afridi, Vasay Chaudhry was known for being the 25-minute-sitcom guy. He created interesting stories and plot lines ranging from Jutt and Bond,...
View ArticleChina to become biggest film market in next five years
India makes the largest number of films in the world, about 1,300 every 12 months. The figure remains more or less the same year after year. China on the other hand, produces just about half that...
View ArticleDid you know? Sana Bucha and Ayesha Omar to make big screen debut
Waar’s record-breaking success at the box office didn’t give its film-makers a lot of time to celebrate as they already have their hands full with the next project. Before the awaited Waar 2 hits the...
View ArticleNadia Hussain on playing her most challenging character
KARACHI: From a perfect pout to paan stained lips, model-actor Nadia Hussain has taken up the most intersting of roles in her latest acting venture. It is rare for a model to realise that her career...
View ArticleNawazuddin Siddiqui to star with Salman Khan
MUMBAI: Critically acclaimed actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who is making inroads into commercial Hindi cinema, has been signed to play a major role in the forthcoming Salman Khan-starrer, Kick. He is...
View ArticleVeteran US actor Mickey Rooney dead at 93
LOS ANGELES: Beloved US child star and comic actor Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood’s most enduring denizens whose career began in the silent film era, died on Sunday. He was 93. Rooney’s son Michael...
View ArticleDisney’s latest hero Captain America sets box office record
NEW YORK: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the sequel to Marvel’s 2011 film about the red, white and blue superhero, smashed its way to $96.2 million in weekend ticket sales, setting a new record...
View ArticleExclusive for Express: Whenever invited, I’ll visit Pakistan, says Big B
LAHORE: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has an old affinity with Pakistan. His mother, Teji Bachchan, was born in Lyallpur [now Faisalabad], and graduated from Government College Lahore. His...
View ArticleRevolver Rani: flavours of a pulp fiction novel
MUMBAI: Actor Kangana Ranaut says her next movie Revolver Rani has the flavour of a pulp fiction novel by Hindi writer Ved Prakash Sharma. Talking about the movie, Kangana said: “This is actually a...
View ArticleGoT premiere gives HBO top draw since Sopranos
LOS ANGELES: The season four premiere of fantasy epic Game of Thrones drew an average of 6.6 million viewers, making it the largest audience for HBO since the 2007 finale of mafia drama The Sopranos,...
View ArticleAmitabh Bachchan returns as the boisterous Bhoothnath
LAHORE: Bhootnath is coming back to raise your spirits (pun intended) on April 11. And his timing is coincidentally apt. With the 2014 Indian general elections (April 7 till May 12) presently...
View ArticleDid you know? : How I Met Your Mother is releasing an alternate ending on DVD
The CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, came to an end after nine seasons on March 31, as Ted ended up with Robin and the Mother character Tracy was revealed to have died by the time Ted began telling...
View ArticleKJo Vs SRK: fallout or falsities?
Bollywood’s Badshah Shahrukh Khan shocked fans by not appearing on the finale of Koffee with Karan season 4, and set rumour mills ablaze with news of a fallout between him and host Karan Johar. The...
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