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Bollywood Movie Slumdog Millionaire!

Bollywood Star Amitabh Bachchan may not think of Slumdog very highly but the rest of the Bollywood does. Its based on this Indian diplomat Vikas Swaroop’s book Q & A and people are wondering why no Indian filmmaker came up with that kinda film from India. Why did it have to be a foreigner who walked away with credits of making a very ‘Indian’ film? Here’s what the biggies of Indian Film Industry had to say: Govind Nihalani: “I very much wanted to adapt Vikas Swaroop’s “Q & A” into a film. I met the author and he told me the film rights had already been sold to Film Four even before the book was published. The matter ended there.” Santosh Sivan: “I haven’t seen the film. But from what I’ve read about it, “Slumdog Millionaire” is quite a different sensibility and perspective of portraying the extremes. ” Dibakar Banerjee: “I haven’t read Vikas Swaroop’s novel, but if I had read it and liked it, of course I’d have made it. At the moment I’m negotiating th...

Bollywood upset with RGV and Riteish for their Taj tour!

Ram Gopal Verma and Riteish Deshmukh made a visit to see how Hotel Taj had been destructed by the terror attack along with CM Vilasrao Deshmukh on Sunday. We asked Bollywood celebs for their reaction to RGV and Riteish’s tour of Taj. Farhan Akhtar - It’s an unbelievable act done by CM and Ram Gopal Verma! I really don’t know what to comment on this whole act. Harry Baweja- It was an unnecessary visit and I’m completely disturbed with what is happening to our city. I was completely shocked when I saw Ram Gopal Verma on every news channel. Pooja Bedi- In Bollywood there are so many films which are made on real life stories like Shootout At Lokhandwala, Black Friday but why Ram Gopal Verma went with Vilasrao Deshmukh I cannot understand. He should have gone at some other time as every common man is curious to know what exactly happened but I don’t know what happened to Vilasrao Deshmukh that he took Ramu to the site! Arjan Bajwa- This is not the correc...