Gautham Vasudev Menon

The Bollywood filmmaker and producer Gautham Vasudev Menon is chiefly associated with Tamil cinema has also directed Bollywood and Telugu movies which are remakes of his Tamil flicks. Many of the movies directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon have won accloades, most remarkably his action-thrillers like Kaakha Kaakha 2003 release and Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu released in 2006. The director’s semi-autobiographical project 2008 Vaaranam Aayiram won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.

Gautham Vasudev Menon was in the beginning an ad filmmaker, shooting numerous ad campaigns assisting director Rajiv Menon. Gautham worked as an assistant director for Minsaara Kanavu, in which he also featured in a character part. Gautham almost immediately started his own ad agency with the name "Photon Kathaas" which has become a film production company.pool. The director made his directorial debut in 2001 with the Tamil romantic movie titled ‘Minnale’ with actor R. Madhavan, Abbas and Reema Sen who portrayed as the protagonists. Gautham Vasudev Menon also got a golden opportunity to remake the movie in Bollywood film fraternity, featuring R. Madhavan opposite Dia Mirza playing with the title “Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein”.

Gautham Vasudev Menon came back to Tamil film industry in the year 2003 with the action thriller Kaakha Kaakha, starring Surya Sivakumar, Jyothika Saravanan and Jeevan. The director after that got many offers from different places to remake the film which directed in Telugu with Daggubati Venkatesh as the main lead. After that, Gautham Vasudev Menon made the undercover thriller projects like Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu casting Kamal Hassan. During the filming, the crew faced a lot of problems due to the producer's suicide attempt. “Vaaranam Aayiram” bagged five Filmfare Awards and the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for 2008. In 2010, the Tamil movie Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, with Silambarasan Rajendar and Trisha Krishnan come into view as a successful venture. Gautham Vasudev Menon, markedly, has featured in cameo appearances in most of his own movies. On the whole, the filmmaker have make a mark in the world of film making and we hope that he direct more Bollywood projects as well.

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Ramesh Sippy to make remake of Sholay

In 1975 Ramesh Sippy, the well-known face in Hindi cinema directed the blockbuster hit film Sholay which turned out to be history in Bollywood. The movie starred Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Jaya Bachchan playing pivotal characters received loads of accolades.

Ramesh Sippy has recently declared that he would make his comeback in movie direction soon with the remake of Sholay. The ace filmmaker asserted that currently he is working on the script and would make a official announcement of the film once the paper work is done. Ramesh Sippy's last direction was in the year 1995 with actor Shahrukh Khan starrer Zamaana Deewana. Since then, Ramesh Sippy has only been producing films.
Ramesh’s productions Kuch Naa Kaho and Bluffmaster were in addition influential in launching his son Rohan Sippy as a director. Ramesh Sippy is completely remembered for directing “Sholay” as his other projects couldn’t touched the height of success. Dum Maaro Dum is also produced by Ramesh Sippy and directed by Rohan Sippy. The father-son combo have full expectations with Dum Maaro Dum, as Rohan Sippy has not given any superhit film so far. Ramesh Sippy’s daughter Sheena Sippy is married to Shashi Kapoor's son Kunal Kapoor. Ramesh Sippy has been married twice; his present wife is Bollywood actress Kiran Juneja. Ramesh Sippy has also directed a very booming television daily soap titled ‘Buniyaad’ which was related to the subject of India and Pakistan partition and formerly telecasted on Indian television channel Doordarshan long back in 1987.

The last three films Ramesh Sippy directed were Bhrashtachar in 1989, Akayla in 1991 and Zamana Deewana in 1995 respectively. But all these films were box office washouts. Ramesh has also produced films like 1968 release Brahmachari, Trishna which was released in 1978, the 2003 film Kuch Naa Kaho, Abhishek Bachchan starrer Bluffmaster!, John Abraham, Nana Patekar featured Taxi No. 9211, Fear (2007), Akshay Kumar starrer Chandni Chowk to China, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu starrer Dum Maaro Dum. We hope that the director would soon come up with the new script for the remake of Sholay..

