After the success of Phir Hera Pheri, producer Firoz Nadiadwala has taken a big leap. His latest venture is the production of animated films based on the two great Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. Nadiadwala informs that these will be India's first 3D animated films. Interestingly, he has roped in the team which was responsible for creating outstanding animation and building strong story board of the famous Hollywood movie Madagascar, to work on these films. Also, talks are on to get J.Williams to do the background score for these films. Says Nadiadwala, "We are looking forward to completing these films in the next 17-18 months and if everything goes well, the films shall be released in 2008."
Another factor that makes these projects a gigantic affair is that Firoz Nadiadwala is planning to give these films a worldwide release. "These two films will be dubbed in all major foreign languages and released internationally. Also, in India, these films will be dubbed in the regional languages and the voices to the characters will be given by the famous filmstars of that particular region." says Nadiadwala. He adds that his team is very excited about these projects and they are in fact looking forward to see these films go to the Oscars as India's official entry.
Apart from Ramayana and Mahabharata, Nadiadwala's team is also working on creating the animated version of Hera Pheri and Phir Hera Pheri. The three characters, Raju, Shyam and Baburao who made the audiences laugh their heart out will now make a comeback in an animated form. This will be another interesting experiment to be done for the first time in Bollywood. Now, with so much of animation work happening at the Nadiadwala's production house, it looks like there is an Indian Walt Disney in the making.
| Sikandar signs his next film with the makers of Omkara | By IndiaFM News Bureau, August 11, 2006 - 03:30 IST
| Sikandar Kher may not really have the looks of a star but he definitely inherits the acting prowess of his parents. He is a square among circles. And that's precisely what his USP is. For Broad-Shouldered Sikandar, imperfection is his forte.
We all know by now that after a patient wait of two years, Sikandar will finally make his debut in Sanjay Dutt's forthcoming production "Woodstock Villa", directed by Hansal Mehta. Neha Oberoi, another debutante is paired opposite Sikandar. Their first stage performance at IIFA, Dubai fetched them good reviews. Says Sikandar, "I am lucky to have started my career with this film. It's a great working experience and each day there is something new to discover… as well as we are having a whole lot of fun."
And now Sikandar signs his next film with Big Screen entertainment; the makers of "Omkara". Producer Kumar Mangat says, "Sikandar has a persona and potential that would fit the role we have in mind for him… hence the decision to cast him in our next big project". Sikander sounds excited, "It's a privilege to have signed with the makers of Omkara. I am looking forward to working with the team and learning more about meaningful and intelligent cinema"
This self-confessed film addict is also a sports freak and plays basketball and loves to go for long drives. The young actor likes people to call him just "Sikandar", like the golden stars Dharmendra and Jeetendra, no surname attached.
| | Priyanka Chopra crowned style diva | By IndiaFM News Bureau, August 11, 2006 - 03:32 IST
| After being crowned Miss World, Priyanka Chopra has officially been chosen as the Style Diva of 2006. The honor was bestowed upon her by eBay, India's leading online marketplace. An online poll was conducted through June and July. The 2 million strong eBay India community chose Priyanka Chopra as the unanimous winner. She was felicitated and presented with the eBay Style Diva trophy.
On the occasion, Priyanka announced an opportunity for all Indians to participate in a charity auction and raise funds for the education of the girl child, through the NGO-Nanhi Kali. One lucky buyer from eBay can win a day on the sets with Priyanka. One can bid on the site between August 10th and 19th. The proceeds of the money made will go to the Nanhi Kali foundation.
| | Percept organizes rath yatra for Santoshi Maa in Mumbai | By IndiaFM News Bureau, August 11, 2006 - 03:33 IST
| After 31 years, Percept Picture Company brings you the glory of Santoshi Maa again. PPC invites you to rediscover your faith with 'Jai Santoshi Maa', scheduled to release this September. PPC is preparing for a mega launch of its movie 'Jai Santoshi Maa' by organizing a procession for Maa Santoshi this Friday, August 11, 2006 in Mumbai. The procession will originate from two corners of the city and converge at the Santoshi Maa Temple in Chembur.
