Tag: Aanand Rai

  • Kareena Kapoor heads for an unconventional path, career-wise

    Kareena Kapoor heads for an unconventional path, career-wise

    MUMBAI: Kareena Kapoor Khan is keen to balance her work in commercial cinema with more challenging films. The 32-year-old Pataudi bahu has announced that she has been signed by director Dev Benegal for Bombay Samurai which features Farhan Akhtar as well as by Rohit Shetty for the sequel of Singham.

     

    While projects with Sudhir Mishra and Aanand Rai are also under discussion, Dibakar Banerjee is keen to cast the actress in his next film venture. Kapoor recently admitted that she missed out on working with Ram Leela director Sanjay Leela Bhansali after she walked out of the film, but claims she has “no regrets.”

  • Now Ravi Teja to foray into Bollywood

    Now Ravi Teja to foray into Bollywood

    MUMBAI: The South influx into Bollywood has gathered momentum. After Dhanush’s successful Hindi debut in Aanand Rai’s Raanjhanaa and Ramcharan’s Zanjeer that opens in September, it would be the turn of Ramcharan’s nearest rival in Hyderabad, Ravi Teja.

    Ravi Teja would debut in a double role in Samir Karnik’s Kaur & Singh. The film would be an action-comedy (Ravi Teja’s forte) in Hindi and Telugu. The Telugu version of the film would be entitled Laxmi Reddy.

    After doing successful double role in films like Vikramarkudu, the Telugu version of Rowdy Rathore. Director Samir Karnik confirms these developments and wanted to take his image to another level.

    Ravi Teja plays two brothers in Kaur & Singh. One of them is a con-man who constantly gets the good brother into trouble.

     

     

     

  • Eros, Aanand Rai to jointly produce sequel of Tanu Weds

    Eros, Aanand Rai to jointly produce sequel of Tanu Weds

    MUMBAI: In his promise to recreate the same magic that he created with Tanu Weds Manu, Aanand Rai has tied up with Eros International Media to produce a sequel of the film that he would also direct.

    Said Eros International Media managing director Sunil Lulla, “After Tanu Weds Manu, we are looking forward to partner with Aanand Rai for Season 2. We are confident the sequel will be equally memorable and as entertaining.”

    Other details of the film including the cast and crew would be announced shortly.

    “I am thrilled to join hands with Eros on this film. I am confident together we will make some very entertaining cinema. I hope to recreate the same magic with the sequel and reach out to global audiences,” Rai said in a statement.