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  • Zoya Akhtar to get Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif together again

    Zoya Akhtar to get Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif together again

    MUMBAI: After creating wonders in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD), one of the most popular on-screen jodis – Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif is all set to be seen together again after Bang Bang.

     

    According to media reports, the duo will be seen in Zoya Akhtar’s next- Road.

     

    The movie is also said to reprise the hit ZNMD troika of Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol. Speculations are that Abhay and Farhan would not have a romantic backup in the film, hence it will only have one heroine.

     

    Even though there is no official confirmation yet, reports add that Hrithik Roshan is already on board and Katrina Kaif is in the running to play the lead.

     

    While Zoya Akhtar is currently directing Dil Dhadakne Do; Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif are presently busy with their upcoming film Bang Bang. The two actors will soon start the promotion of the film which is all set to release on 2 October.

     

    Already, Bang Bang has created a record with its trailer by becoming the fastest promo to cross one million mark in 13 hours and 2 million in 18 hours of its release. And now the two songs ‘Tu Meri’ and ‘Meherbaan’ have also gone viral online.

     

    The high-on-action flick, which is a remake of the Hollywood movie Knight and Day, also features Danny Denzongpa and Jaaved Jaffrey in key roles.

     

    Dil Dhadakne Do is a story about a dysfunctional family starring Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma.

  • Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar to team up again

    Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar to team up again

    MUMBAI: After Lakshya, Amitabh Bachchan is yet again ready to team up with Farhan Akhtar but this time, unlike their previous venture, Farhan will be seen sharing screen space with the star.

     

    Titled Do, the movie will be produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Bejoy Nambiar. The film will also have Aditi Rao Hydari playing the female lead.

     

    Do is said to be an intense emotional drama which has Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of an ailing bed ridden chess master and is slated to go on floor on 29 September.

     

    Excited about his new project, the legendary star posted on his blog, “Our work on the next film with Vidhu Vinod Chopra, has begun with class like readings and discussions, on table. It is a wonderful exercise to be able to go through an entire script with the entire cast.”

     

    “Yet have some reserve stored up for the final moment when we shall all be facing the camera, instead of a written and bound script, with that ominous looking producer Vinod, looking down upon us with fierce and hard workman like expressions,” he added.

     

    Bachchan has earlier worked with Chopra in 2007 film Eklavya: The Royal Guard but this is the first collaboration between the actor and Nambiar, best known for helming Shaitan.

     

    After Amitabh Bachchan’s Yudh came to an end recently, the superstar is busy hosting the popular quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati and also preparing for Shoojit Sircar’s Piku starring Deepika Padukone and Irrfan Khan. On the other hand, Farhan Akhtar is wrapping up his sister Zoya Akhtar’s film Dil Dhadakne Do. The actor is also producing films like Bangistan, Raees and the upcoming film on time travelling starring Sidharth Malhotra under his banner Excel Entertainment.

  • Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke to be honoured at NY film fest

    Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke to be honoured at NY film fest

    MUMBAI: The New York Film Festival (NYFF), this year will honour veteran actors Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere. The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced that the actors would be guest of honours at the fest’s ‘An Evening With…’ series.

     

    While Hawke’s tribute will take place on 30 September, during which he will participate in an ‘intimate dinner’ and a conversation between the guests and NYFF director Kent Jones, Gere will be honoured on 8 October.

     

    The ‘An Evening With…’ galas are meant to recognise the work of individuals who have made significant artistic contributions to film culture.

     

    While Hawke will be attending the festival as a director on behalf of his documentary Seymour: An Introduction, a documentary about the pianist Seymour Bernstein, Gere’s new movie Time Out of Mind, in which he plays a homeless man, will also be screened at the annual fest.

     

    The festival will open this year with the world premiere of David Fincher’s Gone Girl and will also feature the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, Inherent Vice, as its centerpiece selection.

     

    Previous honourees include Nicole Kidman, David Cronenberg, Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes. This is the 52nd year of the festival and it will run from 26 September to 12 October. The 17-day festival will host 30 films this year.

  • Sandeep Marwah on International filmfest jury in Hungary

    Sandeep Marwah on International filmfest jury in Hungary

    NEW DELHI: Marwah Studios and Asian Education Group president Sandeep Marwah is part of the 11-member international jury at the 11th edition of Jameson’s Miskolc International Film Festival commencing tomorrow.

     

    Arguably the country’s largest international event, the festival will continue from 12 to 21 September in the North of Hungary.

     

    Sandeep Marwah will conduct a Master Class at the festival and will be the member of the International jury. He will also be receiving an award for his five World Records.

