Given that her debut film, Saawariya, didn’t turn out the way it should’ve, she must have had to battle some doubts while signing Delhi 6.But Sonam Kapoor says she went by her instinct. “I liked the role, so I took it up. And of course, it wouldn’t be intelligent on my part not to take [...]
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February 12th, 2009 by riaz
The library of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science has asked Subhash Ghai for the screenplay of his latest film, Yuvvraaj, to add to their permanent core collection which is made for filmmakers, writers, actors and students all over world for their research work.
A screenplay is not selected on the basis of the film’s [...]
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February 11th, 2009 by riaz
Soho House and Grey Goose® vodka team up
for unique Orange British Academy Film Awards After Party
London based private members’ club Soho House and Grey Goose, the world’s favourite luxury vodka, today announced that they are teaming up to create a unique after party for this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards on February [...]
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February 10th, 2009 by neeraj
“Angelina Jolie to Kate Winslet, everyone is so humble in Hollywood”
The whole of India wants to know, what was it like walking that red carpet at the BAFTA’s?
It was phenomenal and an absolutely fantastic experience. It was raining heavily, the weather was damn cold but the entire team of Slumdog Millionaire was feeling [...]
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February 10th, 2009 by riaz
For the detractors of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ who suggest that the Mumbai-based film featuring Indian actors would not have received half the acclaim it has had the director been an Indian, Bollywood superstar Anil Kapoor has simple advice: ‘Grow up.’
‘It’s a very racist statement to make [that if a Westerner had not made it, it would [...]
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February 6th, 2009 by riaz
Versatile Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, who played quizmaster in Danny Boyle’s Oscar-nominated rags-to-riches story ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, says he sees a reflection of his own life in the film.
”Slumdog…’ is like my story. I also started from scratch – a rags to riches story. I started in Chembur (a Mumbai suburb) and slowly climbed up. God [...]
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February 3rd, 2009 by riaz
In the build up to the release of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and the controversies being generated in association with it on a daily basis, one thing has been forgotten that the onus of providing the initial box-office pull for the film to a large extent would rest on the charisma of Anil Kapoor. If there ever [...]
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January 26th, 2009 by riaz
Danny Boyle’s stiflingly and oppressively visceral film “Slumdog Millionaire” is above all about the realisation that most slum dwellers in Mumbai have no hope whatsoever of escaping their wretched existence. In the end, the movie seems like one giant heap of rotting and fetid urban squalor from which emerges a momentary [...]
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December 12th, 2008 by riaz
Every step you take, every move you make… we’ll be watchin’ you. Have altered the lines of a famous song.
For, this one’s applicable for Subhash Ghai, a proficient storyteller, one of the most successful stories from this side of the Atlantic. Irrespective of how his films are received at the ticket window, Ghai’s movies are [...]
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November 24th, 2008 by riaz
The threesome – Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan – on the way to god-knows-where need to escape from the cops. They get into blonde wigs and tight ‘American’ costumes and turn into item dancers for a Hollywood project called Holy Widows. “Tashan” is so full of the milk of human zaniness that [...]
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Fresh from the success of Anees Bazmi’s “Welcome”, Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor has taken a cultural leap into British director Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire”. He plays a game show host in the movie.However, he denies that his character is based on Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan in “Kaun Banega Crorepati” (KBC).
“No, it’s nothing like [...]
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