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Published August 3, 2013

Ishana Painting the Town

She's a diehard Twilight Saga fan who talks to herself and sleepwalks with a coffee mug straight to the roof in the middle of the night. No, she's not a character from a Humayun Ahmed fiction. She is the crazy beautiful model/actress- Ishana! Interviewed by Sadia Khalid Photo: Tuhin Hossain Makeup: Persona Biggest highlight of your career… Ending up as 1st runner up of Lux Channel i Superstar, 2009 Lux Channel i Superstar experience… I went to college with Mim (Lux Channel i Superstar 2007) in Comilla. ...

Alejandro González Iñárritu Weaving Stories

QUICK FACTS Full name - Alejandro González Iñárritu Born - August 15, 1963 Mexico City, Mexico González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene or best director award at Cannes (2006), the second one being Carlos Reygadas in 2012. His four feature films Amores perros (2000), ...

Ayub Bachchu

Every time rock and roll legend, Ayub Bachchu, gets up on stage, he sweeps the audience off their feet with his hugely popular songs. Ever wondered what or who inspired these songs? In this interview, AB exposes the secrets to Sadia Khalid. ‘Shei Tumi'- who was this song about? This song has a background that I'll never reveal; ever... It is everyone's story, not only mine. Listeners from both East and West ...

The songs Bashir Ahmed sang

Nothing can beat the beauty inherent in old songs. Once again, you have to travel back to the 1960s, here in this part of the world, to feel the old lilt in your soul. Sometime ...

OBLIVION

Plot: One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about ...

KAHAANI

Plot: A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met her husband. Review: Mumbai films are taking steep turn. Kahaani is an example of the turn it is taking with a huge curve on Vidya Balan's tummy. It is not only an ordinary thriller film about a search for a missing person. It's a lot more. It can easily be ...

PRIYANKA CHOPRA

Miss World collaborated with Mr. Worldwide (Pitbull) for her steamy new single 'Exotic'. Impressed by its success, Priyanka named her celebrity milkshake, 'Exotic', at the Millions of Milkshakes store in Hollywood. The exotic shake contains ...

Sehri Party

Here's a new trend that has been brewing in Dhaka in recent years. People, gather at restaurants way past midnight in Ramadan to have Sehri parties. This weekend, all the stars in Bangladesh, musicians, actors ...

ABAR BYOMKESH

Plot: Byomkesh makes his acquaintance with several Bengali inhabitants from the local community at Dooars like. Strange incident is going on at Dooars. A certain group photo is getting stolen from all who were in the ...

Orchita Sporshia

Born: 8th December, 1992 Height: 5'3” Skills: modeling, acting, painting Credentials: modeling for Parachute, Airtel, acting in serial 'Rod', drama 'Warishnama', upcoming Airtel telefilm 'Impossible 5', 'Arunodoyer Torundol' Wanna be: the leading lady opposite Jonny ...