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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 8:26 am Amy Winehouse's wild childhood
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 8:23 am Vidhu Vinod Chopra apologises to mediaFilmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra today apologised to the media for asking a reporter to shut up when he was asked him if his film "3 Idiots" was lifted from Chetan Bhagat's book "Five Point Someone".Source: Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 5:38 am Vidhu Vinod Chopra says sorry to media !Producer Vidhu Chopra, who asked a reporter to shut up at a press conference, has now apologised.Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 2 Jan 2010 | 5:09 am Priyadarshan's Ajay Devgn- Bipasha- Akshaye Khanna starrer titled Nishaad
Although his De Dana Dan is a hit, Priyadarshan is on the look-out for a serious image for his films with titles to match. For his next film, which is about caste wars and forbidden inter-caste marriages in Bihar, Priyadarshan wanted a title that would convey the flavour and feel of the Bihari milieu.
Priyan wanted to call the film Gangaajal, not knowing that the title had already been taken for another Bihari fable.
Says Priyan, "I thought something like Gangaajal was the best title for this film because it allowed audiences to know exactly where the plot and characters were going."
In his mind he had settled for the title as the best one for his film, until he shared it with his leading man Ajay Devgn. To his horror, Priyan was told by Ajay that Prakash Jha had already used the title. Ajay knew about Jha's Gangaajal because he had played the lead in it.
Then began the search for another title. Now Priyan's Bihar based drama is called Nishaad.
Nishaad starring Ajay Devgn, Bipasha Basu and Akshaye Khanna had been shot without a title all this while mainly because Priyan wanted the film to have a hard-hitting title.
Finally Priyan's script and dialogue writer came up with Nishaad because the director barely knows any Hindi.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 2 Jan 2010 | 4:19 am Bollywood inspires new Indo-French operaBollywood is the inspiration for the Neemrana Music Foundation's latest crossover venture - a three-act Indo-French classical opera, "If I Were King", by 19th century French composer Adolphe Adam.Source: Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 4:17 am Aamir to play painter in Dhobi Ghaat
The very versatile Aamir Khan has done it again. After playing a 20 something lad in 3 Idiots, he will now play a painter in his 2010 release Dhobi Ghaat.
This is Aamir Khan's wife, Kiran Rao's, directorial venture and sure enough Aamir is extremely pumped up about the project. The film also stars Smita Patel's son Prateik Babbar. The shoot of the film is complete and is now under post production.
In Taare Zameen Par, Aamir played an art teacher and a quite a convincing one at that. In Dhobi Ghaat though, he will be seen as a painter who lives in a small studio apartment in some congested area of Mumbai city.
Needless to say, it would be interesting to see Aamir in a very different role yet again.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 2 Jan 2010 | 4:13 am 3 Idiots row: Vidhu Vinod Chopra apologises
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 4:13 am Movie merchandising prospers via TVMovie merchandising in India through TV moved a step forward when Rajkumar Hirani's "3 Idiots" tied up with shopping channel HomeShop18 to sell specially designed Converse shoes by lead actor Aamir Khan on a show called "Converse 3 Idiots collection".Source: Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 4:09 am Aamir turns a painter in DhobighatAfter playing a 20-year-old student in 3 Idiots, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan will be seen in the role of a painter in wife Kiran Rao's directorial debut Dhobighat. The film, which also stars...Source: | 2 Jan 2010 | 4:03 am Gooding Jr to play Tiger Woods in biopicGolfer Tiger Woods's fall from grace is proving attractive fodder for Hollywood with none other than Oscar winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr lined up to play the shamed sportsman in a biopic.Source: | 2 Jan 2010 | 3:47 am 'I was persuaded to throw condoms at college crowd'
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 3:46 am Lord of the Rings' director knightedPeter Jackson, the New Zealand director whose Lord of the Rings trilogy won 17 Oscars, will now be known as 'Sir Peter'. He was knighted for the annual list honouring the country's worthy citizens.Source: | 2 Jan 2010 | 3:41 am Nepali filmmaker is in love with SikkimOn New Year's Day a sudden protest called by ethnic groups paralysed Nepal but failed to deter filmmaker Shovit Basnet from reaching his office and working on his new project for yet another film on Sikkim where thousands of Nepalis and people of Nepali origin live.Source: Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 3:37 am Book Review: Hero
'Hero', a two book series, is a research paper presented in the form of a book. Otherwise how else can one explain this effort by Ashok Raj who fills in more than 800 pages in total with Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan taking over more as much as 50% of the printed words. It's text, text and sheer text that results in this voluminous outing which is presented in two volumes - 'The Silent Era To Dilip Kumar' and 'Amitabh Bachchan To The Khans And Beyond'.
