Professional No.1

Unlike many of her tribe who say that they never intended to enter the world of arclights and grease paint and acting just happened to them, Aparna Banerjee is candid enough to admit that she always wanted to be an actress.

Dilip Dhawan
An excellent human being
Dilip Dhawan, who was popularly known as ‘Buntu’, passed away all of a sudden due to a massive heart attack at his residence in Bandra on February 15, 2000. He was just 45 years old.

Mansi comes age

My friends can’t believe that a girl like me used to attend college studiously - I used to carry all the books according to the time-table while
they carried just one book - could turn out to be an actress. Even my college principal is very proud of me

Split Screen

Height of fantasy
In real life Shekhar Suman couldn’t come anywhere near the Filmfare awards, let alone win one. It seemed rather funny, if not entirely phoney, when the remover-and-the-Shekhar assumed his best Bachchanesque baritone to bloom, “I’m sorry I cannot accept the best-supporting actor award. I’m not the supporting actor, I’m the leading man of this film.”

Prasar Bharati asked to raise own finances from April 1

The employees of ‘autonomous’ Prasar Bharati won’t remain government employees from now onwards. According to sources in the I&B ministry, the Government of India has asked Prasar Bharati Corporation to maintain its finances separately from April 1, this year.

DD grants cricket overseas telecast rights to Stracon-TWI

Prasar Bharati has signed a 43.75 million dollar deal with Stracon-TWI, granting it the exclusive overseas airtime marketing rights of international and domestic cricket played in India for the next four-and-a-half years.

Entertainment companies join race to go public
Earlier there were innumerable finance companies in the market, where are they today? Now it is the time of entertainment software companies because leaders like Zee and Adhikaris have set a good example -- Shyam Malpani, financial expert