Monday, June 30, 2008
Moksha
That’s Katrina for you!
But Katrina just went off in some antibiotics! And was all set to rock and roll. Retracting from a commitment was out of question for her. And the kind of performance Katrina dished out, not once did the on-lookers come to know that she was down with high fever. After the show when people learnt that Katrina had performed despite her illness, they praised her for her professionalism. Producers, who had worked with Katrina earlier, also swore by her professionalism. That’s Katrina for you... way to go!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Devdas
Friday, June 27, 2008
Irrfan Khan in Terje Vigen of Henrik Ibsen
All rehearsed Henrik Ibsen’s Terje Vigen, about the ineffectuality of war, in different languages. Irrfan represented India by speaking the Urdu version, alongside stalwarts like Gila Almagour, who performed in Hebrew, Jean Rochefort in French, Anne Grete Preus in Norwegian and Masatoh Ibu in Japanese. He felt 10 feet tall.
Irrfan claimed that he spent months familiarizing himself with the thoughts and feelings in Ibsen’s poems. He also told that luckily for him, he is no stranger to Ibsen. In fact his first film Jazeere by Govind Nihalani was based on Ibsen.
His familiarity with the Norwegian playwright and his training in theatre gave him the confidence to carry off this project.
The collective performance has been titled The Identity of the Soul and is all about the futility of war. In the performance, all actors from across the world recite the same lines by Ibsen, although in different languages. The performance is expected to be shown on celluloid. Irrfan feels that this project is one of his best achievements.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Sudhir Mishra palnning to make a film on Dr Binayak Sen
It is heard that filmmaker Sudhir Mishra is planning to make a film on Dr Binayak Sen who is a human rights activist. When contacted, Mishra confirmed that he had laid out plans to make a film on the life of the doctor. He also said that he thinks his life warrants a film. That man could have chosen to earn crores in his life but he thought otherwise.
Dr Binayak Sen is a human rights activist, a pediatrician and a public health doctor. He was arrested on May 14, 2007 in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. His crime was that he and his organization, People's Union for Civil Liberties had helped draw public attention to the illegal killings of several adivasis in Santoshpur, on March 31, 2007, Chhattisgarh. Sen was under arrest under provisions of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, 2006, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, which was amended in 2004 to include key aspects of the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA), 2002.
A number of organizations and individuals across the world have protested against the arbitrary arrest of Dr Sen, following which a police probe into the incident was ordered.
Kiss Kis Ko
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Ekta Kapoor worried about meeting her deadlines
For the last three days, the cast of the serial has been waiting to shoot the first episode; they haven't been able to shoot a single scene because it has been pouring in the pink city. Most of the scenes are to be shot outdoors.
Balaji Telefilms has incurred a huge loss. Ekta says that 200 people are stranded in Jaipur as the Amer fort is blocked. And since they have not shot for the last three days, she is worried about meeting her deadlines.
She doesn’t know about the money they have lost.
Partner movie online
Partner movie features Salman Khan and Govinda with Lara Dutta and Katrina Kaif. In Partner Salman Khan who is Love Guru, named Prem likes nothing better than helping lonely souls find their soul mates. But he is in a fix when he meets Bhaskar, a drip, who has set his sights high – on no less than beautiful heiress Priya Jaisingh. However, as Prem teaches his worst and most ardent student to woo Priya, he finds himself getting involved with touch-me-not journalist Naina.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Madhur Bhandarkar coming up with his next film Jail
Though he was busy wrapping up his forth-coming film Fashion, there was another story cooking in Madhur Bhandarkar’s head. The realistic filmmaker announced his next film, Jail with Neil Nitin Mukesh in the lead role. Madhur’s films always have heavy doses of real-life events and characters and his Jail is based on the renowned Alyster Pereira case. Alyster Pereira was charged of running his Toyota Corolla over and killing seven construction workers in Bandra in November 2006. Alyster and his friends were arrested on charges of falsification and for submitting fake papers to obtain a driving license and were purportedly under the influence of alcohol. The incident occurred when Pereira and his friends were returning from a late night party. Pereira had allegedly counterfeit his school leaving certificate and used it as document to prove his age to obtain a driving license. Alyster Pereira is currently out on bail.
Jail is going to hit the theatres from October this year and Neil has already been finalized for one of the key roles in the film. Jail is about the infamous Alyster Pereira hit-and-run case.