To the credit of the author, he stays true to the subject. He concentrates on the 'heroes' who have made Bollywood cinema the way it has been for last 80-90 years. Right from the silent era to the cinema of today where Himesh Reshammiya is attempting to become a leading man, he covers them all and doesn't miss any notable name. It is research to the n-th limit which is put on display in this series. However, the fact is that an effort like this is best put in place for a film institute, a cinema library or academicians, not on book stands for perusal of 'aam junta'. And that's because the book is 200% literary inclined, is completely deprived of any entertainment value whatsoever and comes in such heavy duty vocabulary and sentence formation that it is more of a put off than exciting.
Really, for an average viewer, it is simplicity that works but that's not really the case in 'Hero'. In fact so many of the sentences not just make for an utterly complex read but also make the reader wonder if the author was actually eyeing any commercial success through this book or had merely written it to satiate his thirst for perfection and put forth his literary prowess.
As stated earlier, the book is primarily a literary read and pretty much acts as an encyclopaedia of Bollywood that has emerged over the decades gone by. In this context, Ashok Raj has pretty much divided it all into the Dilip Kumar and the Amitabh Bachchan phase, hence resulting in two volumes. In the process of doing so, he has not just gone through practically each and every film that they have done but also come up with a synopsis (which is anything but brief) as well as what was the input and outcome of these movies. He just doesn't leave it there. He in fact starts exploring the acting styles that the two brought and delves deeper into the art of acting, different schools being followed and the direction they provided to quite a few contemporaries and followers. Of course none of it is an easy to comprehend write-up, hence forcing a reader to take a closer look at the printed word.
There are many more complications (for a regular viewer, not a historian or a hardcore movie buff) in the offering. Ashok Raj brings in sections/chapters like 'The Eisenteinian Emotive Mechanism', 'The Essential Bulit-in Asynchronization', 'The Neo Realistic Context', 'The Anti-Hero Awaiting Redemption and Atonement', 'The Simultaneous Liberation of the Image' and many more which prove all over again that it is a paper being presented to be studied and analysed rather than a book to be read and enjoyed.
In fact so deep down Ashok Raj gets into the entire research that he goes on to present tables depicting the kind of films that Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan have done throughout their career, their classifications, their 'dominant character' and the 'genesis of character' etc. etc. Now all of this is a little too much for even a die hard movie fan. It is one thing for a film to be seen and enjoyed and other to be looked at in context of an entire social-political-cultural-economical milieu that 'Hero' series goes on and on about.
So is this series just about Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan? Not really. Ashok has in fact painstakingly gone through the entire history of Hindi film making and brought to fore popular as well as unknown heroes who have made their presence felt at one point of time or another. However, there are some glaring mistakes made as well which are hard to ignore. Like he mentions Yash Chopra as the director of Mohabbatein when the man behind the camera was actually Aditya Chopra. He claims to talk in detail about 'released' films like Right Yaa Wrong, Zamaanat, Aashayein, Love You Hamesha, Divorce: Not Between Husband and Wife when the fact is that these films starring Sunny Deol, Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Akshaye Khanna and Jackie Shroff respectively are yet to hit the screens.
Moreover, there are also quite a few arguable comments being made. He calls Cash as one of the highlight films of Suneil Shetty when even the man in question would hardly agree. Laaga Chunari Mein Daag is referred to as a 'powerful depiction of women's plight in today's harsh competitive world' when the fact is that the film was a huge let down mainly due to it's regressive theme. Moreover, he also tags Chandni Chowk To China as Akshay Kumar's foray into serious cinema. Need one say more!?
