For the first time in his 26-year-old film career, Shah Rukh Khan will be seen playing a dwarf in Aanand L Rai’s Zero, which also stars Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif. There were reports suggesting Rai first considered casting Salman Khan to play the lead character. When asked about this during an interview, the director …
Marathi cinema has been hailed as pioneering a new movement in content rich and diverse cinema. Riteish Deshmukh though is walking the path of a very commercial and entertaining version, and quite well. In the trailer of Aditya Sarpotdar’s Mauli, the actor takes on a role that carries shades of Salman Khan’s Dabangg cop with …
Riteish Deshmukh brings humour and ‘Dabangg’ style to this action drama Read More »
Public relations manager Meghna is having a day from hell. She gets involved in a traffic accident with Siddhanth Kapoor’s character who promptly steals her mobile phone and takes off. Harried Meghna takes the help of a bystander (Akshay Oberoi) and finds herself entangled in a web with a hitman in pursuit, a sniper and …
Radhika Apte, Siddhanth Kapoor wrestle over a stolen phone Read More »
National award-winning film Paddayi is shot in a rare dialect of Tulu spoken by merely 2-3 lakh people, mainly the fishing community called Mogaveeras. Director Abhaya Simha, who was born and brought up in Mangaluru, wrote the script and dialogue in Kannada, but hired a dialect coach despite knowing Tulu, as the Mogaveeras speak a …
How Paddayi director Abhaya Simha worked with Mogaveera fishing community in Karnataka Read More »
While filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly recently announced that the idea of his next film Jyeshtha Putra struck him while watching late filmmaker and cultural icon Rituparno Ghosh closely during his father’s death, filmmaker Pratim Gupta has claimed that story was jointly conceived and written by him and Ghosh. Ganguly had also said that Ghosh had himself …
Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra believes that screenplay is about subtexts and moments, never about camera movements. “For me, a screenplay is never written. It is always rewritten, and rewritten and rewritten. A lot of times you mistake a story as a screenplay. I don’t think it’s that,” the Rang De Basanti (2006) filmmaker said while …
A recording studio will be set up in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum locality for nurturing young talents and celebrating hip-hop culture. This is a collaboration between PepsiCo India and The Dharavi Project, a school that offers a platform to discover and showcase talents of hip-hop artists. The upcoming studio will be called ‘PepsiCo Recording Studio’. The …
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After a week of waiting, Priyanka Chopra has finally got into the bride mode. On Tuesday (27 November), the actress hosted a liveathon, #SocialForGood, at Facebook’s Mumbai office. But Wednesday began with the actress changing gears into bride mode as she attended the puja held at her Juhu residence, before the wedding party departs for …
Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas dazzle in desi avatar for pre-wedding puja Read More »
The first day of the 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival saw veteran actor-director-playwright Avijit Dutt conduct a masterclass on storytelling for an enthusiastic audience, at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi on 23 November. The masterclass lasted about three hours where Dutt told ‘stories’ of his rather diverse and eclectic career and the significance …
We as human beings are hardwired to the story, says Avijit Dutt Read More »
The closing ceremony of the 49th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was a more staid affair as the festival’s big honours were finally handed out. The event had reduced ‘star’ power than the opening when filmmaker Karan Johar, actor Akshay Kumar and singer Arijit Singh stopped by. The hosts for the closing …
Salim Khan, films Ea.Ma.Yau, Donbass honoured at the closing ceremony Read More »
