A story he heard while in 11th grade has given student filmmaker Shubhashish Bhutiani his first taste of stardom. “Kush,” Bhutiani’s film for his graduation project at New York’s School of Visual Arts, won him the Outstanding Film at the school’s annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival and Awards held May 8.

The gloomy weather on the French Riviera did not dampen Amitabh Bachchan’s spirits. He, along with his “The Great Gatsby” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival May 15. Bachchan plays Meyer Wolfsheim in the $125-million 3-D project, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name DiCaprio plays Gatsby.

The Cannes film festival gets underway on Wednesday with Australian director Baz Luhrmann's 3D extravaganza "The Great Gatsby", a lavish production eclipsing more modest launches in recent years that reflected global economic gloom. Already showing in theatres in Canada and the United States, the adaptation of F.

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is set to go to prison next week after the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition seeking a review of his earlier jail sentence for firearms offences during the Mumbai blasts 20 years ago. Dutt, popular for his role as a do-good gangster in the "Munnabhai" films, was sentenced to six years jail in 2007 for acquiring illegal weapons from men convicted for the 1993 attacks that killed 257 people.

“It’s like an amusement park.” That’s Nick Carraway, the wide-eyed, ever-present narrator of “The Great Gatsby,” describing one of the legendary parties thrown by the movie’s fabulously wealthy and elusive title character. But Carraway could just as easily be referring to the very movie he finds himself in, a hyper-real, hyper-active, hyperbolic adaptation of F.

As India celebrates 100 years of cinema, we asked celebrities to name their favorite Indian film. It was a tough choice. After all, there are tens of thousands of films to choose from. How could they select only one? In the end, all our respondents sent in several choices, unable to pinpoint the one Indian film they thought was the best. Fashion designer Ritu Kumar was closest to the brief, naming just two personal favorites.

– CHICAGO, Ill. Bollywood playback singer Sunidhi Chauhan and Pakistani singer and actor Ali Zafar rocked the Sears Centre Arena here April 26. The duo entertained the audience for more than three hours, organizers said in a press release. The concert, titled “Krazy 2,” was co-hosted by Saahil Exclusive and L.A. Tan.