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Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 2 Jan 2010 | 3:20 am Subhash K Jha speaks about Accident On Hill Road
There's a man stuck on your windscreen! You want to scream to Celina Jaitly. But gosh, she does so much of that screaming thing herself you don't really want to add to the din in this gory tale of the raat. In fact 'Raat aur bahut sara din' could well be the title of this noisy shiver giver adapted from a B-grade Hollywood horror flick.
Celina Jaitly, spilling oomph all over as though it were running out of passion and fashion, is the curvaceous backbone of this being-bad-is-good upturned morality-tale. After having knocked down a poor pedestrian (Farooq Sheikh) who spends the rest of the movie stuck to the lady's windshield(talk about extra baggage!) the nurse(ironically in a profession that fosters healing and nurturing) spends frantic time trying to find ways to get rid of the writhing man.
Agony is the film's main ecstasy. This genre of horror cinema revels in creating acute discomfort and gruesome circumstances for the characters to a point where the audience is actually supposed to enjoy the ceaseless chill spill.
Accident On Hill Road is road rage in all its gory splendour, committed to creating a string of incidents that suggest a vicarious mayhem. Debutant director Mahesh Nair lets loose an eye-catching binge of blood and gore.
This is Celina's first real opportunity to sink her teeth into an author-backed role. She gets into her meaty role although very often she is intended to be the meat.Meet her man ka meet and tan ka meat A drug-peddler named Sid, playing with menacing aggressiveness by Abhimanyu Singh. What happened to all the noble evil-warring heroes of our films? Sid is so immoral he makes Mogambo look like a cartoon hero. After Wake Up Sid, this is 'Shake-up Sid'!
Accident On Hill Road leaves you shaken by its gore-quotient. But not quite stirred. The original Hollywood B-grader Stuck probably describes not just the physical state of the accident victim but also the psychological condition of the audience.
This Accident could've been avoided. Since it has occurred and with screeching tyres (none of them around Celina's waist) it might as well be borne. It's fun to see Celina and Abhimanyu playing a voluptuous-immoral nurse and a zonked-out sexually-aggressive drug dealer. This pair is totally freed of moral obligations.
Free idiots.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 2 Jan 2010 | 2:46 am Akshay off to Malaysia to shoot costliest commercial ever Akshay Kumar and big bucks are synonymous with each other. After (supposedly) working in the costliest film ever made on this side of the planet - Blue - Akshay is now carrying on the BIG phenomenon into the ad world as well. If industry buzz is to be believed, he would now be featuring in the costliest commercial ever made with an Indian actor. This would be for Thums Up (the soft drink for which Akshay is a brand ambassador for quite a few years now) and as is the tradition, it would be shot in foreign locales.
Says a source from the team which is busy putting together this commercial. "Pick up any commercial for Thums Up that Akshay has done and you would see him indulging in some dare devil stunts. This has been the trend for the last half a decade or so, ever since Akshay was been promoting this brand. This year it's going to be no different as the commercial would feature Akshay being a part of some breath taking stunts."
While fast cars, skyscraper jumping and running on busy roads is something that audiences have seen of Akshay in the last few commercials that he has shot for the brand, one waits to see what the actor has to offer in the first shoot that he is doing in 2010.
"It would be something that has never been seen before; that's the least which can be promised", confirms the source, "Thums Up has been the Number One soft drink in India in 2009 and has beaten other Colas in the race. It is imperative that there is further brand promotion done which would not just help it retain the position but also outrun the competition."
As per sources, the commercial which would be shot in Malaysia boasts of some unheard of money involved. Industry is pegging it at 2 crores though official confirmation is yet to come by.
"It is the costliest ever commercial for sure but I am not at authority to give you the final number", the source says, "However, it is quite close to the figure that you mention. The commercial would be worth every rupee that has been kept aside for it's shoot."
