Sushmita to act in Vikram’s next

Vikram Bhatt is now-a-days trying to get his ex-girlfriend Sushmita Sen on board. According to the sources, Vikram Bhatt is all set to make a 3D horror film challed Yama Dwar and is also ready to import the technical crew.

In fact, Vikram's film Ankahee (2006), featuring Aftab Shivdasani, Esha Deol and Amisha Patel is said to be based on his extra-marital relationship with Sushmita Sen.

Vikram Bhatt signs TV's bad guy Murli

Bollywood villain Murli Sharma is making news once agin. This time it has been learnt that Murli signed up with Vikram Bhatt for a TV show. He shot for it for a couple of days. And soon after, there was news that he walked out of the show.

The latest buzz making rounds is that he didn’t like the role nor the money. When asked about his cameo in Lagi Tujhse Lagan on Colors, Murli Sharma finds it great to be a part of Vikram Bhatt directed film Phoonk.

Rajkumar Hirani impressed with Antardwand

Antardwand seems to be getting numerous applauses up from the A plus directorial fraternity in Bollywood... Soon after Imtiaz Ali supported Sushil Rajpal's directorial debut, which won the national award, Bollywood biggest director Rajkumar Hirani showed his support at a special screening.

Rajkumar Hirani stated that it's a very realistic, well made film, and moreover it's a true story, which makes it more interesting....The movie brings to light that these unfortunate incidents still happen in India, believe it or not!!!..True stories truly inspires the filmmaker (Rajkumar Hirani) more than anything else….

Besides the star cast Raj Singh Chaudhary, Swati Sen, the other stars present were Nikhil Dwivedi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Anjum Rizvi, Maradona etc.

The Indian filmmaker Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha was born on 2 October 1924 in Kolkota and was an Indian filmmaker. He was the most inflexible director outside the range of Parallel Cinema.Tapan studied physics at the University of Patna and later bagged an MSc at the University of Calcutta.He married Indian actress Arundhati Devi and their son is Indian scientist Professor, named Anindya Sinha. On 15 January 2009, Tapan Sinha died of pneumonia and septicaemia.

Tapan Sinha went to London in 1950’s to study filmmaking. On accomplishing London, he contacted Cry Hearsth, Manager of Pinewood Studios. Through his help, Tapan managed to get hold of his first assignment. He got to work in director Charles Cryton's unit as a Sound Engineer. Cryton, who made some British comedies such as Lavender Hill Mob and so on was then working for a movie titled The Hunted.His flicks have also won laurels in International Film Festivals of Berlin, Venice, London, Moscow, San Francisco, Locarno, Cork Festival in Ireland, Kampuchea and Seoul.

The director has also served as a member of the jury in film festivals at Tashkent and San Francisco. In his young age, Tapan Sinha was highly influenced by contemporary American and British Cinema. Among his favourite filmmakers were John Ford, Carol Reed, and Billy Wilder..Tapan Sinha's first movie, Ankush, was based on the Narayan Ganguly tale Sainik, which had an elephant as the main character. His next film Uphaar featured Uttam Kumar, Manju Dey and others. His Aadhar Periye featured Madhabi Mukherjee, Subhendu Chaterji, Sumitra Mukherjee, Anil Chaterji,

Nirmal Kumar, Subrota Chaterji, Bikash Roy, Kalyan Chaterji, Chinmoy Roy and others. It was is based on a story penned down by Chittaranjan Maity.Kabuliwallah was based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore. The stars include Radhamohan Bhattacharji, Kali Banerji and Manju De. Tinku Thakur portrays the character of the small lass in the movie, and Jiban Bose has a character as well as a jailer. Tapan Sinha's “Zindagi Zindagi” was a Bollywood movie with actor Sunil Dutt and Waheeda Rehman. Though, the film doesn’t worked at the box office possibly because the narration was too slight for Hindi viewers. Another film Aadmi Aur Aurat was based on a story by Prafulla Roy. Amol Palekar and Mahua Roy Choudhury act in this section.

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Murder 3 will also have Emraan in the lead

Bhatt’s always have a fare reason to celebrate. Each time they come up with a string of new concept gets the graph on the top. There previous venture Murder claimed to be a grand box office success, where the hottest on-screen couple Emraan Hashmi and Mallika Sherawat’s awesome chemistry created wonders. This time as we all know that they have again came up with a different concept Murder 2 where Emraan ahs been casted in the lead role. The movie is winning all praises from the critics and has been declared as the superhit 2011 film at the box office.

