Vikram feels scared too

Vikram Bhatt who has succeeded in scaring people with his successful films like Raaz, 1920, Shaapit and now Haunted 3D is one of the rare names in Bollywood who has made movies on keeping the genre horror. The filmmaker had also mentioned that he doesn’t want to stop and just desires to move on. Inspite of the known fact that the sort doesn't do as well in country like India, Vikram Bhatt has managed well to work his way around people's outlook. Vikram Bhatt stated that horror is a good subject because it's about adult substance, so that automatically cuts off kids.

And next, everyone doesn't want to buy the ticket to get scared. However, terror always has a trustworthy audience. And we have seen that all Vikram’s horror movies have done well so far. "Raaz" has done the most excellent business and there's "1920", which did well too. In India, if horror is not trapped in relationships, and stories of people, it'll not work at any cost. But the reason horror works is all because of superstition is blended in every individuals heart and soul, and so everyone enjoys it. The director also feels that it's the perfect genre after comedy. But there's nothing easy about making horror films.

Vikram further said that titles doesn’t assure a hit anymore. Last year has been a year of big flops. So, the content everytime has to be strong enough to carry on. Vikram’s subjects come from the sphere of the mysterious, and he had once even mentioned that he lives with ghosts. When asked him to explain this statement he said that he’s directly connected with spirits as they surround him. What the director is scared of is people as he claims that one doesn't know what people are going to be. Haunted3D his next horror genre flick features Mahakshay Chakroborty and Tia Bajpai in lead roles. So, if you are ready to get scared, don’t miss the film!!

Milan would soon work on OUATIM 2

Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2 is scheduled for next year release but the buzz is that the counting has already started for one of the biggest film events these days. In the coming month of May 2012 and the much awaited sequel to Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi starrer OnceUpon A Time In Mumbaai would be disclosed infront of the audiences. This would be after the climax of IPL Season 5 and the filmmakers are already on process to meet the deadline.

Producer Ekta Kapoor and filmmaker Milan Luthria are prepared that May 2012 is the perfect release timing for the flick. This is the time when audience has faced a implicit draught of any major movies due to IPL season. Since sequel to Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai. is one of the most appreciated sequels being made, they are not wanting to let go off the bright chance anyway.The whole team has no problem with announcing the release plans. Milan however confirmed the buzz stating that it’s true that thye would be releasing the movie in May next year just when IPL gets finished. Currently Milan is busy with Vidya Balan starrer The Dirty Picture said that as soon as he finishes with this project he would peep into OUATIM 2.

Though, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai took maximum time to wrap up, but it turned to be an outstanding flick grossing lots of accolades globally.Milan Luthria even stated that the kind of interest zone that has been developed from the announcement is a good sign of success. Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi starrer were loved by all due to which audiences stay on to be excited about what happens next with Akshay Kumar coming into the picture. So guys wait for a short while to see what happens next!!

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Mahesh Bhatt roped in Vivek

Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi has bagged a Mahesh Bhatt flick, the gratitude was shown to Sanjay Dutt. The ‘Munnabhai’ actor, who had sometime ago been approached to enact the lead, has now opted out from the project facing date issues as he is studded with several commitments. And this move of the superstar has come as a shock stage to all those who have seen Sanjay Dutt’s and Mahesh’s cordial relationship. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt mentioned that Vivek Oberoi has met up with Mukesh Bhatt and Kunal.

He has been narrated the whole story. However, till then, it will be not okay to assert that Vivek is on-board. In the world of business, there is much between the two parties. This has happened as Sanjay Dutt didn’t work out. But yes, Vivek had expressed his keen interest to be a part of the film and we would be happy to have him on-board as soon as possible. Interestingly, Vivek Oberoi does not share a healthy relationship with Sanjay Dutt. Vivek Oberoi, as per the reports had made bad remarks about Sanjay’s wife when he was shooting for action film ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’. Eearly directional career of Mahesh Bhatt included of acclaimed movies like Arth, Janam, Naam, Zakhm, Saaransh and so on.

