Bollywood Tabs

Ravi Bajaj Fall Winter 2005 Collection unveiled on September 4th, 2005  at the The Regal Room in Mumbai an evening presented by Moet Hennessy, Danisco and Oberoi Hotels & Resorts. Epitomising classic elegance, the Collection showcased several lines, beginning with black, the colour that is the consummate couture constant. The three Collections of black in the Womenswear section began with a line of soigne saris. Choreographed by Marc Robinson, the classic Ravi Bajaj womens collection for the woman with savoir faire was displayed by Vidisha Pavate, Nina Manuel, Diandra Saores, Carol Gracias, Gauhar Khan, Kiran Rao, Binal Trivedi, Piya Trivedi, Sohini Jaitley and Vaishali Desai. The Menswear line was catwalked by Niketan Madhok, Shahwar Ali, Tarun Arora, Praveen Sirohi and Rajneesh Duggal. 

Film: "Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow"; Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Chitrangada, Smriti Mishra, Boman Irani, Gopi Desai; Direction: Ruchi Narain; Rating: To deal with our tomorrows we need to come to terms with our yesterdays. This could be as true of our social structure as our cinema.

Now there will be A.A.A, sequel by Ketan Desai. Everyone seems to be making sequels...

New Delhi, Feb 3 : Vikram Seths "Two Lives" reappears as number one non-fiction favourite while Kiran Desais "The Inheritance of Loss" tops the fiction list this week.The top 10 non-fiction and fiction categories are: Non-fiction1. "Two Lives"Author : Vikram SethPublisher : Penguin BooksPrice : Rs.695.00

Amitabh Bachchan has always been an original mard since the namesake movie directed by Manmohan Desai released around a couple of decades.

Expectations are high when we watch a Sunil Kumar Desais film. And till date all his films have met audiences expectations. Ramya Chaitra Kala impresses in a different way. Excellent story laced with splendid acting skills by new faces makes this film worth a watch. Its Desais endeavor to swim against the tide, and to some extent he is successful.

Pawan Kalyans wife and actress Renu Desai turns full-time designer. She has been designing for Pawans films but this time she starts off her own designer store in Hyderabad. The store, Designs, situated in Jubilee Hills has a huge collection of designer clothes - hers and created by other Bollywood top designers.

Veteran Hindi filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee has been ill for quiet some time now. He has been bed-ridden with arthritis for around five to six years now. The veteran director has been suffering from several other complications like renal failure, lungs infection, and artery failure along with pneumonia. On Saturday the 84 year old director took a turn for the worse and had to be admitted to Leelavati hospital. Vaishali Rajpara, administrative officer of Leelavati said “He is in critical condition, but his blood pressure and heart rate are normal. But we have put him on a ventilator and he is in ICU currently.”

The Chandni Bar from Madhur Bhandarkars famous film with the same title will be seen in his upcoming film Traffic Signal. Traffic Signal, which is still in the making, has been in news for the real life sets of a typical Mumbai streets being built for the film by Nitin Desai. The film revolves around the life of the people living near a particular signal in the city.

The Legendary artiste Raja Ravi Vermas 19th Century passionate paintings have mesmerized most for years now. But it was the Award winning and popular Marathi novelist, Ranjet Desai who weaved the great Indian painters life into his Award winning and classic novel, Raja Ravi Verma. Ketan Mehta is all set to paint the same magic on the silver screen with his adaptation of the book titled Colours of Passion- an Indo-French-German Venture.

Dino Morea is all set to turn producer with a film to be directed by ad filmmaker Shamim Desai. According to Dino he has been toying with the idea since a long time.

Dino Morea is all set to turn producer with a film to be directed by ad filmmaker Shamim Desai.

Bharat Shah is all set to venture into Hollywood with his first film over there titled Ode. The film will be based on a young gay man in Hollywood. However, Shah said he will not be releasing the film here in India since gay films are still considered a taboo out here. The film will be produced by G.K. Desai who has set up an office in Los Angeles. It will be directed by LA based Nilanjan Neil Lahiri.

Check out movie stills of Utthaan starring Priyanshu Chatterjee, Neha Dhupia ,Preeti Puri, Akhilendra Mishra, Birbal, Anang Desai, Anjan Shrivastav, Avtar Gill...

