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Barfi! wins Best Film award at Okinawa International Film Festival
Anurag Basu is elated with his wonderful creation’s surprise win at the film festival
The makers and stars of the Oscar-nominated film, Barfi! – director Anurag Basu, producers UTV and actors Ranbir Kapoor and (especially) Priyanka Chopra are on cloud nine, what with the film continuing to Click here to read more1 Comment
Ekta Kapoor counterattacks UTV’s plan to sabotage Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again
The Balaji head honcho will club five of her films to ensure that Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again gets a fair release against Rohit Shetty-Shahrukh Khan’s Chennai Express
Ekta Kapoor surely believes in the tit for tat theory. The television queen, known for her short temper and mercurial nature, has devised an interesting plan to get back at UTV Click here to read moreIs UTV using Yash Raj Films’ tactic to sabotage Akshay Kumar’s Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again?
Apparently, B-town’s elite production house has laid down a condition to all single screen theatre owners that if they want to buy Himmatwala, they will have to dedicate all the four shows in a day to Chennai Express as well. Oh no… not again!
It seems Akshay Kumar and the makers of Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Again – producer Ekta Kapoor and director Milan Luthria are gonna have sleepless nights. As if the pressure of Click here to read moreKai Po Che’s rave reviews get Abhishek Kapoor Disney UTV’s new film!
It’s a real pleasure to extend this bond with the company, says Kapoor
Buoyed by the response to Kai Po Che!, movie production banner Disney UTV has signed director Abhishek Kapoor to helm another film for the company. The deal was signed Friday, February 23, when Kai Po Che!, based on Chetan Bhagat’s book The 3 Mistakes of My Life, hit the screens. Click here to read moreBox office report: Kai Po Che! beats Zila Ghaziabad by a huge margin in the opening weekend
The Sushant Singh Rajput starrer has earned approximately Rs 18.1 crores, while Sanjay Dutt’s action flick has collected only Rs 10 crores
Abhishek Kapoor’s low budget inspirational flick Kai Po Che! gave Anand Kumar’s multi-starrer gangster drama Zila Ghaziabad a tough fight at the ticket counters in the opening weekend. After witnessing a huge opening Click here to read moreDisney-UTV reveals Tamil plans for 2013
The production house will execute some of its ambitious plans in the coming year
Far from being content basking in the near-universal critical acclaim for Kai Po Che, Disney-UTV has revealed ambitious plans to breach the Tamil citadel. Operating on the principle that nothing succeeds like success, Disney-UTV has re-teamed with director Sundar C (whose wife happens to be Kushboo). Click here to read moreAnurag Basu or Shoojit Sircar: Who will make Kishore Kumar biopic first?
News is that the Vicky Donor director has an upper hand and there are chances of him wrapping up his film even before Basu’s movie hits the floors
Reportedly, it’s Shoojit Sircar who first decided to make a film based on the legendary singer Kishore Kumar almost five years ago. Click here to read moreVidya Balan’s weight loss: Is she sleeping better after marriage?
The voluptuous actor once said that her weight gain was partly due to her lack of sleep. Now that she is losing some of her flab, do we give new husband Siddharth Roy Kapur credit?
In an interview some time ago Vidya Balan said that she was gaining weight because she didn’t get enough sleep. Then she went all the way and gained more fat-inches for her role as Silk in The Dirty Picture. And since then, she has been rather more than merely well-filled and certainly very comfortably rounded. Click here to read more
