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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: fenilseta on: November 13, 2009
Vijay V Singh | TNN (THE TIMES OF INDIA; November 13, 2009)
Mumbai: Item girl Shefali Jariwala, who shot to fame with the Kaanta laga video album, lodged a dowry harassment complaint against her husband and in-laws with the Oshiwara police on Thursday. She alleged that her husband, Harmit Guljar, harassed her for money and also [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]