It comes as a shock to know that second-time director Samar Khan's hard-hitting look at the isolation of the Indian Muslim in Shaurya comes from the director's personal anguish. "We don't confront anything that's uncomfortable. But the fact of the matter is that the Indian Muslim is living a very real crisis. What you see in Shaurya is born of a very private anguish. Why is it that a Khan is asked to prove his patriotism in this country while a Jha is not? Why do I've to wear my patriotism on the sleeve? Isn't it enough that I am an Indian? These are questions that have always troubled me. There came a time when I said, 'F..k it. I won't be answerable to anyone except my own conscience'.
Samar says he has felt the discrimination in Mumbai first-hand. "It may not be on an obvious level. But it's there. If I praise the performance of the Pakistani cricket team a look would pass around the room. But if anyone else said it, it wouldn't be noticed. I don't want to be known as a Muslim. I want to be known as an Indian. Unfortunately, in these troubled times that we live in it's become embarrassing to be Samar Khan."
The character Javed Khan of the persecuted Muslim in Shaurya is inspired by what Samar has gone through. "Javed's character represents the predicament of the Indian Muslim today. Javed is willing to give up his life for the honour of the army uniform and is still looked on with suspicion. The discrimination against Muslims does exist. And it hurts. I pay my taxes like any other Indian, and I'm willing to give up my life for the country. Then why?"
Samar then tells a hair-raising story. "Recently, when I was trying to buy a house, five housing societies turned me down. If this can happen in Mumbai, I shudder to think what it must be like in Surat and Bhopal. I situated Shaurya in the army because I feel the army is the nation's moral guardian. I was in the National Defence Academy for three years. In my film Javed and before him his father have served the country in the army. And yet when Javed is accused of murdering a colleague he's held guilty even before the trial."
Once and for all, is Shaurya inspired by the Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson starrer A Few Good Men? "Yes, the skeleton of the film is A Few Good Men. But I've changed everything around. Where in A Few Good Men did they talk about Kashmir and the Muslim identity? It's like comparing Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. They're both about the end of the world. But so different."
Samar had earlier made the innocuous candyfloss confection called Kuch Meetha Ho Jaye. "I wanted my peer's respect. My first film didn't get me that."
About the incredibly sensitive cast Samar sighs, "It's K K Menon's presence that lends the film a colour of reality. He makes you shudder in your seat. And Rahul Bose has brought so many subtleties into the plot."
However, Samar concedes that Shah Rukh Khan, who recites poetry in Shaurya, would've made all the difference to the project. "But I didn't have the nerve to ask Shah Rukh. Nor did I want to exploit my friendship with him. I was more confident approaching Rahul Bose, though he obviously didn't share my confidence. But when he heard the script, he was immediately with me. In any case, today it's the subject and the film that pull in the crowds. I'm hoping Shaurya to create a buzz. In Mumbai its audience has been growing."
He then adds, "I didn't want to sound jingoistic and judgmental, even when K K Menon gives his Hitlerian speech. I honestly feel if we keep closing our eyes to what happened to Gujarat then the Muslims in India will end up getting a dose of Nazism. Yes, Shaurya has made me a more politically aware creature." Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 5 Apr 2008 | 2:20 pm
The one thing that bonds not just the B-town actors but also the humans all over is Friendship. And in Hindi, Dostana, which incidentally is also Bollywood's Midas Touch Man Karan Johar's next venture, which stars John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan and the vivacious Priyanka Chopra, to be directed by his assistant Tarun Mansukhani. The story is set in the gorgeous city of Miami.
For starters, Dostana was the name of the film that was directed by his legendary father Yash Johar in 1980. As is the ritual that 'precedes' any Bollywood blockbuster, the 'sources' are at it again! This time, they say that Aby Baby will be donning the role of a male nurse in this film- a story of Friendship between him and John.
We all know that how emotionally attached Karan is with his late father Yash Johar. But what many of us do not know is that the 'original' Dostana, was made by his father when he was facing tough times in his life and how the film's leadind actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha and Zeenat Aman came forth and lent a co-operating hand!
