Bollywood, Hollywood, books and the arts: films, stars, music and the stories Indian audiences in India and abroad are talking about.
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A six-year-old suspended for singing an LMFAO song he didn't understand: what the 2012 case says about zero-tolerance discipline and young children.
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Vidya Balan's 2012 relationship with studio executive Siddharth Roy Kapur quietly challenged a stubborn assumption: that the man must be the more prominent
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie confirmed their engagement on April 13, 2012 — and Jolie's ring, designed with jeweler Robert Procop, stole the show.
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Sharon Mathai, a Queens-born Malayali on The Voice season 2, charmed three coaches with Adele's 'Rumor Has It' — and chose Team Adam Levine.
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Reports in April 2012 said Salman Khan planned to gift Kareena Kapoor a BMW for her Dabangg 2 item song — she was doing two cameos as favors that year.
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Released June 2012, Rowdy Rathore crossed the 100-crore mark in its opening week — Akshay Kumar's double role in the Dabangg mold.
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Reports of trouble in Karisma Kapoor's marriage surfaced in 2012. The divorce from Sanjay Kapur was finalized in 2016, with custody of their two children to
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Promoting Titanic 3D, Kate Winslet told ITV's Daybreak that Leo DiCaprio is fatter now — and she's thinner. It was a joke between friends, she said.
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A soft-drink campaign promised 'Katrina ka number label ke andar.' The label carried a Gurgaon techie's real phone number — and the calls haven't stopped.
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The Two and a Half Men star was cast as Steve Jobs in the indie biopic Jobs, announced in April 2012 — a year before it premiered at Sundance.
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Gurus and godmen. Cults and communes. Pollsters and politicians. Ideologues and institutions. Marketers and media men. Consultants and corporations. There…
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Someone recently asked me which movie I am looking forward to, now that the earlier favorites for the year, Paan Singh Tomar and Kahaani, have already…
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March 16, 2012: Sachin Tendulkar's 114 against Bangladesh in Mirpur made him the first — and still only — cricketer to 100 international hundreds.
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Speculation about Ashley Judd's appearance in 2012 turned into a landmark media-criticism moment. What actually happened — and what she said back.
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What celebrity fitness really involves: hours in the gym, personal trainers, yoga, and strict diets. The honest truth behind the perfect bodies on screen.
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Irrfan Khan, Sonali Bendre, and Rishi Kapoor spoke openly about cancer — and changed how India talks about illness. The cultural shift their honesty created.
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A Michigan man sued AMC over its no-outside-food policy and $8 popcorn. The lawsuit failed — but it exposed the strange economics of the movie business.
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Off the red carpet, the uniform is jeans, a tee, and a kid on the hip. What celebrity street style in 2012 — Heidi Klum to Natalie Portman — actually looked
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Aamir Khan stepped away from everything to make Satyamev Jayate, TV about India's hardest social issues. Why the 'offline' part was the story.
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The much-awaited week of that treasured statue is here; yet, that’s exactly how I feel whenever I recall that Alfred Hitchcock never received even one for…
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