JAN 21, 2010
Freelance journalist and writer Sonal Mehta has taken Ram Gopal Varma and the producers of RANN to court for alleged breach of copyright. The director is unperturbed and in turn alleges that she is just trying to get publicity.
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Sudhir Mishra says the news of his unreleased film TERA KYA HOGA JOHNNY being available on the Internet came as a rude shock. The director, however, is confident that the unfinished version on the net won't jeopardize the film's prospects.
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Katrina Kaif has been signed the leading lady for TEES MAAR KHAN opposite Akshay Kumar. Akshaye Khanna also stars in this Shirish Kunder flick.
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Nana Patekar is getting set to direct a movie once again. He has finalised Deepika Padukone to play the lead.
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Just a couple of days the media was going on and on about how Rani and Vidya are bitter foes and would end up jeapordizing Deepa Mehta's MIDNIGHT CHILDREN. However UTV seem happy to have got them both together for NO ONE KILLED JESSICA. This UTV Spotboy presentation is directed by Rajkumar Gupta.
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Rohan Sippy's next film shall be titled DUM MARO DUM. The movie shall star Prateik, Telegu star Rana Daggubati along with Rohan's fave boy Abhishek.
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Bengali actress Tannishta Chatterjee (ROAD, tHE MOVIE) shall play the lead role in Lucy Liu's directorial venture which is still untitled. It is an all women-four segment feature film which puts actresses on the directors chair. Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep are reported to be directing the other two segments with the fourth one still remains unnamed.
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JAN 20, 2010
With the release of VEER just round the corner, Salman has come up with a brave declaration indeed. According to him, he shall take the blame entirely on himself, if VEER fails at the BO. Looks like someone is confident with his product.
Meanwhile another person frank right up is director Anil Sharma who goes onto state that all was not well during the making of VEER either.
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Cinematographer V K Murthy was chosed for the Dada Saheb Phalke award - the first cinematographer to receive this honour.
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Veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha's daughter Sonakshi is getting some plum offers. Her debut film DABANGG is still in the works, but the big news is that she has bagged the lead role in Pankaj Kapur's love story MAUSAM, opposite beta Shahid. Indiatimes
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Abbas Mustan is planning a big job indeed .This time he is getting an A list team for a desi Italian Job. So far the line up includes Abhishek, Neil Nitin, Akshaye Khanna and Kunal Kapoor. The only actress finalised so far is Katrina while other names like Priyanka, Preity, Bipasha etc are doing the rounds.
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KANNADA: Actress Nayantara is all set to make her Kannada debut in a yet untitled film to be directed by Upendra. The film will be a trilingual with it being made in Kannada, Tamil and Telegu as well. (NDTV )
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JAN 19, 2010
MALAYALAM: Joshi set to direct Mohanlal yet again in FAMILY MAN, which shall be produced under the Aroma Films banner. Currently Lal is acting in Joshi's CHRISTIAN BROTHERS.
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MALAYALAM: Doctor turned filmmaker Raj Nair, grandson of late Thakazhi Shivasankara Pillai, is happy to have completed work on his movie, PUNYAM AHAM. The Prithviraj starrer shall hit the screens in the coming week. Nowrunning
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MALAYALAM: Mammooty gets ready to play a mahout in GANAPATHI. The film, scripted by Reji Nair, shall be directed by VM Vinu.
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Some people have started cooking up stories about Aamir being the new Munnabhai for Raj Kumar Hirani. Aamir clarifies that there is no truth in these rumours and goes onto state that he has not signed any new movie yet. You can read more on Aamir's forthcoming plans at Bollywood Hungama.
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JAN 18, 2010
Mumbaimirror goes on to report that Ram Gopal Varma has confirmed that he is making a sequel to COMPANY. However the sequel shall take a detailed look into the workings of encounter specialists. So the question remains how is this Company 2 ...isnt this then supposed to be a sequel to Ab Tak Chappan?
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They call it recreating the Bobby effect. Veterans Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia shall be having an item dance number in Nikhil Advani's upcoming PATIALA HOUSE. And also featuring in the song, is Dimple's son in law Askhay Kumar. (source: Mid-day)
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Ishqiya's trailer has suddenly gone onto cause a stir. Parents were certainly not pleased with the screening of the A-rated trailer of ISHQIYA with the U-rated CHANCE PE DANCE. It seem the expletive laden promo had them cringing in the seats.
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Naseerudhin Shah and Anupam Kher shall reteam again in Neeraj Pandey's second flick SPECIAL CHABBIS. The team of A WEDNESDAY this time also brings Abhishek Bachchan to the party who shall play the main role in this heist flick, as per Mid-day.
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Anil Kapoor seem to be only thinking in global terms these days. The latest is he is trying to rope in some Hollywood biggies for future productions. Anil reportedly also got in touch with Ben Stiller to get into co-producting some forthcoming pics.
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News is that Deepa Mehta is keen to cast both Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan as sisters in her upcoming feature MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN. However it is yet to be seen whether the actresses would like to get into this sister act. Mumbaimirror
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Also in the casting news, Irfaan Khan shall be moving on from the Mira Nair camp into the Deepa Mehta camp as he looks to sign up for the lead role in MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN, based on the Salman Rushdie book.
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Veteran Kannada actor K S Aswath, who was in coma for the past three days, passed away early Monday at the age of 85. NDTV
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