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Tag Archives: Zoya Akhtar
Bombay Talkies Special Screening
A special show of Viacom 18 Motion Pictures’ Bombay Talkies was hosted at Light Box in Santacruz, Mumbai. Zoya Akhtar, Riteish Deshmukh, Genelia D'Souza, Ayushmann Khurrana, Gauri Khan, Parineeti Chopra, Sidharth Malhotra and Homi Adajania among with others attended the screening.
Bombay Talkies To Be Screened At Cannes
Viacom18 Motion Pictures' upcoming film Bombay Talkies which commemorates the 100 years of Indian cinema will be screened at the Cannes Film festival 2013 on May 19. The film is a collaboration of four short films by Indian directors Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan ...
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Tagged Anurag Kashyap, Bombay Talkies, Cannes, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Screened, Zoya Akhtar
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Fantastic Four Launch Bombay Talkies Trailer
When four of the best filmmakers of our times team up to celebrate a hundred years of Indian cinema, expect an outcome that is nothing less than spectacular. Bombay Talkies has Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap each directing a 20-minute segment, to make an 80-minute feature ...
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Tagged Anurag Kashyap, Bombay Talkies, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar
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Nikhil Advani Celebrates
Nikhil Advani threw a grand party for winning the National Award for Best Animation Film for his film Delhi Safari. Many celebrities like Farhan Akhtar, Karan Johar, Arjun Rampal, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Zoya Akhtar, Kiran Rao and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra were present at the bash.
Posted in Events, Events
Tagged Arjun Rampal, Delhi Safari, Farhan Akhtar, Irrfan Khan, Karan Johar, Kiran Rao, National Award, Nikhil Advani, Tabu, Zoya Akhtar
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A Gem Called Bombay Talkies
From the moment it was announced that four of our most talented directors would team up to make a film, it was obvious that it would be out of this world. The four directors – Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee – decided to make a film ...
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Tagged Anurag Kashyap, Bombay Talkies, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Raja Harishchandra, Zoya Akhtar
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Steven Spielberg in a conversation with Amitabh Bachchan
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg was invited to attend a special interaction with Indian filmmakers. The session hosted by Amitabh Bachchan took place at Taj Lands End, Bandra. Present also were an eclectic mix of directors like Rajkumar Hirani, Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra, Ramesh Sippy, Shyam Benegal, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Sudhir Mishra, ...
Silent March In Mumbai
Citizens of Mumbai including theatre and film personalities led a silent march at 5:30pm on December 29, 2012 from Juhu Beach Gandhi statue to Kaifi Azmi Park asking for Safety For India’s Daughters as a tribute to the deceased Delhi gang rape victim.
Shabana Azmi, who lead the march ...
Posted in Main Story, Straight News
Tagged Ashok Shirley Singh, Baba Azmi, Deepika Padukone, Dibakar Bannerji, Ehsaan, Genelia D?Souza, Hema Malini, Jaswinder Singh Shama Zaidi and Atul Tiwari, Javed Akhtar, Jaya Bachchan, Kailash Kher, Kalpana Lajmi, Kunal Kapoor, Lalit, Mahesh Bhatt, Makrand Deshpande, Mandira Bedi, Mita Vashisht, Nadira Babbar, Om Puri, Prasoon Joshi, Ramesh Talwar, Ranveer Singh, Sandhya Mridul, Satish Kaushik, Shaan, Shabana Azmi, Shahana Goswami, Sherlyn Chopra, Sonali Bendre Goldie Behl, Soni Razdan, Sonu Nigam Alka Yagnik, Tannishtha Chatterji, Tisca Chopra, Vinay Shukla, Vishal Dadlani, Zoya Akhtar
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Marrakech International Film Festival
November 30 to December 8, 2012
What’s It All About?
The 12th Marrakech International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual festival held in the Jemaa el Fna square, in Marrakech, a major city in the northwest African nation of Morocco. Since its inception in ...
