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DepartmentWhat do kids do when they get a new toy? Well, they experiment with it. What does a director who is…
Mr. Bhatti On ChuttiNot every film releases as planned and, at times, it could be years before it emerges from the…
Love Lies & SeetaAn unconventional love story set in a New York summer, this film follows the lives of three…
Chalo CannesAnurag Kashyap is ecstatic as his film, Gangs of Wasseypur (GoW), is going to the Cannes film…
Department DisappointsThis week witnessed the release of Ram Gopal Varma’s Department featuring Amitabh Bachchan…
Balan On Rakhi Sawant In TDP’s Bengali RemakeNow we all know that Rakhi Sawant will step into Vidya Balan’s shoes in the Bengali version of…
Sujoy Ghosh To Direct Vidya, Prosenjit In His Next?Vidya Balan is at the top of her game right now and is even being called the “new hero” in our…
Vidya Balan Wants George ClooneyIt’s of the biggest films of the year so far and it was no surprise when we heard that YRF's…
Author Archives: Sagorika Dasgupta
Is Spidey Scared Of Bollywood’s Singham?
Superheroes are supposed to be fearless but we just might have discovered the one thing Spidey fears most – Hindi movies! Indian movie lovers were eagerly awaiting the release of The Amazing Spiderman but the costumed crime-fighter seems to have changed his mind.
The film was due to release ...
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Tagged Ajay Devgn, Andrew Garfield, Bol Bachchan, Emma Stone, Marc Webb, Rohit Shetty, Sony Pictures, The Amazing Spiderman
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Hrithik Is Ultimate Style Icon: Yahoo! India
We Indians love our dream merchants but wouldn’t you just love to know the style quotient of Tinsel Town? No guesses who topped the rankings for the Ultimate Style Icon of India, in an online survey conducted by Yahoo! India. Hrithik Roshan, right? OK, that was easy. And how about ‘unique’ fashion sense? Ahem, the prize went to Vidya Balan, who’s in the news also ...
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Tagged Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Bappi Lahiri, Deepika Padukone, Dhoni, Ektya Kapoor, Gauri Khan and Suzanne Roshan, Hrithik Roshan, Jaya Bachchan, Malaika Arora Khan, MS Dhoni, Narendra Modi, Nita Ambani, Ratan Tata, Rekha, Shah Rukh Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Vidya Balan, Vijay mallaya, Virat Kohli
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Why Dibakar Included An Item Song In Shanghai
Going with the flow can bring rich rewards and Dibakar Banerjee doesn’t want to be left behind. Hence, the filmmaker, whose movies like Khosla Ka Ghosla and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! were offbeat and did not play on music, is now leaning towards commercial cinema.
After beginning to cast ...
UTV Motion Pictures to remake Delhi Belly in Tamil
UTV Motion Pictures will now remake the 2011 movie Delhi Belly in Tamil. The film produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Aamir Khan Productions was directed by Abhinay Deo in English and dubbed in Hindi, and now the Tamil version will be directed by R. Kannan (who earlier directed Jayamkondan ...
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Tagged Aamir Khan, Abhinay Deo, Anjali, Arya, Chennai, Delhi Belly, Hansika, Jayamkondan, John Mahendran, Kanden Kadhalai, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Naseer, Pongal, Premgi, Sachien, Santhanam, Tamil, UTV Motion Pictures, Vettai, Vijay Raaz, Vir Das
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Hate Story – Women Only!
Exclusive screenings are not restricted to the elite any more. Thursday evening witnessed a bunch of women heading for a multiplex in Rajkot in Gujarat for an exclusive ‘Ladies Special’ screening of Vivek Agnihotri’s bold, erotic thriller Hate Story featuring Paoli Dam and Gulshan Devaiah.
Cosmoplex, a five-screen multiplex, ...
Electrifying!
Ishaqzaade opens marvelously with the evocative notes of a horn, setting the mood for a mesmerising romantic number. Amit Trivedi ropes in mainstream singers like Javed Ali and Shreya Ghoshal to render this mellow ballad.
Ali, who takes centre-stage for most parts of this number, is particularly soulful. The ...
Posted in Music Reviews
Tagged Amit Trivedi, Chokra jawaan, Ishaqzaade, Pareshan, Shalmali Kholpade, Shreya Ghoshal, Vishal Dadlani
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“I don’t like love stories”
Gul Panag on her latest film Fatso and her co-stars in the movie
What is your next film Fatso all about?
The film is about five characters, three men and two girls …one of the guys is fat and is called Fatso played by Ranvir (Shorey). My last release was Turning ...
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“Our industry is very biased towards the star system”
Ranvir Shorey in conversation with Jigar Shah...
Your next film is Fatso, where you literally play a fatso. Is that padding or have you actually gained weight?
While we were preparing for the film, we realised that we could get the fat look only on my ...
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Anand Mahindra Appeals For Whistling Woods International
Letter sent to the President to save Whistling Woods, Mumbai, from shutting down
Letter sent to the Prime Minister
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Vicky Donor Impresses Salim Khan
Make a good film and you will receive a barrage of compliments. But debutante writer Juhi Chaturvedi and director Shoojit Sircar have received a compliment they never dreamed of. Turns our that veteran writer Salim Khan loved their recently released Vicky Donor so much that he has invited ...
