MUMBAI: With Valentines Day just around the corner, Pix has lined up a host of romantic and comedy movies in February.   The month begins with the intense love story End of the Affair, starring...

MUMBAI: Producer Sandeep D Shinde has returned to the film industry with a new venture titled Vasshh.   The film, budged at Rs 30 million (Rs three crore), is described as a psycho thriller...

MUMBAI: On Pix’s Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton will interview “Marky Mark” (Mark Wahlberg) this Sunday at 7 pm.   Mark has gone from platinum recording success as Marky Mark, to billboards over...

MUMBAI: Deepa Mehta’s Water has been included in the contemporary international film series course for the spring semester at Missouri Universsity.   The seven film series will be screened in DVD format at the...

MUMBAI: Recreating Mumbai or Bombay, as it was called then, was one of the most daunting challenges for Anurag Kashyap while making Black Friday.   Says the director, “We had to keep in mind that...

MUMBAI: This February, HBO will pay a tribute to Academy Award winning movies in HBO Reel Gold, every Sunday night after the 8 pm movie. Catch the movie which broke the $1 billion box-office...

MUMBAI: Reliance Communications Limited announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2006. The company’s net profit of Rs 9.24 billion ($ 209 million), is higher by 198 per cent...

The overseas rights of <i>Red</i>, directed by Vikram Bhatt, have been acquired by Adlabs....

Sangeeth Sivan will soon wield the directorial baton for Balaji Telefilms' next venture <i>Kya Hot Hai Hum</i>....

MUMBAI: Deepal Shaw is poised to earn the distinction of becoming the first female actor in Bollywood to play a triple role in a forthcoming film. Shaw, better known as Baby Doll, the character...

Cannes Film Festival officials visited Mumbai recently to view Madhur Bhandarkar's <i>Traffic Signal</i>....

Vashu Bhagnani to launch his son Jacky in a movie that will be directed by Ajit Pal....

MUMBAI: Actor Dharmendra will be seen on the big screen this March in an action thriller titled Deal-In Crime. The actor was last seen in Kis Kis Ki Kismat and Hum Kaun Hai, in...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Congress party vice president Dr Balwant Shastri has produced a Bhojpuri film titled Pritiya Tohar. The film is written and directed by Manoj Sharma and will be released on 9 February 2007....

MUMBAI: Zoom, the glamour and entertainment news channel from the Bennett, Coleman Company Limited stabel, claims to have overtaken competition across six metros among the C&S AB 15–44 audience, following increased Bollywood coverage. Quoting...

Late Vinod Mehra's daughter Soniya Mehra has replaced Amrita Arora in the remake of <i>Victoria No. 203</i>....

Film Synopsis: Gandhi Park   Director: Tom George Kolath   Producer: Dr. Anil V. Paulose   Banner: Amerasia Pictures, Corp.   Executive Producer: Mathai Kolath George   Cast: Brandon Sommers, Sneha Ullal, Anupam Kher,...

MUMBAI: Sahara’s film channel, Filmy, has announced an initiative that aims at recruiting personnel for the channel even as it woos viewers for the satellite premiere of Madhur Bhandarkar’s Corporate on 11 February 2007....

Film Synopsis: Namastey London Producer and Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah Presenter: Adlabs Music Director: Himesh Reshammiya Lyrics: Javed Akhtar Cast: Katrina Kaif (Jasmeet Singh ‘Jazz’), Akshay Kumar (Arjun), Rishi Kapoor (Manmohan Singh), Upen Patel...

MUMBAI: Celina Jaitley, last seen in No Entry, has been appointed as the brand ambassador for D S Group, a sister concern of BGL Groups (Baba Global Limited). The Feroze Khan discovery and Miss...

MUMBAI: BSEL Infrastrutcure Realty Ltd has entered into a pre-bid alliance with multi-million euro international hotel group Accor Asia Pacific and Adlabs Films Ltd for the proposed International Convention Centre (ICC) at Bhubaneshwar, Orissa....

MUMBAI: Ira diamond jewelry fuses with Salaam-e-Ishq through MATES, Madison Communication’s entertainment unit. Ira diamonds have been portrayed in real life situations inside the film around three couple — Salman – Priyanka, John –...

MUMBAI: Shemaroo has released an animated digital book VCD in English and Hindi called BookBox, which improves kids’ vocabulary, reading skills and helps learn faster. BookBox has visual subtitles scrolling below on the screen...

MUMBAI: Legendary actor and filmmaker Dev Anand, who has just finished penning his autobiography Romancing With Life, plans to make two films this year. The first film, a quickie titled Charge Sheet, will be...

MUMBAI: Hungama TV has announced the winners of Oral B John Aur Kaun talent hunt contest. Aashan Virmani from Delhi and Rishi Dalmia from Hyderabad have won the opportunity to act in the movie...

MUMBAI: With the Oscar fever on, Zee Studio will be showcasing Oscar nominated and awarded movies all through February. Close to 25 Hollywood films will be aired in Hollywood Gold Rush everyday at 9...

Shetty now has Max Clifford in charge of her PR; Farhat Hussain as show promoter; <STRONG><FONT color=#ff3300 size=1>SPECIAL REPORT!</FONT></STRONG>...

MUMBAI: Actor– turned writer and director Ananth Narayan Mahadevan is busy shooting three films concurrently – Victoria No 203, Anamika and Agar. Says Mahadevan, “I always wanted to do one film at a time,...

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The first release from the Yash Raj Films' stable this year will be Siddharth Anand's <i>Ta Ra Rum Pum</i>....

