DHAKA: Actress Deepika Padukone is ready to work in films beyond Bollywood, but she is not gunning for Hollywood.The versatile Indian actress is instead, keen to do a French or Iranian film, and she has even identified directors she would like to work with, reports

DHAKA: Australian author Richard Flanagan has won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. "It's a remarkable love story as well as story about human suffering and comradeship," said AC Grayling, chair of the judges, reports BBC. Flanagan's

DHAKA: A 1901 self-portrait by Pablo Picasso that has not previously been exhibited in public will go on display in central London this week. Self-portrait (Yo Picasso) depicts the Spanish artist and sculptor at the age of 30, looking directly at the viewer while painting by candlelight.

DHAKA: After starring in two Punjabi films, a Telugu film and the recent Ekta Kapoor production ‘Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi’, Simran Kaur Mundi (Miss India Universe 2008) has been cast opposite Kapil Sharma in his debut Bollywood film.Filmmakers Abbas-Mustan were looking for a

DHAKA: Gwyneth Paltrow ‘could hardly speak’ in front of the ‘handsome’ Barack Obama. The ‘Glee’ actress admitted to the president of the United States that she was completely awestruck by his good looks, as she attempted to hand him a microphone at a Democratic Fundraiser on

DHAKA: Billboard have announced they will be crowning Taylor Swift 2014’s ‘Woman of the Year’ at their annual ‘Women in Music’ event taking place this December in New York. Swift will become the first artist to win the honour more than once, after previously taking the title in

DHAKA: This year Guardians of the Galaxy swooped into theatres and saved the summer box office, taking over $654 million worldwide. Now Disney is hoping they can transfer some of Guardian’s box office magic to the small screen, with a new animated series to air on their XD channel.

DHAKA: Patrick Modiano, a French historical novelist whose work is largely inspired by Paris under the Nazi occupation, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday.The Swedish Academy said it wanted to celebrate his ‘art of memory’ in capturing the lives of ordinary people under

DHAKA: Maratha Mandir has been running Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ), billed as the Bible of Bollywood romance, since its release in 1995 for almost two decades now.The morning show at 11.30am still runs to packed houses everyday. However, this December, the theatre’s managing

DHAKA: Hollywood A-lister Ben Affleck has delivered a spirited defense of Muslims worldwide on a TV talk show hosted by a fellow liberal with little time for the Islamic faith.Affleck, well known for his progressive views, was promoting his latest film ‘Gone Girl’ on HBO’s

DHAKA: Be it for the never-seen-before stunts or scorching chemistry between lead actors Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif, ‘Bang Bang’ is doing extremely well at the box-office.Cashing in on the hype and positive word-of-mouth publicity, the movie has made a whoppping Rs 50 crore in

DHAKA: Star Cineplex will screen ‘The Expendables 3’, as their Eid movie, at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area. The Dhaka-premiere of this Hollywood blockbuster action, adventure and thriller movie was held Thursday evening. It will be screened at 1:30pm,

DHAKA: Apart from the same release date, the two movies have little in common Indian cinemagoers will be spoilt for choice this festive weekend, as not one but two high-profile films will be hitting the screens on Thursday.While on the one hand, Fox Star Studios is releasing its

DHAKA: Chinese cinema box office revenue has surged 32% in the first nine months of the year.Figures show, reports the BBC.Takings have reached 21.6bn yuan so far, already nearly equalling 2013’s full-year total of 21.8bn yuan.The best performing movie of 2014 to date is

DHAKA: A special screening of ‘Billy Elliot’ the Musical Live has topped the UK and Ireland box office, a first for an event cinema release.Sunday’s live stream from London Victoria’s Palace took a record £1.9m, the BBC publishes this report on Tuesday.It was also the widest

DHAKA: Star Cineplex will screen ‘The Expendables 3’, as the Eid movie, at its halls at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in city’s Panthapath area.The Dhaka-premiere of this Hollywood blockbuster action, adventure and thriller movie will be held at 6:45pm on Thursday.‘The

DHAKA: With the help of Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, Giambattista Valli and Dolce & Gabbana, human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin vaulted into the top echelons of Hollywood fashion with her stylish Italian wedding to actor George Clooney.Alamuddin, 36, showcased several outfits

DHAKA: Denzel Washington’s latest film ‘The Equalizer’ has debuted at the top of the North American box office, taking $35m, according to early estimates.It marked a strong opening for the film, in which Washington plays a former commando who finds himself in a battle with the

DHAKA: Actress Lisa Haydon, who will be seen playing a huge fan of Akshay Kumar in ‘The Shaukeens’, says she likes him in his unshaved look. ‘It is a clean and funny film. I play Akshay’s huge fan in the film and in real life I like Akshay in an unshaved look,’ she said at the

DHAKA: George Clooney married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin on Saturday, the actor’s representative said, out of sight of pursuing paparazzi and adoring crowds. A smiling Clooney traveled up the spectacular Grand Canal to his wedding standing coolly aboard a water-taxi, waving to