Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan’s birthday is nothing short of a festival for his fans, and so it was on Friday too when the superstar turned 77 and hordes of admirers gathered outside his residence dressed in their favourite Bachchan get-up. Bachchan, who is celebrating his birthday with family, came out of ‘Jalsa’ to greet fans and […]
Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan has become synonymous with “Kaun Banega Crorepati” for nearly two decades but the megastar says he was advised to not do TV when he started out. Bachchan says his arrival on TV, as the first superstar to host a show, was more coincidental than intentional. “It was just a coincidence. The channel […]
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan showered praise on the successful rescue operation of passengers on board Mahalaxmi Express after the train was stranded due to flooding on tracks following heavy rains. All 1,050 passengers on board the Kolhapur-bound train were rescued on Saturday in a multi-agency operation nearly 17 hours after it was stranded near Vangani […]
Panaji: Filmmaker Dada Saheb Phalke, regarded as the father of Indian cinema, should be conferred the title of Bharat Ratna for his contribution to the film industry, his grandson Chandrashekhar Pusalkar has said. Phalke’s 1913 silent film “Raja Harishchandra” is considered the first full-length Indian feature film. In his career of nearly two decades, Phalke […]
Mumbai: As Mumbai came to standstill after a grid failure caused a major power outage across the megapolis on Monday, Hindi cine personalities including megastar Amitabh Bachchan, actors Ali Fazal, Nimrat Kaur and filmmaker Kunal Kohli urged people to “stay calm”. Maharashtra’s Power Minister Nitin Raut said the electricity supply in Mumbai was interrupted around 10 am during maintenance and repair work at Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company’s […]