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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:00 am Diaz wants to quit Hollywood to be farm girl
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 7:49 am ‘Ash versus Salman?"Eid was never an option" Vipul Shah says that Action Replayy, now a Diwali release, was initially scheduled for July 23. Read on for more.Source: | 25 Jul 2010 | 6:03 am Dabangg and We Are Family lock headsSeptember will be the month of reckoning for two of Bollywood’s biggest production houses. Dharma Productions’ We Are Family and Arbaaz Khan Productions’ Dabangg are both slated to release on September 10.Source: | 25 Jul 2010 | 5:50 am Sparsh Shrivastav wins Chak Dhoom Dhoom
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 4:27 am Vihir wins Bollywood festival in Germany
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 4:07 am Horror fan Mugdha in supernatural thriller
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 3:48 am Horror fan Mugdha in supernatural thrillerActress Mugdha Godse has had an unexplained, eerie experience in the past, but that hasn't stopped her from acting in a supernatural thriller.Source: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:58 am Kareena's action-packed introductory scene in Golmaal 3 - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:44 am Khatta Meetha actress Trisha to star opposite Prateik Babbar
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:44 am Flight passengers have providential escape - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:19 am 'Khatta Meetha' actress Trisha to star opposite Prateik BabbarSouth Indian actress Trisha Krishnan has entered Bollywood following the trend of debuting with a leading man far older than her.Source: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:52 am Sparsh Shrivastav wins 'Chak Dhoom Dhoom'Sparsh Shrivastav from Agra was declared the winner of children's dance reality show "Chak Dhoom Dhoom" on Colors channel on Saturday night.Source: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:37 am 'Vihir' wins Bollywood festival in GermanyA drama about a young man on the search for missing cousin earned top honours on Saturday at an Indian film festival in the southern German city of Stuttgart.Source: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:17 am Aamir, SRK bond over dinner in London - indiablooms
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:10 am Alika in 'Valaya-land' - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 12:19 am Antara Mali goes bald for Amol Palekar's filmBollywood actress Antara Mali, famous for her glamorous roles, has shaved off her head for Amol Palekar's film "And Once Again", adopting a totally deglamourised avatar to essay the role of a monk in Sikkim.Source: Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:53 pm Mithun turns cowboy!Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty appeared in the music reality show "Indian Idol 5", dressed as a cowboy.Source: Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:52 pm Sunny Deol's back problem is back, action sequence stalledThere seems to be no end to Sunny Deol's troubles.Source: Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:49 pm It's their line anyway - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Jul 2010 | 1:40 pm Akshay Kumar holds Khatta Meetha screening for politiciansBollywood star Akshay Kumar today held a screening of his new film Khatta Meetha, a tale of a man grappling with corruption, for some politicians and bureaucrats to "highlight problems faced by people of the country".Source: | 24 Jul 2010 | 12:58 pm Review: Maryada Ramanna
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 10:51 am Mel Gibson's a liar: Grigorieva
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 10:40 am Tina Fey has a crush on Brad Pitt
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:53 am Akshay Kumar holds Khatta Meetha screening for politicians - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:39 am Casey Affleck accused of sexual harassment
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:34 am Spotlight on Indian movies at Melbourne film festPeepli Live, Ishqiya and Love Sex Aur Dhokha will be amongst the films screened at the ongoing Melbourne International Film Festival's section Not Quite Bollywood.Source: | 24 Jul 2010 | 8:59 am It is a malicious campaign against my daughter: Jwala's father - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Jul 2010 | 6:43 am Antara Mali goes bald to play monk in Amol Palekar's film
The 'once-upon-a-time hot' actress Antara Mali, who was last seen 5 years ago in the forgettable flick Mr Ya Miss, is all set to make a comeback of sorts and that too in a new avatar. Antara would be seen playing a Buddhist monk in Amol Palekar's film And Once Again. For the part, Antara has gone ahead and taken the bold step of shaving her head.
While dealing with the intricacies of man-woman relationship, And Once Again subtly talks about repercussions of violence on human life and its lingering shadow on all of us with its startling shades. Besides Antara Mali, the film also stars Rajat Kapoor and Rituparna Sengupta in lead roles. The film has been shot in the picturesque locales of Sikkim.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 24 Jul 2010 | 6:22 am ICU woes for Madhur Bhandarkar as he attends to unwell mother
For Madhur Bhandarkar, the shooting of his first ever comic outing is well turning out to quite a distressing experience in real life. Even as he is neck deep into the first schedule of Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji which is currently on in Mumbai, his personal life has gone astray due to his mother keeping unwell. Diagnosed with problems related to intestines, she is currently lodged in ICU for last few days.
