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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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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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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Gulzaar to write lyrics for Yash Chopra's film

It appears as if Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra's next venture is going to be a musical treat for all of us. After accompanying with music king A.R. Rahman, he has finally roped in ace lyricist Gulzar for his movie and is quite excited about it.Yash Chopra even said that though he has been associated with Yash Raj Films previously, this is the first time that he will be working alongside Gulzar sahab.

Yash Chopra who has decided to exercise the megaphone after seven years is looking forward to some excellent poetry, which he is personally very fond of. It will also be a great opportunity working with the award winning pair of A.R. Rahman and Gulzar sir and making some amazing and meaningful music.Both A. R. Rahman and Gulzar had together bagged the Oscar award for the song "Jai ho" from Danny Boyle's movie “ Slumdog Millionaire” which was released in 2009. On the other hand, Gulzar is also excited about working with Yash Chopra, who has made megahit movies like "Silsila",

"Chandni", "Lamhe", "Dil To Pagal Hai" and "Veer Zaara.” Gulzar concluded saying that Yash Chopra is someone who understands poetry and has almost certainly redefined the poetry of romance through the music of his films. There is a sense of thrill and eagerness in working with him. Gulzar so far has written down the lyrics for songs like "Tujhse naraaz nahin zindagi", "Aanewala pal" and the more recent peppy songs "Dil toh bacha hai ji" and "Darling".


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Ferrari Ki Sawari kept on hold

Vidhu Vinod Chopra recently made a official declaration about his next Bollywood project after the release of successful box office hit 3 Idiots.However, the filmmaker has been powerless to finish the making of the movie as yet. According to a source, it has been revealed that director-producer Ekta Kapoor is the main cause behind the postponement of Ferrari Ki Sawari. It is a known fact that Ekta Kapoor's freshly released Marathi flick Taryanche Bait has a comparable storyline. Taryanche Bait was a father-son tale in which Sachin Khedekar's character makes a promise to his son that one day he’ll take him to a five star hotel in Mumbai and how the father struggles to accomplish his promise.
Similarly in Ferrari Ki Swari, Sharman Joshi promises his son a Ferrari ride.Now when Ekta’s Marathi movie is released and has received a decent feedback from the audiences, Vidhu Vinod Chopra who has written the script of the film doesn't want that the content should go waste or would be called as a remake of a regional movie due to the similar plot. Therefore, now the filmmaker is looking forward to make some necessary changes in the script due to which the ‘FKS’ will take some more time to wrap up.

This movie was thought to start early this year and was scheduled to release in the month of December 2011. The movie as reported will be directed by Rajesh Mapuskar who assisted Rajkumar Hirani during the making of Sanjay Dutt starrer Lage Raho Munnabhai and Aamir Khan featured 3 Idiots. Other than Sharman Joshi Ferrari Ki Sawari will also feature actress Deepika Padukone in the lead role.Munna Bhai Chale Amerika is an upcomingBollywood comedy genre flick that will be produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani.



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Rajkumar Santoshi's Ladies and Gentleman might be delayed

Ever since Amitabh Bachchan tweeted on micro-blogging site that his loving bahuAishwarya is gonna become a mother soon, the entire film fraternity have park themselves to take note of how the flick trade could be pretentious because of the actress’s present condition.Aishwarya Rai has two movies in her kitty at the moment, one being, Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine and Rajkumar Santoshi's Ladies And Gentleman. While work on Heroine has already taken shape, but on the other side, Rajkumar Santoshi haven’t started film’s shooting.

Madhur Bhandarkar has mentioned that he had roped in Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for Heroine last month, and the movie went on floors earlier this month. As soon as Madhur came to know about the latest news he immediately mapped out a strategy to complete the film in a single schedule of 45 days. A source revealed that just fifteen days shoot of Heroine is not completed. Being an average budget movie, Heroine won't be affected in any big manner. On the other side, producers Madhur and Ronnie Screwvala of UTV have invested around Rs 18 crore in the movie.According to the buzz, Aish's character is showcased to be a depressed alcoholic, so in addition Madhur decided to shoot the actress with broad angle shots with a second camera to do the close-ups so that she did not have to shoot variations of the same scenes again.

The major problem for Madhur Bhandarkar could occur when it comes to promotion, by when the actress would be closer to her due date. Madhur will have to work harder when the promotional event will get started.The project that could infact come under force is Rajkumar Santoshi's Ladies And Gentleman where Aish was suppose to cast opoosite her husband Abhishek Bachchan, will perceptibly be delayed now and the filmmaker will almost certainly have to focus on another venture. Usually, Rajkumar Santoshi's movies are motivated and his investment begins from anywhere between Rs 40 crore to Rs 60 crore.So, now it seems like the fate of filmmakers and producers depend on Aishwarya’s comeback.


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Franz Osten

Franz Osten was a famous German film director who in association with Niranjan Pal was among the first payers of Bombay Talkies. Franz Osten collaborated with Niranjan on a number of India's previous blockbuster movies like Achhut Kanya and Jeevan Naiya. As revealed, Franz was born as Franz Ostermayr in Munichin the year 1876. The German director trained to be a photographer like his dad and gave acting an attempt. In 1907, Franz founded a wandering cinema termed as the "Original Physograph Company" together with his brother Peter Ostermayr, who later invented the antecedent to Bavaria Film Studios. Franz Osten's silent movies tell multiplicity of Indian tales. 1926 release The Light of Asia contract with the life of Buddha. A Throw of Dice was related to the myths and legends haggard from Indian epic Mahabarata. All these above mentioned films have a say to rise the understanding of eastern religions and offered a banquet for the senses by showcasing elephants in festive decoration along with thousands of extras. His big sets were perfect for evading from reality, etc.

