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Rahman cancels Detroit show after infrastructure collapse
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 7:00 am Rahman cancels Detroit show after infrastructure collapseMusic maestro A.Source: Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 6:52 am My character in new film mix of Madhubala, Haji Mastan's wife: Kangana
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 6:46 am Dads are usually seen as rule-breakers, risk-takers: Shah RukhHe plays a perfect lover on-screen and off screen he is the best dad.Source: Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 6:18 am Censor okays, wife objects to actor’s nude sceneThe censor board has passed all the nude scenes in the upcoming flick Mr Singh Mrs Mehta with an ‘A’ certificate but director's wife is miffed.Source: | 20 Jun 2010 | 4:59 am Ilaiyaraaja records first song in cityIlaiyaraaja arrived quietly in Mumbai with 30 of his musicians to record additional music for Bhavna Talwar's Pankaj Kapur starrer, Happi.Source: | 20 Jun 2010 | 4:55 am Akbar Khan’s perfect 10Akbar Khan has zeroed in on a 10-year-old Egyptian boy, Mohammed, to play a pivotol role in his next production, Taxi Driver.Source: | 20 Jun 2010 | 4:51 am My character in new film mix of Madhubala, Haji Mastan's wife: KanganaKangana Ranaut is set for a brush with the underworld on screen once again after "Gangster".Source: Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 3:49 am Lamhaa' offers soft, soulful musicMusic composer Mithoon, who has created music for very few films like "Bas Ek Pal" and "Anwar", has come out with an impressive and hummable soundtrack in "Lamhaa", a film on Kashmir.Source: Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 3:28 am Big B most admired Paa - Hindustan Times
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 20 Jun 2010 | 2:02 am Kareena Kapoor to play sex worker for the second time in Heera Mandi after ChameliThe project will go on floor as soon as Sanjay wraps his his ongoing project 'Guzaarish' with Hrithik Roshan. Both of them had expressed their desire of working together but things could not materialise owing to various personal as well as professional reSource: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 20 Jun 2010 | 12:54 am To the Papas of Bollywood - IJune 20th is here… A day specially introduced for the special man in your life. Next to mom, no other word is as sensitive or secure as this one. Papa, Pa, Daddy, Dad, Appa, Pop…. You know there couldn’t be any replacement for him...Source: IndiaGlitz.com - News | 20 Jun 2010 | 12:00 am Malika Sherawat To Share Screen Space With Salma Hayek - india-server.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 11:05 pm Miley Cyrus 'i am grown up a lot', watch 12 year old Cyrus videoMiley Cyrus' audition tape for the Disney Channel's Han ID can be seen on You Tube.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:26 pm Sinclair Lewis movie series kicks off on TCM tonight, timings and detailsSinclair Lewis (1885-1951), The first American to win a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer (for 'Main Street') as well is hot on search to day as his novels that were turned into movies will be shown on TV today. The movies will be shown on TCM.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:55 pm Botswana lays out red carpet for BollywoodBotswana, a south African nation known for its wildlife and where Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai are household names, is aggressively wooing the Indian film industry to shoot their highly popular films in the country and boost its economy.Source: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:52 pm Manisha gets hitched - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 1:57 pm 'Raavan' earns Rs.20 crore worldwide on opening dayDirector Mani Ratnam's "Raavan", which was released in three languages today, grossed Rs.Source: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 1:03 pm Dumbstruck Sonu Niigaam explains his ponytail lookPopular singer Sonu Niigaam is flabbergasted by the criticism he has received from his fans and the media for sporting two ponytails and an unkempt look.Source: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 11:32 am Aamir to host star-studded party for GustavoBollywood star Aamir Khan is hosting a star-studded party today night for Argentinian musician Gustavo Santaolalla, who is composing music for his wife Kiran Rao's directorial debut "Dhobi Ghat".Source: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:31 am Robert Pattinson finds nude scene "haunting"Twilight star Robert Pattinson says that he was not comfortable enacting the nude scenes in his movie Little Ashes and is still haunted by them.Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:08 am Anupam Kher bows out from Dear Friend Hitler
As a rare case in the history of Indian cinema, a movie was being made on an international subject. And the subject in question was the Nazi leader Hitler. Though an intriguing character to work on, a film on him had to create some flutter, and it did.
