Kolkata: After its critical acclaim at home and abroad at different film festivals, the world launch of the DVD of ace director Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' took place at a city book store. "I am very happy with the work of Debu (ace music composer Debojyoti Misra. The film was possible because of everybody involved including Debu," Sen said as Misra was present at the DVD launch programme at a...
01:14 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Death is a paradox " it announces an absence yet it is profound and revered in religions. It is a bonding which marks a distance " between us and within us. This relativism of death makes it an abstraction of separation " intrigues longing and masquerades as permanence. Death therefore essentially links memories to absolutism and in turn rejects itself. In Hindu philosophy of re-birth and the circle (and cycle)...
01:37 PM, Aug 24, 2011
Cast: Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rajat Kapoor, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Koushik Sen, Saheb Bhattacharjee Director: Aparna Sen Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' is not so much of a bad film as it is a disappointing film, coming as it does after the exquisite 'The Japanese Wife.' The story is about Mrinalini, an actress well past her prime. On the night of the premiere of her latest movie, she realizes that her...
10:49 AM, Aug 02, 2011
Ranvir Shorey strikes a bizarre pose with his baby boy Haroon. The actor posted this snapshot on his micro-blogging site saying "Here's a photo of Haroon and me taken in true Indian tradition!" He adds, "Babies are dew drops that grow up to be rivers. Like you and me." Wonder who took the pic, mommy Konkona Sen Sharma? PS: Koko and Ranvir's baby is little over a month old. Spotted:...
02:38 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: Actress Konkona Sen Sharma, who gave birth to a boy on March 15 this year, shows off her baby bump in the April issue of the Indian edition of OK! magazine. The 31-year-old actress, who is married to actor Ranvir Shorey, has named her son Haroon. In the April issue of OK! India, Konkona or Koko, as she is popularly known, talks about pregnancy and motherhood. Having let...
01:07 PM, Apr 16, 2011
Rakesh Roshan has offered Dum Maaro Dum actor Rana Dagubatti the negative role in the sequel to Krrish. It had been offered to Ajay Devgn who was not too keen on playing the part. Buzz was that AD was unhappy about the characterisation. The next choice was Rana who Roshan Sr considers red-hot. Koko names her son haroon Konkona Sen Sharma delivered a baby boy on March 15. The actress...
01:09 PM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood couple Konkona Sen Sharma and Ranvir Shorey has been blessed with a son, says Rahul Bose. The child was born on Tuesday. Actor Rahul Bose announced it on his Twitter page saying: "Massive congratulations to Konkona and Ranvir! A boy it is. With those genes, the dynasty is secure." Tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi and actor Vivek Oberoi also congratulated the couple. The couple, who were seeing each...
03:28 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Enough of goodie goodie roles for Konkona Sen Sharma. The two-time National Award winner says she enjoyed playing a sexually aggressive woman in Vinay Shukla's Mirch and laments that not too many such roles come her way. "The roles that I get offered are very good and of serious women who are morally upright, righteous and honest. But I was dying to do this one (Mirch). I never...
09:34 AM, Dec 18, 2010
Cast: Konkona Sen Sharma, Raima Sen, Arunoday Singh Director: Vinay Shukla 'Mirch', directed by Vinay Shukla, is a delicious idea that unfortunately doesn't translate into a sumptuous film. When more than one producer rejects his dark, artistic and 'commercially unviable' script, a struggling writer-director, Manav (played by Arunoday Singh) narrates a short story from the Panchatantra - about a woman caught red-handed with her lover by her husband - that...
11:19 PM, Dec 17, 2010
After working together in movies like
Mixed Doubles,
Traffic Signal and
Aaja Nachle, newly-wed couple Ranvir Shorey and Konkona Sen will be seen together in a romantic thriller. The movie is tentative titled
Jackpot and is directed by debutant Amitabh Varma. Varma had penned the popular number
"Alvida" of
Life In A Metro. ...
10:48 AM, Sep 13, 2010
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