While coming on the subject, the sudden huge success graph of Murder 2 has rolled up the process of working on the franchise. Filmmaker Mohit Suri has been asked to leave all other proposals and work on the next Murder movie. It has been reported that Murder 3 will now be made faster rather than later. The way the results and feedbacks are going, Murder 2 will be one of the biggest blockbuster hits of 2011 as assumed and the biggest success so far of the Bhatts' production house.

The writing has already started for Murder 3.It has been decided that Murder 2 success bash will be held on Friday evening, and on this issue producer Mukesh Bhatt mentioned that they are already looking ahead at Murder 3. So, 2012 summer would be full of heat I suppose.Shagufta Rafique who inked Murder 2 has been put on the job of immediately coming up with a crunchy script for Murder 3.

But the USP of the Murder franchise is the obscure hottie waiting for a makeover. If Murder showcased a made-over Mallika Sherawat and Murder 2 sees a completely talented Jacqueline Fernandez. Murder 3 will also see in the part again. Mukesh Bhatt, asserted that at the moment he can't disclose the casting schedule. The one thing that the writer has been asked to keep in mind while working on Murder 3 . Raaz 3will have Emraan Hashmi and Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead characters. It will also star another actress.

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Filmmakers' college days

It was a walk down the memory paths for Bollywood renowned filmmakers Imitiaz Ali, Abhishek Chaubey and Vishal Bhardwaj as they visited the alumni meet of their alma mater to experience again their bachelorhood at the Hindu college hostel in New Delhi University.Chandrachud Singh, warden for Hindu college and the professor of Political Science who prearranged the meet said that they have refurbished the hostel and asked the ex-hostellers to come back and live there for day.
And it was seen that three hundred students attended the meet starting from 1954 batch. Sounds amazing.Imtiaz Ali, Abhishek and Vishal Bhardwaj were all students of Hindu College, Delhi and they all also shared a hostel there. So, what all happened when all the buddies met under one roof, Chandrachud Singh asserted that there was a qawali singing assembly with a tandoor cuisine and a bar. But drinking in the hostel is strictly prohibited. Lot of sher-o-shayari also took place at the gathering. The party went on till late hours and all the students present at the Hindu college hostel enjoyed a lot.

Well, it’s hard to determine the fun they must have had more than ever after they got a pass from their wives and children to spend a night together with their friends whom they couldn’t meet for years.Just read on. Imtiaz Ali told that Vishal Bhardwaj was his senior at the college and was the one to introduce him to social drinking. To which Vishal immediately replied that he did that and now he have come back just to see if Imtiaz is continuing doing it or not.

Vishal also revealed that he stayed in the same wing for exact three long years and also remembered his room numbers. The filmmaker also stated that on their last day of the college, they all got drunk and lay down in front of the corridor and started cryin loudly because they had to leave the college. Sharing all kind of jokes, facing embarrassing situations, friendly atmosphere all were shared at the Hindu hostel and these guys enjoyed a lot.


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Rajkumar Hirani edits the script for Munnabhai Chale Amerika

Seems like, Munnabhai won’t go to America, finally. After the grand success of 2006 release Lage Raho Munnabhai, producer-filmmaker jodi Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani had decided to make Munnabhai Chale Amerika. In the third part movie of the successful permit, Munna and Circuit, portrayed by actor Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi respectively were set to take a trip to the USA to meet the President.Now, writer-director Rajkumar Hirani who has also directed the award winning film 3 Idiots, has according to the sources edited his content completely,

and while he remained unavailable for comment, Arshad Warsi put himself forward saying that the fresh story has nothing to do with the USA or it’s President. There will be no USA in the next Munnabhai movie. As far as Arshad knows the matter, the flick’s script is completely changed. We wish that the things work in a positive way for the movie. As decided, the shooting for the film will most probably start by mid-2012. Munnabhai Chala Amerika had actually turned down with the idea of Munna meeting the US President, but the filmmaker later agreed that the viewpoint had been amended from the story after he found that actor Shahrukh Khan was also seen meeting the President in his My Name Is Khan in a scene. It also ensue previously in 2008 release Singh is Kinng. Sooner or later, the makers at last decided to thrust aside the USA idea exclusively.

Quite captivating some time back, a two-minute puzzler trailer had been released, in which Munna and Circuit are seen learning English for the trip. Apparently, the jotted content for the forthcoming project is all set, but 3 Idiots director is busy with his next venture, Ferrari Ki Sawaari while Vidhu Vinod Chopra is jammed up with his Hollywood movies. That’s the actual cause why no official declaration has been made yet. Arshad Warsi, at the same time, is busy with a host of movies. Arshad enacts a real-life outlaw, Mahender Fauji in Zilla Ghaziabad, while Ishqiya 2 moves to November. Arshad will also play a lawyer in Jolly LLB.

