“I am not playing Sita” – Aishwarya

On the promotional trail for her Hollywood flick Pink Panther 2, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan candidly told reporters at a press conference that her character in Mani Ratnam’s next release Ravana is not called Sita. “The name of my character is not Sita. I am playing a woman who has similarities with the Sita of Ramayana,” [...]

Kareena Turns to Writing

Kareena Kapoor has turned into an author. I see a look of confusion in your eyes. Let me clear that for you. Kareena Kapoor has written a foreword for her dietician Rujuta Diwekar’s bestselling book, “Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight” in which she has revealed her breakfast secrets that helped her attain the [...]

Bhansali on Govinda’s Wish List for Daughter’s Launch

Last year was a year of decision making for Govinda. One such decision was that he was only going to work with directors of a certain calibre after working with Mani Ratnam. It looks like 2009 will be spent in a similar vain – only with a lot more to look forward too. You see, [...]

Slumdog Stars Sued

It may be a Golden Globe award winner; it may also have Oscar nominations creating a lot of buzz in the media across the world. However, on this occasion, Slumdog Millionaire is in the press for all the wrong reasons, especially in India. Andheri Sessions Court in Mumbai has disclosed a PIL by Andheri Corporator [...]

Rahman’s growing Bandwagon

Bollywood fans across the globe are waiting with baited breath for this man to do his magic and bring home the highly coveted Oscar Stauate. Mr AR Rahman in the meantime is working a magic of a different sort altogether on the western world. It seems that there is a whole line-up of western artists [...]

Rahman Playing at Oscar Night

2009 is looking to be a memorable year for music director AR Rahman. Not only has he won a Golden Globe for his musical score in the award winning Slumdog Millionaire, but Rahman has also received an invitation that he will find rather difficult to turn down. On the 22nd February, known to film buffs [...]

SRK and Aamir won’t share screen together

Not many people are aware that Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are making an appearance in Zoya Akhtar’s directorial debut Luck By Chance in which actor/director/producer (and Zoya’s brother) Farhan Akhtar will play the lead role of a struggling Bollywood actor. Sources claim that both Aamir and Shah Rukh, who play themselves in the [...]

Best of Akshay Kumar

“I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I’ve done well in all. It’s important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in.” – Akshay Kumar Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, known to the Indian film audience as Akshay Kumar has starred in over 80 Hindi [...]

Juhi’s Luck by Chance

Juhi Chawla is picking and choosing the roles she wants to do from the offers she is receiving these days. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. She is one of the very few female actors who have reached a stage in their career where they have the prerogative to select their own characters. [...]

Akshay is back as a Sardar

After receiving the phenomenal response to his role as a sardar in Singh is Kinng, Akshay Kumar looks all set to repeat the act. However, this time Kumar will be playing the lead role as a sardar in the big budget venture Patiala House, a film about a large joint family where the head of [...]

Talks on Chandni Chowk to China sequel

The worldwide premieres of this film are yet to come to an end, and the film is yet to open not just nationwide but worldwide. Already Warner Bros Pictures are planning a sequel to the Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone starrer Chandni Chowk To China, their first Bollywood film which had its London premiere earlier [...]

Kismet Konnection to go to Oscar Library

The library of motion picture of arts and sciences (aka Oscar’s library) is interested in acquiring a copy of the Kismat Konnection screenplay to archive in the permanent core collection. The scripts placed in this collection are made accessible for research purposes only where media students, film makers, screenplay writers and actors are regular patrons. [...]

Jerry Maguire remake with SRK-Salman is off

Looks like the famous feud between Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan is causing productions of films to come to an end before they even get started. Salman’s younger brother, Sohail Khan, was keen on making a remake of Tom Cruise starrer Jerry Maguire, giving starring roles to Shah Rukh Khan and of course older [...]

The Top 10 Grossers of 2008

2008 has drawn to an end, and what a difference 3 months can make. The top ten chart has been updated and we have some new entries and some exits. The festive season had several big releases to round up the year and what a way to end. Ladies and gents (drum roll please) I [...]

Salman and Katrina’s Fast Food Date

Has one of the biggest stars of Indian cinema been hit by the global credit crunch? I think not. Upon returning to Aamchi Mumbai after a recent trip to Salman’s Panvel farmhouse, hunger got the better of this Bollywood pair. Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif decided to stop for food at McDonald’s. But it wasn’t [...]

Dhawan’s ‘Hook Ya Crook’ goes to Floor

David Dhawan is back in the director’s chair again two years after his 2007 release Partner, was declared a box office hit. This time he is heading up UTV Motion Pictures’ Hook Ya Crook,, which goes on the floor later this month. Written by Rensil D’Silva, the award-winning writer of Rang De Basanti, Hook Ya [...]

Chinese government denies release of Chandni Chowk to China

John Landis (director of Beverly Hills Cop 3, Blues Brothers 2000, Coming To America and Trading Places), Rob Cohen (Dragonheart, The Fast & Furious and Bruce Lee Story) and McG (Terminator 4), you would think I was rattling of the names of a guest list to a Hollywood premiere right? Wrong! These were just some [...]

Destiny and Katrina Kaif

With 15 films released over 5 years, the Hong — Kong born actress, Katrina Kaif spoke candidly to IANS in an interview in New Delhi about her journey in the industry so far: “When I started, people were not only writing me off for my strong British accent, there were many others who tried to [...]

The passing away of B R Chopra

Shradhanjali — B R Chopra (22 April 1914 – 5 November 2008) Baldev Raj Chopra’s films always posed a question to society. On morals, ethics and social issues. The questions raised were such that society didn’t know how to respond to them, at times not wanting to answer his questions and at times not completely [...]

The Five Biggest Grossers Of The Year So Far

Salman Khan to Exhibit Artwork

Actor Salman Khan has announced that he hopes to hold a public exhibition of his paintings and sketches by December this year in Mumbai. Khan who spends hours locked in his studio sketching and painting whenever he ‘doesn’t want to meet anybody’ has stated, “My exhibition will hopefully be held within two months if all [...]