The spoilsport sources also revealed that this film will be totally unlike the original as this will have a never before thought of ending! Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 5 Apr 2008 | 1:24 pm
If you were to say "Mirror Mirror on the wall, tell me who is the huskiest of them all." And there is no second thought as to what the answer will be not me, not you but the Queen amongst the blessed few: Bipasha Basu, undoubtedly! And it is this huskiest gal who is peeping out of the cover in the latest edition of the men's magazine 'FHM'.
She has spoken some of the most insightful words that everyone wanted to ask but did not know 'through' whom to ask!
Well, Bips (as we fondly call her) makes a very innocent statement claiming (read 'confessing') that "I can't ever sleep alone at night", which only meant that she is so scared of sleeping alone that she will not even mind sleeping with her enemy!
PS: HEY ALL YOU 'HE' readers OUT THERE! Please stop thinking and fantasizing about you being her enemy! Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 5 Apr 2008 | 1:10 pm
Our celebrity for this day is the 'courage' -filled Samar Khan, who, after having found the calling of his talent to the television first and then onto the silver screen, this man is surely a man with lots of 'courage'.
If you are wondering as to why we are repeatedly harping on courage, then, let us tell you that the 'courageous' director Samar Khan, who made his Bollywood debut with Chocolate is back with his latest offering Shaurya, which means courage. If the reviews and the cinegoers' feedback are anything to go by, then, we will not be surprised to see Samar rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Hollywood action film directors, or maybe he might just land up directing one! His film Shaurya definitely drives home the point that Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Well, leaving the future for the future, the present is that the man himself Samar Khan will be with you on Bollywood Hungama in an exclusive web-chat, talking about Shaurya and much, much more on April 8 at 1530 hrs IST. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 1:05 pm
Sachin Pilgoankar will relive the moments of Satte Pe Satta by remaking and producing the same in Marathi. The film titled Aami Saatpule will have Sachin stepping into the shoes of Amitabh Bachchan with his better half, Supriya who will be seen playing Hema Malini's role.
Interestingly, Sonu Nigam will be singing in five different voices in the title song of the film and will also mimic singers like Nitin Mukesh, Shabbir Kumar, Adnan Sami and Kumar Sanu. Other than, Swapnil Joshi playing the youngest brother, which was played by Sachin himself in Satte Pe Satta, Ashok Saraf and Atul Pareshkar will also play pivotal roles.
The film is slated to release on April 18. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 12:39 pm
Legends say, "You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince." This only proves that the legends definitely have not heard of this handsome hunk called 'Milind Soman'. His name itself is just enough to set the heartbeats of many gals and guys alike.
The never-ending lipstick marks on all his snaps (in the newspapers and also on the street sides) are proof enough for his craze-o-meter! Having born to a scientist father and a biochemist mother, acting must have been the last thing on their mind for their dear son. But as they say, no matter how much you seal the musk, you cannot seal its fragrance. Likewise, the Ramphood and Bollywood (in that order) just couldn't resist his charms and ultimately gave in to him.
He may have quit the ramp for Bollywood, but after his Bollywood debut in Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula, Milind is on a rampage in the tinsel town. The latest one being the suspense thriller Bhram. But its is no 'Bhram' that Milind will be on Bollywood Hungama, live and flesh to chat with you on April 7 at 1630 hrs IST. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 12:25 pm
It takes vision and valor to make a film about valor and the plummeting morale of the Indian army. Shaurya is about the Indian army. But it isn't a war film. The battles are all fought in the conflicted karmbhoomiof the individual's conscience.
It's a film about the colors of the conscience. But it doesn't get preachy or, God forbid, screechy in telling us the state of the nation as it is.
