Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Bollywood News

Bollywood News

Divya Dutta's autograph hoax

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 12:01 AM CDT

Actress Divya Dutta pulled a fast one on co-actor Shreyas Talpade while shooting for the forthcoming comedy film 'Welcome To Sajjanpur' when she posed as Ramesh to fool Shreyas into signing an autograph.

My loyalty towards Jaya will never change: Rituparno Ghosh

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 12:01 AM CDT

Filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, who has for the first time directed acting legend Amitabh Bachchan in 'The Last Lear', is a big fan of Amitabh's wife Jaya. But even after working with Amitabh, Ghosh says his loyalty towards Jaya will not change.

My best is yet to come: Amitabh Bachchan

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 12:01 AM CDT

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan's performance in 'The Last Lear' has been tagged as his best ever. But he says that his best is yet to be seen.

Three films, three shades of terrorism

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 11:47 PM CDT

Mumbai, Sep 16 (IANS) Three films and three different perspectives on the same theme, last week's releases 'Hijack', 'A Wednesday' and 'Tahaan', were portraits in contrasting shades of identical themes. All three dealt with different facets of terrorism, and had a slick spin to offer.

Films should explore issues rather than preach: Vani Subramanian

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 11:26 PM CDT

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) She left her flourishing advertising career to make movies about social issues she feels strongly about, but don't mistake Vani Subramanian for a sermonising filmmaker. In her latest film on the girl child, for instance, she has taken care not to preach against gender selection.

Deepti Naval turns director, ropes in Manisha Koirala

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 11:19 PM CDT

Mumbai, Sep 16 (IANS) After Nandita Das, avant-garde actress Deepti Naval has turned director. Her directorial debut has a rather poetic title - 'Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish' and she has signed on close friend Manisha Koirala as the heroine.

Vinay Pathak returns to entertain with 'Dasvidaniya'

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 11:14 PM CDT

Mumbai, Sep 16 (IANS) Bollywood funny man Vinay Pathak is all set to have moviegoers in splits once again with his next film 'Dasvidaniya', a bitter-sweet comedy.

Naseeruddin Shah or Victor Banerjee? Director Dholakia undecided

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 09:30 PM CDT

Mumbai, Sep 16 (IANS) Director Rahul Dholakia is finding it tough to finalise the cast for his film on militancy in Kashmir, especially for characters based on real-life politicians. He just can't decide whether to rope in Naseeruddin Shah or Victor Banerjee to play a hardline separatist leader in 'Lamhaa'.

'To do really well, films should focus on small towns and their concerns'

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 04:54 PM CDT

Lyricist Javed Akhtar and other film luminaries discuss Bollywood's current and future prospects at Screen magazine's 57th anniversary Weekly film magazine Screen celebrated its 57th anniversary on September 15 by organising a panel discussion - Screen Big Picture Panel Discussion- on the theme New, Improved Bollywood.

Diana is in

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:20 PM CDT

Yet another turn of events on Bigg Boss Season Two saw former Miss World Diana Hayden enter the house on a wild card. Clear that it's more about 'going back to the basics' than winning, she says, 'Of course, the competition is interesting and I love challenges. But there's another dimension to it.

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