Anupam Kher, who was signed on to play the strong role of the fuehrer, received some heat from people over it. Realising the fact that he was hurting the sentiments of the small community of Jews living in India, he withdrew from the project quite gracefully, claiming it to be a mistake as he tweeted, "Sometimes human emotions are more important than cinema:).I withdrew from Hitler film." He went on to say "Thanks for your varied reactions to my opting out of Hitler. After 400 films in 26yrs I have the right to be wrong and still be HAPPY:)."
It is yet to be seen if Anupam's exit from the film will stall the project or someone else will take on the role.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:55 am Kutcher was nervous strippingActor Ashton Kutcher was ‘really nervous’ about stripping off for a scene in his upcoming flick Killers.Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:49 am Sonam changes her personality for Mausam
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:48 am Mayank Shekhar's Review: Raavan - Hindustan Times
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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:06 am Lakshman gets candid about RaavanNikhil Dwivedi, who plays the role etched around Lakshman in Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, looked visibly excited about his latest release and was all praises for director Mani Ratnam.Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:59 am Priyanka's 'cousin' makes Bollywood forayIf reports are to be believed, Priyanka Chopra has some competition from home front now, as her so-called cousin Meera Chopra gets set for Bollywood. What more? She has hired her sister's harasser as secretary.Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:40 am 'Raavan' a feast for the sensesA wounded bird snarled viciously on the dry branches of a tree.Source: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:35 am Hindi remake of Stepmom gets a titleAfter mulling over the title of his Hindi version of Chris Columbus' 1998 comedy drama Stepmom for a long time, Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar has finally decided to go with the name...Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:33 am Sonam changes her personality for MausamAfter playing the giddyheaded starry-eyed young lover-girl in all her films so far, including the about-to-be-released I Hate Luv Storys, actress Sonam Kapoor in Mausam is all set to play a girl who evolves into a woman in the course of the movie.Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:28 am Aamir Khan invites who's who of Bollywood for big bash tonight Aamir Khan is hosting an exclusive party for who's who from the fraternity at his house tonight for a very special person. A very tasteful evening has been planned for multiple Oscar winner music composer Gustavo Santaolalla and Aamir has personally invited the crème de la creme of the industry. And yes he also called SRK.
Gustavo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, who has won 2 Oscars and 13 Grammys till date. He has given music for The Insider (Al Pacino), Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries and Brokeback Mountain. In 2008, Santaolalla composed the soundtrack for the Louis Vuitton film, Where Will Life Take You?
The talented music director is now composing music for Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat and is travelling across Mumbai to see the city and get a feel of the city. Mumbai city plays an important role in Dhobi Ghat.
Gustavo has been in the city from last one week and is leaving on Sunday. Before he leaves, Aamir wanted him to meet few of his friends from the industry.
Aamir has invited Shah Rukh Khan (to which SRK promptly responded that he is out of town but would have loved to come) Salman Khan, Karan Johar, Saif, Kareena, Ranbir, Katrina, Imtiaz Ali, Anurag Basu, Anurag Kashyap, Imran Khan, Raj Kumar Hirani and his wife, Rakyesh Om Prakash Mehra and his wife, Ronnie and Zarina, Kunal Kohli and his wife, Shantanu Moitra, Swanand Kirkire and Shankar Ehsaan and Loy.
Aamir has also invited Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. They want him to host another party once they are back because they both are not in town.
This will be one of the biggest parties hosted by Aamir Khan in recent times.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:21 am Tabla, sarangi, harmonium fade from BollywoodSeveral traditional musical instruments like the sarangi, tabla and even the harmonium -- once a must for Bollywood composers -- are hardly being used by the film industry now, thanks to new sound techniques.Source: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:12 am Hindi remake of Stepmom titled We Are Family
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:10 am Subhash K. Jha speaks on Raavan
A frail wounded bird snarled viciously in the dry branches of a tree. A cold-blooded vulture who looks leery-eyed and loopy-grinned at his prey.