It's a film about the Indian Muslim's identity. But it steers miraculously clear of taking sides or becoming hysterically passionate on the subject. There have been significant films on the isolation of the Indian Muslim as seen through the eyes of a persecuted individual. I can immediately think of John Matthan's Sarfarosh and Raj Kumar Santoshi's Khakee. In Shaurya Deepak Dobriyal as Javed Khan the Muslim army-man accused of terrorist activities reminds you of Atul Kulkarni in Khakee. There's even that predictably positioned poignant-by-demand sequence where the accused's mother comes visiting the lawyer's home in the 'dread' of the night. Seema Biswas' cameo as Javed's mother is surprisingly lackluster. The lady demonstrates unnecessary restrain where a more dramatic pitch for the distraught mother would have carried the theme of persecution and isolation further.
Samar Khan seems exceptionally shy of emotional display. The relationships that grow within Joydeep Sarkar's intricately- plotted courtroom drama seek solace in silences rather than dramatics. Even the relationship that grows between the frivolous-going-on-troubled hero Major Siddhanth Chowdhary (Rahul Bose) and the doughty journalist (Minissha Lamba) resonates with restrain rather than rhetorical rain clouds. The buddies, Bose and Javed Jaffrey, we are told, are inseparable. However, that level of camaraderie isn't evident in the material on display. The cloudbursts are saved up for the entire climactic interlude. The last 45 minutes are so stunningly honest and so brutally free of polished preening, you wonder if the dormant spirit of the rest of the narrative was meant to beguile us into a misleading state of numbness.
The wake-up call at how a certain section of the government-sponsored agencies look upon the Indian Muslim is hurled into our face with a ferocity venom and impact that leaves us in a state of stunned incredulity. Credit must go to the writer, director and the dialogue writer (Aparna Malhotra) for telling it like it is about the alienation of a community. More than Rahul Bose who's remarkably in-sync and uniformly vibrant in his laughs-to-glitches character, it's Kay Kay Menon as the biased army officer who imbues a compelling credibility to Samar Khan's honorable and brave intentions. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that Shaurya and its theme of the Indian Muslim's self-worth would not have worked without Menon's vital presence. In the courtroom when he spews shocking venom against the community for 'polluting and poisoning', the country Menon sounds frighteningly 'Hitlerian'. The Nazi parallels emerge from the theme with ratifying intensity. Again, we must stress the fact that the director doesn't try to get fashionably polemical in addressing the sensitive issue of communal angst. Most of the way Samar Khan remains non-judgmental in his treatment of the characters and their blemishes. The trial-and-error of the silently smoldering Muslim is punctuated by bout of humor between Bose and his screen-friend Javed Jaffrey who as we all know after years of film watching, will cross moral swords in the narration's onward pilgrimage to self-realization.
From its opening titles, when on a wet, windy, slippery, and deceitful army's night out in Srinagar when Javed Khan pulls the trigger on his senior. To the stunning finale when Shah Rukh Khan's voice recites poignant poetry defining valor and courage not as we see it but as the conscience knows it, Shaurya reveals sparks of master storytelling and a penchant for not hiding away from uncomfortable truths. The director could have easily avoided the limp pockets in the narrative, those telltale breathers when the friends bond, lovers sing and the fringe characters try to get a face from the edges.
Forget the humbug. Just watch Shaurya for its compelling and positively gripping insight into the heart and mind of the average Indian who hides his subconscious biases in the garb of a fashionable liberalism. The film's army backdrop is authentically captured by Carlos Catalan's panoramic cinematography, which captures the feelings and failings of the characters as fluently as the cascading tranquility of the Srinagar backdrop.
The music is weak and not quite what we expect. But who's listening? Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 5 Apr 2008 | 12:11 pm
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It is one of the most eagerly anticipated comebacks in Bollywood. Husband and wife Ajay and Kajol Devgan are to appear together on the big screen for the first time in eight years, in U, Me Aur Hum. Hmmm, interesting! And that's not enough. It's Ajay Devgan's directorial debut. Too good! But will the film live up to the over hyped expectations? Well, Kajol has the answers to the very few exclusive questions thrown in by Bollywood Hungama's Devansh Patel in a fiery conversation, which got disconnected half way.
Is Ajay going to rock the boat?
