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New Delhi, The Indian Premier League (IPL) is on and micro-blogging site Twitter is abuzz with posts from Bollywood personalities rooting for their favourite teams. Actor Rahul Bose posted on his Twitter account: “(I) am only 1/2 Bengali, 1/2 Punjabi-Maharashtrian. Lived in Bombay all my life – Mumbai Indians for me…” Another Mumbai Indian fan [...]

New Delhi, Many cinema halls around the country have decided to create a stadium-like atmosphere by screening live the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches. The matches, from March 12 to April 25, will be played in India after being held in South Africa the last time. The matches will be screened in multiplexes as well [...]

Mumbai, Nikhil Advani’s next film “Patiala House” has cricket as its backdrop and the director is keen to cast Pakistani players as well. He says he will go ahead with his plans, unperturbed by the Shah Rukh Khan-Shiv Sena row over the same issue. “Basically we need to see which way the IPL (Indian Premier [...]

Mumbai, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Thursday accused the Shiv Sena of “double standards” for ignoring Amitabh Bachchan for sharing the dais with Pakistani artistes while targeting his Bollywood peer Shah Rukh Khan. “They are demanding an apology from Khan for his remarks on Pakistani players. But Bachchan was seen a couple of [...]

Mumbai, With more than 1,000 Shiv Sena workers being arrested for vandalism and the Maharashtra government rallying around the Shah Rukh Khan starrer “My Name Is Khan”, several theatre owners banked on the earnest assurances of security and reopened advance booking Wednesday evening. The much-discussed film, targeted by the Shiv Sena after Shah Rukh spoke [...]

Bhubaneswar, The Orissa unit of the Bajrang Dal Tuesday threatened to disrupt the screening of Shah Rukh Khan’s movie “My Name Is Khan” across the state if the actor does not apologise for his alleged “pro-Pakistan” statement. “We will not allow the screening of the film in the state,” Subash Chouhan, national co-convenor of the [...]

New Delhi, Actress-activist Shabana Azmi is all praise for Rahul Gandhi and he “cocked a snook” at the Shiv Sena with his Mumbai trip Friday. And she feels the Sena is trying to boost its “sagging political career” by intimidating the makers of Shah Rukh-starrer “My Name Is Khan”. “More power to Rahul Gandhi for [...]

New Delhi, Veteran musician Pandit Ravi Shankar, lyricist Javed Akhtar, ghazal singer Jagjit Singh and composer-singer Shankar Mahadevan met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here Thursday morning. Congress sources described the meeting as “a courtesy call”. They did not divulge details of the meeting. The meeting comes in the backdrop of an escalating controversy over Shiv [...]

New Delhi, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he has chosen to remain tight-lipped over Indian Premier League (IPL) issue because he fears his statement could be misinterpreted. “They (the media) ask all the same questions on the film (‘Rann’) and the media and the angst among them. And then the real reason they are their [...]

Ahmedabad, Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, co-owner of Kolkata Knight Riders, Wednesday said there was a need for creating an environment where Indian Premier League (IPL) franchisees can recruit Pakistani players with ease. Shah Rukh, who was here to promote his upcoming film, told mediapersons that but for the fact that his team had exhausted it’s [...]