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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 31 Jan 2010 | 8:16 am Aamir, Shah Rukh are `2 Idiots`: Shiv Sena!The Shiv Sena has now attacked Aamir Khan for voicing his opinion in favour of Pakistani cricketers.Source: Zee News : Entertainment | 31 Jan 2010 | 4:52 am Zac Efron to play Spider ManThe High School Musical star will step into Tobey Maguire’s shoes for the fourth blockbuster movie, slated to start shooting later this year and hit theatres in 2012. Tobey, 34, shocked bosses at Universal Pictures last year when he announced he was quitting the megabucks franchise.Source: | 31 Jan 2010 | 3:36 am Saif is a tapori: Uddhav Thackeray - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 31 Jan 2010 | 2:57 am Ishqiya: A role out of my comfort zone, says Vidya Balan - Moneycontrol.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 31 Jan 2010 | 2:55 am DGA Awards - Kathryn Bigelow wins, list of winnersKathryn Bigelow won the DGA award for the best directed feature film for her Iraq drama, 'The Hurt Locker,' becoming the first woman to do so, beating her ex-husband James Cameron and his blockbuster, Avatar. The list of winners of DGA awards is hereSource: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 31 Jan 2010 | 2:03 am Sadhus take out procession ahead of holy dip in Haridwar - Oneindia
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 31 Jan 2010 | 12:49 am Will Striker strike gold at the box-office? - Indiatimes
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 30 Jan 2010 | 11:57 pm SRK "scared" of getting into relationships - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 30 Jan 2010 | 10:25 pm Karni Sena vandalises multiplexes over screening of 'Veer' in city - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 30 Jan 2010 | 4:04 pm Actor Rip Torn arrested on bank robbery chargeRip Torn was arrested on Saturday for allegedly breaking into a bank in Connecticut in an intoxicated state. Police found Torn 'with a loaded revolver' lying in an intoxicated state.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 2:36 pm Michael Douglas worried, Cameron might get life imprisonmentA visibly strained Michael Douglas refused to answer media queries as he rushed to meet his son Cameron who is facing a court hearing in the narcotic possession case. A stony faced Michael later told the news agencies that he has been a 'bad father'Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm Preity spends birthday weekend in Dubai
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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 30 Jan 2010 | 1:44 pm Ozzy Osbourne repents being cruel to his wife, animalsOzzy Osbourne has come up with an autobiography which has a series of startling confessions by the controversial, near-psycho singer. The most startling of all, 'I Am Ozzy' reveals his confession of how he treated his first wife Thelma.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:13 pm Grammy countdown - nominees and latest updateThe gala Grammy night on Sunday would begin with a tribute to the late musician Michael Jackson, reportedly being sung by Celine Dion and Usher. Performers for the night include the Dave Matthews Band, Maxwell, Green Day, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm Aamir, SRK '2 Idiots': Shiv Sena
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm Abhishek's new avatar - Deccan Herald
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm Saif Ali Khan defends his Padma ShriBollywood actor Saif Ali Khan's name in the list of Padma Shri awardees may have raised some eyebrows but the star says that he deserves the honour and will try his best to live up to it.Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 10:46 am Gautaman Bhaskaran’s Review: GoaTwo-film old Venkat Prabhu calls his latest Goa (in Tamil) a holiday adventure set in the western State, whose traditional culture of feni, fun and a dash of Portugal have now given way to sheer notoriety.Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 10:18 am Miss America 2010: Watch Online, Live Streaming, Telecast DetailsThe Grand Finale of Miss America 2010 pageant is going to be held tonight at Las Vegas. Miss America 2010 is one of the most sizzling events of the year and people are searching the internet. Miss America 2010 Watch Online, Live Streaming, Telecast DetailSource: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 10:10 am 'Dead' Lady Gaga set to rock the GrammiesYet another celebrity death rumor has hit the headlines. This time its Lady Gaga, whose car crash-death was reported by an Irish radio channel. The ad illustrates a body of a woman under a canvas, while blood seeps out of the clothes.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 9:50 am No more controversies please: VivekHe has been accused of gatecrashing at SRK's party where his former flame Aishwarya was present with Abhishek and also stalking the couple at the Rann premier. Here's his part of the story...Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 8:55 am Padma Lakshmi is carrying Adam Dell's child?
