The Chatur Ramalingam in him tickled the funny bones in 3Idiots, and now the man with a strange accent is doing the same as a host in Chhote Ustaad. Omi Vaidya talks about his journey so far in a candid conversation with SALONI BHATIA How does it feel to be popular? It feels nice when [...]
By Meenakshi Rao Aamir is out with another sizzler, this time a hard hitting satire news live on TV channels. Though I personally thought the end was a bit of an anti-climax, the entire film itself pulsates with action. Directed by a former NDTV journalist, Peepli Live is live wire and the fact that it [...]
Rarely do we get to see them together among the Delhi circuit but a recent event in the capital organized by an FM channel, actor-turned-anchor Mandira Bedi was spotted along with her filmmaker husband Raj Kaushal. While Bedi was in her usual chirpy best Raj was modestly smiling and nodding to whatever his better half [...]
It is something stars conventionally don’t do. But then Akshay Kumar is different. In the Capital for the promotion of his soon-to-release film, Khatta Meetha, Mr Khiladi chose to dress up in the same attire — a formal light-coloured shirt, a pair of black trousers and a black umbrella — as he would be seen [...]
Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar were the heroes of the Nehruvian era. Amitabh Bachchan reigned supreme during Indira Gandhi’s time. And, in between came Rajesh Khanna, who sparked the film industry with a number of mega-hits. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a complete mishmash in the true texture of Bollywood and [...]
Sometime in the mid-1970s when Shashi Kapoor announced four films — 36 Chowringhee Lane (Aparna Sen), Junoon (Shyam Benegal), Vijeyta (Govind Nihalani) and Utsav (Girish Karnad) — to be made under his banner ‘Filmwala’, all that the media wanted to know was whether these films were going to be art house films or mainstream movies. [...]
Mithun Chakraborty tells Shana Maria Verghis that his latest role as a junior artiste in a new Bengali flick was one he had played in real life though this story, Shukno Lanka, is not autobiographical.
The highest honour in Indian cinema for lifetime achievements, the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, seems to have become more of a “goodbye” honour for the veterans in the twilight of their lives. Cinematographer V.K. Murthy, 86, has been given the honour this year. The man behind the famous brooding shots in most Guru Dutt films said he had never expected to get the prestigious award at this age.
Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is making his debut on silver screen in the forthcoming film, Road to Sangam. Working with stalwarts like Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra and Swati Chitnis, he is playing himself in the film. “The story of the film is narrated beautifully by writer director Amit Rai. He has mixed reality and fiction very convincingly. Since it promotes the principles of Mahatma Gandhi in current perspective, I agreed to be a part of the film. It has been a different experience,” comments Tushar Gandhi.
Amitabh Bachchan is proud to have worked with four newcomers in the new film Teen Patti, saying even when he did not know his lines, they would be set and ready on the sets. And it was much the same with co-actor Ben Kingsley, whose preparedness left the Indian megastar a trifle embarrassed.
