Kolkata: Victor Banerjee and Jaya Bachchan starrer 'Meherjaan', about a Bangladeshi woman's affair with a Pakistani soldier in the backdrop of the 1971 Liberation War abruptly withdrawn from theaters in the neighbouring country, will soon be released in India. "We are looking for a distributor in India. We are also trying for a DVD release in India and Bangladesh," the film's director Rubaiyat Hossain, who has tied up with Anticlock...
02:07 PM, Nov 13, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Despite the virulent criticism unleashed by the Opposition LDF, the UDF Government ensured R Balakrishna Pillais release on Tuesday, as he was given a two-month remission on his one-year jail term. Pillai, however, will continue his stay in the specialist hospital here forafew more days and is likely to go abroad for further treatment. The release from judicial custody turned out to be an occasion ofsmallrelief for Pillai, as Opposition...
12:17 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Jaipur: Actress Esha Deol, who is sharing screen space for the first time with her father Dharmendra in 'Tell Me O Kkhuda', said that working with the veteran actor was a wonderful experience and a dream-come-true. "He is a wonderful actor and gets excited like a newcomer before the camera, which encourages all. I learned so many things while working with him on our film. It was like a dream-come-true,"...
02:33 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: The much-awaited fourth and last installment of the 'Twilight' series, 'Breaking Dawn-The Twilight Saga', is set to hit the screens worldwide November 18. The first look of the film, produced by Summit Entertainment and starring Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart, shows the fascinating, eternal love between Edward and Bella Swan. Another image shows Jacob (Taylor Lautner) in the foreground, standing proudly with the Quileute tribe and reflecting his...
12:05 PM, Sep 22, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare's anti-corruption protests at New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, that has galvanized civil society, may have taken the shine off an otherwise packed weekend with multiple big-budget international releases hitting the cinema theatres on Friday. While filming for his 'Not A Love Story', director Ram Gopal Varma blogged about his fascination with a 2008 incident that shook up an entire nation. The controversial thriller 'Not A...
07:16 PM, Aug 19, 2011
New Delhi: All eyes this weekend are on Prakash Jha's film Aarakshan that has stirred up the hornet's nest in three states with various caste-based groups demanding that film be banned for its alleged anti-reservation stance. The week's two other Bollywood releases, Phirr and Will to Live are snowed under the publicity hailstorm that the controversy surrounding Aarakshan has created. The film, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Manoj Bajpayee,...
06:36 PM, Aug 12, 2011
London: 'Mysterious Girl' singer Peter Andre wants to be more like Robbie Williams when he performs. The 38-year-old reality TV star was so impressed with the singer when he saw him perform with 'Take That' last week and took an extra note of Robbie's showmanship, Female first reported. "I went to see 'Take That' last week and my God, they were awesome. It was absolutely brilliant. I know Robbie Williams...
04:24 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: Kannada actress Maria Susairaj - sentenced to a three-year jail term in Neeraj Grover murder case - walked free on Saturday. Susairaj got into a white car right after she was released from jail. There was heavy police cover deployed outside the Byculla Jail. A Mumbai court had sentenced her for 3 years for destruction of evidence in the gruesome Neeraj Grover murder case, which she has already...
12:11 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Director: John Lasseter Cast: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine What's common to all Pixar films - whether they're about toys, monsters, fish, or garbage-recycling robots - is their ability to get viewers to emotionally invest in their stories and their protagonists. The same unfortunately isn't true of their latest film 'Cars 2', a fine adventure in the mould of James Bond films, but one that's missing that...
11:37 PM, Jun 24, 2011
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard Director: Martin Campbell Based on the DC Comics superhero created all the way back in the 1940s, 'Green Lantern' stars Ryan Reynolds as an irresponsible pilot named Hal Jordan who turns into a superhero when he puts on a coveted green ring that he receives from a dying alien. Now member of the Green Lantern Corps, an army of warriors dedicated to protecting...
