Bollywood

All in Good Time red carpet event in London

Written by Anjum Shabbir on May 10th, 2012

Bollyspice were at the red carpet event for All in Good Time, an exciting new British Asian film starring Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom), at London’s prestigious British Film Institute. The film is adapted from the award winning play Rafta Rafta, written by Ayub Khan Din, who also wrote the successful East [...]

“My face does not suit serious acting!” – Johny Lever

Written by Anjum Shabbir on May 5th, 2012

Johny Lever has been making audiences laugh for almost three decades now and has worked with all the major stars of Indian cinema, outlasting many of them in the process. At 50 plus, he is still going strong and was last seen in this year’s smash-hit comedy Housefull 2. He is currently in London on [...]

Bollyspice at Meera Syal’s Asian Comedy Night

Written by Anjum Shabbir on May 5th, 2012

Bollyspice attended an exclusive event this week at the BBC Asian Network, in Central London. BBC Asian Network is a popular national radio channel in Britain which also sponsors and nurtures Asian talent and events across the UK. The evening consisted of a live recording of the best of British Asian stand up comedians and [...]

Johny Lever in London – a teaser!

Written by Anjum Shabbir on May 1st, 2012

The King of Comedy Johny Lever is back in London after seven years to bring us his new show, ‘Laugh till you fart’. Bollyspice attended the press conference in central London earlier today to witness an animated Johny Lever address the audience ahead of his shows, which promise to be a complete laugh riot. We [...]

The music duo brothers Anand-Milind are back!

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 29th, 2012

The music duo brothers Anand-Milind are back! They were successful award winning music-directors throughout the eighties and nineties, having composed for around 200 Bollywood films. Remembered for hit soundtracks such as Qayamat se qayamat tai, Dil and Beta, amongst many others, the duo have contributed to film successes for all three of the top Khans [...]

Tezz Movie Review

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 28th, 2012

Tezz is a widely anticipated movie for a number of reasons. Firstly Ajay Devgn is doing an action thriller after a long time. The last one being Qayamat: City under threat in 2003 and since then has delivered two of Bollywood’s biggest grossers, Golmaal 3 and Singham. Anil Kapoor returns to Bollywood films, hot off successful appearances [...]

‘Rock On’ directors next is Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Kai Po Che’

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 26th, 2012

Chetan Bhagat is currently one of India’s finest and most popular fiction novel writers. The New York Times have labeled him the ‘the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history.’ For those of who have not yet had a chance to read one of his books you most definitely will have seen or heard [...]

John Abraham Talks Films, Sports, Rocky and more in conversation with BollySpice!

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 15th, 2012

Following the press conference of Vicky Donor at Eros Entertainment in London, Bollyspice managed to grab ten minutes with John Abraham. After having spoken at length about his new production company, his role as a producer and his first presentation Vicky Donor to a captive audience, it was time to kick back and have a [...]

“I’m a full fledged producer now” – John Abraham Talks Vicky Donor in London!

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 13th, 2012

Is sperm donation legal in India? Is adoption not a better alternative? What should childless couples do? These were just some of the questions audience members asked John Abraham when he was in London yesterday for an exclusive press conference for his maiden production Vicky Donor. Bollyspice went along to meet John in his new [...]

Nikhil Advani’s next to feature eight leading Bollywood actresses

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 8th, 2012

Nikhil Advani, director of Kal Ho Na Ho, Salaam-e-Ishq, Chandni Chowk to China and Patiala House is currently working on a number of scripts, one of which is a female orientated multi-starrer, reportedly featuring up to eight Bollywood beauties. Names that are currently being touted include Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia, Rani Mukerji, Karisma Kapoor, Deepika [...]

The latest on Kamal Hassan’s big budget feature

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 8th, 2012

Kamal Hassan is almost ready with his next film Vishwaroop, a bi-lingual spy thriller, in both Hindi and Tamil. It is already being touted as Kamal Hassan’s Ra.One, with a budget of 120 crore, his most expensive yet. The script, dialogues and direction are all by Kamal Hassan and music is by popular trio Shankar [...]

