Business Of Cinema

Day: April 18, 2013

  • ‘Bombay Talkies’: A Special Screening At Cannes Film Festival

    ‘Bombay Talkies’: A Special Screening At Cannes Film Festival

    MUMBAI: ‘Bombay Talkies’, the anthology film made as tribute to 100 years of Indian Cinema, will be screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival this May. 

    A compilation of four short stories filled with dreams, hopes, desires, thoughts, joys, pain, love and sorrow, ‘Bombay Talkies’ has been directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar. The movie boasts of having a large star cast that includes Rani Mukerji, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amitabh Bachchan, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Saqib Saleem, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor.

    On hearing the news, an excited Karan Johar tweeted,

    The Cannes International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in France, which previews new films of all genres from around the world. This year, Indian cinema will be celebrated at the festival.

    The official announcement of this screening came in just a while ago. Apart from ‘Bombay Talkies’ another Indian film Amit Kumar’s ‘Monsoon Shootout’ will also be screened in the midnight, non-competition category.

    Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’, which marks Amitabh Bachchan’s Hollywood debut, will also be premiering on the first day of the festival.

    The Cannes film festival is scheduled to run between the dates of May 15 to 26, 2013.

  • ‘Ek Thi Daayan’ Cast On Last Round Of Promotions Before Release

    ‘Ek Thi Daayan’ Cast On Last Round Of Promotions Before Release

    More photosMUMBAI: Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi whose film ‘Ek Thi Daayan’ is set to hit the screens tomorrow was spotted at the Dolby theatres on Thursday.

    Emraan Hashmi was with Smiley Suri, who debuted in Mohit Suri’s ‘Kalyug’ opposite Kunal Khemu at the special screening of ‘Ek Thi Daayan’ for his family.

    Emraan was casually dressed in a grey t-shirt and jeans, while Smiley was seen in a summer pink top and jeans. (SEE PHOTOS HERE)

    Later in the evening, the serial kisser was also spotted promoting his film with his entire ‘Ek Thi Daayan’ cast of Kalki Koechlin, Konkona Sen Sharma and Huma Qureshi.

    Kalki looked breathtaking in a gorgeous black and white attire showing off her slim frame. Funnily Konkona Sen Sharma, who was dressed in a white saree with blue border looked as if she were promoting a detergent soap bar. Emraan looked dapper in a black t-shirt and cream trousers and Huma chose an elegant white gown with a zebra print shrug.

    ‘Ek Thi Daayan’ is a romantic horror film directed by Kannan Iyer and features Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Kalki Koechlin in lead roles. The film is hitting the screens tomorrow on April 19, 2013.

  • SPOTTED: Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor Promote ‘Aashiqui 2’

    SPOTTED: Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor Promote ‘Aashiqui 2’

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    MUMBAI: Bollywood actors Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor were recently spotted at a press conference for their upcoming film ‘Aashiqui 2’.

    The gorgeous Shraddha Kapoor (daughter of Shakti Kapoor) was dressed in a cute little purple thigh-high tube dress and she was accompanied by her co-star Aditya Roy Kapoor. Aditya wore a casual look – he was dressed in a dull blue collar t-shirt and grey jeans.

    ‘Aashiqui 2’ is a musical journey of two lovers who go through love and hate, twists and turbulence, success and failure in their lives. The film is directed by Mohit Suri and under the banner of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. and Vishesh Films the film is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar and Mukesh Bhatt.

    ‘Aashiqui 2’ has a soulful and heart-touching sound track. The first song of the film ‘Tum Hi Ho’ sung by Arijit Singh, with the music of Mithoon has received a fabulous response.

    ‘Aashiqui 2’ is set to hit the screens on April 26, 2013.

  • Britney Spears To Sing A Smurf-party Song For ‘The Smurfs 2’

    Britney Spears To Sing A Smurf-party Song For ‘The Smurfs 2’

    LOS ANGELES: Singer Britney Spears is geared up to release a song titled “Ooh la la” for upcoming 3D animation movie ‘The Smurfs 2’, a sequel to the 2011 movie ‘The Smurfs’.

