According to Madhu Jain in her book The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema, this what the 22-year-old Prithviraj Kapoor told his taxi driver after he stepped off the train from Peshawar.   He had never seen the ocean.   After arriving at the shore, he pledged to God to become an actor in […]

  Quelle douce  64th birthday present for AB père: he’s going to receive  France’s highest award, the Legion d’honneur.   Story here.

I hope AB 2.0’s only wearing this as part of a movie wardrobe. And in Paris of all places! UPDATE: It turns out it was part of his costume as Rikki Tukral in JBJ.

  Today would have been Daniel Pearl’s 43rd birthday had it not been for a very nasty deed done to him. As always, there are Daniel Pearl music days celebrated all over the world in his memory.   Among the dozens of events, composer Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations premiered this week in London. And tonight […]

Is it just me, or does anyone else find this photo of SRK eerily suggestive of a certain artiste formerly know as His Purple Highness?