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Seven sisters yet to catch B’wood’s eye

Victor Thoudam from NSD in one of the plays

While Bollywood has explored practically every aspect of conflict in movies — from wars to riots to communal tensions — it has never featured the the prolonged conflict in the Northeast. Think of actors from the region, and Danny Denzongpa from Sikkim and Seema Biswas from Assam are the only names to have made it big in Indian cinema.

Rocker girls on a roll

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They came together in 2010 to be a part of the emerging music scene in Delhi. Hailing from Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, an all-girl band The Vinyl Records a.k.a TVR will be performing in the city tomorrow at LEMP Kitchen, Gurgaon.

Mind the curves

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It’s always nice to see actresses like Vidya Balan, Parineeti Chopra, and Sonakshi Sinha embracing their curves and not succumbing to the size zero fad. However, Kareena Kapoor believes that being big is uncool.

Students head West to avoid DU rat race

The number of students applying to universities abroad has tripled this year

Don’t fret, there is life beyond Delhi University. After DU cut-offs touched the nightmarish 100 per cent mark last year, many undergraduate students in Delhi are now applying to foreign universities, to avoid the DU rat race.

Users ditch FB out of boredom

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“It’s Facebook where I belong, feels like my second home”, are no more status updates on Facebook as people are spending less time on the website. According to a recent survey, Facebook users are now spending less time on the social networking site, with just two out of five people signing into their profile everyday. When some users were asked the reason behind the dip, they claimed monotony was the trigger.

B’wood is opening up to new talent, says Sayani

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After Parineeti Chopra, Huma Qureshi, a newbie Sayani Gupta from Delhi University is all set to make waves with her upcoming film Second Marriage dot com directed by Gaurav Panjwani. Even though she hails from Kolkata, Sayani calls herself a true Delhiite, as she says her formative years in Delhi shaped her present.

Tragedy swirling in the village waters

One of the pictures from the exhibition by Munem Wasif

Turning the spotlight on the water tragedy brewing in Bangladesh, documentary photographer Munem Wasif’s recent exhibition on photographs “Goalmari, Bangladesh’s Own Island” at the Alliance Francaise depicts the symbol of the country’s battle against contamination, scarcity and inaccessibility of clean drinking water.

Bollywood comes calling on students

Director Anurag Kashyap was recently at Hans Raj College

Delhi campus is fast becoming a favourite hub of filmmakers to promote their films. After Ranbir Kapoor for Rockstar, Maneesh Sharma visited the campus with co-stars for Band Baaja Baaraat and Prakash Jha also planned to hold debates for his films Rajneeti and Aarakshan, and recently, the cast of Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai visited JNU and held a discussion on the film.

B’wood takes a shine to talented Bengali actors

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Time was when Bengali beauties like like Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee, Moushmi Chatterjee, reigned in Bollywood.

Euro 2012 fever grips city pubs

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As the Euro Cup 2012 begins, city is geared up for it with full gusto. Soccer is the theme and mood at most pubs as they come up with special offers for soccer fans.

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