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Mahesh’s theatrical tribute

Mahesh Manjrekar, who casted Salman Khan to act in his movies like Ready, Dabangg and Bodyguard, has now decided to turn his concentration to plays. The talented filmmaker will be soon seen paying a theatrical mark of respect to strong personalities of Indian cinema, both Hindi as well as Marathi.Mahesh asserted that he’s looking forward to a series of stage biographies on the masters of Indian cinema.


Beginning with V Shantaram and Sudhir Phadke, Mahesh Manjrekar would be portraying the central character in all the fragments. The director-actor is even studying the lives of each one in vast direction before playing the characters so that he can do full justice to the real icons of Hindi film industry. Since a long period, Mahesh has felt a missing part in our audience in the indulgent of how the entire film fraternity developed and who all helped give it its perfect silhouette. Mahesh has also felt a vacancy inside him as a star because of the characters he has been doing. Now it’s his turn to take hold of things. While, Mahesh is appreciated with directing the critically acclaimed movies like Vaastav: The Reality, Astitvaand Viruddh... Family Comes First.

He has won a National Film Award and two Star Screen Awards. The ace filmmaker has also acted in many flicks being some of his own productions. He first gathered acclaim as an actor for his performance in the 2002 movie Kaante, and later played negative characters in the Telugu movie titled Okkadunnadu and he also played the role of a gangster in Slumdog Millionaire. He was also seen in the blockbuster hit Dabangg where he played the role of father to Sonakshi Sinha who made her debut with this film opposite Salman Khan.

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Farhan Akhtar: Time to celebrate a decade of Dil Chahta Hai

Farhan Akhtar is an the only Indian Filmmaker who is also known as a Script writer, actor, playback singer, lyricist, film producer and television host. His directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai in 2001 which was highly praised. After Bollywood star Aamir Khan, who celebrated 10 years of his production house recently, director-turned-actor Farhan Akhtar is all set to celebrate a decade of his directorial venture Dil Chahta Hai with a special screening July 24 the date the film. Other movies which he directed are Don and Lakshya.


Bollywood actor Fahan Akhtar is in the news with his new film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Farhan Akhtar has clarified that the story of his sister’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara has no similarity with his directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is a film about three young men who take a holiday that changes their lives. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, a road movie, stars Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin. It was shot largely in Spain. Kabir (Abhay Deol), Imraan (Farhan Akhtar) and Arjun (Hrithik Roshan) meet up in Barcelona and set off on an adventure that not only helps them iron out their differences but also face their fears and alter their perceptions about life.

The release of Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara had been postponed from May 30 to July 15. Commenting on this delay bollywood director Farhan Akhtar said that the movie crew are very, very happy with the film has been made. In order to get feed back the movie had showed to a couple of people and we are not in hurry to release the movie until we get 100% sure.

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Piggy Chops will not be seen in 2 States

In December last year, it was reported how Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra after being signed for the lead role in Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's ‘Two States’ suddenly backed out, all thanks goes to the lead star Shahrukh Khan and his faith that the script of the movie required a talented actress. Appears as if, Bollywood baadshah has now had a change of feel. SRK not only suggested on having Priyanka on board again, but also persuaded the actress to take up the offer without thinking much.

Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf that starred Piggy Chops playing the main lead was a dud at the box office and that could also be one of the reasons that PC decided to turn down the offer. The fact that she is a Punjabi kudi and the character was that of a South Indian girl, also worked against her. However, looks like Shahrukh Khan's reference has conquered all weirdness. But both the filmmaker and Shahrukh are convinced that Priyanka can carry on the South Indian character well. They feel she holds the flexibility. And PC will learn how to speak Tamil. Even producer Sajid Nadiadwala is influenced that Priyanka can take the role to great heights. There is a great members involved, including Shahrukh Khan, Sajid Nadiadwala and Vishal Bharadwaj and Piggy Chops admitted that she will definitely plan to work with them at some time in the future.

However at this time, Priyanka stated that she’s just committed to finishing her current projects on hand, which include Kunal Kohli's next Barfee, and Krrish2. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage is the third Chetan Bhagat novel to motivate a film, after Hello, based on his book ‘One Night @ The Call Centre’ and the superhit 3 Idiots, aroused by Chetan’s bestseller ‘Five Point Someone.’ If Priyanka Chopra had decided to do 2 States, it would have been her third flick based on a novel. The first was as told Ashutosh Gowariker's What's Your Rashee?, based on Madhu Rye's Kimball Ravenswood, than came Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf, inspired by Ruskin Bond's short story Susanna's Seven Husbands.

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