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Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year To Release On Oct 19
Filmmaker Karan Johar, who is currently in Bangkok shooting Student Of The Year, has fixed the release date of the film, which features newcomers Varun Dhawan, Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt. The film, which is Johar’s first directorial outing since his 2010 My Name Is Khan starring Shah Rukh Khan, ...
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Tagged Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar, My Name Is Khan, Siddharth Malhotra, Student of the year, Varun Dhawan
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Trade Outraged At TDP Fiasco
Balaji Motion Pictures’ The Dirty Picture was to air on Sunday, April 22, in two time slots – 12-4 pm and a repeat telecast from 8-11pm – on Sony Entertainment Television. But the channel was forced to cancel the screening due to a last-minute directive from the Ministry ...
Posted in Straight News
Tagged Censor Board, I&B, MSM, Pooja Bhatt, Sony Entertainment Television, Tanuj Garg, The Dirty Picture, Tushhar, Vidya Balan
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Project Four!
New home theatre projector takes TV viewing to a new level of realism. But will this pricey product sell?
4K was a term that was restricted mainly to describing the clarity of digital cinema screens across the country. Now this technology has invaded our living rooms, with consumer electronics ...
Manisha Sharma Quits Sony
Sony Entertainment Television Non-Fiction Head Manisha Sharma has quit the network, where she worked for eight years. Sharma played a role in the turnaround of Sony with shows like Kaun Banega Crorepati, Crime Patrol and CID.
Sameer Goswami Joins
Viacom18 has appointed Sameer Goswami as Vice-President and Head of Business Operations, North America. He will be responsible for managing and expanding the company’s broadcast operations across the continent.
Goswami joins Viacom18 from Vision Asia – Australia and New Zealand, where he was CEO. He will report to Viacom18 ...
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Tagged Gaurav Gandhi, Sameer Goswami, Sun18 COO- North, Viacom 18
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Sriram Kilambi To Head
BloombergUTV has appointed former Radio Mirchi, Marketing Head, Sriram Kilambi to head the channel. Kilambi replaces Deepak Lamba, who put in his papers recently. Kilambi had quit Radio Mirchi in March and joined Entertainment Network India (ENIL) as Vice-President and Cluster Head (East). He was promoted as Marketing Head in ...
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Tagged BloombergUTV, Deepak Lamba, ENIL, Radio Mirchi, Sriram Kilambi
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RBNL, Speed Records Strike Deal
Reliance Broadcast Network has announced an alliance with Punjab based Speed Records. It will give RBNL’s business verticals - 92.7 BIG FM and BIG CBS Spark Punjabi, immediate access to the extensive library of Speed Records. The alliance simultaneously gives Speed Records excellent platforms through which they can reach their ...
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Tagged Gippy Grewal, hip hop, Jazzy B, Punjabi, RBNL, Spped Records, sufi
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Star Brand Discontinued
Star and ABP have agreed to discontinue the Star brand affiliation with Media Content and Communications Services (India) Pvt Ltd, which operates the three Star-branded news channels, Star News, Star Ananda and Star Majha. This was one of the steps proposed by Star to refocus the core strength of its ...
ESS Launches
Sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has announced the launch of its on-ground division Event Management Group (EMG), in India. The company also says that PepsiCo India has signed on EMG to manage the on-ground events of its mega-football league, Pepsi T20 Football, in India. As a part of the deal, ESPN ...
Asci Partners With TAM
Asci, India’s advertising industry watchdog, is partnering with TAM Media Research to monitor misleading ads. The newly created body, National Advertising Monitoring Service (NAMS), will come into effect from May 1. It will track and assess newly released ads from 350 TV channels and 10,860 newspapers every week. The Advertising ...
UTV Wins Case Against Percept On Shoebite
UTV Motion Pictures has won a case against Percept Pictures in a copyright dispute involving UTV’s film Shoebite, directed by Shoojit Sircar. The case had been filed by Percept, which had sought to restrain UTV and Sircar from infringing on the copyright of the script and dialogue of their film, ...
Satyamev Jayate Music Was An Uphill Task
Aamir Khan’s chat show Satyamev Jayate is still making headlines. And ever since Khan launched the music video, everyone has been eagerly waiting for the show to air.
Here’s a tidbit about the theme song. Not surprisingly, it was vey difficult to please the perfectionist actor when the music ...
Akshay Kumar To Do A Rajiv Rai Film?
The only time Rajiv Rai and Akshay Kumar worked together was in 1994 in the thriller film Mohra. The movie created box-office history and was one of the most successful films of 1994. The director then left the country and returned to make two more films – Pyaar Ishq Aur ...
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Ben Kingsley Is A Villain In Iron Man 3
Ben Kingsley will perhaps be seen as a vicious villain in Marvel Studios’ next instalment of the Iron Man series. Iron Man 3 will be directed by Shane Black and will see Robert Downey Jr reprise his role as a wealthy industrialist-turned-nemesis, Tony Stark.
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Tagged Ben Kingsley, Iron Man 3, Marvel Comics, Robert Downey Jr
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