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By Ankita R. Kanabar They’ll be seen as judges on DID L’il Masters Season 3 The third edition of Dance India Dance L’il Masters is set to kickstart from March 1 onwards, with choreographers Geeta Kapoor and Ahmed Khan as judges. The duo were last seen together as judges of DID Dance Ka Tashan. Talking […]

Director of Shemaroo, Hiren Gada talks of how the home video business managed to stay afloat despite the rapidly changing landscape of enterainment and technology By Ankita R. Kanabar The world of home viewing has gone through a sea change with the advent of technology. One such name that has survived the rapidly changing world […]

By Jigar Shah After a successful run as a producer with Dabangg and then as a director with Dabangg 2, Arbaaz Khan announced the next production under his banner Arbaaz Khan Productions, titled Dolly Ki Doli. However, this time, Salman Khan is not a part of the film, but the producer-director-actor has roped in his […]

Soha Ali Khan’s love for sports can be credited to her genes, being the daughter of cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. The actress shares her love for outdoor games and the valuable lessons that sports has taught her     By Ankita R. Kanabar   Q. 1 As a child, how active were you when […]

After being acclaimed for his music in Mere Brother Ki Dulhan in 2012, music director Sohail Sen is back with a high on energy soundtrack in YRF’s Gunday. The composer talks about his love for regional music, singing and more   Coming from a family of musicians, Sohail Sen clearly knew where his heart belonged. […]

Comedy, drama, action and espionage among others is what the production house aims to come up with this year   Screen Correspondent One of the most exciting films in the long list of interesting line-up from UTV is last year’s sleeper hit ABCD Any Body Can Dance. The sequel to ABCD… is slated to go […]

The actor also lands a couple of endorsements   By Geety Sahgal Sunny Deol who is all set to direct Ghayal Returns, the sequel to his blockbuster Ghayal, is busy scripting the film. But the actor who had accompanied his father, Dharmendra for a medical checkup is back from the US, does not want to […]

Popular characters from Ramesh Sippy’s iconic film, Sholay, make a comeback in the form of a free game – Sholay: Bullets of Justice   Imagine getting a chance to relive some of the most popular scenes from Sholay and that too as Jai or Veeru. Sounds interesting, right? With Sholay making a comeback in 3D […]

A kick-off to the awards season in Hollywood, the Golden Globe, however, had had mixed record in predicting popular catergories like best feature film of the year   The film 12 Years a Slave took the coveted Golden Globe for best drama and American Hustle won best musical or comedy in a kick-off to the […]

Jai Ho Director: Sohail Khan Producer: Sunil A Lulla,Sohail Khan Cast: Salman Khan, Tabu, Daisy Shah, Danny Denzongpa, Nadira Babbar and Sana Khan Release Date: January 24   Jai (Salman Khan), is an ex-army officer who fights a solitary war against corruption and injustice. His formula is simple— help somebody and then request that person […]

Screen Correspondent After Shilpa Shetty, Dia Mirza and Anushka Sharma, it is now the turn of the Kapoor sisters to start their own production house and make films of their choice. That Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan are planning to have their own production house was confirmed by Kareena’s spokesperson. Though all the details […]

Lone Survivor outmuscles Hercules to win U.S. box-office   Lone Survivor, the true story of a failed U.S. Navy SEALS mission to capture or kill a Taliban leader in Afghanistan, collected $38.5 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, topping movie Frozen to win the weekend box-office race. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as Marcus […]

The Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups 2 dominated the Razzie Awards with eight nominations, including worst picture and actor in the annual mock awards handed out for cinematic ignobility. Will Smith’s After Earth, a futuristic post-apocalyptic tale of a father and his son, was not far behind with six nods for the anti-Oscars that were […]

After Paan Singh Tomar and Milkha Singh, boxer MC Mary Kom becomes the latest Indian sporting legend to be immortalised both on the silver screen and popular literature   By Abhishek Chakraborty Autobiographies have often inspired film-makers to paint the lives of legends on the canvas of cinema. Recently, the life story of celebrated Indian […]

The actor also has interesting parts in Shatir, Bombay Velvet and Saat Uchhakkey By Geety Sahgal It was said in Haider Kay Kay Menon would be reprising the role of Claudius, who was Hamlet’s evil uncle in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. But the actor says that though his character is negative, he is not exactly like the […]

From being an armed forces aspirant to being discovered by Prabhat Roy for a negative role, Providence seemed to have played a big role in Tota Roychoudhury in making the big switch. With Villain, he has once again reinforced himself as actor, writer, producer and choreographer of note   By Shoma A. Chatterji You have […]

Director: David O Russell Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Runner   “Everyone hustles to survive,” says the tagline. And in this latest award-scooping film by Russell, they start that exercise with their hair. Right from when the film begins, with Irving (Bale) elaborately transforming his nearly bald pate into a […]

However, she is not reprising Juhi Chawla’s role By Geety Sahgal In what seems to be an interesting casting of sorts, film, television and theatre actress Usha Jadhav who won the National Award for her Marathi film, Dhag, is part of the cast of Bhootnath Returns. She is however not reprising Juhi Chawla’s role, who […]

Model-turned-film actress Mugdha Godse tells us why she’s good at being a judge on talent show like MTV’s show, Colors Of Youth than hosting a reality show on the tube By Ankita R. Kanabar What is it that attracted you towards doing MTV’s new show Colors Of Youth? The first thing that attracted me towards […]

 Bombay Velvet  and  P.K. to clash at the BO   By Jigar Shah Ranbir Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap and Fox Star Studio had declared that they will release their film Bombay Velvet on Christmas 2014, and would be a solo release. However, it has now been confirmed that two big ticket films are also eyeing the […]

Director-actor-producer Trupti Bhoir to showcase her Marathi film Touring Talkies for the Oscar jury in a makeshift theatre   When director-actor Trupti Bhoir received an email from the management of the Academy Awards, she ignored it thinking somebody has played a prank on her. Though the mail was followed by another mail, she kept the news […]

Both Ramesh Taurani and Mukesh Bhatt claim right to the title By Ankita R. Kanabar  The Dino Morea-Bipasha Basu starrer Raaz was co-produced by the Bhatts under their banner Vishesh Films, along with Ramesh Taurani of Tips Films Ltd. Later, Vishesh Films made Raaz into a franchise with Raaz and Raaz 3. Now, when Vishesh […]

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