Category: Hindi

MUMBAI: Riding on the Force fame Vidyut Jamwal who made an action packed debut alongside John Abraham seems to have earned the tag of the next action star of Bollywood.

His recent release Commando got rave reviews for his action scenes. He is all set to join the league of international action legends like Jet Li and Lee Byung-Hun.

Vidyut‘s work and his action will soon be showcased at the Fantasia International Film Festival – the ultimate large screen action extravaganza in Montreal, Canada. Eric S. Boisvert, one of the members on the board of the film festival strongly believes that Vidyut will soon earn his well-deserved spot among the great names of action cinema.

Fantasia Film Festival is the first of two international film festivals celebrating the magic of Vidyut‘s action in Commando. After Fantasia in Canada, Commando will also be showcased at the Fantastic Fest in Texas, USA which is America‘s exceptionally grand action, thriller and sci-fi film celebration.

NEW DELHI: Indian romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance will see its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September.

The Festival announced the 70 titles in its Gala Premiere and Special Presentation films, including the North American premieres of several high-profile Asian titles.

The Gala Presentation features Peter Chan‘s American Dreams in China, Ritesh Batra‘s The Lunchbox, South Korean thrillerCold Eyes and India‘s Shudh DesiRomance directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra. 

The Special Presentation section features Kore-eda Hirokazu‘s Like Father, Like Son, Keanu Reeves‘ China-US co-production Man of Tai Chi and Kurusawa Kiyoshi‘s Real.

The festival opens on 5 Septenber with Bill Condon‘s The Fifth Estate featuring Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Julian Assange.

MUMBAI: Filmmaker and actress Pooja Bhatt‘s film Bad, currently being shot in Rajasthan, has been facing a lot of trouble coming its way. The film is perhaps living up to its name, with the National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists disrupting the shooting at the central jail on 23 July.

She expressed her anger in a tweet saying, “50-75 ppl (sic) claiming to be from NSUI have barged into Central Jail Udaipur shouting slogans against me threatening to shut down my shoot.”

“If I were alone I would tackle them HEADON! But I happen to have a unit of 100. I am responsible for equipment as well,” says another tweet from the filmmaker.

The protestors, who were demanding that the shooting be shut down, alleged the private security guards of Pooja Bhatt hit them when they were protesting. They gave a complaint to Surajpole police station, which is being examined.

The NSUI leader Deepak Mewada, who led the protest, said they were upset with Bhatt‘s behavior with Udaipur superintendent of Police, Hariprasad Sharma, who had allegedly misbehaved with the film‘s crew on Saturday (20 July). Sharma denied the charges.

The shooting resumed after the Saturday tiff was resolved by District Magistrate Vikas Bhale, who also reportedly appears in the film. Bhale, on his part, said he wanted the shooting to go on because it was good for tourism in the city.

However, with student body elections scheduled in August, it seems the NSUI had its eyes on its own constituency rather than the crew of the Randeep Hooda starrer film.

MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar along with Sonakshi Sinha is all set to take ‘Boss‘ to the next level. Titled Party All Night, the song is touted to be the biggest club song of the year and it is heard that the producers are sparing no efforts to make it the blockbuster chart buster.

This song will also have the added attraction of Yo Yo Honey Singh. News is also that it will be for the very first time that Akshay Kumar will be working with music director Sumit Dutt who has been a Salman Khan favorite and has been the man behind various blockbuster hits like Dhinkachika, Character Dheela, Desi Beat and many others to his credit.

While Sumit Dutt will direct the song, ace choreographer Raju Khan will be making Akshay and Sonakshi sway to the beats.

The shooting of the first part of the song is over and was shot in one of the suburban properties in Mumbai while the other half is scheduled to be shot in Bangkok next month. Buzz is that a mammoth crowd of over 600 dancers and junior artistes will be a part of it.

A source close to the team said, “In the film, the song comes at a very integral point, which is why Akshay wants to make it his biggest and best song to date. Akshay is wearing a leading international designer‘s costume.”

The song has been designed as the ultimate club number of 2013. It is the first full, all-out dance number that Akshay has done in years. This is his return to hard core dancing.

Produced by Viacom 18, Cape of Good Films and Ashwin Varde Productions, ‘Boss‘ is directed by Anthony D‘souza and is all set to hit the screens this October.