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After delivering the smash-hit Heyy Babyy, Sajid Khan announced that his next directorial venture Housefull would star Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, and Deepika Padukone besides two more leading ladies. Soon the super-sexy Jiah Khan was also added to the star-cast and a hunt for the third and final [...]
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Suneil Shetty’s last few films may not have worked at the B.O; however the actor does manage to stay in the limelight courtesy one news or the other. The latest is that the brawny actor has been roped in by Ford India to endorse their new [...]
Rohan Sippy’s much awaited film Chandni Chowk to China will surely go down as one film that won’t be forgotten for a long time to come,
courtesy the mega marketing blitzkrieg that left practically no space untouched. At the same time, one also feels bad for the kind of (’unintentional’ and ‘uncalled-for’) controversy that it got [...]
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Here’s an example of how creative freedom can be smothered by commercial enterprises. In a blatant show of bullying tactics, a major cosmetic company put its foot down after reading a news report that she’d be shaving off her hair. A source close to Shilpa reveals she was [...]
Irrfan Khan’s role in Slumdog Millionaire has been seriously chopped off. Apparently a lot of his footage had to be deleted for the sake of a tightly bound narrative.
Irrfan, who plays the cop interrogating the young hero to know how he knows all the answers on the game-show, is surprisingly candid on the cutting [...]
Last weekend Ashutosh Gowariker created quite a flutter in the film industry by vocally criticizing host Sajid Khan for satirizing well-known personalities from the film industry on stage.
The buzz in the industry is that the Jodhaa-Akbar director wanted the footage of the heated unpleasant exchange between Sajid Khan and him to be deleted from the [...]
A certain kind of art wouldn’t be possible without the muse. The great music composer Madan Mohan wouldn’t have been able to compose all those sparkling melodies were it not for Lata Mangeshkar.
A new kind of cinematic heroine was born with Kangna Ranaut in the underrated Gangster. Since then she has played the dark traumatized [...]
A serious chest injury for Suneil Shetty, a wracking fever cold-cough and a septic leg wound for Katrina Kaif…all this and much more happened while shooting prolonged underwater sequences for Priyadarshan’s De Dana Dan last month.
The most hard hit is Suneil Shetty. Our first action hero to get healthily muscular, he has never gone without [...]
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The makers of the film titled 42 Kms seem to have caught in what one would call as the â??irony of lifeâ??. The reason? Well, the release date of their film titled 42 Kms (based on the famous Mumbai marathon) has been postponed. The reason for [...]
Farhan Akhtar has a penchant for working with first-time directors. ROCK ON!! may not be Abhishek Kapoor’s directorial debut, but it was the first film that discovered Abhishek’s true talent. Farhan’s next release, LUCK BY CHANCE, is also helmed by a first-timer, his sister Zoya Akhtar. The film is carrying rave reports and those who’ve [...]
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Though she has done only two films in her short career so far, Geeta Basra ensured that her performance in both the films didn’t go unnoticed. Whether it was Dil Diya Hai or The Train (both of which incidentally had Emraan Hashmi opposite her), Geeta did gain appreciation [...]
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LOVE STORY 2050 may’ve gone completely unnoticed at the box-office, but Harman S. Baweja is raring to go. It hurts if your debut film fails, but you can’t let failure overpower you, says Harman, who’s ready to face the audience again next week. VICTORY has to [...]
Hello everybody, Good morning, my name is Sid Ganis, the president of the Academy Awards, and before we announce our nominees of films highest honours, I am very pleased to welcome a producer, director and Oscar winning actor Forrest Whitaker. These were the exact words coming out at 5.30am by the president of the Oscars [...]
When Shekhar Suman made critical remarks about Akshay Kumar vis-a-vis Chandni Chowk To China little did he know it would blow up into such a huge point of debate.
In a reconciliatory gesture, Shekhar sent an SMS on Thursday morning apologizing to Akshay.
It was never my intention to offend Akshay. And if I’ve done that, then [...]
More than three months back, Vishesh Films had finalized 23rd January 2009 i.e. today as the release date of Raaz – The Mystery Continues. The only difference though being that at that time there was no Slumdog Millionaire making news. Suddenly, the film started winning international recognition and things have reached at such a stage [...]