Pray, is this world for real?! A film by Mani Ratnam is an experience of a lifetime. His politics might be a little wobbly at times. And those recurrent shots of old ladies and little girls dancing at colourful weddings have become annoying in their familiarity in Mani's world.
But by Jove, Mani knows how to tell a story! In Raavan he transports, no traps , us into a forest of strange untamed sights sounds emotions and feelings that tumble out with rapid-fire urgency creating a spiral of rich vibrant sensuous images. Not quite textured in their tumble these images linger like the aroma of redolent spices in a kitchen that's cooking up a storm of a meal.
Raavan is a feast for the senses. Not much more needs to be said about Mani's images. They flow out of Santosh Sivan and Manikandan's cameras with the desperate urgency a symphony written on the night before apocalypse.
Raavan with its elemental images located in the deepest recesses of the forests is apocalyptic in its movement and suggestions. The image of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan plunging from the heights into a waterfall and getting trapped in a dry tree remains the one visual that surpasses all other recent and remote celluloid wise en scene suggesting a link between Nature and vulnerability.
No actress but the divine Aishwarya could have played the beauteous and virtuous modern-day Sita who's kidnapped by a Maoist Raavan and taken through 14-day experience echoing Lord Rama's 14-year banwas.
The mythological references gets lost on some of the characters (notably Vikram as a khaki Rama creating quite a devastating drama) .And the background music and songs by A R Rahman (barring the haunting Behne de which comes much too soon in the narrative) leave no impression.
Aishwarya gets a firm grip on her pristine neo-Sita's ordeal by fire in the most trying of circumstances. At time her scale of emoting goes a little too high, as though she had forgotten this was the Hindi and not the Tamil version of the neo-mythological saga. But she's a perfect portrait of a trapped bird flapping her wings against the cage.
The superbly styled though at times overly accentuated and often rushed, screenplay is crammed with ironic references to mythology and history. Think Ramayan. Think Sita. Think... Hanuman! Govinda puts in a delightful cameo as a forest ranger up to his monkey trick as he transports Inspector Dev (Vikram) through the complicated forest terrain in search of his kidnapped wife.
A lot of the action and drama unfold in the region of the cryptic. We never come close to cracking the jungle creature Beera's mind. Partly a Moist, partly an outcast and an outlaw and outwardly a Robin Hood(don't miss images of rural kids frolicking with the Santa Claus of the jungles), Abhishek Bachchan plays the character with much relish trying to find a centre to a character the defies gravity. But the glint in the eye and that artless grin cannot be missed. They give the character away.
You know this seemingly ruthless guy will fall so hard in love with his mesmerizing hostage that it will destroy him
Yup, this Sita will be the death of Raavan. By the time the two develop a feral fatal attraction the narrative loses grip over the unlikely lovers. In the last half-hour Sita and Raavan are on their own.
How you wish Mani would have given the narrative ample breathing space for the Abhishek-Aishwarya relationship to grow naturally in the stunning non-judgemental forests. Tragically the feelings that they share never quite jump out of the screen to cloak and choke us. Mani's narrative style, a synthesis of smothered passions and half-finished emotions preclude any deeply thought-out plan for the modern-day Sita and Raavan.
So what lies beyond the forbidden passion between Hindu mythology's most enigmatic villain and most revered and pristine heroine? Parts of the narrative are uneven, not being able to create a coherent connection between the principal characters and the politics underlining the film's flamboyant mythological underbelly.
It's a heady ambitious venture about characters trapped in situations from which they cannot escape. Mani Ratnam's keeps the pace frantic and urgent. His actor have to create their own spaces in the tightly-packed drama of the doomed and the damned. The action and the drama are shot in an ensnaring rush of adrenaline. Abhishek and Vikram's pre-climactic hand-to-hand combat on a wooden bridge is pure hand-to-mouth stuff, no two ways about it.
