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Satellite channels pay more for films again

Posted by: fenilseta on: December 9, 2009

Meena Iyer | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; December 9, 2009)

Mumbai: Bollywood satellite prices—the parallel revenue stream for film-makers—that slumped in October 2008, have started to soar.

Akshay Kumar’s Chandni Chowk to China was reportedly sold for Rs 5 crore. In the following 12 months, Bollywood was down in the dumps because satellite channels, crippled by [...]

Gangster threatens producer over film

Posted by: fenilseta on: December 8, 2009

S Balakrishnan | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; December 8, 2009)

Mumbai: Film producer Ravi Kapoor has received a threat from gangster Ravi Pujari for ‘allegedly’ showing his wife in an objectionable manner in his forthcoming film.

Kapoor has produced a film—World Cupp 2011—which seeks to expose cricket matchfixing and the role of the underworld. One of [...]

E-pirates mourn at Minonova’s clean up act

Posted by: fenilseta on: December 2, 2009

Sharmila Ganesan-Ram | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; December 2, 2009)

Mumbai: Kurbaan, typed the eager 26-year-old in the search bar of his favourite website. ‘No results found,’ blinked the screen. Santosh Kannan (name changed), who usually reserves his weekends to watch downloaded movies, was aghast. Never before in the history of this techie’s four-year-old affair [...]

Aamir apologizes to SRK for dog remark

Posted by: fenilseta on: December 1, 2009

Bharati Dubey | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; November 30, 2009)

Mumbai: If it was a fight between the Khans before the release of Ghajini and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, it seems that there is now going to be peace before the release of 3 Idiots and My Name is Khan. Aamir Khan has [...]

Zero Bridge-the first Kashmiri film in 39 years!

Posted by: fenilseta on: November 15, 2009

VALLEY OF HOPE: A still from Zero Bridge, in which Tariq Tapa cast ordinary Kashmiris

Does Zero Bridge, the first Kashmiri film to be made in 39 years, hold out hope for a revival of the arts in the troubled valley?

Bharati Dubey | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; November 15, 2009)

Kashmir, the breathtaking beauty of which [...]

Bare-back Kareena has Sena activists fuming

Posted by: fenilseta on: November 15, 2009

Bharati Dubey & Ambarish Mishra | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; November 15, 2009)

Mumbai: Another Karan Johar release is facing the music, this time from the Shiv Sena. The party has objected to the bare-backed posters of Kareena Kapoor from the film, Kurbaan.

More than 100 Shiv Sainiks took to the streets and tore down [...]

Death by Bollywood

Posted by: fenilseta on: November 1, 2009

CROSSOVER CINEMA Bollywood films do business of crores in Pakistan

The Pakistani film industry, crippled by the flood of Hindi film releases, is agitating for new regulations

Bharati Dubey | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; November 1, 2009)

This year, the Pakistani film industry produced only nine films. The reasons for this dwindle are many but most fingers [...]

Artists see red over posters defacing city wall project

Posted by: fenilseta on: October 29, 2009

 

CLEANING UP THE MESS: Karan Nevatia and his friends scrape off the film posters that have been plastered on their murals along Senapati Bapat Marg in Lower Parel

 
Mahafreed Irani | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; October 28, 2009)
 
 

Mumbai: On Tuesday evening, Karan Nevatia and his friends travelled to Lower Parel equipped with dishwashing liquid, knives [...]

Film on Nehru, Edwina put off

Posted by: fenilseta on: October 23, 2009

‘Row On Depiction Of Love Story’

THE TIMES OF INDIA (October 22, 2009)

New Delhi: An early winter appears to have struck Indian Summer—the controversial film on the Nehru-Edwina romance—with its producers formally informing the I&B ministry that the project has been shelved.

In a letter on October 5, India Take One [...]