This monsoons, it's raining newcomers in Bollywood and one prominent and pretty face among the bunch of debutants is that of actress Amita Pathak. Her debut film Haal-e-Dil released last week and Amita is looking forward to a positive reaction from the audiences. Daughter of famous producer Kumar Mangat, this young beauty has that girl-next door looks and coming from a filmy family she surely knows more than a thing or two about this industry.
Bollywood Hungama brings you a chance to get up, close and personal with Amita as she shares her Haal-e-Dil only on Celebrity Chat on Tuesday, June 24, at 1500 hrs IST. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 21 Jun 2008 | 2:30 pm
His comic timing has been fantabulous. Witty, smart, adorable, and talented, Vinay Pathak is all this and much more. After his stint in Bheja Fry directors and producers are lining outside his house and Bollywood Hungama can say this looking at the number of films he has already signed.
In addition to all that, he now has another film in the Yash Raj Film's camp after Aaja Nachle. Vinay will now appear in Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. "Yes, I have signed Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in which I will be playing an important role. But I cannot divulge into any details as the director and producer have clearly asked me not to do so. And I really cannot break a promise", states Vinay.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi will be Aditya Chopra's directorial venture after 8 years. The film has Shah Rukh Khan and debutante Anushka Sharma. His last film was Mohabbatein. On the other hand, Vinay Pathak has a release next Friday's (June 27) titled Via Darjeeling. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:53 pm
4 top film personalities will be conferred with the 'One Time Award for Life Time Achievement' honour to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India's independence. These include noted veteran playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, thespian Dilip Kumar, filmmaker Tapan Sinha and Kannada film actress Saroja Devi.
Since Tapan Sinha is not in the best of health, the Governor of West Bengal would confer the award to him at his residence in Kolkata along with I & B Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi. President of India, Pratibha Patil would be honoring the remaining 3 personalities at a later date. While Lata Mangeshkar and Dilip Kumar really need no introduction, filmmaker Tapan Sinha is mostly known for his films like Kabuliwala, Uphaar and Safed Haathi. On the other hand, Saroja Devi is a popular actress down South having acted in quite a few Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu films in the 50's and 60's. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:46 pm
Film: The Incredible Hunk; Cast: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Tim Roth;Director: Louis Leterrier; Rating: ** Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:32 pm
Bollywood script writer Shabd Kumar, who wrote Raj Babbar's debut film 'Insaaf Ka Tarazu', died Saturday afternoon following a cardiac arrest, a family member said. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:32 pm
Amateur footage of Hollywood legends Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of their classic film "The Misfits" is expected to highlight an upcoming celebrity auction and could fetch up to USD 100,000. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
British supermodel Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty on Friday to assaulting two police officers after a disturbance on a plane at London`s Heathrow airport in April. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
Though Amy Winehouse has tested negative for tuberculosis, doctors have still kept the singer in isolation in an effort to contain her chest infection. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
`Love Story 2050`, the much hyped
science fiction film, may face a tough challenge at the box
office from the latest superhero flick `Hancock` starring
Hollywood star Will Smith, which is releasing simultaneously
on July 4. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
Veteran Marathi actor Chandrakant Gokhale died at a hospital in Mumbai on Friday after suffering from a prolonged illness. Gokhale (91) was the father of actor Vikram Gokhale. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
Nine tracks from Guns N` Roses` 14-years-in-the-making album "Chinese Democracy" have been leaked on the Internet. Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
Bollywood hunk Salman Khan, who is now the host of the reality game show 'Dus Ka Dum', feels that the show has helped him to understand people and he believes that the best books of knowledge are human beings. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:01 am
Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi's fans Saturday staged protests in different parts of Andhra Pradesh against remarks made by a state minister about the actor not having a mass appeal like Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekahara Reddy. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
The funniest moment in this sporadically amusing outing into an ouch slouch is when all torture fails to intimidate the kidnap victim Rimi Sen. Then Riteish Deshmukh fishes out a copy of Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag. Then the kidnap victim screams in anticipated agony.
That's pretty much the best in-house joke I've seen in a Hindi comedy. E. Niwas not only assisted Varma he also made a semi-sparkling comedy Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega for Varma before branching out. Niwas ab laughter ke liye kuch kuch karega.
