Archives for 31 October 2006

SRK returns to small screen on his birthday!

31 October 2006 | Actors | No Comments

It's the 'Baadshah of Bollywood' Shahrukh Khan's birthday on 2nd November. His enthusiasm for work only intensifies as the superstar turns 41 this Thursday. Star Gold will telecast his films all through the week from 30th October - 3rd November. After the highly successful serials FAUJI and CIRCUS, SRK returns to television on his birthday. […]

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‘Sex Haazir Ho’ says RGV and Pritish Nandy

31 October 2006 | Movies | No Comments

Sex Haazir Ho, yes that is the title of Ram Gopal Varma's next film to be produced by PNC films. The film is being scripted by Manoj Tyagi and is a film on censorship and pornography. The idea of the film is basically to create awareness amongst the moral police regarding sex. They want people […]

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Jeetendra will play thakur in Sholay remake

31 October 2006 | Actors | No Comments

Ekta Kapoor recently announced her next production Gabbar Singh – the Bhojpuri remake of all time blockbuster Sholay. Now Ekta's father Jeetendra will be making his debut in a Bhojpuri film by starring in Gabbar Singh. And which is the role that he would be playing? No, it's not Gabbar but that of Thakur. The […]

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Hrithik and Kareena in Zoya Akhtar’s Kismat Talkies

31 October 2006 | Movies | No Comments

Hrithik Roshan has started shooting for Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodha-Akbar. And we all know about his 3 film deal with Adlabs. But before the Adlabs film, he will be starting shooting for another film with Zoya Akhtar, sister of Farhan Akhtar. Zoya will finally make her directorial debut with this film titled Kismat Talkies. Kareena Kapoor […]

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Hear about the latest MP3 here

31 October 2006 | Movies | No Comments

A new kind of MP3 is about to hit the town soon. And no, it is not about music. Instead it is a movie called MP3 that audience would be getting a chance to see in a few weeks from now. As per the makers of MP3 [Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar], it is a youthful […]

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Getting ready for a role isn’t just the Naseer-Shabana-Om brigade’s prerogative any longer

31 October 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Among my favourite performances of 2006, Sushmita Sen in Chingari would rank really high. As she discarded her femme-fatale's image to get completely into character as the down-to-earth rustic prostitute in Kalpana Lajmi's Chingari you know an actor is at work…And Sushmita gives all of herself to Chingari regardless of resources reach and reputation.
At the […]

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Reigning with style and exuberance : The Kapoors

31 October 2006 | Actors | No Comments

They ruled like kings, but never forgot their humble beginnings. Bollywood's first family of Indian cinema, the Kapoors, reigned over the Indian cinema industry for more than five decades with their talent, sex appeal and onscreen charisma. Each Kapoor sibling had their own way of making a name for themselves. From the early 1940s to […]

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Great divide as unquiet flows the Don

31 October 2006 | Movies, Movie Reviews | No Comments

Farhan the fan fights Farhan the film-maker and the film wins. The 32-year-old director has turned a formula film of good defeats bad into a modern-day neo-noir movie where bad fights bad. And that's good news because the sinister Don was so much more attractive than the paan-chewing Vijay.
The new Don is more of a […]

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