He was later the writer of numerous commercial films, from dramas like Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke and comedies like Duplicate, though he was mostly recognised for thrillers like Jism, Who Lamhe, Inteha, etc. Mahesh Bhatt is co-owner of movie production house, Vishesh Films, with brother Mukesh Bhatt. Mahesh Bhatt as stated is also a member of the advisory board of U.S. nonprofit TeachAIDS. His serious project demanded strong performances from the performers, and stars who worked under Bhatt's camp have won awards for them in his films, like Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards.

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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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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Abhi-Aish in Rajkumar Santoshi’s next

The latest news is that filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi’s chief assistant director Anand Srivastav, will soon be wearing the director’s cap. The film will be produced by Vipin Anand’s Flagship India. The movie is a comedy and will be shot in Mumbai and a village in Bhopal.


Anand Srivastav said that this is his first film and he is very excited about it. The script is almost ready and he will be starting shoot on the project as early as possible. However, Anand Srivastatv did not revealed the cast of the movie. He said that he’s already approaching stars and things will be finalised within ten days as assumed. He also said that will also be assisting Rajkumar Santoshi on the upcoming movies ‘Power’ and ‘Ladies and Gentleman’. Anand further added that he can't reveal much about the movie. Whereas, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai will soon seen as on-screen couple in Rajkumar Santoshi’s romantic comedy,“Ladies and Gentlemen”, which will go on floors in July as speculated.
Aishwarya met Rajkumar Santoshi a week ago and he told her that before she start giving her dates to other producers, the filmmaker first wanted to finalise the deal with the couple as Abhishek and Aishwarya are his dream pair since a long time. The actress have liked this script. Ladies and Gentlemen will be the star couple’s ninth movie together. Their last film together was Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, which bombed at the box office. And since their marriage, the couple has been suspicious of over- exposing brand Bachchan, maintaining that they’d work together only when a movie would offer them something new and challenging.
Earlier, Aishwarya had opted out of Dostana, Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey and Game. More recently, she had also refused a Vipul Shah film opposite her husband, suggesting he cast Katrina Kaif instead. In the year 2008, she had Jodhaa Akbar and Sarkar Raj. In 2009, Aishwarya was fitting in between the Hollywood flick, The Pink Panther 2, Raavan and the Tamil film, Raavanan. Last year there was Robot opposite Rajinikanth, Action Replayy with Akshay Kumar and Guzaarish with Hrithik Roshan. Let’s see whether the couple fit in well in Rajkumar Santoshi’s upcoming venture or not!!

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Sudhir’s final words

For a long long time in Bollywood the limitation for the success of a movie was Platinum, Golden or even Silver jubilee. Later on, it became 100 days and finally 50-day too was maintained as a essential success globally. But then it changed considerably and all tagged down to a huge staring weekend and a reasonably good second weekend.


To understand the observable fact and the shift from the now superfluous erosion theory lets read on the views of the famous Bollywood filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. And regarding the matter he said that earlier there used to be a limited number of prints. But now-a-days due to piracy hazard makers go in for a huge number of prints. It is for this reason that movies do not get to a jubilee mark. He further added by asserting that taking the case of his own movie Yeh Saali Zindagi which was released it with 532 prints! Well, nothing more couldn't be agreed now and the day is not far when just the first weekend itself will decide the destiny of a film!
The most renowned filmmaker and scriptwriter of Bollywood movies like Chameli, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Dharavi, Sudhir Mishra hails from the city of Nawabs Lucknow. He moved to Mumbai in 1980, and started his career as assistant director and scriptwriter in Kundan Shah's comedy classic titled Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron which was released in 1983 and later on Sudhir worked with Saeed Akhtar Mirza in Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! Released in 1984 and with Vidhu Vinod Chopra in 1985 titled movie Khamosh. Sudhir Mishra made his directorial debut with “Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin” which hitted the silver screens in 1987 which won the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director. He also made acclaimed flicks like Main Zinda Hoon released in 1988), and 1996 Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin amongst others.
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David Dhawan

At present Bollywood filmmaker David Dhawan is working with actor Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn in Rascals. This is yet another example of David working with Sanjay with whom he has worked in several movies before. On the other than Govinda with whom David Dhawan has shared his most successful partnership till date as well as Salman Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan.


