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. …
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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. …
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. …
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