Posted in From Headlines, Information, Interesting, Movies, Sports, TV, tagged Animation, Comic, Davis Cup, Jai Natarajan, Leander Paes, Leander Sport Private Limited, News, Sports, Superhero, Tennis, The Magic Racquet on 31 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leander Paes, who has saved India from several Davis Cup disasters and a medal hope at the Beijing Olympic Games in August, is going to play a miracle man who helps school kids in cartoon television series called The Magic Racquet.
Not much has been disclosed about the story line. Paes will play roughly his [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, General, Interesting, Kolkata, Metro News, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Bengali, Cinema, Director Jayabrato Chatterjee, Dom Mores, Jaya Bachchan, Last Train to Innocence, Lovesongs -Yesterday, Mallika, MAMI International Film Festival, Mir Taqi Mir, Om Puri, Rabindranath Tagore, Shahana Chatterjee, Today and Tomorrow, Usha Uthup on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
Kolkata is celebrating Jaya Bachchan’s latest in Bengali cinema Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. However Bengali has been used sparsely in [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, Movies, News and Views, tagged Cartoon, Disney, Disney Channel, Enid Blyton, Famous Five, Jo, Jyoti, News, Steve Aranguren, Tomboy Georgina on 24 March 2008 | No Comments »
Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five have undergone a radical 21st-century makeover for a new Disney cartoon series Famous Five: On The Case. The members of the new Famous Five are children of the original five created in 1942 - team leader Julian, Dick, George, Anne and the dog Timmy. They are Jo, Max, Allie and [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Movies, News and Views, tagged Academy Award, Anthony Minghella, Max Minghella, New York I Love You, News, Paani, Shekhar Kapoor on 24 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shekhar Kappor who was in India for preproduction of his new film Paani, had to fly back to USA unexpectedly. He has been asked to direct the movie New York, I Love You that the acclaimed Academy Award winning Director, playwright and screenwriter, Anthony Minghella of The English Patient and Cold Mountain fame, was [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Indian History, Interesting, Movies, Mumbai, News and Views, tagged Ameen Sayani, director Shakti Samanta, Indian Cinema, Indian Post, Kiran Shantaram, Madhubala, Madhubhushan, Magic of Films, Mahafilmpex, Manoj Kumar, Mumbai, Nargis, News, Shashikala, Stamps on 19 March 2008 | No Comments »
Venus of the Indian screen Madhubala is honored by Indian Postal Service: on 18 March 2008 a stamp was released in her memory. After Nargis, Madhubala is the second Indian actress to have a stamp released in her honor.
The Indian Postal Service organized a special two-day event in Mumbai on Indian cinema titled Magic of [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, Fiction, From Headlines, From the Past, General, Indian History, Movies, News and Views, Stories and Experiences, tagged Albert Roussel, Art, Ballet, Brazil, Culture, Devdas, France, French, French Music, History, India, Italy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Media, Movies, Music, News, Opera, Padmavati, Paris, Ranbir, Saawariya, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Sonam Kapoor, Standing Ovation, Theatre du Chatelet on 18 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sanjay Leela Bhansali of Devdas fame got standing ovation at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Not for another Bollywood movie, but for an opera-ballet titled Padmavati: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s adaptation of the 1923 opera-ballet by Albert Roussel, one of the greatest yet least understood masters of twentieth-century French music.
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Posted in General, Movies, News and Views, tagged 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Anil Kapoor, Anurag Basu, Barbara Mori, Film Star, Hollywoood, Hrithik Roshan, Kites, La mujer de mi hermano, Model Brunah Abdullah, Movies Review, News, Penelope Cruz, Rajesh Roshan, Rakesh Roshan, Salsa, Sonam on 7 March 2008 | 13 Comments »
Producer- Director Rakesh Roshan picks up a little known Hollywood Latin actress, Barbara Mori, for his next film Kites. Of course, all Film Kraft Productions are born with letter ‘K’.
Barbara Mori is of Uruguayan, Japanese, and Mexican heritage. She has only one blockbuster film to her credit- La mujer de mi hermano (2005). [...]
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Posted in Chennai, General, Movies, News and Views, tagged Biography, Chennai, Cho S Ramaswamy, Dr, Gayathri Srikanth, Movies, News, Rajnikanth, Soundarya Rajnikanth, Taj Connemera, The Name is Rajnikanth on 6 March 2008 | 18 Comments »
Here is an excerpt of an interview with an ophthalmologist Dr Gayathri Srikanth, author of yet another biography on superstar megastar Rajnikanth. This one is called, ‘The Name is Rajnikanth’.
Why did you zero in on Rajnikanth and not Kamal Haasan for your first book?
I felt he was the obvious choice because he was the [...]
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Posted in Humor, Movies, News and Views, UtterlyNutterlyIndian, tagged Ashu Trikha, Bollywood, Mithun Chakravorty, Movies, News, Ranjeeta Kaur, Sun Sajna, Zindagi Tere Naam on 5 March 2008 | No Comments »
[March 5 2008: Director Ashu Trikha announced the completion of his film Zindagi Tere Naam with yesteryear's hit pair Mithun Chakravorty and Ranjeeta, who have been paired after more than two decades.]
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[March 2008: Indians launched global protest against fictional depiction of Jodhaa Akbar in the movie.]
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Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, General, Indian History, Movie Reviews, Movies, Observation, Seriously!, tagged Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Entertainment, History, Hrithik Roshan, Humor, Jodha Akbar, Jodha Bai, Marriage, Movie Review, Rajasthan, Rajput, Relationships on 24 February 2008 | No Comments »
If Emperor Akbar were to watch Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar, he would have said, “Wow man! What opulence, very impressive indeed.” And if Jodhaa and Akbar were to watch Jodhaa Akbar together, they would have definitely fallen in love with each other even if they did not back then. Jodhaa Bai would have told Jodhaa [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Culture, Entertainment, History, Hrithik Roshan, Jodhaa Akbar, Movies on 17 February 2008 | No Comments »
Jodha Akbar, with cost estimated at Rs. 400 million and featuring country’s two biggest stars, was finally premiered all over India this Friday. Its release was postponed twice. However, it did not see acceptance for release from the very state this historic tale is based on: Rajasthan. It was banned from screening in the scheduled [...]
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Yes, this is about the recent comedy thriller Mithya. But before I get to that, I want to give you a bit of background about my relation with movies. So hold your horses and go get some popcorn.
Growing up, watching movies was not a part of our childhood. There was no movie theater in our [...]
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