Actress Soha Ali Khan’s tryst with realistic films continues. After ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’, about the serial train blasts, she is doing a movie where she will relive the trauma of July 26, 2005, when torrential rains nearly drowned the city.’This is my second film based on real trauma that happened to Mumbai. I was in [...]
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September 25th, 2008 by riaz
Priyanka Chopra is scared of horses but her determination to give her best enabled her to sail through a scene in “Drona” where she had to ride a horse with Abhishek Bachchan.Priyanka plays Abhishek’s bodyguard in ‘Drona’ and tries to save him from evil in the film.
In one of the sequences, she had to ride [...]
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September 25th, 2008 by riaz
Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu plays the alter ego of a cross dressed boy who fantasises about her in ‘Pankh’.
Bipasha will be seen as the alter ego of 20-year-old protagonist Jerry, played by debutant Maradona Rebello.
Explaining the complexity of the story, director Sudipto Chattopadhyay said: ‘Bipasha is Jerry’s fantasy and exists only in his mind. She [...]
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September 25th, 2008 by riaz
Actor Vivek Oberoi has the uncanny knack of landing himself in controversies. It is this trait of his which has played havoc with his career, despite making a sensational debut in Ram Gopal Verma’s Company. The actor has recently been confirmed to play the lead in the next film by Kumar Taurani of TIPs. But [...]
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September 25th, 2008 by riaz
Aamir Khan’s acclaimed directorial debut ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is India’s official entry to the Oscars this year and many in Bollywood, including Naseeruddin Shah and Amitabh Bachchan, have sent their best wishes that it may be up there with the best in world cinema.A snapshot of views from leading lights of the film industry:
Amitabh [...]
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September 24th, 2008 by riaz
After having had a lion tattoo on his forearm for some time, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is getting two new tattoos – another lion on his chest and the word ‘honour’ in Japanese on his arm.’The actor wanted another lion tattoo, but since he already has one, this one had to be different. We sat [...]
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September 24th, 2008 by riaz
It took a Subhash Ghai to achieve that. He has just been able to avert a showdown between Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. But this time it was not in real life but at the box office. Both Yuvvraaj and Billoo Barber were scheduled to release on November 21. But now SRK’s film has [...]
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September 24th, 2008 by riaz
Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan, who is in France with wife Jaya, says he might sign a French project, if he is lucky.The superstar has attended several meetings in France and says that from the looks of it ‘there may be consent on the French project’. It will be produced and directed by the makers of [...]
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September 23rd, 2008 by riaz
The festival season’s most anticipated release KIDNAP sees two of the lead actors caught in an unusual situation. Typically, Bollywood heroes and heroines are caught singing romantic duets. But KIDNAP essentially traces the complex relation between a kidnaper and his victim, leaving little scope for a budding romance in the initial reels of the film.What [...]
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September 23rd, 2008 by riaz
The are a jodi, which the audiences love. And it has been a while since they have been seen together on screen. The last time that Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol were seen together was in Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.
But the man who originally got them together and created magic was Aditya Chopra [...]
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September 23rd, 2008 by riaz
Years ago, a popular TV series MALGUDI DAYS left an indelible impression on the minds of viewers. Now Shyam Benegal’s WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR takes you back to a hamlet that has its share of assorted characters: a letter writer, a power-hungry goon, a eunuch, a short tempered army man and his widowed daughter-in-law, a compounder, [...]
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September 22nd, 2008 by riaz
Amongst the various interests of an Indian today are saas-bahu shows [the high TRPs vouch for it] and monitoring the sensex on a day-to-day basis. Shona Urvashi incorporates these two interests/passions in her second outing SAAS BAHU AUR SENSEX. It’s a complete departure from her directorial debut CHUPKE SE.
There’s so much to explore when you [...]
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September 22nd, 2008 by riaz