Neil will play the character of a rich spoilt little monster that gets involved in a hit-and-run case and is booked for drunken driving. The case was a chatting point all over and Madhur was fascinated by Alyster’s story. However, the script of Jail is kept under wraps and the cast and crew have been sworn to secrecy.
When contacted, Madhur Bhandarkar confirmed the news but refused to divulge details. He said that he would start work on Jail only after he is through with the editing of Fashion.
Jail, he said is based on under-trials and as the name suggests, Jail is the baseline of his film. But at this point of time, he would not like to speak more about the film. Will have to wait and watch.
Bhandarkar Entertainment and Percept Picture Company will jointly produce the film.
Watch Sunday movie online
Sunday movie is about a missing Sunday from life. It’s about Sehar whose world turns confused when she gets a clue about the missing Sunday of her life, which points to a possible violent attacks on her. A.C.P Rajveer takes up the case to sort out the complicated and jumbled up threads of Sehar’s life. In the process of solving Sehar’s case it comes to light that on Sunday, different people interacted with her and amongst them, one could be the accused. The lot included Ballu, the taxi driver and his friend, Kumar, an under pressure NSD actor, Ritu, Sehar’s close friend, a scary and suspicious character who resides in Sehar’s society, and the group whom she had come across while partying at the discotheque. While trying to solve the puzzle, Rajveer stumbles upon a murder case whose clues hold up Sehar to be the offender.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Sanjay Dutt in action packed thriller Blue
It was extremely important for Sanjay to lose a lot of weight after he came out of prison where he had developed a double chin and a big paunch. Hollywood trainer Lawrence, who has flown in from Los Angeles, has been training Sanjay.
It is believed that the actor earlier wanted Mark Twight, who trained the cast of the war epic 300, but Mark was busy with other commitments. That's how Lawrence came into the picture. Sanjay hits the gym for two hours twice a day. Above all, he is completely off alcohol. It may be recalled that Sanjay was the first actor to focus on fitness.
Remember his physique in Subhash Ghai's Khalnayak? He is getting back to his earlier fit self. And what about his diet? Almost 90 per cent of Sanjay's diet comprises fish dishes,” says the source. When contacted, Sanjay's close friend Dharam Oberoi (CEO of Sanjay Dutt Productions) who is with him in the Bahamas confirmed the story and said that Dutt Sir has lost 26 kgs in the past few months. He is looking very lean and fit now. Currently, he is shooting for some very tough underwater scenes. Sanjay, Manyata and Dharam Oberoi will return to Mumbai on July 2.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Download Ladka Ladki movie
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Preity Zinta squalled out of the dubbing studio
Zinta got annoyed because the sound-recorder, Rakesh Ranjan left assistant recorder Pradeep Suri to oversee the dubbing. However, Preity refused to dub without Ranjan's presence. When contacted, Juneja did not deny the incident. He said that the sound-recorder Rakesh Ranjan was unwell when Preity arrived at the dubbing studio.
He explained to her that she should go ahead with Suri, but she was uncomfortable with the idea of dubbing without Rakesh. She then left the studio and did not dub that day. It was also known that Suri felt insulted at this.
Juneja explained that Har Pal has emotions in most scenes and a slight change in dubbing can affect the quality of the film. Later, he called up Ranjan and he arrived on the sets the next day. After that, Preity has been dubbing with them regularly.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Old movie Do Jasoos online
Adhyayan Suman and Kangana Ranaut in Raaz 2
As we all know, Adhyayan Suman is more than a co-star for Kangana Ranaut. The latter is also her guru when it comes to gizmos. Kangana and Adhyayan (Shekhar Suman's son) are working together in Mahesh Bhatt's Raaz 2. Kangana is very fond of Adhyayan. He reminds her of her brother who isn't around in Mumbai and stays with her parents.
Adhyayan and Kangana are almost like siblings, they fight over which gizmos to buy, be it a laptop, i-pods or mobiles. Kangana was initially not too well versed with computers and gadgets. But now, she's found someone to help her get updated with the latest technology. Adhyayan who is a techno-freak is her guru.
He not only introduces Kangana to the latest gadgets and software but also doubles up as her encyclopedia.
And that's not all; apparently, Adhyayan has also helped Kangana decide upon the gadgets that she needed to buy recently.
