MUMBAI: 200,000 households in West Virginia, US, will be able to access a Subscription Video On Demand service (SVOD) from May 2007, due to a deal struck between Anime Network and Suddenlink Communications. One...
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Eros’ Kishore Lulla gets Asian Business Award
MUMBAI: Eros International’s Kishore Lulla has been chosen for the Eastern Eye Asian Business Award 2007, for providing Indian cinema an international platform. The company has been given the BDO Stoy Hayward Business of...
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‘The audience’s reaction in theatres is award enough for me’ – Emraan Hashmi
It’s been hard for Emraan Hashmi to shake off the tag of being Bollywood’s Serial Kisser. The actor now plans to don a new avatar, that of a awara (vagabond) for his first film...
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Lachlan Murdoch & Percept in JV for PTM
MUMBAI: Percept Holdings in partnership with Lachlan Murdoch’s Illyria Pty Ltd has launched Percept Talent Management (PTM), aimed at promoting talent across all forms of media. This 50:50 joint venture between Percept Holdings and...
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Gulzar pays tribute to Pritam with album
MUMBAI: Legendary poet Amrita Pritam will be remembered once again, this time through an album, released as a tribute by poet and lyricist Gulzar. Filmmaker Chandra Prakash Dwivedi realised Pritam’s dreams of making a...
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Shammi Kapoor’s son to direct Hindi movie
MUMBAI: Aditya Kapoor, son of veteran actor Shammi Kapoor, is set to direct a Hindi film. A source within the Kapoor family says, “He is directing a medium budget Hindi film. It will have...
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800 shots of effects for YRF’s Tara Rum Pum
MUMBAI: Tata Elxsi Visual Computing Labs (VCL) worked on over 800 shots for Yash Raj Films’ Tara Rum Pum, to tell the story of a NASCAR racer who scores over life with help from...
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Rohit Roy turns director with Rice Plate
MUMBAI: Television and film actor Rohit Roy has turned director with a 10-minute short film called Rice Plate. The film is a part of Sanjay Gupta’s Dus Kahaniyan (the assemblage of 10 short stories...
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Raman Kumar plans to direct Kabir Bedi
MUMBAI: Writer-director Raman Kumar plans to direct an English film, in which veteran actor Kabir Bedi will play the central character. Says Kumar, “We have plans to make an English film with Kabir Bedi....
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IIFA to include business, sports meets
MUMBAI: In a press conference held in Delhi IIFA Brand Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan announced that a lot of new features had been added to the IIFA weekend which will be held in Yorkshire from...
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