Archives for 30 August 2006
It isn’t easy writing a book on Bollywood
30 August 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I love Bollywood movies, especially the costumes, visuals, colours and backdrops as this is what helps create each film’s unique personality and style.
I wanted to find a way to capture this ’style’, bottle it up and take it home. So when the idea to write my book, Bollywood Crafts, first came to me I knew […]
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Telling It Like It Is
30 August 2006 | Movies, Actors, Actress | No Comments
Filmmakers are now telling it as it is, even if it means betrayal, divorce or death of the protagonists. And going by the hits of 2006, audiences are more than ready for the dramatic twist to The Great Indian Happy Ending. …
Right from Chandni Bar to his recent Corporate, all his movies end on a […]
When India goes West
30 August 2006 | Movies | No Comments
Musical collaborations between India and the West are on the upswing. On his way to Mussoorie, singer Kailash Kher recently made a brief stop in Delhi. Besides talking about his various live shows and recordings, jingles and forthcoming songs, he mentioned Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam’s lead singer, and said that they would be collaborating on […]
Don - The Chase Begins Again
30 August 2006 | Music, Music Reviews | No Comments
Will ‘Don’ have the music in a style similar to the 70s? Will ‘Don’ forget about the past and turn out to be a score that suits the image of Shahrukh Khan in the contemporary world? Or does it fuse the present with the past while not shying away from taking a peek into the […]
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Crowds go ballistic at Reshammiya’s concert in US
30 August 2006 | Music | No Comments
Composer-singer Himesh Reshammiya’s first American tour, Aapka Suroor, is a resounding success and he is on cloud nine.
"Anything I say will seem like self-projection. You have to be here in the US to know what I’m experiencing. I can’t believe I connect so well with the crowds. This one-on-one with a live audience has been […]
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How Aishwarya wowed Ben ‘Gandhi’
30 August 2006 | Actress | No Comments
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai has been showered praise from none other than Sir Ben Kingsley, who co-stars with her in The Last Legion and calls her an "excellent and outstanding"actor. …
"It was a pleasure working with Aishwarya in The Last Legion, and her fans are in for a big surprise. She is an excellent and […]
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Why Bollywood shows sell out in Fiji
30 August 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Even though Indians in Fiji are so far away from their motherland, they still find ways and means to get closer to their country of origin and one of the ways they do this is by keeping in touch with Bollywood. …
Stars from Bollywood are so revered in India that according to a BBC report […]
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Bollywood dancing, step by step
30 August 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
With its joyful and exotic fusion of Eastern and Western dance styles, Bollywood is poised and ready to take off as two local dance companies stage very different Bollywood dance spectaculars. Belly-dancing identical twins Neena and Veena, known as theBelly Twins, tap their Indian roots to bring a Las Vegas-style revue of Bollywood music and […]
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Lights, camera, action
30 August 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
With filmmakers allocating whopping budgets for high-charged sequences, it’s happy days for the real action heroes.
You have seen desi Superman (Hrithik Roshan) scaling heights, flying distances within a flash of a second and performing never-seen-before stunts in Krrish. The much-hyped Dhoom II and Don, too, promise the audience high-charged action in the near future. Indeed, […]
Bollywood calling, Rajkot residents entranced
30 August 2006 | Movies, Actors, Actress | No Comments
For once, the focus of arclights is on Rajkot as Bollywood comes calling to the city. With a star cast of heavyweights like Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol, one would think the film, Apne, would generate enough interest among the residents. Not quite so. Instead, the news has been met with a mute response. […]
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In Mongolia, Amitabh Bachchan means Hindi cinema
30 August 2006 | Movies, Actors | No Comments
Mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan is the response at the mention of the words Hindi cinema in Mongolia. It is as if, Bachchan means Hindi cinema. While Bollywood is spreading its wings across Asia and elsewhere, Mongolia is one place where it is on the wane. …
Bollywood means badly dubbed movies on Russian television channels for […]
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Shahrukh Khan - New Don is more stylish and cruel!
30 August 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
It is same basic story but Producer Ritesh Sidhwani and Director Farhan Akhtar have made the film contemporary, infused more reality into the plot and packaged it more as a slick Hollywood style thriller that will appeal to Generation Y rather than a traditional low tech Bollywood Dhisum and Aah! fare.
Don’t be taken in by […]
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