De Taali is not quite De Gaali. It falls somewhere in between the taali and gaali. And not quite with a thud. Contrary to the promotional campaign, De Taali is not a boys-will-have-fun kind of raunchy comedy we had expected. Yes, there are two boys Aftab Shivdasani and Riteish Deshmukh, both in spirited form as friends, one rich and the other an unselfconscious parasite.
They remind you of Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna in Namak Haraam.
Rest assured, De Taali doesn't aspire to be a serious study of spaces that separate capitalism from serious exploitation. So relax. Put your feet up in the empty chair in front and let that popcorn do all the talking.
Here's a film that goes from goofy definitions of asexual bonding to purely corny sexual bonding.
The tree-house bonding among Shivdasani , Deshmukh and Takia (in ever-sparkling form and showing terrific timing in both the light and serious moments) is punctuated by spasms of satire on bonding among a trio that seems to have borrowed its primary rules of friendship from Karan Johar's Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and then turned it on its head. Though alas, no bed.
Somehow the bondings never get deeper than the shallow and skittish. The dialogues are deliberately casual and trendy. And 'cool' in a rather thanda way. And the first-half delivers some tangy tendrils of narration that never quite grows into a tree of titters.
The second- half where Deshmukh and Takia , out of a feeling of misbegotten friendship kidnaps the gold digger who wants to marry their naively sentimental rich friend, gets out of hand and finally runs of breath. The director E Niwas's penchant for black humour gets the better of the plot. By the time poor goofy Shivdasani realizes he loves the girl on the tree-top we're well past the stage of caring about this woozy anthem on sharing.
The sequence where Deshmukh visits Rimi Sen's monstrously malfunctional family is so over-the-top you wonder which came first, the family or its psychosis. The jokes on Alcoholics Anonymous are hopelessly inadequate, better left alone. The talented Pavan Malhotra who was so powerfully perched in E Niwas' My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves makes a cameo appearance as a lecherous tutor who gives Rimi Sen lessons on the dining table while she licks an ice-cream with suggestive languor.
Yipesâ¦.a bit of Mr Bachchan's Bemisaal here. The Big B pops up ubiquitously throughout the narrative. And that includes a fancy-dress party where everyone dresses up as a character from a Bachchan film. And Aftab's character is even named Abhishek. Cute.
You could enjoy the spurts of wit that keep cropping up here and there. Soon it becomes hard to keep up with the improvisations and innovations in the script. The quartet of principal actors keeps the comedy afloat. Riteish is in good form displaying a razor-sharp comic timing in a crowd of faces. Yup, this guy has got the 'IT' factor.
The film misses the bus by a wide margin. But nevertheless makes us smile a while. Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:53 am
The environment and forest ministry in collaboration with an NGO will hold a travelling film festival in eight Indian cities to spread awareness on environment and wildlife issues, officials said here Saturday. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:01 am
He's an insatiable traveler. And makes no bones about the fact that life is a journey to collect material for the roles he plays. "Acting, earlier in dramas then films, has always been a passion. And now there's a shooting of another kind. I won a bronze medal at the state level for my gun-shooting. So I enjoy both the shootings. Whatever I do I've to do with equal passion. Even if I'm hanging up curtains I've to make sure they hang well," Nana chuckles.
He divides his time between Mumbai and Pune. "I like to travel. I like to meet people. It helps me grow as an actor. I feel I'm now enjoying my work much more than before. I thoroughly enjoyed my work in Apaharan and Taxi No 9211. And of course Bluff Master was great fun. He was a weird kind of villain."
Nana is the happiest while talking about his son Malhar. "He's interested in cinematography, direction and writing. Since I'm doing a film with Rohit Shetty for Ramesh Sippy. He may come there with me to assist Rohit. He has already assisted Amol Palekar and Chitra Palekar on two different projects. And Malhar is an amazing dancer. You know what an amazing dancer I am?" Nana is at his ironical best. "I've left a choice of career to him. When I started, I had to think of everything including a buying a house. Malhar can take it easy. He can do what he wants. All I want him is to have the right values."