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:53 am Shiv Sainiks seek apology from SRK
While the movie My Name Is Khan is still a few days away from release, the SRK-Kajol starrer is already making news though not for all the right reasons.
Shah Rukh Khan, who is always vocal about his opinions on social and cultural issues, is being asked to apologise for things that he said out of his own will. He went on to say that Pakistani cricketers need to be part of the IPL 3, but such a comment from a world renowned celebrity was unacceptable to Shiv Sainiks. They expressed their discontent over the actor's comments saying Shah Rukh has insulted the 26/11 martyrs.
Taking a cue, the Shiv Sena workers went on a rampage and tore down posters of SRK's film My Name Is Khan in the suburbs of Mumbai today. A similar incident occurred at a multiplex in Thane yesterday. Sena has asked the multiplex managers to not screen My Name Is Khan or any SRK film, till further notice. While SRK is yet to make an apology, one thing is certain that the controversy surrounding this issue will take its own time to settle down.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:46 am Protests against Salman's Veer
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:36 am SRK's wax statue unveiled at Tussauds in US
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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:27 am No plans to direct films: Om Puri
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:19 am Coming soon! First 3D porn filmGood news for adult entertainment buffs. Caligula director Tinto Brass has decided to make the first 3D porn film. The shooting of the first 3D film is scheduled to begin in May.Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:10 am SRK and Kajol to ring NASDAQ opening bell on February 1
There is no denying the fact that the Shah Rukh Khan- Kajol pair has a huge fan following not just in India but even overseas. SRK and Kajol, who are all set to once again re-unite onscreen after 9 long years in Karan Johar's magnum-opus My Name Is Khan, have been invited by NASDAQ, the world's biggest stock exchange, to ring their opening bell in New York on Monday, February 1.
SRK and Kajol will thus become the first Indian actors to open the market, an honour usually reserved for CEOs of major corporations. This prestigious event will be broadcast live on many television networks across the globe. With over 3,700 companies listed, the NASDAQ has more trading volume than any other stock market in the world.
With their upcoming film My Name Is Khan releasing on February 12, their presence in the US of A at this grand event is sure to create hysteria among their NRI fans. Shot mainly across the United States of America, My Name Is Khan will have an extensive worldwide release and also have a star studded premiere at the 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival during the week of its release.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:09 am Shraddha Kapoor to star opposite Prateik in Bhansali's My Friend Pinto
By now it's well known to one and all that Shraddha Kapoor (daughter of Shakti Kapoor) will be making her debut in the Amitabh Bachchan- Madhavan starrer Teen Patti. But if you think that the release of the film will decide her fate in Bollywood, then you couldn't be further from the truth, because she has already been signed up for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's production My Friend Pinto opposite Prateik Babbar.
From what we heard, Bhansali and debutante director Raghav Dar were looking to cast a fresh new face and several girls were screen tested but it was finally Shraddha who with all her freshness bagged the plum role. With two new yet talented actors in its cast and a veteran filmmaker backing this project, My Friend Pinto surely looks like one promising film.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 30 Jan 2010 | 7:09 am "Ishqiya is a story which even Bhardwaj has never attempted" - Abhishek Chaubey
A man with a conviction and a story to tell can hardly be ignored. Having worked on the screenplays of films like Omkara and Kaminey, Abhishek Chaubey is one of those rare talents of our industry who do things not only differently but with a sense of aesthetics. Now when he captains the ship of Ishqiya, his directorial debut, a lot is expected out of him. With a bit of anxiety and yet oodles of humility, Abhishek Chaubey spoke to Bollywood Hungama about his first film as a director being a dream come true.
Can we call Ishqiya essentially a love story?
Yes! It is a story of love. It's a romantic tale...A love story of criminals so it does have crime in it.
Your first film as a director, did you have a game plan in mind?
Yeah! All filmmakers when they get into film production have a plan in mind. I had a story that I wanted to say and I had my conviction behind me that I believed in. I felt it was an interesting film to make and I knew it would catch people's attention. It's something where I can show my ability, if I have any, as a director.
What was the most challenging sequence in the film for you?
The climax of my film! It involved many characters and many locations and various events happening in various places. It was quite a challenge for me because we were also battling the weather which was rough. We had very little shooting time because we had to shoot day sequences and we were surrounded by hills and the sun wouldn't rise before 9:30am and would set by 4:30pm. So there was limited time and the entire cast was there on set, so managing all that was tough logistically.
