I am so grateful that I saw the movie, Slumdog Millionaire. Midway in the movie, as I watched the enormous deprivation of the slum children of India and the predators who diabolically offered them security and community, only to maim them for a life of begging or sell them into the sex trade, I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.

Congratulating the Oscar winners 'Slumdog Millionaire' and "Smile Pinky,' the prime minister of India Manmohan Singh has said the "winners have done India proud" and their achievement is a tribute to the Indian movie industry.

Recently the Indian made movies make good headlines. We saw how Slumdog Millionaire got so many movie awards and is well on its way to an Academy Award. Today India released another moview, Naan Kadavul, which is making buzz around the internet. The reviews of the movie are already surfacing in the blogs and we know present Babu Deepan's review of Naan Kadavul.

Hollywood studio Warner Brothers has made its first foray into film production in India with the release of a Hindi film, Chandni Chowk to China. Several big Hollywood studios are investing in India to tap the huge movie business in the country.

Sylvester Stallone, the star of the Rocky and Rambo films, is to become the first well-known Hollywood actor to star in a Bollywood movie according to the UK Sunday Times.

A man in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has set a world record for watching movies non-stop for 120 hours, the Asian Age reported.

RBE, the media and entertainment company of Reliance ADA Group, has announced a slew of deals with production firms of Hollywood stars including Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt and Jim Carrey, marking its entry into the mecca of films.

The world's largest film-producing nation may be missing from the official selection of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday but, as always, a sizeable Indian contingent will descend on the French Riviera over the next fortnight to promote a wide array of cinematic wares.

Power Star Pawan Kalyan has come up with a hit this time in Jasla. The lean patch in his career seems to be over now. This time, Pawan has come up with a total family entertainer which has an amalgamation of Comedy, fights, sentiment, emotions and overall total entertainment and is worth for each penny. Though the second half of Jasla looks shaped out, the climax still is unpredictable and super entertaining.

It’s been a long time since I have walked out of the cinema hall with a feeling of equanimity and the asseveration of having just witnessed a film that will go down in history as a classic. The last time I was overcome by such a feeling was with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s poetic Saawariya, a film that many people rejected for its folklore style.

Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi (Darsheel Safary) is all of eight and has repeated his third grade already. Papa Awasthi is one angry middle-aged man who wants Ishaan to be like his older brother Yohaan (Sachet Engineer) – a winner. In Taare Zameen Par caught between the father and son is the mother (Tisca Chopra) who cannot decide for herself what is right and what’s not.