Nana is gung-ho about Gautam Ghose's Yatra. "After a long time I've done a role in Yatra I'm happy about. I loved working with Gautam Ghose. I worked with Rekha and Gautam for the first time. For many years I kept abusing and accusing Gautam of not working with me in Antarjali Yatra. I've been wanting to work with him for a very long time. The minute I heard the script of Yatra I told him I won't charge him a single penny. I gave him 40-50 days and didn't charge anything."
He admits he had a bit of a run-in with Akshay Kumar during Welcome. "These things happen. Why play it up? Akshay is a very good boy and he's working hard. If I'm angry I'll abuse in the face, and finish with my fury. It was between two individuals. Nowadays even before anything happens, the media is informed."
He chuckles. "Let's talk about more pleasant things. I've a suspense thriller with Sangeeth Sivan with Bobby Deol. Dekh lo pataa chalega kya hai. Bobby is such a sweet guy. He has taken after his father. Kamaal ka parivar. Sangeeth was a pleasure to work with. He's very clear about what he does. I'd love to work with him again. All in all, I'm very happy with life. God has given me a great life. Great friendsâ¦Aur kuch nahin chahiyeâ¦Now let me see what I can give to people. "
Tell him all his directors like to repeat him and he counters, "Listen, I give a hundred percent of myself to my work. Acting isn't work for me. So naturally that passion is understood and appreciated by filmmakers."
Nana has one policy in his career. "Once I've completed the dubbing and shooting of a film I like to move on. Whether people like it or not, is in no one's handsâ¦I'm happy with my life, mother, son and my wifeâ¦My wife and I aren't divorced. She's more a friend now than a spouse. We meet every day. Whatever I'm today is because of her. When I wanted to become an actor she was working in a bank and let me do whatever I wanted." Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:58 am
London (ANI): Naomi Campbell escaped a jail sentence and got just 200 hours community service and a 2,945-pound fine over assault on jet - just because she's a famous celebrity, it has emerged. The Brit supermodel has been charged with community service and fine for a shocking bout of air ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:45 am
Washington (ANI): Pulp Fiction has been named the best film of the past 25 years in a new magazine poll. The Quentin Tarantino cult favourite pipped the Lord of The Rings trilogy and Titanic to land at the top of Entertainment Weekly's New Classics list. According to the publication, the ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:38 am
Apoorva Lakhia has zeroed in on the cast for the film that will launch the duo from Ekta's Kapoor's reality show Kissko Milega Ticket To Bollywood. "It will have Sanjay Dutt, Tusshar Kapoor and Zayed Khan, besides the two newcomers from the reality show," informs Apu.
No Abhishek this time? "Not in this one. I need to work with actors I haven't worked with before. Tusshar couldn't do my Mission Istaanbul. So I'd want to work with him this time even if this wasn't his home production. Zayed is someone I've watched evolve as an actor during Mission Istaanbul. I'd like to take him forward."
However, Apoorva shocks by confessing, "Though I'd like to feature him in all my films just this once I'm going let Abhishek go. And with good reason. Because in the second-half of 2009, I'm doing a film with Abhishek as the solo hero for producer Vashu Bhagnani."
Apparently, it's good-pal Abhishek who got Lakhia the Vashu Bhagnani project.
"That's right," concedes Lakhia. "When Vashuji asked Abhishek to do a film for him, Abhishek suggested that I direct it."
At the moment Apoorva isn't too willing to divulge details of the Bhagnani project. But according to Bhagnani it will be a "full-on masti film". The last time Abhishek did a film Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya for me it didn't work. This time I want to make sure the audiences go home with a smile on their face." Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:33 am
VR Pratap directed Gorintaku starring Rajasekhar, Arthi Agarwal in the lead is all set for release. The movie which also stars Meera Jasmine as the hero's sister will hit the theatres on July 4. The movie is being presented by RB Choudary and produced by SV Prasad and Paras Jain. ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
After going through a whole roster of 'could-be' leading ladies and hearing a 'no' from many of them, Arshad Warsi has finally found a heroine for his first home production - and it's none other than Diya Mirza. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
Preity looking forward to 'Unforgettable' tour Hindu - 5 hours ago Mumbai (PTI): Bollywood actor Preity Zinta feels she will not be overshadowed by the presence of the Bachchans --Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya-- during their "Unforgettables" concert beginning July 18.