Can't say at the moment. But I am pretty confident that the film will do well and complete the journey comfortably. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Was the journey smooth throughout or were there any 'phool aur kaante' while filming?
(Laughs) Actually, there were few 'kaante's' but we jumped over it and completed our journey quite smoothly. Hopefully, the film will blossom like a flower after its release.
You and Ajay are coming back after a gap of 8 years. Wasn't it like you were working with a new comer?
No, not at all. And we are coming back together after 7 years. Working with Ajay is always a new experience because he is so unpredictable when it comes to sharing screen space with his co-stars and even the newcomers.
Having seen the promos, the film doesn't really speak about the plot. Don't you think people, now-a-days, see the film only if they like the promos?
If the trailer isn't giving much away, doesn't mean that the film is not worth watching. You throw in a song and some dialogues to make a promo. But that's not all. I think if the people want to go and watch the film, irrespective of the promos, they will go.
Kajol will always be remembered as a bubbly and a chirpy actress on screen. So what's so different about you in U, Me Aur Hum?
Everything is. I am bubbly, chirpy and a lot more. But the lot more, you will only come to know after the film comes out. What more?
Don't you worry. There is still more. Why Vishal Bharadwaj, an unconventional music director for a fun loving film like U, Me Aur Hum?
We took Vishal for the simple reason that he is a good music director and more importantly also a director of many films. You will love the music of the film, which you are right, is not the typical Vishal Bharadwaj music, but that's why you'll like it.
And what have you got to say about your experience working with a new director?
The director is new. Not the person. Working with Ajay the director is to learn many things, which I haven't, learn before from my directors. He has a different take, belief, and style of working. U, Me Aur Hum is the trump card and not Ajay Devgan or Kajol. The film is the real hero. Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:49 am
After garnering huge acclaims for Khosla Ka Ghosla, director Dibakar Banerjee is all set with his next venture titled Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye. The film has Abhay Deol, Archana Puran Singh, Neetu Chandra and a newcomer Richa Chadha with Paresh Rawal playing a triple role.
Highlighting the kind of research Banerjee has done for the film, he says, "Unlike, Khosla Ka Ghosla which was for middle class, this film demanded me to know the mind of criminals, their relationship with elites, police and other criminals and the way police treats them."
Without revealing much about the character of Paresh Rawal in the film, Banerjee says, "Paresh Rawal is doing a triple role with the two characters namely Dr. Brijkishore Handa and Googie Arror and third name if taken will give out the entire storyline of the film which I don't want to do. But he is doing something which he has never done before." And what does Abhay do in the film? "Abhay plays an extremely handsome, charismatic and very talented thief leading a luxurious life. Someone who is very stylish and has lots of girlfriends and is usually spotted in five stars hotels," states Banerjee.
Talking about the costumes chosen for different characters in the film he informs, "Since, my film is set in Delhi; we would go out on the streets of Delhi to study various characters because I am very particular about the kind of reality I depict in the film. Like the kind of research done was very crucial in the case of Paresh Rawal's different characters in the film. He further adds, "Even in the case of Abhay's costumes which are very well designed as he starts a normal thief and then later climbs up the status graph and becomes a very rich and well known crook."
The release date of the film will be finalized after its completion by the end of August. Banerjee's next, post Oye Lucky, Lucky Oyewill be a thriller based in Calcutta, which is expected to go on floors next year. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 10:30 am
They say you can't challenge the Sun in light, the Moon in warmth, Aryabhatta in mathematics, Issac Newton in science and the Dictionary in synonyms. We abide by all this, except for the last one. Dictionary says that the synonym for 'beautiful' is 'good-looking', 'stunning' etc⦠But we say that there is just one synonym for 'beautiful' and that is 'Esha Deol'. She made so many heads 'turn', with her debut film Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe. Films followed after that may or may not have shone at the magical windows of the B-O. But Esha Deol did shine and how! So much so that a leading Bollywood trade pundit had once mentioned, "Esha's future looks so bright that one needs glares to see them."