Shooting the climax of the film was most challenging since it involved many characters and many locations and various events happening in various places
What was the chemistry like with your producer Vishal Bhardwaj?
A new relationship formed between us because earlier it was he who was the director and I used to work as an assistant or a co-writer. This time however things were different with him taking on the role of a producer and me handling the direction. This new relationship was challenging for both of us, but the good thing was that Vishalji and I share a personal rapport which goes beyond our professional commitment. That really helped in the making of the film. There were times when we were on different boats, but this new relationship helped us understand each other even better.
Would you say though that this film is similar to Tashan? Two guys loving the same girl who has her own agenda and the rustic setting?
Funny that you say that! Because by the time Tashan released, I had already written Ishqiya. I heard that Tashan was similar to Ishqiya so I went and saw the film and realised thankfully that it wasn't. Tashan was a much bigger and a commercial kind of an affair whereas my film, which is very engaging and a busy film, is much more rooted in reality and much more rooted in the atmosphere that it was set in. Even the characters are very different from those in Tashan. Definitely the plot is very different but also the pitching of both the films is completely different so even on the surface though you might say that it's about two men and one girl loving each other, there is no similarity between these two films.
How was it working with Naseeruddin Shah again?
It was an incredible experience for me and a great honour. I have known Naseer bhai for a few years now and I have worked with him in Maqbool and Omkara. So it wasn't a difficult task to get in touch with him and give him the script. I was happy that he liked his role and the story and then he was an asset on the sets. He is the kind of actor who makes a director's job very easy. He is an intelligent and evolved actor and you don't have to talk about the basics with him, you have to talk about the details and the nuances with him and that's really wonderful.
Naseer bhai is the kind of actor who makes a director's job very easy. He is an intelligent and evolved actor and you don't have to talk about the basics with him
How would you describe Vidya's role in the film?
She plays one of the most interesting female roles ever in our industry. She plays an ordinary village woman whose husband has passed away and there is a very sweet and innocent musical side to her and on the other hand, there is also an edgier, darker, rougher side to her. So it was a very complex role for Vidya but she pulled it off amazingly.
She was expected to be a brazen woman... how has she managed that?
What made matters easy for me was that when Vidya heard the script, she was very happy and excited about doing it. So it helps when the actor is enthusiastic about the role he/she is playing. In addition to that, Vidya is one of the most hard-working actors I have come across; she puts in a lot of effort. For almost a month and half before we went into the shoot, she came to office everyday and would work with me on the script and the details of the character and the costumes. When the set was getting ready, she came to the location, went to the kitchen and all the other rooms of the house and sat there, spent sometime, just getting to know the place and that is quite incredible for a director when he sees an actor giving so much for the character. Apart from being a beautiful girl and a very talented person, Vidya is also a very deeply committed actor.
Apart from being a beautiful girl and a very talented person, Vidya is also a very deeply committed actor. She has pulled off a very complex role amazingly
We believe, Arshad has a very exciting role, how has it been working with him?
The thing about Arshad is that he is an absolute natural. It was such a revelation for me. I was expecting a lot from Vidya, but with Arshad I didn't know what to expect. But I was pleasantly surprised when I realised that he a fantastic actor. He has been known mostly for his comic roles till now but he is a fantastic dramatic actor as well. He has all the virtues to have a great name as a phenomenal actor. I have realised his spontaneity and his intuitiveness because he got the vibe and the mood of the film in the first ten minutes of our meeting and from then on there was no looking back because he knew exactly what kind of film we were making and he was totally in his character.
I have realised Arshad's spontaneity and his intuitiveness because he got the vibe and the mood of the film in the first ten minutes of our meeting and from then on there was no looking back
Interesting cast no doubt, but did you pin it down to these three from the word go?
To be honest with you, when I finished my script I was completely blank on whom to cast because I took a year to write it. So when the question of casting came up apart from Naseer bhai I was not very sure who to sign. Vidya was suggested by Vishal. It just took one meeting to realise that she is the right one. Earlier I had thought that Arshad's character Babban, should be played by someone who is very young, maybe twenty something but I wasn't happy with the choices in front of me. I always had Arshad at the back of my mind because I always wanted to work with him so he was the last one to be cast.
There seems to be Vishal's signature rawness in the film, how do you differentiate your work?
