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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 17 May 2009 | 3:43 pm Shahid, Priyanka always fighting: Reports
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 17 May 2009 | 12:51 pm Big B's top director Prakash Mehra dies
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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 17 May 2009 | 10:59 am Prakash Mehra - creator of Bollywood's 'angry young man' - SamayLive
Source: Google News India - Entertainment | 17 May 2009 | 10:51 am Prakash Mehra - creator of Bollywood's 'angry young man'He was the brain behind popular Bollywood coinages like 'angry young man' and 'muqaddar ka sikandar', and gave Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan his biggest break in 'Zanjeer'. Prolific filmmaker Prakash Mehra, who died Sunday, will always be remembered for his blockbuster movies and superhit dialogues.Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 17 May 2009 | 10:30 am 'Guzaarish' is my tribute to Lata-ji: BhansaliFilmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali says his Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai starrer "Guzaarish", which will be shot in Goa in July and August to capture the melody of the monsoons and the romance of the place, is actually a tribute to singing legend Lata Mangeshkar.Source: Entertainment News | 17 May 2009 | 9:55 am I'm actually taller than Deepika, says Farhan AkhtarBollywood actors aren't normally comfortable pairing up with tall actresses, but director-turned-actor Farhan Akhtar had no problems working with Deepika Padukone in "Kartik Calling Kartik" and says she isn't taller than him as believed by many.Source: Entertainment News | 17 May 2009 | 9:42 am 'Brahma Deva' a drab reincarnation-revenge dramaFilm: 'Brahma Deva'; Director: Dharmalinga; Cast: Dr. Ram, Sanjay, Tejashree Music Director: Muthuraja; Cinematographer: N. Ramesh Kumar; Rating: *Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 17 May 2009 | 9:00 am Veteran filmmaker Prakash Mehra deadVeteran Bollywood filmmaker Prakash Mehra died here Sunday morning after a prolonged illness. He was 69.Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 17 May 2009 | 7:30 am I'm actually taller than Deepika, says Farhan AkhtarBollywood actors aren't normally comfortable pairing up with tall actresses, but director-turned-actor Farhan Akhtar had no problems working with Deepika Padukone in 'Kartik Calling Kartik' and says she isn't taller than him as believed by many.Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 17 May 2009 | 3:30 am 'Guzaarish' is my tribute to Lata-ji: BhansaliFilmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali says his Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai starrer 'Guzaarish', which will be shot in Goa in July and August to capture the melody of the monsoons and the romance of the place, is actually a tribute to singing legend Lata Mangeshkar.Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 17 May 2009 | 2:30 am On Top of the world - Indian Express
Source: Google News India - Entertainment | 17 May 2009 | 2:18 am Star charisma fails in Karnataka, poll results show
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 5:02 pm Michael Jackson battling skin cancer
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 4:48 pm Kareena Kapoor rocks Elle
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 3:59 pm Bollywood is obsolete now, says Hrithik - Daily News & Analysis
Source: Google News India - Entertainment | 16 May 2009 | 3:14 pm Shatrughan Sinha proves to be the real 'Bihari babu'Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Shatrughan Sinha and Shekhar Suman of the Congress, both showbiz stars who were based in Mumbai, were pitted against each in the Patna Saheb constituency in a keenly followed contest. But on Saturday it was Sinha who proved to be the real 'Bihari babu'.Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 16 May 2009 | 2:02 pm Corporate Bollywood now branches down south
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 1:18 pm Dharma Productions comes clear - IndiaGlitz
Source: Google News India - Entertainment | 16 May 2009 | 12:43 pm Shilpa's hot cover act for Grazia
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 12:36 pm Mickey Rourke to star in Mona Lisa remake
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 12:18 pm Shane Warne spotted getting cosy with Shamita Shetty! !Shamita Shetty seems to be getting very friendly with cricketer Shane Warne.Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 16 May 2009 | 12:11 pm Kareena Kapoor on the cover of Elle
She is one Diva who has been ruling the Bolly-roost for quite some time now. She is none other than Bollywood's very own Kareena Kapoor, who has been in the news for practically every thing that she does, right from her choice of dresses to her love life, every aspect of her personality makes for a breezy front page read.
The latest is that she is the 'Cover-Girl' for this month's issue of Elle. Stunning and refreshingly candid, Kareena Kapoor looks cool as a cucumber on this mint fresh cover! Dressed in Dior, Kareena speaks about her life in detail. She says that she follows her heart when choosing projects and the one she's most excited about in 2009 is her release with beau Saif Ali Khan. Kareena's got a tight schedule, with back-to-back shoots but has made her peace with it: "Some things can't be planned." Kareena, who is dismissive about the 'size zero' tag, defends herself saying "My body keeps changing of course, and every film you can see that, I just don't understand why the whole country had to discuss dress sizes like it was the national economy." She credits her toned body to a disciplined yoga regime and a vegetarian diet. Not just that, she's also open about her relationship with Saif; talking about the things she's learnt from him - love for reading, for one - and how their bond has grown stronger despite their different worlds.
