He started his career in the chemical industry — but realised his passion was for cinema. After a couple of years selling chemicals used in the tanning industry, he decided to take the plunge and took a position as an assistant to film director B.R. Vijayalakshmi. And there was no looking back.

Today, Udhayabanu Maheshwaran, better known as Mahesh in industry circles, has made his debut as a director with "Naalai." The film has found favour with the audience and also made the distributors happy. Read More...

Bollywood beauty Celina Jaitley has as many as five pets. She may have the phobia of butterflies, but Celina is very fond of pets.

Celina shares this fondness for pets with her good friend Lara Dutta. Celina and Lara worked together in last year’s hit comedy film No Entry. Read More...

Sunrise Radio is once again set to host its annual summer event, the Asian Lifestyle Show, at London's Olympia Grand Hall.

The music and culture event returns for the third consecutive year. Organisers hope to attract over 30,000 people to the venue over three days.

A vast array of exhibition stands will feature food, clothes, ayurveda, astrology, beauty makeovers and treatments, health products, career advice and more. Read More...

Lara Dutta is back after an extended holiday in Goa and Australia - a much needed break to spend sometime with herself. “It was a fantastic holiday and very well deserved too. I did a bit of yoga and a lot of meditation - it was sheer luxury,” she says.

The time alone has also helped her fine tune her priorities. Just three years since she debuted in Bollywood, but Lara says she’s learnt many lessons already. Read More...

It is customary for beauty title aspirants to claim to have a commitment for social causes when asked by the panel of jury at the contest. Then most of them jump into the Bollywood bandwagon and amass a lot of wealth and then forget the old claims.

But former Miss Universe Lara Datta, who already has a good foothold in Bollywood has proved that she is firm in her commitment Read More...

Lara Dutta seems to be a diehard football fan and would go all out to watch it. Lara is such a crazy fan that she actually had gone for the 1995 World cup final rooting for Brazil.

But that's not all she also has some funny incidents to tell. One of them being during the Brazil vs. France match where she had painted her face with Brazilian colors sitting on the French side surrounded by French supporters, and as the match turned out, Brazil was losing and she slowly wiped the colours of her face while cheering. Read More...

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