Dibakar Banerjee’s fave music director turns TV show host
Young Sneha Khanwalkar is only the fourth woman music director in Bollywood to have worked on feature films, but she does not like to be addressed as one. She began composing with Ram Gopal Varma’s Go and later did Ruchi Narain’s Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow. However, she tasted success with Dibakar Banerjee‘s Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye soundtrack, also creating music for his groundbreaking film LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha. Click here to read more
After working with National Award-winning film director Dibakar Banerjee in Shanghai, Emraan Hashmi is unavailable for the film’s promotional event
The ultimate serial kisser of B-town is finding himself in a catch-22 situation. While Emraan Hashmi is excited about his quirky role in political thriller Shanghai, the 33-year-old star is also occupied with his other forthcoming release, Jannat 2. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee, Shanghai looks promisingly different and is slated to release on June 8. The talented director wants Emraan for a promotional event with Abhay Deol, but since Emraan is busy shooting Jannat 2, he can’t afford even a single day off. Click here to read more
The august Cineswami was inspired to pen this piece after reading Anupama Chopra’s excellent disquisition on how mainstream Bollywood audiences heap opprobrium on film critics when they criticise hit films like Ready
Now, Cineswami is not a critic, though he (or she as the case may be) has the annoying royal tendency of referring to himself or herself in the third person or indeed, frequently use difficult words like ‘disquisition’ or ‘opprobrium’ that are also annoying to the lay Bollywood fan. Rather, Cineswami is a film trade pundit who wades through the mire that is the minutiae of film business so that you don’t have to. Click here to read more