Innumerable melodramatic family dramas and romantic sagas are currently dominating the small screen and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is hoping to break the clutter with his finite series “Yudh”. He says if the medium allows “good” tales, he’s ready to make more for it. “Yudh”, due to go on air in July on Sony Entertainment Television, marks the entry of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan into the fiction space on TV – a medium whose face he changed when he first stepped in as the host of “Kaun Banega Crorepati”

Indian cinema icon Amitabh Bachchan Friday presented an Indian student with a scholarship of upto AUD 200,000 (appoximately $185,000) at La Trobe University here. The recipient of the Amitabh Bachchan Scholarship, that runs for four years, is La Trobe graduate Roshan Kumar, who is from Ranchi in Jharkhand. He will works towards a doctorate in the potential of using socialmedia to better communicate health messages to India’s estimated 80 million social media users.“I have grown up watching Amitabh Bachchan in movies. To imagine that I would meet him in person still seems like a dream,” Roshan Kumar said of his meeting with the ‘Angry Young Man’ here.

Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has disclosed that he has now renamed his movie “Mirza Sahibaan” as “Mirziya”. “The film is now going to be called ‘Mirziya’. Just like I made ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ inspired by the life of Milkha Singh, ‘Mirziya’ is only inspired by the folklore,” Mehra told IANS exclusively. He is here in Jammu and Kashmir as the patron of the Ladakh International Film Festival. His movie stars newcomers Harshvardhan Kapoor, son of veteran actor Anil Kapoor, and Saiyami Kher, niece of Tanvi Azmi. To be shot in Rajasthan and Ladakh, the tragic love story is a modern take on the folklore

Calling all fans of Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar, make sure that you tune into Star TV’s Big Life OK Awards on May 31st as our beloved Akki is set to give a very special performance. Life OK, has partnered up with BIG Productions to introduce the Life OK Now Awards, representing India’s first awards ceremony of this kind which will honour the cream of entertainment industry, encompassing film, television and music. Most importantly, all awards given will be based on votes from the audience only.