Entertainment

Hrithik Roshan turned 39 on January 10, 2013, and his wife's 'surprise' yacht party was no surprise at all: the newspapers told him first.

A Social Security Administration employee in Baltimore was formally reprimanded in writing for excessive workplace flatulence, and the internet noticed.

Retro Reel volume 14 revisits West Side Story, the 1961 musical that turned Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into a New York street tragedy.

Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sitar legend who carried Indian classical music to the world, died in San Diego on December 11, 2012. He was 92.

Vidya Balan rushed to finish Ghanchakkar before her December 2012 wedding to Disney UTV chief Siddharth Roy Kapur, the industry wedding of the year.

Bolly Volley's year-ender: 2012 was the year Bollywood's middle cinema broke through, from Barfi! and Kahaani to Gangs of Wasseypur.

Skyfall took 94.3 million pounds in 40 days to pass Avatar as the UK's highest-grossing film ever, a fitting crown for Bond's 50th anniversary year.

Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor married in a quiet registered ceremony at his Bandra home on October 16, 2012, ending five years of speculation.

Varsha Bhosle, 56, singer and columnist and daughter of Asha Bhosle, was found dead at her Pedder Road home on October 8, 2012, police said.

Ten years after Salman Khan's Land Cruiser ran over pavement dwellers in Bandra, killing one and injuring others, the victims were still waiting for

Promoting his memoir Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger gave his first TV interview about the affair that ended his marriage: 'It was terrible.'

On his 80th birthday, Yash Chopra announced that the Shah Rukh Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer Jab Tak Hai Jaan would be his last film as director.

Excel Entertainment, the production house of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, became the first Indian film company studied in a Harvard Business School case.

The 3rd annual Chicago South Asian Film Festival opens with the North American premiere of Heroine and a world-premiere lineup, Sept 20–23, 2012.

Volume 13 of Sreepathy's Retro Reel looks back at three Hindi classics — Namak Haram, Reshma Aur Shera, and the film that launched Amitabh Bachchan.

At a London screening in 2012, Brad Pitt broke with his mother Jane Pitt's pro-Romney letter: 'I am an Obama supporter' — and gay marriage 'is inevitable.'

Alleged MNS workers vandalized a Maharashtra theatre screening a Bhojpuri film — part of a 2012 campaign against north Indians in the state.

Dhoom 3 took over downtown Chicago in 2012 — Aamir Khan's villain, Abhishek and Uday Chopra's cops, and a river shoot that stopped traffic.

Mira Nair's adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist opened the 2012 Venice Film Festival, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson.

For Dhoom 3's long Chicago shoot, Aamir Khan and Abhishek Bachchan moved into rented apartments for three months — making the Windy City a second home.