First weekend performance of latest release Extreme styles of film making came to fore last Friday with the release of Taxi No. 9211, Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai and Sun Zarra. While Taxi No. 9211 was an original script which could qualify as new age cinema due to the subject and overall treatment, both Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai and Sun Zarra were stuck in a time wrap when it came to storyline and treatment. Not surprisingly the audience enjoyed the ride …

It is good news that Amitabh Bachchan is back to work after a long time gap. What was welcoming was the fact that he started with a song recording and with the Filmfare Awards. The most recent development in the story is his association down south. Bachchan has verbally agreed to do the Hindi remake of the Rajinikanth blockbuster Chandramukhi. Telegu filmmaker V.N. Aditya will direct it. KS Rama Rao and Sa Re Ga Ma will produce it. The film was …

Nagesh Kukunoor took the audience by an in swing in his last film Iqbal. People may feel that things have become easy for the director. Here comes the googly. He is very disappointed with his experience with Mukta Arts. Hence he has decided not to be with them for his next venture. He is now making his next film tentatively titled Aashayein with Sahara Motion Pictures. The film can loosely be called an emotional story of human beings. Nagesh …

The film industry anywhere on the globe sees actors in their second innings as directors or producers who use their past experience and talent to enhance the art of film making. Kunal Kapoor is sure an exception to this fact. He is still in his youth. He is still an actor who has not completed the first innings of his career and yet has stepped into the second. When not acting, he is making short and meaningful films that earn him name and fame …

Murli Sharma is known to be one of the finest actors in the film industry. He performs every role to the best of his capacity sometimes going a little overboard too. He does his work with extreme dignity and has as much talent as any other popular actor. This gentleman is now looking forward to his three English films. It is amazing how this actor manages to deliver his best in three absolutely different roles. In his film, The Detour he plays …

He was the funny landlord in Salaam Namaste. He tickles people's funny bones with his stand up acts in public and on television. Javed Jaffery has recently completed Richard Dreyfuss' film The Forest. It has been made with Ashwin Kumar (Little Terrorist fame). The film is an interesting story of three people and a child. He has also had a chat with many filmmakers and might be seen in three or four good films very soon. His career in films took …

Remember that film inspired by the encounter specialist Daya Nayak? That was Kagaar that had Amitabh Dayal playing the lead. Now the actor plans to make a sequel to the film Kagaar. He seems quite inspired by the recent developments in the encounter specialist's life. He wants to base his film on that and make it look and sound commercial for the masses. He may even include item numbers and some other masala elements in the film. Dr. Mrinalini …

Only yesterday we mentioned about the casting coup that could happen with Mani Ratnam's 'Guru' if Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Viveik Oberoi indeed come together. But this is not the end of the story as there are other big and reputed names that are involved with this mega project. Here they go: Producer: Mani Ratnam Story, screenplay, direction: Mani Ratnam Dialogue: Anurag Kashyap Music: A.R. Rahman Lyrics: Gulzar Cinematography: …

Well, its not really our fault if a news item about Himesh Reshammiya finds a place on our website on an almost daily basis. Afterall the man is not resting at all and finding his name plastered everywhere, be it billboards, talent hunt shows or album covers. Unrelenting in his onscreen appearances to the songs sung by him, he would now be seen in the music video of the third song from his private album 'Aap Ka Surroor'. A painful song with an …

As Asha Bhonsle comes up with a twin CD album in a nicely decorated pack where she remembers RD (pancham-da), one thing that catches your attention in the first instance itself is the usage of RED color. Everything about the album is RED, be it the cover or the inlay design. And this is not all, as the video of the promotional number 'Cha Cha Cha' [Shalimar] too has been shot primarily in RED with the sets colored with different shades of red. …