Film Bazaar gives Indian cinema credibility: Dibaker Banerjee
What are you looking forward to at the Film Bazaar 2012?
This year, I am here not as a director but as a producer, with my film Titli. We have not revealed the cast of the film yet but are planning to showcase it in front of the Indian ...
Posted in NFDC Film Bazaar 2012
Tagged Anurag Kashyap, Film Bazaar, Karan Johar, Shanghai, Titli, Zoya Akhtar
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Why finding a global audience isn’t easy
The open forum discussion on day eight of the MFF begged the question ‘Why hasn’t the largest film-producing nation been able to crack global audiences?’ The panelists – directors Ashutosh Gowariker and Zoya Akhtar, Sanjeev Lamba, CEO, Reliance Entertainment, and Christian Jeune of the Cannes Film Festival – spoke on ...
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Tagged # Idiots, Ashutosh Gowariker, Sanjeev lamba, Zoya Akhtar
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Ranbir, Kareena Together, Finally
Don’t we all yearn to watch two talented actors share the screen? And if they happen to be big stars too, sone pe suhaga. There’s been talk that Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor would do a film together but we heard nothing after that.
Well, the script, we’re told, ...
Screening Of Gangs Of Wasseypur
Ranbir Kapoor attended the screening of Anurag Kashyap's upcoming release Gangs Of Wasseypur which took place at a suburban theatre on June 19. Actors like Naseeruddin Shah along with his wife Ratna Pathak Shah and son Vivaan Shah came in early for the show. Also spotted were Zoya Akhtar, Arjun Kapoor, Dibakar ...
Technical Award Winners Announced For IIFA 2012
The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) announced winners of the Technical Awards categories for the IIFA Awards 2012. The winners will receive their trophies at the IIFA Rocks on June 8, 2012, in Singapore.
The IIFA Awards Voting process is a tough and systematic procedure that is closely monitored ...
New Indian Woman Seminar
The New Indian Woman seminar was organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on April 24 in Mumbai. Various celebs from the Hindi film industry like Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Nandita Das and journalist Barkha Dutt were spotted at the event.
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Tagged Barkha Dutt, Javed Akhtar, Kiran Rao, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Zoya Akhtar
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FICCI Frames 2012
The 13th chapter of the FICCI Frames was held in Mumbai recently. The three-day business convention on the media and entertainment industry witnessed a sharp focus on digitisation. This year, Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, came forth to inaugurate the annual summit. The inaugural session was also addressed by ...
Posted in Straight News
Tagged Amol Gupte, Anurag Kashyap, FarahKhan, Imtiaz Ali, Javed Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Zoya Akhtar
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Short Takes
• News is that Zoya Akhtar is planning to make a sequel to Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Though it won’t exactly be a sequelas not everyone who acted in the original film will be repeated in the‘sequel’, this will be a travel-based movie. Katrina Kaif will definitely be a part ...
Posted in Trade Gup
Tagged Frooti., Katrina Kaif, Rang De Basanti, Striker, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Zoya Akhtar
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Discussion Over The Artist
A special screening of the Oscar front runner, The Artist, which is presented in India by Tanweer Group and distributed by Top Entertainment, was held at PVR, Juhu in Mumbai on Feb 21. The screening was followed by a panel discussion that included eminent directors - Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, ...
The Artist’s Screening
A special screening and panel discussion of The Artist, directed by Michel Hazavanicus, took place in Mumbai on February 22. Top Entertainment and Anurag Kashyap hosted a special screening of the film starring Jean Dujardin, Benerice Bejo, John Goodman and James Cromwell at PVR Juhu. The film has won three ...
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Tagged Anurag Kashyap, Onir, Pitobash, Sanjay Suri, Top Entertainment, Zoya Akhtar
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Yet Untitled
The VFX of Aamir Khan Productions and Excel Entertainment’s yet to be titled film is in progress at Pixion Studios. Produced by Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, and directed by Reema Kagti, the film features Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji. Writers: Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti.
