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  • Shah Rukh Khan to be Royal Stag’s brand ambassador

    Shah Rukh Khan to be Royal Stag’s brand ambassador

    MUMBAI: Pernod Ricard India’s liquor brand, Seagrams Royal Stag, has roped in Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan to join its bevy of brand ambassadors.

    SRK will work with Saif Ali Khan who has been the brand ambassador for the last several years.

    Royal Stag has also signed new stars who today believe in making it large like actor Rana Daggubati of the ‘Dum Maro Dum’ fame and Bengali Dev.

    The Shah Rukh Khan association will bring to life a real ‘Make it Large’ human story – an outsider to the film world, dreaming big, and making it to the zenith.

    Pernod Ricard India vice president marketing Bikram Basu said, “Shah Rukh Khan dared to dream and achieve. Dream big, and achieve really big. We have great common ground with Royal Stag and him in ‘making it large’.”

  • Dilip Kumar house in Peshawar granted national heritage status

    Dilip Kumar house in Peshawar granted national heritage status

    MUMBAI: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in Pakistan, in a tribute to veteran Dilip Kumar, has granted the status of ‘national heritage‘ to the star’s house in Peshawar.

    The house with six rooms was located at Mohallah Khudadad, Qissa Khwani Bazaar.The government purchased the land for Rs 30 million from a local.

    Averred Kumar in a statement, “The news that the house where I was born (1922) and where I spent a good part of my childhood in Peshawar‘s Qissa Khwani Bazaar, then in Undivided India, will be given the honour of being a part of the national heritage of Pakistan has sent my mind racing back to memories of happy days spent in the spacious home and its surroundings. This morning many of you asked me to blog about it.

    “I am at once full of fond remembrances of my parents, grandparents and numerous uncles, aunts and cousins who filled the house with the sounds of their chatter and hearty laughter. I can vividly recall the piggy rides on my grandfather‘s back and the scary stories my grandmother cooked up to forbid me from wandering out of the house alone.”

    Known as the ‘Tragedy King of Bollywood‘, Kumar said that he has penned down all this in his autobiography that is due to release soon. The star was born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan at Mohalla Khudadad in Qissa Khwani Bazaar on 11 December 1922.

    Incidentally, Peshawar has produced some gems in the field of performing arts like Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan, to name a few.

  • German premiere of Don 2 at Berlinale

    German premiere of Don 2 at Berlinale

    MUMBAI: Excel Entertainment’s Don 2 will have its German premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) with a German dubbed version on 11 February. The film would also release simultaneously in mainstream theatres in the country.

    Those of who will be attending the premiere among the cast are Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra and producers Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani.

    The Berlin International Film Festival is a source of inspiration in the global film community. The festival is laced with film programmes, workshops, panel discussions and joint projects with other social and cultural actors.

    Besides the German release, Don 2 will also be releasing in Russia, Turkey, Israel, France, China and Korea.

  • Anubhav Sinha launches film production house

    Anubhav Sinha launches film production house

    MUMBAI: Six films-old Anubhav Sinha has taken the plunge and launched his film production house called Benaras Media.

    For starters, Sinha has firmed up three films. The first of the lot will be an action film, directed by Sudhir Mishra. While the second movie will be helmed by Gurmeet, a former assistant on several YRF films, the third will be directed by Sinha himself.

    The script of the first film is a combination of cerebral and physical action, a kind of Bourne Identity meeting Jackie Chan. It will have a huge star cast and some of the most elaborate action often seen in Hong Kong’s Kung Fu films.

    It is being said that Shah Rukh Khan will play the main lead while Irrfan Khan, Arunoday Singh and Vidyut Jamwal are being slotted into the other roles.

    The film would start rolling once Mishra gets the final cast of his ambitious project, Mehrunissa, in place.

    Sinha had earlier directed films like Tum Bin, Aap Ko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai, Dus, Tathastu, Cash and Ra.One.

  • Gattu and Don 2 to feature at Berlin Intl fest

    Gattu and Don 2 to feature at Berlin Intl fest

    MUMBAI: Rajan Khosa’s Gattu has become the second film chosen to be screened at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in the Generation Kplus segment. Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don 2 will also feature in the festival.

    Produced by the Children Film Society of India (CFSI), Gattu has been acclaimed at other fests too.

    The Shah Rukh Khan film will screen for two reasons: the film, being financed by the German government, would attract viewers there; besides, in the process, it would have its German premiere.

    A total of 58 short and full-length films from 32 countries have been selected for the Generation Kplus and Generation 14-plus competitions. Two of these films will be screening out of competition.

    Members of the International jury are- Scottish documentary filmmaker, Mark Cousins, author and festival programmer, Rasmus Horskj?r from Denmark, film commissioner for children and youth at the Danish Film Institute Frieder Schlaich, German filmmaker cum producer and distributor Marité Ugas from Peru, director of the film El Chico Que Miente, Maxine Williamson from Australia, and artistic director of the Asian Pacific Screen Academy.

    The festival will be held from 9-19 February.