Last few weeks were spent in some active planning around the shoot which involved taking relevant permissions, especially due to some dangerous stunts being involved. With locations in place and entire crew ready on standby, the commercial is all set to be shot in the coming week.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 2 Jan 2010 | 2:33 am Mumbai top cops 'dance to mafias' tune' - Times Now.tv
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson knightedPeter Jackson, the New Zealand director whose "Lord of the Rings" trilogy won 17 Oscars, will now be known as 'Sir Peter'.Source: Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:49 am Tamil film Shivappu Mazhai enters Guinness BookChennai (ANI) : A Tamil feature film got itself registered in the Guinness Book of World Records after it was completed in less than 12 days. Shooting and post-production of the two-hour film 'Shivappu Mazhai', was completed in a record 11Source: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:43 am Pamela Anderson's boob flash at New Year’s Eve partyThe former 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson has started the year 2010 with a boob flash at a New Year’s Eve party. The 42-year-old actress was hosting the Gridlock event at Paramount Studios in Hollywood when the wardrobe malfunction occurred, reports DailySource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:41 am Leona Lewis on crutches after horse fallLondon (ANI): Singer Leona Lewis has reportedly ended up on crutches after taking a nasty fall from her horse. The 24-year-old singer purportedly landed in hospital treatment for suspected torn leg ligaments after the accident in Los Angeles."Leona was riding theSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:38 am 3 Idiots' Vidhu Vinod Chopra apologises to mediaProducer Vidhu Vinod Chopra has apologised for bursting out at the media during a press conference on his latest film 3 Idiots, which has grossed over Rs 100 crore in the first four days. The Bollywood producer lost his coolSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:29 am I was persuaded to throw condoms at college crowd: Neha DhupiaNeha Dhupia says she had to be goaded quite a bit to throw a goody bag full of condoms and contraceptive pills at a college crowd here to promote her film "Raat Gayi Baat Gayi" but realised it was a great marketing strategy that sent out a positive message.Source: Entertainment News | 2 Jan 2010 | 1:28 am It`s no point wasting time on a person like Chetan Bhagat: Aamir Khan - SantaBanta.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 Jan 2010 | 12:42 am 'Kites' release finally fixed
Here's a Breaking News and as always, it's ONLY on Bollywood Hungama.
It's finally confirmed! The past few months have witnessed tremendous speculation about the release date of KITES. Initially, it was said that KITES would arrive in Diwali. Later, it was January, coinciding with the release of Hrithik Roshan's debut movie KAHO NAA⦠PYAAR HAI. Much later, news poured in that KITES would open during the onset of summer vacations, in April.
But the release date has been sealed finally. The film will be released worldwide on May 14. Interestingly, two more biggies are slated for release in May - HOUSEFULL on 20th [Thursday] and RAAJNEETI on 28th.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 2 Jan 2010 | 12:35 am Aamir to learn cooking and farming - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 Jan 2010 | 12:05 am I'm still a geek: Uday Chopra - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:31 pm Maa Nanna Chiranjeevi – ReviewOf all the senior heroes of the present generation, Jagapathi Babu has maintained a little variation. Instead of looking for mass audiences, he always looks for family audiences. Most of his films will have a particular set of audiences and heSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:54 pm Four Tamil movies set for Pongal releaseDhanush starrer Kutty and Simbu Devan's 3rd directorial venture Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam have confirmed their presence in Pongal race. For the past couple of months, film buffs have been looking forward to the Pongal releases, which are meant to be bigSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:51 pm Led Zeppelin's future depends on Plant, says PageWashington (ANI): Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page admits that the future of the band depends on former bandmate Robert Plant. Page says they can't continue the group without the lead singer. The legendary rockers sparked rumours of a reunion tourSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:43 pm "Aamir Is God" - Kareena KapoorKareena Kapoor has a lot to celebrate. Her film 3 Idiots is a runaway hit. And Kareena decided to run away to Delhi to be with her sister Karisma for New Years.Sounding more relaxed than she did recently, Kareena took timeSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:38 pm Karnataka Govt to build Dr Vishnuvardhan film cityKarnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has finally decided to build a film city in Bangalore in memory of Sahasa Simha Dr. Vishnuvardhan, who died of heart attack at Vikram Hospital in Mysore on 30th December 2009. The Karnataka Govt has plannedSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:36 pm All is not well between Chetan Bhagat and 3 IdiotsAuthor of novel Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat claimed that 70 per cent of the film was based on his novel but the makers of 3 Idiots claimed the movie is only '2%-5% inspired by the book'.