Mumbai: Director Dibakar Banerjee has rubbished rumours about making a sequel to his last year's release 'Shanghai'. Dibakar, who is currently busy with another of his project, said he has no plans to do so for a long time. "Right now I am just writing for my next film and I don't think I have announced the sequel so far and the plans are not to do so for a...
02:46 PM, May 13, 2013
Mumbai: Though star power and box office success of a movie are interdependent, Dibakar Banerjee won't make a typical film by just banking on big names and then manufacturing collection figures to draw the audience. "Cinema has been a star-driven medium and it has been so since the beginning. There is nothing wrong in that as stars make a film profitable," Dibakar told PTI. "Almost 70 per cent of the...
01:04 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: If 'Bombay Talkies' is an indication to the kind of cinema that we will get to watch from now on, then it is good news for all cine lovers. In a befitting tribute to 100 years of Indian cinema, the anthology film featuring some of the best directors of current times manages to step out of its comfort zone and yet charm the audience. In a first of...
02:07 PM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: While making 'Bombay Talkies' with three other directors, Dibakar Bannerjee has gone through the most fun experience of his life and he dreads leaving it behind. "When again would I get the chance to work so closely with three of my friends Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar," asked the successful auteur. 'Bombay Talkies' is an anthology film consisting of four short films released May 3. "We were...
03:19 PM, May 07, 2013
A video by director Shakun Batra shows animated versions of the four directors dressed up as elves and dancing to Jingle Bells to celebrate the success of Bombay Talkies. ...
09:30 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: An epic journey of 100 years of Indian cinema culminated with a mix of real-life inspiring stories and reel-life fiction as award-winning 'Celluloid Man' and anthology film 'Bombay Talkies' hit the theatres. Marathon documentary 'Celluloid Man', an ode to P K Nair (80), who almost single-handedly built one of the most envious film archives, tells the extraordinary story of the man and his struggle to save the cinematic...
10:51 AM, May 04, 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
New Delhi: It is an important day for cine goers in India. The medium which we all have revered turns 100 and country's four prominent filmmaker come together to pay an unique tribute to cinema. 'Bombay Talkies' combines the talent of four directors who have in their own way changed the way we perceive Hindi films in present times. Each director brings in his or her own flavour and it...
09:57 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: 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...
06:03 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Four Bollywood filmmakers joined hands to make 'Bombay Talkies', a film celebrating the completion of 100 years of Indian cinema. These filmmakers are Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar, and each of them has directed a segment of the film. Now, media reports are surfacing that a writer Nishant G Ranjan has claimed that Anurag Kashyap's short film is based on his work. Nishant says...
01:44 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Mumbai: Anurag Kashyap used to feel that Karan Johar was a misfit for 'Bombay Talkies' but later he did find a common ground with the fellow filmmaker and thinks Karan's short film is the best in the anthology tribute to 100 years of Indian cinema. It's a compilation of four short stories directed by four different filmmakers Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Johar. It releases on May 3 when...
12:57 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Dibakar Banerjee describes himself as a loner who was never part of any club and thanks 'Bombay Talkies' for helping him enter an exclusive club. He says the film is a "tribute" to Indian cinema as it is today. A compilation of four short films celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema, 'Bombay Talkies' has three more segments by Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar. The director of hits...
02:00 PM, Apr 23, 2013