    The song is being produced by RCA records for the movie, a co-production of Sony Pictures Animtion and Columbia Pictures.

    “I have always loved the Smurfs as a kid and now my boys are the biggest ‘Smurfs’ fans ever. I wanted to surprise them with a song in the movie. I know they’ll think it’s Smurftastic,” Spears, a mother of two sons, said in a statement.

    The film’s director Raja Gosnell is excited about the collaboration too.

    “I am very excited that Britney is joining our smurfy adventure. ‘Ooh la la’ is the perfect Smurf-party song, and the perfect button on the film for audiences around the world,” he said.

    The movie is set to release July 31.

    [With inputs from IANS]

  • My Personal Style Is Casual And Simple: Diana Penty

    My Personal Style Is Casual And Simple: Diana Penty

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    MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Diana Penty recently shared her personal style statement with the media “I personally have always had straight hair and I love them. I tend to wear them down, you know, casual and simple, that’s pretty much me.”

    The slender beauty looked stunning in a sleeveless Red evening gown that tapered around her petite waist was at the launch of the new range of TRESemme Hair Products. She wore her straight long hair was left loose, falling on her shoulders just as she likes it.

    Diana also added that it’s difficult to manage long hair saying: “You can only imagine my plight when I have to deal with dullness and unmanageable hair specially when the weather changes.”

    This model-turned-actress made her debut in the industry with Homi Adajania’s ‘Cocktail’ opposite Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone. The film was produced by Saif’s production house, Illuminati Films.

     

     

     

     

  • Shah Rukh, Aamir Agree But Salman Refuses ‘Bombay Talkies’

    Shah Rukh, Aamir Agree But Salman Refuses ‘Bombay Talkies’

    MUMBAI: There has been a lot of buzz over Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan coming together for a special song that’s going to be featured in the anthology film ‘Bombay Talkies’. The latest buzz surrounding the movie is that Salman Khan was also approached to be a part of this ambitious project. Unfortunately, Salman had to decline the offer as he had trouble assigning dates given his busy schedule.

    It is also said that Bollywood’s leading ladies Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra will be joining Shah Rukh and Aamir in this special song. The makers of ‘Bombay Talkies’ are all set to bring in the big stars in order to garner more attention to the film that celebrates of 100 years of Hindi cinema.

    A source close to the film said: “The point was to get these big names from the industry in one song which will be common to all the four short stories that form the movie. Salman was approached but he declined citing date issues.”

    However, the source adds that after learning that Shah Rukh has already signed on to the project Salman became less interested in the project: “Salman didn’t want to be in the same frame as Shah Rukh. It’s common knowledge that after their spat a few years ago, the two don’t see eye-to-eye. And when he found out that SRK has given his nod for the song, he didn’t show much interest. Though SRK hasn’t shot for it yet, it looks difficult to get both these actors together for the song.”

    It’s quite disappointing that Salman declined the offer to be a part of this big tribute to Hindi cinema as it would have been great to see the three Khans sharing the same screen space.

    Plans are to either feature the song at the opening or the closing of the film’s credits. It is being choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant and will . While Aamir Khan has completed shooting for the song,  Shah Rukh Khan is yet to begin the shooting as he was busy shooting.

    ‘Bombay Talkies’ is an anthology film that comprises four short films directed by Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee. The film will be starring Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Randeep Hooda, Rani Mukherji, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Saqib Saleem, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor and the music will be given by Amit Trivedi.

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  • ‘Rambo Rajkumar’ Shahid Kapoor’s High Octane Stunts

    ‘Rambo Rajkumar’ Shahid Kapoor’s High Octane Stunts

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    MUMBAI: Bollywood heartthrob Shahid Kapoor has been working really hard to do some full-fledged action sequence scenes for his next big project ‘Rambo Rajkumar’. He was spotted practicing this amazing stunt sequence, where the star jumps high in the air, and kicks the bad guys behind.

    ‘Rambo Rajkumar’ is an upcoming project of Eros International & NextGen Films’ directed by Prabhu Deva. Shahid Kapoor, who also is known to perfect the roles that he takes up, is putting in full efforts to train himself for the action sequences prior to the shoot schedule.

