Kajol is a director`s delight, says Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan of his talented wife whom he has cast in his directorial debut `U, Me Aur Hum`. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
For the first time, iconic spy James Bond will not be seducing his leading lady in the next film `Quantum of Solace`. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson will join hands to write and record the theme song of the new James Bond film. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
Guitarist Keith Richards of the legendary Rolling Stones gave up cocaine only after he injured his head when he fell off a tree in Fiji in 2006. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
British singer Natasha Bedingfield is slamming the media and the public alike for their obsession with the private lives of troubled celebrities. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
Troubled pop singer Britney Spears is in secret talks over a 100m dollars comeback world tour, it has been claimed. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
Four people were selected from Delhi in an audition for a radio contest 'Sing with Sonu'. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani, a movie buff, loved Ajay Devgan's directorial debut 'U, Me Aur Hum' during a special screening here and gave it a standing ovation. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:30 am
Kajol is a director's delight, says Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan of his talented wife whom he has cast in his directorial debut 'U, Me Aur Hum'. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 6 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Actress Gautami Kapoor, who is currently playing the character Tulsi in 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi', has no complaints about being replaced by Smriti Irani who is all set to reappear as the character. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 6 Apr 2008 | 6:02 am
It comes as a shock to know that 'Shaurya' director Samar Khan's hard-hitting look at the discrimination faced by Muslims in India comes from personal anguish. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 6 Apr 2008 | 3:31 am
TV Actor Karan Patel, the rebellious Robby of 'Kasturi', is becoming tardy, and Ekta Kapoor does not like it one bit. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 6 Apr 2008 | 3:30 am
Member of Parliament Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad arranged a special screening of Ajay Devgans U,Me Aur Hum yesterday in New Delhi for the Honourable leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha Shri LK Advani!!! Present at the screening were director and actor Ajay Devgan, Mr and Mrs Advani, Kajol, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Sushma Swaraj as well along with the rest of the starcast Karan Khanna, Sumeet Raghvan and Divya Dutta. Source: IndiaGlitz.com - News | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
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On a stage made in the image of the outer space with a cut-out of the moon in the background, Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan crowned 13-year-old Aishwarya Majmudar as the first 'Amul Star Voice of India Chhote Ustad' here late evening Saturday. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 6:30 pm
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
Kannada film star Sudeep, whose recent Kannada film 'Gooli' is doing well at the box office, is working in his first Hindi movie being directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 5 Apr 2008 | 1:00 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