Says a close friend of Bhandarkar, "For Madhur it is turning out to be a 24X7 schedule. He can't make any changes because the dates for all his star actors are already locked. But then he also wants to be his mother because she is currently under intensive care. So while he is busy shooting the entire day, he is in the hospital during the night. It is taking a toll on his own health."
The comedy starring Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Omi Vaidya and Shruti Hassan didn't have the best of the starts when the first few days of the shooting had to be rescheduled due to rains in Mumbai. Now that the film finally managed to get on floors, the personal trouble of Bhandarkar has resulted in further stress.
The good news is that Madhur's mother is recovering which means a reduction in emotional and physical stress for Bhandarkars.
Continues the friend, "Initially Madhur was quite disturbed with the state of his mother's health. It was during this duration that his wife and sister were pillars of support as they stayed in the hospital during the day time and attended to his mother. Still, he insisted that he is there during the night at the least."
No wonder, the normally upbeat filmmaker is unusually quiet and physically a bit low over the last few days. However, he is keeping a brave face and doing his best to get his actors flex their facial muscles while enacting comic scenes.
Madhur Bhandarkar was unavailable for comment as he was busy shootingSource: BollywoodHungama.com News | 24 Jul 2010 | 6:08 am Big B to promote Champions League T20 tournament on ESPN
In India, they say that there are just two things people thrive on: Cricket and Bollywood. In a country where 'Cricket is not a game, but a religion' and the legendary man called Amitabh Bachchan is considered as God, one can only imagine what to expect when these two come together!
Amitabh Bachchan has now been signed up to endorse the sports channel ESPN and will be promoting the forthcoming Champions League T20 cricket tournament on the channel. The tournament is going to be held this year in South Africa from Sept 10 onwards. Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore are the three teams from India that will take part in this tournament.
Confirming this news, Big B writes in his blog, "I have been signed on to endorse ESPN for the Champions League Cricket T20 tournament to be held in South Africa in September. And because of paucity of time we had to shoot all the promotional films and stills for print and short seconders for TV and dub it by the evening in order that they are able to release the publicity soon. Thankfully it has all gone off well and I have just completed the dub for what we shot in the morning. But the rush and the speed with which it all had to be done was some kind of a marvel."
With Big B adding his magic touch to this eagerly awaited cricketing extravaganza, the excitement only doubles up.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:39 am Subhash K Jha speaks about Khatta Meetha
First things first. This is not, repeat not, a comedy. Not by any yardstick. For those expecting a typical Priyadarshan-Akshay Kumar comedy Khatta Meetha is not your cup of tee-hee. For those who know there's a more reflective and ruminative side to both the prolific director and the leading man, here's the thing.
Khatta Meetha takes stinging satirical swipes at the epidemic disease of corruption that has taken over the Indian ethos. Tragically the treatment is quite often heavy-handed. But the statement never drowns in the diatribe. Priyadarshan tends to fill up the outer edges with a profusion of incidental characters and over-elaborate gags and jokes that hold themselves in place in a world of unmitigated chaos like De Dana Dan.
Here the clutter and the clamour just make you feel the director needed to respect his own tone of sobriety in this longish tickling treatise on malpractices in the middleclass.
The plot is a bit of a tangle. Akshay Kumar's family of discontented mal-paani-practitioners is a universe of brutish brothers and screechy sisters-in-law, and silently-suffering parents (played by those wonderful actors Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Aroona Irani).
It's a family of corrupt road contractors and initially, Akshay seems the most wickedly immoral of them all. But hang on! As the narrative-at time plodding-moves forward we begin to understand the wacked -out sinister yet satirical, chaotic yet orderly, corrupt yet weirdly-ethical world of Sachin Tichkule.
Here's a character that seems to have been written only for Akshay Kumar. And he gets hold of the 'muddle'-class morality of Tichkule's world with delightful earnestness. Frequently Akshay is exasperating in his efforts to explain why the middleclass is in a state of self-destructive decline. But it isn't the actor to blame. It is the nature of the material offered to the actor.
The domestic and professional world of Scahin Tichkule is not easy to penetrate. Akshay, demonstrating a primetime ripeness in his body language and repertoire of Chaplinesque expressions, enters this wacky wounded world of the exploited and the damned with extraordinary empathy.
Akshay's is a performance that is far more accomplished than it may seem to the popcorn province. He's exasperating in his directness. He's partly a cartoon character, partly an emblem of our times and wholly entertaining in his chaotic comprehension of the inadequacies of world we've inherited from the freedom fighters and brutally disfigured.
