Director R Balki of Cheeni Kum fame will start shooting for the film Pa which will feature Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan. This film is being produced by AB Corporation.
The announcement of the film was made last year but delayed because of the illness of Amitabh and other commitments of Abhishek. Moreover, Tabu, who performed splendidly in Cheeni Kum, is supposed to be in the film, but for reasons unknown she skipped the role only to be replaced by Vidya Balan.
The film will start its first 25-day schedule on March 2 in Mumbai and then at other locales in North India and outside the country.
AR Rahman, the Mozart of Madras, has won two Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
A.R. Rahman won the two awards for original score and best song along with Gulzar for Slumdog Millionaire. Rahman perfomed his compositions O Saya and Jai Ho on the stage after he accepted the awards.
India’s Resul Pokutty won the best sound mixing Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire along with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke.
India-based Smile Pinky won the best short documentary.
Sushmita Sen starrer Karma Aur Holi, earlier known as Karma Confessions and Holi, an international film venture has been co-produced by Drena DeNiro, daughter of Oscar winning Hollywood actor-director-producer Robert DeNiro.
This film is written and directed by Manish Gupta, who earlier wrote Sarkar and directed The Stoneman Murders.
This film’s star cast includes Randeep Hooda, Rati Agnihotri, Suresh Oberoi, Deepal Shaw, super model Naomi Campbell, rapper Sticky Fingaz, Vincent Pannetta and others.
Madhur Bhandarkar has denied the rumours that his next movie Jail has been inspired by actor Sanjay Dutt’s real life incidents.
However, known for always maintaining authenticity in his films like Chandni Bar, Page 3, Corporate and Fashion, the director is trying to get permission to shoot the film in real prisons.
The film is about a middle-class family boy working in the corporate sector and how after one sudden incident, he goes to jail and how copes with that situation.
The multiple National Award-winning director Madhur Bhandarkar signed up Neil Nitin Mukesh and Mugdha Godse to play the lead roles in his film Jail.
Firoz Nadiadwala, known for films like Welcome and Hera Pheri, is now planning an international film titled Jewel of India with a budget of Rs 300 crore. This film will be directed by Hollywood’s Rob Cohen who made films like The Fast and The Furious, Dragon Heart, Stealth and XXX
Jewel of India will star Amitabh Bachchan and Katrina Kaif. The star cast may include the producer’s favourite stars Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty.
Firoz is the son of veteran producer A.G Nadiadwala and related to producers A.A. Nadiadwala, A.K. Nadiadwala and Sajid Nadiadwala. All of them have been in film production since the last four decades.
Sajid Nadiadwala is making Kambhakt Ishq with Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Brandon Routh, Denise Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Ram Gopal Varma announced his next project Rann a study of the contemporary media scenario. Amitabh Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Sudeep, Paresh Rawal and Suchitra Krishnamoorthy among many others are part of the cast.
Intially, Amitabh’s AB Corp and Reliance ADAG’s Big Pictures were to produce this film. There were talks also with other big production houses.
Finally, D Suresh Babu, son of D Rama Naidu and the chief of Suresh Productions, a Guinness record holding production house, has decided to produce RGV’s Rann.
Suresh says that he has been waiting for an appropriate film to make his entry into Bollywood and he has chosen RGV’s Rann. Surely, the success of Geetha Arts Ghajini is having its influence on Tollywood’s production houses.
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
Director R Balki of Cheeni Kum fame will start shooting for the film Pa which will feature Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan. This film is being produced by AB Corporation.
