Mumbai :Filmmaker Subhash Ghai, who recently suffered a setback when the courts held allotment of land to his film institute Whistling Woods here as illegal, says it is important to keep smiling. On April 4, the Supreme Court asked Ghai to return the land in Mumbai, measuring 20 acres, to the state government and also rapped the former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh over the allotment. "It is important to smile...
04:51 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Chandigarh: The Opposition Indian National Lok Dal in Haryana has pounced upon the opportunity to hit out at the Congress government following a stay on the execution of a sale deed of land purchased by Subhash Ghais Mukta Arts in Badhsa village of Jhajjar district in Haryana. The stay was ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court dealing another blow to Bollywood producer-director Subhash Ghai. INLDs Ashok Arora alleged...
07:12 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the allotment of 20 acres of panchayat land in Jhajjar district to Ghai's firm Mukta Arts and film school Whistling woods. Ghai was planning to set up a film institute on the plot. But his plans ran into trouble when villagers from Badhsa filed a PIL challenging the allotment. Ghai suffered a...
11:56 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: Film-maker Subhash Ghai, who suffered a setback recently when the courts held allotment of land to his film institute Whistling Woods illegal, today said he had no political connections. On April 4, the Supreme Court asked Ghai to return the land in Mumbai, measuring 20 acres, to the state, and also rapped the former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, saying he could not have treated anyone as 'blue-eyed boy'. "I...
11:47 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Subhash Ghai today said he felt 'cheated' by the Maharashtra government even as prominent Bollywood personalities expressed shock on the verdict of the Supreme Court upholding the Bombay High Court order quashing the 20 acre land allotted to his film school Whistling Woods International. Ghai, who founded the school said, "We feel cheated by Government of Maharashtra when we are told after ten years of setting up Whistling...
03:56 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has defended himself against the allegation that former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh inappropriately allotted land to him. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Ghai said, "The application was lying there when I went with my money after the IPO, where my application was forwarded to various departments, and then I went to the corporation, Film City corporation and then after that everything was done...
08:40 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Vilasrao Deshmukh was slammed for allotting land to filmmaker Subhash Ghai for his film school Whistling Woods International. ...
10:28 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India in a recent report is learnt to have indicted Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for preferential allotment of a plot in Mumbai to a trust founded by him and holding on to it for four years in breach of conditions. According to the report yet to be tabled in the Maharashtra legislature, the 23,840 sq m plot in suburban Borivali was allotted to...
08:20 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to Bollywood film producer Subhash Ghai, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Bombay High Court order quashing the 20 acre land allotted to his film institute in Filmcity. A bench of justices HL Dattu and CK Prasad also pulled up former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for allotting the land in 2004, saying the CM cannot bend or bypass rules to give away government...
01:00 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: Buzz is that Katrina Kaif has been roped in for Prakash Jha's next, tentatively titled 'Satyagrah'. This is the second film for which the actor-director duo is teaming up again after their last film 'Raajneeti'. Akshay Kumar who stars in the film will also produce it. Reportedly, dhak-dhak girl Madhuri Dixit who earlier worked with Jha in 'Mrityudand' is also said to be part of the cast. A source...
01:58 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Mumbai: More than three years since the debacle of 'Yuvvraaj', talk is that Subhash Ghai is making another film, a youthful musical romance with a dose of comedy and action. And the filmmaker was really keen to have Ranbir Kapoor on board. In fact, he also sought help from Rishi Kapoor to help convince the young actor to sign the dotted line. However, Ranbir expressed his inability to do the...
01:45 PM, Mar 23, 2012
The award ceremony honoured 11 specially-abled individuals, who despite their physical challenges, managed to realise their dreams. ...
07:36 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Mumbai: Lamenting the degradation of poetry and story in Bollywood films, eminent filmmaker Subhash Ghai has said it is one of the primary reasons he has stopped making movies. "It is true that Mukta Arts does not make movies of late because there are no good scripts. But, it is only 70 per cent of the reason. I am busy with my film institute and that takes up all the...
11:54 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Badhsa, Haryana: A court in Haryana has stayed Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai's Mukta Arts from performing any type of activity on the 20 acres of land it purchased from the Gram Panchayat of Badhsa village in Jhajjar district. Hearing a plea filed by ex-sarpanches of Badhsa Balbir Singh and Rambir Singh, Additional Civil Judge Rajesh Sharma issued notice to the Haryana government and Mukta Arts chairman Subhash Ghai. The petitioners...
03:32 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Mumbai: Coming down hard at former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, BJP's State President Sudhir Mungantiwar in a press conference on Saturday claimed that Deshmukh had helped filmmaker Subhash Ghai acquire large tracts of land to build his film institute Whistling Woods International, so that his actor son Riteish Deshmukh could benefit from the favour. The High Court on Thursday directed Ghai to return the 20-acre land allotted to him....
10:58 AM, Feb 12, 2012
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