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'Moggina Manasu' - clean, enjoyable family entertainer IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Film: 'Moggina Manasu'; Cast: Shubha Poonja, Manasi, Radhika Pandit, Sangeetha Shetty, Yash, Manoj Skanda and others; Story-Screenplay-Direction: Shashank; Producer: E. Krishnappa; Camera; Chandrashekhar; Music: Mano Murthy; Editor: Suresh Urs; Ratings: ***
Big B ecstatic about Toronto performance, great crowds IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) The Bachchans' 'Unforgettable' tour got overwhelming response in Toronto and Amitabh can't stop raving about the 'fantastic' crowds and their 'energetic' performances.
Bollywood feels inflation heat, but takes it in stride IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Bollywood, India's Rs.96 billion ($ 2.3 billion) film industry, has taken a beating due to rising prices.
Hip-hop rules in 'Money Hai Toh Honey Hai' IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Film: 'Money Hai Toh Honey Hai'; Music Composer: Nitin Arora and Sony Chandy; Lyrics: Sameer; Singers: Adnan Sami, Nitin Arora, Sony Chandy, Harshdeep Kaur, Shruti Pathak, Bob, Ishq Bector, Shantanu Hudlikar, Arya, Labh Janjua, Sunidhi Chauhan, Earl, Kunal Ganjawala, Rekha Bharadwaj, Daler Mehndi, Saleem, Suraj Jagan, Shaan; Rating: **
I refused to play Shantanu in Ekta's 'Mahabharat': Mukesh Khanna IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Mumbai, July 21(IANS) Mukesh Khanna, who played the role of Bhishma Pitamah in B.R. Chopra's 'Mahabharat', says he was offered Shantanu's role in Ekta Kapoor's 'Kahani Hamaaray Mahabharat Ki' but turned it down.
TRPs have degraded quality of Indian TV soaps, serials: Experts IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) The classic school of scriptwriting suggests that every story must have three basic parts - beginning, middle, and end - without which it is not complete. But the melodramatic daily soaps on Indian TV channels have a beginning that people forget in the middle and wait for the end that never comes.
At 84, Dev Anand plans for a hit film IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Age has not dampened the spirit of evergreen Bollywood star Dev Anand. The 84-year-old thespian is now busy with his new film 'Chargesheet', a murder mystery that will star Jackie Shroff and a host of newcomers.
Ranvir Shorey, Konkona Sen engaged? IANS - Mon, Jul 21
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Rumours are rife that Ranvir Shorey and Konkona Sen-Sharma are as engaged to one another as can be, but neither party is willing to talk about it.
Clash of the titans HT - Mon, Jul 21
Big-budget movies, A-list stars, key production houses and a fight for Fridays. That's the big picture every weekend from August onwards, as simultaneous movie releases mean a battle at the box office.
Romantic at HEART HT - Mon, Jul 21
He is as raw as his films. There is no acquired accent, no affected mannerism. It's just Madhur Bhandarkar, the man who, at one point of time, ran a video library. Despite having won three National Awards for his rather grimly real films, Bhandarkar in person is surprisingly warm and witty.
Music of 'Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam' released in Mumbai ANI - Sun, Jul 20
Mumbai, July 20 (ANI): The music launch of Bollywood film 'Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam' was held in Mumbai on Saturday.
Southern filmmakers want me to look chubby, says Pia Trivedi IANS - Sun, Jul 20
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Model-cum-VJ Pia Trivedi prefers working in Bollywood rather than southern films because the filmmakers in the south want her to put on extra pounds.
Mukesh Khanna plans an animation series on 'Shaktimaan' IANS - Sun, Jul 20
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) TV actor Mukesh Khanna is planning an animation series on his small screen superhero serial 'Shaktimaan' and says it'll make the character immortal.
Bollywood puts up stage shows to tap greener pastures IANS - Sun, Jul 20
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The mammoth Hindi film industry is pinning its hopes on high-pitched live stage shows to fulfil the ever elusive dreams of achieving crossover success. From legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan to Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan, everyone is busy with world concerts.
After spat, Salman, Shah Rukh not in mood for compromise IANS - Sun, Jul 20
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) No one could anticipate that a star-studded birthday party of Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif would turn into a battle of the two Indian super stars - Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan - dividing the industry into two camps.
'Zindagi' - a hopeless triangular love story IANS - Sun, Jul 20
Film: 'Zindagi'; Cast: Rajeev, Priyanka, Kishore, Mandya Ramesh and others; Director: Mugil; Producer: A.T. Lokesh, Camera: Mallikarjuna; Music: Mysore Mohan; Ratings: *
Curtain comes down on 10th Osian's Cinefan IANS - Sun, Jul 20
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Over 200 feature and short-fiction films from around 40 countries proved to be a visual treat at the 10th edition here of the Osian's Cinefan Film Fest of Asian and Arab cinema.
Sun, Jul 20
Salem (TN), Jul 20 (PTI) Noted Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma is planning to make a film on the life of the dreaded sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, who was gunned down by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force. Slain brigand's wife Muthulakshmi told PTI here today that Prashant Pandey, writer of Varma's latest film 'Sarkar Raj', would direct the film on Veerappan and the script was ready.
Sanjaya not returning calls to perform at fest IANS - Sun, Jul 20
London, July 20 (IANS) Sanjaya Malakar, the controversial Indian-American contestant of hugely popular US TV show 'American Idol', wants to stay below the radar and has not answered calls of the Plymouth Rox Summer Fest organisers.
Saris disappearing from the big screen? IANS - Sun, Jul 20
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) A sari-clad woman walking down New York's swish Fifth Avenue would cause any number of heads to turn but sadly, Bollywood, through whose eyes much of the world sees India, has virtually discarded the six-yard wonder.