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Tiger Shroff: Another Action StarA few years ago, filmmakers were shying away from signing him but it was Sajid Nadiadwala who had…
Another Actor Turns ProducerIt’s a trend that’s turning into a tidal wave. We’re talking about actors turning producer.…
More On PK DealBox Office India was the first to tell you that Disney UTV had paid an astronomical price for Aamir…
Raj-DK To Launch Mahesh BabuThere was talk a few years ago that Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu would venture into Hindi filmdom…
“Today, I have to push much less to be appreciated”Guest Editor Deepika Padukone speaks to Box Office India about her upcoming release Yeh Jawaani Hai…
Awesome TwosomesAre hit actor-director pairings a commercial success or do they simply make for great…
Guns & PosesThere’s nothing funny about shooting in the scorching Rajasthan desert. But War Chhod Na Yaar…
AurangzebYash Raj Films usually comes up with interesting and intriguing cinema and they’ve introduced…
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Aurangzeb
Yash Raj Films usually comes up with interesting and intriguing cinema and they’ve introduced many impressive actors and directors to the industry. With Aurangzeb, the studio marks the second outing of actor Arjun Kapoor and introduces Sasheh Aagha along with director Atul Sabharwal, who has previously directed YRF’s television show ...
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Tagged Aditya Chopra, Amartya Rahut, Amrita Singh, Anupam Kher, Arjun Kapoor, Atul Sabharwal, Aurangzeb, Deepti Naval, Jackie Shroff, Kavi Shastri, Prithviraj, Rishi Kapoor, Sasheh Aagha, Sikandar Kher, Sumeet Vyas, Swara Bhaskar, Tanvi Azmi, Vipin Mishra, Yash Raj Films
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Gunday Recreates ’80s Era
The next schedule of Yash Raj Films’ Gunday has begun in Kolkata. The production team has recreated an '80s look with a similar feel of the city during that era. They have shot a dramatic Durga Puja sequence under the Howrah Bridge with a crowd of over 1000 people.
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Posted in Straight News
Tagged Aditya Chopra, Ali Abbas Zafar, Arjun Kapoor, Gunday, Irrfan, Priyanka Chopra, Producer, Ranveer Singh, riyanka Chopra, Yash Raj Films
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Yash Raj Films Goes All Out
It’s not about churning out gems only. The real stakes are less pretty and involve some pretty hard number-crunching. We’re talking about the race between studios to make the maximum movies in a calendar year and the maximum number of movies that hit the bull’s eye at the ticket counter. ...
Hrithik OR Ranbir OR New Face
Now we all know that Shekhar Kapur is all set to make his most ambitious venture Paani and it will be produced by Yash Raj Films. Now everyone’s wondering who will play leading man. Kapur had a word with Hrithik Roshan long ago and the two had decided to work ...
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Tagged Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Shekhar Kapur, Yash Raj Films
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Yash Raj Investing In New Talent
On one hand Yash Raj Films is churning out movies with big names in quick succession. And on the other hand, they’re not shying away from working with newcomers and not-so-known names. A few weeks ago, we had reported in this column that the production house had signed on Sushant ...
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Tagged Arjun Kapoor, Ayushmann Khurrana, Investing, New Talent, Yash Raj, Yash Raj Films
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Paani Announced
Shekhar Kapur and Yash Raj Films have joined hands to make Kapur’s, Paani. Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Shekhar Kapur, the film will be shot in India and overseas. Music is by AR Rahman. It will go on the floors in 2013.
Kahaani Wins Best Screenplay
During the South Asian Rising Star Film Awards at New York, USA, Sujoy Ghosh’s film Kahaani featuring Vidya Balan, won the award for Best Original Screenplay. Ghosh bagged the award for the best screenplay amongst nominees like Anurag Kashyap for Gangs Of Wasseypur, Akshat Verma for Delhi Belly, Juhi Chaturvedi ...
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Tagged Anurag Kashyap, Best Original Screenplay, Delhi Belly, Endemol \, Gangs Of Wasseypur, Kahaani, Kushal Gada, Nawazuddin Siddhiqui, Saswata Chatterjee, South Asian Rising Star Film Awards, Sujoy Ghosh, Vicky Donor, Vidya Balan, Vishal-Shekhar, Yash Raj Films
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Priyanka Chopra In YRF’s Gunday
Priyanka Chopra has joined the cast of Gunday as the leading lady and will play a pivotal role in the film. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar the film will go on floor this December.Produced by Aditya Chopra, the film features Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor in the lead roles.
