Actress-entrepreneur Preity Zinta is starting a new chapter in her life following her breakup with businessman Ness Wadia. The only thing that bothers her are link-ups with co-stars and friends, as a result of which none of her male friends, she says, wants to go out with her.
‘I’m surrounded by celebrities who are [...]
He has tickled the funny bone in all of us with his perfect comic timing in movies like ‘Hera Pheri’, ‘Golmaal’, and ‘Aankhen’. But for now, the actor has said goodbye to comedies.
Paresh says: ‘One often ends up doing films for friends or because one needs to work within the given limitations. But enough [...]
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Film: ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’; Cast: Nandu Madhav, Vibhawari Despande; Director: Paresh Mokashi; Rating: *** 1/2
This is the film that went all the way to Oscar-land and came back empty-handed. But whose loss is it anyway?
Writer-director Paresh Mokashi’s tender-sweet film about the founding father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb’s Phalke’s struggle to make the country’s first feature film [...]
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Film: ‘Ishqiya’; Director: Abhishek Choubey; Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan; Rating: **
‘Ishqiya’ is a very strange film. Strange, not so much in terms of content, unless you really believe there are sleepy dusty towns in north India where boys learn to use a gun before they learn to wash their own bottoms. But [...]
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Film: ‘Road To Sangam’; Cast: Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra, Javed Shaikh; Writer-Director: Amit Rai; Rating: ***
This is a small, tender idea, executed with a certain amount of elan and loads and loads of heart. Writer-director Amit Rai’s debut film is a Gandhian parable done up in shades that are at once, pristine, noble, [...]
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Film: ‘Rann’; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Sudeep, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Neetu Chandra, Gul Panag, Suchitra Krishnamurthy; Director: [...]
Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor, who are shooting for ‘Anjaana Anjaani’, are set to meet Rocky-Rambo superstar Sylvester Stallone.
In fact, one of the temptations for them to do Sajid Nadiadwala’s ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ was that the producer was a friend of Stallone who featured in his last film ‘Kambakkht Ishq’.
‘Ranbir and Priyanka definitely want to [...]
Rakhi Sawant feels that the censor board was being unjust in banning her song ‘Kameeni tera bhoot chad gaya re’. She has sent a legal notice giving it a week to explain its decision. Otherwise, she will go on hunger strike, says the item girl.
‘I’ll wait for a week and then I go on [...]
After winning the National Award for best supporting actress for her performance in ‘Fashion’, Kangana Ranaut is elated and says she has won the highest honour at a very young age and maybe she should pack her bags and go back home.
‘There’s a mini celebration in my house, though my parents were crying when [...]
‘Rann’ co-producer Madhu Mantena says they will make an out-of-court settlement with freelance journalist and author Sonal Mehta who has taken director Ram Gopal Varma and the producers of the film to court for alleged breach of copyright.
‘We’re in the process of making an out-of-court settlement. But Ramu (Ram Gopal Varma) is dead against [...]
Director Prakash Jha is confident that his film ‘Raajneeti’ will fetch the prestigious National Awards for Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif.
‘This film will take Ranbir to another level,’ said Jha. He has cast the actor as US-educated scion of a political dynasty who has to reluctantly return home to shoulder his family’s duties.
‘I hope, [...]
First Anil Kapoor was injured in a freak accident involving a thermos flask, and within hours Sushmita Sen cut her left hand badly. Shooting for the Anees Bazmi comedy ‘No Problem’ seems beset with problems.
The film’s title did not seem to be helping at all during the shooting at Film City this week.
Anil Kapoor [...]
Barely hours before Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan’s game show ‘Bingo’ was to go on air Saturday, channel Colors was in a panic. Its staff was running around trying to put together the inaugural episode featuring the host with his superstar father Amitabh Bachchan.
According to channel sources, Big B was busy with the promotion of [...]
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Movie: ‘Veer’; Directed by: Anil Sharma; Starring: Mithun Chakraborty, Salman Khan, Neena Gupta, Sohail Khan, Zarine Khan.
‘Veer’ is one of those intended epics that goes wrong. Horribly wrong.
Director Anil Sharma had combined history and kitsch with compelling consequences in ‘Gadar Ek Prem Katha’. But In ‘Veer’, the khichdi of fact and fiction runs amok, creating [...]
Anil Kapoor, who has got rave reviews in the American press for his stint on the just-premiered drama series ‘24′, was so self-effacing that he couldn’t ask the producers to let him show the first four episodes to his family back home.
When Anil left for Los Angeles last week, he had promised his family [...]
Sudhir Mishra says the news of his unreleased film ‘Tera Kya Hoga Johnny’ being available on the Internet came as a rude shock. The director, however, is confident that the unfinished version on the net won’t jeopardize the film’s prospects.
