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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Guzaarish a copy from Hollywood

After a gap of almost three years, renowned filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is now ready to impress the audience with his next film, Guzaarish, featuring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in lead roles. As the film is salted for a November release, latest buzz is that the plot of the flick is inspired by Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

The movie, reportedly, is a Hindi version of the 2006 hit flim, starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. The story of 'The Prestige' revolves around the fight between two magicians..The news is that Hrithik Roshan plays a magician in Guzaarish.

But, according to Sanjay Leela Bhansali's script Hrithik is shown as a paraplegic patient, named Ehan. Aishwarya Rai will be playing the role of a married nurse.
The movie also stars newcomers Monikangana Dutta and Aditya Roy Kapoor playing pivotal roles.

Guzaarish to be released on 17 November

Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has decided to release his much awaited film Guzaarish on 17th November, 2010. It has been reported that Sanjay Leela Bhansali and UTV are likely to break the rules and regulations with the film, which features Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai in lead roles.



It is said that Guzaarish is coming two weeks after Diwali this year. So it's gonna be a Wednesday release despite of a Friday. But if Sanjay Leela Bhansali and UTV have something like a change of mind, Guzaarish may arrive on a Friday respectively.

Anurag Basu shares his “English Act”

Anurag Basu may be a great director and writer but as a person he is a very down-to-earth kindda man. The director has recently directed Kites and has also acted as a writer for the movie. The movie has Hrithik Roshan and Mexican actress Barbara Mori in the lead role. Besides these two, Kangana Ranaut is also there.

Anurag says that when he was on his first day of shooting of Kites he explained a scene to Barbara. The actress could not understand that and requested the director to speak in English. This was a little difficult for the director but then also he explained the whole scene in his own style of English!

The director said, "Guess what? I was speaking to her in English all the time,". He was laughing also at the same time and was moving his hands in the air. Anurag also said , "I knew then she was not getting my English,." The director also said that he made a lot of hand gestures during the shoot of the movie and continued to do the same at his home too. About this he said that his wife thought that Basu is into sign language.

Anurag Basu’s first big budget movie

The name Anurag Basu is now well known everywhere. This popular Bollywood director has done many movies of a totally new genre. His movies Gangster, Metro etc were superb and had heart touching themes behind them. But till now Anurag has not done any movie of some very big budget. But very soon all of us are going to anjoy his experience with a big budget movie as he is directing Rakesh Roshan’s Kites.

About Kites( which stars Hrithik Roshan and Spanish actress Barbara Mori) and its budget, the director said "I don't think it was a huge challenge. Smaller films are more difficult because when you have a shoestring budget, you have to manage in that budget and make your film look good. Most of the time when I was writing small films, I was doing my production, too. 'I should write this scene - no it will cost you money chuck it out and write some other scene.' But this time I had a free hand. I just started to write and Rakesh-ji told me, 'Don't think about the budget, just write.' So I just wrote the film."

He is very happy to work with an experienced producer who is none other then Rakesh Roshan. Anurag Basu says "I knew Mr. Rakesh Roshan is an experienced producer at making huge movies, so I was very relaxed. I know nothing will go wrong when he's there." So whatever the budget of the movie is but one thing is for sure that good and talented people like Anurag Basu always entertain the audience in a unique way.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali reinvents choreography

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is back again with his much left career in choreography after he directed songs for 1942: A Love Story that starred Anil Kapoor and Manisha Koirala. And now after a decade Sanjay Leela Bhansali will again choreograph the dance steps of Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan in their upcoming and much-awaited flick Guzaarish.

However, Bhansali has never choreographed the entire song besides giving some inputs but now he will wear the cap of choreographer very proudly. Not just that, it is also heard that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has also composed for Guzaarish.

On the other side it seems that choreography is giving tough challenge to Sanjay Leela Bhansali for the refined product he is perceiving.

