Anurag Basu back to chat shows

Bollywood director Anurag Basu, who began his career directing various episodes for Ekta Kapoor's daily soap "Kasauti Zindagi Kay", has returned back to host a celebrity chat show.

Anurag Basu, whose Bollywood film "Kites" starring Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori has just hit the screens, is doing the chat show for Zee Bangla in Kolkata.



These days Anurag Basu is looking out for excuse to be in Kolkata and to do many other things other than direct a film. He was in Kolkata to play a role in Onir's film. Now he'll be recording a chat show here.

Anurag Basu, who is waiting for Imtiaz Ali to relieve Ranbir Kapoor from the shooting of his film "Rock Star" so that Anurag can rope in Ranbir for his film which is said to be based on Kishore Kumar bio-pic.

Puri enter Bollywood

A famous Telugu director is happy to have his entry in Bollywood. He is Puri Jagannath. The man who has directed the movies like Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi , Pokiri and Idiot.


The director, Puri said,"Many years ago I tried to crack the Hindi market with a film 'Shart' starring Tusshar Kapoor. That was a disaster. So I see 'The Businessman' as my true beginning in Bollywood,"

Puri Jagannath will be working with Ram Gopal Verma. Verma says that Puri has some problem with Hindi but he will overcome them all as earlier also there have been famous directors who were not comfortable in Hindi but they did well in Hindi Cinema.

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.

Prakash Jha experiments with the much experimented subject

Director Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti will be in theaters soon. Just as the name suggests, the movie revolves around the main subject of politics. Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor are there in the lead roles. The movie is about the entrance of youngsters into the political arena and how they struggle to bring changes.

Earlier also many movies have been made by the Indian directors on the same subject of students’ politics. Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi was a good effort in this direction. The main cast of this movie included Kay Kay Menon, Shiney Ahuja and Chitrangda Singh. It was actually an effort to show the truth of Naxal politics. Later came Dil, Dosti, Etc which was directed by Manish Tiwari. It was also related to politics. Then in 2008 came Halla Bol with Ajay Devgan in the lead role. This movie of Raj Kumar Santoshi was an effort to show the power of students.

Now Jha’s Rajneeti’s fate will be soon decided after it’s release as politics is a very sensitive issue and only the time will tell that how much successful were the directors and producers to project this issue in the right way.

Will Priyadarshan be able to create another “ Children of Heaven”

Priyadarshan is a well known name when it comes to the Indian directors. He is famous for being successful at projecting the emotions as well as comedy on screen. Few of his hit and successful flicks involve Hera-Pheri, Hungama, Bhagam Bhag, Bhool Bhulaiyya etc.


Now Priyadarshan is experimenting with a children’s movie. He has directed the movie “ Bum Bum Bhole” which stars Darsheel Safary in the lead role. Actually this movie is the remake of an Iranian movie called “Children of Heaven” by Majid Majidi.

Priyadarshan has been a master when it comes to comedy or innovation but this time, only the success of movie will tell that how much he is successful with the remake of some movie.

Ram Gopal Verma - an iconic bollywood director

Ram Gopal Varma, a bollyowood director and producer is an iconic name in the industry. His latest release was Phoonk 2, a sequel to his last year morbid horror drama Phoonk. Another zonre that he worked upon was a fast-paced drama set in the world of media in today's India that was starring Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal and Ritesh Deshmukh.


Varma is also a screenwriter and producer and a voice of the new Indian popular cinmena. RGV has directed, written and produced films across many varied genres— psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, politician-criminal nexus, and musicals —and in a number of languages, including Telugu and Hindi.

His all time classics includes names like "Rangeela" (1995); "Company" (2002) and "Satya" (1998).Though he is really fond of making dark and horror flicks, the most. Among hollywood movies, The Godfather is one of his favourites and another Hollywood classic ‘The Sound of Music’ and the horror film, The Exorcist comes under the list of his favourites. His own horror flicks includes names like Bhoot, Darna Mana Hai and Raat.

RGV enjoys working on dark flicks

As known to everybody, Ram Gopal Varma created films in two extremes, one that audience loved and admired and appreciated and the other that everyone loved to hate his films. But you can’t simply ignore Ram Gopal Varma. If we talk of genres, RGV’s favourites are movies that list into the category of dark films.


The director enjoy dark films and most of his movies have the darker tone too. The Godfather is one of his favourites and another Hollywood classic ‘The Sound of Music’ and the horror film, The Exorcist comes under the list of his favourites

Among the Indian flicks, Ram Gopal Varma loves Govind Nihalani’s classic Ardh Satya.

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.

Farhan to make a period film

Bollywood industry is probably known for it’s period films which are based on real life incidents or mythological stories. Director turned actor Farhan Akhtar however seems to have some other plans in his mind.


The latest buzz is that Farhan Akhtar these days is planning to make a period film. Farhan even went on to say that he is working on a script of a period flick and that the movie will be fiction based and it will not have any historical story.

Rest of the details have not been revealed as yet. Till then we have to wait to see what Farhan will come up with....