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Bollywood talks English

MUMBAI : Bollywood is finally doing what Amitabh Bachchan claimed to do in Namak Halal : it is talking English. And our stars, Mr Bachchan included, are loving it. Saif Ali Khan loved his Being Cyrus experience with Homi Adajania so much that he is keen to repeat the experiment if a script that is challenging enough comes his way. Preity Zinta is high on Heaven on Earth with Deepa Mehta, where she plays a battered housewife travelling from Canada to India. And the Big B himself has joined the English-bolta bandwagon in Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear, which is hitting theatres next week after wowing viewers at a film festival in Toronto earlier this year. Siddharth Roy Kapur of UTV Motion Pictures explains the phenomenon : "The market for indigenous English movies with Bollywood actors is still nascent but the interest is rapidly growing.'' PVR Pictures head honcho Sanjiv Bijli, too, is kicked about this genre. His company has distributed Being Cyrus, Everybody ...

SRK, Aamir, Hrithik get together for MTV

M TV has three mega projects coming up, with Shah Rukh Khan , Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan . The films will be announced on September 9. Ashish Patil, General Manager, MTV India, will make the announcement. The three stars have still not had any releases so far, even as they're busy working on some big projects. Shah Rukh is currently working on Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, which will release in December. But before that, he will be seen in Billo Barbar , scheduled for a Diwali release. Aamir's Ghajni will also release later this year. His next, 3 Idiots, will release some time next year. Hrithik is currently working on Kites , directed by Anurag Basu. So far, MTV has kept away from movie-making in India except for a short film, Ghoom, which was a spoof of the blockbuster, Dhoom.

Adi said I could be Shah Rukh Khan: Vivek

No other actor in the recent times has seen a star status being taken away from him no sooner than it was bestowed upon him. After films like Company and Saathiya , sky was there for an asking for Vivek Oberoi who could have fit in comfortably into action as well as lover boy role. However, that was not to be! What went wrong? In a heartfelt conversation with Sajid Khan in 'Sajid Superstars' show, Vivek Oberoi bares it all! We bring some exclusive tidbits on what to expect from the show: - This is one conversation where Vivek Oberoi is said to have bared his soul out when it comes to professional as well as personal matters. He talks about what went wrong in his career, the kind of mistakes he made over last few years and how he is looking forward to making amends in years to come. - In the current times, no talk with Vivek gets completed without mentioning the name Salman Khan. He apologizes once again for the bad blood shared between the two a few moon...

Tahaan Movie Review

Purav Bhandare , the central character in Santosh Sivan's TAHAAN , has elbowed Darsheel Safary, the child star of TAARE ZAMEEN PAR out of his top slot. There was no written confirmation about the fact that Darsheel was on top of the heap, but the fact the he now endorses so many products and is seen so often on television is a fair enough barometer. Bhandare goes one up. He has tremendous screen presence, is a fabulous actor and has brought alive the character of TAHAAN to endear himself to the viewer, just like Safary did in TZP. To put it in a nutshell, Bhandare is pure genius. Full marks to Sivan for entrusting this lad with the load of the film. But I suspect, like his character, Tahaan, where he is unknowingly being used by terrorists, Bhandare had no clue that he was the main protagonist of this film! Before venturing into direction, Santosh Sivan was an acclaimed cinematographer and this time he blends the experience from both fields to come up with a visually appealing a...

‘Hijack’ a complete failure as a thriller

Film: “Hijack”; Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, K.K. Raina ; Director: Kunal Deshmukh; Rating: *Of all the films on the theme of terrorism, this one takes the ache. Painfully puerile and designed to put you off cinema on counter-terrorism forever, “ Hijack ” is a clumsy, amateurish take on all those slick airport-disaster Hollywood films like “Airport” and “Flightplan” that you’ve seen over the decades. The US gave us a wonderful film on the 9/11 tragedy called “United 93″, where we saw the trauma, pain and suffering of the hijacked passengers and their loved ones down below in extreme close-ups. In “Hijack”, the only suffering humanity is the audience who must bear debutant director Kunal Shivdasani’s clumsy efforts to take us dragging and kicking into disaster zone. All this flaky and feverish film gets out of us is a prolonged groan. Not one moment of the purported trauma gets to us…not even when the husband of a honeymooning bride is shot point blank by the caricatured terrorists...

Salman Khan’s Veer

Salman Khan ’s upcoming movie Veer has been offered a grand amount of Rs 150 crores. The flick is set to create a new record in Bollywood, topping even other big movies like London Dreams, which has been sold for a whopping Rs 120 crores to Studio 18, or Hrithik Roshan’s Kites , which has fetched an equally mammoth amount of Rs 120 crores from Eros International. The reason why ‘Veer’ is being seen as such a hot proposition is because its story is written by Salman himself. The movie, directed by Anil Sharma , is a period drama starring Salman, his brother Sohail Khan and Mithun Chakraborty . Salman’s leading lady in the movie would be a debutante, who, it is rumoured, looks almost like Katrina Kaif . Sallu is creating history by getting this amount. The offer for this amount comes from a top production house of Bollywood . Salman has truly put all his efforts in multiple areas for this movie. Apart from playing the lead character, he has penned the film’s story as well as has t...

Aamir joins Shahrukh’s Temptation

There is a good news for those who were longing to see Aamir and Shahrukh together. If not in films, the duo will come together for a show named Temptation. Shahrukh is the main protagonist of the show and at his request, Aamir has given his consent. Shahrukh wanted his show to be much bigger than Amitabh’s Unforgettable tour which has concluded recently and has gathered much accolades. To make the show bigger, he is all set to add big names to the show. The show has been badly effected as Katrina Kaif who is a big name in Bollywood has been discarded from the tour by Shahrukh following the ugly spat between him and Salman. Among other stars, Priyanka Chopra, Shahrukh’s good friend Arjun Rampal and Malaika Arora may join him on the tour. Temptation will kick start very soon and Shahrukh is gearing up for the tour. He is making all effort to make the affair a grand one and even bigger than Bachchan’s Unforgettable tour. Both Shahrukh and Aamir’s popularity is sea vast and undoubtedly...