The cinematography captures the rain-drenched characters and terrain in slippery splendour. Never have we seen the protagonists on screen rough it out so vigorously.
Abhishek and Aishwarya play beautifully against one another. When at the end he tells her, "If I had died how would I have met you?" you know his eyes are telling the truth.
Raavan is a film that constantly seeks out the dark recesses in its characters' heart which are then manifested in a montage of beautifully designed images. The film does fall short in some of its emotional moments. But who said that a film about such fatally flawed people had to be picture-perfect both outside and from inside?
The imperfections in the storytelling somehow add to the film's vital primeval quality. The forest is shot with a devastating passion. It becomes a place where the human heart can race against convention without the clock ticking away accusingly.
Aishwarya's heart-stopping beauty reverberates across the natural sights and sounds in the jungles. Abhishek uses his voice, physicality eyes and smile to create a twisted troubled world of inescapable doom for his character.Govinda, Ravi Kissan and Nikhil Diwedi also put in credible performances that seem to grasp the workings of Mani Ratnam's primeval world in all its uplifting glory.
But Vikram as the modern-day Rama is a near-disaster.
He is apparently a superstar in the South. And there he shall remain.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 19 Jun 2010 | 7:14 am Jaden Smith's would be big action star: Jackie ChanJackie Chan thinks his The Karate Kid co-star Jaden Smith has what it takes to be the next great martial artist. The Rush Hour star sent an expert from his own personal stunt team to train Will Smith's son, Jaden.Source: | 19 Jun 2010 | 6:59 am Kareena to skip Karisma's birthday due to Agent Vinod Frantic efforts are on to accommodate Karisma Kapoor's birthday into her sister Kareena's choc-a-clock schedule. But it seems unlikely that the busy actress would be able to join her Didi for her birthday on June 25.
Ironically, it is Saif who seems more concerned about missing Karisma's birthday.
Says a source, "Saif gets along like a house on fire with Karisma and her husband Sanjay. The two guys often share a lot of outdoor fun activities together. Saif doesn't want that he and Kareena should miss her sister's birthday this year."
Saif's concern and guilt for the sisters not being together on that very special day is heightened by the fact that Kareena would be shooting for his film Agent Vinod in Morocco on Karisma's birthday.
Kareena rules out that possibility of Karisma flying down to Morocco "How can my sister fly down to Morocco? No, she'll be in Mumbai with her baby. She has just had a baby boy who's not even four months old. She can't leave the city."
Interestingly, Kareena seems to handle her absence from this important day in her sister with much pragmatism and common sense. "How can I be in Mumbai? I'll be shooting in Tangiers in Morocco on my sister's birthday. Work always comes first in our family. So there would be no birthday plans with my sister this year."
The over-worked sister says she won't even have time to buy anything for Karisma this year. "There's no time to breathe. Forget buying anything. I don't know whether I'm coming or going," sighs Kareena.
Kareena has never missed any of her sister's birthdays. In recent years Kareena had quite often gone to join Karisma in Delhi when the elder sister was staying in the Capital with her husband.
This time Kareena is trying to focus on Saif's project rather than on Karisma's birthday. "I looooove the title Agent Vinod. It's the coolest. We've already started shooting for it. We leave for Tangiers in Morocco on June 22 for twenty days."Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 19 Jun 2010 | 6:46 am Karan Johar's Stepmom remake titled as We Are Family
It starred Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts and it will now star Kajol and Kareena Kapoor. The Stepmom remake that has been in news for quite a while had been haggling for a fitting title for quite sometime. While on one side the release date was a big question mark, Karan Johar turned to twitter to look for an apt title.