Leak reports of Kites climax is wrong says Anurag Basu

Director Anurag Basu is really frustrated and disturbed by the recent leak reports of his upcoming film Kites climax. But the director reveals that this is not how the movie ends. Anurag also said that the movie shouldn’t get an A-certificate by the censors as it has no vulgar scenes.

The director is really upset as he strongly believes that the audiences would buy the tickets to watch this film with a wrong perception that they already know what’s gonna happen in the end. But at the same time he’s also happy to tell that the climax which have been revealed is totally incorrect.

The film is based on a love story about an Indian man's affair with a Latin woman. Kites is about the thrilling journey and unexpected betrayal. The movie will be released on 21st May, 2010.

Anurag Basu's future ventures include a romantic film with chocolate boy Ranbir Kapoor and sizzling Priyanka Chopra plus a biopic on Kishore Kumar.

Rakesh Roshan decides to direct Krrish 3

Finally, Rakesh Roshan has decided to direct Krrish 3. First the director, wanted Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra to direct the film, but dropped the idea after Delhi 6 had a disastrous fate.

Hrithik Roshan who is more comfortable working with his father is also helping him with the script. Currently, both Roshans’ are busy with Kites and will begin working on Krrish 3 only after Kites releases.

Rakesh Roshan confirmed the news by asserting that, Krrish 3 is still in it's scripting stage and there is still time for the movie to go on the floors.

Kunal Kohli, bollywood director

Kunal Kohli is a bollywood director with just four movies in his kitty to talk about yet because of his association with Yash Raj Films, he has become famous. His debut film under the Yash Raj banner was Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002) which did not fare too well at the box office. The film starred Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor.




His second venture Hum Tum (2004) was one of the biggest hits of 2004 and established him as a known director. The film won five Filmfare awards including Best Director for Kohli. He won against his own mentor Yash Chopra who was nominated for Veer-Zaara.

His film Fanaa, starred Aamir Khan and Kajol who made her comeback after a four year break from the industry and earned her a Filmfare Best Actress award. The film was released in May 2006. Fanaa became one of the biggest hits of all time. This film was found controversial, and was banned in the state of Gujarat due to protests against the lead actor Aamir Khan.


He also directed some music videos, 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.

He started his production house Kunal Kohli Productions in 2007 to make films for himself and launch new directors too. He wrote, directed and co-produced Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, starring Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Rishi Kapoor and Amisha Patel that was not received well at the box-office and did not meet with the success of Hum Tum and Fanaa. He has also considered Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor for his next film.

Kunal Kohli has directed the following films-

* Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008)
* Fanaa (2006)
* Hum Tum (2004)
* Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002)

He has also scripted the films he has directed, all on his own.

Director Bhansali seek divine blessings

The directors are no less than the mothers and they cares for their films likewise. If the mothers worry and pray for the safety and welfare of their children, so do the directors for their actors and their film.




So every Bollywood movie has a muhurt ceremony.

This was evidently recently when Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali was seen at the Ajmer Dargah. Bhansali prayed at the holy shrine to pray for actors - Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

You need not be panicky as Bhansali sought divine blessings in relation to his movie 'Guzaarish', starring the two actors. Here we may remind you that Aishwarya Rai has just recently narrowly escaped when an elephant turned amok and killed its mahout during the shoot of Mani Ratnam's upcoming mega budget movie 'Ravana'.

Filmmakers cannot afford to keep away from religious faith and even rituals. After all, they spend a huge amount and put in all their effort for a long time in making a movie. Thus, their money and livelihood besides the fame is at stake. So, they observe all rituals depending on their faith. In any case, seeking blessings whether divine or earthly is always welcome.

Guzaarish will be Hrithik Aishwairya's third film together after Dhoom 2 and Jodha Akbar. Hrithik Roshan endorses Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

The Multi-talented Farhan Akhtar!!!

:The Multi-talented Farhan Akhtar!!!


Farhan Akhtar re-wrote the script of Bollywood movies. His movies are known for their fresh, vibrant visuals in the middle of things as they are today. His talents work in multiples as he shifts from the roles of writer, producer, director, actor and singer.

