Desi Wonders

It is well known that the pop king Michael Jackson left with huge sums as debts to be repaid at the time of his sudden death. The debts are now being repaid out of the earnings obtained from his estate. (more…)

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There was a strong argument that cricketers or in general sportspersons are not targeted at all by terrorists. Teams like West Indies, Australia and recently India had the common sense to call off their tours to Pakistan but not Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankans were asked to fill in the void created by the Indian team backing off from a tour and despite a warning from the Government of India, the Lankans decided to go ahead. (more…)

Here is an amazing video of a young chimpanzee that shows its Karate skills for all of us! The Chimp’s name is Charlie and its a resident of USA. Charlie was born in 1985, well lets cut the crap here and instead take a look at this unbelievable but absolutely funny video: (more…)

Freida Pinto, who played the lead female role in the Oscar Award winning Slumdog Millionaire is now all set to work in popular American Director Woody Allen’s movie. Woody Allen is a 3-time Oscar Award winner. Woody’s unnamed movie is due to begin in July this year according to Freida Pinto in an interview. (more…)

The late Australian Actor Heath Ledger and Spanish Beauty Penélope Cruz won the Oscars for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) respectively.

Heath Ledger had a very short life, he died at a young age of just 28 on January 22nd this year because of an overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills and others. He got the Oscar for potraying the role of Joker in The Dark Knight. Ledger is the ex-husband of actress Naomi Watts, he is survived by his wife Michelle Williams, also an actress. (more…)

The Oscar for the Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 81st Academy Awards went to the beautiful Kate Winslett for her character of Hanna Schmitz in the movie ‘The Reader’. The 33-year-old Winslett made her film debut in 1992 starring in ‘Heavenly Creatures’. It was the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic that gave her immense popularity as a beautiful and sexy heroine. (more…)

Sean Penn got the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the movie that got him the award was ‘Milk’. The 48-year-old played the role of the late Harvey Milk who was an American politician and a gay rights activist.

Sean Penn is also the ex-husband of pop star Madonna. He had also won an Oscar for Best Actor for the 2003 American movie ‘Mystic River’.

WALL-E, a crazy love story between between two robots won an Oscar for the Best Animated Feature. The animation of the 98-minute English movie was produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The movie’s budget was of $180 million. WALL-E is directed by Andrew Stanton who had earlier directed the popular animation movie – Finding Nemo. WALL-E depicts a fictitious story that happens in the 29th century. This movie stars Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard to name a few.

The James Marsh directed ‘Man on Wire’ has won the 81st Academy Award for the Best Documentary Film. The 90-minute documentary is about Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The World Trade Center was destroyed by the Al-Qaeda during the September 11 attacks in 2001. This documentary ‘Man on Wire’ features footage from the events of Frenchman Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk along with the homework that he had done to achieve the feat.