Two trucks will move – one starting from Naaz theatre (Lamington Road) and the second from Malad. These trucks will conduct an aarti at several places in the city, enroute Chembur, thus allowing people to seek blessings from Maa.
Prasad will be distributed throughout the procession. Celebrities will join the procession at different parts of the city. Once both trucks converge at the Chembur Santoshi Maa temple, a Maha Aarti will be conducted by celebrity singers at 1900 hrs inside the temple compound.
Route 1
Naaz- 11.30
Minerva/Apsara- 12.00
PPC (via Mahalaxmi Station) - 12.45
Radio Mirchi office, Lower Parel- 1.15
Premier- 1.45
Chitra Theatre- 2.15
Hindu Colony- Dadar 2.45
Matunga- 3.15
Cinemax, Sion- 3.45
Imax, Wadala- 4.30
Temple, Chembur- 5.30 (6.30)
Route 2
Movietime, Malad- 11.30
Inorbit, Malad- 12.45
24 karats, Jogeshwari- 1.00
Fame Adlabs, Andheri- 2.00
Cinemax, Andheri- 2.30
Fun Republic- 3.00
PVR Juhu (through Juhu)- 3.45
Suburbia, Bandra- 5.00
Globus, Bandra- 5.30
Temple, Chembur- 6.30
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| Sanjay Khan to launch his production house called Kingdom Films | By IndiaFM News Bureau, August 11, 2006 - 04:33 IST
| Actor-director Sanjay Khan, father of Zayed Khan, plans to focus towards full fledged film production. He is all set to form his own film production company to be called as 'Kingdom Films'.
Zayed confirms, "My father doesn't want to get in direction but he is soon going to form a film production house called Kingdom Films." When asked how involved will he be with his home banner, Zayed replies, "Apart from being the actor, I will be the ghost editor, ghost director and ghost producer. I have studied direction, editing and acting in London film school. I always had a wish from inside to use my talent and now if I get an opportunity then why not."
Will he even write for his banner? "I think every creative person wishes to write scripts and finally I am going to act, so of course I can make it interesting. I had even ghost written some scenes in Rocky", reveals the rebel.
Zayed does not wish to divulge more details as the company is still in the initial stage. Ask him if we would continue doing films outside his home banner and comes the obvious answer, "Yes, of course".
| Interview : The D-day has arrived…
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| | After 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham' all have been waiting to watch Karan Johar's next offering. And the D-day has arrived. His multistarrer next takes a look at the various facets of marital relationships that is endured by one and all, has been packed as 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna' and releases tomorrow at the theatres around you. Keeping relationship and love at the premise of the film once again, Karan unleashes this emotional saga of hearts in a manner never told before. Excerpts from the Interview: From college romances to subject like adultery, extra-marital relationships. You've veered off absolutely. I think it's just a pre-release notion. All my films dwell with human relationships and this is no different. The only difference I've made is by handling a sensitive subject and the skin of my characters. All my characters were goody-goody before but here they are smeared with greyish tinge. My hero here is not perfect but flawed. He's a real character in the sense that he commits mistake and also agrees to it. From weaving fantasy and fancy to reality. Do you think audience is ready to accept this new Karan Johar? We take the audience to fantasyland but in practical life all of them are realistic. There have been recent films that have been realistic and has found acceptance among audience. Today audiences have evolved and are ready to accept reality. Its time for us filmmakers to grow. KANK is the one film where I didn't compromise with anything. I didn't allow my mind to take over the heart. KANK is all heart. The film might open up debates. But this is what I wanted to make. I don't know if it's a good or bad film. I've been accused of clever commercial calculations in the past, and I don't disagree to that. With KANK I've grown up and evolved as a filmmaker and I'm in a new phase of my life. Like my other films there are doses of bhangra and disco. My films have my own stamp. You're not married, how do you know so much about marital disharmony! That's because I'm an onlooker and can see things. Though I'm not married, I'm surrounded by married couples and their problems. My writer Shibani Bathija and I sat together and worked on the script. This subject fascinated me. And no this is not a remake of some other flick! How was it working with the cast of the film, although you've worked with most of them before? Amitabh, Shah Rukh, Abhishek, Priety, Rani… all love them. They are the actors who made KANK. I owe the film to them but I don't know how far I've succeeded in directing them. Abhishek is a child-man and I've attended his birthday parties. Shah Rukh Khan is the USP. Amitabh is like never before. He is a legend and a family friend. Rani and Priety are the essence of the film.