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Ranveer Singh Awarded
Ranveer Singh was bestowed the PowerBrands Hall of Fame Youth Icon Award at the PowerBrands Hall Of Fame Ceremony in Dubai on August 29. This award seeks to honour a personality that has touched a million hearts with their contribution to the film industry and has been a source of ...
YRF Announces
The start of Maneesh Sharma’s next directorial untitled film has been postponed. The film was originally scheduled to go on floors this September. Both Sharma and Jaideep Sahni, who have written the story and screenplay, along with Aditya Chopra, have taken a creative decision to include lip-sync songs, which were ...
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Tagged Aditya Chopra, Jaideep Sahni, Maneesh Sharma, Shahid Kapoor, Shahid Kpaoor, Yash Raj Films
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Something About Dhoom 3
We’ve seen Yash Raj Films present suave and dynamic villains in Dhoom and Dhoom 2. But this time, Aamir Khan is the baddie. So, add a touch of class to the Dhoom 3 villain.
We’re told that Khan has printed a dozen T-shirts, which he will wear in the film. ...
Aurangzeb
Shooting for Yash Raj Films’ Aurangzeb is in progress in Mumbai. Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Atul Sabharwal, the film features Arjun Kapoor, Amrita Singh and Jackie Shroff.
Posted in Production News
Tagged Amrita Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Yash Raj Films
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Tata Elxsi Delivers VFX For Ek Tha Tiger
Visual Computing Labs (VCL), a division of Tata Elxsi Ltd, has announced its association with Ek Tha Tiger (ETT). This blockbuster has extensively leveraged VCL’s visual and special effects technologies and marks VCL’s 24th collaboration with Yash Raj Films, which has produced ETT. The company has delivered 1,062 visual effects ...
Short Takes
• The trailer of Karan Johar’s much-awaited next directorial venture, Student Of The Year, will release on August 2. It will be released everywhere, from digital platforms to satellite channels.
• South actor Prithviraj is all set to make his Hindi film debut opposite Rani Mukerji, in ...
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Tagged Prithviraj, Rani Mukherji, Student of the year, Yash Chopra, Yash Raj Films
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Ek Tha Tiger Is very different from what I have done before: Salman Khan
The Ek Tha Tiger trailer has already created a buzz online. Today the cast of the film along with director Kabir Khan launched the first song Chehra Hai Mashallah, in Mumbai’s suburban theatre Gaiety Galaxy, along with the multiplex’s owner Manoj Desai. The song has a sufiana touch to it. Here’s ...
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Tagged Ek Tha Tiger, Kabir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan, Yash Raj Films
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Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra Battle It Out
The Ishaqzaade stars, Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra carried out a debate competition at the Yash Raj Studios along with some students. The topic of debate was big city versus small town, as this element of the debate has been highlighted in their upcoming political thriller Ishaqzaade which is set ...
Yash Raj Films Starts Groundwork On Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger
With Yash Raj Films producing and Salman Khan featuring in it, this has got to be one of the biggest films of all time. The movie is due this Eid and Khan has had three big Eid hits in the last three years, Wanted, Dabangg and Bodyguard. It’s a hat-trick ...
FisCAL, Aaj Aur Kal
When they made a foray into Indian cinema, we were more than a tad defensive. We called them ‘corporate raiders’ for their deep pockets, big budgets and for hiking the remuneration of our leading actors.
This is a debatable debate, a sore point that will be discussed for years. But ...
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Tagged Balaji Motion Pictures, Eros International, Reliance, UTV, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Yash Raj Films
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Jackpot For Viacom 18
He did two films with Yash Raj Films and is now working on his second with Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions. No other production house was able to repeat Ranbir Kapoor but Viacom 18 has done it.
Kapoor is doing not just one but two movies with this corporate house. ...
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Tagged Abhinav Kashyap, Anurag Kashyap, Anushka Sharma, Bombay Velvet, Dharma Productions, Karan Johar, Viacom 18, Yash Raj Films
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More On Yash Raj
Another source from Yash Raj Films says that all the pivotal employees have been handed DVDs of all the movies made by YRF to date.They’ve been told to watch each film and think up ways to adapt and remake them. Brilliant!Meanwhile, the first Hollywood film made by YRF under the ...
When Salman Froze!
Brrr! This is one chilly tale and it comes from Salman Khan, who has just returned from shooting overseas for Yash Raj Films’ Ek Tha Tiger.
“When we were flying to Dublin, we were told the weather there was very mild but when we arrived, it was freezing. Worse, ...