What more can a girl want, than having Bollywood's 'He-Man' Dharmendra and 'Dream Girl' Hema Malini as her parents! She is in the news not just with her latest release One, Two, Three also because she will be Live on chat with all of you on Bollywood Hungama on April 7 at 1530 hrs IST. Do not miss to be a part of this History of this Miss-story in the making. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 10:16 am
If Ranbir Kapoor is being seen as the true inheritor of the Kapoor legacy, it is with reason. In his debut film Saawariya a major part of Ranbir's personality was patterned on Raj Kapoor. And now Raj Kumar Santoshi who sees a special spark in the Saawariya star is getting ready to take Ranbir's acting ancestry to another level.
In Santoshi's Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Ranbir plays the melancholy lover-boy hopelessly in love with the idea of being in love. The character was immortalized by Raj Kapoor in Mera Naam Joker and before him, Chaplin in City Lights. Ranbir in Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani plays 'Prem' a true inheritor of the two imperishable heroes from the past. Says Santoshi, "I decided Ranbir was the right actor for my film from the time I saw Saawariya. He plays Prem an innocent guy with a heart of gold. Yes there will be distinct elements of Charlie Chaplin and Raj Kapoor, though not too much of it. Raj Saab has already done it all in Sri 420 and it would look repetitive. Also, that level of political and sexual innocence would look odd in present times. Let's say Ranbir plays the Charlie Chaplin and Raj Kapoor of our times."
Santoshi fondly recalls the experience of working with Ranbir's father. "In my Damini Rishi Kapoor played a really difficult roleâ¦of a man caught between his duties towards his family and society. Though Rishi didn't have an author-backed role in Damini, what a beautiful job of he did." Ranbir on the other hand not only has the title role in Ajab Prem⦠his character also gets to go through a series of life-changing experiences. "Ranbir takes interest in every aspect of the film. He's a keen student if cinema. His enthusiasm for cinema goes much beyond his role. I know I'll enjoy my shooting with him. But beyond that I'm right now enjoying interacting with him," adds Santoshi. In the next two months, Santoshi will be doing a first-look photo session between Ranbir and Katrina Kaif. "We'll also be sitting on the costumes because the clothes are a very important part of the story. We start shooting the film only when Ranbir returns from his long foreign schedule of the Yashraj Film," informs Santoshi.
Being a full-on love story Pritam is doing the music score of Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. "I've been watching Pritam's growth as a musician. And I can't think of anyone else for this project," says Santoshi who has earlier worked with the likes of A R Rahman. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 9:56 am
Farah and Shirish Kunder's triplets are being treated like royalty. Not surprisingly, they also have regal names. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 8:42 am
Melbourne (ANI): Young Sydney artists have found support in one of Hollywood's star couple - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton - who're selling two valuable works from their personal art collection in a bid to reinvest the money in works by local upcoming artists. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:44 am
If Ranbir Kapoor is being seen as the true inheritor of the Kapoor legacy, it is with reason. In his debut film Saawariya a major part of Ranbir's personality was patterned on Raj Kapoor. And now Rajkumar Santoshi who sees a special spark in the Saawariya star is getting ready ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:38 am
Hema Malini, Bollywood actor and Rajya Sabha MP, has allotted funds to set up the first cat shelter of India in the West Bengal capital. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:32 am
Washington (ANI): Hip-hop star Snoop Dogg has accused US presidential hopeful Barack Obama of receiving funding from an anti-black organisation called Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:23 am
"I would rather quit than turn into a glam doll to survive in this industry," says Kavya Madhavan. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:14 am
Sunil and Krishika Lulla of Eros International celebrated the birthday of their kids, Sia and Arnav, at The Club in Andheri. The theme for the party was PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. Sia, who turned 8 and Arnav, who turned 4 were admired by one and all in the pirate costumes, with the parents also in similar outfits.
Some of the guests who graced the occasion with their kids were Shonali, Mansi Joshi Roy, Neelam Roy and Bhagyashree with husband Himalay. Ajay and Kajol's daughter Nysa was also seen having a whale of a time, albeit unaccompanied by her parents.
