Actors Emraan Hashmi and Kalki Koechelin visited the CNN-IBN newsroom to promote their latest film 'Shanghai'. ...
10:08 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmakers rarely applaud each other's work but Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee are all praises for each other. After watching 'Shanghai', Kashyap has declared it is the best film he has ever watched and Banerjee is the country's best director. "It's a film that should be made compulsory for everybody to watch. This is the most powerful and the best film I have seen in a long time," Kashyap...
04:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Dibakar Banerjee may like to tackle social problems in his film but the director, who is gearing up for the release of his political thriller 'Shanghai', says he will never compromise with the entertainment quotient in his movies. Dibakar, 41, says he is happy that his films 'Khosla Ka Ghosla', 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye', 'Love Sex aur Dhokha' offered different stories without wavering from their socio-political themes. He...
03:40 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Director Dibakar Banerjee says his upcoming political thriller 'Shanghai', starring Abhay Deol and Emraan Hashmi in the lead, deals with the two halves of India, who keep warring against each other. "Abhay represents the educated middleclass dream of forward looking and so called progressive India while Emraan is the average guy who is left behind. These are the two parts India is divided into. In 'Shanghai', Abhay and...
06:58 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Dibakar Banerjee says his political thriller 'Shanghai' is an attempt to bridge dreams and reality: the dream of transforming 'stuffy and dirty India' into a swanky Shanghai, and a reality check on where India stands today. "In the context of the film, we have this dream of a Shanghai like city, where there is business, fame, money and entertainment. Where there are lots of buildings, skyscrapers, hotels, pubs and...
05:44 PM, May 13, 2012
Mumbai: Tracking down Abhay Deol for a phone interview proved to be a Herculean task. Not that he was acting pricey, but because he was somewhere in the interiors of Bhopal, shooting for his forthcoming film. The phone network threw tantrums at us instead and finally when our lines connected, the actor spoke to us about his insecurities, relationships and believing in love. What excites you more " the script...
01:10 PM, May 09, 2012
Mumbai: Emraan Hashmi, who will be seen as a porn filmmaker in Dibakar Banerjee's upcoming political thriller 'Shanghai', Sunday said he had gained nine to 10 kg for the role. This film is all set to be released on June 8. Hashmi said he plays the role of a porn filmmaker called Joginder Parmar. "I play the role of Joginder Parmar. He is a very rooted and real character. He...
12:18 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Dibakar Banerjee's much-awaited 'Shanghai' will be premiered at the 13th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) event starting June 7 in Singapore. The movie, which stars Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin and Prosenjit Chatterjee in the lead role, will premiere on the first day at the Lido Cinemas, Shaw Theatre in Singapore, said a statement. "The concept of 'Shanghai' appealed to me and I am...
03:56 PM, May 06, 2012
Mumbai: There may have been buzz that Beti B would feature with Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan in Oprah Winfrey's new show and a shot of the baby would be featured. But the episode which was telecast recently in the US barely showed Abhi-Ash and there was no mention of the baby at all. Later Oprah tweeted a picture of her India visit, with Abhishek and her helping Aishwarya step down,...
02:34 PM, May 05, 2012
'Shanghai', starring Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi and Kalki Koechlin is set to release in June. ...
06:45 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Political thrillers are not that common in Bollywood but then director and producer Dibakar Banerjee rarely chooses conventional subjects for his films. Banerjee, 42, explored sexual attitudes in India with 'Love Sex aur Dhokha' in 2010. His latest film puts the spotlight on the dark underbelly of urban development in rapidly modernising India. The filmmaker spoke to Reuters about his new project, the political film 'Shanghai' about the mysterious...
12:36 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Mumbai: Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor seem to have buried the hatchet and are teaming up once again in Tanu Weds Manu director Anand L Rai's next. Abhay is doing a small but significant role in the film, which marks the Bollywood debut of the South star Rajnikanth's son-in-law and Kolavari D singer-actor, Dhanush. The youngest Deol and the Kapoor girl had a fall-out during the shoot of Sonam's home...
03:50 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Kolkata: Trailers of the upcoming political thriller 'Shanghai' remind the audience of the land acquisition troubles at Singur and Nandigram as well as the promise made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of turning Kolkata into London, but director Dibakar Banerjee denies any such link. "No particular person or incident has inspired my film. What happened in Singur has also happened at other places. What has been said by...
07:55 PM, Apr 25, 2012
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