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.
Commando: For diehard action fans
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An Indian Army officer crashes his helicopter into Chinese territory and is subjected to third degree torture. But Karanvir Dogra aka Commando doesn’t let slip any secrets.
The number of newcomers who say they “just tagged along” with a friend for an audition and got the role is staggering. Makes me suspicious
Nautanki Saala: A comedy of errors
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The best scenes in Rohan Sippy‘s “Nautanki Saala” (adapted from French comedy Apres Vous) are the ones where there is no woman or romance involved. Male leads Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapoor have a good chemistry going and their humour is quirky and whacky, but funny all the same. The problem in their lives, and in the film, starts when the woman arrives on the scene.
Dinosaur, disaster theme park to woo Indian tourists
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Dinosaurs, rides named after Hindu gods and a dash of Bollywood put the spotlight on a new theme park on the outskirts of Mumbai that promoters say would match the lure of Disneyland and the Universal Studios theme park in Hollywood.
Adlabs Imagica, built at the cost of 11 billion rupees, opens next week and aims to woo India’s growing middle class with more spending power for tourism.
Bollywood launches its first zombie films to win back viewers
MUMBAI, April 5 (Reuters) – Bollywood is branching out from
its traditional song-and-dance dramas and slapstick comedies
with its first zombie films which filmmakers hope will entice
younger crowds back to Indian films from Hollywood’s living
dead.
Few horror films are made in Bollywood and those that do
make it to the big screen tend to focus on ghosts and the
after-life, which are common themes in Hindu mythology.
Himmatwala has competition! My review of David Dhawan’s remake of Chashme Baddoor. http://t.co/Zt7e8J9iOD
Chashme Baddoor: The remake from hell
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Himmatwala
So he takes what was a genuinely funny and memorable film and “remakes” it into a crass, unfunny and offensive film that serves just one purpose — it speaks volumes about the sharp decline in our sense of humour in the last three decades.
Krrish gets animated makeover ahead of third movie
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rakesh Roshan is gearing up for the release of “Krrish 3″ this year with four animated movies based on the Bollywood superhero.
The film-maker is collaborating with Cartoon Network and Toonz Animation to develop a spin-off series based on the character introduced in the 2006 blockbuster “Krrish”.
People say we should’ve priced our coffee higher – Tata Starbucks CEO
At first glance, Avani Davda looks like any other young person standing outside Starbucks waiting for a cup of coffee. Davda, 33, is not your typical customer. In fact, she is head of the Starbucks-Tata joint venture that brought the U.S. coffee chain to a country that traditionally wakes up to tea.
Davda is getting used to coffee, but as a vegetarian, she has not tried most of the non-vegetarian items on Starbucks’s menu.
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