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He’s a superstar – but his latest appearance wasn’t filmi. In an exclusive chat with Srijana Mitra Das, Aamir Khan discussed his role in the Jan Lokpal movement, people’s right to peaceful protest and the task facing MPs. When did you join the Jan Lokpal movement? The last time Anna sat in protest. He got [...]

BARNALA: Coinciding with the centenary of Ghadar Party, some American Punjabis are out to showcase the lives of Ghadarites, including legendary martyr Kartar Singh Sarabha, in a celluloid form. Ghadar Party was formed away from India in USA in 1913 with a motive to get India out of imperial forces’ clutches and many Ghadarites had [...]

A few days back the teaser of Deiva Thirumagan directed by AL Vijay was released and the occasion was used primarily to introduce the title of the film which was variously speculated by the media. And on 14th April 2011, the audio of the film scored by G V Prakashkumar was launched at the Chennai [...]

Veteran actors Vinod Khanna and Farooque Sheikh will share screen space together in Rahhul S Anand’s Chhoti Si Duniya. The film is set around the medical fraternity and has been scripted with the help of leading medical professionals. The film marks the launch of Rahhul S Anand’s son Rohitt and is also a tribute of [...]

Though the two senior Deols, Dharmendra and his elder son Sunny Deol, are doing a film with Anil Sharma, instead of their Yamla Pagla Deewana director Samir Karnik, the youngest Deol scion Bobby has decided to go along with his buddy Karnik. The two are now going to be working on a film titled Curfew, [...]

Los Angeles, Sep 28 (DPA) Gloria Stuart, the Oscar-nominated actress who revived a long-dormant career to play an elderly survivor in the film ‘Titanic’, has died at the age of 100. Stuart died Sunday at her West Los Angeles home, her niece Sylvia Thompson told the Los Angeles Times. The cause of death was unclear, [...]

London, Sept 27 (ANI): Actress Jaime Winstone has paid tribute to the feisty group of women who inspired her new film ‘Made In Dagenham’, insisting the story is a milestone in the fight for equal rights. ‘Made In Dagenham’ is the true account of 300 women workers at Ford”s Essex plant who went on strike [...]

Washington, Sep 27 (ANI): Michael Douglas’ return as the formerly “greed is good”-hyping Gekko in ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ topped the weekend box office with an estimated 19 million dollars. And the film is the cancer-stricken actor’s first No. 1 opener since 2001”s ‘Don”t Say a Word. However, the film is co-star Shia LaBeouf”s [...]

Chennai, Sep 27 (IANS) Director Pandiraj, the son of farmer parents, couldn’t pursue graduation for want of money and did odd jobs to support himself. But the Tamil director, whose first film ‘Pasanga’ bagged three National Awards, says even while working as an office boy, he made sure he was not far from the movie [...]

Madrid, Sep 21 (IANS/EFE) Actress Julia Roberts has been awarded the San Sebastian International Film Festival’s Donostia Prize for lifetime achievement. Roberts, 42, received the award from her ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ co-star Javier Bardem, who was full of praise for the ‘extraordinary’ and ‘versatile’ actress. ‘She touches all genres without any effort. She has the [...]

London, Sep 21 (IANS) Hollywood actor Colin Firth’s starrer ‘The King’s Speech’ has won top honour at the Toronto Film Festival. The film in which Firth played the role of stammering monarch King George VI, won the People’s Choice Award. The movie also stars Geoffrey Rush as the king’s speech therapist, and actress Helena Bonham [...]

New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Rahul Bose is dying to do an action film as he is passionate about sports but says an emphatic no to typical Bollywood potboilers. He adds that offbeat movies and world cinema have always excited him. ‘I have been seen less in out-and-out commercial films because my preference has always [...]

Panaji, Sep 21 (IANS) The South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) ended Monday, amidst empty seats and organisational issues plaguing the event. The four-day long festival in which 50 films from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were screened, ended with the screening of ‘Priotomeshu’, a Bangladeshi film directed by Morshedul Islam. [...]

New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) From strangers to lovers to strangers again – is how the Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra-starrer ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ explores the relationship between a couple. The romantic saga is releasing Friday. Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by Siddharth Anand, ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ is different from other romantic sagas. Generally couples in love commit [...]

London, Sep 20 (IANS) Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds has revealed that while shooting for his new film ‘Buried’, he had to face lifelong fear — claustrophobia. In the film, Reynolds stars as a trucker who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive, and he spent two weeks shooting in a prop coffin to finish the [...]

Los Angeles, Sep 20 (IANS) Filmmaker Roman Polanski’s political thriller ‘The Ghost Writer’ has been named best picture at International Federation of Film Critics, in Spain. The ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ filmmaker, who endured a tough year since he was taken into custody by Swiss officials in September 2009 over sex charges, had something to be happy [...]

London, Sep 18 (ANI): The Venice Film Festival came under the line of controversy when Italy’s culture minister criticized Quentin Tarantino, head of jury, branding him as ‘elitist snob’. The verbal attack on the cult film director by Sandro Bondi has been interpreted as sour grapes after Italian films failed to claim any prizes at [...]

London, Sep 18 (ANI): The ban on Satyajit Ray’s documentary film ‘Sikkim’ has finally been lifted by India, his family said. It was made 40 years ago when Sikkim was an independent kingdom – Sikkim””s last ruler Palden Thondup Namgyal commissioned the film to woo tourists. His son, Sandip Ray, also a film-maker, told that [...]

New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Amitabh Bachchan says four National Film Awards for ‘Paa’, including the best actor honour for him, are a morale booster for his company AB Corp that ‘has been through some terrible times’. ‘For AB Corp this has been a godsend and we are really, really happy for a company that [...]

Mumbai, Sep 18 (IANS) Director Sandip Ray, the son of Oscar-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray, is elated over a government decision to lift a ban on his father’s documentary ‘Sikkim’ after four decades, but rues that the original negative has perished. ‘I came to know about the decision through a newspaper. I am very happy that [...]