Bollywood superstar Sridevi passes away due to a heart attack
Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor has died of a heart attack. She was 54. The actress known simply as Sridevi passed away in Dubai, where she was attending a family wedding. From the age of four, she had worked in films in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages. She was considered one of the very few Indian female superstars capable of huge box office success without t...
Malaysia bans Bollywood film over negative portrayal of Muslim ruler
Malaysia has barred controversial Bollywood film Padmaavat from being screened in theaters, the home ministry said on Friday, citing the movies negative portrayal of a Muslim ruler. The film has already attracted protests in India, after groups critical of the project accused its director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, of distorting history by portraying the Muslim ruler as the lover of Queen Padmavat...
India's censors clear Bollywood movie, objectors say protests to continue
Indias censors on Saturday cleared a controversial film backed by Viacom Inc that looks into the relationship of a Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler, after suggesting some modifications. The Bollywood film, which was slated to be released on Dec. 1, was indefinitely postponed by a studio run by a partnership of Viacom and Network 18 owned by Mumbais Reliance Industries. That followed a row over it...
'BOB' vs 'Kriti': YouTube removes ‘BOB’ too
After the short film Kriti was removed by YouTube for copyright infringement, the popular video platform has removed Nepali movie BOB too. Interestingly, the film was also removed for copyright infringement stating, The video is no longer available due to copyright claim by Abhayananda Singh (INDIE MUVIZ PTE LTD). Meanwhile according to IANS, Muvizz.com, the producers of the short film Krit...
Crackdown on Unique International College of Sydney
A private Sydney college is being accused of recruiting illiterate and disabled students to take out thousands of dollars in loans to fund courses they were never told they were being signed up for, documents lodged in the federal court allege. A joint investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the NSW Fair Trading Department will allege that the Unique Interna...
