January:
- Farah Khan invited as jury for Berlin Film Festival
- Shahrukh’s new year resolution: “I wont do cameos anymore.”
- ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ was the first Indian film which got shot at The Great Wall Of China.
- Slumdog Millionaire bags 11 BAFTA nominations
- ‘Ghajini’ producer presents gold statuette to Aamir Khan
- Legendary playback singer Shamshad Begum receives Padma Bhushan award
- National award winner Bollywood playback singer Udit Narayan, receives Padma Shri
February:
- Amitabh bags World Economic Forum award
- Kareena Kapoor gets an award for Vocational Excellence
- John Abraham will produce a film with director Milan Luthria
- Hairdressers Association wanted Billu Barber’s title changed and it was to Billu
- Sonam Kapoor will play ‘Emma’ in the screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.
- Sachin Tendulkar complimented hurman Baweja on his performance in ‘Victory’.
- Kareena replaces Katrina in forthcoming Race 2
- Aamir Khan refuses to get waxed at Madame Tussauds!
- Ghajini celebrated its half century at the box office
- Priyanka ranked second on the list of top-quality brand ambassadors of 2008
- Kaizad Gustad to make his directorial comeback with ‘Bombil and Beatrice’
- Freida Pinto’s secret marriage was revealed to Rohan Antao!
- Sharukh Khan teams up with ‘Ghajini’ director A R Murgadoss
- Akshay Kumar charges Rs 150 crore to host a reality show
- Sharmila Tagore and Shashi Kapoor won the Living Legends of Entertainment award from FICCI
- Big B to play Jim Corbett in Priyadarshan’s next ‘Grrr’
- Hrithik’s Kites sold at a whopping amount of Rs 100 crore.
- ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ bags 8 Oscars and Resul Pookutty becomes the first Indian to bag the best sound mixing Oscar for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
- Saif and Kareena were presented the Most Stylish Youth Icon award
March
- Owing to the Multiplex owners and Bollywood producers’ fights regarding profit sharing ratio, the former go on an indefinite strike.
- Darsheel Safary asks for Rs 1.25 crore for ‘Padduram’
- Ayesha Takia and Farhan Azmi’s ‘nikah’ was performed on the 1st of March
- Asin heads back to Kerala to learn the martial art from, Kalaripayattu
- Farhan Akthar will try his hand at comedy in his forthcoming film ‘Kartik Calling Kartik’
- Hrithik Roshan plays a salsa instructor in his next film ‘Kites’
- Neil Nitin Mukesh and Mugdha Godse agreed to cut their prices for ’Jail’ due to recession
- The censor board passes ‘Gulaal’ with an A certificate and four cuts
- Anil Kapoor offered a lucrative role in the American TV series ‘24’
- Shahid Kapur had taken lessons on lisping and stammering for ‘Kaminey’
- Mira Nair re-releases ‘Salaam Bombay’ after 21 years.
- Farah Khan choreographs Kylie’s song for free as she is her fan
- Censor Board asks Deepa Mehta to cut several violent scenes from ‘Videsh’
- Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra buy a house in London
- Abhay Deol lectures at Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania
- Aishwarya becomes the Bollywood’s highest paid heroine by charging 6 crores for Rajnikanth starrer film ‘Robot’