By | Wednesday, 20 Dec, 2017
Tempers flaring over tiny issues is nothing new in the ‘Bigg Boss’ house - blame it on the format of the show - but contestants like Hiten challenge this mind-set of the audience. It wouldn’t..... Read more...
By | Thursday, 16 Nov, 2017
Last month, singer Aditya Narayan ran into a controversy with a popular Airlines staff. The 30-year-old singer-actor was asked to pay Rs 13,000 for the 40 kg of excess baggage that he had while traveling..... Read more...
By Mark Manuel | Friday, 01 Feb, 2019
The first time I met Sonam Kapoor, it was like a tradeoff with her father, that old Bollywood warhorse Anil Kapoor. This was November 2007. She was making her debut with Ranbir Kapoor in Sanjay..... Read more...
By | Monday, 21 Jan, 2019
I knew Balasaheb Thackeray personally. And I knew him well. Well enough for the Shiv Sena supremo to open a bottle of French white wine for me and invite me to smoke a Cuban cigar..... Read more...
By Mark Manuel | Monday, 14 Jan, 2019
You and I and the rest of Bollywood are still celebrating Rohit Shetty’s Simmba that released on December 28. But the filmmaker himself has moved on. He’s onto his next cop film. The ambitious Sooryavanshi..... Read more...
By Mark Manuel | Thursday, 06 Dec, 2018
Sunday afternoon, 3.30 o’clock, I met Sara Ali Khan at the Sun n Sand in Juhu for an interview. I watched her arriving. On the button. Elegantly stepping out of her car. Then sweeping majestically..... Read more...
By Mark Manuel | Tuesday, 27 Nov, 2018
Akshay Kumar, dressed in khaki three-fourths and a black tee, loafers on his feet, strolled in off Juhu Beach and sat down to chat with me about 2.0. Some kids were doing somersaults in..... Read more...
By Mark Manuel | Saturday, 20 Oct, 2018
Back in the day, Shilpa Shetty’s family and mine knew each other. We lived in opposite buildings at Mazagaon. A good old Catholic quarter in what was then Bombay. It had a village..... Read more...