London (ANI): Nine tracks from Guns N' Roses' 14-years-in-the-making album Chinese Democracy have been leaked on the Internet. The nine tracks were posted on a little-known rock website, www.antiquiet.com. A poster named Skwerl made the songs available on June 18, without explaining their source, reports the Telegraph. Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:46 am
Melodious Bollywood singer, Udit Narayan, is the celebrity judge in the upcoming episode of Clinic All Clear Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar to be aired Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 10 pm only on STAR Plus. Udit along with the contestants of the show create magic as they perform his popular, ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:35 am
Singh Is Kinng, the most keenly awaited romantic comedy of 2008, revolves around a gang of crooks transformed by a good man and his selfless love for a pretty girl... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:25 am
Genelia, the homely cute actress from South is now making waves in Bollywood too. Though her career is looking very strong in all the languages, she is said to be very depressed. There are rumours that the actress was left in the lurch by Bollywood star Riteish Deshmukh. Sources reveal ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:10 am
If there is one director in the industry who is immune to Box Office results of a movie it has to be Ram Gopal Varma. Critics had ridiculed him after Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag bombed despite having a huge star cast.. There were even talks of making a sarcastic ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:48 am
Former Miss World and actress Yukta Mookhey did a massive cleavage show at the premier of her latest movie Memsahab - Lost in a Mirage. Yukta was seen in a green gown where her cleavage was was getting the maximum attention from the audience. Yukta plays a sultry sex worker ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:38 am
Hansika Motwani has taken very short span transforming her status from the child actress to attain her present prestige of leading heroine. After her stunning appearance opposite Himesh Reshammiya in Aap Ka Suroor, the aspiring actress was lost from the front row of the B-town for a short period of ... Source: Oneindia - Entertainment | 21 Jun 2008 | 5:23 am
Preity Zinta has put the highs and lows of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and her Mohali team behind and is busy with as many as four pending films and looks forward to the Bachchans' world tour. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 4:30 am
Filmmaker Vipul Shah, who's cast Akshay Kumar in most of his films, is now set to work with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan in 'London Dreams'. But he wants a 'trial shoot' to just get comfortable with the two actors. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 4:30 am
A cute Ganesha who speaks fluent English, has tattoos on his arms and guitar in hand - that's how the endearing character in the sequel to the animated hit film 'My Friend Ganesha' is going to look like. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 21 Jun 2008 | 3:32 am
Recently, Akshay Kumar revealed that he saw the phrase Sing Is King at the back of a truck, which is where he got his inspiration for the films title. It went brilliantly with the theme of our film, he revealed. Source: IndiaGlitz.com - News | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
J Brandon Hill is quite lucky as he got a small but well noticed role in the blockbuster laugh riot Bunty Aur Bubli. Source: IndiaGlitz.com - News | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Trying to bag the rights of the music of a film of superstar Rajnikant will be there in every big music companys plans for accelerating growth. Source: IndiaGlitz.com - News | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The Bollywod Blogging train is keeping on adding new compartments. After Amitabh Bachchan started his blog and created enough attention grabbing remarks and responses, the call of blogging has got stronger and started a sort of new age communication revolution among the film fraternity in B-Town. Source: IndiaGlitz.com - News | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Shah Rukh Khan is leaving no stone unturned to boost the viewer ship of his game show Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? While he managed to rope in celebs like Kareena Kapoor with beau Saif Ali Khan, Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra and even good friends Karan Johar and Rani Mukherjee in some of the special episodes, this weekend, Khan himself takes on the mantle of doing something out of the ordinary.
Professor Shah Rukh Khan would be seen at his naughtiest best doing his famous 'Quick- Gun -Murugan' take from Om Shanti Om on this Sunday's episode of Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? He would be seen in his complete get up a-la South superstar Rajinikanth sporting bright red clothes, an atrocious moustache and a raucous accent.
