Fashion designers of South Asian origin were well represented at the Golden Globes and parties surrounding the Jan. 13 awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Actress Freida Pinto says growing up in Mumbai she feared the threat of being raped. Speaking to CNN’s Erin Brunett, Pinto talked about reading news reports on rape incidents, but did not recollect reading about any follow up on them and confessed of always being in fear. “This might just happen to me,” Frieda said on The Outlook, which aired Jan. 14. In another incident, eerily similar to the Dec.
Top Chef” judge and model Padma Lakshmi is rumored to be dating hotelier Vikram Chatwal. The duo was spotted together during the holidays. Lakshmi, 42, and Chatwal, 41, who are longtime friends, were first seen in court-side seats together at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks/Nets game in December, The New York Post reported. Chatwal, whose properties include the Dream Hotels, is said to have separated from his wife, Priya Sachdev.
A feature-length documentary produced by a Mumbai-based company has been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Fire in the Blood” is also nominated for the coveted Grand Jury Prize.
Former video jockey Sophiya Haque died in a London hospital Jan. 16 after having been diagnosed with cancer two weeks earlier. She was 41. Haque, who shot to fame in the 90s as a VJ on MTV India, moved to Mumbai in 1997, when she began appearing in Bollywood films. Haque acted in films like “The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey,” “Pehli Nazar Ka Pehla Pyaar: Love at First Sight” and “Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors.
Indo-British actor Ricky Sekhon, who played Osama bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” says he was known as "Osama bin Loungin” on the set because he got so comfortable lying in a body bag. Even though Sekhon’s character is central to the film, the actor hardly has any screen presence and not a single dialogue in the film. The film focuses on the 10-year manhunt for bin Laden.
Sushma looks as if she's in her late forties but she's not sure about her real age. Her name isn't real either, just the one she goes by in New Delhi's red light district. She is among the many women, men and children living and working in brothel number 300 on Garstin Bastion Road, known as "G.B. Road," in the city's old quarters who are documented by Mayank Austen Soofi in his new book, "Nobody Can Love You More".
