Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who made his Hollywood debut with 'The Great Gatsby', graced the red carpet at Cannes. ...
04:53 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: The 2013 edition of International Indian Film Academy awards (IIFA) will celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema as the three-day Bollywood extravaganza returns to Macau after 2009. Announcing the destination, Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan said he will be performing at the ceremony, which kickstarts from July 4 this year. Abhishek's presence indicates that Bachchan family has mended its differences with the organisers. Bachchans were regular at the ceremony...
05:34 PM, May 14, 2013
The Cannes Film Festival which features the biggest names in independent and mainstream cinema opens on May 15. ...
09:59 AM, May 14, 2013
We're on a 100-year journey, in search of untold tales that got made behind mics, mixers and harmoniums, to string together the sound of our cinema. ...
11:41 AM, May 10, 2013
It's 100 years of Indian cinema and actor Salman Khan talks about his 25 years in the industry, many other issues, and Being Human's initiative to help children with heart disease. ...
02:53 PM, May 04, 2013
Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur We celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, yet we're little aware of the man who painstakingly restored Dadasaheb Phalke's work as well as several other silent pictures and talkies, and then built our country's moving pictures archive, one film can at a time. The documentary 'Celluloid Man', directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, introduces us to that man Paramesh Krishnan Nair, or PK Nair - India's film...
11:33 PM, May 03, 2013
'Raja Harishchandra' was made by the father of Indian cinema Dada Saheb Phalke in 1913. ...
05:36 PM, May 03, 2013
May 3 is an important day for Indian cinema. It is the day when the country got a new religion to follow, it is the day when Indians got introduced to the magic of films. Hundred years back, Dadasaheb Phalke had released his first feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' on this fateful day and paved the way for an industry which now is one the biggest film industries in the world....
05:02 PM, May 03, 2013
As the Indian cinema celebrates the completion of its 100 years, filmmaker Karan Johar talks about first full length silent film 'Raja Harishchandra', which was released in 1913. The film was directed by the father of Indian cinema Dada Saheb Phalke, but there's more to the maverick filmmaker. ...
12:04 PM, May 03, 2013
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director - Alfred Hitchcock. With due respect to Alfred Hitchcock's ideas, I dare say that here is a documentary which is far more relevant and heavier in content than most of the feature films where god is not the director. In fact, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's National Award winning documentary 'Celluloid Man' is a film appreciation course in...
11:36 AM, May 03, 2013
A hundred years ago when Dhundiraj Govind Phalke organised the first public screening of his film Raja Harishchandra, the publicity posters didn't have any images on them, but that changed soon after. A film's publicity poster also became an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid and able artists highlighted those selected images from the movie that could draw the audiences to inside the dark theatres for more than two-hours...
06:25 AM, May 03, 2013
In India, cinema isn't just a passion. It is an obsession. We have perhaps inherited this acute addiction from the man who started it all, 99 years ago - the Father of Indian Cinema Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870-1944). Dadasaheb Phalke as we better know him as, held the first show of Raja Harishchandra what is widely considered to be the first Indian feature film at Bombay's Olympia Picture Palace on...
06:20 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: India's first feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' will repeat history as it is set to be screened in Patna tomorrow, exactly a hundred years later since its release in 1913. "India's first film 'Raja Harischandra', a silent movie, will be screened in Patna as part of an event commemorating the centenary year of the Indian cinema," president, Cine Society, Patna, R N Dash told PTI. Though cinema entered India...
05:54 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Indian cinema, which is celebrating its centenary year, has a unique identity and should rival Hollywood as its eastern equivalent, says actor-producer Saif Ali Khan who does not believe in any attempts to cross over. "I think we should not try to cross over," Saif told IANS over phone from Mumbai. "Our eastern identity is fundamentally different from theirs. We should look at taking our movies from India...
12:50 PM, May 02, 2013
As the Indian cinema completes its 100 years, so does one of Bollywood's finest actors Balraj Sahni. On the legendary actor's 100th birth anniversary, Karan Johar recalls how the suave-looking young man managed to play the role of a rickshaw-puller in Bimal Roy's 'Do Bhiga Zameen'. ...
09:34 AM, May 01, 2013
Mumbai: Anurag Kashyap used to feel that Karan Johar was a misfit for 'Bombay Talkies' but later he did find a common ground with the fellow filmmaker and thinks Karan's short film is the best in the anthology tribute to 100 years of Indian cinema. It's a compilation of four short stories directed by four different filmmakers Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Johar. It releases on May 3 when...
12:57 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: We are celebrating the 100 years of Indian cinema with a poll which constitutes a list of 100 films from different Indian languages. These films have been selected after conducting extended research about the content and treatment of the projects. The list contains films which have influenced the popular culture in a big way but this was not the only criteria. Opinions were also taken from experts in...
10:36 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Take a look as Karan Johar tells us how fashion evolved over the years in Hindi films and the earliest diva's and trendsetters of the Hindi film Industry. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 25, 2013
India's first feature film - Dada Saheb Phalke's 'Raja Harishchandra' had Anna Salunke, a man, play Queen Taramati. ...
05:26 PM, Apr 24, 2013