The thing is that I have worked with Vishal for almost six years of my life so obviously I have Vishal Bhardwaj's quality in my filmmaking. I can't deny that and it's good because it has helped me grow as a technician and as an artist. Having said that, the similarity between Omkara and Ishqiya is purely cosmetic. When you sit and watch it you would realise that besides the fact that they both are set in U.P. and is about criminals there is no other similarity. Infact Ishqiya is the kind of story that Vishal himself has never attempted in the past, so it's a fresh point of view, and the way it is treated is very different. So undeniably I have Vishal Bhardwaj's influence in my filmmaking but I do have an identity of my own and Ishqiya will prove that.
Ishqiya is the kind of story that Vishal himself has never attempted in the past, so it's a fresh point of view, and the way it is treated is very different
Songs of your film have become a rage. Did you plan to play them in a certain way in the film?
We had written the songs into the script so they tell a story rather than depict one particular emotion; of course the songs have the underlying emotions. But I didn't want the songs to take place of the story, like let's stop the story and play the song for five minutes and then get back to the story. I didn't want to do that. So I deliberately did that and incorporated the songs in the storytelling. There is a lip sync song in Ishqiya but when you watch it you will realise that it is part of the story. The story moves non stop as the song take place.
As a director which is your favourite song in the film?
I would say 'Dil To Bachha Hai'.
Overall how would you rate your first film?
I am just happy that I made a film. I had come to Mumbai many years ago to become a director. That desire of mine is fulfilled with Ishqiya. Now its up to the audience and critics to rate the film as good bad or ugly and I would take whatever comments come my way in all humility.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 30 Jan 2010 | 6:59 am Subhash K. Jha speaks about Ishqiya
This is a very strange film. Strange, not so much in terms of content (pretty weird, unless you really believe there are sleepy dusty towns in North India where boys learn to use a gun before they learn to wash their own bottoms) as, in terms of the way the three main characters are thrown against each other in combustions that suggests a brutal bonding between the libido and the landscape.
To the cinematographer Mohana Krishna's credit, he creates in the suburbs of Mumbai (masquerading as Gorakhpur) a kind of sweeping lazy ambience of leisurely self indulgence where you can smell the sweat and other bodily emissions.
Ishqiya is the kind of cinema which you can love or hate, but cannot be indifferent to. The dusty parched sexually and spiritually arid hinterland renders itself effectively to the character's unique dimensionality. The uncle-nephew pair of Naseruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi provides the kind of sweaty grimy male bonding that we last saw in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds where Brad Pitt's anti-Nazi soldiers urinated a toxic violence into the script. Ishqiya too breeds a blur of violence from the rough material of boredom.
The two protagonists in Ishqiya represent the acme of reprehensibility. Come to think of it, there isn't one character in the plot that you can begin to like, let alone admire. Like with the Naseer-Arshad-Vidya triangle the other characters are either hazy or horny, or both. There's a businessman who sells steel on the surface and supplies illegal arms underneath. He's supposed to represent the clan of the corrupt in the backwaters.
So pray tell, what happened to all the glorious heroes who once formed the core of our cinematic experience? And the heroine? Vidya Balan's Krishna is a conniving victim. And if that sounds like a contradiction in terms, it is purposefully projected into a plot that pulsates with a seedy tension and a freehwheeling virile humour.
Ishqiya is the aesthetic version of toilet graffiti. The writing on the wall is very clear. Hate these characters who live by the gun and yes, the gaana (Vidya Balan often hums Lata Mangeshkar's evergreens and Rekha Bhardawaj's fresh recordings under her warm sweaty breath). But we can't but look at them as a product of an ambience that breeds deception, duplicity and a desperate craving to survive the sufferings of a senselessly violent society.
How the film finds a central core of gentleness in this milieu of murky machinations and sleazy cerebrations, is another story. Or maybe it isn't.
Debutant director Abhishek Chaubey tries to create two different worlds, one of criminality and the other of compassion, within one range of vision. It's a tall order. And there's little time or no space for the characters to stop behaving as though auditioning for a reality show based on how to embrace crime in a lawless no man's land.
Some of the sex and power play among the Vidya, Arshad and Naseer characters, as played out in her manless home, is intriguing and arresting in its swift shifts of dramatic tension from one to the other of the three characters.
Towards the second overture of this untried symphony of antipathy the writer and director conspire to create a bizarre climactic spiral involving a shady business tycoon of the area whom our trio of protagonists decide to kidnap.