Farhan Akhtar was born on 9th January 1974 in Mumbai to Javed Akhtarand Honey Irani who are both screenwriters. His father remarried actress Shabana Azmi. His grandfather Jan Nisar Akhtar was a poet.



Farah Khan, a choreographer and director, is his cousin. His sister Zoya Akhtar is making her debut as a director with Luck By Chance that has him in the lead.

He studied at the Maneckji Cooper School and then joined HR College to pursue a degree in Commerce but left in his second year.

Farhan is married to Adhuna Bhabani Akhtar, a hairstylist who runs Juice Salon with her brother. They have two daughters Akira and Shakya.

Farhan Akhtar & Showbiz

Starting at the age of 17, he worked as an apprentice with cinematographer Manmohan Singh, before assisting filmmaker Pankaj Parashar, and then worked three years in a Television production house, Script Shop. These years were spent performing varied roles on
different projects. Production Manager, Post Production Supervisor, Editor, Copywriter and Corporate Film Director.

Farhan assisted on the sets of movies like Lamhe and Himalayputra.



He made his debut as a director with the hit Dil Chahta Hai (2001), which starred Aamir Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta. He also wrote the screenplay. Awards for Dil Chahta hai He was bestowed the prestigious National Award for “ Best HindiFeature Film” for this film, at the hands of the President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam.

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie
Filmfare Best Screenplay.



Farhan Akhtar went on to direct Lakshya (2004) with Amitabh Bacchan, Hrithik Roshan and Preity Zinta about an aimless man who finds his purpose. The movie was set against the Kargil conflict. It was written by his father Javed Akhtar.

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He wrote and directed Don – The Chase Begins Again, a remake of the classic Don. Shah Rukh khan and Priyanka Chopra played the leads. The movie was commercially successful.

In 2007, he directed and produced a short film on AIDS Awareness called Positive, which was part of AIDS Jago programme. It starred Shabana Azmi and Boman Irani.



Farhan Akhtar made his debut as an actor in the Fakir of Venice (2007). His next role as the has-been rock musician Aditya Shroff in Rock On (2008) was considered brilliant.

His latest release was Luck By Chance, a movie directed by his sister Zoya Akhtar and written by him, about making it big in tinsel town.

Farhan has also produced the movies Don – The Chase Begins Again, Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd,Rock On and Luck By Chance.

Music was not far behind, as he penned the lyrics for Gurindher Chadha’s Bride & Prejudice and also sung Socha Hai, Sinbad the Sailor,
Tum Ho Toh, Pichle Saath Dinon Mein in Rock On.

Farhan is still a young prodigy in Bollywood who can go very far. Now,he is looked upon as the leader of a new sensibility that has taken hold of the Popular conscience in Indian Film

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's new film Heera Mandi!!!

Bhansali has begun work on his next directorial film after Saawariya, which is titled Heera Mandi. For the venture Bhansali is grooming two male actors and one female actress from Pakistan for the movie. They will come down to India from Pakistan to learn a thing or two about acting, before they face the camera.

Bhansali was supposed to have started work on his untitled film starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. It was believed that with the death of Begum Para, Heera Mandi had run into casting problems and so Bhansali started work on the film that would have featured the Jodhaa Akbar pair. However, he has now immersed himself in training his new cast for Heera Mandi.


The two actors came in earlier for the workshop. The actress, who is also in Mumbai, is being kept under wraps, but one thing that has to be mentioned, is that she is beautiful. Her beauty is ethereal and Bhansali is training her in all the nuances required to get a standing ovation.

With this news being hush hush and much secrecy surrounding the actor's whereabouts, there's not much information available as yet. Also, producer Madhu Mantena is a happy man these days. Reason? He has teamed up with Sanjay Leela Bhansali too for his next, Chenab Gandhi. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hurman Baweja and Vidya Balan. Chenab Gandhi is set in the 1930s and is made on a budget of Rs 35 crore. The film also marks the debut of Vibhu Puri as a director.