     

    Marwah has already trained more than 10,000 students from 94 countries of the World. He has been representing India in number of other festivals like Cairo International Film Festival-Egypt, Mons International Film Festival-Belgium, Nigerian International Students Film Festival, Shoot For Life & Shoot For Earth film Festival –Hungary etc.

     

    The Miskoic festival will screen 20 features, 13 documentaries, 33 short features and experimental films, and 19 animation films in competition.

     

    The festival will again attempt to anchor young cinema in an international context. The festival offers great opportunity to dive into the varied film and film history scene, trace current artistic tendencies and discover and rediscover quite a number of films including Cannes, Sundance and Venice hits, some of them months before the US or French premiere.

  • ‘Happy New Year’ presents a new romantic number – ‘Manwa Lage’

    ‘Happy New Year’ presents a new romantic number – ‘Manwa Lage’

    MUMBAI: After receiving an amazing response to ‘Indiawaale’, Farah Khan’s Happy New Year released its latest romantic song. Titled ‘Manwa Lage’ the song is a soulful number sung by Arijit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal.

     

    The video shows budding romance between Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. The song is a mixture of romance, soulful lyrics, and an electrifying chemistry between the two. The best part of the video is the clever use of the element of fire. The song also features Sonu Sood, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah but prime focus is laid on SRK and Deepika.

     

    Excited about the latest release actor Shah Rukh Khan tweeted, “Lov sets u ablaze, it cuts u loose like wildfire & u burn everything that u touch! It burns & flies, & u run with it Joybell. Manwa Laage”

     

    Penned by Irshad Kamil and sung by Shreya Ghoshal, Arijit Singh, ‘Manwa Laage’ is a melodious song composed by musical duo Vishal-Shekhar. The film tells the tale of six losers – Charlie, Nandu, Jag, Tammy, Mohini and Rohan who are on a mission.

     

    Happy with the new songs, Vishal Dadlani tweeted, “I love how @TheFarahKhan brings her unique insight & humour to the picturisation of any song, even a love-ballad like #ManwaLaage from #HNY.”

     

    And thanking Dadlani, Shreya Ghoshal tweeted, “Heart’s happy! Thank u @VishalDadlani @ShekharRavjiani for giving me such an extraordinary composition to sing!”.

     

    Click here to watch the Song

  • 11 films from India at Busan this year, festival to show 100 feature films

    11 films from India at Busan this year, festival to show 100 feature films

    NEW DELHI: 11 films from India will be screened at the forthcoming Busan International Film Festival next month.

     

    To be held between 2 and 11 October, the Festival will open and close with two films from Greater China. The festival’s opening is the international premiere of Taiwan’s Paradise in Service, Doze Niu’s coming-of-age drama about a young soldier stationed at a brothel on Kinmen Island. The film is produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The world premiere of Hong Kong’s Gangster Pay Day by Lee Po-cheung about a washed-out gang boss who turns legitimate by taking over a restaurant, closes the festival. It stars  Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi.

     

    This year’s festival is screening over 100 Asian feature films among a total of 313 films (features and shorts) from 79 countries. The lineup includes the world premieres of 65 feature films and the international premieres of 33 feature films.

     

    Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider, Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny and Shonali Bose’s Margarita with a straw are among the six films that will be showcased in “A window to Asian Cinema” section.

     

    Other films that will screen in the section include: Malayalam film Zahir by Siddharth Siva, Tamil film Goli Soda by Vijay Milton and Adityavikram Sengupta’s Labour of Love that earlier screened at Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival.

     

    Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom will be screened outdoors in a special programme titled Open Cinema. The film had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.

     

    Sunrise by Paris based Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta will compete in the New Currents section.

     

    Our Metropolis by Gautam Sonti and Usha Rao has been shortlisted for documentary competition while Balaka Ghosh’s Foot Prints in Desert will be screened in the Documentary Showcase section.

     

    The festival will also screen Gitanjali Rao’s True Love Story that has earlier screened at Cannes Critics Week and has won award for best animation film at Mumbai International Film Festival.

     

    The annual Korean Cinema Retrospective is dedicated to veteran director Jung Jin-woo. Hong Kong’s Ann Hui is this year’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year and her latest film The Golden Era will have a gala screening at the festival. 

  • U2 partners with Apple for a new album

    U2 partners with Apple for a new album

    MUMBAI:  The veteran Irish rock band U2 revealed that they partnered with Apple for the release of their latest album. Titled Songs of Innocence, the album is available for free on iTunes till it’s officially released on 14 October this year.

     

    The surprise announcement was made at a California event where Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the firm’s latest iPhone and a new smartwatch. This is the first album in five years an U2 album has been offered for free to the 500 million users of Apple’s iTunes service.

     

    The said album has 11 songs, which includes the lead single ‘The Miracle’ which the group performed in the Apple event.

