Mumbai: Naseeruddin Shah is doing a film free of cost for director Manish Srivastava. The reason behind this generosity is the script and the fact that it involves a bunch of young actors who have a theatre background. It's well-known fact that Shah loves theatre and is pretty active on the floorboards. So as a token of appreciation for the efforts taken to help budding talents, he decided to take...
11:08 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Tongues started wagging when producer Sheetal Talwar, a few days ago, made a comment on how India cinema has acquired a somewhat status of a joke at the annual Cannes Film Festival. And he minced no words while adding that an immense amount of money from the government's exchequer is being wasted through The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) that is in charge of promoting Indian cinema globally. Speaking exclusively...
03:40 PM, Jun 02, 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: Anurag Kashyap's 'Gangs of Wasseypur' is making a good name for itself, especially after getting featured at the Cannes International Film Festival. The promos of the film suggest that the music is going to play a crucial part in the narration. Music director Sneha Khanwalkar lives up to the expectations. Her new album has 14 songs, mostly with a rustic touch. Varun Grover has penned down the first...
01:38 PM, May 30, 2012
Cannes: The longest-running entry in this year's Cannes festival, a five-hour Indian gangster epic, won a warm welcome at the Riviera event, even drawing parallels with Quentin Tarantino. Anurag Kashyap, who directed the five hour 20 minute 'Gangs of Wasseypur', described the film to AFP as 'a Bollywood-influenced gangster epic, part Western, part documentary.' With a folk-meets-dubstep soundtrack and a basis in true stories, the film follows three generations of...
01:08 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: Actor Yashpal Sharma, who has been part of films like 'Lagaan', 'Gangaajal' and 'Aarakshan', will next be seen playing an item boy in Anurag Kashyap's upcoming film 'Gangs of Wasseypur'. The 45-year-old essays the role of a singer in the movie, who thinks of himself as a Kishore Kumar but in reality is a terrible singer. And although he has a small part in the film, which recently...
04:01 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: At a party thrown by Anurag Kashyap at Cannes, on the eve of his film's premiere, several of the guests sported the traditional gamcha as Anurag's film has a rustic setting. Mallika Sherawat bonds with Jackie Chan at Cannes Mallika Sherawat reunited with her 'The Myth' co-star Jackie Chan over dinner. She showed off her curves in a skin-coloured gown at Cannes during their meeting. Apparently she was thrilled...
12:40 PM, May 23, 2012
'Peddlers', directed by Vasan Bala and produced by Anurag Kashyap has been selected to be screened at the Cannes Critics Week. ...
05:22 PM, May 22, 2012
Anurag Kashyap's two-part coal mafia drama 'Gangs of Wasseypur' will have its world premiere at the Directors Fortnight section. ...
10:53 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Kalki Koechlin had to go through quite a transformation for her role in 'Shanghai' as director Dibakar Banerjee wanted her to look ugly yet adorable. The brief given by her director was quite simple - 'Look ugly'. However, it was nothing short of a nightmare to actually realise the filmmaker's vision. "Dibakar wanted me to look ugly and vulnerable. The first thing that he did was chop my...
05:55 PM, May 21, 2012
Mumbai: He's been called the 'best film school' in India and film-maker Anurag Kashyap is living up to his name. His co-production 'Udaan' made it to the Cannes film festival in 2010. This year, three films Kashyap is associated with -- his own two-part revenge saga 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and 'Peddlers' (directed by Vasan Bala) -- are being screened at Cannes. Kashyap, known for his edgy style of film-making is...
01:22 PM, May 21, 2012
NEW DELHI: Anurag Kashyap's 'Gangs of Wasseypur', being screened at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival, is a male-dominated script, but had room for strong female characters as well, says Huma Qureshi, who makes her acting debut with the movie. "It is a male-dominated movie but the women are also very strong and irreplaceable. Though the women might not have a direct impact in the film - for example, none...
04:53 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: While filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is all geared up to attend the 65th Cannes International Film Festival, starting May 16, his actress wife Kalki Koechlin won't be accompanying him but is hopeful that one day she would attend the gala. "I wouldn't be able to attend Cannes festival as I would be busy shooting for my film. I have been begging my director to give me sometime off, but...
04:40 PM, May 16, 2012
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