David Dhawan said that if he approach an actor and the star says that he doesn't have dates to to the film, the filmmaker tell the actor that's wonderful, all the best and thank you so much, please go ahead. The director don't cheat over it rather he just allow someone else to walk in. David Dhawan would next be making Chashme Baddoor. Though there has been no official announcement regarding the cast yet, there have been thousands of speculations making news in the Bollywood film industry. When asked to give a tip-off around the actors he is been appraoching, David Dhawan said that he doesn't like speculating as he have never done that in his entire life.

However, no one is finalised yet. Let's see who comes in. The director personally believe that Bollywood is one small and nice fraternity and one should work with one and all. He doesn't belong to any camp. The director have built relationships over the years but have never forced them to work in his films. In this regard, he is very much following the footsteps of his 'guru' Manmohan Desai who too believed in the power of relationships even as his best partnership was with veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan. David Dhawan felt downhearted stating that Manmohan Desai was his guru, he is his guru even today and he will stay on to be the same forever. Do you know that Manmohan Desai was the one who had actually signed David Dhawan on for Deewana Mastana

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The reloaded Sippy

When you are known by the surname Sippy and that Ramesh Sippy's and GP Sippy have made hit films like Seeta Aur Geeta, Shaan, Shakti and Sholay, your career can’t swing in air. Rohan Sippy knew there was nothing else he wanted to do. He have never felt ardently about anything besides filmmaking.


After spending some years learning the gimmicks, Rohan Sippy directed his first feature ‘Kuch Naa Kaho’ in the year 2003. He followed it up with Abhishek Bachchan starrer ‘Bluffmaster’ in 2005. On April 22 the director will witness the release of his upcoming film “Dum Maaro Dum”. So, here’s a question that what was Rohan Sippy doing over the last five years. To this the ace filmmaker answered that he produced a couple of movies like Taxi 9211, The President Is Coming, Chandni Chowk to China, etc. There was no real reason for taking so long time to make a come back, except that everything had to fall at right palce.

When writers Shridhar Raghavan recoiled the idea for the thriller that became “Dum Maaro Dum”, it automatically felt right. Rohan Sippy is excited because he has followed a multifarious description composition with this film. He said that this was one reason, also things were difficult because they were working with an ensemble cast; for the kind of approach they have taken to the shoot, all the unseen effects and postproduction, it needed more time in thinking and executing things. Set in Goa, the movie is based on three stories meeting at a point in the first half, and then moving ahead.

The first story is about Prateik Babbar, a student, who gets attracted into doing things he would not normally do. Abhishek Bachchan is a cop responsible for cleaning up the scene and taking on those behind it. The third is a musician, portrayed by Rana Daggubati. Whereas, Bipasha Basu is another main character. All these characters have some sins in their past that they have to pay for. That emotion plays out through the flick. While there are reports of ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’ being remade, would Rohan Sippy consider remaking any of his father's movies? While, the filmmaker openly refused the offer saying that he doesn't think he have a way of making them better.

Abhishek Bachchan stated that as a director, Rohan is not the Rohan who directed the earlier two films Bluffmaster and Kuch Naa Kaho. If the actor have to generalise, then it is just confidence that made him so much so successful. Abhishek also added that Rohan Sippy is at the top of his game. So the star saw a huge difference, in him and also that Rohan’s moustache had become slightly shorter and his glasses had become smaller. We hope that Dum Maaro Dum turns out to be a great success.

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Sajid New Plans

Taking a look at the coming up projects under Sajid Nadiadwala’s production house it has been witnessed that the famous producer has lined up as much as five mega budget projects. It has been learnt that Sajid will cast Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan in his three different films.

Akshay Kumar is already shooting for Sajid in 'Housefull 2' directed by Sajid Khan, then Salman Khan will be seen doing Shirish Kunder's film. Also writer Chetan Bhagat’s latest novel ‘2 States’ is being made into a movie, and as reported the movie will have Shahrukh Khan in the male lead and Vishal Bhardwaj will be the head of the ship, now the news is not fake that it will be produced under Nadiadwala Grand Sons Banner. Sajid told that he cannot disclose the details on SRK and Hrithik's project at present. The team is actively working on them. News is also revolving that famous love story of 'Heer Ranjha' will be brought to the silver screen and Sajid Nadiadwala will be producing it. Directors and producers are running on their toes to find a very different and catchy title track for their film, director Sajid Khan has reportedly discharged the song from ‘Housefull 2’.