Online movie Iqraar By Chance
Iqraar By Chance is a movie in which Rashmi convinces a radio station owner, Radiowala that she can effectively pull off a new reality show. In the show, she would fall in love with a total unfamiliar person and later dump him. Radiowala chooses Raj as her unsuspecting target. Raj is a DJ by work who works in a pub owned by Talwar. Talwar and his wife are hell-bent on getting Raj married to their daughter Tina. To avoid Talwar’s trap, Raj lies to him that he is already married. Disbelieving, Talwar asks Raj to bring his wife to meet his family. In the meantime, Rashmi is trying hard to charm Raj to make him fall in love with her for her radio show. Raj uses this chance to convince her to act as his wife in front of the Talwars. He lies to her that he is actually R.B. Mathur, a CBI officer from India. He tells her he is in London to expose a big drug alliance. The local drug lord, Sikka’s men, overhears this conversation. To confuse matters further, the real R.B.Mathur too arrives in town in pursuit of the drug mafia.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Amrita Arora and boyfriend Usman Afzal
However, the day she left, she was busy making hazaar call to boyfriend Usman Afzal. It was his birthday and Amrita had to make it special somehow! Of late, there have been many malicious rumours of the Amrita-Usman split. But none of them are true, and Amrita has stopped reacting to them completely.
The couple is extremely happy. Both Amrita and Usman are doing well for themselves. So while some are busy humming about a split and trouble in the actor’s paradise, Amu is happily singing the birthday song!
Fakira
Director Balki coming up with Pa
She is yet to sign the dotted line said a friend of the actress but has agreed to do it. The formalities and date scheduling will happen a few weeks from now. Pa revolves around three main characters – played by Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan.
Going by the title of the film, it revolves around a father-son relationship. So, will Amitabh sport a ponytail in this one yet again? Balki said that No ponytail this time round. However, after Sarkar, Sarkar Raj, and KANK, it'll be interesting to watch Amitabh-Abhishek do the pa-beta thing on-screen once again!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Sabse Bada Khiladi
Madhur hitting through the upper limit
There is some change of plans regarding the climax of Fashion. Earlier, the director had planned to shoot the Paris Fashion Week live in July, but now he'll be recreating the Fashion Week in Paris during the event. Madhur informed that they were working on a deal with the French Government. They will show Priyanka walking the ramp but they won't shoot the Fashion Week. A set in Paris needs to be put up for about five days. They want to capture Priyanka framed against the Eiffel Tower and also show her walking the ramp in Paris as a super-model. They will also have some footage from the real Fashion Week.
Madhur's next project Jail, a hard-hitting film on a criminal who escapes from prison, was supposed to be shot in a real jail. However, it will now be filmed on a set because of the practical problems associated with the film's shoot. Madhur has cast Neil Nitin Mukesh in the film. When he saw Neil in Johnny Gaddar, he knew that he was perfect. He doesn't think a prison story like Jail has been done so far in Hindi films. He always wanted to go into genres that were new for him and for the audience. Jail will be a two-hour-long thriller produced jointly by Madhur Bhandarkar and Percept Pictures.
Apart from being kicked about all his forthcoming films, Madhur is on cloud nine about winning his third National Award for Traffic Signal. In fact Madhur was caught in the traffic in the pouring rains when he heard of him winning the National Award. Since the National Awards are running a year late, he wasn't even aware that Traffic Signal was up for consideration. He was stuck in the torrential rains when a news channel from Delhi called to inform him. He thought it was a joke.
But later, when he received congratulatory calls he knew that he had really won… On hindsight, Traffic Signal was a very difficult movie to make. There were 60 characters and half of them were non-actors, straight from the streets. And they did no workshops. Though Madhur has won National Awards for both Chandni Bar and Page 3, this is his first National award as a director. And it is also for the first time that two films, Traffic Signal and Corporate, by the same director were competing with each other.
Daud
Konkana Sen-Sharma and her unique tastes
Pavitra and she shares a common taste as far as interiors are concerned, so she is doing up the house for her. She thinks she is superb! It’s taking long, but then homes always do. At this moment though, Konkona is raving over her National Award. This is her second award. She got her first National Award for her third film, Mr and Mrs Iyer. To add to the happiness, Konkana’s elder sister Kamalini is in India from the US. She has come down from the US after a long time and she is taking many family vacations with her. And because Kamalini is on a visit, she is getting a chance to be with both, her parents and sister! She almost likes a mother figure. At times Konkana is tempted to do films for the money, and she has a reason. She has done so because she is a working girl and she needs to pay her bills. But going by her gut feeling about a role always works. Sometimes producers come to her with what they think are strong powerful female-oriented roles. She wishes she could share their excitement. But she’d love to do a period film.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Sandwich
Ranjeev Khandelwal next to be seen in Peter Gaya Kaam Se
The film will go on the floors after monsoons, as that’s when Goa looks its best and the film’s canvas will capture the bright green natural surroundings. For his role, Rajeev is all set to learn to ride the two-wheelers that run in Goa. He said that he’d be learning to ride the taxi bike. Since they are shooting the film entirely in Goa he will have to learn how to ride it so that it looks authentic.
