
New Delhi: She is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and has wowed people with her dance moves. Little surprise then that actress and MP Hema Malini says she misses the elegance of classical dance in today's films. She also says that in their heyday, there was no question of correcting an actor's mistake in the post-production stage and they simply had to get it right. "I really miss classical dance in...

02:54 PM, Oct 21, 2011

UTV Motion Pictures have a five-film deal with a leading media firm in Seoul for exclusive terrestrial TV rights for films like "Jodhaa Akbar" and "Wake Up Sid". "The fact that a few Indian films have performed well at the (South) Korean box office, and that the Korean broadcast networks are looking for good Indian films across genres like emotional dramas and love stories, indicates that there is a surging...

08:56 AM, May 26, 2011

DAMs - The Lethal Water Bomb, a thought-provoking documentary on the 106-year-old Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala, bagged three awards at the prestigious Los Angeles Movie Awards (LAMA). The 21-minute documentary, produced by Biz TV Network and directed by Dubai-based Sohan Roy, a naval architect by profession, won awards for excellence, best editing and best visual effects. Roy's office said that the LAMA 2011 award highlights the safety issues related to...

04:57 PM, May 24, 2011

Movie production majors UTV Motion Pictures and the Walt Disney Company in India Thursday announced a creative alliance to co-produce a slate of films for family audiences. While Disney and UTV will share creative responsibilities for these films, UTV will manage the production, marketing and distribution aspects. "Together with UTV, our goal is to produce films that have a direct connection with the dynamic and expanding India audience and that...

02:14 PM, May 19, 2011

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10:15 PM, May 13, 2011

Ranbir Kapoor shot an interesting video with a gang of kids in UTV Spot Boy's Chiller Party and reveals that his look in the song was inspired by his father Rishi Kapoor. Apparently, Ranbir has been in love with his father's film Amar Akbar Anthony since he was a kid. The film showcased Rishi Kapoor in the character of Akbar that featured him in an extremely different look. This tapori...

04:29 PM, May 05, 2011

The condition of Tamil superstar Rajnikanth is stable and he has been advised rest for a couple of days, a doctor here said Thursday. The 60-year-old was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of St. Isabel Hospital Wednesday night. "He is suffering from allergic bronchitis and fever. The cause is exhaustion. He is advised rest for a couple of days. His condition is stable," S.N. Sai Kishore, a doctor...

12:08 PM, May 05, 2011

Actor Randhir Kapoor, son of legendary filmmaker Raj Kapoor has revealed that after the debacle of his father's ambitious project Mera Naam Joker in 1970, the family faced a major financial crunch. Mera Naam Joker was a film about a clown who must make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrow. "We were facing a financial crunch in the early 1970s because Mera Naam Joker didn't work...

01:18 PM, Apr 07, 2011

A R Rahman recently launched his own production company and hopes to kickstart his career as a producer by making films in southern languages. Ash teams up with Rituparno Ghosh for a hindi-bengali bilingual film. And Sunny Deol plans to revive his home banner Vijeta Films by making sequel to his 1990's hit, Ghayal. ...

04:28 PM, Apr 06, 2011

Saif Ali Khan has been busy brushing up on his Hindi. The actor who plays a school teacher in director Prakash Jha's Aarakshan is required to speak in chaste Hindi and at times even Sanskrit for the movie. So Saif sat like a good student in his room for days and learned Hindi and also took up Amitabh Bachchan's suggestion to keep saying his dialogues through the day. After Omkara,...

11:57 AM, Apr 04, 2011