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Meet the Stars: Gerard Wallace
With the popular culinary reality TV show Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef returning for a brand new season in less than a week, The
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Prangonemor stages “Ami O Rabindranath”
Theatre troupe Prangonemor staged their new production “Ami O Rabindranath” at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Butterflies of Bangladesh ends at Drik Gallery
A butterfly is a symbol of fragility and restlessness. A mass of butterflies, fluttering from flower to flower, remind us of the childhood
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid celebrates his 17th birthday today!
A prominent actor, director and screenwriter, Mamunur Rashid has massive contributions to the theatre scenario of Bangladesh...
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM
'The Revenant' leads charge at 'whitewashed' Oscars
Hollywood hits the Oscars red carpet for its annual show of glitz and pageantry honoring cinema's finest -- with a broiling row over diversity an awkward guest at the party.
28 February 2016, 05:23 AM
National street theatre festival ends in Barisal
The Jatiyo Potho Natya Utsab (National Street Theatre Festival), concluded on the open air stage in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall in Barisal City on Friday night.
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Selim and Moutushi in daily soap
Prolific TV and film actor Shahiduzzaman Selim and Moutushi Biswas are pairing up on-screen for a new daily soap, titled “TV Poribar”. Written by Azam Khan
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Bhanga Gora Natyotshab opens today
Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation (BGTF), with assistance from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, is hosting a month-long theatre festival at the revamped Dr.
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Felicitation to Shaheen Samad
Renowned cultural organisation “Amra Surjamukhi” held a felicitation programme to pay ovation to Ekushay Padak recipient eminent singer Shaheen Samad at AS Mahmud Hall of The Daily Star centre on February 26. Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique, Vice Chancellor of University of Dhaka, attended the event as chief guest while Md. Abdul Hannan Khan, chief coordinator of International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh, presided over the programme. Shafiqul Islam Selim, coordinator of Amra Surjomukhi, delivered welcome address.
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“My Whole Career Is a Tribute to David Bowie”
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GOTG sequel casts Tommy Flanagan
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Judy Greer to star in workplace comedy
Judy Greer has been tapped to star in an untitled workplace comedy pilot from Fox that hails from writer Laura Steinel. The comedy will center around Jane
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Selena Gomez surprises concertgoers
Selena Gomez surprised concertgoers with a performance of her song “Nobody” at LA's Belasco Theatre on Thursday evening.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Bollywood welcomes back 'Munnabhai'
When Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt walked to freedom emerging from a prison in western Indian city of Pune on Thursday after serving out his jail-term in a deadly bomb blast case, he saluted the soil outside the prison gate and the prison itself before boarding a vehicle. Among a handful of persons waiting for him were his wife Mannayata and director-producer Rajkumar Hirani, the man whose “Munnabhai MBBS” starring Dutt was a superhit movie.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
India and Bangladesh exchange films in theatres
“Chuye Dile Mon” and “Bela Sheshe” released at theatres in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh respectively, on February 26.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Papon performs in Dhaka
Popular Indian singer Angarag Mahanta, known mostly by his nickname Papon, performed at the Ethnicity Concert in Dhaka on Thursday evening. The musical
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Poetic vision in lines and colours
Ranjit Das, draws a sparse vista at each turn of his array of artworks, more like pages of a book one is invited to flip through. Each of them inscribed with a chapter of a story, simultaneously ephemeral and condensed in the capsule of a moment from one picture frame after the other, each edition forging a part of the whole.
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Stage set for Oscars night tainted by race row
The Hollywood awards season reaches its glittering climax at Sunday's Oscars, with bleak survival epic "The Revenant" tipped to clean up on a night overshadowed by a simmering race row.
26 February 2016, 06:30 AM
Adele dominates Brit Awards
Adele proved to be the Queen of the Brits, winning four prizes including best British female solo artiste and best album.
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