He must better be good at winding his way through those steep roads. However, for him, the most interesting aspect about Peter Gaya Kaam Se right after Aamir is that he goes from being a Muslim to a Christian. An India-based British filmmaker John Owen will direct the film. Vikas Behl said that John has been doing excellent work for music channels. He instinctively knew that he was the right person for this project, just as they knew Rajkumar Gupta was the right person to direct Aamir.
Currently, the hunt is on for Rajeev’s leading lady in Peter Gaya Kaam Se. In all probability it will be a new face.
Mr And Mrs Khiladi
Kashmera Shah becoming Rakhi Sawant
In fact, the enmity between Kashmera and Rakhi had activated off colourful expletives between the two. Kashmera’s boyfriend Krushna was quite critical of Rakhi and her beau Abhishek when the pair walked out of the Nach Baliye 3 after losing to Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Sheikh. This makes Kashmera’s new role all the more interesting. Kashmera’s portrayal of Rakhi’s character in the play is awaited. Kashmera has added some more spice by giving cryptic answers like Just wait and watch!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Kudrat
Aditya Chopra leaving no stone unturned for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Reportedly Aditya Chopra has recorded an 11-minute song in the film, which showcases the style of five different generations in one single song. The song tracks the journey from 1950s to the 90's to the present era and will be picturised on Shahrukh Khan.
Aditya had reached a dead end with the song where he had to scrap it when he thought of Sonu. The specialty of the song is a tribute that SRK gives to stalwarts like Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna and Rishi Kapoor. But music composers Salim-Suleiman and Jaideep Saini were asked to compose the song which would have the first line of the most famous numbers with their romantic icons and these involves songs sung by singers ranging. Mukesh, Rafi, Kishore to Jolly Mukherjee. Ranging from the '50s to the '90s. The voice had to encompass the spirit of the old and the new equally, and Sonu was the only option.
Apparently Sonu who was traveling comprehensively gratified thrice to rehearse and work on the song and then finally sang in less than 45 minutes.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
PNC coming up with Guerilla Flicks
Pritish Nandy explained that it was an unconventional idea but that’s the whole point of cinema. They at PNC are there to take chances. Hence they are launching a new series called Guerrilla Flicks.
Nandy also said that according to him Guerrilla flicks are the true movies. It is a genre of cinema that is innovative in approach and will include comedy, action and more. They will be non-star and non-profit films. To make a Guerrilla Flick, all they need is vision.
Filmmakers mostly treat films as moneymaking ventures and do not take risks. He added that he is shocked to see that today’s so-called big filmmakers only talk of enormous budgets and ridiculous targets. They don't want to make films. All the films under Guerrilla Flicks will be small budget ventures with small stars but big cinema.
Arindam Mitra is shooting the first film from the ten-film series. Nandy has big plans for his new project. They want a grasp of unconventional talents including some of the biggest ad-makers of the country. All they need to do is direct the film and believe in PNC. Every director, big or small, has a secret wish of making a film that is completely his own vision.
To prevent this experiment from turning into a disaster, the head honcho of PNC will look into every script personally.
He also said that PNC is not afraid of losses. Thankfully so far they have had only two loss-making ventures including Ismail Merchant’s The Mystic Masseur and Kabir Sadanand’s Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Mithun Chakraborthy playing the lead in a comic book
They wanted something light-hearted. Hence, they thought of Mithun sir’s famous character Jimmy. He is a superhero who fights on the dance floor.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Mukhbir once again clouded by controversy
The film starring Suniel Shetty, Sameer Dattani, Jackie Shroff, Om Puri and Raima Sen, which is slated to release on June 20, may or may not hit the screens on time. Directed by Mani Shankar of 16 December fame, this dark action thriller was initially produced by PNC but the film did not find any takers and had been lying in the cans for almost two years. That's when Chennai-based Color Chips took over the film and decided to release it with the help of Pyramid Samaira.
PNC has said that they had paid Rs 12 lakh to Mani Shankar, three-and- a-half years ago and he disappeared with the money and film. However, according to the spokesperson of Color Chips, PNC could not release the film back then and Color Chips legally took over the film from the director. A source from Color Chips said that back then Suniel Shetty's market value was not strong enough, but now he's back in the reckoning. Even Sameer Dattani was relatively unknown. Now that there is so much buzz around the newcomer and that the film has found takers. Now, PNC wants to Cash in on the film.
