Archives for 29 January 2007

Another star-kid enters!

29 January 2007 | Actress | No Comments

After Amrita Arora's exit from VICTORIA NO. 203, producer Kamal Sadanah and director Ananth Narayan Mahadevan have found the replacement for Saira Banu's role in the remake. It's Vinod Mehra's daughter Soniya.
How did Soniya step in? "I'd like to thank Anupam Kher for it," producer Kamal Sadanah tells me, "Anupam-ji was aware of the developments […]

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Munnabhai will now fly to America

29 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments

We just can't enough of Munnabhai and Circuit, can we? Well, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and director of Rajkumar Hirani are very well aware of this. It was just last year that Lage Raho Munnabhai released and as we know the film has rejuvenated the Gandhigiri in us. Now, Munna and Circuit are planning to go […]

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No show for ‘Parzania’ in Gujarat

29 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments

Rahul Dholakia's acclaimed film "Parzania" that focuses on the 2002 Gujarat communal violence was Friday released across the country except in this state, with the filmmaker alleging that "some people, some parties" had warned cinema owners against showing it. "Parzania" is based on a real life incident in which an Ahmedabad-based Parsi family's son went […]

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Bollywood starlet triumphs in U.K. Big Brother amid race row

29 January 2007 | Actress | No Comments

Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, who was at the centre of a race row on the British series Celebrity Big Brother, has been voted the show's winner by the public. Shetty burst into tears upon hearing she had won the vote. Runner-up Jermaine Jackson, the brother of pop star Michael, said he was "very happy" as […]

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Big B goes international

29 January 2007 | Movies, Actors | No Comments

Big B is finally going international ! Amitabh Bachchan has been offered the pivotal role in Mira Nair’s next project ‘Shantaram’. The movie is based on Gregory David Roberts’ semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. The much acclaimed novel, is the story of Robert, an Australian convict, who fled from his country and his travails […]

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Akshaye Khanna: “From my peer group, I’m the last of the bachelors!”

29 January 2007 | Actors | No Comments

Akshaye Khanna's back on the 'chain gang' so to speak. He's got a roster of films coming up. He's hit the party scene again and he's a bit more gregarious than before. Maybe it's the Nikhil Advani effect, but Akshoo smiles much more. He frowned at this one though. "Hey! What're you saying man? I […]

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