He’s famous for being Bollywood’s ‘Serial Kisser’ but beneath that infamous tag lies an actor who has delivered hits such as Murder, Zeher, Kalyug and Jannat. Yes, we are talking about the one and only Emraan Hashmi who is once again back on the silver screen with his latest film Raaz -The Mystery Continues.
Emraan was [...]
On the sets of ‘Oye! It’s Friday’, Shah Rukh Khan and Farhan Akhtar found themselves in such a playful zone that it turned out to be a two-episode show instead of a single episode. Have a look at what to expect in the second and concluding episode that would be aired today.
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This had to happen. A chunk of industry which was talking about the ‘evil’ of corporate world (especially the ones that were believed to be having no business to be making movies) resulting in rotting of Bollywood has now come out in open. Of course there were collective failure of much hyped films like Drona, [...]
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire makes Mumbai look like a sewer. Anil Kapoor stood up and cheered lustily into the camera when Danny Boyle won the Golden Globe last weekend. I wish I could share his enthusiasm for Danny’s phenomenal flight into frenzy. After all the accolades and awards Slumdog Millionaire (SM) proves to be [...]
Rohan Sippy’s attempt at bringing India’s first ever ‘mockumentary’ in the form of The President Is Coming, has proved to be a success. The film, which opened across cinema halls on Jan 9th this year, has been appreciated by the critics and the multiplex going audience. What’s even more surprising is the fact that the [...]
Shocking as it may sound, Loveleen Tandon, the co-director for Slumdog Millionaire was not invited to be part of the triumphant Slumdog team at the Golden Globe ceremonies.
No, I wasn’t invited, the softspoken co-director confesses reluctantly. But please don’t create a controversy over it. I’m very happy for the way the film is moving forward. [...]
If Priyanka’s mother Madhu Chopra didn’t accompany her only son Siddharth when he left for Geneva for his one-year culinary course, it was with good reason.
Mrs Chopra is busy with the final preparation for her pricey hi-tech cosmetic-surgery clinic in Juhu (Mumbai). It’s a dream project for the Chopras that Priyanka is pooling into with [...]
Veteran filmmaker Shyam Bengal’s last film Welcome To Sajjanpur emerged as one of the surprise hits of 2008 garnering both critical acclaim and commercial B.O. success. Now the acclaimed filmmaker is all set to start his next film tentatively titled Abba Ka Kuan.
Bollywood Hungama spoke to Shyam Benegal to get some more facts about his [...]
If all goes well, director Sangeeth Sivan (who has given us entertainers like Apna Sapna Money Money and Kya Kool Hai Hum) will have 3 of his films releasing in 2009. In fact, two of these films – Ek-The Power of One and Click are ready and should release anytime soon. The makers of Ek-The [...]
Besides CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA and its negative reports, one more topic was hotly discussed in film circles the entire weekend. In fact, various text messages are doing the rounds of the industry after a recent award ceremony, to be precise. The spat between the Master of Ceremony and a successful film-maker has ruffled a [...]
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Not many leading ladies of Madhur Bhandarkar films are lucky enough to be repeated by the filmmaker. Though Konkona Sen Sharma remains his personal favorite (she has starred in Page 3, Traffic Signal and a one scene appearance in Fashion), others like Tabu (Chandni Bar), Bipasha Basu (Corporate) [...]
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Get ready to see Lara Dutta in a non-glamorous avatar. The pretty actress has portrayed a wide variety of roles and is all ready to surprise a lot of people with a minus makeup, minus glamorous look in SRK’s home-production BILLU BARBER. When Shah Rukh called, [...]
She is what innocence and purity is all about. Her mere smile is enough for the entire city to get illuminated in a jiffy, for she is none other than the petite Amrita Rao, who, after having made an unforgettable debut in the forgettable flick Ab Ke Baras, has already carved a niche for herself [...]
Bappi Lahiri is never short of surprises. Just when his new self-rendered number ‘India Se Aaya Mera Dost’ in Chandni Chowk To China hit the charts, he springs another surprise.
I’ve an unreleased song with Boy George ‘When Will You Learn From Your Tears Suffering’ coming up for release very shortly.
The song was [...]
Speculation about Amitabh Bachchan turning down the role of the game-show host in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire finally comes to an end. The Big B confirms that the offer never came to him.
Strange, considering he plays a very important part in the plot as the mega-icon of the all the slum dwellers of Boyle’s Big [...]