BHARATANATYAM dancers Shrishti will put South Asian dance on the map when they perform in front of thousands at the Royal Albert Hall on November 13.
The students put forward by their teacher and award-winning professional bharatantyam dancer, Nina Rajarani MBE, were selected from over 600 dance groups across the country to perform at the first ever Dance Proms.
The event celebrates dance in all its forms and will see a culmination of different genres from ballet to ballroom, salsa to street dance, and jive to jazz.  Shristi will perform a piece …

TWO of the world’s greatest cricket legends will grace the screens of over 50 cinemas across the UK to celebrate the release of the highly insightful and hard-hitting documentary Fire in Babylon.
Legendery Windies batsmen Gordon Greenidge and former Australian cricketer Jeff Thompson will be welcomed to the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton on Thursday May 12 by the legendary Sir David Frost. They will participate in a live Q&A session, following a preview screening of the film which will be broadcast via live satellite link to various cinemas around the country.
Fans will …

BRILLIANT Bollywood dance troupe Threebee are riding on the success of their appearances on ITV’S hit TV show, Britain’s Got Talent.
The 16 strong dance troupe have found themselves spinning to dizzying heights, after impressing the judges and audiences with energetic performances of AR Rahman’s ‘Jai Ho’ at the auditions to a show stopping routine to Bally Sagoo’s ‘Stayin’ Alive Desified.’
As the only Bollywood dance company to have reached the live semi-final stage of Britain’s Got Talent since the show started four years ago, Threebee have rapidly attracted a storm of …

THERE’S less than a week left to send in nominations for the third annual Scottish Curry Awards presented by Love Curry.
The team has been scouring Scotland with the Love Curry trailer visiting Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow receiving thousands of nominations from the public for their favorite restaurants, takeaways and supermarkets, among others.
By simply submitting your nominations you are automatically in with a chance of winning one of ten pairs of tickets available to the awards held on the June 15 at the Thistle Hotel, Glasgow. This includes …

SHIN from legendery bhangra band DCS and Coronation Street actress Sophiya Haque will star in UK’s first ever bhangra musical. The show, ‘Britain’s Got Bhangra’ opens at Theatre Royal Strafford East on April 17 before embarking on a UK wide tour at theatres across the country.
It follows the story of Twinkle who arrives in a cold UK, fresh from the fields of Punjab with a song in his heart and no money in his pocket. But can his talent shine through or will the remixed bling of …

YOU will probably never look at a shisha pipe in the same way again, but at least it’s a living testimony to the Asian contribution in Britain today.
Designed by Turner Prize winning artist Anish Kapoor and funded by global steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the ArcelorMittal Orbit is the new icon of British Art created to rival the Eiffel Tower.
Standing at 115 metres high, the steel structure will tower over the 59 metre high Olympic stadium in Strafford and offer panoramic views of the Thames and Big Ben.
Nicknamed the Hubble Bubble, …

WATERLOO Road actress Shabana Bakhsh, footballer Madjid Bougherra, and human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar are among the nominations for the inaugural Scottish Muslim Awards.
The gala event will be held at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms tomorrow evening. The awards are being organised to highlight the contribution that Muslims make to the country in fields such as business, health, education and the arts.
Guests at the event will be treated to entertainment from US comedian Omar Regan, and the Glaswegian youngster Milad Raza Qadri who is considered to be Europe’s biggest selling nasheed (Islamic …

IT looks like Zee Network have salvaged their carnival crowd by becoming official media sponsors for the Ideal Home Show 2010. The television network usually hosts the hugely popular, ‘Zee Carnival’ in February but decided to postpone it until next year.
At the beginning of the month, Asian Grapevine reported how the introduction of two ‘Asian Pavillions’ at the Ideal Home Show was a great opportunity for it to hijack the Zee Carnival’s desi crowd.
But now, Zee have found a cost-effective way of holding on to the hundreds of Zee Carnival …

THE hype of the Zee Carnival usually starts building up around this time of the year. And with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in town to promote, ‘My Name is Khan,’ it would have been perfect timing for them to attend the event. But despite attracting hundreds of Asians, Zee Carnival has been postponed until next year.
Now, the big-thinking organisers of the Ideal home show have jumped on the opportunity to tap in to the growing Asian market, where Zee would have been raking it in.  For the first time …

PLAYWRIGHT and actress, Rani Moorthy, who is best known for her hit play ‘Shades of Brown’ has just opened her brand new production, ‘Handful of Henna.’ But don’t let the exotic title fool you into thinking this is light-hearted and fun-loving production. ‘Handful of Henna’ is not for the faint hearted, it’s a deep and personal journey of a mother who goes back to her homeland to find happiness. Her story is told as she shares memories of her past with her 13 year-old daughter, Nasreen, who fails …