Bollywood star actress Kareena Kapoor feels she has managed to strike the right balance between commercial and meaningful cinema. Hailing from an illustrious film family, she says she can't do films where she only has to dance around trees.

The musical instrument santoor largely remained in the precincts of Jammu and Kashmir until instrumentalist Shiv Kumar Sharma gave his first public performance in 1955. And 55 years thereafter, he is proud that even soaps and restaurants are named after the instrument.

One of Bollywood's finest actresses, Kajol says she was not keen to do "We Are Family" because she was tired after "My Name Is Khan". Admitting that she also had doubts about first-time director Siddharth Malhotra, she believes the film had turned out "altogether" different from the original "Stepmom".

Mahendra Karma, the opposition Congress heavyweight in Chhattisgarh who was widely said to be behind the controversial Salwa Judum movement against Maoists, says the state government wants to rule the restive Bastar region at gunpoint as it has lost touch with the people.
 

"Brick Lane" fame actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, who stars in "Bhopal - A Prayer for Rain", based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, says the drama will rewind memories of the world's worst industrial accident.

She is young and raring to go. Deepika Padukone says she is hardly content with what she does and even though she has managed seven films in her three-year-old Bollywood career, she wants a lot more.
 

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, whose new album attempts a unique mix of Indian classical and Western orchestra, says he is not an entertainer and likes to perform only for those who respect the art.