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:34 pm Lady Gaga sunbathes topless with yellow wig!Washington (ANI): Singer Lady Gaga appeared to be topless as she soaked up the sun with a mystery man on the rooftop of the luxurious hotel, Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Gaga, 23, who is famous for her outrageous outfits and equallySource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 1 Jan 2010 | 10:27 pm I was persuaded to throw condoms at college crowd: Neha Dhupia - Economic Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:25 pm Mayank Shekhar's Review: Raat Gayi Baat GayiYou realise quite early on the makers just don’t know how to make their wonderful point, besides for most parts, humourlessly tire you off to sleep. Even when they attempt the atmospherics, they get back with hollow conversations that mention Einstein, Ghalib... Read on for full review.Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 3:17 pm Rashid Irani's Review: Year OneThe first reaction is that of utter disbelief. Could Harold Ramis, who once directed side-splittingly funny movies like Groundhog Day (1993) and Analyze This (1999), be responsible for such dross as Year One? Read on for full review.Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 3:13 pm Vidhu Vinod Chopra loses cool over '3 Idiots'Bollywood producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra lost his cool at a press conference here today and asked a reporter to shut up after being questioned whether his hit "3 Idiots" was lifted from author Chetan Bhagat's book "Five Point Someone".Source: Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 2:47 pm Aamir Khan hits out at Chetan Bhagat
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:48 pm Sachin Tendulkar likes Big B in Paa
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 1:33 pm 3 Idiots success sparks paternity battleA Friday press conference in Noida by the makers of 3 Idiots turned into a full-blown war of words between the media and the filmmakers when the producer shouted at a TV reporter who asked him about the controversy raised by author Chetan Bhagat, reports Neha Sharma.Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm Sachin Tendulkar likes Big B in 'Paa'Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has received lots of compliments for his performance in "Paa" and the latest to join the bandwagon is Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.Source: Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 11:19 am Mixed music bag this New YearDJs across town spun Hip Hop, House and Bollywood last night.Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:33 am Avatar No 1 on TwitterJames Cameron’s Avatar is not only ruling box offices across the globe with a whopping collection of USD 620 million (Rs 3000 crores), but is currently the hottest topic on leading social networking site ‘Twitter’.Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:30 am Firsts for the firstSince today is the first day of the new year, what I’m going to do is throw you some light and frivolous trivia on the firsts in music history, since we seem to be relegating music history to obscurity as time goes by, writes Luke Kenny.Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:26 am I want my hero either to win or die in the end
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 9:22 am 'Aamir and I make fantastic pair'
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 8:51 am Masand's Movie Review: Accident on Hill Road a test of endurance - IBNLive.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 Jan 2010 | 8:29 am Sachin Tendulkar likes Big B in Paa - NDTV.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 Jan 2010 | 8:10 am '3 Idiots one of the best from Bollywood'Applauding the cast and crew of recently released hit film 3 Idiots, a Malaysian film critic described director Rajkumar Hirani's directorial venture as "one of the best from Bollywood".Source: | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:52 am I want my hero to either win or die at the end: Abbas TyrewalaDirector Abbas Tyrewala, also a writer of great repute having written among other things the dialogues of "Munnabhai M.Source: Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:10 am Aamir and I make fantastic pair: Kareena KapoorShe is overwhelmed by the response to "3 Idiots" and has no regrets about the size of her role in the hit comedy drama.Source: Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am Rihanna to give up bad habits
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:47 am DeGeneres named PETA 'woman of the year'
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:42 am Avoid Bolo Raam! - Sify
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:27 am India's 'Ocean of an Old Man' film in 'Global Lens 2010''Ocean of an Old Man' (Hindi with subtitles in English, 84 minutes) is about the struggles of an elderly British teacher to run a primary school in Andaman and Nicobar islands in India after the aftermath of 2004 Indian Ocean TsunamiSource: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 1 Jan 2010 | 5:21 am
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