He directed Bollywood movies like Prem Sanyaswhich was released in 1925. Then he made Shiraz released in 1928. Prapancha Pash was released in1929 and the most famous film Achhut Kanyawas released in 1936. The filmmaker died on 2nd December 1956.

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Govind Nihalani

Govind Nihalani the famous filmmaker, cinematographer, screenwriter as well as a film producer has been directing Bollywood movies since the late 1970’s as records suggests. The filmmaker hails from Karachi, Sindh region in 1940 and his relatives shifted to India during the partition of 1947. The director started his career as a cinematographer and got graduated in cinematography from the Shree Jaya Chamrajendra polytechnic in Bangalore in 1962. The filmmaker was an Assistant Cinematographer to the renowned V. K. Murthy. Govind was connected with all the past flicks of Shyam Benegal and with the cinematography of Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning classic Gandhi.

Both Govind Nihalani and Shyam Benegal are well known for their socially germane projectsGovind Nihalani’s initial directorial film was Aakrosh that featured veteran actors Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, the late Smita Patil and the late Amrish Puri. The movie which was based on the real life story stated a great impact on audiences globally The film had also shared the Golden Peacock for best movie at the International Film Festival of India which was organized in New Delhi back in the year 1981. Govind’s another venture Ardh Satya, was formed on a tale written by S.D. Panwalkar, that is remembered by film aficionados till date.

The respective film changed everlastingly the manner in which Indian film fraternity showcased the cops and it uncovered in bleak detail the police-politician-criminal tie. The ace filmmaker made more flicks like Dev, Thakshak, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Dhrokaal, Tamas, Rukmawati Ki Haveli, Vijeta,etc.

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Rohit has high expectations from Singham

Bollywood successful star Ajay Devgan and the most talented, king of comedy filmmaker Rohit Shetty have huge hopes from Singham, and no one’s complaining them for that. It’s a known fact that Ajay Devgan and the ace director have already brought together the first tralier of their film with Salman Khan and Asin starrer Ready, which is scheduled to hit the theaters this coming Friday.

If this news is true then it’ll be just like cherry on cake for the audience. So how did Rohit Shetty got ready to start the project ‘Singham’, lets find out!! It has been learnt that Rohit and Reliance Entertainment were respectively into discussions about making the latest prjoject. When Reliance recommended Rohit Shetty to come across at the Tamil film Singham featuring South Indian actor Suriya, he took time before giving any verdict. Rohit found the concept so appealing that immediately he gave his nod to make the Hindi sequel of ‘Singam’. Likewiseto the Tamil action genre movie, the Bollywood project will have Ajay playing a rough and tough, candid police officer.

It is said that first Prakash Raj, South Indian actor was signed to overtake his character if the adversary from the unusual, meantime reports developed that babes Anushka Shetty and Asin and were being approached to play the main role in the film. Anushka however turned out the offer and was afterwards replaced by Kajal Aggarwal, who has appeared in South Indian films. The first schedule of the film started in early March 2011 with action scenes shot in Goa.

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Pakesh Jha's Rajeeti

Director of movie Raajniti Prakesh Jha is very much confident about his movie, that Rajneeti will take National Awards for Kartina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor.

This movie will will give more fame to Ranbir Kapoor said Prakesh. Guy studied in US, when he return home he have to take all the responsibility on his shoulder.Prakesh is quite sure that Ranbir and Katrina will win National Awards.

And he added that the Rajeenti will win number of National Awards.In the cast everyone is so perfect and experienced actors like Naseerudin Shah, Nana Patekar, Manij Bajpai, Ajay Devgan all are already National Award Winners.

New Music director in "Chenab Gandhi"

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is famous for giving path to newcomer in the bollywood industry, he has given chge to Ismail Darbar, they has given blockbuster movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas. Sanjay is always ready to take risk or his every forthcoming movie.


Now, Sanjay is introducing new music director,Ajay and Atul in in Indian film industry, they has given there first musicin Marathi movie, Natrang


From the reliable sources, "Someone has suggested them to go to Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who love to listen new music and give chance to newcomer in the bollywood industry, Ajay and Atul is given music in Sanjay's coming movie Chenab Gandhi, with the super stars, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajiv Khandelwal, Vidhya Balan. Bansali listen the music of Natrang and he is very much impressed with both the upcoming music directors.

Rohit Shetty

Famous director Rohit Shetty was born in Karnataka, he is not only versatile director but a very good Presentor and Cinematographer, Rohit is a son famous fight master and late villain Shetty. From the early age he got entered in this field, he has assisted Kuku Kohli in his movie Phool Aur Kaante with the co-star Ajay Devgan and he directed his first movie Zameen with Ajay Devgan in the year 2003.

From the early age he was keen to a film director and when he was 13- 14 years he assisted many movie the many famous directors.He has completed his secondary from St. Mary's School, Mumbai.After that he stated working as a assistant director, to get experience and perfection in direction field.

He has a very good relationship with Ajay Devgan and done lots of movies with him like Pyaar Toh Hona Hi Tha, Raju Chacha, Hindustan Ki Kasaam and lot more.He super hit movie are Golmaal returns, All the Best, Golmaal returns-2, Zameen