Mumbai: Looking forward to his upcoming film 'Freedom', director Vivek Agnihotri says the movie is like 'Dil Chahta Hai' meeting 'Deewar'.
'Freedom', a political thriller, is set in different periods from 1984 to 2000.
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01:51 PM, May 13, 2013
'Kabhi Kabhie' was Yash Chopra's second directorial film with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor in the lead roles after 'Deewar'. ...
08:20 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Amitabh Bachchan is looking forward to attending the River To River 2012 Indian Film Festival in Florence, where a retrospective of his films will be held. The 70-year-old is excited about visiting the city and the festival, where his movies 'Sholay', 'Black', 'Deewar' and even 'Everlasting Light', a documentary on him, will be screened. "Tomorrow to Florence, Italy as guest of honour for the Film Festival which does a retrospective...
04:43 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured by the Australian government for his remarkable contribution to the Indian cinema, which is celebrating its centenary year. The 70-year-old actor started his career in 1969 with 'Saat Hindustani' and thereafter delivered hits like 'Zanjeer', 'Deewar', 'Sholay', 'Don' and many more. "Another recognition by the Australian Government and its Commission here in Mumbai, in celebration for the 100 years of Indian Cinema, and...
04:44 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Noted lyricist and scriptwriter Javed Akhtar says Bollywood has drifted away from the middle class, which constitutes the major part of the Indian society. Akhtar, 67, who co-wrote the screenplay of Amitabh Bachchan starrers 'Sholay', 'Don' and 'Deewar' with Salim Khan, said the protagonists of the today's films don't come from the middle class anymore. "Hindi cinema has always given us a reality check and depicted our dreams...
10:45 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan visited late filmmaker Yash Chopra's wife Pamela, remembering the times he had spent over the years at their place. Bachchan, 70, paid the visit on Sunday, a week after the tragic demise of the legendary Bollywood filmmaker. "...A visit to Pam, Yash Chopra's wife at their house just behind ours...memories of great times spent here in this residence of theirs... "Holi celebrations, shootings, dinners and musical...
07:11 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar, who worked with Yash Chopra as a writer in blockbuster films like 'Deewar', 'Trishul' and 'Kaala Pathar', says the filmmaker never compromised on his ethics. "The dialogues in his movies itself had literary values. One thing was highly appreciable about him was that in the 1980s, which was called the dark era of cinema...he took the challenge without compromising on his ethics," Akhtar said on...
10:18 AM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: On his last birthday on September 27, 2012, Yash Chopra very clearly said that its the high time when he should detach himself from filmmaking. The songs and promos of Chopras lat film Jab Tak Hai Jaan have made a lot of buzz, but the maverick director is no more to see the reaction of his audiences. However, over the years, he has made films that were iconic...
08:12 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra was admitted to Lilavati hospital in suburban Bandra here after being diagnosed with dengue, sources said today. "Mr Yash Chopra was admitted to hospital yesterday after being diagnosed with an attack of dengue. He has been kept under observation. He is feeling much better and should be home soon," a spokesperson of Yash Raj Films said in a statement here. The 80-year-old filmmaker had announced...
11:44 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Mumbai: As one of India's most high-profile celebrities, he has been the proverbial goldfish in the glass bowl for decades and is also an inveterate blogger. But no autobiographies for Amitabh Bachchan, who says firmly that some pockets of his life are off limits to the outside world and the blog is not a means to document his life. Amitabh, who turned 70 Thursday, guards his privacy fiercely and says...
11:45 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: There are certain people who should be treated with respect, always. The traditional Indian society keeps a check on its youngsters whether or not they are paying proper respect to people such as Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar and Amitabh Bachchan. The kind of respect these people enjoy is unthinkable for many prominent thinkers and politicians. Slowly and steadily, Amitabh Bachchan has completed 70 years and out of these...
06:18 PM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: For those of you following Amitabh Bachchan on twitter, he finally speaks about why all his tweets begin with a number - it's the number of days that he has been on twitter. Bachchan marked his 786th day on twitter with tweets on this lucky number charm that kept reoccurring throughout his career. In his first blockbuster film Deewar (1975), Bachchan wore a coolie badge or the Billa...
04:10 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Scriptwriter Salim Khan is back in action and this time for his son's next film "Sher Khan". The veteran writer says it's time to pass on the legacy and that he has a certain ammount of experience that his son Sohail Khan is using for his directorial venture. He will officially supervise the scripting of "Sher Khan", which will star his son Salman in the lead role, while Sohail will...
04:28 PM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: The young filmmakers are doing an excellent job, says writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar, who has been associated with the industry for more than 40 years. However, he does not approve their idea of having songless movies. "I really like the kind of cinema that is made nowadays. The young filmmakers are doing an excellent job. When I see films like 'Udaan', 'Kahaani', 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara', 'Rock On!!', I...
06:31 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: Writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar, who has been part of the Indian film industry for more than four decades, says so far only Bollywood has not suffered at the hands of Hollywood. "Hollywood is such a powerful film industry that it has ruined film industries of the world. Wherever Hollywood films reach, the original film industry of that nation got ruined, except India. Our film industry is flourishing be it Tamil...
02:22 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Mumbai: Realism is a far cry in new age Bollywood, says veteran lyricist-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar, who feels the depiction of the common man in today's films is misleading and the quality of songs and language has deteriorated quite a lot. "Where's realism in today's films? Maybe yesteryear films were more dramatic in treatment, but they had more realism. They had a common man's depiction the way the common man was,...
12:29 PM, Nov 30, 2011
![Rituparna Chatterjee]( "Rituparna Chatterjee")
Dear Amitabh, Aaj khush toh bahut hoge tum... I truly believe every generation deserves the heroes they get. Born in the bleached out ...
12:05 PM, Jul 08, 2011
