Some films are good to look at. Some feel good at heart. Very few mainstream films manage to look as good on the surface and also attain a beauty of the heart. We Are Family is equally appealing from the outside and at heart. It doesn’t take us long into the narration to realize that the debutant director has his own ideas on how urban man-woman...

Come September 2 and his name will echo from theatre halls across the country. We’re talking about Siddharth Malhotra, the director of We Are Family. The film starring Kajol, Kareena and Arjun which is an erstwhile remake of the acclaimed Hollywood film Stepmom marks Siddharth’s debut as a director in Bollywood. Bollywood Hungama gives...

It’s the moment any journalist would avoid. Interviewing the producer of a film while the Censors are watching it to give their certification. Arbaaz Khan sends me a text message to call him at an unusual timing. It was 4.30pm. An unexpected text puts me in frenzy. I call him at 4.38 for the interview and off he goes in a flash on the other end....

After reaching a dead-end with her career in Bollywood (her one and only hit was Pyar Ke Side Effects, not counting the cameo with Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor in Welcome) and with her purported global re-re-re-launch in Hissss showing no sign of release (the date has now gone from August to November) Mallika has signed on the dotted line for the Dhamaal...

After the trauma that Karan Johar has gone through in filming Elvis Presley’s track ‘Jailhouse Rock’ in his production We Are Family, the producer has vowed to never again touch an international number or film. Earlier Karan had obtained the rights of the song ‘Pretty Woman’ for Kal Ha No Ho fairly easily. This time too...

People in our film industry do take risks. They do an offbeat film, they turn themselves from actor to director, and they do an overnight Hollywood migration. But this man has just about done something which can be rightly described as ‘out of the ordinary’. The term Prem Raj has evolved to describe an unpredictable factor in any number...

A man was ready to jump off by the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. God appears in a whitening flash to intervene. God asks him…why he was committing suicide. The 60-year-old chap humbly replies, “I am a film projectionist and I quit my job as I saw the cinema halls empty day after day. The audience is simply not interested in coming...

There have been lots of people in Bollywood who have been talking about their Hollywood ventures, but only a few manage to crack the deals. One star who has managed to launch his international project is Akshay ‘Khiladi’ Kumar, who has always lived upto his middle name, be it films or be it brand endorsements. Well, this man has always...

The Indian Film Industry is projected to grow by 11.5% over the next five years reaching to Rs184.3 billion in 2013 from the present Rs 107 billion in 2008 (source: PwC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2008-2013). The industry will also get aided with more of digital cinemas and also the 3D technology which is quoted to be the medium of the future...

One of the most prestigious award event, Hollywood’s Teen Choice Award 2010, is the most touted Blue carpet affair that has always been the platform for glitterati in the west to be seen at. This year’s event saw some extremely young and famous people making a show. Right from the very hot Megan Fox, the curvy Ashley Greene and the Paparazzo’s...