11:34 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Cast: Zoa Morani, Ali Fazal, Giselle Monteiro, Lillete Dubey, Satyajeet Dubey, Ali Fazal Director: Roshan Abbas Set on a sprawling Delhi campus where students spend the bulk of their time attending drama rehearsals or dancing merrily in the corridors, 'Always Kabhi Kabhi' directed by Roshan Abbas channels those breezy 'High School Musical' moviesbut alas this film doesn't have the infectious charm of those feel-good Disney entertainers. The kids in this...
11:27 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana Director: Joe Wright Close on the heels of 'Kick-Ass' and 'Sucker Punch' - and continuing Hollywood's sudden obsession with teenage girls who fight like killing machines - comes 'Hanna', a somewhat surreal action-thriller starring Saoirse Ronan as a 16-year-old motherless girl raised by her father in an isolated, snowy forest in Finland. The rugged dad Erik (Eric Bana) is a CIA operative gone...
10:05 PM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: The official high definition trailer of Shah Rukh Khan's 'Ra.One' is out and by the look of it, the super hero flick is one action packed adventure to hit the screens this Diwali. The science-fiction shows Khan in a new avatar and also in a cool new super hero suit as he performs gravity and death defying stunts. The film also features Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal and...
06:01 PM, Jun 01, 2011
Cast: Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin Egglesfield, John Krasinski Director: Luke Greenfield 'Something Borrowed' starring Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin is a romantic comedy that's more stupid than most romantic comedies tend to be. Goodwin stars as Rachel, a plain-Jane corporate lawyer who fell for her law-school buddy Dex (Colin Egglesfield) while they were still studying. But she stood back and watched as her best friend Darcy (Hudson) made a...
11:48 PM, May 27, 2011
Cast: Jack Black, Gary Oldman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan Director: Jennifer Yuh Jack Black returns as the voice of mighty martial-arts panda Po in 'Kung Fu Panda 2', the sequel to that 2008 animated gem. After establishing himself as the Dragon Warrior by vanquishing the evil Tai Lung and retrieving the Dragon Scroll in the earlier film, the new adventure involves Po's search for his identity, and his quest for...
11:35 PM, May 27, 2011
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong Director: Todd Phillips Anyone who swears by 'The Hangover' is likely to be disappointed by its sequel, which as it turns out is a carbon copy of the earlier film. With 'The Hangover Part II', director Todd Phillips has made the exact same movie all over again. Except that he's set it in Thailand, and the jokes aren't that funny anymore....
11:27 PM, May 27, 2011
Cast: Rajvvir Aroraa, Imaad Shah, Nishikant Kamath Director: Prawaal Raman '404', directed by Prawaal Raman, is the third film in three weeks that features the spirit of a dead person as a prominent character. Set on a medical campus, this psychological thriller stars newcomer Rajvvir Aroraa as Abhimanyu, a freshman who stands up against the harsh ragging meted out to younger students at the hands of college seniors. When campus...
11:11 PM, May 20, 2011
Cast: Raayo Bakhirta, Nushrat Bharucha, Sonali Sehgal, Ishitta Sharma, Divyendu Sharma, Kartikeya Tiwari Director: Luv Ranjan Disguised as a light-hearted comedy, 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' is such a misogynistic film that you can't help but wonder if it was made by someone who's had his heart brutally stamped on by a woman. The plot is centred on three male roommates in Delhi who can't stop moaning about their dull jobs and...
11:03 PM, May 20, 2011
Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Sam Claflin Director: Rob Marshall In an early scene in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides', Judi Dench makes an uncredited cameo as a British aristocrat in a horse carriage, whose ear Jack Sparrow nuzzles mischievously before taking off on a new adventure. Clearly disappointed from getting less than shed hoped for, she asks: Is that it? Good question, and one that...
10:53 PM, May 20, 2011
London: A Yemeni national has demanded that Pakistani authorities release his sister Amal, one of the wives of slain al-Qeada chief Osama bin Laden. Zakaria al Sada, whose sister Amal was injured during a special US operation that killed Osama in Abbottabad in northwestern Pakistan, spoke for her release in an interview to The Sunday Telegraph. 29-year-old Amal is currently being held in Pakistan after being shot in the leg...
03:12 PM, May 16, 2011