MUMBAI: Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor and Akshay Kumar will come together for the first time on screen in a song for producer Firoz Nadiadwala’s Welcome. The song will be picturised overseas by director Anees...

Esha Deol & Anupam Kher to star in director Kalpana Lajmi's comedy film, which will go on floors in February or March....

Shilpa Shetty has won the <i>Celebrity Big Brother</i> show in the UK with 63% votes from the public; wins £100,000....

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MUMBAI: Parzania, based on a true-life incident, has not been released in Gujarat. Jointly produced by K.B. Sareen, Kamal Patel and Rahul Dholakia, the film is directed by Dholakia.   It stars Naseeruddin Shah,...

MUMBAI: The shooting of producer Pritish Nandy’s Meerabai Not Out was completed in just 26 days.   Director Chandrakant Kulkarni completed the final shoot today (27 January) at a studio in Borivali. The film...

MUMBAI: B4U has acquired the global exclusive screening rights to Mani Ratnam’s Guru, J P Dutta’s Umrao Jaan and Ram Gopal Verma’s yet to be released Nishabd. All three movie have the Bachchan clan...

Film Synopsis: The Blue Umbrella Director: Vishal Bharadwaj Producer: UTV Classics (Ronnie Screwvala) Co-producer: Vishal Bharadwaj Cast: Shreya, Pankaj Kapur Music: Vishal Bharadwaj   ‘The Blue Umbrella’ is a heart warming adaptation of the...

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Adlabs Films and Viacom's MTV Networks India have inked a deal to co-produce movies targeted at the youth....

Film: Parzania   Director: Rahul Dholakia   Cast: Naseerudin Shah, Sarika, Parzan Dastur   Rating: 3.5/5   Sitting far away from the riots that occurred in Gujarat, one could only imagine the plight of...

MUMBAI: The countdown to the Oscars has begun and Star Movies will be airing movies that have been honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the past on Oscar Fever....

Film: Salaam-e-Ishq Director: Nikhil Advani Producer: Mukesh Talreja, Sunil Manchanda Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Cast: Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Govinda, John Abraham, Sohail Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan, Ayesha Takia, Isha Koppikar...

MUMBAI: Last year witnessed a lot of chaos and confusion in the English movie channel space with Star Movies and HBO being off air for a significant part of the year.   However, in...

MUMBAI: Vikas Kapoor’s debut production, Mera Bharat Mahaan, will be shot in Kashmir from May 2007. The film will star Sunny Deol, Salman Khan, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta, Riteish Deshmukh and Sohail Khan and...

MUMBAI: Udayanidhi, son of Tamil Nadu’s internal affairs minister M K Stalin, will launch a mega budget Tamil film shortly. Says a unit member of the film, on condition of anonymity, “The film will...

MUMBAI: After Neelkanta, director Sai Prakash has decided to remake Telugu hit film Kante Koothurme Kanu in Kannada. Prakash has bought the remake rights to the film from Dasari Narayan Rao. K S R...

MUMBAI: After two decades, producer Anand L Suresh will remake Tamil super hit film Billa, whichstarred Rajnikant, Praveena and Sripriya. The remake will sport the same title. Sources close to the producer say, “It...

MUMBAI: The Rajasthani film industry is likely to get a shot in the arm with a new film, Sanchi Thari Preet, being made currently. While regional cinema, including Bhojpuri and Marathi has been on...

National awardee Rituparna Sengupta has signed <i>Gurudakshina</i> and also a film to be directed by Lajmi....

MUMBAI: Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd has tied-up with Bangalore based B&B Infrastructure, Ltd (Ritual Developers Ltd) to develop 15 multiplexes across Karnataka.   The land used for this venture will be 15 lakhs square...

MUMBAI: World Cup frenzy has already spawned a Hindi film, Say Salaam India – Let’s Bring The Cup Home, that’s due for release in early March 2007. Written and directed by Subhash Kapoor, the...

MUMBAI: SaharaOne’s Hindi movie channel Filmy has launched another initiative ‘Live & Filmy.’ This willl be a series of on-ground viewer connect musical extravaganzas. The first of the series will feature Daler Mehndi, Sukhvinder...

MUMBAI: Producer Kumar Mangat, who had banned smoking on the sets of his forthcoming movie No Smoking, has collected Rs 1,50,000 in fines as penalty for breaking the rule. The film, directed by Anuarag...

  Market: Hindi Speaking MarketTG: CS 4+ YearsPeriod: Week 2 (07/01/07 – 13/01/07) Relative Shares Top 5 Movies Source: TAM Peoplemeter System Also read:English Channels: 7 – 13 January, 2007...

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MUMBAI: The release of Deepa Mehta’s Water, initially slated for 23 February 2007, has been postponed by two weeks. The film will now be released on 9 March 2007. Water has been shortlisted for...

MUMBAI: Balaji Exhibitors’ Pappu Ajani and Rajesh Singh, Bombay distributors of Bhojpuri films, plan to release their maiden Bhojpuri home production on Republic Day. The film, a family drama, is titled Kasam Dharti Maiya...

MUMBAI: The India video, satellite and overseas rights of Aur Pappu Pass Ho Gaya (which sounds like a film inspired by the jingle of a popular ad for Cadbury’s chocolates) have been acquired by...

MUMBAI: Sejal Painter is getting ready to put her film editing skills on hold while she contests the forthcoming civic elections in Mumbai. Painter, who has a commerce degree from Mumbai under her belt,...

Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta have signed Deepak Tijori to direct their next comedy film. ...