     

    Talking at the event launch, U2 lead singer Bono said, “From the very beginning U2 has always wanted our music to reach as many people as possible, the clue is in our name I suppose – so today is kind of mind-blowing to us. The most personal album we’ve written could be shared with half a billion people… by hitting send. If only songwriting was that easy.”

     

    “It’s exciting and humbling to think that people who don’t know U2 or listen to rock music for that matter might check us out. Working with Apple is always a blast. They only want to do things that haven’t been done before – that’s a thrill to be part of,” he added.

     

    Despite the group’s unprecedented move to give it for free, Songs of Innocence will not be eligible to be nominated for the next Grammy Awards.

     

    U2’s last album, No Line on the Horizon, hit the top spot in the UK charts in 2009 and eventually surpassed the five-million-sales mark worldwide.

     

    The Irish band is famed for producing some of the landmark albums of the 1980s and early 1990s, including The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.

  • About 45 films to participate at the Voices from the Waters International Filmfest

    About 45 films to participate at the Voices from the Waters International Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: About 45 short and feature length films from over 20 countries will be screened at the ninth Voices from the Waters International Film Festival to be held in Bangalore from 11 to 14 September.

     

    In addition to the films, conferences will also be held in multiple venues. The aim is to encourage more documentary filmmakers focus their creativity on water

     

    The selected films are out of 145 films received from 27 countries. Some of the countries which have sent films include the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Iran, Israel, Canada, the Czech Republic, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Spain, Germany and Norway besides India. 

     

    Organised by the Bangalore Film Society, the venue of the festival is the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA).

     

    The inauguration will be studded with cultural events like dance performances, water songs and so on, and prominent people working on water issues from across the country will be present along with film directors and water activists. There will be photography and painting exhibitions, eco bazaars and organic food courts.

     

    The festival comes at a time when the world is going through a phase of uncertain climatic conditions of unseasonal gale and storm, heat wave and cold wave, melting Antarctica and rising seas gobbling up the landmass, increasing desertification and so on. The festival offers you a glimpse into all these and more – the struggle, the hopes and despair, the success stories etc.

     

    Civilizations through the ages harnessed water and grew around it. However, contemporary civilizations have seen it as an economic utility and a dumping ground for all the waste they generate and polluted it. The festival is also the stories of restoration of water to its pristine beauty. Viewing these visual narratives gives us all an opportunity to focus on the global water crisis and engage in deep reflection to conserve this life sustaining nectar for posterity. Water brings us all together.

     

    Apart from films, the other avenues of engagement at the festival would be painting and photo exhibition, art installations, water songs, lectures, roundtables, eco-conscious product bazaar and interaction with film directors, water activists and water scholars.

  • Makers of ‘Harry Potter’ to come up with ‘Paddington’

    Makers of ‘Harry Potter’ to come up with ‘Paddington’

    MUMBAI: This Christmas comes a special treat from the makers of Harry Potter. Christened Paddington, the movie is a British comedy directed by Paul King, who along with Hamish McColl has also co-written the script.

     

    Produced by David Heyman, it is a story of a lovable bear and is based on the famous book and TV series ‘Paddington Bear’ by Michael Bond. The feature film is being released in India by PictureWorks.

     

    The movie stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent and Peter Capaldi with Nicole Kidman and Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character.

     

    The story revolves around a young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realise that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family, who read the label around his neck (‘please look after this bear, Thank you.’) and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though Paddington’s luck changes until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.

  • Mary Kom earns Rs 27.3 crore at BO

    Mary Kom earns Rs 27.3 crore at BO

    MUMBAI: Mary Kom opened with a weak response despite being a solo release for the week with much hype. Media critics did not quite favour the film as was expected and panned it liberally. The film has been granted tax exemption in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh so far and collected Rs 27.3 crore in the opening week. The film improved on Saturday and Sunday but has not been able to sustain as well on Monday as most of Western India will be busy with the last day of Ganesh Utsav while in Delhi schools, terminal exams start today.

     

    Raja Natwarlal is poor at the end of its first week managing to collect barely Rs 21 crore.  Emraan Hashmi pays the price for keeping on doing same kind of roles film after film not to mention this time the content as well as treatment were mediocre  and taking your audience for granted never works. Music was poor too to add to the woes.

     

    Trip To Bhangarh, Last Benchers and Identity Card have proved to be disasters.

     

    Mardaani held on well in its second week to collect Rs 8.19 crore taking its two week tally to Rs 31. 16 crore. With its limited budget and YRF advantage of distribution network, the film will make it to earning status.

     

    Singham Returns collects Rs 4.6 crore in its third week to take its three week tally to Rs 136.4 yet still short of target.

     

    Entertainment has collected Rs 30 lakh in its fourth week to take its four week tally to Rs 63.4 crore.