Rajinikanth to sing in Hindi for the first time for AR Rahman!
The superstar will be partnering with the Oscar winning composer for his daughter Soundarya’s film Kochadaiyaan
He has fought a hundred baddies at a time, split a bullet in half, made a midget dance and done a tandav on the head of a ten-headed robot snake! So clearly, there is little that Click here to read more
Why didn’t Kochadaiyaan trailer make it to Cannes film festival?
The decision to unveil the trailer of Rajinikanth-starrer Kochadaiyaan at Cannes was called off at the last minute
As the team of Kochadaiyaan is still working on the final output of the trailer, the film couldn’t make it to the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. ” The trailer is shaping out well. Click here to read more
AR Rahman feels Kochadaiyaan animation effects are ‘epic’
The music maestro says that the animation effects in one of the songs he saw was truly EPIC!
Even as millions of Rajinikanth fans eagerly await the release of Kochadaiyaan, AR Rahman has watched some important scenes from the movie and is all praise for it. Click here to read more
BollywoodLife Anniversary: Actors, filmmakers, experimenters – What is the future of Bollywood directors?
With the kind of movies that are being made in Bollywood changing so fast, we just had to look at what filmmakers could do more of in the future
Bollywood has grown tremendously in the last few years. And in the two years that we’ve been tracking the filmbiz, hawk-eyed, following every single movie that hits the screens, reporting on Click here to read more
BollywoodLife anniversary special: What’s going to rock down South – the year ahead for stars, movies and music
We complete a roller-coaster year and we’ve brought you the hottest stories as they break in the colourful medley that is South cinema – from all the best movies, to every move of the top stars, the big hits, the surprise flops, everything. Time now to take you on a trip into the future
On this anniversary, here’s what we think the next year with BollywoodLife and South Gossip will bring you…
Superstars: Even with newbies and unlikely heroes arriving on the scene and winning acclaim, star power will rule. Right from the ultimate Superstar, Rajini saar (who has Kochadaiyaan coming up) to Kamal Haasan and Mollywood’s Mammootty and Mohanlal, their ratings will remain intact. Click here to read more
Mocking the Khans of Bollywood
Cineswami takes a dig at Shahrukh, Aamir, Salman and Saif Ali Khan and also Sanjay Dutt, while telling us about Gestures, a new silent film in Kannada and also actor Priya Anand’s entry in Aishwarya R Dhanush’s new film
Director Sairam Shanthakumar has rolled cameras on Gestures, ostensibly a Kannada film but in reality a silent film in 99 languages. Confused? Not to worry, Cineswami is at hand to explain all. The leads of the film are Dhruva Sharma and Spoorthi. Both actors are speech and hearing impaired and the film will therefore be played out in sign language with all the songs also being only in instrumental rather than vocal versions. Thought bubbles will pop up around the leads, reflecting what they are thinking at any given moment and these, being customisable, will be in 99 different languages. Click here to read more
Dhanush, Samantha Ruth Prabhu win Best Actor trophies at 7th Vijay Awards
As many as 30 trophies were given away in different categories at the gala ceremony on Saturday, including the Chevalier Sivaji award for excellence in Indian cinema to Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan
Dhanush won the Best Actor Male Award at the 7th Vijay Awards for his performance in his wife Aishwarya Dhanush’s directorial debut 3, while Samantha Ruth Prabhu won the Best Actor Female Award for her work in Neethaane En Ponvasantham. Click here to read more
Anniversary special: Yash Chopra’s funeral, Priyanka Chopra’s Mary Kom look, Sanjay Dutt’s jail term – the biggest stories of the year on BollywoodLife!
We wrote about it and you read it – here are the biggest stories of the year that helped make BollywoodLife bigger and better than ever!
Being on the Internet has its advantages. Here we can interact with readers in real time and know how the react to us through their comments. We understand what people want to read and Click here to read more
AR Rahman’s daughter Khatija scores 94 percent in 12th board exams
The music maestro tweeted about his daughter’s brilliant performance on a microblogging site
AR Rahman is in seventh heaven as his daughter Khatija passed her board exams with flying colours. Khatija had lent her voice to the track Pudiya manidha from Enthiran starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan –the Tamil version of Robot. Click here to read more
AR Rahman completes writing his first movie script; a popular director to helm the project
The music maestro’s dream finally comes true as he finds time to pen his first script, and has even got a producer excited about the venture
Putting an end to the industry buzz that he would soon wield the megaphone for a movie, AR Rahman has said that he will not direct a film, but has finished writing a script. Click here to read more
