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Haute seat
As the new “Billa” gets ready to roll out, its hero Ajith shares his experience with MALATHI RANGARAJAN
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AIR SUPPLY
Alaipayudhe
What happens to girls who get married and go abroad in the hope of leading a better life? What sort of problems do they encounter on a strange land? Where will they turn to for help when their very husband turn villain? This is the crux of the ...


Series
Australia’s most popular racing driver invites Michael to a week-end of racing with him and his team. The team searches for more speed while Michael searches for the answer why so many want to risk their lives in its pursuit.GAP ...

Movies
The second series gets off to an explosive start, picking up at the exact moment the first one finished. Top agent girlfriend Ellie and her young daughter are trapped inside a securely sealed house in which a bomb is about to explode, ...


Film Review

Pachan scores once again
It depends on what you look for — the song-dance-fight routine or the realism that offers poignant moments in a natural milieu. If it’s the latter, then Indian Cinema Factory’s Onbadhu Roobai Nottu (U) could ...

Missing the Goal
Goal has no clue how to dribble sensibilities. It wants to be subtle and restrained as Chak De India, but it also wants to be overtly patriotic as Lagaan and it also wants to lighten up the mood like ...

Enter, the female vigilante
What happens when you try to explore the angry-young-man-angst towards a near-dysfunctional, inefficient system through a woman protagonist?You get “The Brave One”.Conventionally, in the movies, women are only known to ...


Interview

Oram Po… here she comes
She is a hit with film buffs in Sri Lanka as well as Tamil Nadu. Meet Pooja

Farah Hoon Na!
Om Shanti Om has scorched box office records, but its director Farah Khan feels she has a long way to go. T. KRITHIKA REDDY catches up with Bollywood’s new show-woman


Cinema

Aaja… let’s dance
Madhuri Dixit insists it is by chance and not design that her big comeback jive, Aaja Nachle, is a dance film


LOVE/HATE
What I like... Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
I liked Om Shanti Om. It was very entertaining. I like Shah Rukh Khan. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is my all-time favourite. I like action movies.(Sensing she does not have one movie she wants to single out, ...

What I hate... None
(Her Mom offers to answer: “She does not watch any bad movies. She watches only good movies.”)I watch every movie, Mom.I’ve seen so many movies. You name it and I’ve seen it. I’m a complete movie ...

Cinema Quiz
2. Which famous musician was the hero in Ellis Dungan’s 1939 film Kalamegham? 3. The autobiography of which actor, known for playing Hercule Poirot, is “Dear ...

Mumbai express
At the music launch of the Bhojpuri film Gangotri, Big B and his son arrived at the venue almost an hour late with Aishwarya in tow. But Bachchan senior made up with his charm. In his tongue-in-cheek manner, he said he wanted ...


BLAST FROM THE PAST
Naam Iruvar 1947
T. R. Mahalingam, B. R. Panthulu, V. K. Ramasami, K. Sarangapani, T. R. Ramachandran, T. K. Ramachandran, T. A. Jayalakshmi and ‘Baby’ Kamala

Grill mill
How creatively stimulating was it to score the music for a ‘Captain’ Vijaykanth movie ‘Perarasu’? It was an exhilarating experience. (With a straight face) I am looking forward to doing ...

How it happened
After a few flops in Telugu and Tamil, I was confused whether I should pursue a career in films. My parents were keen that I get back to studies. I was in my teens. It was then that I was offered a role in the Telugu film Seetharamayyagari ...

Keira’s fear
Brit beauty Keira Knightley says she never enjoys getting ready for posh parties and red carpet bashes. The 22-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star often gets scared she might trip or make a fool of herself. “It’s ...

Naughty Caine
Sir Michael Caine says he never uses his knighthood title when he is in the U.S. Reason? It makes him sound like a pimp. The 74-year-old actor says, “I am often called ‘Sir’ but ‘Michael’ is fine. I am proud to have ...

Vince’s mad ideas
Comic actor Vince Vaughn says he is so disorganised that he always does his Christmas shopping at the last minute. His secret of a happy, stress-free shopping is, “going to the shops very early on Christmas Eve. Before anyone else gets ...

Playing her age
Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker will never bare-all on screen because she thinks she is too old for it. The 42-year-old actor, who is reviving her role as Carrie Bradshaw for the SATC movie says she has never done a nude scene, and ...

Brit buys back boys?
Britney Spears is planning to win back her kids with some serious cash this Christmas. The Toxic star is hoping to show her credentials as a caring parent by lavishing her two little boys with gifts and good times over the holiday season. ...


Music


RADIO ACTIVE
AIDS awareness
BIG 92.7 FM, in association with Heroes Project India, has initiated an awareness campaign to dispel myths and misconceptions about HIV and AIDS. The campaign, being carried out on-air and on-ground, aims at spreading the right information ...



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