Posts tagged Bollywood

Katrina Kaif in mobile search

May 26th

MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif is the most searched celebrity on the mobile phones and has beaten the likes of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Aishwarya Rai.

The research was conducted by mBit Infotech, a Value Added Service (VAS) provider.

Among the Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities, Katrina is on the number one spot followed by Angelina Jolie, Kareena, Shah Rukh, Salman, Bipasha, Aishwarya, Monica Bellucci and Aamir Khan.

Commenting on the results, Raghavendra Agarwala, CEO of mBit Infotech, said: “It is amazing to see that Katrina Kaif is ruling the charts with a major pie, presumably implying that Katrinas popularity is mounting for both national and international audiences.”

The research is based on the searches performed by over 120,000 users of mBit in the first quarter of 2010 (Jan to April) and it also found out that “sex” is still the most popular searched keyword followed by music where mostly international music icons like Akon, Linkin Park, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Rihanna and Michael Jackson top the list.

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INDIAN LYRICIST JAVED AKHTAR GETS DEATH THREAT

May 16th

MUMBAI: Bollywood lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar on Saturday received a death threat through an E-Mail about which he has intimated to the local police.

Incidentally, Akhtar has received the threat after he criticized the decree of an Islamic seminary asking Muslim women not to work and reportedly terming the cleric issuing the diktat as “insane”.

A couple of days ago, Darul Uloom Deoband issued a fatwa (religious decree) saying taking up of jobs by Muslim women is illegitimate and asked them not to work with men.

After informing the Additional Commissioner of Police, Akhtar said: “I gave him the whole detail. I showed him the e-mail, the threatening e-mail, he went through it, read it and he said that there is no problem, police will do the needful and will give proper protection.”

Mumbai Police, meanwhile, has provided him temporary security pending a review of the situation.

“Javed Akhtar came to me, met me. He explained to me certain situation and certain e-mail, which was threatening in nature.

We have asked him to lodge a formal complaint, which he is going to do. Temporarily we have provided security to him.

We are going to review the security and take necessarily action,” said Amitabh Gupta, Additional Commissioner of Police.

Akhtar has been well-known for his liberal views and been at the received end of clerics”s ire on various issues.