There may be an age stipulation at bars, and coffee just isn’t their cup of tea, so youngsters and teens prefer swarming to gaming lounges like Amoeba, Blu-O and Federation of Gamers (F.o.G) that combine the pleasure of both physical activity and video games. These, combined with pool arcades are steadily gaining popularity in the city.

While the long queues at ticket counters turning a rarity, a rightful metre to gauge a film’s popularity has become the number of times it is downloaded over the Internet. And the perfect example, of this phenomena, is James Cameron’s celestial saga, Avatar. It topped the list for the number of illegal downloads for the year 2010 — the

A filmmaker’s most nervous day generally is the Friday his film sees the light of the day, but the makers of No One Killed Jessica had butterflies in their stomach when they hosted a private screening for Sabrina Lal, the sister of Jessica around whose murder the plot revolves. And the starcast of the film was out in full force at DT Star

Cricket and cinema bind the country like nothing else. So fittingly, when World Cup 2011 juggernaut comes to town, Bollywood composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy will be singing in honour of it. The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently launched the official anthem for the cup composed by the trio titled, De Ghumaa Ke, which will have Hindi, Bengali and Sinhalese versions as well.

At times it’s easier to say something in prose than in words; and this never stood truer than in the case of youngsters today. Hence, while someone like a cricketer-commentator Dean Jones, well-known as a person who shoots from his hip, has an entire stadium singing, When you say nothing at all, Katrina Kaif immediately evokes

One would have felt that after having been pushed into the last week of the year due to the Commonwealth Games, the annual Delhi Book Fair would have a tough time finding patrons in the cold, wintry capital. And the apathy shown by several publishers from both India and abroad raised further concerns. But interestingly, neither has

It seems old habits die hard. English footballer, David Beckham, was yet again connected with a woman who isn’t his wife, in what was a third such instance for Becks this year. A Bosnian showgirl has charged Beckham for having a “reputation for adultery” and went to divulge to a glossy, details about their romp. And back home too, on

Following in the footsteps of fashionable tweens from the West like Lourdes and Miley Cyrus, India’s own teen actress-turned-fashionista, Ayesha Kapur, jumped onto the label bandwagon recently by launching a fashion accessories brand, Ayesha, with her mother Jacqueline Kapur.

It seems controversy’s favourite child, Rakhi Sawant, just can’t keep away from the eye of the storm. The latest cause for furore is her TV show, Rakhi Ka Insaaf, which saw a participant’s death soon after he was humiliated on the show with relatives alleging that he was under severe depression ever since he had appeared on RKI and was embarrassed in full public view.

Music with its unlimited manifestations has forever been a source of both inspiration and bafflement. History talks about tunes that induced sleep and compositions that summoned rain-bearing clouds and in pre-Independence India, music was used as a weapon in the hands of freedom fighters and activists, who used songs to