Lights, camera…action
It is time for IPL 3, a lot of adrenaline, action, gossip, games, fans, spice and much more…
Time for a breather from the sobbing, candid, fierce, competitive reality shows and the prime time exaggerated, glycerine-soaked saas bahu sagas. Time for the serial loyalist brigade to sit back (probably look for other options to kill time) for a good month-and-a-half, and let the bat and ball loyalists enjoy their moments of exhilarating action.

IPL web!
in a first of its kind, ipl season 3 matches will be streamed live across the globe on youtube 
And so the celebrations of IPL's homecoming begin and with it begins the most extravagant publicity campaign ever, taking over every possible medium and reaching out to as many people possible. More teams, more glamour, more money!

Well done Minissha
Actor Minissha Lamba admits her ultra-glamorous look in "Kidnap" opened a whole new range of opportunities for her. But the young actress, who will be seen in Shyam Benegal's new film, feels that at the end of it talent plays an important role. "My looks in Kidnap helped open a whole new and different range of opportunities for me. It is something I cherish. Being good looking is important, but not always. You need talent as well. If you have talent, people accept you regardless of the way you look," Lamba.

Right step
Subhash Ghai, producer of the just released Right Yaaa Wrong, is all set to wield the megaphone again and says his next directorial venture will go on the floors during Diwali and that it will have a "humorous streak". "I will be directing a film soon. I'll launch it around Diwali. No casting has been done and it is at the initial stages but I can say that it will have a humorous streak," Ghai, whose last mega-budget Yuvvraaj didn't work at the box office, told.

Other side of the story
Bollywood funny man Cyrus Broacha says celebrities should accept Golden Kela awards, started last year to honour the worst in movies, just the way Hollywood welcomes the Razzies that spoofs the Oscars.

Passion personified
Filmmaker Anurag Basu says the title of his upcoming movie Kites is a metaphor to describe the passion between the film's lead pair Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori. "Kites is the metaphor of the film. Kites fly against the wind and not with it, stronger the wind blows, higher the kites fly," said Basu, the director of the film. "Our protagonists in the movie too face obstacles, their love grows deeper with every increasing obstacle," he said.

Chained reaction
Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston says that it was "terrible" being handcuffed to co-star Gerard Butler in their new film 'The Bounty Hunter'. The screen beauty, who plays Nicole Hurly, a bail-jumping reporter being pursued by her bounty hunter ex-husband Milo Boyd, portrayed by Gerard, in the movie insists being chained to one of Hollywood's biggest hunks has its drawbacks.

Frozen moments
A group exhibition by photojournalists from the tricity captures life in its various moods
The Punjab Kala Bhavan was packed to capacity for the opening of Newscapes - a group exhibition by photojournalists from the tricity, which opened on Friday. And present were lensmen, journalists, students, artists and who's who of the city, even as Shanta Joy inaugurated the exhibition, organised in memory of her late husband Yog Joy, an internationally acclaimed photojournalist and recipient of innumerable national and international awards.

Her mind, her way
In the city, Nafisa Ali talks her heart out. Read on…
There was one obvious question that everyone was dying to ask Nafisa Ali, given her profile. A profile that includes being part of Narmada Bachcao Aandolan, working for underprivileged farmers in Nandigram, contesting the Lok Sabha elections, representing the Samajwadi Party (SP) and then quitting it after mere three weeks of association. "Your reaction to the Women Reservation Bill that was recently passed in Rajya Sabha?"

Kick & tell
A film by a debutant director without a godfather in the industry; shot in three different countries, named after a city in Pakistan, based on the complex subject of Indo-Pak relations and the sport of kickboxing, wins several international film festival awards. And you term such happenings as sheer luck?

Preserving tradition
Soothing, creative and meditative, that's Indian classical music, in essence and effect. Yet it cannot escape contemporary combinations. "Indian classical music has been bearing the onslaught for many years now; fusion is nothing new."

Bon Appetit
Karishma kinnow ka!
What can a whole orange do, which a half an orange can't? Any guesses? Look a-round! Kinnows and oranges are like vitamins packaged in little individual servings, so convenient and ready to attack! You don't need knives, you don't need peelers and if you ask me, you can even skip the washing routine! Just don't tell your kids I said that!

Drink vitamin
Hindustan Unilever Ltd has announced the launch of Brooke Bond Sehatmand, a tea with vitamins. The launch comes with the intention to help combat vitamin deficiency which is predominantly present in India.