Archives for 15 December 2006

Kabul Express : Review

15 December 2006 | Movies, Movie Reviews | No Comments

A film like KABUL EXPRESS is more for the elite and the thinking viewer than the aam junta. While the theme of the film is anything but stereotype, the sequence of events that lead to the climax as also the liberal usage of English and Afghani languages will restrict its appeal to multiplexes mainly. In […]

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Things are fine between us: Ranveer - Konkona

15 December 2006 | Actors, Actress | No Comments

Ranveer Shorey and Konkona Sen Sharma have always been tight-lipped about their relationship, and have always managed to give the press the slip. Recently, there were reports in a city paper about the duo having split. However, Konkona and Ranveer are still very much together. Not only that, they will also do photo- shoot together […]

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Meet the only woman in Kabul Express

15 December 2006 | Actress | No Comments

One woman surrounded by 60 men in war-torn Afghanistan. Sounds dangerous? But actress Linda Arsenio, the only woman in the cast of Kabul Express, has no complains. "Kabul Express is one of the films which will be always close to my heart," says Arsenio. "I got a chance to travel to Afghanistan — that is […]

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Return of Buzkashi in Kabir Khan’s KABUL EXPRESS

15 December 2006 | Movies | No Comments

KABUL EXPRESS apart from its aura of being a film that has been shot in the post-Taliban regime in Afghanistan is also going to be a movie, which would show case Buzkashi, the Afghani version of Rugby, where the ball is replaced with a headless sheep, after nearly a decade or so on the Indian […]

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Milestones in Shah Rukh Khan’s chequered career…In his own words

15 December 2006 | Actors | No Comments

FAUJI (1988)
"It was the first time I saw the smiles I could bring to the faces of people I met on the streets…" reminisces SRK who set hearts aflutter and became an "almost celebrity" playing Abhimanyu Roy in Colonel Kapoor's true-to-life serial on our armed forces.
DEEWANA (1992)
"I liked the characters in Deewana and Chamatkar a […]

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Men of music & muscle

15 December 2006 | Movies, Music | No Comments

Call it strange, stupid or smart, Ram Gopal Varma has made two more new decisions about his make-or-break movie Ram Gopal Varma Ki Sholay. After the bang-bang announcements starring names like Amitabh Bachchan (Gabbar), Mohanlal (Thakur), Ajay Devgan (Veeru), Sushmita Sen (Radha), Abhishek Bachchan (item boy) and Urmila Matondkar (item girl), come the hish-hush revelations. […]

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