Mumbai, May 18 (IANS) There were rumours that actress and L’Oreal ambassador Aishwarya Rai may have held back Sonam Kapoor from walking the Cannes red carpet. But sources close to the former beauty queen say she didn’t even know that Sonam was to visit the French film festival.
“She (Aishwarya) did not even know that Sonam was going to be at Cannes because she was there for just two days (May 13-14) where her days were packed with back-to-back interactions with the international media, fashion shoots for various European fashion magazines and other business meetings besides attending all the events at the festival,” a source close to Aishwarya told IANS.
Melbourne, May 18 (ANI): George Miller is reportedly planning to shoot another Mad Max film in Sydney, almost 25 years after the last one.
London, May 18 (ANI): Jade Goody’s tragic end has made many people think about their own deaths, says a poll.
The online poll of 1,018 adults in Britain commissioned for the public think-tank Theos found nearly half of women and a third of men admitting that the publicity surrounding Goody’s death from cancer earlier this year made people think about the end of their own lives.
The findings also showed that half the population fears the process of dying.
The survey, carried out last month, also found that 20 per cent people fear both the way they will die and death itself with 30 per cent saying they fear the way they will die but not death itself.
The study also showed that 42 per cent of people aged 65 and over said their religious faith helps them to deal with the death of a loved one and prepare for their own death compared with only 23 per cent of 18-24 year olds.
“This research offers a useful insight into public attitudes regarding a highly personal and emotive subject,” the Telegraph quoted Theos director Paul Woolley as saying.
Cannes, May 18 (IANS) Indian origin Hollywood producer Ashok Amritraj is on the verge of a professional landmark – he is set to start work on his 100th film that, at a budget of $90 million, will be his biggest venture and star Hugh Jackman.
Cannes, May 18 (IANS) French director Jan Kounen, whose latest film will be screened on the closing night of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, is headed to India for his next project that may star Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan in the main leads.
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) There was a time when folk songs were part and parcel of Bollywood films, but now popular rustic tunes seem to have gone missing from movies even though composers are experimenting with different genres far more than they used to.
Washington, May 18 (DPA) Two US astronauts wrapped up a difficult spacewalk Sunday to repair a failed component on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
The main goal of spacewalkers Mike Massimino and Mike Good was the repair of Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, which was first installed during a 1997 servicing
London, May 17 (IANS) Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz was left badly bruised by her vigorous dance efforts in new film “Nine”.
Also starring Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie and Daniel Day Lewis, Cruz reveals filming the burlesque scenes was quite an ordeal for her, reports thesun.co.uk.
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