Posted in Production News
Tagged Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar
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Zindagi Na Mile Dobara
Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif come together on celluloid for the first time in Zindagi Na Mile Dobara (ZNMD). And that’s just one of the many reasons for the excitement surrounding this Zoya Akhtar flick. The multi-starrer, scheduled for release next month, comes from the house of Excel Entertainment, a ...
Projects Wanted
So what if they haven’t tasted success too often, Eros International is going great guns. The latest is that they’ve signed a co-production deal with Excel Entertainment. So Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s next project, yet untitled being directed by Zoya Akhtar, is going to be a joint venture with ...
Posted in Trade Gup
Tagged Eros International, Excel Entertainment, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar
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Under But Not Out
Ever since Abhay Deol decided to turn producer for Navdeep Singh’s (of Manorama Six Feet Under fame) next film, titled Basra, the project has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The latest news is that presenter PVR has backed out because they did not find the project ...
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Tagged Abhay Deol, Basra, Manorama-Six Feet Under, Navdeep Singh, PVR, Zoya Akhtar
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‘I’ve become a habit’
Shah Rukh Khan on the overwhelming response he’s flooded with
I never calculate or call up distributors and exhibitors to find out the business of my films. I make a film, go out in public and sense the feedback from my audience.
I’ve been travelling a lot these ...
Ab Tera Kya Hoga Mishra?
Such is the date hassle story in our filmdom. Sudhir Mishra announced a political drama, Dhruv, toplining Farhan Akhtar and Kareena Kapoor and everything was going smooth for the director. But, when he intended to start shooting a few months ago, Kapoor had some ...
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Tagged Agent Vinod, Dhruv, Farhan Akhtar, Kareena Kapoor, Karthik Calling Karthik, Ra1, SRK, Sudhir Mishra, Zoya Akhtar
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Cast Cutting
Budget cuts are all the rage. And, with his strong business acumen, Ritesh Sidhwani is joining in full earnest and with a novel cost-saving technique. Instead of cutting down on production costs, Sidhwani has decided not to spend too much on casting a known ...
Ajay Devgn Is Son Of Sardar
If you have a cracking title for your film, the ca...
If you have a cracking title for your film, the ca...
Now 10.40 Ki Last Metro
It’s been five years since Sanjay Khanduri made hi...
It’s been five years since Sanjay Khanduri made hi...
The Dirty Dialogues
‘Filme sirf teen cheez ko wajah se chalti hai Ente...
‘Filme sirf teen cheez ko wajah se chalti hai Ente...
Amy Jackson To Endorse A Denim Brand
Though her first film didn’t quite set the cash re...
Though her first film didn’t quite set the cash re...
Anjum Rizvi's Next
Producer Anjum Rizvi is all set to repeat history ...
Producer Anjum Rizvi is all set to repeat history ...
Is Spidey Scared Of Bollywood’s Singham?
The Amazing Spiderman to have a June end release
The Amazing Spiderman to have a June end release
Kumar Gaurav To Revive His Father’s Banner
There was talk that Sanjay Dutt and brother-in-law...
There was talk that Sanjay Dutt and brother-in-law...
Dhoom 3 On Christmas 2013
Khan will proceed with a major shooting schedule o...
Khan will proceed with a major shooting schedule o...
Umesh Shukla To Direct Jr AB
Ever since OMG! Oh My God turned out to be a goldm...
Ever since OMG! Oh My God turned out to be a goldm...
Govinda Is Not In Shuddhi
Govinda was indeed considered but the production h...
Govinda was indeed considered but the production h...
Race Against Time
We’re told that Rohit Shetty has been working 24x7...
We’re told that Rohit Shetty has been working 24x7...
Short Takes
• Sources tell us that Jacqueline Fernandez play a...
• Sources tell us that Jacqueline Fernandez play a...
