Bollywood News

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Take a sheet of paper. Shake it, rumple it and tear it. Place the act in the context of creative art, installations, short texts and theatre. You get a free-flowing genre of inter-disciplinary art called Fluxus art, an exhibition of which will be held here this month.

New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Cute, petite and vivacious TV actress Prachi Desai, who is better known as Bani of 'Kasamh Se', is all set to shed her typical Indian girl image in her first film 'Rock On' opposite director-turned-actor Farhan Akhtar.

Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) Madhuri Dixit received Padma Shri for her contribution to Indian cinema and the former Bollywood diva says the honour is a result of her hard work and honesty.

Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) Bollywood's glam girl Sameera Reddy, who worked with Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Das Gupta in 'Kaalpurush', says he has changed her into a serious actor.

Cricket's much vaunted tie-up with Bollywood and big business has run into trouble. The latest controversies include rumours that Shah Rukh Khan is poised to sell his Kolkata team; that Vijay Mallya -having fired his Bangalore team CEO - is now taking on captain Rahul Dravid and that Preity Zinty is pulling back on her involvement with the team.

Chennai, May 13 (IANS) A three-day standoff in the Tamil Nadu film industry between directors and their assistants came to an end Tuesday following political and police intervention, industry insiders said.

Chennai, May 13 (IANS) Hollywood actor John Shea will play a villain in a Tamil film 'Achamundu Achamundu' (We Are Afraid) featuring Prasanna and Sneha, its NRI director Arun Vaidyanathan said Tuesday.

New Delhi, May 13 (ANI): Time and again films have been made featuring metropolis Mumbai as its main protagonist. With every new flick, a completely unknown side of the city is brought forth. And the same applies to 'Mumbai Cutting, A City Unfolds' - the film which is a buffet of 11 films serving different flavours of the metropolis.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Mahindra & Mahindra, one of India's leading automobile manufacturing companies, is diversifying into the entertainment media.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Veteran Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who turned 85 Tuesday, will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award at the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, starting July 10 in the capital.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, who is a big fan of Indian-American director, producer and writer Manoj 'Night' Shyamalan's work, regrets that she couldn't be formally introduced to the spook specialist in Delhi. But she is happy he was being recognised alongside her.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Actor-producer Suniel Shetty is all set to play a real life character in 'Red Alert-The War Within' about the Maoist movement in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Award winning filmmaker Mrinal Sen of 'Bhuvan Shome', 'Ek Din Achanak' and 'Mrigaya' fame turned 85 Tuesday, an event marked by a special screening of a documentary on him by his protege, but the director says 'birthdays are nothing special'.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Sikander Kher's introductory scene in his debut 'Woodstock Villa' was inspired from Tom Cruise starrer 'Days of Thunder' and shot at a whopping budget of Rs.15 million.

Islamabad, May 13 (IANS) Advance booking has begun for the Indian film 'Jannat' which releases this Friday and has already entered the record books as the first film to be screened in both Pakistan and India.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Maverick filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is perhaps the only director from Bollywood to be invited to Paris' prestigious Theatre du Chatelet to direct an opera. He is overwhelmed by the experience but admits facing a language problem.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Bollywood is smarting under two box-office disasters - Yash Raj Films' star-studded 'Tashan' and Filmkraft's 'Krazzy 4'. Their failure has proved that gloss, style and fluff cannot be a mantra for success without a convincing script.

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) 'Indian Idol' winner Abhijeet Sawant, who quietly tied the knot with long-time friend Shilpa Edvankar last December, gives credit to Sony TV's reality show for the marriage.

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Britain and India Monday signed a treaty to co-produce films and the two countries are expected to make as many as 10 movies within the first two years.