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
The Cannes festival which features the biggest names in independent and mainstream cinema opens this year on May 15 and there will be a special section commemorating 100 years of Indian Cinema and a formidable Bollywood presence. ...
11:50 PM, May 15, 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
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
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: 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
New Delhi: Silent film 'The Light of Asia', which revolves around the story of Gautam Bhuddha, was screened at the Indian cinema centenary festival here. The 1925 silent film is based on the story by Edwin Arnold. The film was screened at 'Gulshan Mahal', a makeshift tent cinema erected as part of a unique attraction at the festival. The film opens with rare shots taken in a video travelogue fashion...
02:41 PM, May 01, 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: The government would make all possible efforts to make India a major international filming destination, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari said here Thursday. The ministry had taken certain concrete steps to put in place a mechanism, which would facilitate international as well as domestic film producers, said Tewari at the launch of six-day Centenary Film Festival at Siri Fort auditorium here. He said that the single...
04:26 PM, Apr 26, 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
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
'Bombay Talkies', the anthology tribute to 100 years of Indian cinema by four top filmmakers, will have its gala screening at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, where India is the guest country this year. The film directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar, weaves together four stories and stars Rani Mukerji, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui besides special appearances by Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan. Watch this...
02:24 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: As the world celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema, veteran archivist PK Nair reveals that there are no prints of India's first talkie 'Alam Ara' made in 1931 or indeed of many epic films made before the 1950s. The former director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) discloses the sad fact that only 'leftovers' could be archived as films made before the 1950s were either destroyed...
01:27 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Did you know that Amjad Khan almost got rejected from playing the iconic Gabbar Singh in 'Sholay' for having a weak voice? And our national anthem was actually used as a song in Bimal Roy's film 'Hamrahi' which released in 1945. Here are some interesting facts about Bollywood that you may have not heard of before: Raj Kapoor started the Bollywood trend of shooting parts of a movie abroad with...
10:55 AM, Apr 18, 2013