Most of the celebrities later turned up at the host's residence, where the party went on till the wee hours of the morning. Some of these guests who joined the celebrations later were Subhash Ghai, Manish Goswami and Goldie and Sonali Behl. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:03 am
Sudeep is now busy working for his first Hindi film Phoonk, which is directed by Ram Gopal Varma. And the film is a horror thriller, the genre Ram Gopal Varma is famous for. Sudeep has Amrita, a talented Marathi stage actress as his heroine. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:01 am
Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. has acquired Friday Picture's first venture RAFOO CHAKKAR - FUN ON THE RUN. Directed by B.H. Tharun Kumar and written by Ikram Akhtar, the film stars Aslam Khan, Yudhishtir, Nauheed Cyrusi, Nisha Rawal, Archana Puransingh, Mita Vashisht, Shakti Kapoor, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Tinnu Anand and Ananth Mahadevan. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:56 am
Mithun Chakraborty is now appointed as the Lifetime Trustee of Dada Saheb Phalke Academy. The Academy already has Santosh Singh Jain, Govind Swaroop, Pahlaj Nihalani, Sanjay Patel, Sangram Shirke, Neena Jalan and Ram Gopal Gupta as Lifetime Trustees.
A delegation of trustees and other members including Chandra Shekhar, Jagdish Sharma and Ram Mohan met Mithun Chakraborty at his residence and following the long discussions, chalked out a plan for Dada Saheb Phalke Jayanti celebrations and Phalke Academy awards presentation event. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:52 am
Washington (ANI): Heath Ledger's uncle has dismissed reports that the late actor fathered a secret 'love child', branding the suggestions as 'absolutely berserk'. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:52 am
Cinemax launched a four-screen multiplex at Ahmedabad on 4th April by Kajol. The luxurious property will be open to the public very soon. With this new property, Cinemax has launched its third property in Gujarat, the other two being in Gandhinagar and Himmatnagar.
It is a four-screen multiplex which seats 1037 patrons and is home to Cinemax's very own style symbol - Red Lounge. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:47 am
Washington (ANI): Renee Zellweger has revealed that she has no plans to have children and would rather concentrate on enjoying her independence. The 39-year-old actress said that she never aspired to be a mother because she does not want to loose her independence. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:45 am
After trying to create an imaginary rift between Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh/Abhishek Bachchan, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Ranbir Kapoor..., and their latest fermented victim, Aamir Khan, the yellow journos are searching for the next target. Keeping the tradition alive, we have an appropriate headline, in a bid to ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:35 am
The latest promos of Ajay Devgan's directorial debut venture, U, Me Aur Hum, have shut up those section of the trade who found the prior ones to be not very happening and 'thanda'. The promos give an indication that the film has comedy, emotions and a lot of drama. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:20 am
Actress Smriti Irani, who is set to return to TV as Tulsi - the character that catapulted her to fame - says due to her long association with STAR Plus and Balaji Telefilms, she couldn't refuse when they asked to make a comeback. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 5:31 am
Music composer Hari Krishna rules the Kannada sound waves this fortnight. His album for 'Gaja' tops the list and 'Galipata' too is there. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 3:30 am
A Kolkata-based acting group is all set to make its Bollywood debut after winning the 'Idea Hass Ley India Comedy Gang War', a talent hunt contest. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 3:30 am
Saif Ali Khan isn't the only one who's unveiled a secret passion for playing the guitar. Director Farhan Akhtar, who plays a rock musician in Abhishek Kapoor's 'Rock On', also knows how to strum but says he is not as good. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
India's Rs.13 billion ($324 million) animation industry is going places. Hollywood's film entertainment studio Lionsgate Friday announced a three-movie co-production deal with Crest Animation Productions, a subsidiary of Mumbai's Crest Animation Studios Ltd. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 4 Apr 2008 | 3:31 pm
If your favourite participants in various song-based reality shows failed to win, STAR Plus is giving you another chance to hear them sing and make them a 'superstar' with its new show 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar'. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:32 pm