He left the title open for discussion to all his followers and in came the rather creative and some humorous options. Today, on twitter, Karan has finally announced the final and official title of his remake film, which is We Are Family. As about the release date, the tweet said, "...will post the release date in a few days!!"K
We Are Family stars Kajol, Kareena and Arjun Rampal and is directed by debutant Siddharth Malhotra.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 19 Jun 2010 | 6:43 am Raavan opens to rave reviews in the US
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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 6:11 am Bollywood beauty Manisha Koirala gets married - view marriage picturesManisha Koirala finally tied the nuptial knot with Kathmandu based businessman Samrat Dahal in a private function at the Gokarna Forest Resort, near Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Saturday June 18.Source: merinews: Entertainment News Articles | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:39 am Sonam changes her personality for Mausam - NDTV.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:28 am Sanjay Gupta to shoot Ladron Que Roba A Ladron in London
5 years after his last directorial venture Zinda, Sanjay Gupta is all set for his next directorial venture which is the remake of the Spanish film Ladron Que Roba A Ladron.
Sanjay, who has this time around, officially acquired the rights of this film from the makers Lions Gate Films, is least perturbed by the fact that another top director Abbas-Mustan is also planning to make the same film.
Speaking exclusively to Bollywood Hungama, Sanjay says, "I am certainly going ahead with the remake of Ladron Que Roba A Ladron. We are planning to shoot the film in London and for the same I am even planning to acquire an office there. The film will star 4 heroes and 2 heroines and most of my cast is more or less locked. We will be making an announcement shortly on the same. Besides the film will also have a lot of foreign crew members."
Ask him whether he has been facing any kind of pressure to part with the rights of the film and Sanjay says, "Yes I have been getting a lot of calls asking me to part with the rights but I guess its all too late in the day now. A lot of spadework has already been done now and so you can say things are in quite an advanced stage right now as far as White Feather Films is concerned."
On being asked how did he decide on remaking this particular film, Gupta says, "I happened to receive a lot of fan mails asking me to remake this particular film. I then watched the film myself and really enjoyed it and thought that it was indeed a very good, commercial film. Ladron Que Roba A Ladron is a highly cool and entertaining action comedy film, so its but obvious that there are a lot of people who want to remake the film in Hindi. However, luckily for me, I got in touch with the original producers a long time back and acquired the official remake rights."
On a parting note, Gupta said that the film will go on floors shortly.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 19 Jun 2010 | 3:51 am Sonam Kapoor will be seen in mature role in Mausam
After playing the giddy headed starry-eyed young lover-girl in all her films so far including the about-to-be-released I Hate LUV Storys, Sonam Kapoor in Mausam is all set to play a girl who evolves into a woman in the course of the film.
Her clothes which are always a source of powerful on-screen personality-transference for her has been worked on at great lengths by designer Anamika Khanna. And the result, says a member of the crew, is no less than devastating.
Apparently, Sonam was initially reluctant to get into the mature mould. "She had reservations about being bracketed in the mature mould so early in her career. In all her films so far from Saawariya to Thank You, Sonam has played a girl her own age and dressed accordingly, in what she's comfortable with. The Western clothes that 'd transform her into a chic Delhi socialite in Aisha are as much a part of her personality as the salwar-kameez that she wore in Delhi 6."
Apparently, designer Anamika Khanna who has worked earlier with Sonam in Delhi 6 has been pouring over the designs with Sonam trying to figure out what clothes she's most comfortable in.
Shahid, who needed to make a sartorial changeover to play the mature mellow lover in the later part of the film, has also been heard joking about how Mausam has turned him and Sonam into overnight adult stars.
Says the Mausam producer Sheetal Talwar, "Shahid has sported the mature mellow look in Jab We Met. But for Sonam the transformation from girl to woman in Mausam is a challenge. Before she left for Scotland, Sonam wanted to be completely comfortable in her new avatar."Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 19 Jun 2010 | 3:08 am John Lennon's handwritten lyrics sold for $1.2mLondon, (ANI): John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to Beatles song “A Day In The Life” were sold for 1.2 million dollars at an auction. The song, which was co-written with Paul McCartney, was sold at Sotheby's in New York, reports the BBC.TheSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:32 am Cameron Diaz had a crush on Harrison FordLondon, (ANI): Cameron Diaz has revealed that she had a crush on Harrison Ford since childhood. The actress grew up convinced that she was going to marry the actor.However, her dreams came crashing down when the Indiana Jones star secretly exchangedSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:31 am
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