    Shahid has been taking training for hand combat stunts, including a 40-men attack action sequence (signature Prabhu Deva style) and many other hard core action stunts.

    “Shahid is an extremely dedicated actor and was very keen to go through extensive training to perform the action sequences in the film – Apart from working on his flexibility and strength, he also trained for some heavy duty action including one which includes fighting over 40 men,” confirmed the producer of the film, Viki Rajani.

    ‘Rambo Rajkumar’, which also features Sonakshi Sinha, will hit the screens on November 15, 2013.

     

  • Vidya Balan’s New Screen Name: Vidya Balan Roy Kapur

    Vidya Balan’s New Screen Name: Vidya Balan Roy Kapur

    MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, who recently tied the knot with Siddharth Roy Kapur (CEO of UTV Motion Pictures), is considering taking on a double-barreled name. Well, in this case a triple-barreled one. 

    It has been about four months since Vidya and Siddharth took their wedding vows in both traditional Tamil and Punjabi ceremonies. Immediately after the marriage, Vidya had returned to the sets to complete the shooting of her films.

    Recently at a party, one of Vidya’s team members was having a conversation of how the actress was playing around with the idea of changing her screen name to Vidya Balan Roy Kapur. A source overheard this conversation and said, “The other guests got excited and started inquiring. The team member continued talking without realizing others were listening in as well.”

    The source added, “In fact, all of them told the team member to congratulate Vidya for her decision on their behalf.”

    It has been a trend in Bollywood to keep the maiden surname and to add the marital surname at the end. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, and many others have followed this trend.

    However, nothing has been finalized as yet. The talented actress remained unavailable to confirm the news. Vidya is currently very busy shooting, she has almost completed ‘Ghanchakkar’ opposite Emraan Hashmi and is now shooting for ‘Marriage Ke Side Effects’ with Farhan Akhtar.

  • Watch IPL, Wear A Moustache – Farhan Akhtar’s MARD Campaign Gets Bigger

    Watch IPL, Wear A Moustache – Farhan Akhtar’s MARD Campaign Gets Bigger

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    MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar is well known for voicing his thoughts and opinions in support of social causes through Twitter and other mediums. This time the actor has gone further ahead by collaborating with IPL to support and encourage gender equality.

    Reports suggest that Farhan Akhtar will be distributing over 70,000 moustaches at the IPL on 26 April 2013 to promote a cause close to his heart, MARD (Men Against Rape and Discrimination). The concept of MARD took root in August 2012, after a Mumbai lawyer was sexually assaulted and killed. The actor-director-singer has been urging his Twitter and Facebook fans to adopt and spread the message. “It can only spread as a pyramid effect through you,” Akhtar had tweeted.

    After a lot of online campaigning, this will be the first on-ground activity at such a large scale. Prior to this, he performed at a college concert in Bangalore wearing a T-shirt that had the logo of MARD on it.

    26 April 2013 will see one of IPL’s biggest matches between Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders and Preity Zinta’s Kings XI Punjab, who have also come forward to support MARD.

    Farhan is seen carrying out extensive twitter campaigns to generate more awareness about MARD and to encourage supporters to come forward:

    Farhan also posted behind the scenes pictures of Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta shooting for the MARD campaign:

    Recently even cricketer Harbhajan Singh tweeted about the cause saying:

    Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta who have come together with Farhan Akhtar to support and promote Gender Equality have released a promotional video in order to attract more attention towards the cause:

  • Vidyut Jamwal To Choreograph Own Stunts For ‘Bullet Raja’

    Vidyut Jamwal To Choreograph Own Stunts For ‘Bullet Raja’

    MUMBAI: Tigmanshu Dhulia’s new project ‘Bullet Raja’ has an official action director Parvez Khan, who did the heart-in-the-mouth stunts in ‘Ra.One’, ‘Vishwaroop’ and ‘Agent Vinod’. But new action-star Vidyut Jamwal will compose his own stunts for the film.