You did face hardship during shooting the film? Shooting in New York was not easy and we had troubled time with the cold weather, over-budget schedules, and location crisis. I felt as if I was fighting a battle. Each time I got into a crisis during KANK I felt my father's hand on my shoulder. But I would again like to go back to the place if my story demands it because I love its energy and verve. Again you can feel the melancholy in NY just like the characters of my film. But rest of the things like Rani-Preity war was just a tale. Why did you call off the premiere of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna? What Mumbai went through recently was ghastly. I decided to release my film but didn't feel like celebrating with a premiere so soon after the disaster. I held a screening for the cast and crew on July 30. I was very nervous and stressed and I've never felt this way about my other films so far. The more successful you are, the more you've to live up to expectations. Also I'm happy and emotional about the fact that Mumbai's oldest and most honored theatres Metro will re-open with KANK. I'll release the film world wide with 900 prints. What is your message to the audience? They love me and when they say that they are dying to see my work I feel that I'm in a different level altogether. They have given me so much without asking. I hope it stays the same forever. |
| Copyright 2006 by MusicIndiaOnLine.com
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Interview : Shah Rukh back in action
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| | The lion is out of his den. Superstar Shah Rukh Khan is out of his hibernation. He had kept himself from limelight for long and his long silence has surely disturbed all of us. It's good that as his biggie comes up, he is again back to his feet but is he aware how much we missed him all this while? Thankfully he was merely hibernating and his magic is all set to return with 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna' at the theatres this Friday. Excerpts from the Interview: After 'Paheli' you went for hibernation. What were you doing all this while? When I started out there was no fixed plan in my head that I have to achieve 'xyz'; or I have to get 'n' number of awards or hits. There's never been a height, which I wanted to jump over. I've kept working and things have just happened even bad things; but the good things have outnumbered the bad. As long as that continues and the balance doesn't shift, I think I won't be thrown out. I try and entertain as many people as I can. As long as I can do that, I'm fine. Are you jealous that Kajol has made a comeback with Aamir and not with you? Sure! But seriously, I think most of this pairing and chemistry are more to pander to the thoughts of people who're writing. It's nice that Kajol is working, even after the baby. I remember how she used to sit with all of us, and ask me how I could leave my daughter home and come to work. And, as for a comeback, I think, for her it's more of a personal comeback than a professional one; because I don't think professionally she went away at all. Rani has been one of your biggest admirers and now she is working with you. How do you feel? Rani has done very well for herself. I think she was always very good, but it took a film like Black to show people what she was capable of. We've done some great films together, right from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. And she is just going to get better. You equation with Preity was never too good. Has things changed for the better now? You get to know a person when you work with him or her. I'd never worked closely with Preity except in Dil Se. Then I didn't work with her for a long time, till Kal Ho Na Ho. So I've got to know her over the last year and a half only. I spend most of my time, about eight to 10 hours, on the sets; I get to be friends with people I work with, like Madhuri, Juhi, and Kajol. When you work so much with people you start liking them - and close, friendly relationships are formed. How do you react to stories about fall-outs with mentors and seniors like Amitabh Bachchan and Yash Chopra? These things are embarrassing to even talk about. Talking about Yashji and me, it's like me talking about you not getting along with your mother or family. My relationship with Yashji is more than that. Amitji and I have had a superb working relationship since Mohabbatein and there's no issue whatsoever. There's no clarification required for such baseless rumours. |
| Copyright 2006 by MusicIndiaOnLine.com
| Interview : Priety from bubbly to intense!
