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Miss India 2nd runner up Zoya was a child artist

The Fem­ina Miss India beauty pageant has always been a step­ping stone for mod­els to turn actresses in B-town. Many of our Bol­ly­wood actresses such as Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Dia Mirza, Aish­warya Rai Bachchan, Sush­mita Sen etc first came into promi­nence after win­ning or end­ing up as a runner-up in Miss India beauty pageant.

Miss India 2nd runner up Zoya was a child artist

The Fem­ina Miss India beauty pageant has always been a step­ping stone for mod­els to turn actresses in B-town. Many of our Bol­ly­wood actresses such as Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Dia Mirza, Aish­warya Rai Bachchan, Sush­mita Sen etc first came into promi­nence after win­ning or end­ing up as a runner-up in Miss India beauty pageant.

Games2win Raises Rs 10 Crore From Clearstone Venture Partners

Online gam­ing plat­form Games2win.com, has raised $2 mil­lion (Rs 10 crore) series C invest­ment from Clear­stone Ven­ture Part­ners USA. The com­pany plans to use the funds raised to acquire games and build its Inter­na­tional team. Games2win Co-Founder and CEO Alok Kejri­wal was unavail­able for com­ment at the time of writ­ing this arti­cle. Prior to this, Nirvana Ven­ture Advi­sors had acquired 10% in

Big B conferred with NTR National Film Award

Leg­endary actor Amitabh Bachchan has had almost every respectable title and adage attached to his name over the years. Now the megas­tar has yet another feather added to his hat post being con­ferred with the Andhra state award. It is learnt that Bachchan has been cho­sen for NTR National Film Award for the year-2011, which

Anu Malik and daughter Anmol Malik on a roll

For Anu Malik and fam­ily, it is more ‘khushi’ than ‘gham’. Even though the com­poser won’t be a part of the jury for the sev­enth sea­son of music real­ity show ‘Indian Idol’, his music for Shootout At Wadala is expected to bring him back in the reck­on­ing as far as Bol­ly­wood is con­cerned. What has

Shatrughan Sinha joins justice Katju for Sanjay Dutt leniency plea

The irre­press­ible Sha­trughan Sinha has stood by San­jay Dutt for the last 20 years of the latter’s strug­gle for free­dom. And now even though Sinha’s parent-party — BJP — stands by the hon­ourable Supreme Court’s deci­sion to send Dutt back to jail, Sinha is all for leniency towards Dutt. Speak­ing exclu­sively, Sinha said, “What­ever I

Sanjay Dutt will complete Zanjeer Policegiri and PK

In spite of the trauma that San­jay Dutt is get­ting ready to face with his re-incarceration, the actor on Thurs­day evening at his res­i­dence in Pali Hill assured the mak­ers of his three under-production films Zan­jeer, Police­giri and P.K. that he would com­plete their films in the next three weeks before he is expected to

Updated: Hungama Launches Music & Video Streaming App; Our Take

Dig­i­tal enter­tain­ment busi­ness Hungama.com has launched a music and video stream­ing mobile app, which allows users to stream songs or videos from var­i­ous gen­res like Bol­ly­wood, Tamil, Tel­ugu, Malay­alam, Pun­jabi, Devo­tional, Regional music and Inter­na­tional music among oth­ers. At launch, the app claims to offer a music library of more than 2 mil­lion songs and is avail­able for

Industry Moves: Vserv, Saregama India, PlatformPlay, Mindshare

Mad­husud­han Ran­ganathan, Saregama India VP – Dig­tal, has put in his papers on March 18, 2013, reports Radioand­mu­sic. He will be serv­ing his three months notice period at the com­pany and is in the process of the oblig­a­tory han­dover to Adarsh Gupta, Saregama India busi­ness head-music, who will hold his respon­si­bil­i­ties until the com­pany appoints a replace­ment. It’s

AssetTrackr Secures $500,000 Angel Funding from A Group of Angel Investors

Asset­Trackr Pvt Ltd, pro­vid­ing vehi­cle track­ing solu­tions, has raised $500,000 from three angel investors reports Tech­Cir­cle. The com­pany has received fund­ing from Kiran Basani, the CEO of AddOnUSA, an Amer­i­can enter­prise solu­tions company, Prasad BVN, VP (sales oper­a­tions & busi­ness con­sult­ing APAC), Aspen Tech­nol­ogy which is a sup­ply chain soft­ware com­pany and another U.S based investor.