Category Archive for: ‘News’
Bollywood Today
Bharat Ratna Goes to Dilip Kumar The Indian film fraternity is trying to seek solidarity comments on a social networking website in order to urge the government to confer the prestigious Bharat Ratna to Bollywood thespian Dilip Kumar. A community titled ‘Dilip Kumar for Bharat …
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IIFA on the cards, Rajesh to get Lifetime award Yesteryear’s superstar Rajesh Khanna will be given the lifetime achievement award at the 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards in Macao this month. Rajesh, who gave hits like Aradhana, Kati Patang, Anand and Amar Prem, …
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IIFA 2009 goes to China The three-day long 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) weekend will be held this year at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel at Macau, China starting June 11-13. According to Amitabh Bachchan, the IIFA brand ambassador, 2009 celebrates a decade of …
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Bollywood Bachelors
As an invariable outcome of romance quite a few of such relationships do end in marriage. Even still, the number of such bachelors in Bollywood is not a miniscule figure and on its own, these stars can themselves create a multi-starring blockbuster. Take the case …
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100 Years of Cinema in India
by Jaya Ramanathan India Perspectives When the Lumiere Brothers’ first films were shown at Bombay’s Watson’s Hotel in 1895 or when Dadasaheb Phalke released his epochal feature film Raja Harishchandra in 1913, it is unlikely that either the exhibitors or the pioneer film maker realized …
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Bollywood Today
Bollywood Fathers and Their Children The Indian film industry is not an exception. For the last seven decades, one has seen an actor’s son or daughter joining the film bandwagon. A discussion along this line inevitably begins with the first family of Bollywood – the …
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Vivek Oberoi’s brand image to get a paradigm shift Vivek Oberoi recently bagged Karan Johar’s next production to be directed by Rensil D’Silva, in which he will be starring in the lead along with Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Meanwhile, Popcorn Motion Pictures and …
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Chitra Palekar’s ‘Maati Maay’ wins French award Chitra Palekar’s Maati Maay won the award ‘Prix du jury Graine de Cinephage’ in the feature films category, in the recently concluded 30th International Film Festival ‘Films de Femmes’ of Creteil, a suburb of Paris in France. This …
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Ajay Devgan gets back to Santoshi fold After aborted projects like Saamna and London Dreams, Rajkumar Santoshi and Ajay Devgan will finally have a release to their name in the form of Halla Bol. The combination of Devgan and Santoshi has often been referred to …
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Bollywood Today
2007 A Peek at Bollywood Hits Misses Year after year, the Hindi film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, churns out hundreds of films for captivated fans everywhere. However, the fate of all these films is not necessarily the same. There are some blockbusters that remain …
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