All this and much more, only in the latest issue of Elle. Go for it guys.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 16 May 2009 | 11:24 am Writers Notepad: Prashant Pandey talks about RGV's Veerappan
Films that chronicle the life of someone famous are often award contenders and crowd pleasers. However, biopic scripts can be difficult to write. One of the more difficult challenges inherent to the biopic filmmaking is the task of creating dramatic tension when everyone knows how the story will end anyway. Prashant Pandey, the writer who has previously written films like Contract and Sarkar Raj has now finished writing a gripping biopic on India's dreaded bandit of the South - Veerappan. He is currently writing his second biopic on Paritala Ravi, one of the most dreaded political leaders of South India who was assassinated in 2005. Veerappan ain't a cradle-to-the-grave traditional portrait of the consecutive events in a bandits life but it's more of a collage and, in many ways, it will feel like an album itself. It's a collection of various moments and impressions in the life of Veerappan and together Prashant and Ram Gopal Varma believe that it'll be one of the best biopics our Indian Film Industry will ever see on the big screen. In many biopics already made, you were a witness to the precious life of an individual. Well, now get prepared to witness an extraordinary one in this Bollywood Hungama exclusive as we bring you the second edition of the Writers Note Pad - Prashant Pandey on Veerappan.
How Veerappan was born
"I badly wanted to become a screenplay dialogue writer but I wasn't getting any major substantial break. So I kept going back to television to make ends meet. Three years back, I used to work as a creative head for Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa but then to get back into films I took a writing break for three to four months. I didn't know what I was writing but I just wrote endlessly. During that period I met Ram Gopal Varma. He gave me an idea of a Mafia film. I don't know whether he was testing me but he had this remarkable ability to switch from idea to idea to tell and engage people to work with immediate effect on diametrically opposite ideas. Within fifteen days of writing the first draft of that yet-to-be-made Mafia film, I found myself in a hotel room in Chennai, preparing anxiously to enter the heart of darkness, the forests, where once lived and operated, the worlds' most vicious villain- Veerappan."
The research on Veerappan
"RGV's idea was that I meet individuals affected by Veerappans' reign and write a screenplay based on those accounts. So I met a tribal who had supplied food to Veerappan, his distant relatives and people of his gang who've now ventured out into different professions. Someone is running a hotel, somebody has a shop. Then I met many cops who ran some successful and many unsuccessful operations on Veerappan and finally met and spent days with the officers who played a key role in killing the bandit. The sheer opinions on Veerappan that came out were confusing but insightful, you can say some sort of 'Rashomon' effect started playing out on my mind ; you get a completely different version from two different people narrating you essentially the same story. Despite easy availability and recall of Veerappan, his life is wrapped in a pall of mist. No one really knows his truth. So finally, I wrote a rudimentary sort of a screenplay and came to Mumbai after two months. RGV was impressed by the work but then as Sarkar Raj had started gaining steam, he told me to write Sarkar Raj and hold on to Veerappan."
RGV's Veerappan
"In Sarkar Raj, there is a dialogue which goes, 'Mujhe Tumhare Vishwas Pe Vishwas hain'. That's how RGV works. RGV breathes and lives larger than life characters and people. Veerappan happens to be just one of them. When he told me to work on the film, 'Veerappan' was just a name
and a largely a huge mystery, but the script and work we have put in will surely make this one of the greatest biopics to come out of Indian cinema. If people think that Veerappan is shelved, then they
don't know Ram Gopal Varma. For him, nothing is shelved but on hold and ever-evolving. The script has become even better than before. We are even better prepared with various aspects of making the film. The film starts with the making of the legend called Veerappan, what went
into the making of such a bandit. The middle portion of the film focuses on the catching of Veerappan and post the interval, it's all about his downfall and killing of the dreaded bandit. The film is chaptered like a simple story book."
The casting of Veerappan
"I have a huge fascination like RGV for characters more than just well known faces. Veerappan is the hero of the film and not the actor. That is the design we are looking forward to. Actors and non-actors with tremendous potential coupled with a striking on-screen resemblance to Veerappan have been found and we are working with them."
Tough Task
"The whole physical aspect of it was tough. The violence just gets to you. I remember a prominent cop in Bangalore, who narrated to me over many hot cups of tea in great detail, how a fatal bullet from Veerappan blew his food pipe and lungs. What was striking was this cop had tremendous respect for the intelligence and instincts of Veerappan, a man who had him nearly killed. The mock ups on real locations, as in with the help of cops tried to understand how certain ambushes happened. "He was here! Right here with his gun!", old constables would tell pointing at a rock or a bush. Cops will show bullet rattled doors of police stations that he blew up and bullet wounds on their own bodies. I have had it allâ¦Conspiracy theories, emotional outbursts, threats and whole thing of whether to believe someone or not. Everybody including the waiters in the hotel had their Veerappan story to tell. The sheer impossibility of odds against which Veerappan survived strikes you hard as a writer. They test your mettle, challenge and inspire you."
Veerappan's acceptance
"No one can tell how the audience shall respond to a film like Veerappan, once released. Given the richness of the subject and Ram Gopal's Varma's skill in pitching a film to audiences, I am sure it's a great project to watch out for everyone."Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 16 May 2009 | 11:19 am Much awarded B&W film gets stepmotherly treatment in IndiaHis film has travelled to some 30 international film festivals and won 18 awards in the last one-and-a-half years.Source: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 10:37 am Aishwarya mastered the art of walking the red carpetHer first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 was nothing short of a fashion disaster.Source: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 10:35 am
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