Mumbai: Actor Manoj Bajpayee may be basking in the success of his latest film Gangs of Wasseypur, but he rues that the journey was not easy, saying there was a time when he was slammed for being different. He appreciates the presence of filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee for spearheading the change in moviedom. "This film (Gangs of Wasseypur) is very, very special for me for many reasons....
07:16 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Once again the team of Satyamev Jayate was on target. It might be a hard fact to digest for urban Indians that the practice of untouchability is still prevalent in a nation that eyes to become one of the super-powers by the end of current decade, but shows like Satyamev Jayate is a reality check for them. The debate regarding the caste system is not a new thing;...
02:14 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Mumbai: Marathwada region, from where the arrested LeT handler of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack, Abu Jundal hails, is fast becoming the new Pakistan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said on Wednesday. "Marathwada, which was earlier known as the land of saints, is now becoming the land of terrorists," the Sena patriarch said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'. In the last five-six years, the connection of any terrorist act...
05:14 PM, Jun 27, 2012
S Hussain Zaidi, better known as Mumbai's leading crime reporter, has authored yet another book titled 'Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades Of The Mumbai Mafia'. The cinematic adaptation of which is reportedly 'Shootout At Wadala' by Sanjay Gupta. His earlier books too have found their way to the screens- one being Anurag Kashyap's 'Black Friday', and other one being Vishal Bharadwaj's Kaminey. Following is an extract from his latest book:...
04:12 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Sonu Sood, who will be essaying the role of Dawood Ibrahim in upcoming film 'Shootout at Wadala', has expressed desire to enter the den of the underworld don, just to get into the character. Directed by Sanjay Gupta, 'Shootout at Wadala' is a prequel to his 2007 film 'Shootout at Lokhandwala'. The second installment looks at dramatising the first registered encounter by Mumbai police, where gangster Manya Surve...
01:23 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Mumbai: The murder of Pune blast accused Qateel Siddiqui inside a high security Yerawada prison has thrown up many questions. Siddiqui, was murdered by two other inmates in Pune's high-security Yerawada prison on Friday. A day after the shocker, while Human Rights groups plan to register a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission, several glaring questions remain unanswered. If the 27-year-old high value accused was in solitary confinement, how...
09:44 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP leader RR Patil on Friday promised CID investigation in the murder of the German Bakery blast accused in the Yerawada jail on Friday. "The CID will investigate this matter. It is a very serious issue," said Patil. He added that a suspension order had been given to the jail superintendent. The Pune police on Friday claimed that the German Bakery blast accused was...
06:12 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Pune: The Pune police have claimed that the German bakery blast accused has been killed in the Yerawada jail. The police said that Mohammed Siddique was strangled to death after a brawl inside the jail. Siddique had been arrested by the Delhi Police in 2011 in connection with various blasts. He was a close aide of Yasin Bhatkal. The blast that ripped through the German Bakery in Pune on February...
01:48 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Patna: Bowing to opposition demands, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday recommended a CBI probe into the killing of Ranvir Sena supremo Brahmeshwar Singh. A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting Kumar had with top state police officials and home department officials at his residence this morning. State director general of police Abhayanand and principal secretary of home department Aamir Subhani also attended the meeting. "The...
10:30 AM, Jun 06, 2012
Mumbai: At a time when most Bollywood biggies avoid a direct clash at the box office, Anil Kapoor and John Abraham's two new films " 'Race 2' and 'Shootout at Wadala', are all set to release within a week of each other next January. Date drama Incidentally, John and Anil star in both films. In Sanjay Gupta's encounter flick set in the late 1970's and early '80s, Anil plays Isaque...
10:54 AM, May 31, 2012
Vijayawada: YSR Congress party on Sunday criticised Vijaywada MP and Congress leader Lagdapati Rajagopal for his alleged comment targeting Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother. "Rajagopal should not cross his limits and learn a few lessons on how to behave as an MP," YSR Congress city convener Jaleel Khan told reports. He was reacting to the MP's alleged remark last week that "Vijayamma did not train her son Jagan as...
07:10 PM, May 27, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) undertook two ambitious projects, the Metro and Monorail, to solve the Mumbai commuter's woes. However, the routes selected by the planning authority have raised some serious doubts, as commuters feel that the routes pass unfrequented areas. Monorail Phase I of the Rs 2,700 crore Jacob Circle-Wadala-Chembur (JWC) Monorail is between Wadala-Chembur, while Phase II is between Jacob Circle-Wadala. Concerned Chembur resident, 24...
05:58 PM, May 27, 2012
Pune: Seven girls staying at a residential school run by the state government in Yerawada have finally broken their silence and accused the headmaster of making sexual advances. Despite this, the Social Welfare Department has only issued a show-cause notice to the person concerned asking him why he should not be terminated from service. The matter has been put up for further inquiry, but no FIR has been lodged against...
11:08 AM, May 21, 2012
Patna: A teenager, who was the main witness in his mother's rape case, was burnt alive in Nawada district Sunday, police said. Chintu Kumar, 17, was set on fire by the rape accused in Garabigha village under Narhat police station, 150 km from here, a police officer, who did not want to be named, said. Chintu's mother was gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village, and he was...
08:31 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Naxals have struck Chhattisgarh once again. They allegedly ambushed a CISF patrol team killing six jawans and a civilian driver late on Sunday night. They were a part of a patrol car that was ambushed near the National Mineral Development Corporation in Kirandul. A few others were also injured and the assailants later looted their vehicles. Home Ministry sources said that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) may...
08:13 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Naxals on Sunday night ambushed a CISF patrol party near an NDMC plant in Chhattisgarh's Kirandul. Sources said six CISF personnel and the driver of the patrolling jeep were killed in the Naxal attack in Dantewada. Sources said that the CISF personnel were on a night patrol when they were ambushed. It is suspected that Naxals ambushed the vehicle and IED was used to target them. The jawans,...
11:11 PM, May 13, 2012
Hyderabad: Four people died on Friday after consuming illicit liquor in Vijayawada town of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, two others are stated to be in critical conditions. The incident took place on Friday morning at Brahmanaveedhi in the old town of Vijayawada in Krishna district, about 300 km from here. A police officer said all the six were suspected to have purchased and consumed liquor from the...
02:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Vikas Bahl is all set to make a chick flick, titled 'Queen', with Kangana Ranaut. Vikas, who tried his hands on direction with 'Chillar Party' that won National award, would be directing 'Queen'. "I am in the middle of scripting stage. All I can say is it is a chick flick, titled 'Queen'. The pre-production work is going on," the director-producer Vikas Bahl told PTI. Kangana Ranaut will...
01:39 PM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: Director Sanjay Gupta is at the end of his tether. Barely weeks before the shooting of a mujra sequence with Bipasha Basu for his under-production film Shootout At Wadala, there is no song for the situation. Apparently, the director has requested various composers to create a traditional mujra in a language that will appeal to today's youngsters. But the tune is yet to be delivered. Says a source close...
05:38 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday said that his government had formed a committee under former Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Nirmala Buch to look into the cases against tribals as per the Maoist demands, who had pressed for the release of innocent tribals from jail in exchange for abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon. Said Raman Singh, "It will help create a positive environment in the area....
12:58 PM, May 04, 2012
