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DNAINDIA.COM After returning to the ramp after nine years at the India Men’s Week, actor Pooja Batra will be following it up with yet another ‘guest appearance’ at the Lakme Fashion Week for designer Babita Malkani. Pooja admits that she might even take a bigger break after walking the ramp. “I am in Mumbai for […]
Pooja Batra returns to films as a casting agent, having set up Glow Bell Inc., in Los Angeles. What made you give up acting and become a casting agent? I have not given up acting nor have I become a casting director. I love acting. If a good script or role comes by, I would […]
INDIA ABROAD New Delhi (IANS) Remember Pooja Batra? The former Indian beauty queen and actress is Hollywood bound. She is making a comeback to showbiz with upcoming American sitcom ‘Outsourced’ and also helping Indian actors find a foothold there with her casting company. Pooja, 36, who married orthopaedic surgeon Sonu Ahluwalia in 2003, is currently […]
TV producer and director Shaffee Shaik made South Africa proud when he directed the inaugural South Asian Excellence Awards in New York last night. The glitzy event, which took place at the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, honoured the achievements of South Asian Americans in various fields and was broadcast to over 100 countries. The […]
All the Pooja’s seem to be going crazy about George Clooney at the Dubai Film Festival. The man, we think, has the knack of making every woman feel special. Even Sameera Reddy returned a shade redder from the Toronto Film Fest, after meeting Charming Clooney, remember? We did tell you about Pooja Bedi’s weak knees […]
By any standards, Indian film ‘Taj Mahal’, that was premiered in Dubai on Tuesday evening, is impressive and takes you by surprise. The rare care with which producer-director Akbar Khan mounts his tale of Mughal intrigue, the volume of ‘epic’ quality that he succeeds in investing in the plot’s palpable periodicity and the attention he […]
Bollywood actress Pooja Batra can’t contain her excitement over her first outing at an international film festival. A former Miss India (1993), she is currently in Dubai with the cast of the period movie Taj Mahal – The Eternal Love Story, selected by DIFF this year under the Celebration of Indian Cinema programme. Pooja, known […]
The tall, slim Pooja Batra added glamour to the DIFF red carpet. The model-turned-actress will be seen on the screen after a long time as Noor Jehan in Akbar Khan’s Taj Mahal — The Director’s Cut. We spoke to her on the eve of the film’s world premiere at DIFF. How was the experience of […]
‘I am so excited to be nominated. It’s a definite high for any artiste. This is the first time someone had entrusted me with playing a totally Indian and a historical role too. I have to thank my director, Ahbar Khan for his confidence in me. So far, I had been cast in only westernised […]
The Miss India crown, a successful modelling career, and then, a huge splash in tinseltown with Virasat. Pooja Batra couldn’t have asked for a better start. But that was almost a decade ago. Now the lissome lass is back, reprising the role of Noorjehan, immortalised by Veena in the 1963 classic starring Pradeep Kumar and […]