Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan

Robert Downey Jr. & his producer wife Susan, welcomed their first child together - Exton Elias Downey!

Exton joins Downey’s 18-year old son Indio, from his previous marriage to Deborah Falconer. In an interview with Jay Leno, Downey announced the sex of the baby, much to the chagrin of his wife.  It’s an exciting time for Downey, with the highly anticipated release of The Avengers, hitting theaters this May, and Iron Man 3, releasing next year. Congrats to the couple!

Jagjit Singh

Its hardly been a few months since Jagjit Singh passed away, and today would’ve been his 71st birthday. In remembrance, let’s take a look at a few of Jagjitji’s classic songs. 

Hoshwalon Ko Khabar Kya – Sarfarosh

Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho – Arth

Shaam se Aankh Mein – Marasim

Woh Kaagaz Ki Kashti – Jagjit Forever

Tumko Dekha To Yeh Khayal Aaya – Saath Saath

Hontho Se Chhoo Lo Tum – Prem Geet

Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar – Arth

Koi Fariyaad – Tum Bin

Hazaron Khwaishein Aisi – Mirza Ghalib

Badi Nazuk Hai Ye Manzil – Jogger’s Park

The Amazing Spider-Man

Comic lovers get ready, the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man is finally here!

Andrew Garfield stars as Spider-Man alongside Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans in the latest Spider-Man franchise. I have to admit, I wasn’t really looking forward to the new Spider-Man (for me this year is all about The Dark Knight Rises), but after watching the trailer I’m a little excited to see the film. What do you guys think?

Miike Snow

I first came across Miike Snow’s hit song Animal while watching season 3 of Gossip Girl (I love discovering music on my favorite TV shows). Ever since I heard the song I became a fan of the band.

The band’s latest song Devil’s Work released last December but we recently came across a great remix by Alstair Albrecht. The best part of the remix? You can download it for free on SoundCloud. Enjoy!

Shit Bollywood Says

Have you been seeing all those “Sh*t ____ say(s)” videos doing the rounds? I’ve seen a few – but among my favourites has to be Sh*t Bollywood Says, created by Waseem Shaikh, Naach Radio host that MissMalini does Bollywood updates for. He pays homage to some classic Bollywood elements, and I guarantee you will let out a laugh!

Happy Birthday Ashton Kutcher!

It’s Ashton Kutcher’s 34th birthday, and boy has he had an eventful last few months. With his separation from Demi Moore, and his return to television as Walden, on Two and a half Men, Kutcher has been all over the news. 

Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore in better times

Kutcher has been paying regular visits to Moore, who was recently rushed to the hospital, after allegedly smoking something similar to incense. Moore has reportedly been out of control since Kutcher cheated on her last year, and her ex-husband Bruce Willis, has been insisting she go to rehab. It is now rumoured that Moore has checked herself into a rehab facility for an eating disorder and addiction.

While Kutcher’s personal life has been going through tough times, his professional life improved, when he replaced Charlie Sheen on the hit sitcom Two and a half Men. Though the season premiered to an outstanding audience, with ratings going through the roof, Kutcher has received mixed reviews for his character and the overall story-line hasn’t kept people hooked.

Here’s wishing Kutcher’s personal life gets sorted and professional life continues to soar!

Ayesha Takia | Photo Courtesy: Ayesha Takia Web

Well, just when I blogged about celebrities using Twitter to have cute conversations, Ayesha Takia and Sidharth Mallya are doing the absolute opposite by having a bit of a Twitter showdown! Watch out, people – this girl’s angry.

@ayeshatakia

So apparently Ayesha’s sister’s boarding pass was torn by a Kingfisher Airlines employee (though why, she doesn’t mention), and Ayesha was absolutely livid upon hearing this – and has therefore taken to Twitter to rant it out. And as though she feels her tweets haven’t gotten rid of her rage, she’s even retweeted over 40 of the responses she’s received from followers.

@sidharthamallya

Meanwhile, Sidharth claims to not know who Ayesha Takia is, and states that there are always two sides to a story.

@ayeshatakia

While I know I’d be angry if this happened to me, I’ve got to agree with Sidharth Mallya on one point – there are always two sides to a story, and clearly, Ayesha Takia is giving us only one. We don’t know what her sister did to initiate this reaction – and the only way to really know would have been to be there, which… neither of them were! Either way, some poor PR person somewhere is going to go into overdrive trying to make this whole situation better!

Madonna performing at the Super Bowl half-time show

Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl was as energetic and grand as we all expected it to be; what we didn’t expect, was M.I.A to disregard the audience and flip them off.

The N.F.L. & N.B.C. has profusely apologized for the incident, which comes 8 years after Janet Jackson’s famous wardrobe incident. N.F.L. spokesperson, Brian McCarthy, said “The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing and we apologise to our fans.” N.B.C. is calling it, a “spontaneous gesture”, a phrase that will probably become part of our television dictionary.

