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BollywoodFest 2009
The Indian Dance and film festival in Oslo Norway |
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Eros International announces release dates |
| June 06, 2009 |
Eros International has announced the release dates of its highly anticipated forthcoming attractions – Kambakkht Ishq, Love Aaj Kal and Aladin.
The release of Sajid Nadiadwala’s Kambakkht Ishq, co-produced by Sunil A. Lulla and directed by Sabbir Khan is on 10th July. The film stars Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor, with special guest appearances by Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh and Denise Richards. Music is by Anu Malik.
Love Aaj Kal, presented by Illuminati Films in association with Eros International will be released on 31st July. Produced by Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan, co-produced by Sunil A. Lulla and directed by Imtiaz Ali, the film stars Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone. It has music by Pritam. Aladin, produced by Eros International and Boundscript and directed by Sujoy Ghosh is slated to release on 14th August. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh and will mark the debut of Jacqueline Fernandes. It has music by Vishal and Shekhar
BIG AIMS opened |
| June 06, 2009 |
BIG AIMS, a premier animation training institute of BIG Animation (I) Pvt. Ltd. and part of Reliance Big Entertainment is opened. Spread over 10,000 square feet equipped with the latest software and hardware installations comparable to the best in the world, having on board some of the best professionals of the related field, the institute lends the advantage to its students to be able to witness the professional workflow and the corporate environment alongside with their education and be more prepared and confident to kick start their career. The institute provides a unique learning experience to the students with the following high end facilities:- 5.1 Dolby digital auditorium with a complete state of the art professional BARCO System for screening; Quad core workstations for Lab; High end projector class rooms; Light Box facilities for Traditional Animation; Facility of using professional edit suits with non linear edit software’ Fully equipped smoke set up for online edit facilities and Cintiq machines for digital artworks.
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Ravi Kissen, Rinku Ghosh, Ajay Dixit and Kalpana Shah are the winners at the 4th Bhojpuri Awards |
June 06, 2009
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At the recently concluded 4th Bhojpuri Film Awards ceremony held at Goregaon Sports Club on May 30, Ravi Kishan was awarded best actor for 4th time. This time it was for the film Dharamveer. Bidaai bagged five awards which too has Ravi Kishan in the lead. Producers Chandrashekhar Rao and Ishityaz Sheikh bagged the best film award; Aslam Sheikh got three awards as best director, best story writer and best screenplay writer while Rinku Ghosh received the best actress award.
Another surprise packet was Ajay Dixit, who bagged the best male newcomer award for Betwa Bahubali. He hails from Jaunpur and is a graduate in Philosophy. He had come to Mumbai in 2002 and had joined a theatre group for 2 years. Before Betwa Bahubali, he had featured in Mukesh Khanna’s Shaktiman in more than 22 episodes. He even has three music videos and two commercials to his credit. His forthcoming films are Nazariyon Tohse Laage which is in the post-production stages and another Pyar Tohse Karab which will mount the sets soon. He is even doing a Hindi film which will roll in December.
G.P. Sippy Multi Media Enterprise and Shiv Hari Films’ Mai Te Bas Mai Bari bagged three awards. Kareem Khatri won the best cinematographer award; Anjani Tiwari won the best art director award while Upasna Singh won the best supporting actress award.
Kalpana Shah and Seema Singh have been awarded as best female newcomer & best item dancer respectively in Jogi Ji Dheere-Dheere.
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Shemaroo releases ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ on home video |
| June 06, 2009 |
Shemaroo Entertainment has release Warner Bros. first Bollywood foray - Chandni Chowk To China on home video. Directed by Nikhil Advani, the stars like Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and the suave Deepika Padukone with Hollywood actor Gordon Liu. The film has been extensively shot in China; especially at The Great Wall. The DVD is inclusive of about 30 minutes of special features which has deleted scenes and the theatrical promos.
