Two weeks ago, each and every one of us knew Singh is Kinng would take a stupendous opening, so nobody was really shocked. But if there’s anyone in the industry who is truly unpredictable, it’s director and producer Ram Gopal Varma. His latest offering, a black magic horror film titled Phoonk, has left everyone wide-eyed [...]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait have decided to ban the Salman Khan-starrer God Tussi Great Ho from screening at the cinemas. The film is a remake of 2003 Hollywood film Bruce Almighty and it also stars Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra. It was banned due to violations of Islamic teachings as declared by [...]
The caravan that is the Unforgettable Tour hits London this holiday weekend and will take place at the magnificent O2 Arena in Docklands on Sunday, August 24th. Special guest Shilpa Shetty will be joining Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya, the triple-A Bachchans, in their record-breaking show. But how can the almost impossibly nice Shilpa be here [...]
Tanushree Dutta has put her recent troubles with producers behind her and has a hat trick of new movies lining up for release. The first of these is a raucous comedy but with a hard-edged look at modern India – Saas Bahu Aur Sensex – which is about how a group of housewives decide to [...]
Sandalwood actress Haripriya has set herself tough targets in her career — she claims she wants to be as big as Aishwarya one day. In order to build her career in the right way, she is being very careful about which scripts she accepts. “I’m not just accepting any offer that comes my way,” she [...]
Sizzling Eesha Koppikar — note the name change from Isha for numerological reasons — has six, yes count them, six new movies lined up. Perhaps like Bipasha, the 32-year-old ‘Khallas’ girl is aware that sadly there aren’t so many good roles for Bollywood women once you hit thirty and beyond — it’s best to get [...]
The girl who made all the hounds in the audience of Mission Istanbul sit up and beg with her sultry Angelina Jolie good looks, Shweta Bharadwaj, is working hard and looking forward to the future. Unfortunately, all the hard work meant she missed the opening of her first movie. “I couldn’t enjoy the release of [...]
From Sanjay Gadhvi, the master-director of mega blockbusters like Dhoom and Dhoom: 2, Kidnap is a high-octane edge-of-the-seat drama about a power tussle between a young boy and the father of the girl he kidnaps. Sonia (Minissha Lamba — Bachna Ae Haseeno) lives with her mother, Mallika (Vidya Malvade — Chak De India) and grandmother [...]
Vipul Shah is riding high on the success of Singh is Kinng. In a deal that has stunned Bollywood, the worldwide distribution rights in all forms of media for his next movie, London Dreams, have been sold to the India Film Company for 120 crore. This is the same company that bought the rights to [...]
Now this comes as a shocker to many, who expect prestigious film festivals like the one in Toronto to disregard Bollywood’s masala films. Well, we can forget about that rule because Singh is Kinng has been invited to attend the Toronto International Film Festival as a gala presentation. The festival runs from September 3-14 and [...]
Bipasha Basu‘s career is currently witnessing an extreme high even if she may not be getting Bollywood’s most prestigious roles. In multi-starrers like Race and Bachna Ae Haseeno she has walked away with accolades and has carved her own niche in the industry. Today, she admits that Bollywood is extremely male-dominated and adds that no [...]
Looking stunning in a strapless, plunging lime-green party piece, fast-rising actress Sonam Kapoor graces the cover of Elle magazine this month. Her father, ‘Mr India’ Anil Kapoor, must be very proud of his daughter who is an Economics graduate from the University of Mumbai. She made her debut in the best-forgotten Saarawiya last year which [...]
In his most ambitious film to date, Mollywood actor Mohanlal will be starring as Indian freedom fighter Nair San in an Indo-Japanese production financed in the Middle East with a budget rumoured to be as high as $50 million. Jackie Chan will also make a cameo appearance in the movie, reputedly being paid six times [...]
Sridevi fans can now give a loud cheer because the gorgeous star is coming back to the silver screen. She is going to reprise her role of Seema in Mr. India 2, which will be the sequel to the original hit Mr. India from 1987. Anil Kapoor will also once again star as Arun in [...]
As we reported there was a rumor that Jade Goody was going to appear on Big Boss 2 in India. That usually would not be big news except for the fact that Shilpa Shetty is hosting the show, so that makes it a big deal. You may remember that Jade was horrible to Shilpa, even [...]
Bollywood actress, social activist and former MP in the Rajya Sabha, Shabana Azmi has caused a storm in political circles by attributing her problems in buying a house in Mumbai to discrimination against Muslims. “If Shabana and Javed Akhtar cannot find a house in the most cosmopolitan city you can imagine what must be happening [...]
Whilst much of the attention in the British press has focussed on Jade Goody’s entry into the House of the Big Boss in Lonavla, we shouldn’t forget that this also represents the second chance for Bollywood actress Monica Bedi. Released from the Chanchalguda Central women’s prison a year ago, she took a time-out before deciding [...]
Mallika Sherawat, the pagli part of Ugly aur Pagli and star of the soon-to-be-released Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam is officially the most fantasized woman in Bollywood, leaving the like of Bipasha, Priyanka and Deepika far behind in the dust. VJ Cary says, “There is absolutely no question why any man wouldn’t fantasize about Mallika. I mean [...]
Mumbai’s Rainbow Walk on independence day went successfully. Led off by Celina Jaitley, who had a gay friend who died recently, the walk included gays, lesbians, bisexuals, hijras, transgenders, kothis, panthis and inter-sex people. The walk began at India’s Independence monument at August Kranti Marg and was intended to symbolize that in India, gay people [...]
Kambakkht Ishq has an all star cast including Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani and even has a special appearance by Rocky himself Sylvester Stallone. In the film Aftab plays Akshay’s brother and like Akshay he is also a stuntman. Aftab had to do some pretty dangerous stunts for the film and in an interview [...]
Though rumors abound that the two have broken up, it now seems that all is fine in Katrina Kaif-Salman Khan land. In fact, Salman in a recent interview even talked about marriage in 2009. He also talked about her co-stars, being her co-star in Yuvraj and said a bit more about the SRK fallout. As [...]