Cineswami tells us more about choreographer-director Remo D’Souza’s new projects with Disney UTV
The fate of Any Body Can Dance (ABCD) may be uncertain at the box office, but Disney UTV has gone ahead and signed choreographer-turned-director Remo D’Souza for a two-film deal. The first one is most likely a sequel to ABCD. Click here to read more
SRK feels strongly about the Pakistan attack on two Indian armymen, and says that soldiers should not die for unnecessary reasons
Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan, who played a soldier recently in Jab Tak Hai Jaan, reacted to the January 8 killing of Indian soldiers at the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. He is “deeply saddened”, he said, adding that whoever is responsible should be held accountable for the attack. Click here to read more
West Bengal’s cyber crime cell thinks that the model’s naked photo for Sachin Tendulkar could cause riots
Remember model Poonam Pandey’s nude picture for cricketer Sachin Tendulkar after he scored his 100th 100? Yes, the one in which Poonam is holding a photo of Sachin morphed into a Hindu god, with a Pakistani cricketer genuflecting before the frame – all this on a cricket ground. Now this image has caused a lot of controversy, with BollywoodLife getting comments like “This is not fair for Bollyeoodlife.com, it’s turned to relegionic insult. Admin (Bollywoodlife.com) plzzz take action on this photo [sic]” and “That’s cool for her fan, but it’s bad for our culture”.
What’s more, the Cyber Crime Cell of the West Bengal CID has observed that the picture in question “is likely to spread riotous situation (in between two communities Hindu and Muslim) in West Bengal, India.” And they have politely commanded, “Hence you are requested to block remove the picture from your site as early as possible.” Click here to read more
It may be recalled that SRK got into hot water with a right wing political party not so long ago because he’d suggested that Pakistani cricketers be allowed to play in the IPL. Thanks to King Khan’s sentiments, the party also disrupted the release of My Name Is Khan. Now the Badshah of Bollywood has given an interview to Pakistan’s premier newspaper Dawn where he’s said that he will visit our neighbour. He’s also advocated Pakistani artistes working in Bollywood
A true flag flier of Aman Ki Asha is our Khan. Here’s hoping that the right wing politicos don’t blow this up and disrupt the Don 2 release and instead take Khan’s comments in the spirit in which he meant them. Excerpts from the Dawn interview Click here to read more