Similar like Heyy Babyy whose title track topped the charts, ‘Housefull’ did not have any such title track. Keeping that in mind, ‘Housefull 2′ will not have any title track too. Housefull 2 cast includes Akshay Kumar, the cute guy Riteish Deshmukh, the real hunk John Abraham, Southern siren Asin, Dhanno Jacqueline Fernandez and Randhir and Rishi Kapoor. Rumours moving around the tinsel town disclose that the latest to join this cast is none other than the Megastar Amitabh Bachchan himself. We hope that this time Sajid Khan’s Housefull2 becomes a housefull.

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Hirani promotes bharat bandh

Hang on guys, Rajkumar Hirani is not turning to a politician but the filmmaker’s ad company Vanvas Films has recently made an ad titled ‘Bharat Bandh’- The first IPL ad of this season The ad campaign has been directed by ‘Quickgun Murugun’ director Shashank Ghosh and showcased the funny talks between the politicians across the country over who initiated the Bharat Bandh for 51 days.


Canvas Films head ad division Sanjeev Kishinchandani said that the concept of the advertisment is that there is confusion between politicians across the country that who has announced the 51 days Bharat Bandh and every one rubbished the buzz when they finally realized that Bharat will be closed for 51 days automatically due to IPL, that’s the fever of IPL in India. The filmmaker has decided to rope in Aamir Khan in his upcoming project. Aamir had worked with the director earlier in 3 Idiots, which was declared as the successful hit of the year.

Arshad Warsi seems to be in full swing as the funny character, ‘Circuit’, in Rajkumar Hirani’s Munnabhai series made the actor a household name, but Arshad Warsi is tired of doing comedy and is scouting for serious roles now. Some interesting facts about the filmmaker states that after FTII Rajkumar Hirani tried his luck as film editor for many years. He was also seen in a Fevicol advertisement where some men and elephants are trying to pull and break a fevicol plank saying "Jor laga ke Haisha".

He was seen doing good in advertisement business but the director wanted to make films so he took break from advertisement and started working with Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Rajkumar Hirani had also worked on promos and trailers for 1942: A Love Story. He edited promo's for Kareeb as well. He then got big break as film editor with Mission Kashmir.

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RGV’s cost free project

Ram Gopal Varma well known as a filmmaker, Indian writer and producer has made numerous films on subjects like psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, movies related to politics and musicals, both in Hindi and Telugu versions. His successful movies includes names like Bhoot, Kshana Kshanam, Gaayam, Anaganaga Oka Roju, Kaun, Jungle, Sarkar , Sarkar Raj and Rakta Charitra.


Now the latest buzz is that the filmmaker's zero cost movie “Dongala Mutha” has been launched recently. The movie will be wrapped up on February 14, 2011. The movie is being made for free and it is speculated that the shooting of the film will be complete in five days. Ram Gopal Varma have stated that no character in this film including the actors, technicians and equipments suppliers are going to be paid any single penny. Actor Ravi Teja, Charmy Kaur, Prakash Raj, Lakshmi Manchu, Brahmanandam and others featured in the movie. The movie will be released on March 04, 2011.

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Vikram returns to small screen

After making a trilogy of scary flicks, producer-director Vikram Bhatt is returning back to the small screen with Andhera, a series of creepy stories on channel Colors. Vikram even stated that he believes in ghosts and lives with them all the time. The filmmaker also said that he can feel their existence very well.

What’s scarier is to live with people around us. Two years ago, Ekta Kapoor had produced a show titled ‘Koi Aane Ko Hai’, which was based on real-life spirit tales written by those who had experiences with the baffling encounters with spirits. But this time Vikram Bhatt will take stories out of his own experiences rather than take them from someone else’s. Vikram Bhatt’s next release, a 3D horror movie “Haunted” is expected to hit theaters on April 15, 2011.