Salman Calls The Shots
We all know that Salman Khan works on his own terms and doesn’t compromise on a shoot, regardless of who the director or the production house is. So this time around too, Khan called the shots while shooting for Yash Raj Films’ upcoming venture Ek Tha Tiger in Dublin. Our source ...
Yash Raj Films Launches YRF Entertainment
Uday Chopra has announced the formation of YRF Entertainment, a Hollywood-based production and financing company focused on developing and producing feature films for the U.S. and international marketplace. The company is launched and funded by Yash Raj Films, (yashrajfilms.com) the 41-year old studio that was founded by Yash Chopra, ...
Shahid-Anushka Film In February
It’s no news that director Maneesh Sharma is ready to start his next for Yash Raj Films and he has roped in Shahid Kapoor and Anushka Sharma to play the leading pair. The rest of the cast will be finalised in December as Maneesh is busy with the post-production of ...
Dhoom 3 Postponed
The release of Yash Raj Films Dhoom 3 featuring Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra has been postponed to 2013. The film was earlier slated to hit the theatres on December 24, 2012. The change in the release date of the film has been mainly announced due to the ...
Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl’s Shooting Woes
Will it, won’t it? The grapevine has it that Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma’s Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl may not be released as announced by Yash Raj Films on December 9.
Shooting is still underway and there’s some re-shooting on the cards. Sources in Yash Raj Films tell us ...
Y Not?
When making cinema for the youth, always remember, it’s THEIR world
With our next release with Y Films, YRF is extending its friendship with the audience. But here we are very specific about the youth audience to whom we are going to say, Hey, Wassup! But why did ...
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Tagged Aditya Chopra, Bumpy, FICCI reports, Luv Ka The End, Nupur Asthana, Y Films, Yash Raj Films
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Make Or Break?
In an industry where liaisons matter more than quality scripts, turning independent is a trial by fire for an ambitious director
When Sanjay Leela Bhansali quit Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s production house to become an independent director and producer, it was just the beginning of a ...
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Tagged Bejoy Nambiar, Dhoom (2004), Dhoom 2, Farah Khan, Make Or Break?, Sanjay Gadhvi, Sanjay Gupta, Sirish Kunder, Yash Raj Films
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SRK’s Family Vacation Pushed To Feb
We all knew that Shah Rukh Khan will start shooting for Yash Raj Films’ next in December, to be followed by a month-long family vacation in January. But there’s a twist in the dates. We hear that SRK will start shooting for the film only in January, once he’s done ...
Anushka Sharma’s Tantrums
To what lengths will some people go to promote a film? Call it rumour, spice or even downright false truths… There’s no stopping some people who are desperate to keep their film in the public eye.
The latest rumour is that Anushka Sharma has refused to wear a two-piece ...
Ranbir Says No To Bhansali
There’s nothing quite like the first time, it seem...
There’s nothing quite like the first time, it seem...
Rahul Mahajan To Debut
Rahul Mahajan, who hit the headlines as a Bigg Bos...
Rahul Mahajan, who hit the headlines as a Bigg Bos...
Hyderabad Diaries
Bollywood has camped out in Hyderabad, exciting de...
Bollywood has camped out in Hyderabad, exciting de...
Why Dibakar Included An Item Song In Shanghai
Shanghai to have an item song
Shanghai to have an item song
Singham 2 In Diwali 2014
Eyebrows were collectively raised when Rohit Shett...
Eyebrows were collectively raised when Rohit Shett...
Short Takes
• Sudhir Mishra’s Mehrunnisa is expected to go on ...
• Sudhir Mishra’s Mehrunnisa is expected to go on ...
Story Behind Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Imran Khan and Anushka Sharma launch their new fil...
Imran Khan and Anushka Sharma launch their new fil...
Another Tamil Actor In Bollywood
Prakash Raj tried to get a foothold in Bollywood b...
Prakash Raj tried to get a foothold in Bollywood b...
Is Kabir Directing Hrithik?
After directing Arshad Warsi and John Abraham in K...
After directing Arshad Warsi and John Abraham in K...
Short Takes
• Preity Zinta is toying with relea...
• Preity Zinta is toying with relea...
Long Vaca-tion For Ajay Devgn
Ajay Devgn, who’s been working round-the-clock, ha...
Ajay Devgn, who’s been working round-the-clock, ha...
Short Takes
• After announcing his plan to make a sequel to Dh...
• After announcing his plan to make a sequel to Dh...
