The Kannada film industry has completed 75 glorious years. From a time when the industry didn't even have a studio in Bangalore, to the city becoming the hub of animation for Hollywood projects, there's been a sea change. But the industry still needs to ramp up in terms of production value and budgets to benefit from the technology and solutions at home.

Kangna Ranaut has been sweating it out to get her curves back which she lost out on as she did not take care of her body in the past. The actor is now more conscious about her sexuality than what she was when she joined the industry at the age of 18.

"Genetically I've been thin and I did a lot of cardio which made me lose my curves. Then again when I joined the industry at 18, I did not care much about how my figure was. But now I want to have some curves and so I'm doing some weight training and mixing it with yoga. It's a perfect formula to get a great body," Kangna told After Hrs as we caught her gymming at Leena Mogre's fitness studio in Bandra.

Accidents and injuries seem to have become a part and parcel of reality shows (see box). Keeping this in mind, participants of Zee TV's reality show Dance India Dance have been asked to follow stringent rules. The channel wants to minimise injuries on the sets.

A unit member says, "Being a part of a dance reality show, accidents and minor injuries are bound to happen. So the channel has set up guidelines to avoid unhealthy competition and protect contestants from injuries."

She has creditors knocking at her door almost every day and technicians calling her up and demanding money at odd hours – all this because she 'dared to dream.

Nisha Chainani, who has assisted film-makers like Rakesh Roshan, Harry Baweja and Aziz Mirza, now faces a bleak future after nothing went right for her directorial debut Marathon. The film-maker who dreamt about making a movie has fallen to the ground with a thud and she says that it hurts like hell. Things have come to such a state that Nisha says she even thought of jumping out of her balcony.

Satyajit Ray, a towering figure in the world of cinema, showed his talent as a director, producer, writer, composer and even a graphic designer.

He was the surprise element of Anurag Kashyap's Dev.D and got a thumbs up from the critics, but it's not Debyendu Bhattacharya's first brush with fame. The list of roles include Yeda Yakub in Black Friday, Kripashankar Singh in The Rising, a footballer called Debasis in Goal and several other's in films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Monsoon Wedding, Maqbool and Ab Tak Chappan.

Bhattacharya says that for some reason people don't recognise his face which he takes as a compliment. "I am glad people remember my characters and not me. Once after enacting a play, a senior theatre personality went and congratulated someone else thinking it's me. People don't recognise me," he says.