Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan bagged the best actor award for the movie ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ while Priyanka Chopra was adjudged best actress for ‘Kaminey’ at the fifth Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards here Friday evening.
Murugadoss bagged the best director and best screenplay awards for ‘Ghajini’, which was also adjudged best [...]
The Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) fall under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and have to provide information to an applicant.
Dismissing the appeals of the Games Organising Committee and the IOA against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order [...]
The Delhi High Court Thursday ruled that the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) fall under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and have to provide information to an applicant.
Dismissing the appeals of the Games Organising Committee and the IOA against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order [...]
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will spin his magic with a live performance at an awards function here after a gap of two years.
The actor will dance to his popular numbers at the Chevrolet Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards function, to be held at the Chitrakoot Grounds in Andheri Saturday.
Bollywood’s most talked about [...]
Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) Nikhil Advani is in a fix. The shooting of his new film ‘Patiala House’ has started but he hasn’t been able to find the right face to play the junior Akshay Kumar. The director may launch a talent hunt to find the suitable teenager.
The scenes are part of a flashback where [...]
Mumbai, Dec 15 (IANS) Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer ‘Love Aaj Kal’ has bagged 15 nominations for the 5th Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards to be held here Jan 8 next year.
‘Love Aaj Kal’ has been nominated for awards in various categories, including best film, best director (Imtiaz Ali), best actor [...]
Mumbai, Dec 15 (IANS) There weren’t too many hits this year, but actors like Shahid Kapoor, Abhay Deol and Priyanka Chopra not only rose above the script but gave performances that towered above the rest.
Here is a list of 10 actors who made a mark in 2009:
Shahid Kapoor: It will be quite a predicament for [...]
Mumbai, Dec 14 (IANS) Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro, who played Saif Ali Khan’s love interest in ‘Love Aaj Kal’, says she is getting movie offers but she is being selective while choosing them.
‘I’m living in Mumbai, doing some modelling here and there and also going for auditions. I’m happy with the offers I’m getting, but [...]
Film: ‘Radio’; Cast: Himesh Reshammiya, Shenaz Treasuryvala, Sonal Sehgal; Director: Ishaan Trivedi; Rating: **
‘Radio’ starts off in a way similar to ‘Love Aaj Kal’, just like the Saif Ali Khan-Deepika Padukone film began with a break up, ‘Radio’ has a divorce starting the proceedings. To the credit of director Ishaan Trivedi, Himesh Reshammiya and a [...]
Mumbai, Nov 28 (IANS) Male bonding has always been a strong theme in Farhan Akhtar’s career as a director and actor and so he is now excited about starring along with Hrithik Roshan and Abhay Deol in sister Zoya Akhtar’s new film.
‘Having two friends like Hrithik and Abhay Deol to do this male bonding film [...]
Mumbai, Nov 25 (IANS) Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will be seen on the silver screen for the first time in the film ‘I Am Kalam’, says Gulshan Grover.
‘He knows about the film and he has given his nod. He has even kindly done a cameo appearance in it,’ Gulshan, who is also acting in [...]
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 23 (IANS) Rensil D’Silva, whose directorial debut ‘Kurbaan’ has garnered mixed reviews from critics, says his passion for cinema comes from his 95-year-old grandfather Walter Netto.
‘He’s the one from whom I inculcated a passion for movies. My maternal grandfather Walter Netto would take me to a film every Sunday religiously. And then he’d [...]
Film: ‘Kurbaan’; Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Kirron Kher; Director: Rensil d’Silva; Rating: ****
‘When a bomb explodes, mainly the innocent die,’ says Vivek Oberoi towards the finale when, to put it at the most basic level, all hell breaks loose.
In ‘Rang De Basanti’, Rensil d’Silva had taken screenwriting in Hindi [...]
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Did Shah Rukh Khan stammer in his last life? Or was Salman Khan as macho in his previous birth? Viewers are wondering if a new reality show based on past life regression therapy will answer questions about their favourite stars even as it as created quite a buzz.
