Legendary singer and music composer Bappi Lahiri passed away.

Veteran Indian singer and composer, Bappi Lahiri has passed away at the age of 69. He was lovingly called Bappi Da in the industry is known for delivering iconic songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s like Chalte Chalte, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi. His last Bollywood …

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Bollywood star of Siddhartha movie enters monkhood in Bangkok.

Indian movie superstar Gagan Malik has entered the monkhood at a temple in Bangkok recently. Malik was ordained at Wat Thatthong and will spend the next 15 days as a monk.  He said in another post that he wanted to learn Dhamma and to promote the religion in India. “Time to le…

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Oscar winning VFX artist Robert Blalack passes away.

Oscar and Emmy award-winning visual effects artist Robert Blalack has died at the age of 73. Robert died on Wednesday 09 February 2022 of cancer at his home in Paris, his wife, writer Caroline Charron-Blalack, told The Hollywood Reporter. The Industrial Light and Magic co-fou…

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Sushmita Sen conferred International Association of Working Women Award for ‘Aarya 2’.

Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen is elated on being conferred the International Association of Working Women Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a TV series for her show ‘Aarya 2’. The award is presented by the DC South Asian Film Fe…

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Louie Anderson, comedian and Baskets actor dies.

Louie Anderson, whose more than four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series Baskets, died on Friday. He was 68. Anderson died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, sa…

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Comedian and “Full House” star Bob Saget dies.

Bob Saget, the comedian and actor arguably known best by audiences as wholesome patriarch Danny Tanner on the sitcom "Full House," has died, his family confirmed in a statement to CNN. He was 65. Saget was found dead in a hotel room on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Or…

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O Yeong-su, of 'Squid Game,' wins South Korea's first Golden Globe Award.

South Korean actor O Yeong-su claimed the country’s first Golden Globe Award on Sunday for his role in the hit Netflix drama “Squid Game,” drawing cheers at home and abroad despite criticism for ceremony organizers over a lack of diversity. O, 77, won for his portrayal of Oh…

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Award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman dies.

Award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman died Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, according to her daughter Julie Bergman. She was 93. Along with her husband and collaborator Alan, Bergman was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of her career and won three…

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First black man to win Best Actor Oscar, Sidney Poitier passes away.

Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964, has died at the age of 94. In 1963, Poitier had made a film in Arizona, Lilies of the Field. The performance led to a huge milestone making him the first black winner of a lead-acting O…

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Betty White, beloved and trailblazing actress, dies at 99.

Betty White, the self-described "lucky old broad" whose sweetly sarcastic senior citizen characters were a beloved fixture on TV shows and movies such as "The Golden Girls," "Boston Legal" and "Hot in Cleveland," died Friday 31 Decemb…

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Canadian Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée dies.

Jean-Marc Vallée, the director of the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club and HBO hit show Big Little Lies, died at his home in Quebec City, Canada at the age of 58.  Vallée helmed numerous short films before his critically-acclaimed 1995 debut feature Liste Noir (Black List). …

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Cate Blanchett to receive lifetime cesar award from French Film Academy.

Australian actress Cate Blanchett will receive French cinema’s top honor, the César d’Honneur, a lifetime achievement award, from the French Film Academy. The French academy on Friday 17 December 2021 said it had picked the two-time Oscar winner to be the 2022 César d’Honneu…

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Grammy-winning Mexican singer Vicente Fernández passess away.

Grammy-winning singer Vicente Fernández, the prolific and beloved Mexican artist who sold more than 50 million records in his career, died Sunday 12 December 2021 at age 81 in Mexico. A cause of death was not released for Fernández, who was injured in a fall in August. Born i…

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06th BRICS Film Festival Awards 2021 announced.

The 06th edition of the BRICS Film Festival awards was announced at the 52nd International Film Festival of India in Goa. For the first time, BRICS Film Festival was held alongside IFFI from November 20 to November 28, 2021. The Jury for this competitive festival had 5 memb…

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Japanese film 'Ring Wandering' get Golden Peacock at 52nd IFFI.

Masakazu Kaneko’s Ring Wandering, which explores Japan’s wartime past, won the top award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India that concluded on Sunday (28).  The Golden Peacock winner in the International Competition section was selected for being a “beautifully …

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Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim dies.

Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with transforning musical theatre, died on Friday at the age of 91, his publicist said. Sondheim – renowned for musicals including West Side Story and Sweeney Todd – died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, s…

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International Emmy Awards 2021.

The 2021 International Emmy Awards was the 49th edition of the annual ceremony held in New York City. The award recognised excellence in television programs produced and aired originally outside the U.S., and non-English language US primetime programs between the dates of J…

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Venezuelan musicians set world's largest orchestra record.

Venezuela's National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras has set the Guinness record for the world's largest orchestra, the country's government announced. The performers were brought together by the country's publicly funded "El Sistema" …

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Martin Scorsese & Istvan Szabo honoured with Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred upon two living legends of modern cinema — Hollywood director Martin Scorsese and Hungarian auteur Istvan Szabo — at the inaugural event of the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on Saturday 20 November…

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Sarah Taylor becomes first woman coach in men's professional franchise cricket.

Former England wicket-keeper batter Sarah Taylor has become the first woman coach in men's professional franchise cricket after she was named assistant coach of Team Abu Dhabi for the Abu Dhabi T10 league beginning November 19. Widely regarded as one of the best ever wic…

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