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Game-an original flick

Bollywood filmmaker Abhinay Deo is well-known to the world of film making. Having fourteen years of experience when it comes to advertising, directing movies, the filmmaker who have recently directed Abhishek Bachchan starrer Game is a original piece. Abhinay Deo was planning to calculate the result for his first ever big flick. In a discussion Abhinay Deo discussed about how he started working on the film.


A pure action thriller with a suspense drama has perfect ingredients that make a delicious and original recipe. The filmmaker wanted that the suspense genre should again revive in Bollywood film industry as he got inspiration from the 1960's when such kind of movies were in demand both in Bollywood and Hollywood too. In fact there have been numerous murder mysteries that have took birth from Bollywood. Abhinay wanted to bring it back with a different flavour. If we talk about action, "Game" doesn't have it throughout but action has been shot only where needed. There are the actors and performances which highlight the final verdict. Game is a typical original project. With a fine approach, the film has made to keep audience on the edge of their chairs. Another fact that can make the audience woo is debutant Sarah Jane Dias. Looks like the actress has worked hard on the project.

The filmmaker said that the actress is mature enough to understand what is needed for a character to play. Sarah Jane Dias understands that essence for sure. The team of 'Game' have shoot in five different countries and from one they have moved to another depending upon the climate conditions. The team faced cold winter waves, bitter summers, snow as well as rainy season too. Although with such a big film casting the makers of Game also had to keep every date of schedule in mind. Abhinay Deo told that the team started filming on the project in last January and ended the shoot by July which would have given a clear assumption that the movie was released quiet late. But then lot of hard work was put on in the post production and mainly lot of time was spent on the editing. In the starting it was planned that Game would be released in January 2011 with the India-Pakistan World Cup, the film was released a bit late.

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Milan’s Dirty Picture

Dirty Picture! This is one Bollywood movie that has created waves in Bollywood industry since the time it was declared that a film gonna be made on the life history of South Indian actress Silk Smitha. The film is being produced by Ekta Kapoor . Filmmaker Milan Luthria confirmed it by asserting that the movie is based not only on Silk Smitha but also on her competitors like Nalini.


The entire variety of sizzling women, who hail from the South, had a rough and tough life and were sensational in appearance that they hold. The string of women saw stardom and capital, which then escorted to an empty life to live that at last ended with untimely death. When Milan Luthria was asked about roping in Bollywood’s award winning actress Vidya Balan for the lead character and he simply mentioned that, he was searching out for someone with Indian sensuality and who was a big shot too.
Vidya Balan was perfect from every point of view. Apart from donning the most hot and skimpy outfits, Vidya will also have to put on some flesh. Silk Smitha died an untimely death in 1996 and after fourteen years someone gave a final verdict to tell her story to the entire world.

Milan Luthria said that the script actually chose him. Infact Ekta Kapoor’s idea worked out, the lady had asked Milan to pen down a story based on the life of Silk Smitha. Ekta basically wanted a big and talented filmmaker to do the movie as it wasn’t a big drawing and did not have a huge budget, but when Milan read the story he was surprised. The directior told Ekta that he wanted to direct “Dirty Picture”, it was an extraordinary project and not those daily routine sour bitter flicks and that Milan wanted that nobody else should grab the chance of directing it. The filmmaker concluded by saying that the movie showcases the impression that different kind of guys had on Silk Smitha’s life which might be on the story lines of Bhumika. Vidya Balan is hitting hard to get the perfect look required for the movie. We just hope that the film gets positive reviews from the critics and all the fans out there appreciate Vidya’s work.

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Shahid to work with Ramesh

The Bollywood film producer Ramesh Taurani of Tips, who launched Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor in the year 2003 romantic movie Ishq Vishk, will now work with Shahid again after their last project Fida, in 2004. This new venture will be directed by Shahid Kapoor's close buddy Siddharth Anand who has earlier directed Anjaana Anjaani. If things fall into right place, then this will be the first action thriller for the actor, whose fans have reported in a survey to be eagerly waiting to see him experimenting in this genre.

