Entertainment

John Abraham confirmed his nine-year relationship with Bipasha Basu had ended — quietly, directly, and without the usual Bollywood drama.

June 18, 2011 · 1 min read

Tabloids claim Brad Pitt's parents prefer Aniston to Jolie. The real story is why the public can't let the love triangle end.

June 8, 2011 · 1 min read

Reese Witherspoon will take the MTV Generation Award at Sunday's Movie Awards — joining Bullock, Stiller, Sandler, and Tom Cruise.

June 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Hrithik Roshan's TV debut as a dance-show judge came with advice from Cat Deeley: be honest, be constructive, and remember personality wins votes.

May 27, 2011 · 1 min read

A TOI story on Akshay Kumar's mango-loving humility has all the hallmarks of planted PR — until the humble farmer friend owns hundreds of acres.

May 21, 2011 · 1 min read

Maria Shriver reportedly suspected the truth long before the LA Times broke it: how the Schwarzenegger marriage unraveled in May 2011.

May 20, 2011 · 1 min read

Arup Raha's monthly Bollywood column: the new wave of debutant directors, plus Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Delhi Belly, Ready — and a music quiz.

May 17, 2011 · 4 min read

Shah Rukh Khan threw himself into Ra.One's dance numbers in 2011 — rehearsing for months and filming Chammak Challo with Akon on playback.

May 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Tanuja and Kajol, Dimple and Twinkle, Hema and Esha — five Bollywood mother-daughter pairs where the resemblance, on screen and off, is uncanny.

May 9, 2011 · 1 min read

After leaving California's governorship, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the screen with The Last Stand and Escape Plan — a comeback built on range, age,

May 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Ram Gopal Varma called Raveena Tandon stunning — reviving a conversation about the 1990s star who refused Bollywood's script for fading leading ladies.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

Ellen DeGeneres argued thinness isn't the point of health — and research on 'fat but fit' largely agreed. Revisiting her 2011 body-image stand.

April 30, 2011 · 1 min read

The buzz in April 2011: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif reuniting on screen for Kabir Khan's Ek Tha Tiger — their first film together since their relationship

April 25, 2011 · 1 min read

Justin Bieber’s 2011 Israel visit — thousands of fans, crowd-control headaches, and a brief meeting with President Shimon Peres.

April 13, 2011 · 1 min read

Canadian comedian Russell Peters took a swipe at Bollywood's acting and recycled stories in a 2011 interview — and explained why his cross-cultural honesty

April 12, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, at the peak of his post-Slumdog global fame, A.R. Rahman launched his authorized biography. On the private genius and the book that tried to

April 7, 2011 · 1 min read

After splitting from John Abraham, Bipasha Basu spoke openly about enjoying being single — and Indian celebrity culture didn’t quite know what to do with her.

April 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Sesame Street’s Urdu adaptation, Sim Sim Hamara, brought Elmo to Pakistani television — a case for making children’s TV genuinely local, not dubbed.

April 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Reese Witherspoon married Jim Toth in March 2011 wearing pale pink — a custom Monique Lhuillier gown, not white. The bridal rule she quietly broke.

April 4, 2011 · 1 min read

Review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), the second film from Jeff Kinney's series, on Greg Heffley's fraught bond with his older brother.

March 25, 2011 · 1 min read