Kunal Kohli

Kunal Kohli, the Bollywood filmmaker hails from Mumbai and started out as a movie critic in the late nineties and hosted the show ‘Chalo Cinema’ on Zee TV. Kunal Kohli also directed some music videos like Bally Sagoo's 'Mera Laung Gawacha', Bali Brahmabhatt's 'Tere Bin Jeena Nahin', Shiamak Davar's 'Jaane Kisne', Hema Sardesai's 'Bole Humse Kuch Na Gori' and Rajshri Music's 'Yeh Hai Prem', a song for Alisha Chinoy with Milind Soman.


This Bollywood director directed about twenty-four Music Videos before giving up video and TV for flicks. He also judged the popular TV show Nach Baliye's Season 2 for Star Plus in 2005. Kunal started his production house named Kunal Kohli Productions in 2007 to make movies for himself and launch new directors too, the first film that was made was “Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic” which was released in 2008. Kunal Kohli directed four movies for Yash Raj Films owned by ace filmmaker and producer Yash Chopra. Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002). After two years he came back with his second project Hum Tum (2004), the movie was one of the biggest hits of 2004 and established him as a known director. And 2006 release film Fanaa. The film won five Filmfare awards including Best Director for Kunal Kohli.

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Vikram Bhatt

A scriptwriter, director and producer who is the grandson of Vikram Bhatt, who was one of the pioneer of Indian movies and the son of cinematographer Pravin Bhatt. Vikram Bhatt was born on 27 January, 1967. He has made more than 21 flicks that have been penned into his credit and currently the ace filmmaker is the creative head of a conglomerate called ASA productions.


Vikram Bhatt started with his career into direction in 1982, at the young age of 14, with late Director Mukul Anand in Mukul's first film, 'Kanoon Kya Karega'. The director worked with Mukul Anand for six and a half months. His last film with Mukul was one of Indian Cinema's classic, 'Agneepath', on which he was a chief assistant at that time. Prior to that, Vikram worked with director Shekhar Kapur for 2.5 years and later with Mahesh Bhatt for almost two years, on projects like, 'Hum Hain Raahi Pyaar Ke' that starred Juhi Chawla and Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt

and rahul Roy starrer 'Junoon'. Started directing with a film called 'Jaanam' with producer Mukesh Bhatt, Vikram’s first four films did not do too well at the box office, till he saw his first success in the film titled 'Fareb'. After this, he never looked back and had a rope of successful Bollywood movies like 'Ghulam', 'Kasoor', 'Raaz' and 'Awaara Pagal Deewana'. In 2008, Vikram Bhatt came with the success of his horror flick, '1920' that left the audiences thrilled. 'Shaapit' another horror film was directed in 2010. His 2011, horror offering is titled Haunted.

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The promosing filmmakers

A fresh bunch of directors have certainly taken Indian cinema to another level with flicks like Tere Bin Laden, Peepli Live and Thanks Maa. Let’s have a look at the list of directors who have done a marvelous job- Karan Johar has declared that he would work only with Dharma Productions till end.


His first directorial project, We Are Family, got mixed reviews from critics, but the filmmaker is hopeful about his future. Another ace filmmaker Anusha Rizvi who made Peepli Live which was her directorial debut, have won the Best First Film award at the Durban film festival and made her an international name. An Indian movie has been selected in the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival after sixteen years. It is a real achievement for debutante Vikramaditya Motwane in itself. He has also penned movies like Dev.D and Goal. No one would have thought that Robinhood Pandey would become a famous name in every house.

Director Abhinav Kashyap’s Dabangg acquired the status of an all-time blockuster in only second week of its release and got overwhelming response.
Irfaan Kamal’s Thanks Maa has been officially selected to be screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, International Film Festival of India and Palm Springs International Film Festival. The debut child actor Master Shams Patel has also won the Best Child Artist for the movie respectively, in the 56th National Film Awards. Debutante filmmaker Irfaan Kamal said that he has just tried to achieve a home for the abandoned newborns and feels he has achieved his goal to some extent.

Kiran Rao is better known as Aamir Khan's wife but she prefers to be known by her work. Kiran started her career as an assistant director in the epic movie “Lagaan” directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. But what got her into the limelight was her directorial debut Dhobi Ghaat. The movie got critical appreciation and international appreciation at Toronto film festival.

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