According to the sources, after the failure of Anjaana Anjaani, Siddharth Anand was supposed to direct Two States with Saif Ali Khan and Priyanka Chopra for director Sajid Nadiadwala. However, since he is no longer part of the project, he looked forward to meet Shahid Kapoor and discussed a story idea to the actor. Shahid Kapoor without giving any second thought took to the concept and now Tips has joined on-board to produce the hypothesized action flick, which will be a new experience for the actor.

Ramesh Taurani has wanted to work with Shahid Kapoor for some time now. He signed the actor a year ago and only now has the project finally fallen into place. When contacted, Ramesh Taurani confirmed the news stating that it’s true that they are doing a film with Siddharth and Shahid, which will go on floors soon. It is too early though to give any details as nothing has been finalized as yet.

Both, Shahid Kapoor and Siddharth Anand remained unavailable for comment. Siddharth Anand began his film career by helping Rahul Rawail direct his movie Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi, that starred kajol in the lead character. The filmmaker then co-wrote the 2004 hit film Hum Tum along with Kunal Kohli and also worked as an executive producer and associate filmmaker on the film

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Hirani’s wife in trouble

Many might not know that Bollywood filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani’s wife Manjeet Hirani works as a pilot for Air India, and it was really shocking to hear the news that during investigation on the fake pilot scandal Manjeet Hirani doesn’t know how to fly an airplane. According to the latest buzz, it has come in notice that some pilots have named Manjeet Hirani as a non-compliant of being a experienced licensed air plane pilot.


According to the reports approximately twelve pilots had written a letter to Authority of Air India requesting to discontinue Manjeet lamba Hiran’s services due to unprincipled behavior and lack of flying intelligence. Even the India premiere crime branch team is snooping matters as to who all are there involved in the scam which is putting the life of hundreds of people flying in an airplane at risk.

The story of Munnabhai, the lovable dude who pulled an exam racket to get into a medical college, has actually knocked at the doorstep of director Rajkumar Hirani who has also directed superhit film 3 Idiots. Air India pilot and his wife Manjeet Hiranis has been accused of failing a test to refurbish her flying license and then going on to clear the exam in a second attempt by changing the norms. The suspected incident came to the limelight during internal investigations by Air India to verify the qualifications of pilots after a fake licence scandal rocked the civil aviation industry worldwide.

The director after making 3 Idiots with ace actor Aamir Khan, is again roping the actor for his next project for which Aamir have already given his nod. Rajkumar Hirani has been busy with the third movie in Munnabhai series “Munnabhai Chale Amerika” is in process and a fresh script is being written because the storyline of Munnabhai 3 was same like what we saw in My Name is Khan. Though Aamir Khan is tarnished for not repeating his directors, and that is why now it will be interesting to see Aamir and the filmmaker working together again.

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Ashwini Chaudhary to direct Ghayal sequel

Bollywood actor Sunny Deol is going to give life to his home banner Vijeta Films and that too with a sequel to his 1990 blockbuster hit film Ghayal. However, this time around filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi, who directed the original part Sunny Deol has opted for Ashwini Chaudhary to make the sequel. The film is all set to go on the floors, this November. “Ghayal”, directed by Rajkumar Santoshi in the late 1990 bagged Sunny Deol with the only Best Actor award of his career.

But later both Sunny and Rajkumar Santoshi had a fall following some misunderstandings regarding the film Bhagat Singh. And though the two had patched up, it looks like Sunny isn't ready to forgive the director completely. While Tigmanshu Dhulia was also being considered for directing the big project, with actress Karisma Kapoor making her comeback with the movie, the project finally has gone to Ashwini. As for the story, the original Ghayal ended with Sunny Deol being caught by the police officers. The sequel is expected to narrate what happens when he comes out of jail. After a six-year fallout since Jo Bole So Nihaal which was released in 2005, Rahul Rawail and Sunny Deol have decided to forget their problems and work together again.

