Director: Zoya Akhtar Producers: Farhan Akhtar & Ritesh Sidhwani Screenplay: Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti Story: Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin, Naseeruddin Shah
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Kona optimistic on her albums
Popular pop singer Dilshad Nahar Kona has gained popularity as a pop singer by providing a number of hit songs for over a decade. Since the beginning of her career, Kona has attainted acclimation for her versatile and melodic voice. Kona is on her way to release her third solo album in the upcoming Eid-ul-fitr, ... Read more
Tawquir, Mithila first time together
Popular actor cum director Tawquir Ahmed and promising actress Mithila, for the first time, have recently performed together in a play titled ‘Modhyarat and Jhorapatar Golpo’. The play was directed by Tawquir himself while its story was written by his other half Bipasha Hayat. The story of the play features a lady schoolteacher who teaches ... Read more
Adity Mohsin’s ‘Sokha Tomare Paile’ launched
Bengal Foundation launched an album of popular Tagore artiste Adity Mohsin titled ‘Sokha Tomare Paile’. The album features some popular songs of three legendary poets-Atul Prasad Sen, Dwijendralal Roy and Rajani Kanta Sen. The album was produced under the music direction by Durbadal Chattapadhyay. Noted litterateur Sayed Shamsul Haque unveiled the cover of the album ... Read more
Ria in movie
Ria Chowdhury is familiar as a ramp model. Besides she is engaged with TV modeling and acting. She has already performed in a main stream and digital movies. But those yet not released. In 2008, for the first time Ria acted in the mainstream movie titled ‘Khela,’ directed by Sheikh Didar. Film actor Rubel was ... Read more
Murad-Shoshi-Sabbir together in ‘Kemon Achho Bondhu’
Popular actors Arman Parvez Murad, Sharmin Zoha Shoshi and Meer Sabbir, for the first time, are going to perform together in a play titled ‘Kemon Achho Bondhu’. The play will be produced under the direction of Nahid Ahmed Biplob while its story was written by noted writer Emdadul Haque Milon. The play is an in-house ... Read more
Habib’s Ahban
Habib Wahid’s rise started with his 2003 début album “Krishno”, which proved to be a success in Britain and Bangladesh. In the next few years, Habib released five albums — “Maya” (2004), “Moina Go…” (2005), “Shono” (2006), “Panjabiwala” (2007), “Bolchi Tomake” (2008) and “Aboseshe” (2008). His latest work, “Ahban” did not go unrewarded, as it ... Read more
Guerrilla continues its victory run
Nasiruddin Yousuff’s film “Guerrilla” celebrates its 100th day today. Since its release on April 14, the film has been uninterruptedly screened at two theatres in Dhaka — Star Cineplex and Balaka Cine World. The director of the film is delighted to achieve this landmark, as he thinks it is a positive sign for mainstream Bangladeshi ... Read more
Ittyadi goes to Nawab Manjil in Tangail
To highlight our rich cultural heritage Ittyadi has been shooting its episodes at historical places for a while now. The latest episode of Ittyadi has been shot at the historic Nawab Manjil in Dhanbari. The Nawab Manjil was decorated with colourful lightings on the occasion. The shooting attracted a large number of people who flocked ... Read more
Exhibition highlights Halda’s beauty and contribution
River Halda flows through the heartlands of Chittagong. It serves as a lifeline to millions living on her banks. An exhibition of photo and video presentation titled Halda: River of Mystery was inaugurated at the Berlin Hall of Goethe Institut in Dhanmondi at Dhaka on 20 July. Monjurul Kibria, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University ... Read more
Harmony of Nature
Solo painting exhibition at Gallery Impressions A solo painting exhibition featuring artworks by talented artist Abu Kalam Shamsuddin was inaugurated at Gallery Impressions, Gulshan, in the capital on July 17. The exhibition showcases 16 paintings titled as “Harmony of Nature” (1, 2, 3…16) by the artist. The artist has used mixed media (oil and acrylic). ... Read more
Amitabh and Sridevi to share screen space after 19 years
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and veteran actress Sridevi will be sharing screen space with each other after almost 19 years for their upcoming film “English Vinglish”. The film, being touted as Sridevi’s Bollywood comeback, will see her essay the role of a housewife who joins a spoken English course to impress her husband and family
Catching up with Kushum Shikdar
Although her lifelong aspiration has been to become a vocal artiste, fate had other plans for Kushum Shikdar. Through turn of events she found herself in the media as an actress — both on the small and big screen. The talented actress recently shared her views with the The Daily Star (TDS). TDS: What are ... Read more
Bipasha Kabir in film’s item song
Bipasha Kabir was one of the top contestants in Lux Superstar Contest 2009. By this time besides performing in TVC she has already started acting in TV channels. Though she is regular in TV acting and modeling Bipasha has keen interest in the movie based on good story and script. Her intention has slightly fulfilled ... Read more
Zahid, Mou in drama serial again
After the TV serial Poush Faguner Pala, Zahid Hasan and Mou have acted again in the serial titled Tokhon Boshonto. The drama serial has been directed by Humayun Faridi and written by Shafiqur Rahman Shantanu. Jitu Ahsan, Shams Sumon, Farah Ruma, Hasan Imam, Humayun Faridi and Mamunur Rashid played the main characters in this play. ... Read more
Fahmida Nabi and Subir Nandi to release their first duet album
Seasoned artistes Subir Nandi and Fahmida Nabi are releasing a duet album for the first time. Fahmida sang a duet “Ami Kantar Bhuboney” with Subir for a feature film, “Ferari Bashanta”, 28 years ago. Although Fahmida had occasionally performed with Subir, this is the first time they are working on a duet album. Eight songs ... Read more
Music and Meditation
In conversation with Tapan Kanti Baidya “Dada” Tapan Kanti Baidya is a renowned classical music vocalist and an adept teacher — well recognised both at home and abroad. He is the only artiste from Bangladesh who performed at United Nations’ ECOSOC Hall, New York in 1998. The then UN Secretary General Kofi Anan, together with ... Read more
Folk singers don’t get due respect: Malay Kumar
Folk music is considered a golden treasure in Bangladesh, but it is the irony that the folk singers never get due recognition, which is growing apathy to many leading folk artistes, observe renowned folk singer Malay Kumar Ganguly, who is not interested to continue his musical career these days. According to him folk singers are ... Read more
Romana’s winning streak
Modelling or acting — whatever the medium, Romana has struck home runs on all fields. Her winning streak surfaced when she entered the celluloid world with Tauquir Ahmed’s “Jaijatra”; although her mainstream film début was much later in P.A. Kajol’s “Ek Takar Bou”. Romana’s confidence received a major boost with her mainstream inauguration — encouraging ... Read more
Sushoma to act in Tagore’s Monihara
Sushoma Sarkar will be playing Mallika in an upcoming TV play based on Rabindranath Tagore’s story Monihara. Nurul Alam Atik is the director of the TV play. The shooting for the TV play is scheduled to start from 28 July. Sharing her reaction Sushoma Sarkar said, “It is really a great honour for me to ... Read more