By the time the kidnapping plan goes horribly awry the narrative too loses its bearings and begins to quiver and mutate like a hovel on a stormy night.
If the film holds you until the end it's because of the principal performances.
Naseeruddin Shah confers a rock-solid tenderness to his aging criminal-lover's role.
Arshad Warsi, one of the most underrated actors of our cinema, gets a rare opportunity to sink his skills into a part of raunchy randy rogue, out to get the neighbourhood widow to hit the sack.
But the film belongs to Vidya Balan. With a face and eyes that convey a determination to make her way through a rough patriarchal order Vidya is tender brittle cunning and cool, all rolled into a bundle bewildering emotions that unfold more through her body language than the script. She rises above the self indulgent realism of the narrative.
A triumph for the actress. But what of the film? How do we evaluate Ishqiya beyond its politically-charged verbally-lurid lunge at realism? Is the film to be applauded for forging a new language of expression? Or should that language have been used with more restrain and tact?
Frankly there are no clear and simple value-judgements to be applied to Ishqiya. It's partly a homage to the rugged Westerns from Hollywood, and partly an attempt to penetrate the North Indian small-town hinterland where people don't just live with violence they even enjoy it.
But did this film have to follow them?Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 30 Jan 2010 | 6:56 am 'Rann' Review – 'Rann' Movie Review - india-server.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 30 Jan 2010 | 6:00 am Genelia to endorse Garnier Light
Genelia D'Souza has finally joined the bandwagon of Bollywood ladies in endorsing fairness creams. She is already the face of Virgin mobiles, but now has gone on to sign a fairness cream brand. The bubbly actress, who stole everyone's heart with her performance in Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na, is now endorsing Garnier's new product, 'Garnier Light' which is a skin lightening lotion.
The fairness cream market already has a host of Bollywood beauties endorsing various brands. While Deepika Padukone is the brand ambassador of Johnson and Johnson's new fairness cream 'Neutrogena Fine Fairness', Sonam Kapoor is the face of 'L'Oreal White Perfect'. Even Katrina Kaif is the face of Olay skin whitening cream. Now with this endorsement, Genelia too seems has joined the race to decide, 'Who's the fairest of them all?'Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 30 Jan 2010 | 5:45 am Aamir Khan to play Guru Dutt in a biopic?A biopic on the legendary filmmaker is underway and Guru Dutt's son Arun Dutt says, the film's script in being written by Anurag Kashyap and Aamir has already been approached for the role.Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 5:45 am Robert Downey Jr loves being an action starThe 44-year-old actor, who can be seen bare-knuckle boxing in Sherlock Holmes and performs many of his own stunts in upcoming movie Iron-Man 2 admits he is enjoying his new reputation.Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 5:31 am Demi Moore to play Miley Cyrus' mother?The two stars are the frontrunners to recreate roles played by Sophie Marceau and Christa Theret in a remake of 2009 French hit L.O.L. Laughing Out Loud. Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 5:17 am Raiders of the Lost Ark voted best action movieKeanu Reeves starrer The Matrix came second, ahead of Bruce Willis' Die Hard and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Sci-fi epic Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back came in fifth. Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 5:06 am Subhash K. Jha speaks about Harishchandrachi Factory
This is the one that went all the way to Oscar-land and came back empty-handed. So whose loss is it anyway?
Writer-director Paresh Mokashi's tender-sweet film about the founding-father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb's Phalke's struggle to make the first feature film in this country is not short of a miracle. It alchemizes the pain hurt humiliation and compromises of a struggling artiste into something extraordinarily funny satirical and self-mocking.
While retaining the inherent warmth sensitivity and dignity of the protagonist's uphill task of proving to his family friends and neighbours that Phalke is no lunatic, the film chronicles the early years in the long and chequered history of cinema in India with a crisp and curvaceous comprehensiveness.
Making a life, so consumed by a new art- form interesting and compelling could not be an easy task. Mokashi's Phalke could easily have become a portrait of an obstinate and obsessive man who thought the moving images on screen could actually add up to make some collective sense.
Crafty director Paresh Mokashi spends a substantial amount of playing-time looking at Phalke's domestic life. The easy and affable atmosphere in the pioneering filmmaker's home explains why and how the audacious genius was able to do what he did. Phalke's relationship with his children is that of a progressive pally father at a time when the cane did all the talking with children. Only a man who treats his family as his allies could dare to venture into an unknown vocation like filmmaking.