  • Gautham Menon planning Hindi remake of Tamil film

    Gautham Menon planning Hindi remake of Tamil film

    MUMBAI: Bollywood‘s growing love affair with the South has not just helped Salman Khan reclaim his stardom but has also become a ticket for many southern directors to make their mark here.

    One such director is Gautham Menon, known in Bollywood as a filmmaker whose films gets remade in Hindi as hit films. He is mulling with the idea to cast either Salman Khan or Shah Rukh Khan in the remake of his Kamal Hassan-starrer Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu.

    The role of the protagonist is that of a daredevil cop who is not just defined by his work, but also the style in which he does it. As things stand today, Salman Khan is most preferred as he has already played a cop in Wanted, a remake of the Tamil film Pokhri.

    Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, made in 2006, was a super hit film because it was one of the more modern crime thrillers with some super advanced special effects. The film had Hassan playing a cop. The film was reviewed as one of the most engaging investigative films down South.Meanwhile, Menon is making a comeback to Bollywood with the remake of his Tamil film Vinnaithaandi in Hindi titled Ekk Diwana Tha, starring Prateik and Amy Jackson.

  • SRK plans big-budget film titled Mahabharata

    SRK plans big-budget film titled Mahabharata

    MUMBAI: Keeping behind the debacle of his ambitious film Ra.One, Shah Rukh Khan has planned to make a big-budget film titled Mahabharata.

    The film is based on Karna, one of the most interesting and complex characters in the epic.

    Khan is of the view that the new film might be far bigger and better in its scale than Ra.One that released last Diwali. His ultimate goal is to make the mother of all Indian films that could be Bollywood’s first truly global blockbuster.

    The actor-producer wants the special effects of this film to be more advanced than James Cameron’s Avatar. Mahabharata would be made on the lines of Lord of the Rings – a trilogy.

    Right now, the actor-producer is busy with his SFX team at Red Chillies to put together a very special presentation for next month’s Berlin Film Festival.

    It is being said that Khan has already held talks with Hollywood studios in India like 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers regarding the marketing and distribution of the film.

  • Players gets rejected at the box office

    Players gets rejected at the box office

    MUMBAI: Players got rejected at the box office, failing to improve on its poor opening over the weekend. The multi-starrer managed to collect just about Rs 150 million in three days and slid further as the new week began.

    Kya Yahi Sach Hai, a biographical account of a former IPS officer, managed to draw a meagre Rs 2 million in its one-week run.

    Shah Rukh Khan starrer Don2 makes the most of the Christmas holidays, collecting Rs 945 million of its Rs 1.03 billion two-week total between 23 December – 2 January. In the second week, the movie collected Rs 279 million. The film seems to have lost steam as the third weekend accounted for just Rs 35 million.

    Pappu Can’t Dance Saala took its total to Rs 4.25 million after three weeks.

    Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, at the end of fourth week, has collected Rs 338 million.

    The Dirty Picture has managed to stay above the Rs 10 million mark even in its fifth week. It added another Rs 11 million, thereby taking its tally to Rs 825 million.

  • Salman, Shah Rukh among ETC Bollywood Business awards

    Salman, Shah Rukh among ETC Bollywood Business awards

    MUMBAI: Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan have bagged ETC Bollywood Business Awards after they were named most profitable actors of the Hindi film industry both in India and abroad.

    While Salman‘s film Bodyguard was declared the top grosser, Shah Rukh Khan‘s Ra.One was termed as the best marketed film of the year. The film also bagged an award under the highest single day collection category.

    Kareena Kapoor, who featured in Bodyguard and Ra.One respectively last year, was named the most profitable actor in the female category.

    “Receiving an award wherein you are being adjudged considering the economic quotient as a cornerstone for mapping the success gives you a sense of pride. I‘ve always maintained that commercial success is as important as the critical success of a movie. A commercially successful movie pays evidence to the fact that viewers loved watching your movie,” Kareena said in a press statement.

    Bodyguard‘s director Siddique was named the most profitable director.

    Other films like Pyaar Ka Panchnaama, The Dirty Picture, Don 2:The King Is Back and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol bagged awards for being the most successful small budget Film, ETC Box Office surprise of the year, most popular first look of a film and most successful foreign film respectively.

    The ETC Awards will be aired on Monday.

  • 3 Idiots success makes Bollywood eye China as potential market

    3 Idiots success makes Bollywood eye China as potential market

    MUMBAI: After the successful run of the Aamir Khan-starrer 3 Idiots in China, Bollywood has started eyeing the country as a potential market.

    Talking on the subject Vidhu Vinod Chopra quipped, “The Chinese audience identified with the societal and parental pressures on today’s generation of young students seeking success. This has demonstrated that universal themes will cross cultural and linguistic boundaries.”

    Chopra also divulged that he was already receiving enquiries from China for his next film, Ferrari Ki Sawaari, slated for release at the end of April.

    He hoped the success of 3 Idiots would see more Hindi-language films released in China, where only a handful of foreign films hit the silver screen every year.

    Before 3 Idiots, the 2010 Shah Rukh Khan-starrer My Name Is Khan was shown in China.

    Indian films were popular in China in the 1940s and 1950s but later ties between the two countries turned sour.