But alas. Akshay's character is much much too wordy in his tongue type. The hallmark of Charlie Chaplin's social comment was his silent expressions of protest. Akshay's character and the film on the whole are much too verbose. The characters are constantly talking, as though not speaking would take away the audiences' attention. A film making a social comment didn't have to over-state its case so blatantly.
But the words do not cut into the narrative's basic flow of tongue-in-cheek satire. Some sequences such as the one involving the steamroller and the elephant consume too much footage. The art of understatement eludes this political statement.
Trisha Krishnan wearing chunky ear-rings and severe bureaucratic expressions makes an unusual debut. She is different from the short-skirted hotties. But whether that difference makes a difference in Hindi cinema, time will tell.
Khatta Meetha stands tall in its message of restoring a semblance of moral order in the middleclass. The last half-hour after Sachin Tickule's sister is murdered, is thoroughly gripping. And the fight between Akshay and the corrupt goons in the crowded lanes is chilling in its realism.
Realism is a remotely but decidedly obtainable component in this parodic parable on the rotten fruits of excessively materialistic aspirations in post-Independence India.
Technically polished and many notches superior to Akshay Kumar's other recent entertainers Khatta Meetha conveys that sweet-sour taste of a universe that has rapidly degenerated into absolute self-gratification.
See it for what the film leaves unsaid, though that's hard to do when everyone is ceaselessly talking.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 24 Jul 2010 | 3:46 am 'Khatta Meetha', a satirical swipe at corruptionFirst things first.Source: Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 3:40 am Woman power in Bollywood: 'Aisha' proves a pointProducer, director, screenplay writer, lead actor.Source: Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 3:08 am 35 years on, the 'Sholay' fire still burnsIt drew its inspiration from multiple Hollywood movies but went on to become the quintessential Indian film, perfectly balancing drama and tragedy, romance and violence, comedy and action.Source: Entertainment News | 24 Jul 2010 | 3:01 am Sunny Deol's back problem delays Yamla Pagla Deewana shoot
There seems to be no end to Sunny Deol's troubles. He's back again in bed for a prolonged rest with his chronic back problem. And to compound his woes this time stones in his kidney were also detected.
Director Samir Karnik who's making a family film for and with the Deols entitled Yamla Pagla Deewana is in a fix. Just when he needed to shoot a high-voltage action sequence with Sunny, the actor with a chronic back problem is laid up with a back problem thereby putting a question mark on the action sequence.
Now Karnik has no choice but to push forward the action sequence indefinitely and proceed with the post-production of the film.
Informs Karnik, "Everything except the action sequence is done. Now I'm going ahead with the post-production. I'll wait for Sunny to recover."
That is easier said than done. Along with his back problem, Sunny also had stones in his kidney which he has currently gone to the US to get removed.
Says Karnik, "But for his back problem there's no remedy except complete bed rest. So even after the stones were removed by injection in the US, Sunny is still bedridden until his back is completely healed."
Even then would Sunny be able to perform the stunt for Karnik's film? Says Karnik, "I'll wait. I've planned Ghayal kind of stunts for Sunny with the Ghajini action director Peter Heines. And if he is not up to it, I'll cancel the action sequence. But I'm told after bed rest, Sunny's back will be as good as new."
Sunny Deol's back problem can easily be considered chronic. For many years he has quietly and not so quietly suffering from a chronic back problem.
On many occasions in his career recently, Sunny has been laid off because of his back. This is his fourth enforced holiday due to his back. How long it lasts depends entirely on Nature.
Incidentally, Akshay Kumar also has a chronic back problem which he recently solved with water- therapy treatment in Germany. Shah Rukh Khan too suffers from a bad back.Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 24 Jul 2010 | 2:57 am Indudhar hanged himself after murdering wife?The mysterious death of Sandalwood star couple has shocked and created confusion in the Kannada film industry. Everyone is trying to speculate the reason behind their suicide. But the police sources claim that actor Indudhar, whose body was found hanging toSource: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 24 Jul 2010 | 2:56 am Aryan to star opposite papa Khan - Hindustan Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Jul 2010 | 2:54 am The new Anandi has a different charm - Rediff
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Jul 2010 | 2:47 am Dr. Raj Cup Twenty20 Cricket shifted to DavangereDavanagere is becoming the hub of Kannada film activities these days. Several filmmakers are using it as a platform to launch music of their movies. The reason behind this development is that the city has got huge number of movie goers.Source: Oneindia.in - Entertainment | 24 Jul 2010 | 2:43 am
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