It's the cine- man's relationship with his spunky wife Saraswati (played with uninhibited starkness and gusto by Vaibhavari Deshpande) that gives to the biopic the distinctive colour of a love story. Phalke's wife is shown to be supremely supportive of her husband's outrageous experimentation with moving pictures. She willingly if not gladly pawns her jewellery, furniture and finally home and sits on his editing when he makes his film while he attempts some seriously clumsy cooking.
Truly a feminist before the term was invented; Saraswati Phalke's boding with her husband is the fulcrum of the narrative.
The director recreates the era (1914) not through an extravagance of extraneous props and piles of in-your-face periodicity, but with understated nuances and gestures. Sights and sounds suggest an indelible link between Phalke's obsession for cinema with the progressive and liberal middleclass Marathi milieu.
Interestingly Phalke as portrayed by an amazingly accomplished theatre actor Nandu Madhav, is often captured in the mood that Charlie Chaplin patented. Director Mokashi lets Madhav be. The actor interprets Phalke in a spirit of freewheeling spontaneity. Madhav's Phalke is a driven and passionate soul consumed by the thought of making a feature film but able to see the amusing picture he portrays to those around him through his single-minded determination to make a film on Raja Harishchandra's journey from royalty to penury.
Phalke's own journey did not quite take him to the dog house. This film finds with enormous hope and inspiration in a life that defined Indian cinema. Paresh Mokashi scatters Phalke's journey from a wannabe dreamer to a trained London-returned filmmaker with dollops of comic-strip witticism and wisdom.
The well-known search for a heroine to play Harishchandra's wife is here detailed in savagely satirical sequences.
Eventually we see Phalke's whole house turned into a theatre of the absurd with wannabe actors rehearsing their lines in every nook and cranny.
Harishchandrachi Factory is in Marathi. It could be in any language or no spoken language at all and it would be just as warm funny and welcoming. This film does to the father of Indian cinema what Richard Attenborough's epic did to the father of the nation. The film humanizes the mythic figure without peeling away the layers of luminous inner life that always defines extraordinary lives.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 30 Jan 2010 | 5:05 am I can also do non-comic roles: RiteishThe star who has been applauded for his performance in Rann refutes rumour that he sulked on the sets as "gossip at its funniest" and says he should also be cast for non-comic roles.Source: | 30 Jan 2010 | 4:42 am Luhrmann and Rahman may work togetherAustralian director Luhrmann is in India these days. He has spoken of his admiration of Indian cinema and of how much Bollywood packs into a single movie. He is also reported to have expressed the desire to work with A.R. Rahman.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 4:27 am Road to Sangam - Sify
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 30 Jan 2010 | 4:16 am Get Ready for Shyam Benegal's 'Well Done Abba'Shyam Benegal film stars Boman Irani, Minissha Lamba in pivotal roles along with Sammir Dattani, Ila Arun, Sonali Kulkarni, Ravi Kishen, Rajit Kapur, Ravi Jhankal and Yashpal Sharma.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 3:25 am Ishqiya - A tale of love, lust and lies'Ishiqiya' is the stuff cinema lovers wait for. Quirky, funny and very earthy it has an interesting plot, great characters and soulful music. Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan's roles seem tailor made for them. Not a family watch though!Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 30 Jan 2010 | 3:12 am Sanjay Gupta signs Tabu; Nandita Das likely to direct
Tabu's Bollywood fans might have thought that we lost one of our finest actresses to Hyderabad, but that's far from true. Not only is Tabu busy promoting her upcoming film Toh Baat Pakki, in which she plays an incorrigible matchmaker, but she has also shown interest in Sanjay Gupta's next production, which might be directed by Nandita Das.
The project in question is a screen adaptation of Chitra Banerjee Divkaruni's book 'The Vine Of Desire'. After Astitva and Chandni Bar, Tabu will once again be seen in a women oriented film. The story is a mournful saga of two sisters and Tabu is extremely excited about this project. With Tabu being one of the sisters it undoubtedly calls for an equally stronger actress to play the role alongside. Talks are on with none other than Vidya Balan but nothing is confirmed yet.
Seems like Tabu is all set to take Bollywood by storm once again.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 30 Jan 2010 | 2:38 am Junior NTR marrying a minor? - Times of India
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