What was M.I.A thinking? With 110 million people watching the show, did she think they wouldn’t notice her flipping them off? Hopefully people will forget about the incident and remember Madonna’s performance which also features Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and Cee Lo Green!

P.S. I’m having doubts that Madonna is actually 53 –  how does she look so young and where does she get her energy from?!

Lana Del Rey

The next big thing, erm, according to some. But her song Video Games, which catapulted her to the fore, sure is a thing of beauty. I’ve been listening to it on a loop for a good while now, and what a gorgeously haunting song it is. My pick for Best Song of 2011. Her sort of debut album, Born to Die, was released into the world last week and has already shot to No.1 in 13 countries. Sounds peachy? Far from it; she’s got tongues lashing wagging, read on to know Why This Kolaveri Di for Lana Del Rey.

Okay, take a deep breath. She was born as Elizabeth Grant in 1986 to *minted parents* (her dad’s a millionaire, just saying) in New York City, and grew up in another rich men’s playground Lake Placid, New York. While studying metaphysics (which is working out whether it’s possible to mathematically prove God’s existence, if you didn’t know!) at Fordham University in NYC, she trawled bars in Brooklyn for a singing gig. Persistence pays as they say, ‘cos she bagged a recording contract with New York indie label 5 Points Records. Under her own name, Lizzy Grant, she released an EP titled Kill, Kill in October, 2008 and a full-length album in *January, 2010* titled Lana Del Ray, both of which tanked. In *March, 2010*, bizarrely, that album, along with footage/recordings/anything to do with Lizzy Grant, was scrubbed from the Internet. That is, there was no trace of Lizzy Grant to be found in the virtual world, and she even decamped… to London.

Lana Del Rey

Skip to July, 2011, and enters Lana Del Rey, the pillow-lipped pouty, sultry, seductive version of Lizzy Grant to be known as of now, to sign a recording contract with Interscope Records (did daddy bribe the record execs?). Suspiciously, that deal was not made public.

Then, the supposedly self-made video for Video Games surfaced on the internet, and, just like that, it went on to become crazily viral (did Interscope seed and viralize it? Cynical git you’re for thinking so…), making her the poster child for indie kids along the way.

Lizzy Grant (photo courtesy | HipsterRunoff.com)

In September, 2011, noted indie music and meme interpreter Carles, of Hipster Runoff, posted a bunch of old photos of Lizzy Grant LDR in which she had smaller lips, and with it started the storm about her authenticity altogether. Then in an attempt to refute allegations of cosmetic surgery through an interview with Complex, she accidentally (ha!) muddled with her cushty background: “I haven’t had anything done at all. Anyone who’s known me will tell you that. I’m sorry, but I was living in a trailer park for a few years. I didn’t even have enough money to buy Cocoa Puffs. ”

All very petty and irrelevant, I know. But can she actually sing ‒ live? Her TV debut, on 11^th October, 2011, at Britain’s Later… with Jools Holland implied that, erm, she couldn’t. She made a few more live performances and unfortunately, none of them suggested otherwise.

But what really opened the floodgates was her performance on her U.S. television debut at Saturday Night Live on 14^th January, 2012, which, in all honesty, was shambles. Somewhere amidst it all ‒ and adding fuel to the fire ‒ Billboard confirmed the rumoured Interscope deal, and that her album would be coming out in early 2012. Which it did on 31^st of January ‒ to mixed reviews.

So, yeah, some people feel victims of an immense confidence trick: far from being an organic wunderkind, her transformation from Lizzy to Lana was plotted all along by shrewd record execs ‒ and backed by her wealthy father. Is she actually talented; if so, why didn’t she take off when she was Lizzy Grant? SO, friends, would you give LDR a listen; or, has her spot of airbrushing the past backstory made you all too sceptical to give her any credibility as an artist? I’m yet to listen to the whole album but the three songs that I’ve heard so far, the misanthropic me loved ‒ think I’ll go for it.

Karan Johar retorts to a Twitter Troll

Most celebs have trolls on Twitter – losers who have nothing better to do than rant and abuse in the most foul language. One such person has been pretty “busy” sending the most vile messages to Shah Rukh Khan, Arjun Rampal and Karan Johar.

In fact, from his tweets, he seems to be a die-hard Salman Khan fan, and that probably explains the awful abuses against Shah Rukh and his close friends. So when he sent Karan Johar a disgusting message yesterday (“Suck my ****, you moron”),  the usually non-confrontational director replied back saying….

K-Jo's reply to the Twitter Troll

Oh, and by the way, even author Chetan Bhagat has not been spared!

Now what was that old saying about an idle mind being a devil’s workshop?