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Behad Pyaar – Infinite Love is my dream project: Rahman
AR Rahman says working on his new single is just like creating an album because of his deep involvement in the project
Oscar-winning musician AR Rahman, who has composed many songs on love, peace and harmony, has come up with a new song Behad Pyaar – Infinite Love and describes it as his dream project after Vande Mataram (1997). Click here to read moreClick to Comment
AR Rahman’s son Ameen makes stage debut at Chennai International Film Festival
The Slumdog Millionaire composer’s son performed a short medley on the piano at the CIFF
Oscar-winning Indian composer AR Rahman‘s son Ameen gave his first public performance at the opening ceremony of 10th Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) in Chennai on Thursday, December 13. Click here to read moreAnil Kapoor: Anupam Kher’s Silver Linings Playbook is the frontrunner for Oscar nomination
Mission Impossible 4 actor Anil Kapoor feels his buddy Anupam Kher’s Hollywood film will be nominated for the Academy Award
Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor feels Anupam Kher-starrer Silver Linings Playbook is the front-runner for an Oscar nomination. “He (Anupam Kher) has been a kind of an actor who has been an integral part of so many films, like Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Ram Lakhan, Beta, Saaransh, and Daddy. Then Bend It Like Beckham and now Silver Linings Playbook, which I am confidently saying is the frontrunner for nomination for the Oscar,” the 52-year-old said at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival on Thursday evening. Click here to read moreMidnight’s Children movie reviews aren’t that great. Will you watch it in India?
Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children finally gets an Indian distributor, but the international critics have panned it, says Cineswami
The film version of controversial author Salman Rushdie’s Booker of Booker-winning novel Midnight’s Children has finally found an Indian distributor. The film was a bit of a poisoned chalice for distributors in India thanks to both Rushdie and its director Deepa Mehta. A fatwa was issued against Rushdie after his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses was deemed to be offensive and blasphemous; and fundamentalists disrupted Deepa Mehta’s Varanasi shoot for Water for the same reason. Click here to read moreAamir Khan has a fan in Hollywood star Tom Hanks!
Aamir Khan’s work for society through Satyamev Jayate impresses Oscar Award-winning actor-director Tom Hanks. Interestingly, Aamir is often compared to Tom for both his acting style and looks!
Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks read about Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s work for the Indian society, and is mightily impressed. He says “giving back” (to the society) is tough. Click here to read moreResul Pookutty denies saying ‘Satyamev Jayate’ was ‘manipulated’!
A while ago we heard that the Oscar-winning sound specialist said that Aamir Khan’s television show was doctored. Now he insists that that was not what he meant. Eh?
We’ve all watched Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate with varying degrees of emotion threatening to spill over by way of tears. And according to Resul Pookutty, it can be blamed on the manipulation of audience’s reaction and the sad background score. Click here to read moreWas Aamir Khan’s ‘Satyamev Jayate’ manipulated?
Resul Pookutty, who had won an Oscar Award for sound mixing in Slumdog Millionaire, claims that it could be the case
Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate whipped up quite a lot of buzz – positive and negative. Click here to read moreAALAAP Movie Review: A juvenile propaganda film
It’s an unabashedly one-sided film about winning over Maoists through music
Film: Aalaap; Cast: Amit Purohit, Pitobash, Aabid Shamim, Harsh Rajput, Murali Sharma, Vijay Raaz, Raghubir Yadav and Abhimanyu Singh; Director: Manish Manikpuri; Rating: 1.5 Click here to read more
