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India, Nov. 19 -- Genre: Drama
Director: Rensil D'Silva

Genre: Fantasy Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman Cast: Jim Carrey, Steve Valentine This is a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned. It captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event. Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew.

The release date of Farhan Akhtar's Karthik Calling Karthik has now been pushed ahead to avoid a clash with Amitabh Bachchan starrer Teen Patti.

Actress Katrina Kaif has shed her coy and demure image, with a bang. Promotional photos of her upcoming film De Dana Dan show the actress looking really sexy in a clingy wet sari in an intense lovemaking song-sequence with actor Akshay Kumar.

Bombay, 1968. A gangly young man is seated in front of a prominent film director: Khwaja Ahmed Abbas. The director has already decided to cast the aspirant ? without an audition. The young man is surprised; he tells Abbas frankly that the other directors he approached told him he was too tall for their heroines.

Actors turned social networking junkies with the advent of Facebook. And with the rise of micro-blogging website, Twitter, they seem to have been swimming in a tank of sweet nothings. Friendship?s blooming on the networking portal, what with actors, filmmakers, singers and music composers giving their ?industry friends? a shout.

Clearly, he?s techno-friendly. Robert Zemeckis, the director of the Oscar-grabbing Forrest Gump, has obviously not rested on his laurels. On the heels of what has been termed the ?performance-capture? technique evidenced in The Polar Express and Beowulf, he returns with A Christmas Carol.

Bombay Summer, which explores the fleeting and delicate friendship among three young people, won top three awards including best film and best director at the MIAAC Film Festival here in which Deepti Naval also bagged an honour.

Her role as the innocent yet strong-willed Bani in the TV serial Kasamh Se got her instant recognition and fame. And also a film role - that of Farhan Akhtar?s wife in Rock On!, which won her good reviews. Her next release is Once Upon A Time In Mumbai.

Veteran filmmaker Basu Chatterjee, famous for evergreen hits like Chhoti Si Baat and Rajnigandha, finds Rani Mukherjee and Kajol the best among the current lot of Bollywood actresses.

She (Rakhi Sawant) just said I am too good for her and I should find someone better ? Elesh Parujanwala.

No police. I?m gonna deal with them myself,? says Vivek Oberoi?s Ayaaz, I suspect, to his audience?s gentle snigger. This gent, who can slip in and out of an American accent at free will, is a TV reporter. And evidently, part-Rambo in his head as well. He gets a fine lead into a major case: massive mid-air bombing of a UN plane, which had carried with it his girlfriend (Diya Mirza).

Last year?s sleeper hit, Twilight, is here. And its global popularity appears to be justified, thanks largely to Robert Pattinson, the young actor with tousled hair and a pale, kabuki mask-like face, who has been spoken about as the next best thing after Leonardo DiCaprio.

No police. I?m gonna deal with them myself,? says Vivek Oberoi?s Ayaaz, I suspect, to his audience?s gentle snigger. This gent, who can slip in and out of an American accent at free will, is a TV reporter. And evidently, part-Rambo in his head as well. He gets a fine lead into a major case: massive mid-air bombing of a UN plane, which had carried with it his girlfriend (Diya Mirza).

An accessory designer took a fashion designer to court over non payment in a rather unusual move, and won. Fashion designer Rakesh Agarvwal has been ordered by a Delhi court to pay Rs 65,000 for using footwear by shoe designer Samir Singh Bajaj in his show at Lakme Fashion Week last year.

Seeking to quell the controversy created by the absence of superstar Kamal Haasan's films at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Ambika Soni, the information and broadcasting minister has announced that a retrospective of his works would be held in Delhi next year.

Expressing surprise at news reports about her decision to play Indira Gandhi in an upcoming biopic on the former PM, actress Madhuri Dixit told HT City that she?s not even thought about it yet, let alone signed on the dotted line.

While fans of the Twilight saga across the world celebrated the sequel New Moon?s release yesterday, it gave India a miss. Instead of the second instalment, movie buffs will have to make do with Twilight, that too, a year after it released in the US.

There?s great news for Shakira fans ? the Latino singer may soon be heard crooning to Indian tunes. Bollywood music director duo, Sajid-Wajid, is collaborating with the Hips Don?t Lie singer for an Indo-western song.

New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- Genre: Drama Director: Chris Weitz Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson