Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is all set to repeat his hat-trick at Cannes. Just like last year, three of the actor's films will be representing India at Cannes. ...
06:13 PM, May 17, 2013
The Cannes festival which features the biggest names in independent and mainstream cinema opens this year on May 15 and there will be a special section commemorating 100 years of Indian Cinema and a formidable Bollywood presence. ...
11:50 PM, May 15, 2013
Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday was conferred with Chevalier Sivaji Award, constituted after veteran Tamil actor Sivaji Ganeshan, in Chennai at the 7th edition of Vijay awards. Shah Rukh received the award from the hands of Kamal Haasan, Vijay and members from the family of Sivaji Ganeshan. ...
05:45 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The 2013 edition of International Indian Film Academy awards (IIFA) will celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema as the three-day Bollywood extravaganza returns to Macau after 2009. Announcing the destination, Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan said he will be performing at the ceremony, which kickstarts from July 4 this year. Abhishek's presence indicates that Bachchan family has mended its differences with the organisers. Bachchans were regular at the ceremony...
05:34 PM, May 14, 2013
The Cannes Film Festival which features the biggest names in independent and mainstream cinema opens on May 15. ...
09:59 AM, May 14, 2013
We're on a 100-year journey, in search of untold tales that got made behind mics, mixers and harmoniums, to string together the sound of our cinema. ...
11:41 AM, May 10, 2013
In My Years with Boss at Gemini Studios, Ashokamitran recounts a poet's visit. "He was a tall man, very English, very serious and of course very unknown to all of us. Battling with half a dozen pedestal fans on the shooting stage, The Boss [film producer and publisher SS Vasan] read out a long speech. It was obvious he knew little about the poet." "Then the poet spoke. He couldn't...
11:29 PM, May 06, 2013
Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur We celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, yet we're little aware of the man who painstakingly restored Dadasaheb Phalke's work as well as several other silent pictures and talkies, and then built our country's moving pictures archive, one film can at a time. The documentary 'Celluloid Man', directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, introduces us to that man Paramesh Krishnan Nair, or PK Nair - India's film...
11:33 PM, May 03, 2013
'Raja Harishchandra' was made by the father of Indian cinema Dada Saheb Phalke in 1913. ...
05:36 PM, May 03, 2013
May 3 is an important day for Indian cinema. It is the day when the country got a new religion to follow, it is the day when Indians got introduced to the magic of films. Hundred years back, Dadasaheb Phalke had released his first feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' on this fateful day and paved the way for an industry which now is one the biggest film industries in the world....
05:02 PM, May 03, 2013
As the Indian cinema celebrates the completion of its 100 years, filmmaker Karan Johar talks about first full length silent film 'Raja Harishchandra', which was released in 1913. The film was directed by the father of Indian cinema Dada Saheb Phalke, but there's more to the maverick filmmaker. ...
12:04 PM, May 03, 2013
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director - Alfred Hitchcock. With due respect to Alfred Hitchcock's ideas, I dare say that here is a documentary which is far more relevant and heavier in content than most of the feature films where god is not the director. In fact, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's National Award winning documentary 'Celluloid Man' is a film appreciation course in...
11:36 AM, May 03, 2013
A hundred years ago when Dhundiraj Govind Phalke organised the first public screening of his film Raja Harishchandra, the publicity posters didn't have any images on them, but that changed soon after. A film's publicity poster also became an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid and able artists highlighted those selected images from the movie that could draw the audiences to inside the dark theatres for more than two-hours...
06:25 AM, May 03, 2013
In India, cinema isn't just a passion. It is an obsession. We have perhaps inherited this acute addiction from the man who started it all, 99 years ago - the Father of Indian Cinema Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870-1944). Dadasaheb Phalke as we better know him as, held the first show of Raja Harishchandra what is widely considered to be the first Indian feature film at Bombay's Olympia Picture Palace on...
06:20 AM, May 03, 2013
Over the years film censorship in Hindi cinema has undergone many changes. As Bollywood celebrates 100 years of its inception, lets find out what is still taboo in films. ...
07:00 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: India's first feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' will repeat history as it is set to be screened in Patna tomorrow, exactly a hundred years later since its release in 1913. "India's first film 'Raja Harischandra', a silent movie, will be screened in Patna as part of an event commemorating the centenary year of the Indian cinema," president, Cine Society, Patna, R N Dash told PTI. Though cinema entered India...
05:54 PM, May 02, 2013
Swapan Mullick, film critic and former director of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on on Satyajit Ray's 92nd birth anniversary. Q. Which movie do you think is his worst movie? Asked by: Kamya A. Ray never fell below the standard he had set for himself. But there was a point towards the end when ill-health took a toll and he couldn't...
04:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Though director J D Chakravarthi failed to impress the audience with his earlier films such as 'Homan' and 'Siddham' he hasn't lost hope. The director is now gearing up for a his next untitled film. The latest buzz is that the movie will be produced by Gangapatnam Sreedhar under the banner of Sri Vignesh Karthik Cinema and Chakravarthi productions. The film is going to be a thriller and is said...
04:18 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Indian cinema, which is celebrating its centenary year, has a unique identity and should rival Hollywood as its eastern equivalent, says actor-producer Saif Ali Khan who does not believe in any attempts to cross over. "I think we should not try to cross over," Saif told IANS over phone from Mumbai. "Our eastern identity is fundamentally different from theirs. We should look at taking our movies from India...
12:50 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Silent film 'The Light of Asia', which revolves around the story of Gautam Bhuddha, was screened at the Indian cinema centenary festival here. The 1925 silent film is based on the story by Edwin Arnold. The film was screened at 'Gulshan Mahal', a makeshift tent cinema erected as part of a unique attraction at the festival. The film opens with rare shots taken in a video travelogue fashion...
02:41 PM, May 01, 2013