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| | Priety Zinta has already reached the 25th film of her career. The journey hasn't been good, it has been terrific. Priety is dynamic, cool and easygoing and is one of the front league actresses in Bollywood today with a string of hits attached to her name. Ask her which has been her best performance till date and pat comes the answer that it's Karan Johar's forthcoming Friday release 'Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna'. Here in an exclusive interview with her, where she dimples occasionally and with eyes sparkling, she speaks her mind. Excerpts from the Interview:
You were in London recently invited by the British Academy for Films and Television Arts (BAFTA) where two of your films -Veer Zaara and Dil Chahta Hai - were screened. Do you believe Indian cinema is finally becoming globally appealing? Indian cinema is growing by leaps and bounds. What makes it globally appealing is that it offers what the West is craving for - human emotions, bonding and relationships. Our cinema is getting more and more popular in the West and it is not just the NRIs but also the Westerners who are being drawn to our films. Coming to your big-ticket release Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, you are seen in a more real, more mature mode in the film - from bubbly to intense - what does the transformation suggest? I wonder why I am constantly being labeled bubbly. In the last eight years of my career, I have played various shades of characters. My third film was Sangharsh, which was so intense. Kya Kehna, Veer-Zaara, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Lakshya too had serious tones. My character in KANK is multi- layered. It is a film that anyone in the age group of 4 to 104 will enjoy and watch over and over again. How about KANK, aren't you playing Rhea Saran the editor of a fashion magazine in it? Rhea is the editor of a fashion magazine who makes or breaks careers, she wields high power. She walks shoulder-to-shoulder with men in the mean streets of New York. She is a career woman and by no means 'a poor thing'. Many women will identify with her. However, she is very reserved, she won't talk openly about her feelings, and she hides her emotions behind her busy schedule. But she is not icy cold. It is just that she won't show when her pride is hurt. It is one of my best-written roles to date, I have left Preity far behind in it. But Rhea sounds so much like you. How is she different from you? Rhea is a righteous, correct person, she's more brain than anything else and she is all heart too. She is fashionable and stylish. All that came easily to me but Rhea is also a very contained person, she is not expressive and that was somewhat difficult for me. I speak with so many wild gesticulations you know; I had to work on that aspect. Is Karan Johar as exacting and as demanding as he's made out to be? Karan doesn't let you get away with anything, he knows exactly what he wants to get out of you and more importantly he knows what he doesn't want from you. He made it clear to me that it was not a girlish role; it was an older part to be played with thehrao. No extra hand movements, no loose energy - it is not a fun and causal part - I was told firmly. He wanted a mature persona. Rani and you have often created magic together in films, are you are like screen sisters now? We have a great on-screen chemistry and we complement each other. We played sisters in Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega and two faces of a coin in Chori Chori Chupke Chupke and while in Veer-Zaara, she was the little one to bring Shah Rukh and I together. There is no denying that I enjoyed sharing screen space with her. From Dil Se... to KANK, yours has been a journey to the summit. While every heroine's ultimate dream is to star in a Yashraj film, you are on an YRF hattrick - Veer-Zaara, Salaam Namaste and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. You also have become a must-have in Dharma Productions. What is your next destination? That is a pattern; my acting career has been of repeat filmmakers. Consider this - Kundan Shah's Dil Hai Tumhaara and Kya Kehna, Abbas - Mustan's Soldier and Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Raj Kanwar's Farz and Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega and so it is with Yash uncle and Karan. At the risk of sounding cliched, I would say that I am not a planner and plotter. I enjoy working with professionals and I like their creative outlook and confidence. |
| Copyright 2006 by MusicIndiaOnLine.com
| Mobile Phone songs ring the ears!
By MIO Team
Aug 10, 2006, 07:24
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| | Tring Tring…musicindiaonline.com once again brings you the latest songs from the galore exclusively for you to enjoy. This film may sound unusual to you, so let's acquaint to it at first. 'Mobile Phone – do not blame technology' is directed by Sikender Bhatia and is produced by J Addppa. In the main lead of the film are Altaf Shaikh, Divvya Sharrma, Saagar Bhatia, Sanjeev Tiwari, Swatidas Gupta essaying pivotal roles. The songs are set to tunes by Kamran Khan and Ghulam Dastgir with lyrics by Johar Kanpoori, Raza and Dr. Anita Soni. So get set to go to have a great time! Just |
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