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Very often than not, we hear the term ?realistic? cinema in the film industry, especially when a film festival is being hosted. For starters, what is ?realistic? cinema? Real locales ? shot on streets or running trains, shots that require just one take, no song-and-dance routines ? yet have one scene-based song, low budget and made in just 20-30 days.

Tell us about your background. I was born in Hong Kong and then lived in Hawaii and France because my mum was involved with an NGO. I only lived in the UK, in Finchley, London, between the age of 14 to 17.

Mumbai Nov 3 (IANS) Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited's (ABCL) debut Marathi production 'Vihir' (The Well) was screened at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival here Tuesday.

Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) Bollywood veteran and politician Shatrughan Sinha, who has maintained his moustache throughout his 36-year-old film career, has now got rid of it for Ram Gopal Varma's 'Rakta Charitra'.

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Bollywood actress Eesha Koppikhar, who is tying the knot Nov 27 with beau Timmy Narang, is trying to complete all her projects before the D-day, including an item number for her forthcoming 'Right Ya Wrong'.

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) After promoting her size zero figure in India, actress Kareena Kapoor has chosen to endorse Sony's newly launched half-inch thin notebook VAIO X because the product goes well with her looks - 'thin and lightweight', the actress said Tuesday.

Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore has starred with her daughter Soha Ali Khan for the first time in 'Life Goes On', a film on British Indians that was screened at the ongoing 11th Mumbai Film Festival.

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan recently joined the chorus for a special song as a tribute to the victims of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai.

The bold and the (slightly) bitter-ful ?MAMI goes Bold? said the headline of a local daily a week back, suggesting that the films shown this time would be more daring, vicious or even steamy. The article passed off as just another report, perhaps a warning to some. But what we?ve been watching at the ongoing festival is quite brutal and intimate.

The Lokhandwala Lad is on Facebook, finally, and under the same name. I have been meaning to mention it for a while now, but run out of word space every time. So might as well mention it at the beginning over here.

When Philippino director Brillante Mendoza walked home with the best director award for his fllm Kinatay at the Cannes film Festival 2009, he knew he had the world looking at him. ?I started getting calls from producers all over the world. I knew I had it? recognition.? Mendoza feels that Cannes will always be a bigger form for filmmakers because it?s been on for a long time now.

Now Rapchik Rajni wants me to hear some khabar from the trial of London Dreams that Ajay Devgn hosted a couple of days ago. Naturally, biwi Kajol, beti Nysa and his parents were present for a dekko of the intense actor as a music artiste.

Actress Amrita Rao says that she and actor Shahid Kapoor have been getting the same fan mail since way too long, and its high time they did something about it. ?After the success of Ishq Vishq and Vivaah, both of us have been getting letters from fans asking us when we are working together again. Same is the case with Shahid.

Weren?t you apprehensive that Aladin was releasing with London Dreams? I would be lying if I said I wasn?t. Every actor worth his salt and pepper wants to have a solo release every Friday but that?s not how things work.

Slumdog kids are getting greedy. And filmmaker Danny Boyle is not liking it. Last Thursday, Boyle left Mumbai upset after his child actors put forth more demands ? Azharuddin Ismail is now demanding a car, and Rubina Ali wants Rs 15 lakh more. Rubina?s father, Rafiq, had asked for Rs 40 lakh for a flat, of which Rs 25 lakh has already been given to them.

In February 2010, Indian moviegoers may get to seek an audience with Hollywood actors Jessica Biel, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The latest in line of romantic comedies to hit the screen is director Rajkumar Santoshi's 'Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani', though the filmmaker who returns to the genre after 15 years says he is not following any trends, but has in fact been a trendsetter himself.

Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) A Kashmiri by origin, Tariq Tapa was tired of films being made on Kashmir that revolved around terrorism. Having studied filmmaking in the US, he finally made his directorial debut at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) with 'Zero Bridge' on life and people in state.

Julia Klesse has all the right moves Her dream is to star in Bollywood masala movie, and sing and dance along.

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who turned 44 Monday, spent some 'quiet time with family and friends' on his birthday, putting behind a year of ups and downs and looking forward to a strong comeback.