Beverly Hills, CA — Open dance auditions for the 82nd Academy Awards® telecast will be held on Friday, January 22, and Saturday, January 23, at CenterStaging in Burbank, California, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today. Cast dancers will perform live during the Academy Awards show on Sunday, March 7, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®. The auditions... 

When the audiences (and a whole lot of them across the globe), left the screening of 3 Idiots, the character of Chatur Ramalingam, aka “Silencer,” was what stayed on for the longest time in memory. He had not been seen before on the Bollywood screen, but had become the scene stealer. His was no ordinary protagonist by Bollywood standards, his Hindi speech was the comic highlight of the film and... 

2009, an otherwise dismal year for Bollywood, ends on a positive note with 3 Idiots. The film is an entertaining watch and also has an underlying message of following one’s dreams and on a side note, that innovation are something the Indian education system, rarely promotes, if anything, it negates the imaginative mind. The film is about campus life, albeit, not in the traditional Bollywood way,... 

The Universe is made up of three kinds of humans, a) those that go with the tide representing most of us, b) those that try and face up to the tide, a lot of them get washed away with the flow and then c) there are those who stand up against it and by sheer dint of their staying and persevering power, turn the tide towards them. Director/actor/producer Rajat Kapoor is that minority who belongs to... 

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Zero Film Festival 2009 to host the Los Angeles premiere of MITSEIN, a film by Aparna Malladi featuring Smriti Mishra. Decemeber 02, 2009 LOS ANGELES – On December 5th, Saturday 2009, Zero Film Festival [ZER09] will host the Los Angeles premiere of MITSEIN as part of it’s closing night line up. The film written and directed by Aparna Malladi is a surreal drama... 

Long before the “desi” invasion of Silicon Valley (Northern California, US), the West had already been somewhat “Indianized” by an Indian American reporter and no, he was not talking about Bollywood, or about Technology or for that matter Cricket, he was going right to the heartland….sports and that too as American as they get. The NBA, NHL, MLB, why he was even NBC’s sportscaster for... 

DO SCRIPTWRITING TECHNIQUES AS TAUGHT BY WESTERN TEACHERS, PRIMARILY WITH HOLLYWOOD AS A FOCUS, WORK IN INDIA? Throwing light on this is writer and director and a former Senior Faculty – Screenwriting Department, Whistling Woods International, Sanjay Talreja. Sanjay has taught filmmaking and scriptwriting in Canada, the US, and lately, in India. Sanjay has worked as a writer, editor and is an accomplished... 

He was PfC Omar Ulmer in Inglourious Basterds, and was also seen in Death Proof. This talented actor and musici an (amongst other creative things), looks forward to now taking on Bollywood. From being the son of a doctor in Pennsylvania, to now making a firm foothold in Hollywood, nothing seems impossible for this multi dimensional artist. Here is a conversation with one of the rising South Asian...