‘Raaz – Pichhle [...]
Mumbai, Nov 21 (IANS) Om Puri, who plays a terror mastermind in Rensil D’ Silva’s just released ‘Kurbaan’, says that people with terrorist leanings have begun to emerge from educated households and that his character represents this dangerous trend.
‘The dangerous thing about global terrorism is that people with terrorist leanings have begun to emerge from [...]
Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) Rumours are rife that Kareena Kapoor’s role in ‘Kurbaan’ is similar to Katrina Kaif’s in ‘New York’ — both the actresses are featured in near-identical roles of a wife who discovers her husband to be a closet-terrorist.
‘Kurbaan’ director Rensil D’Silva doesn’t deny the similarities between the two films but doesn’t comment [...]
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 [...]
Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan says it is ‘ridiculous’ to think that his mother and censor board chief Sharmila Tagore gave an ‘adult’ rating to ‘Kaminey’ because it starred Shahid Kapoor.
‘It is ridiculous to state that anyone had any personal bias against ‘Kaminey’,’ Saif told IANS even as his own movie [...]
Mumbai, Nov 18 (IANS) If super-hit film ‘Race’ had lots of suspense and stunts, its producer Ramesh Taurani promises more thrills and action in its sequel ‘Race 2′ that will go on floors early next year with Saif Ali Khan and Anil Kapoor playing the main leads.
The sequel will be directed by Abbas-Mustan, who had [...]
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 16 (IANS) ‘Kurbaan’ has turned out to be two hours 37 minutes long after editing. Debutant director Rensil D’Silva’s movie is longer than the show-timing multiplexes approve of and lengthy films on grim themes are not the flavour of the season. But D’Silva is unfazed.
‘My film is not grim. It’s about a serious [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) ‘Allah ke bande’, ‘Piya Haji Ali’, ‘Khwaja mere khwaja’, ‘Arziyaan’…the list is long. Bollywood is surely smitten by Sufi music as composers churn out chartbusters by weaving its melodious flavour into their songs..
The divine strains of Sufi music in film songs have become a huge hit with listeners and music [...]
Mumbai, Nov 14 (ANI): Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have said the theme of their upcoming film Kurbaan (sacrifice in Urdu language) is global terrorism and its effect on society.
The duo launched an online game of their film in Mumbai on Friday.
Set in the United States, ‘Kurbaan’ is a romantic thriller with [...]
Mumbai, Nov 13 (IANS) The ‘Kurbaan’ promos feature only Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor while Vivek Oberoi is hardly to be seen. Director Rensil D’Silva says his role is so deeply affiliated to the plot’s suspense that if exposed too much, it can give away the story.
‘It’s a very strange situation. Vivek is one [...]
Mumbai, Nov 12 (IANS) Kareena Kapoor says there is nothing ‘vulgar’ about her backless shot being used for the publicity posters of forthcoming release ‘Kurbaan’, an intense thriller about terrorism. In fact, she says, it subtly reveals a lot about the story.
‘This shot of me in a backless posture and Saif with a wound on [...]
Mumbai, Nov 4 (IANS) Bollywood actors often describe their shooting schedule as a picnic. But ‘cold and depressing’ is what Saif Ali Khan has to say about the US shoot of ‘Kurbaan’, speaking for not just himself but also girlfriend and co-star Kareena Kapoor.
‘ ‘Kurbaan’ was hard work. Period. In fact, the Philadelphia schedule [...]
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 [...]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Saif Ali Khan met Kareena Kapoor for the first time when she was just 14 years old and more than a decade later he fell in love with her. The two are now one of the most talked about couples in tinsel town, but say marriage is not on the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Kareena Kapoor is clear she will never endorse food chains like McDonald’s or Burger King, known for their beef burgers and the like, while co-actor and boyfriend Saif Ali Khan says he can’t think of doing an underwear ad.
‘I will not endorse non-vegetarian products like McDonald’s or Burger King. I [...]