It is said that Rahul Rawail has made some of his best movies with Sunny like Betaab, Arjun, Yodha and Arjun Pandit. After their last film together, rumours were abuzz about problems growing between the two. However, moving ahead with smooth relationship, the two easily resolved their misunderstandings.
When asked about their sour relationship, Rawail said that every actor and director goes through this phase. However both of them didn’t had any issues. These close friends have been always sharing a healthy relationship and media has something or the other to spread out without knowing the reason. Rahul confirmed the news asserting that he and Sunny are doing a movie together but it he didn’t revealed much details about the project.

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Sudhir gets annoyed

The renowned Bollywood director Sudhir Mishra's latest movie, Yeh Saali Zindagi, irk his stamp of quality cinema and was patronize by the select multiplex horde intellectual audience. Naturally the director of award winning movies like Chameli, Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin,Hazaron Khwaishein Aisi is on cloud nine these days and when the filmmaker was to talk about the latest expansion of vulgarity in the Indian film fraternity, Sudhir Mishra had a very simple answer to the problem which he has gone through, especially by the family and cream audience.

Sudhir Mishra mentioned that it's up to the audience that they should recoil from vulgar movies. The moment the audience stops watching and encouraging such flicks automatically the makers would stop producing them either. When inquired further as to how filmmakers can get over the bad habit of using offensiveness to attract in the audience, the director had a very intelligent respond. Sudhir Mishra also said that producers should make use of new and inventive techniques that are now easily available in the area of film making to make their product eye-catching to the audience and not resort to vulgarity and cheap dialogues and songs and dances in a way to make their film a hit.

Sudhir Mishra strongly feels that not only the audience but also the filmmakers who make such bold movies listen and eschew vulgarity and make cinema a pleasant and entertaining experience for all.
Sudhir Mishra made his directorial debut with the movie, “Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin” that was released in 1987 which won the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director. Khoya Khoya Chand, Traffic Signal, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho, Khamosh, etc are some of his directed movies. In 1992, Sudhir Mishra was honoured with the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi: Dharavi in 1991.

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Showman to make a documentary on Anand Bakshi

Known as the Showman of Hindi cinema, renowned filmmaker Subhash Ghai is looking forward to make a documentary on the life and times of noted lyricist late Anand Bakshi. The director mentioned that though he remember Anand Bakshi every day, but this is the time when Anand Bakshi left the Bollywood industry with a lot of memories, great thoughts and most inspiring songs to remember and cherish.


The director is contemplating to make a documentary on his life and work this year. Today, is the ninth death anniversary of the music composer, who penned the lyrics of several of Ghai's movies. Subhash Ghai said that Anand Bakshi is an inspiration to new talent and society. The two have shared a great bond both in their professional and personal lives, and have worked together on flicks like Yaadein, Pardes and Trimurti, etc. Born in Rawalpindi, Anand Bakshi was a perfect choice as a lyricist for many Bollywood directors, having penned down Dum Maaro Dum in Dev Anand's Hare Rama Hare Krishna. Anand Bakshi had also written lyrics for the first movies of stars like Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff and Rishi Kapoor among others. Anand Bakshi always wanted to be a singer and he fulfilled his desire by singing the duet 'Baaghon Mein Bahaar Aayi' along with Lata Mangeshkar in the 1972 Bollywood movie ‘Mom ki Gudiya’.
Anand also sung some lines of 'Ke Aaja Teri Yaad Aayi' from the Ramanand Sagar film Charas. Anand Bakshi's last film as lyricist was in the much delayed 2008 flick Mehbooba, for which he had worked before he died on 30 March 2002 at the age of 81. As a director Subhash Ghai has made most notable films like Kalicharan, Karz, Hero, Meri Jung, Karma, Ram Lakhan, Saudagar, Khalnayak, Pardes and Taal and many more.
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