John Abraham says he has worked hard to get into the character of Manya Surve, the gangster who was shot dead by Mumbai police in 1982, for the movie “Shootout At Wadala”, inspired by the real life incident. “I can honestly say that I have put in every kind of effort to study this character,...
The two places may be 600 km apart, but Oscar-winning Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has chosen Chandigarh and its surroundings in Punjab to depict the Pakistani city of Abbottabad – where Al Qaeda mentor Osama bin Laden was shot dead by US special forces – for her new film. On Thursday, her unit shot at...
Ram Gopal Varma admits he approached Indian Canadian porn star Sunny Leone for an item song in “Department”, but things didn’t work out and the song went to Nathalia Kaur. The filmmaker is in awe of the Brazilian model of Indian descent. “I never ever hid the fact that I am a devotee of a...
Kareena Kapoor is Imran Khan’s senior in the film industry, but he says this never came in the way while they were shooting for their forthcoming release “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” and that she made him feel like an equal. Kareena made her debut in 2000 with “Refugee”, while Imran stepped under the arclights...
Actor-filmmaker Arbaaz Khan, whose debut production “Dabangg” rocked the box office in 2010, says he is attempting to make its sequel diametrically different from the original. There is going to be no competition between the two, says Arbaaz. “When I did the first one, my intention was to tell a story which I believe in…which...
Karan Johar’s “Agneepath” remake has received a thumbs up from Bollywood celebrities, who attended a special screening of the much-awaited movie here. The Monday night screening saw attendance from celebrities like Arbaaz Khan and Arjun Rampal and they are all impressed with the remake of the 1990 film. The Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka...
When it comes to promoting and helping colleagues and friends from the film fraternity in popularizing their products, Shah Rukh Khan takes the cake. He proved it once again while co-hosting an award event when he told the audience to go and see Priyanka Chopra’s next film when it releases. The film is Kunal Kohli’s...
Sonu Sood might return to “Dabangg 2″. If sources are to be believed, the actor has been asked by Salman Khan to feature in the sequel of their 2010 blockbuster. In October last year, producer Arbaaz Khan announced that the sequel’s script didn’t allow him to cast Sonu in the role of villain Chhedi Singh...
Yesteryears Bollywood actor Prem Chopra and some others have been booked for defrauding a man in Rajasthan capital Jaipur on the pretext of giving him a role in a film and offering a partnership in a dance and acting school, police said Wednesday. According to police, the first information report (FIR) was registered at Subash...
The first look of Bipasha Basu and R. Madhavan starrer comedy “Jodi Breakers” is out. While Bipasha looks chic and stylish in a red gown, Madhavan looks urban and sophisticated in an all-black outfit, coupled with spectacles. “Jodi Breakers” is an up-beat, modern-age, urban humour film, that revolves around dysfunctional relationships, which eventually lead to...
After enthralling the audience with his daredevilry superhero acts in “RA.One”, superstar Shahrukh Khan returns to the villainous streak with Farhan Akhtar’s new film “Don 2- The King Is Back”, a sequel to 2006 film “Don”, which was a remake of Amitabh Bachchan starrer of the same name. “Don 2″ will be released with 3,000...
Priyanka Chopra admits Madhur Bhandarkar offered his most ambitious project “Heroine” to her, but she couldn’t accept it due to its streak of similarity with “Fashion”. However, she is sure Kareena Kapoor will do full justice to the role. “Madhur and I did talk about ‘Heroine’. For me, however, it would have been like a...
There was a Bollywood touch to Goa’s celebration of its 50th anniversary of liberation from 450 years of Portuguese rule Monday with a vision document suggesting construction of hi-tech studios to feed the Mumbai-based film industry. Vision document ‘Goa 2035′, which the Goa government commissioned to chart out a roadmap for the years ahead, envisioned...
Akshay Kumar dislikes being typecast as an ‘action’ or a ‘comedy’ hero and says he is not in the race for the top spot. “We are not fighting for any title. We are not race horses that you bet on them. We all actors are in one fraternity and we do films so that our...
When Ram Gopal Varma visited the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel soon after the 26/11 terror attacks, it was speculated he would make a film on the incident. The news is confirmed now. Varma has tentatively titled his film “26/11″, and he aims to capture the “behind-the-scenes” aspects of the terror attack as well...
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