‘After ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, the West is looking with much curiosity at the slum culture of [...]
Freelance journalist and writer Sonal Mehta has taken Ram Gopal Varma and the producers of ‘Rann’ to court for alleged breach of copyright. The director is unperturbed and in turn alleges that she is just trying to get publicity.
‘I’m not the least bothered, because I know there’s no truth to her claim. The writer [...]
Director Anil Sharma admits he had creative differences with Salman Khan over the making of ‘Veer’, penned by the actor himself, but everything was finally sorted out.
Anil Sharma, who earlier made ‘Gadar : Ek Prem Katha’, told IANS: ‘Salman was not just the main actor in ‘Veer’, he was also the writer. We had [...]
‘Ishqiya’ with all its colourful expletives and sexually charged visuals was passed without any cuts with an ‘A’ certificate.
Says the film’s director Abhishek Choubey: ‘Frankly, I expected I’d be asked for some kind of an explanation for the language and content and why they were necessary. I had gone prepared with dossiers on every [...]
Director Madhur Bhandarkar always dreamt of visiting Jammu and Kashmir and, when he finally did, he was inspired to ‘bring laughter’ to the Valley and shoot a comedy in its picturesque locales — unlike the umpteen number of films on militancy and terror that Bollywood has churned out.
‘I had never been to Kashmir in [...]
Neil Nitin Mukesh has been cruising the streets of Mumbai on a bike – for the shooting of his latest movie. The actor got mobbed recently despite the security ‘bandobast’.
Neil plays the role of a biker cruising the streets of Mumbai with co-stars KayKay Menon and Piyush Mishra in Yashraj Films’ new production directed [...]
Bollywood actor Adhyayan Suman believes in learning from the past and does not blame actress Kangna Ranaut, with whom he was in a relationship, for anything.
‘I was too young, too immature and gullible. My parents and my friends warned me I was losing out on my career because of my relationship. Like any young [...]
Britain-based Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha, whose latest movie ‘It’s A Wonderful Afterlife’ has been selected as the opening film at the Sundance Film Festival starting Jan 21, says that it her ‘best work’ so far.
‘I think ‘It’s A Wonderful Afterlife’ is my best work to date,’ Chadha told IANS.
‘My film ‘What’s Cooking?’ had been premiered [...]
Eminent novelist Salman Rushdie was on a two-day visit to Mumbai last month to meet some Bollywood personalities, including Amitabh Bachchan, and chalk out details for the film adaptation of his book ‘Midnight’s Children’.
Rushdie was in Mumbai with filmmaker Deepa Mehta. The two are collaborating on a film version of ‘Midnight’s Children’.
Among the Bollywood clan [...]
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Film: ‘Pyaar Impossible’; Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Uday Chopra, Dino Morea; Director: Jugal Hansraj; Rating: **
Pair impossible? You bet! Uday Chopra as the geek in love and Priyanka Chopra as the unattainable self-declared 10-on-10 beauty is a bit of a long shot.
But in films about the romance of the impossible, anything is possible. In the [...]
Right after Deepika Padukone’s breakup with Ranbir Kapoor, the actress is coincidentally doing a film titled ‘Break Ke Baad’ with Imran Khan.
That’s what Kunal Kohli has chosen to call the first film that he is producing and not directing.
Says Kunal: ‘I and director Danish Aslam always wanted to call his film ‘Break Ke Baad’ because [...]
Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu, who turned 31 this month and enjoyed every bit of attention on her birthday Jan 7, says she is completely different from her model-turned-actor beau John Abraham who ‘runs the other way when it comes to cutting cakes’.
‘John runs the other way when it comes to cutting cakes. I spent my [...]
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Film: ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’; Cast: Sushmita Sen, Shah Rukh Khan, Fardeen Khan, Ishita Sharma; Director: Mudassar Aziz; Rating: * 1/2
There is only one reason why this hideous satire gone awry can be tolerated for a bit. Sushmita Sen playing the broadly satirical and hugely self-important Shimmer just simmers on screen!
Dazzling despite her fluctuating weight, in-sync [...]
Vidya Balan, who never touches alcohol, has shot a special risque number entitled ‘Ibn batuta’ in ‘Ishqiya’ with her co-stars Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi.
‘We shot the song last month after the entire shooting was completed. I don’t drink and I had to act sozzled along with Naseer saab and Arshad,’ Viday told IANS.
The song [...]
After a giddy round of partying and holidaying, Shilpa Shetty is now in London for her wedding reception Wednesday in the House of Commons. Much excited, the actress feels she should have gotten ‘married earlier’.
Shilpa said Tuesday: ‘The House of Commons reception is being thrown for Raj and me by British MP Keith Vaz who’s [...]
