Seated at a restaurant in London surrounded by some 10 women, including his wife Gauri, when Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh says that he ‘likes being with girls’, you simply have to believe him.
‘I don’t have many boyfriends. I like being with girls – and probably that’s why people think I’m a little girlish. But I [...]
Seated at a restaurant in London surrounded by some 10 women, including his wife Gauri, when Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh says that he ‘likes being with girls’, you simply have to believe him.
‘I don’t have many boyfriends. I like being with girls – and probably that’s why people think I’m a little girlish. But I [...]
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Film: ‘My Name Is Khan’; Music Directors: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonca; Lyricist: Niranjan Iyengar; Singers: Rashid Khan, Adnan Sami, Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Suraj Jagan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Richa Sharma and Shafqat Amanat Ali; Rating: *** 1/2
The soundtrack of the latest offering of Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan,’My Name Is [...]
Director Karan Johar wants to go back to ’song and dance’ movies after ‘My Name Is Khan’, which is about the journey of an unusual couple living in the US post- 9/11 terrorist attacks.
‘I have given my three years, heart, soul and body to ‘My Name Is Khan’. Now I would love to get back [...]
Bollywood is known to bat for the underdog and often one with certain mental disabilities as we saw Hrithik Roshan in ‘Koi Mil Gaya’ and Anil Kapoor in ‘Yuvvraaj’. And now superstar Shah Rukh Khan will explore yet another illness plaguing the human mind in ‘My Name Is Khan’.
Directed by Karan Johar and co-produced by [...]
Mumbai, Jan 4 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is a hit on social networking site Twitter – he registered Saturday night and already has over 20,300 followers.
Shah Rukh revealed on Twitter that he did it at the behest of his best friend Karan Johar.
‘It is really a very satisfying way of communicating with [...]
Hamilton (New Zealand), Dec 20 (IANS) Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar will shoot his next production venture ‘I Hate Luv Stories’ in Queenstown in January, and a New Zealand official has welcomed it, saying it will help promote tourism.
‘The movie will attract a huge audience and the media surrounding the filming and the release will also [...]
Mumbai, Nov 24 (IANS) Director Rensil D’Silva is upset with UTV, co-producers of his directorial debut ‘Kurbaan’, for dubbing into Hindi a crucial English-language classroom discussion on Islam and the Western world featuring Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi and caucasian Asian-American students.
‘The white students speaking in Hindi sounds so artificial. I’m upset because in many [...]
Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) The Bombay High Court Thursday declined to stay release of film ‘Kurbaan’, due to be out Friday, but sought the responses of filmmaker Karan Johar and actors Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor to a petition terming two of its songs ‘vulgar’.
A division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) After delivering two back to back hits in the form of light-hearted comedies ‘Dostana’ and ‘Wake Up Sid’, producer Karan Johar is set to showcase global terrorism in his forthcoming film ‘Kurbaan’, which is releasing Friday.
Distributed by UTV Motion Pictures, the thriller is the directorial debut of Rensil D’Silva and [...]
Mumbai, Nov 1 (IANS) Karan Johar’s upcoming ‘Kurbaan’ is being likened to films on terror like ‘New York’ and ‘Fanaa’ but the filmmaker is no longer giving the straight-jacketed ‘It’s truly different’ reply. He has instead left it to the audiences to find out if there are any similarities between the movies.
‘That’s because this isn’t [...]
Mumbai, Oct 30 (ANI): With a 40-million rupee makeover and a dash of Bollywood glamour, the Mumbai film festival kick-started here last evening.
The festival hopes to carve out a niche in a festival circuit dominated by Cannes and Berlin.
The festival, now in its 11th [...]
Sydney, Oct 28 (IANS) Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar’s Hindi remake of ‘Stepmom’ will be shot in Sydney and will create 200 jobs for people in the Australian city, said Virginia Judge, minister assisting the Premier on the Arts.
‘This movie will take Sydney to Bollywood and an audience of more than one billion people. This is [...]
Mumbai, Oct 24 (IANS) Never mind that his production house Dharma Productions has just delivered a big hit in ‘Wake Up Sid’. Director-producer Karan Johar says he has matured over the years and box office collections are no longer the only driving factor for him.
‘Frankly, I am over and above box office today. With age [...]
