Archives for January 2007
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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John, Bips to sizzle together!
27 January 2007 | Movies, Actors, Actress | No Comments
Real-life couples tend to stay as far away as possible from the screen. After the fiasco of Madhosh a few years ago, John Abraham and Bipasha Basu had decided not to work together again for a while. But now, the two will share screen space in Vivek Agnihotri's Goal. "Bipasha and […]
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Car curse on Bachchans
27 January 2007 | Actors | No Comments
Winning a tax battle over his KBC payments was easy for Amitabh Bachchan last week, but the Bollywood car curse has felled him. Big B and son Abhishek today lost a case at the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal over their Versa, joining a string of filmstars brought to grief over car taxes and duties in recent […]
Bipasha Basu wants creative satisfaction
27 January 2007 | Actress | No Comments
India's numero uno sex symbol.. unless you're even thinking of a certain Mallika Sherawat.. has been taking on complex roles and jhatak jigs. A mystery cloaks her on-and-off relationship with John Abraham. But she insists that it's all hunky dory. Is it?
Unlike most of her peers, she relates to the media as living and […]
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Bollywood plots AIDS message despite stars’ apathy
27 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments
Four top Bollywood directors are to make short films dealing with
HIV/ AIDS that will be shown before blockbuster releases, hoping to use their stars' pulling power to spread awareness of the deadly virus in India. The low-budget, 12-minute movies will be shown at theatres ahead of full-length commercial Bollywood films that star well-known actors, said […]
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Unusual combination for a usual movie
27 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments
There's yet another couple caper movie that's coming out. But it has the advantage of sufi pop singer Rabbi Shergill making music for it. It is a coming together of unusual possibilities. A south Indian star for a producer, a medley of Bollywood actors, Sufi musician Rabbi Shergill as the music director and a film […]
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Water release postponed in India
26 January 2007 | Movies | No Comments
The wait has just got longer for Indian audiences who want to see Deepa Mehta's Water. "The negatives of films have not arrived yet and the release of the film will be delayed," said Sanjay Bhutani, business head of BR Films, which is distributing the film in India. The film will be released on March […]
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Ash is leaving post-marriage decisions to in-laws
26 January 2007 | Actress | No Comments
Now that the engagement's happened there's widespread speculation about the Ash-Abhishek marriage date and, of course, Ash's post-marriage plans. "Didn't Jaya give it all up at the peak of her career to be Mrs Amitabh Bachchan?" — one producer on the verge of signing Ash for a big action thriller seemed to express the entire […]
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