Sarparaj, Vice-president, Operations, Color Chips said that they cannot be accountable for the alleged liability of the director of the film or for that matter any third party. They also take strong objection to the manner in which their name was being dragged into the matter. Only time will tell if Mukhbir will finally release as scheduled on June 20 or the fight between PNC and Color Chips will delay the film’s release again.
Friday, June 6, 2008
99 slaps of Mallika Sherawat
Ranvir’s character is overexcited and so every time she gets excited, she slaps the guy and so Ranvir would get slapped almost everyday on the sets.
Ranvir is more outspoken. He said that the title of the film is incorrect. Instead of Ugli aur Pagli it should be called Kahani of 99 slaps. He must have got slapped at least 100 times including all the retakes. They must say, life is certainly not a party for Ranvir. While most heroes opposite Mallika get to woo her and some Lucky ones like Himanshu Malik and Emraan Hashmi even get to smooch her, Ranvir gets only slaps from the sulky heroine!!!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Aishwarya happy with Abhishek’s performance in Sarkar Raj
The screening was held at 9:30 pm at the Adlabs auditorium in the Film City premises on Sunday. This was the first screening and hence everybody was very excited about the film. In fact, Ash’s hands were locked into Abhishek’s throughout the film. After the film got over, everyone applauded the film for five minutes. After which, Ash hugged a surprised Abhishek rather tightly and for long with moist eyes. It was only after over five minutes that she freed Abhishek from her embrace and said that this is one of his best performances that she has ever seen so far’. Ash then went up to Ramu and reiterated the same thing. That was when Ramu assured her of her own performance saying that she was equally good. Sarkar Raj is about a close-knit family under an attack and how the family survives the attack collectively. Probably, that’s the reason why Ash got so emotional after watching the film.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Sreesanth met Aamir and Imran Khan
Sreesanth further revealed that he had a long chat with Imraan. He loved the promos of Imran’s new film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, and has told him so. Meeting with Imraan was more like meeting of two like-minded souls as Imraan and he sail in the same boat. Imraan is an upcoming actor, while Sree is trying to make his mark in cricket. Apart from films, they also had some general talk about workouts etc. He is positive that Imraan has the making of a good actor and a huge star. He is sure to go a long way.
Speaking about his conversation with Aamir and Imraan, Sreesanth said that basically they were chatting about cricket and the technical know-how. They were also discussing as to who will win the match. After three years he was watching a match sitting in the stadium, and not playing. It definitely made his day that on one hand he had the Ambanis sitting close to him, apart from Sachin paaji, Aamir and Imraan. It was definitely the biggest day of his life.
When asked if he will watch Imraan's debut film, he said that of course, but he guesses that he will be in Bangladesh at the time of the release, but he will surely watch it later. Did they also discuss cinema since he has also been offered a film down South. He said that they didn't, as the topic did not waver from cricket at all. Films are not Sree’s motive right now. His focus is cricket and all he wants to do is win more and more matches for his country. Acting and movies will happen some years down the line. He knows where he stands at the moment.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Ajay Devgan Juhu Ka Super Hero
It is known that Ajay is currently shooting for Krishika Lulla and Kumar Mangat’s Toonpur Ka Super Hero, but he makes sure that he stands in complete support of the residents of Juhu, who are taking a step towards getting the BMC to take note of the situation and get their act right before the rains. The residents of 10th Road, Juhu, near Amitabh Bachchan’s bungalow have Ajay Devgan standing by them. There are various issues, which the residents are fighting against.
Ajay Devgan feels that the authorities should take necessary action so that the rains do not do much damage. There is usually a lot of damage caused in the Juhu Scheme area, as it is a low-lying area. As a responsible resident, he feels that it is his duty to support other residents in their effort towards getting the issue resolved. And that is just what he is doing.
Shirley Singh, the Secretary of the Juhu Scheme Resident’s Association, said that after the deluge in 2005, the Chitale committee came up with a solution of widening the Irla Nala system project by 30 meters. This hasn't happened yet for various reasons. This project is very important for the residents of Juhu, and they were not getting a response in any way from the concerned authorities. Stressing upon Ajay’s involvement, Shirley smiled and said that Mr Devgan is helping them to draw the attention of authorities and raise this issue to another level. His effort has helped them immensely.