Entertainment

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

August 27, 2012 · 1 min read

Television: This humble but omnipresent domestic appliance is called all that and a few other pejoratives. To be sure, much of what the box has to offer …

August 17, 2012 · 7 min read

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.

August 16, 2012 · 1 min read

Jennifer Aniston said yes to Justin Theroux's proposal at his 41st birthday dinner in New York City in August 2012 — they had met on the Wanderlust set.

August 15, 2012 · 1 min read

Dhoom 3: Back in Action started filming in downtown Chicago on August 8 — Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra in a YRF buddy-cop blockbuster.

August 9, 2012 · 1 min read

Kristen Stewart was reportedly barred from the Aug. 13 New York premiere of Robert Pattinson's Cosmopolis after her affair with director Rupert Sanders.

August 5, 2012 · 1 min read

Deepika Padukone was named for the biennial Smita Patil Memorial Award by the Priyadarshni Academy, to be presented on September 18, 2012.

July 31, 2012 · 1 min read

Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan carried the Olympic torch through Southwark, London, on July 26, 2012 — a day before the Games opened.

July 26, 2012 · 1 min read

Jittery after Aurora, 100 moviegoers in Edgewater, NJ were evacuated from a Dark Knight Rises showing when a man opened the emergency exit mid-film.

July 24, 2012 · 1 min read

Rajesh Khanna, Bollywood's first superstar, died on July 18, 2012. Fifteen consecutive solo hits, mass hysteria, and a stardom India had never seen before.

July 23, 2012 · 2 min read

Oprah's 2012 India episode of Oprah's Next Chapter drew fierce backlash from Indian viewers over its 'still eat with their hands' moment and stereotyped gaze.

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

On July 20, 2012, a gunman opened fire during a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and wounding dozens.

July 20, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, Rotten Tomatoes suspended user comments on The Dark Knight Rises reviews after fans flooded critics with profane, threatening remarks — a first.

July 18, 2012 · 1 min read

July 2012 tabloid reports claimed Demi Moore's three daughters were considering a restraining order over what was described as their mother's incessant contact.

July 17, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, reports said Jab We Met director Imtiaz Ali had separated from his wife Preety — ending one of Bollywood's quietest marriages.

July 11, 2012 · 1 min read

Aamir Khan's 2012 television debut Satyamev Jayate tackled female foeticide, child sexual abuse, and dowry — but did it change anything beyond ratings?

July 11, 2012 · 1 min read

Dara Singh — champion wrestler, beloved Hanuman of television's Ramayan, and nominated Rajya Sabha member — died at his Mumbai home on July 12, 2012, aged 83.

July 11, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, Saif Ali Khan was juggling Cocktail's release, a just-finished Race 2 shoot in Istanbul, and wedding plans with Kareena Kapoor for October 16.

July 10, 2012 · 1 min read

In July 2012, newly surfaced photos showed Aamir Khan strikingly lean — a physical transformation for his against-type turn as the villain in Dhoom 3.

July 10, 2012 · 1 min read

After Jane Pitt's anti-Obama letter went national in July 2012, the vicious online backlash reportedly left Brad Pitt's mother shaken and fearful.

July 9, 2012 · 1 min read