Miss India crown doesn’t guarantee Bollywood success: Neha DhupiaNEW DELHI - Former Miss India Neha Dhupia, who has as many as five films lined up this year, says winning a beauty pageant is no guarantee of striking gold in Bollywood and that it’s only hard work that finally counts. Mohiniyattam workshop in DhakaDHAKA - Indian dancer Pallavi Krishnan Friday began a workshop in Mohiniyattam here for Bangladeshi dance enthusiasts. BIG Synergy bringing wacky new talent hunt TV showNEW DELHI - Siddhartha Basu-headed television firm BIG Synergy is set to adapt Britain-based reality show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ for Indian television, which he promises will enthral audiences with its ‘masti (fun), mazaak (comedy), naach (dance)’. ‘Chandni Chowk’ gets lukewarm reception from American mediaWASHINGTON - American mainstream media has given a lukewarm reception to ‘Chandni Chowk to China’, the largest-ever release of a Bollywood movie in North America, calling it ‘a genetic experiment’ and a ‘genre-mashup overkill’. |