A Minute With: India director Anurag Kashyap on ‘Bombay Talkies’
MUMBAI, May 1 (Reuters) – As India celebrates 100 years of
cinema, Anurag Kashyap is one of four leading filmmakers
collaborating on a Bollywood project that shows what the movies
have meant to them.
“Bombay Talkies”, which opens in cinemas on Friday, also
features the work of Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan
Johar. It will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival this month.
Aashiqui 2: Tuneless tale
Mohit Suri may have done the impossible and crammed every single romantic movie cliché in “Aashiqui 2”. There are traces of the 1973 hit “Abhimaan” along with the original “Aashiqui” (1990). Director Suri tries to inject an intense vibe in his new film, but fails miserably.
Rahul Jaykar (Aditya Roy Kapoor), a rock star who is slowly slipping away into oblivion thanks to his alcoholism, spots Aarohi (Shraddha Kapoor) singing in a Goan bar. One look and he is smitten, convinced of her talent and ready to take her to Mumbai to make her a star.
Indian “24″ will work like slow poison: Anil Kapoor
MUMBAI (Reuters) – He’s starred in several Bollywood blockbusters, an Oscar-winning film and played a Middle Eastern leader on the American TV series “24″.
Anil Kapoor is now wooing Indian audiences with an adaptation of the hit thriller series about a counter-terrorism agent.
Ek Thi Daayan: It’s the witching hour
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not necessarily of Reuters)
At the end of the first half of Kannan Iyer’s “Ek Thi Daayan”, you may be forgiven for harbouring an unnatural dread of elevators or old abandoned buildings. Except for a few scenes, director Iyer keeps you on the edge of your seat with the spectre of a witch seen through the eyes of a child.
Playboy club to miss date with sun-kissed Goa
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Plans to open India’s first Playboy club in Goa have hit a stumbling block, with local politicians rejecting the idea of “bunnies” on its pristine beaches amid growing pressure for better treatment of women after a fatal gang rape last year.
India has strict censorship laws and there is no Indian version of Playboy magazine, but the promoters of the Playboy brand in India last year revealed plans to open clubs around the country, with dress adapted to fit Indian mores.
Playboy club to miss date with sun-kissed Indian state
MUMBAI, April 19 (Reuters) – Plans to open India’s first
Playboy club in coastal Goa state have hit a stumbling block,
with local politicians rejecting the idea of “bunnies” on its
pristine beaches amid growing pressure for better treatment of
women after a fatal gang rape last year.
India has strict censorship laws and there is no Indian
version of Playboy magazine, but the promoters of the Playboy
brand in India last year revealed plans to open clubs around the
country, with dress adapted to fit Indian mores.
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Indian ‘24′ will work like slow poison – Anil Kapoor
MUMBAI (Reuters) – He’s starred in several Bollywood blockbusters, an Oscar-winning film and played a Middle Eastern leader on the American TV series “24″.
Anil Kapoor is now wooing Indian audiences with an adaptation of the hit thriller series about a counter-terrorism agent.
Makers of Indian ’24′ series plot a TV show revolution
MUMBAI, April 18 (Reuters) – In a bylane next to Mumbai’s
biggest mall, in a suburb teeming with people even at midnight,
is a building that at first glance looks like an abandoned
warehouse.
The decrepit exterior hides the set of what may be one of
India’s most ambitious TV shows yet – the domestic version of
the U.S. television hit action series “24″, which its makers
hope will revolutionize Indian TV.
India’s ‘bad man’ Pran to get Dadasaheb Phalke award
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood’s most famous villain Pran will receive the highest award in Indian cinema, the government announced on Friday, in a rare honour for an actor whose career spanned over 300 films in the second half of the 20th century.
Pran Krishan Sikand, 93, known to moviegoing audiences just by his first name, is the 2012 recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award, instituted in the name of the man who made India’s first feature film a century ago.
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