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Miracles are possible. All you need, if this fanciful fable is to be believed, is love, patience and exceptional musical talent to overcome the odds. A bit too schmaltzy and slow-paced, August Rush showcases the winsome Freddie Highmore who hopes his musical gifts will somehow lead him to the parents he's never known.

Fashion Week and parties are inseparable. To complete the show, you gotta wrap it up with a wild party. So Day 1 of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week culminated with a bash hosted by Belvedere Vodka for style gurus Rohit Bal and Suneet Varma at F Bar, The Ashok.

Come summer and the focus shifts to the Yamuna flowing through the city. Year after year, claims are made for improving the situation but the river continues to flow more as a drain even while it passes at the back of the Taj, the symbol of love and beauty.

IN the end, there really is no place like home. Forced to trawl through the world for years for work of the kind she likes, prodigal daughter Ayesha Dharker is headed home. The draw: the 'exciting' changes in Bollywood.

Aamir Khan is all set to shave off his locks for his upcoming film Ghajini . Take a look.

Orphans in Jammu and Kashmir are using theatre as a medium to overcome their fears and trauma. For every child the performance is a personal journey to overcome their fears and trauma, their search for an expression and perhaps their childhood, which they lost during the years of violence.

The Indian International Pet Trade Fair is on in Delhi. And as Sushant Mehta found out, sometimes a bark, or even a bite won't keep dog lovers away from a pet fair.

You break into a laugh the moment he appears on the screen, but he's the one laughing all the way to the bank. In 2007, he delivered four monstrous hits, and the truth is that some of those films weren't even that good. But these days, every film he touches, seems to turn into box office gold.

Graphic novelist Amruta Patil's creation Kari is the latest on the shelves that is likely to grab the readers by the eyeballs. The gritty story of Kari, coupled with the novel's surreal illustrations, is likely to stay with you for a while.

A graduate of Pune's FTII, Resul has been in the industry for 12 years now with a filmography that has an interesting mix of biggies like Sawaariya, Dus Kahaniyaan, Black, Gandhi My Father, Zinda, Bluffmaster and small independent films like Amu, Raghu Romeo and Mixed Doubles .

Fashion food and music -- things to help you plan out a better weekend.

J K Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter series has sued a fan for trying to publish an unauthorised reference of her books.

The attackers came in a grey-coloured Santro car and threw a few stones and bottles before making good their escape. Samajawadi party leader and Amitabh's close friend Amar Singh was quick to point out that Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray was behind the attack.

ressed in a black business suit, Preity Zinta was all business at an event to announce her support for a TV series called Trapped that deals with remarkable survival and rescue stories of people. So, right from survivor tales of the 45 passengers who were trapped on the Andes after a plane crash to the IC-814 hijack tales, this is one series that salutes the spirit of the survivor.

Actor Sanjay Dutt on Wednesday withdraw his marriage declaration, filed with Manyata, before the South Goa Sub Registrar.

Explaining economy isn't an easy task and more than often people squirm in their seats when words like Budget, investment and foreign investment are brought out. So it does come as a pleasant surprise when the country's Finance Minister decides to elaborate.

After being lapped up by music lovers across the world, the Rolling Stone magazine is finally hitting Indian shores. The launch party of the magazine at Mumbai witnessed an overwhelming response from as many as 24 bands dishing out charged up performances.

Yet another problem for the epic film and all about a rocking mag launch.

Music composers Vishal and Shekhar launched their own music label in Mumbai on Tuesday night with a keen eye to promote fresh talent, and actor Sanjay Dutt was present to support the duo at the event.

Bipasha Basu's steamy song with Saif Ali Khan in Race reasserts her sex symbol status. And the actor is patiently waiting for her Hollywood break in Ben Kingsley's Taj Mahal .