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"Shawn never allowed me to see myself in monitor after canning the shot" – Amruta Patki
Mar 12th
In this year’s release Chance Pe Dance, Shahid Kapoor’s character was shown as a struggler who doesn’t have enough money to decide about his next meal. Romanticizing the entire struggle around him, this character embraces it all before success comes falling in his lap. Now that was reel life. Cut to the real world and debutant Amruta Patki may well have a similar story to tell. Despite a beauty pageant background to her and a Miss India-Earth title in her kitty, Amruta isn’t willing to forget her humble middle class upbringing. For a girl who self confessedly had to take More >
After The Hurt Locker, David Bryan’s next is Abbas Tyrewala’s film
Mar 11th
The Best Picture Oscar winner The Hurt Locker’s victory came as no surprise to some big Bollywood names, specifically, Abbas Tyrewala, John Abraham and Madhu Mantena. David Bryan, Supervising Art Director on The Hurt Locker who was widely praised for his life like replication of the battle scarred streets of Iraq in Jordan, is the Production Designer for Abbas Tyrewala’s next venture, starring John Abraham. The really interesting story however, is that David’s only managed to convince Abbas to join his project as a Production Designer after showing Abbas footage from The Hurt Locker and how he’d recreated the streets More >
Rajeev Khandelwal to get engaged to girlfriend Manjiri Kamtikar
Mar 11th
Given a choice Rajeev Khandelwal was happy being attached to his girlfriend Manjiri Kamtikar because he knew marriage or not, he was in love with her for keeps and he didn’t need any formal announcement to prove it. But the engagement to be held in May is being done to comply with the lady’s parent’s wishes… Says Rajeev, “Manjiri and her parents come from a world far removed from cinema and the entertainment industry. They don’t understand the workings of Bollywood and their knowledge of what goes on here is based on what they read and see on television. You More >
Subhash K. Jha speaks on Hello Zindagi
Mar 5th
A rebellious teenage daughter Kavita of a traumatized couple doesn’t know what to do with her life. So she takes off on a journey away from home with a lonely neglected but brave middle-aged woman to Goa where Kavita saves turtles…and herself. Kavita goes home redeemed. We are not so sure about ourselves. We remain partly involved with largely distanced from this ambitious but flawed look at life through the eyes of teen rebellion. Director Raja Unninathan has his heart at the right place. He creates a world of gossipy aimlessness sweaty parties’ tacky repartees and, ahem, one-night stands for More >
Subhash K. Jha speaks on Hello Zindagi
Mar 5th
A rebellious teenage daughter Kavita of a traumatized couple doesn’t know what to do with her life. So she takes off on a journey away from home with a lonely neglected but brave middle-aged woman to Goa where Kavita saves turtles…and herself. Kavita goes home redeemed. We are not so sure about ourselves. We remain partly involved with largely distanced from this ambitious but flawed look at life through the eyes of teen rebellion. Director Raja Unninathan has his heart at the right place. He creates a world of gossipy aimlessness sweaty parties’ tacky repartees and, ahem, one-night stands for More >
Deepika Padukone causes mid-air excitement
Feb 28th
It was a flight from Jaipur to Mumbai that the passengers won’t forget in a hurry. On Monday, Deepika Padukone and her Karthik Calling Karthik team were to fly back on a private jet. But the pilot informed the team that they couldn’t head for Mumbai due to a cyclone threat. Says Deepika, “We had to return on Monday night because many of us had to leave for Dubai for the premiere on Tuesday morning. So from Jaipur to Mumbai we all booked ourselves into the economy class of a commercial airline.” What could’ve turned out to be a nightmare More >
Subhash K Jha speaks about Karthik Calling Karthik
Feb 28th
Desolation is a distant cousin to suburban seclusion. And from the isolation of the Modern Indian Man is born the Great Cosmopolitan Fable of the man who knows no succour from seclusion. Karthik Calling Karthik is an interesting if flawed fable of the damned. The protagonist is Karthik(Farhan Akhtar)- a man so timid he could merge into the woodwork of his office if only the decor was not so much glass and papier-mache. Karthik is bullied by his boss (Ram Kapoor, unusual and interesting bit of casting, that) sniggered at by his smarter (read: less sensitive) colleagues and absentmindedly ignored More >
"I’ve never heard of any film before where a person gets phone calls from himself" – Farhan Akhtar
Feb 22nd
It was 11.30am. London’s Somerset House was burning. I mean, summer time in London is like sitting on a red hot coal. I was drinking my favourite beer along with fellow journalists who were there to attend a press conference of SRK for his film Chak De India which had its premiere at the same venue later in the evening. The lady sitting in front of me passed a comment, “You sound so much like Farhan Akhtar. Talking to you is like talking to him.” It was Nasreen Munni Kabir (author, documentary film maker and producer on British television) who More >
"3I is one of the most memorable films in history of Indian cinema" – Sharman
Feb 19th
He’s among the most talented actors in B-Town today. Suave and understated, he’s displayed his impeccable comic timing in films like Golmaal and Style and given restrained and matured performances in Rang De Basanti and Life… In A Metro. The one to always have a surprise up his sleeve, Sharman Joshi who was last seen in the blockbuster 3 Idiots is raring to go with his upcoming film Toh Baat Pakki. The dude was here on Bollywood Hungama’s Celebrity Chat few days back. However, for all those who missed the chance to catch him live, we bring to you excerpts More >
Esha Deol participates in camel race for her film Tell Me Oh Khuda
Feb 17th
Esha Deol, in her own words, is bruised black and blue. This month after participating in a camel race in Jaisalmer and doing road stunts in Goa for her mother’s production Tell Me Oh Khuda, Esha can barely move a limb. “The director Mayur Puri and the fight master Parvez bhai forgot I was all said and done, a girl and therefore delicate in my own way. This has been the most physically demanding experience of my life,” says Esha wincing in pain. Twenty-six years after Hema Malini got on a camel in the Rajasthan deserts to sing the haunting More >
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