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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has begun shooting his latest film "Ready" in Sri Lanka, weeks after the Indian ocean island hosted the annual Bollywood awards that drew protests from South Indian film artists. The film, directed by Anees Bazmee, also stars South Indian actress Asin Thottumkal and Paresh Rawal. The story is woven around Prem (Khan), who falls for Sanjanna (Thottumkal) and tries to stop her two uncles from stealing her fortune.

Amidst growing controversy over the expenditure incurred by the Sri Lankan government for the recently concluded International Indian Film Academy (IFFA) awards ceremony in Colombo, Deputy Economic Development Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena yesterday Rs. 850 million had been spent.

Sri Lankan born Indian actress Jacqueline Fernandez jointly won the Best Debut Female Actor award with Mahie Gill at the 11th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards which concluded at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium Saturday. Jackie won the award for her debut movie Aladin while Mahie bagged the award for her role in Dev D. Rajkumar Hirani’s comedy film 3 idiots swept the board by clinching 16 awards including the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Performance in a Negative Role and others.

Colombo Chief City Administrator Omar Kamil said despite the rain, work is continuing on giving a facelift to the Colombo city for the 11th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards. Kamil told the Daily News that the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) had been called upon to beautify the environment and refurbish the roads. Roads from the outer areas of the city leading to some of the main venues of the Videocon IIFA Weekend and Micromax IIFA Awards will be redeveloped, he said.

Sri Lanka will host International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, 2010. The IIFA Awards are presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry. Instituted in 2000, the ceremony is held in

Akon, born Aliaune Thiam on October 14, 1981, is a Senegalese-American hip hop and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. Akon rose to fame in 2004 following the release of his single “Locked Up” from his debut album Trouble.

In the early years of his life, Akon was sent to jail for three years for a car-theft charge. This however, wasn’t the first time he was sent to jail. In April 2007, Akon drew criticism for an onstage act which included simulated sex with Danah (Deena) Alleyne,

Kasauti Zindagi Ki has been one of the all time favourite soap in south asia. Here in Sri Lanka, the same series is dubed in Sinhala (Praveena) is on Sirasa TV Mon - Fri 9:00pm. The series has been aired for more than 3 years and have about another year to go. Here we are presenting you the plot.

Movies are a medium of entertainment introduced in the 20th century. People were influenced by this technology which portrayed aspects of life, events, drama and violence. Years later movie ‘palaces’ like Broadway Strand Theatre and London Savoy were built to accommodate the wide screen.

One after the next, they trudged through the horizontal-blowing snow on Thursday, most focusing more on the icy sidewalk than on the body of a naked woman, who stood in a gallery window in Greenwich Village. The artist Brian Reed looks at his installation, which features a nude woman, at Chair and the Maiden in Greenwich Village.

There was the occasional elongated stare, or, in at least one case, a mother breaking her prepubescent son out of his trance with a firm tug.

Then, not long after the nude woman, Megan Hanford, assumed her pose, a patrol car rolled toward the gallery, Chair and the Maiden.