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Will Barfi! be disqualified from the Oscar race?
The film might find passing the originality test of the Academy Awards jury next to impossible. Is there still any hope for it to win a trophy? Read on to find out…
Insiders say that when Mani Ratnam’s Nayagan starring Kamal Hassan was sent as India’s official entry to the Oscars in 1987, it was disqualified by the jury and did not make it to the nominations for Best Foreign Language Film Click here to read more2 Comments
First ever Delhi International Film Festival from December 21-27
The Capital will host a film festival in its name for the first time
After getting a glimpse of Arab and Asian cinema at the Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival, get set for the first ever Delhi International Film Festival (DIFF) December 21-27 hosted by the Capital. As many as 150 films from 70 countries including France, Israel, Britain and Brazil will be shown during the week-long festival showcasing world cinema, that will be held at Siri Fort Auditorium and NDMC Convention Centre. Click here to read moreSalman Khan takes another swipe at Shahrukh Khan
Cineswami gets you all the dope from the much-talked about Ambani party for Sachin Tendulkar
The event organised by Mukesh and Nita Ambani at their ostentatious hotel, sorry, home, Antilla, was ostensibly to celebrate Sachin Tendulkar’s century of centuries. However, the perennially attention seeking Bollywood stars who are used to being the cynosure of all eyes tried to hijack the event and make it all about themselves. Priyanka Chopra, the hostess of the evening, gushed, as is her wont and babbled, as is her curse and nobody paid her the slightest attention, as is correct. Aamir Khan spoke at length about how he had spotted Sachin when the cricketer was a 14-year-old boy and predicted great things for him. He claimed that he had a bet with Ambani in 2009 that Sachin would reach his landmark soon. Aamir continued speaking for a while, so long-winded that Shatrughan Sinha was openly bored, Hrithik Roshan was reduced to staring glassily into space and Shankar Mahadevan began checking messages on his phone. Click here to read moreAkshay Kumar: Comedy is tougher than action
He has proved to be a ‘khiladi’ of both genres – action and comedy. But kicking and boxing in front of the camera is far easier than making the audience laugh, says Bollywood star Akshay Kumar
“Action is easy, it is very easy. Comedy is difficult,” said Akshay as he was busy shooting for Neeraj Pandey’s Special Chabbis. Click here to read moreAcademy Awards 2012: AR Rahman performs with band
This is the music maestro’s third outing at the Oscars
Indian composer AR Rahman performed at the 84th Academy Awards here as part of the Oscar band in his third performance at the prestigious award ceremony. “Oscar sangamam – if you are watching the Oscars live, catch our Oscar superband headed by Hans Zimmer perform tonight,” Rahman posted on his Facebook page for his fans. He even posted a picture with all members of the band, which performed throughout Sunday night’s ceremony. Click here to read moreAnil Ambani walks Oscar Awards 2012 red carpet with Steven Spielberg
Reliance DreamWorks’ film The Help gets golden statuette for best supporting actor
Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani walked the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles Sunday, where three films produced by DreamWorks Studios, his co-venture with Steven Speilberg, were nominated for 11 Oscars. Among the 11 nominations, Octavia Spencer fetched the Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in The Help. Spencer was honoured with the golden statuette for her portrayal of big-mouthed maid Minny in The Help. Click here to read moreOscar Awards 2012 winners: Bollywood tweets
Bollywood wrote about the 84th Academy Awards winners on social networking site Twitter
Looks like most people in Bollywood were asleep during the live telecast of the 84th Academy Awards. Some enthusiastic ones were wide awake though, and tweeted as the award ceremony was being aired. Amitabh Bachchan did not tweet but wrote about the winning film The Artist on his blog before the Oscars. He said, “I watched a lovely film ‘The Artist’ via the UFO set up in the house and it was a delight to see a black and white, silent movie in February of 2012!! In an age when color and music and speech and sound play such an important role in cinema today, it was most innovative on the part of the makers to present something like this. I believe it is up for the Oscars, which are out tomorrow on Sunday.” The others who tweeted included Neil Nitin Mukesh, Celina Jaitly, Shreya Ghoshal and Rajat Kapoor. Some film journalists were also tweeting incessantly. Amongst all the buzz, we liked what a music channel tweeted. Take a look at Click here to read more‘The Artist’ is a delight to watch: Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan, who is recuperating at home after abdominal surgeries, is enjoying a “no time-table” life. Apart from doing other things, he watched Oscar-winning film The Artist and said it was a “delight” to view the silent black and white French movie. “Being by myself and almost in solitary confinement, is getting contagious. I am beginning to rather like this state. Nowhere to go, nothing obligatory to perform, random timings and the liberty to do what I desire. I eat whenever, sleep whenever, watch a movie whenever and happy doing so,” Big B posted on his blog.
He added: “I watched a lovely film ‘The Artist’ via the UFO set up in the house and it was a delight to see a black and white, silent movie in February of 2012!! In an age when color and music and speech and sound play such an important role in cinema today, it was most innovative on the part of the makers to present something like this. I believe it is up for the Oscars, which are out tomorrow on Sunday.”Click here to read more
He added: “I watched a lovely film ‘The Artist’ via the UFO set up in the house and it was a delight to see a black and white, silent movie in February of 2012!! In an age when color and music and speech and sound play such an important role in cinema today, it was most innovative on the part of the makers to present something like this. I believe it is up for the Oscars, which are out tomorrow on Sunday.”Click here to read more