Rumors were rife that Ketan Desai, son of late film maker Manmohan Desai, was shifting his base to Los Angeles and was planning to make only English films. Ketan Desai spoke to us all the way from Bangkok and denied the rumors.

David Dhawan will direct the modern-day remake of Manmohan Desais movie Amar Akbar Anthony .

David Dhawan will direct the modern-day remake of Manmohan Desais movie Amar Akbar Anthony .Kee...

The girl from Chembur, Vidya Balan, has her middle-class values intact. Recently, the actor drove all the way to South Mumbai to wish her retired Sociology professor Nandini Sardesai now a member of Central Board of Film Certification on her birthday.

Sanchita Bhattacharya, the ‘Li’l Champs’ champion is already making inroads in the playback world of Bollywood. She recently recorded a peppy dance number for director Rajat Kapoor’s forthcoming film ‘Mithiya’. The music for this dance number is being given by a Chicago based music director Sagar Desai.

Come January 12th and Mani Ratnams Guru would be making a splash at theatres all over. While much is being said about Mani Ratnams experienced touch enhancing Abhishek Bachchans performance in the film, have a dekko at some of the quotable quotes by the character he plays in the film - Gurukant Desai

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty went on to win the UK Celebrity reality show Big Brother which has been adjudged as a Third rate show watched by third rate people by Lord Meghnad Desai on prime time television in India. We bring you her journey from the racism row and how she has landed herself in a lucrative soup of coveted deals-n-offers. Her pubicist in India gives a first hand information about her future plans and also tries to show reason on allegations about Shilpas mother Sunanda Shettys high handed ways after landing in UK ensuring pots of luck at the end of the rainbow. Take a peek....You wont find it anywhere else except Indiaglitz...

Skipper Rahul Dravid on Wednesday lambasted Chetan Desai, the Indian teams manager on the recent South Africa tour, for his controversial report.

BCCI said it would seek an explanation from Rahul Dravid for his outburst against the team manager Chetan Desai.

Team Indias manager on the South Africa tour had snubbed former Test player Dilip Sardesai previously.

The Indian captain said he is not worried by BCCIs stand to seek an explanation for his outburst against the team manager Chetan Desai.

Vaishali Samant, whose popular non-film folksy number Aika Dajiba is still heard in discotheques all over, is back in news.

Yesterday it was the 2nd anniversary of Nitin Desais ND Studio. Aishwarai Rai, Hrithik Roshan, Anil Kapoor, Madhur Bhandarkar, Ketan Desai, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Sunita Gowarikar were present along with chief guest Amitabh Bachchan.  

Prachi Desai has given her Kasamh Se™ co-star Sudha Shivpuri a turquoise bead bracelet to ward off evil.

If you ask what is common in Manmohan Desais Naseeb and Farah Khans Om Shanti Om then the answer would be a song that stars all big personalities of Bollywood.

If you ask what is common in Manmohan Desai™s Naseeb and Farah Khan™s Om Shanti Om then the answer would be a song that stars all big personalities of Bollywood.

Art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai has a lot to answer for - specially to filmmaker Mira Nair.

Prachi "Bani" Desai is quite upset about the generational leap in her successful Zee TV serial "Kasamh Se". She isnt the first young TV actor to be put off by the wrinkle-motivated demands on her persona. And shes certainly not likely to be the last to let out an anti-aging blast.

They came, they saw, they conquered. Lots of Indo-Pop artists, whether its Sukhbir or Sunidhi Chauhan, Hans Raj Hans or Shankar Mahadevan, Sukhvinder, Abhijeet or Hema Sardesai, there is some thing common in their live stage performance the they perform with a single dance troupe, Zenith.

Reader Parag Desai and his family met the singer in the US.

History continues to be re-created at the Nitin Desai Studio in Karjat even as Ashutosh Gowarikar waits for his Jodha Aishwarya Rai to return from her honeymoon. Producer-director Ashutosh Gowarikar, the young man who has made various kinds of film like Pehla Nasha, Baazi, Lagaan and Swades, films way far and different from each other is busy shooting the most ambitious film of his career to date, Jodhaa-Akbar a film he calls śa beautiful romantic story born even while history was in the making.ť