“For me the only superstar is Amitabh Bachchan” – Rajinikanth

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 3rd, 2012

As we told and showed you eariler in pictures, Bollyspice was at the special UK press event that superstar Rajinikanth, his younger daughter the debutant-director Soundarya and musical-maestro AR Rahman attended for the launch of Rajini’s next blockbuster-in-the making Kochadaiyaan. For those of you who don’t already know, the three stars have been busy working [...]

A Preview & Review of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Written by Anjum Shabbir on April 2nd, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was released in the UK on 24th February, in Europe throughout March and will finally hit the USA and India on 4th May. With numerous reviews and comments doing the rounds here, we at Bollyspice thought we’d give those in the States and in India a heads up on what [...]

BollySpice at the special screening of Throw of a Dice at London Asian Film Festival

Written by Anjum Shabbir on March 24th, 2012

On Tuesday evening Bollyspice had the opportunity to attend a special screening of ‘Throw of a Dice’, which is being shown as part of the Tongues on Fire’s 14th London Asian Film Festival, a festival dedicated to providing a unique platform for South East Asian filmmakers from around the world. ‘Throw of a dice’ stars [...]

Bollywood’s Best Action Heroes

Written by Anjum Shabbir on March 19th, 2012

Action movies are back in style and every actor worth a punch at the box office is getting back into to action in a big way. Ghajini in 2008 was the first action masala movie with a big star after a long time and took audiences by storm. Then followed Salman Khan’s Wanted in 2009, [...]

7 Welcome to London Movie Review

Written by Anjum Shabbir on March 10th, 2012

The suspense is finally over for what was anticipated as the first blend of Bollywood and British film-making. The concept is novel: a Bollywood-esque film, in Hindi, including the lip-synced songs, the romance and comedy, shot exclusively in London, by a British team, with a pair of British-Asian leads, but made with western sentiments. The [...]

’7 Welcome to London’ UK premiere

Written by Anjum Shabbir on March 9th, 2012

Thursday evening saw the premiere of Asad Shan’s 7 Welcome to London at Cineworld Ilford in London. The entire cast and crew were out in force to walk the red carpet accompanied by dhol players – true to their word this was a purely desi event! We managed to briefly catch writer-producer-director-actor Asad Shan on the red [...]

“From the moment that this film starts…you’re going to be blown away…” – Asad Shan on ‘7 Welcome to London’

Written by Anjum Shabbir on March 5th, 2012

Asad Shan, model turned VJ, turned actor, is a man on a mission. A mission to change how British Asian cinema is made and to establish a homegrown industry of quality mainstream cinema for future diaspora generations. A noble cause and after having had the chance to catch up with him and his beautiful co-star [...]

“I think we all put together a really good piece of work” – Aliakbar on 7 Welcome to London

Written by Anjum Shabbir on March 3rd, 2012

7 Welcome to London (7WTL) is a British made bollywood-esque action entertainer on the topic of immigration, featuring and directed by VJ Asad Shan from Zee TV’s music channel Zing. In days to come you will hear much more about the upcoming Brit-Asian thriller and you will also come to hear of writer, director and [...]

Vidya and Emraan to reunite in new comedy

Written by Anjum Shabbir on February 23rd, 2012

After a fresh and successful pairing in The Dirty Picture, Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi have signed another film together. Produced by UTV and directed by Raj Kumar Gupta (Aamir, No One Killed Jessica), the film is titled Ghanchakkar, and is a comedy which is due to go on the floors this summer. With both [...]

Mahesh Bhatt and why sex sells

Written by Anjum Shabbir on February 23rd, 2012

Outspoken writer/producer and director Mahesh Bhatt has always been brave and bold. With an enviable record of successful films and a clear formula for delivering hits, Bhatt has often been accused of promoting sex in his movies. However his rescent defence is clear and precise: “(Sex) is what sells,” the director declares, “Why blame me [...]