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05:30 PM, May 31, 2012
Mumbai: Southern superstar Kamal Hassan is all set to make his debut appearance at the upcoming IIFA awards to showcase excerpts from his highly anticipated film 'Vishwaroop'. The 57-year-old has directed and co-produced the spy thriller, which is being made in both Hindi and Tamil. Excerpts from the film and its first look will be showcased at the 13th IIFA in Singapore, which starts from June 7. "IIFA is one...
04:08 PM, May 25, 2012
After the recent comeback to commercial movies with B Unnikrishnan's 'Grandmaster', young actor Narein will be shortly seen as a cop again. This time he will be playing the same for the remake of the famous Kamal hassan movie 'Kaakkichattai'. The original featuring Kamal hassan as a youngster forced to play the role of cop was directed by Rajasekhar and featured Ambika and Madhavi as the heroines. This time Narein...
05:41 PM, May 08, 2012
Bangalore: The Bangalore Central Crime Branch police on Wednesday arrested a suspected Indian Mujahideen operative, Kamal Hassan, from Kolkata. The suspected operative was arrested for his alleged role in the Chinnaswamy blast case. However, the involvement of Hassan is also suspected in terror attacks in Delhi and Hyderabad. According to the police, Hassan was a close associate of Yasin Bhatkal, one of the main perpetrators of the Chinnaswamy blast. Hassan,...
08:45 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Mumbai: The grapevine is buzzing with news about the three superstars, Jackie Chan, Salman Khan and Kamal Haasan sharing screen space in an Indian film. Apparently, South director Venu Ravichandran, also known as Aaskar (Oscar) Ravichandran, has already roped in Jackie to play the lead in his next and is in talks with Sallu and Kamal Haasan to do cameos in the action film. The filmmaker had recently revealed his...
11:18 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Think noir in Indian cinema and it is but natural to think of movies based on gangsters and internecine wars for supremacy. Notable examples in this genre include the Amitabh Bacchan-starrer Zanjeer, Kamal Hassan's Nayakan and Ram Gopal Varma's repertoire of mafia sagas, ranging from Satya to Company and D. Save for a few, a majority of such movies, in their bid to dish out 'masala' entertainers "...
01:08 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Mumbai: The casting of Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' just got even more intriguing. While earlier we had the 20-something Sonakshi Sinha being cast as the film's 57-year-old leading man Haasan's love interest, we now have Shekhar Kapur who is just 12 years older than him playing his uncle in the film. Their sequences together are currently being shot in Mumbai at a luxury hotel. Shekhar who has not done an acting...
08:55 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Chennai: One of the most-anticipated combinations in the tinsel town is that of Kamal Haasan and Shankar and if everything goes well, they will team up for a film. Aascar Ravichandran of Dasavatharam-fame has planned a trilingual (Tamil, Telugu and Hindi) with the multi-faceted actor and the producer is keen to take Shankar on board for the same. Indeed, he is in talks with the award-winning director whose first-ever remake...
06:54 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood never ceases to surprise us. While at some point we feel that it has moved ahead with leaps and bounds, at certain other points it feels like it is rapidly regressing. We have some wish list for Bollywood to help it squirm out of the shackles of ghisa pita formulae and take some risky steps forward... Nurture Indie attempts: Throughout the calendar year, we barely notice any independent...
03:12 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: Rahul Bose was last seen in a villainous role in 'Thakshak' in 1999 and after 13 years he is once again set to play a negative character in Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam'. The actor is excited about the project. "After 'Thakshak', I have got a chance to play a villain in 'Vishwaroopam'," the 44-year-old actor said at a sports event here. His last film was 'Kucch Luv Jaisaa', which came...
04:28 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Chennai: The multi-million Rupee Tamil cinema industry seems to be on the verge of a crisis with wage revision turning out to be a flashpoint between unions of producers and workers. Peeved over the "unilateral decision" of the workers' body, Film Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI), on revising the wage structure, the Tamil Film Producers' Council (TFPC) has ruled out working with them. While a strike paralysing the industry...
01:43 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Mumbai: To accommodate the dates for her mentor Sudhir Mishra's new film, the actress says no to the South star. To accommodate the dates for her mentor Sudhir Mishra's new film, Chitrangada Singh has actually said no to Kamal Hassan, who was looking to cast her in his next. Contrary to reports that Mishra is upset with the actress for stepping into mainstream films, buzz is that the filmmaker encouraged...
02:24 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Mumbai: He candidly admits that he couldn't have made it big in Bollywood without his mentor K. Balachander, that Hindi movies still enthuse him and that he loves the kind of films Aamir Khan is making. He is also proud of his daughter Shruti Haasan's career in Tamil and Hindi movies as she has made a place for herself without his banner's support. Excerpts from the interview. Q: Are you...
12:47 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Mumbai: Kamal Haasan decided to helm Hindi-Tamil bilingual 'Viswaroopam', which will have a backdrop of US, Britain and Jordan, because he doesn't believe in wasting time and says he also wants to "nurture Kamal Haasan, the actor". "If the director doesn't respect my time, I will have to. If my dates are being wasted, the project becomes mine," he said in an interview. Earlier, Selva Raghavan was supposed to wield...
03:46 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Mumbai: Kamal Haasan is indisputably the most adventurous actor in India and Birju Maharaj is undoubtedly the most accomplished exponent of the Katahk dance form in the country. When the two maestros decide to come together, the result cannot be anything less than historic. Birju Maharaj is all set to choreograph a Kathak dance for Kamal Haasan in the Hindi-Tamil bi-lingual 'Viswaroopam', which marks his return to Hindi films after...
01:49 PM, Dec 12, 2011
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