Mumbai, Oct.17 (ANI): Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan walked the ramp with his wife Gauri Khan for the grand finale show of director-turned-designer Karan Johar at the HDIL India Couture Week, hosted in Mumbai on Friday.
HDIL (Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited) is one of the premier real estate developers in India.
Bollywood director-turned designer [...]
Mumbai, Oct 15 (IANS) Fashion designer Manish Malhotra’s bridal collection at the ongoing HDIL India Couture Week has not only impressed women, but it has also bowled over male celebrities like Karan Johar and Tarun Mansukhani who are going ga-go over his creations on Twitter.
‘Just watched Manish’s show…Only one word…Amazing. He is a genius,’ Mansukhani, [...]
Mumbai, Oct 13 (IANS) Together they make a picture perfect couple and are very much in love. This was proved when Suzanne Khan blew kisses at Hrithik Roshan while she sashayed down the ramp at the inaugural show of HDIL India Couture Week for her sister and jewellery designer Farah Khan.
The show kicked off here [...]
Mumbai, Oct 13 (IANS) The moment she stepped on the ramp, the main show area was filled with cheers as the audience couldn’t stop looking at Bollywood actress Sridevi. The actress looked stunning in a black gown as she walked the ramp for jewellery designer Queenie Dhody at the inaugural jewellery show of HDIL India [...]
Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) Suparn Verma, the director of ‘Acid Factory’, is upset with rumours that his forthcoming action thriller has been ghost directed by producer Sanjay Gupta.
‘Saying that Sanjay Gupta has actually directed ‘Acid Factory’ seems to me on the same lines as Karan (Johar) or Adi (Aditya Chopra) being accused of the same [...]
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) Filmmaker Karan Johar’s latest flick ‘Wake Up Sid’, which was embroiled in a first-day-first-show controversy Friday, was running peacefully in 42 cinema halls in Mumbai and another 150 elsewhere in Maharashtra Saturday.
The film had faced protests from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Friday for having used ‘Bombay’ instead of ‘Mumbai’. The [...]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Friday said that termed Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar’s apology to MNS chief Raj Thackeray as a ‘filmi stunt’.
Karan apologized to firebrand MNS chief on using the word ‘Bombay’ instead of ‘Mumbai’ in his new film ‘Wake Up Sid’ was nothing but
Chavan further said that Maharashtra [...]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (ANI): Film-maker Karan Johar on Friday apologised for using the word ‘Bombay’ instead of ‘Mumbai’ in his new film ‘Wake Up Sid’.
“We apologise, we used the word ‘Bombay’ in the film. We didn’t mean to hurt anybody’ s sentiments,” said Johar after his meeting with MNS chief Raj [...]
Mumbai, Sep 29 (IANS) Way back in 1998, Karan Johar’s directorial debut ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ clashed with David Dhawan’s much-hyped ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ – both released on the same day. Now a little more than a decade later, history is repeating itself with ‘Wake Up Sid’ coming face to face with ‘Do Knot [...]
Mumbai, Sep 26 (IANS) His ‘Love Aaj Kal’ has completed 50 days at the box office and has earned more than Rs.65 crores (Rs.650 million) just within India. Now actor-producer Saif Ali Khan is looking forward to ‘Kurbaan’ – a film he admits he is proud of having acted in being a Muslim.
‘As a [...]
Mumbai, Sep 23(ANI): Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor is leaving no stones unturned for promoting his upcoming film ‘Wake Up Sid’, as he spoke about the film while attending a show in Mumbai.
Kapoor was enthusiastic about his role and said that he has great hopes from the film.
“Our film is about [...]
New Jersey / New Delhi, Aug 15(ANI): Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan was detained for about two hours on Saturday morning at Newark airport in New Jersey, USA.
Khan has arrived here to attend a South Asian related event.
Khan was released after Congress MP Rajiv Shukla spoke to [...]
New Delhi, Aug.15 (ANI): U.S. Ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer, on Saturday said that he was looking into reasons for the detention of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan at Newark International Airport.
“We are trying to ascertain the [...]
Mumbai, /Kolkata, /Chennai, Dec 1 (ANI): Mass awareness campaigns were held all over India on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Bollywood actor and filmmaker Farhan Akhtar and filmmaker Karan Johar launched an AIDS awareness campaign outside Chatrapathi Shivaji Railway Terminus in Mumbai.
“Cinema is the medium of communication, so it’s something that we have used [...]
