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  More and more film stars from Hollywood and other places affected by recession are landing in Bollywood. The Oscar awarded Indian film S.D.Millionaire, made the world turn it eyes to Indian film industry. Some of those film stars who made their debut in Bollywood, had a chance to act with top ranked actors like Salman khan, Saif Ali khan has created their own slot in the industry. While, Salman has choose former Miss UK-Universe Lisa Lazarus for his film Veer, produced by Vijay Galani, Saif is introducing British beauty Florence Brudenell Bruce in his forthcoming film Love Aaj Kal. There are other stars like Hazel, who entered the Bollywood very long back as an extra artist, and played a key role in Hindi Film ,‘Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar' two years ago. She even created her own identity in Indian add world modelling for Ponds, Samsung, and Nokia etc. Related StoriesRecession--What-is-it-!  The entire country may be affected by recession. But for out politicians they do not seem to have even heard the word recession. This is one word that is not in their dictionary. Money is being spent like water. The leaders are paying party activist anywhere between 200 and 300 per day for workers besides footing their other expenses. The leaders are also providing breakfast, lunch and dinner to the party workers. Some people say that elections are really a blessing in disguise. The black money has now come out more Recession-fears-hit-Bollywood  Bollywood is tightening its belt in the face of the global economic downturn, as Indian cinema-goers prefer to hold onto their cash and corporate backers look for guaranteed returns for their money. Producers and analysts say that although the Indian economy has been spared the worst effects of the banking collapse, negative sentiment and fear of contagion have still affected the 2.1-billion-dollar film industry. That means more financial scrutiny, particularly after t more Good-news-from-Infosys  It’s a good news to those who were selected for Infosys and waiting for their turn to join the duties. Infosys C.E.O. and M.D. Gopala Krishnanan announced that, the company soon going to incept the 18,000 new employees who were recruited earlier, but kept waiting due to several reasons. The processes will begin from July-09. He said that, the freshers have to undergo a training programme for the period of six months before joining their assigned duties. However, the extended period of six months training, will be reduced to three more Shilpa-Shetty-Bags-Marks-&-Spencer  Shilpa Shetty may just be an over-familiar face for India but Britain is stung by her beauty. The gorgeous lady who started off her modeling career with Parag Sarees has now landed for a modeling assignment for Marks & Spencer, the largest clothing retailer in UK. She has been signed as the face of the British clothing and lifestyle brand, and will launch the range with British TV presenter Gaby Roslin. Says a source in London, “Last week, Shilpa was in London to promote UTV’s Metro. During her visit, s more Realtors-&-Recession-effects The recession effect left a strong dent on real estate business, in India. Realtors who invested millions of rupees in the market become the main victims of recession. Many of them are trying to come out of this quicksand at the earliest, to avoid further losses. This resulted in a drastic fall in the real estate markets. More the realtors jump out of their ongoing projects, more the benefits to customers. Realtors are now obliged to drop down the prices of flats and plots, as there are no takers. A flat approx 1050 sft with three bhk in the out skirts the cities is now available for less than Rs.20 lakhs, where as earlier the same flat costs earlier more than Rs.25 Lakhs, depending upon the location and city. The same is applic more Masumeh-in-a-British-TV-series-  Bollywood actress Masumeh Makhija might land a role in the popular British television series ‘Sharpe’. Masumeh, who was last seen in the ‘High On The Highway’ episode of Sanjay Gupta’s film Dus Kahaniyan , reportedly met the leading star of ‘Sharpe’, Sean Bean, at a club in London that is frequently visited by English actors, directors and producers. It was there Sean Bean noticed Masumeh and approached her. The conversation got more engaging when Sean found out that Masumeh is herself an actress. In more Aishwarya-Rai-to-play-Rani-Lakshmibai  The gorgeous Aishwarya Rai is all set to play the famous Indian warrior queen – Rani Lakshmibai – in a film by Ketan Mehta . The newly wed Bachchan bahu will add a must-have skill to her acting repertoire – learning to use a sword while riding a horse. Ash will need the skills to play the role Mehta said in an interview on Friday. ``Ash will undergo intensive training,'' Mehta said. ``The role demands a lot of action scenes.'' Ash is to play Rani Lakshmibai, the legendary ruler of Jhansi, who pl more Y.V.Reddy,-the-Man-behind  Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Mr.Y.V.Reddy is the man, whose foresight and planning has saved the Indian economy from a free fall, like other countries. His strict vigilance over the inflow and out flow of Rupees, and his perfect planning, control, and absolute implementation of financial discipline has laid a strong foundation for the Indian economy. That is why our markets and economy stood rigid and tall even in the worst recession period. Joseph. E. Stiglich, the noble Prize winner more Santosh-Sivans-first-Hollywood-film-to...  The world premiere of ace cameraman and film maker Santosh Sivan's first Hollywood film "Before the Rains" will be held at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival in September this year. Sivan told IANS that his film would be screened along with eight other films as part of two gala presentations and six special presentations at the festival, to be held from September 6 to 15. "I am extremely delighted. More so because my film has Malayalam actors in it and will be screened on a world more Shilpa-Shetty-meets-the-British-PM!  Shilpa Shetty received the prestigious Global Cultural Diversity Award in the UK. Shetty, of course, considers it to be a privilege for the honour bestowed on her. “Jackie Chan was honoured with The Global Cultural Diversity Award last year and I have been chosen this year and I feel truly admired and respected,” she says. And what’s more, she even visited Downing Street after that to meet the British PM no less! “Yes, as a part of this ceremony, I met British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a more |