Needless to say the contestants on this show didn't 'Mind It' and had a blast with 'Quick-Gun-Murugan' oops⦠SRK. To catch all the fun and action of this special episode, don't miss Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? on this Sunday 22nd June at 8 pm IST Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 20 Jun 2008 | 4:56 pm
Vinay Pathak is all set to create some more 'bheja fry' in next few months to come. Believe it or not but he is going to play SRK in one of his upcoming films. Not just that, the film is also titled SRK and is all set to attract quite some eyeballs once it gets readied for release.
Confirms a source attached to the film, "Yes, Vinay Pathak is doing this film called SRK and he also plays the title role. However, the name that he shares with Shah Rukh Khan is just coincidental. The film has nothing to do with the superstar since Vinay's SRK stands for Shivaji Ramchandra Khote!"
Oh, so that's the mystery behind the name! Who are the other people attached to the film?
"Manoj Joshi, who has been a regular with Priyadarshan and Madhur Bhandarkar and has acted in practically all their films during last 6-7 years, plays Vinay's father", adds the source, "The film also stars Rituaparna Sengupta and Dilip Prabhavalkar in key roles."
The film is produced by Warner Bros. and has first timer Ajay Varma at the helm of direction. Apparently, the film is a Malayalam remake. The film mainly deals with situational humor instead of being an out and out comedy.
Says Manoj Joshi, "The film is quite a prestigious outing and comes with a lot of depth. It has been good working with Ajay Varma. He is not a novice in filmmaking and has earlier edited films like Shikhar, My Wife's Murder and Jai Santoshi Maa."
Apart from SRK, some of the other films in which Vinay Pathak would be seen in coming months are Via Darjeeling, Straight, Raat Gayi Baat Gayi, Kachcha Limboo, Mumbai Cutting and Bheja Fry 2. Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 20 Jun 2008 | 4:50 pm
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Imran Khan and Abbas Tyrewala are making their debut as actor and director respectively in Jaane Tuâ¦Ya Jaane Na. Though it was not an easy ride for the duo. Like any other director, Abbas had to face the test of convincing the producer (Aamir Khan) with a script narration. As everyone knows, Aamir Khan is very choosy and thinks a million times before he associates himself with any film. Bollywood Hungama now narrates to you what happened when Aamir first heard the script of Jaane Tuâ¦Ya Jaane Na.
Imran Khan and Abbas Tyrewala went to Aamir Khan to narrate the script; Abbas started reading out the script to Aamir with full energy. Halfway through the script, Abbas started looking at Imran again and again as Aamir Khan showed no reaction to any of the sequences.
It was funny; Aamir just sat there with no expression on his face and no reaction to any of the scenes. Whether it was a funny incident or emotional, he just sat. Imran Khan started perspiring and Abbas started getting nervous more and more, as they did not know how to react to this.
After a two-hour narration, Aamir Khan just got up and said 'I have meeting, someone is waiting, can you guys wait and left the room'. After waiting for an hour in moments of sheer anxiety, Aamir Khan walked in and asked 'So, when do you guys start shooting?'
Laughs Abbas Tyrewala, "That one hour waiting was excruciating for Imran and me; both of us didn't know how he would react. We knew one thing for sure that if he didn't like the script then he would not produce the film at all. But not to have any reactions even in the most funny scenes or what I thought were punch lines was something else⦠He just sat, got up and left. Came back and said when do we shoot? Both Imran and I were stunned, because by then we had almost convinced ourselves that he had not liked the script!" Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 20 Jun 2008 | 4:14 pm
Guess who's back? Back again â¦No we aren't in a Slim Shady mood this Friday morning. It's just that we couldn't believe our eyes when we spotted this actor last night. After all it's been ages since one has seen or for that matter even heard of him. For all those of you who are still wondering who we are talking about, the person is none other than actor Harish who starred in films like Prem Qaidi, Coolie No.1, Tirangaa, Army etc.
For nearly a decade this actor has been completely absconding and after years of searching him, it was quite a pleasant surprise to see him strolling around at the premiere of a seedy flick Memsahab- Lost in a Mirage. We wonder if Harish, who was seen in many C-grade potboilers of the late 90's is slowly planning a comeback. After all everyone's welcome in Bollywood. Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 20 Jun 2008 | 1:25 pm
