Manish, Anushka, Ranvir all geared up to spill magic again

After the success of Manish Sharma's last film Band Baaja Barat starring Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh with a strong story line. The film has been appreciated in the box office and proved a good sign in their career path. It has been speculated that the director is coming up with his new flick with the same casting Anushka and Ranveer. It is an Hindi romance comedy and the name od the film is Ladies v/s Ricky bhal directed by Manish Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. The movie is set to release on December 9, 2011. The same weekend Band Baaja Barat released.

As per the close sources, the film is a romantic comedy where a charming and handsome boy played the role of Ricky Bahl (Ranveer Singh) and a blushy girl who went to see the guy's match and she is Anushka Sharma. The actor took everyone's heart away with his endearing and scintillating performance. Habib Faisal has written the dialogues, the screenplay is by Devika Bhagat. The music will be composed by Salim-Sulaiman, lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya and the film will be shot by Aseem Mishra (DOP), all of whom have been a part of Band Baaja Baaraat and other movies It has been speculated that the film will start shooting early-April and will going to hit the floors on 16th December 2011.

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.

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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