    Vidyut, who steps into a doughty cop’s role, which was earlier to be played by Irrfan, will be making a very special appearance in the film. And the action-star will make his appearance as special as possible.

    “Vidyut would have two action sequences in ‘Bullet Raja’ and he’d be composing the stunts. We have the amazing Parvez bhai composing all the stunts for the film’s leading man Saif Ali Khan,” said Dhulia.

    “But Vidyut knows his body and mind better than anyone else. He has been training in the martial arts since the age of 12. Who better to know how his character would deal with the combative crisis in the plot?” he added.

    Vidyut’s first fight would show him taking on dacoits in the Chambal Valley.

    “He enters the story at mid-point right after intermission. His character of the cop takes on the Chambal dacoits. The second fight sequence would be staged in the city of Lucknow. They’d be antithetical in ambience, mood and impact.

    “I leave it to Vidyut to design and execute these fights in such a way that he makes optimum impact,” said Dhulia, who is currently shooting in Etawah city of Uttar Pradesh for ‘Bullet Raja’.

    “I am having great fun shooting the film. I suspect the audience would enjoy themselves just as much,” says Dhulia.

    [With inputs from IANS]

  • Ileana D’Cruz Opposite Akshay Kumar In Bhansali’s ‘Gabbar’

    Ileana D’Cruz Opposite Akshay Kumar In Bhansali’s ‘Gabbar’

    MUMBAI: After confirming that Akshay Kumar will play ‘Gabbar‘ in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s remake of 2002 Tamil hit ‘Ramana’, the makers have revealed that Ileana D’Cruz will star opposite Akshay as the female lead.

    Ileana D’Cruz got noticed after her award winning performance in ‘Barfi!’. Soon, this very talented newcomer was offered a role in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’ opposite heartthrob Shahid Kapoor. The actress has now been roped in by filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali for his next big project, ‘Gabbar’

    “Ileana started getting numerous film offers after being noticed for her role in ‘Barfi!’. Ramesh Taurani signed her for Raj Kumar Santoshi’s ‘Phata Poster…’ and now she has bagged ‘Gabbar’,” shared a source.

    Ileana will be sharing screen space with Khiladi Akshay Kumar, who is working with the filmmaker for the second time after the successful ‘Rowdy Rathore’.

    The source also said, “Akshay and Ileana’s chemistry will be interesting to watch. It is quite an unlikely pairing, which Bhansali is trying to explore. Akshay plays the lead role in the film where he fights against corruption.”

    ‘Gabbar’ will go on floors by the end of 2013, after Akshay completes his shoot schedule for Milan Luthria’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai 2’ and Ashwin Varde’s ‘Boss’.

     

  • Seventh Installment Of Fast And Furious In July 2014

    Seventh Installment Of Fast And Furious In July 2014

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actor Vin Diesel has announced that James Wan’s “Fast & Furious 7” will hit screens on July 11, 2014.

    The 45-year-old was joined by the his co-stars in the film, including Paul Walker, to promote the latest installment in the series.

    The chosen release date means the action-packed movie will compete with Marvel movie production, “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, which comes out in cinemas a week after.

    Diesel, who is also a producer of “Fast & Furious” franchise, hinted at what viewers can expect from the next film.

    “The next one is probably going to be the biggest one of them all,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Diesel as saying.

    Tyrese Gibson joined his fellow actors on stage and joked about how a lot of the scenes were improvised by the cast, who shared a lot of laughs on set.

    Gibson said: “I’d like to say the jokes were all written out, but a lot of it is us reacting to each other. Diesel shows up with his pecs all out, we might make a joke about cleavage.”

    [With inputs from IANS]

  • Ghanchakkar: Vidya Balan To Debut In Special Music Video

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  • Sanjay Dutt Wrapping Up ‘PK’ with Aamir Khan

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  • When I Do Negative Roles, They Work: John Abraham

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  • Priyanka Chopra: A Boxer In The Making

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  • Deol Family On Cover Of People Magazine

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  • I Have Evolved As An Actor: Ayushmann Khurrana

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