Archives for September 2007

KABUL EXPRESS girl Linda in MUMBAI SALSA

24 September 2007 | Movies | No Comments

Linda Arsenio, the pretty girl who played the role of Jessica Beckham, a journalist from New York, in last year's KABUL EXPRESS, would soon be seen in MUMBAI SALSA.
Getting into an altogether different territory by shifting base from a movie centered on a war zone to the one revolving around an up market discotheque, Linda […]

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Shilpa and Gere - No fooling and smooching!

22 September 2007 | Actors, Actress | No Comments

As Gere offered Shilpa his hand as she stepped off the stage at the Awards Nite in Toronto, guests held their collective breath. Would there be a kiss? Or even a peck? Fans awaited a repeat of the incident when Gere kissed Shetty at an AIDS awareness event a few months ago in New Delhi. […]

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Manorama Six Feet Under : Review

22 September 2007 | Movie Reviews | No Comments

Let's get more specific! MANORAMA - SIX FEET UNDER takes off well, but faces turbulent weather in between and never gets it right thereafter. Instead of narrating an uncomplicated story, debutante director Navdeep Singh makes the goings-on so confusing that the viewer fails to decipher what's going on.
The story jumps from one track to another, […]

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Gulzar’s poetry to embellish Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Dus Kahaniya’

22 September 2007 | Uncategorized, Movies, Music | No Comments

It's arguably one of the most incongruous creative pairings in the history of Indian cinema. Producer Sanjay Gupta has convinced poet par-excellence Gulzar to lend words, images and thoughts to the 10 stories that comprise Gupta's short-story bouquet of Dus Kahaniyan Gupta said: "I know it's like guns and roses coming together. But I've been […]

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Dhol: Review

21 September 2007 | Movie Reviews | No Comments

Desperate to make some quick cash so they can repay a loan and set up a business of their own, four out-of-work buddies - Sharman Joshi, Tusshar Kapoor, Kunal Khemu and Rajpal Yadav - figure out that the only way they can get rich is if they're able to woo a richie-rich girl into marriage. […]

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Vidya Balan’s dressy tantrums

20 September 2007 | Actress | 1 Comment

Known to be a down-to-earth, level-headed person, Vidya Balan recently shocked onlookers when she acted difficult on the sets of Kismet Connection. Apparently, she hated the clothes designer Aki Narula had designed for her so much that she even flung aside one of the dresses angrily on the sets.
An upset Aki, who is at his […]

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Abhishek Bachchan endorses Flying Machine

20 September 2007 | Actors | No Comments

Machine or no machine, Abhishek Bachchan's career is really flying high. A series of topnotch endorsements and Abhishek is now endorsing Flying Machine jeans.
Why Flying Machine? "I really believe Flying Machine jeans are world class. I find them truly international in quality. And that's where they plan to take the brand. I feel Flying Machine […]

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Fatwa issue against Salman Khan

20 September 2007 | Actors | No Comments

The Bollywood boy of controversy is in trouble again ! A muslim organization has issued a fatwa against Salman Khan for attending a Ganesh Pooja. Ganesh Chaturthi, the birthday of Lord Ganesha, is a 10-day long festival in Maharashtra.
As per news reports, a North India based Daarul-Ifta-Manjar-e-Islam has issued the fatwa as Salman Khan took […]

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JOHNNY GADDAAR is a thriller with a difference - Sriram Raghavan

19 September 2007 | Movies | No Comments

Sriram Raghavan may as well be termed as a brand after a film like EK HASEENA THI. How far does he think that JOHNNY GADDAAR enhances the brand value?
'Brand and all that sounds too heavy', smiles Raghavan, 'I love EK HASEENA THI for various reasons including because it was my first film. I think it's […]

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Javed Akhtar’s birthday treat for Shabana

19 September 2007 | Actress | No Comments

Last week on Star's music contest Voice Of India which was a family – reunion special, Shabana Azmi brought about a rapprochement between the estranged musician-brothers Jatin and Lalit. "Trust me, it wasn't planned or orchestrated. It happened spontaneously because of the electrifying atmosphere. That evening I realized how sentimental we Indians are."
Guess what Bollywood's […]

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Guru, Ho Ja Shuru

19 September 2007 | Actress | No Comments

Esha Deol made her debut with a lot of promise around six years ago with Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe. However, in spite of a promising debut, Esha has not reached a position where she and her mother Hema Malini would have ideally have liked her to be. Apparently, Hema Malini called Mahesh Bhatt and […]

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The inside story about the SRK-Hirani project!

19 September 2007 | Actors | No Comments

After the stupendous success of the MUNNABHAI series, Rajkumar Hirani is now busy with his next. As is by now well known, this time Hirani has opted for Shah Rukh Khan, who was the original choice for MUNNABHAI MBBS, but it did not work out, and in walked Sanjay Dutt. And the rest, as they […]

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