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TUJHE MERI KASAM creates record in Aurangabad |
| June 06, 2009 |
Tujhe Meri Kasam ( r.r. ) has created a city record at Apsara, Aurangabad by collecting 2,23,178/- in second week. Its first week collection was 2,61,262/-, Total from 2 weeks 4,84,440/-. Now it has entered third week at Apsara. This is a City Record for any repeat run film. |
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Bollywood cheers for Slumdog... |
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Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle's rag-to-riches story about the coming of age of a Mumbai slum child, has bagged 10 Oscar nominations this year. Though the nominations for the 81st Academy Awards also known as Oscars were announced in Los Angeles, the real party was on in Mumbai.
The team of Slumdog Millionaire celebrated the 10 nominations and many Bollywood actors, too, turned up in full support. "They have showed us the way and we'll now follow," said Hrithik Roshan while Sonam Kapoor added, "I am overwhelmed. It's film about underdog, which India is all about. It's a story about love, it's a story about resilience."
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Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit too backed the film for Oscars. "I have heard a lot about the film. There are a lot of expectations from the film and especially after the Oscar nominations," said Madhuri.
Priety Zinta and Ness Wadia also acclaimed the film. "I think it's a very good film," said Priety. "It is high time Indian cinema gets recognition," said Ness.
The film premiered in Mumbai on Thursday shortly after it earned 10 Oscar nominations and the talk of the premiere was the man of the moment AR Rahman, who was incidentally was not present, whose three nominations at the Oscars made not just Team Slumdog but the country proud.
"He will only go higher and higher. Wow, he is such an inspiration. What a genius," Hrithik said about Rahman.
Irrfan Khan who plays the key role of an inspector in the film said, "He (Rahman) will get back one award back. I am sure."
And if the film wins Oscars, then one can be sure that Team Slumdog and the entire country will celebrate it in a big way.
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Aamir Khan returns to blog |
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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan who has been missing from cyber space for over two months, has posted on his blog his strange encounter with a colony of ants that bit him en mass while he was sleeping.
"After a long day at work, I went to bed at around 3 a.m. A couple of hours later, deep in sleep I had this vague feeling of being bitten on my ear. Gradually I was being bitten on my stomach, legs, neck. I was so sleepy that I just kept cursing, scratching, turning and tossing. |
Finally it got really unbearable, and I kind of woke up to see my bed filled with ants," Aamir wrote on his blog www.aamirkhan.com Friday.
"There were hundreds of them! Crawling all over and giving me hell. I had to jump under the shower and then went and crashed on my couch," he added.
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Fans express their love for SRK |
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Over 200 fans from all over Europe assembled at the Velodrom, the German capital's indoor stadium, to say they still love Shah Rukh Khan - though their hopes were dashed when a show featuring the Bollywood heartthrob was cancelled.Dressed in silk saris and satin salwars, the colourful crowd of mostly women fans lit candles outside the entrance in the shape of SRK and said they were disappointed that Temptation Reloaded, the live dance and music extravaganza starring King Khan, was cancelled Friday.
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"I can't believe that I will not see Shah Rukh tonight," said Pamela, 33. Pamela had come from Zurich with stars in her kajal-painted eyes and returned from Berlin with tears.
Angela Gotze, 26, said, "I want Shah Rukh to know that we are not angry with him. We love him and miss him and want him to come to Berlin soon."
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Big B: Media is insensitive, callous |
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Bolywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was discharged Friday from the Lilavati Hospital here after being treated for an abdominal condition, has thanked his fans for their good wishes but has hit out at the media for being "insensitive" while reporting on his illness.
"My sincerest thanks to all who gave me strength to fight another medical battle.
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The fans and well wishers. The media friends who wrote in on my mobile. Friends who visited me at the hospital and those that wrote in. Strangers who I never met or know," Amitabh wrote on his blog.
"Your love overwhelms me. Your concern for my well being humbles me. I owe so much to you," the blog further read.
Amitabh slammed the media in the blog and mocked at their paparazzi approach when he was being taken to hospital in an ambulance after he had complained of abdominal pain on his 66th birthday Oct 11.
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