Category: Movies

MUMBAI: For scores of Dabangg fans, here is good news. Dabangg 2 is finally coming. This was announced by producer Arbaaz Khan when he along with wife Mallaika Arora Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and director Abhinav Kashyap unveiled the home video of his super hit film Dabangg recently.

Khan was confident that the home video of Dabangg would do as well as the film and urged the consumers to buy the original DVD, which is why the movie has been released on home video within four weeks of theatrical. “I know we released the DVDs a week or ten days before it should have, but we felt it necessary to combat piracy. I am sure that in the coming days a producer will have a day and date release of both his film and the home video. That is when we would be able to thwart piracy,” Khan said.

Director Kashyap spoke about his experience on the film and about the script playing a very important part in the huge success of the film.

On her part Arora Khan reacted strongly when asked what she felt of her track ‘Munni Badnam Hui‘ becoming a hit and said, ” My journey from being the Chaiyya Chaiya girl to the current Munni has been great and I love every minute of it, in fact I like being called Munni.”

And finally it was Sonakshi Sinha to take the mike. She thanked the public for their support in making the film a super hit. And after she uttered her famous dialogue “Thapad se dar nahi
 

MUMBAI: Siddharth Anand, whose latest film Anjaana Anjaani is running in the cinema theatres, has bought out the right of Chetan Anand’s latest novel ‘2 States.’ He is set to make a film based on the book with Saif Ali Khan in the lead.

According to Anand, he bought the book and fell in love with the contents instantly. He contacted Bhagat who was then hobnobbing of selling the rights with some producers. But after a meeting, Bhagat was impressed with Anand and eventually sold him the rights.

The film, a contemporary comedy, will be shot all over India including Delhi, Ahmedabad and Goa. It will be produced by Sajid Nadiawala.

Anand has earlier directed films like Salaam Namaste, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Bachna Ae Haseeno.

MUMBAI: Navratri is not the right period for new releases. However, as many as four new films were released last Friday. During Navratris collections, are poor in Western India, especially Gujarat, because of dandiya festival and in North due to Ramleela. Besides, the Navratri celebrations are now spreading in other parts too, especially MP and Rajasthan.

Hence, while Crook: It Is Good To Be Bad and Do Dooni Chaar, films with known faces, suffered greatly, Lava Kusa (animated) and Bachao…. Inside Bhoot Hai is lost without trace.

Crook has collected a meagre Rs 70 million over the opening weekend in India, Do Dooni Chaar is poorer with barely Rs 30 million to account for the weekend. 

Anjaana Anjaani ended first week with approximately Rs 470 million, having shown a sliding trend from Monday.

MUMBAI: After donning the director‘s cap in one of the stories in the film Dus Kahaniyaan, actor-director Rohit Roy is set to direct a new one. This is supposedly a remake of Basu Chatterjee‘s successful film Shaukeen that starred Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt, A.K. Hangal, with Mithun Chakraborty and Rati Agnihotri in lead roles.

The remaking rights have been acquired from Basu Chatterjee by Bunty Bahl, who will produce the film. Though both the producer and director have decided to retain the story and characters, they have decided to update the film to suit the present-day scenario.

Though the original version of Shaukeen was set in India, the new film would not. “We are looking at Las Vegas, Spain or Malaysia,” divulges Roy.

It is learnt that the star cast would be finalised after the script is updated post Diwali.
The film will go on the floors early next year.
 

MUMBAI: After it received a petition that alleged use of unparliamentary language in films like Bandit Queen, Gangajal, Omkara and Peepli Live, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has issued notices to makers of films and also to the chairman and secretary of Film Censor Board.

The notices were issued by a bench comprising Justice Umanath Singh and Justice Virendra Kumar Dixit on the petition filed by a local lawyer Ashok Pandey who sought cancellation of censor certificates to these films.

Pandey also pleaded with the Court to direct the Union government to displace all the members of the Censor Board including the chairman for allegedly violating the Cinematograohy Act.

Those against whom notices have been issued include chairman of Censor Board Sharmila Tagore, producers of Peepli Live Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, director Anhusha Rizvi, producer-director of Gangajal Prakash Jha, producer of Omkara Kumar Mangat and director Vishal Bharadwaj and director of Bandit Queen Shekhar Kapoor.

The Court has fixed 27 October as the next date of hearing.
 

MUMBAI: Eros International Media will be releasing the Rohit Shetty-directed comic caper Golmaal 3 worldwide on 5 November.

With the film, Shetty continues the hot Golmaal series, the earlier editions of which did substantial business.

Comments Eros International Media managing director Sunil Lulla, “Golmaal 3, in the tradition of its earlier predecessors, has all the ingrediants of a sure-shot laugh riot and is the perfect offering in the festive season of Diwali. We will ensure to make this project a successful one by optimally exploiting our key business strengths, our well-developed worldwide distribution network that enables us to offer a global end-to-end distribution solution to our partners. We look forward to taking this high prospect film to audiences worldwide.”

The film stars recurring actors Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade.