New Delhi: Veteran Filmmaker Ramesh Sippy has been appointed the chairman of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). Best known for directing Bollywood classic 'Sholay', Sippy replaces actor Om Puri, officials said. The Information and Broadcasting ministry has also appointed Jawahar Wattal and Odiya cinematographer A K Bir as independent directors. NFDC is the central agency established to encourage the good cinema movement in the country. The primary goal of...
07:27 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Mumbai:Christy Clark, the Premier of British Columbia, a province in Canada, today invited the International Indian Film Academy to celebrate the 14th IIFA Weekend and Awards in the city of Vancouver in 2013. In a meet and greet with members from film fraternity including IIFA Advisory Board members, President of the Film and Television Producers Guild, Ramesh Sippy, actor Anil Kapoor and senior members of the Hindi film industry, Premier...
04:27 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Jaipur: A complaint has been filed in a court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city against Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone and makers of Dum Maaro Dum for an alleged indecent and obscene dance number in the Hindi film. The movie's director Rohan Sippy, producer Ramesh Sippy and music director Pritam Chakraborty have been named in the complaint. The complainant, Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Pal Road area in Jodhpur, some 330 km...
02:17 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Filmmaker Ramesh Sippy, who donned the director's hat 16 years ago for Zamana Deewana, is planning to go behind the camera soon. "Now I think it's important that I take a step in that direction again and I'll try that something like this happens. We are working on a script; when it completes, I'll announce the film formally. So direction will happen soon," said Sippy, director of cult classic Sholay....
12:16 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Mumbai: Dev Anand is upset with the makers of the forthcoming movie Dum Maaro Dum for using his cult song of the same title in it. Producer Ramesh Sippy has clarified it was an issue of timing and it's their misfortune that the legend is upset with them. The popular song "Dum maaro dum" from Dev Anand's 1971 super-hit movie Hare Rama Hare Krishna has been re-arranged and used in...
03:37 PM, Mar 24, 2011
Mumbai: Mukesh Bhatt, Ramesh Sippy and a few others came together to announce the deferring of January 6 strike. Bollywood producers had earlier proposed to going on strike on January 6th in protest over the proposed amendment to the Copyright act that makes it compulsory for the producers to share 50 per cent of the music royalties with lyricists and composers. However, the producers have decided to defer the strike...
11:01 AM, Dec 30, 2010
Ramesh Sippy's blockbuster Sholay was released on August 15, 1975. ...
05:05 PM, Aug 15, 2010
New Delhi: It drew its inspiration from multiple Hollywood movies but went on to become the quintessential Indian film, perfectly balancing drama and tragedy, romance and violence, comedy and action. This August 15 it will be 35 years since
Sholay was released – three decades and more of Gabbar, Jai, Veeru and Basanti still striking a chord. Sometimes described as an Indian curry western,
Sholay is still a reference point...
02:46 PM, Aug 15, 2010
Ram Gopal Varma was under lot of criticism when he attempted to remake Ramesh Sippy's
Sholay. He went ahead and made
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag with Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of 'Gabbar Singh'. The film bombed at the box-office and Ramu learned the hard way that
Sholay can never be re-created. The film completes 35 years on August 15 and the director remembers the film by writing about...
09:10 PM, Aug 14, 2010
The ever-lasting appeal of one of Bollywood’s biggest blockbusters
Sholay is not limited to the celluloid alone. In fact, a few books across the years have kept the film buffs entertained with a pinch of flavour that sends them on a trek to Ramgarh. Cine-lovers, read on… In film journalist Anupama Chopra’s
Sholay: The Making of a Classic, she reveals the fascinating story of how a small story idea grew...
06:00 PM, Aug 13, 2010
Animal friendly version Original scene I Veeru: "Basanti, In kutton ke saamne mat nachna…."
The Animal activists’ approved version: "Basanti, Kutton ke saamne nachna par inke saamne nahin…" Original scene II Jai: "Jaake Gabbar se kehdena humne geedadon ke saamne khana daalna band kar diya hai…"
The Animal activists’ approved version: "Jaake Gabbar se Kehdena hum roz geedadon ko khana daalenge, pyar bhi karenge…" Original scene III Basanti: "Bhaag...
05:10 PM, Aug 12, 2010
Jagdeep, who has acted in more than 300 films and portrayed various characters, is still identified as Soorma Bhopali by everyone when he goes for a walk on the streets of Yari Road, Versova. The actor reveals how his character was created by Salim-Javed and some other revealing facts about his role in a conversation with IBNMOVIES.
How did the birth of Soorma Bhopali take place? I was shooting for...
06:12 PM, Aug 10, 2010
Catch Kailash Surendranath the ad man who gave Amjad Khan his first ad ...
12:35 AM, Aug 10, 2010
Catch the legendary actor remember the glorious past and history of 'Sholay' ...
09:17 PM, Aug 07, 2010
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