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With nine Filmfare awards to its credit Kaho Na…Pyar Hai became the second- largest Filmfare award winner after Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge which had won ten Filmfare trophies. Rakesh Roshan felt vindicated. While his earlier films won awards none had gone to him in the capacity of a director. Recalls Rakesh Roshan, “When a film is rewarded and awarded it definitely gives one a huge high. Sometimes a film does exceptionally well at the box office. But it doesn’t win any awards. Then again, there are award-winning films which aren’t successful at the box office. Kaho Na…Pyar Hai did both. It became a hit and got awards. But to be honest, I didn’t expect so many awards. I think for three members of the same family (Rakesh Roshan, his brother Rajesh Roshan and son Hrithik) to win awards for the same film is unprecedented. While other films featuring protagonists in a double role had been consistently floppin...

Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor is set to commence filming for the much-anticipated Dhoom 4 in April 2026. As per a report by India Today, the YRF-backed action franchise will see Kapoor taking on a new and exciting role, marking his first appearance in the blockbuster series. Before diving into Dhoom 4, Kapoor is expected to wrap up his ongoing projects, including Ramayana and Love & War. The film is currently in pre-production, with casting underway for two female leads and an antagonist. Transformation Awaits for Ranbir Kapoor Ranbir Kapoor, who has a packed slate of projects, will undergo a major makeover for his role in Dhoom 4. The report quoted a source saying, “The production team is exploring various looks for Ranbir that align with the franchise’s high-octane vibe.” The antagonist for the film is reportedly being chosen from the South Indian film industry, further adding to the excitement surrounding the project. Fans are eager to see how Kapoor will redefine the iconic fr...

Bollywood Hungama was the first one to report in December 2024 that Ram Gopal Varma’s cult flick Satya (1998) is all set to re-release on January 17. Now Bollywood Hungama has learned that a special screening of the film will be held to celebrate its re-release. Popular radio station, Radio Nasha, has taken the initiative to organize the screening on Wednesday, January 15, at a multiplex in Mumbai. A source told Bollywood Hungama, “As it happens for Nasha Premiere Nights, the screening will be graced by the cast and crew of the film. They’ll go down memory lane and speak about the film, memories of shooting it, etc. A lot of trivia, which has never come out before, is expected to be divulged by the team members of Satya. However, unlike other Nasha Premiere Nights events, the screening will take place first followed by the Q-and-A with the cast and crew. Usually, it’s the other way round.” When asked who would be present at the screening, the source ...

Sara Putt cites lack of access and retention in an increasingly precarious industry There is still a “long way to go” to achieve gender parity in the film and television industry, Sara Putt, the chair of Bafta has said, before the nominees’ announcement this week. The talent agent and producer, who took over as chair of Bafta in 2023, said the low representation of women in the awards’ most prestigious categories was reflective of a lack of access to and retention in an industry that has become increasingly precarious. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/bsXDME9 via IFTTT

After the stupendous success of Minnal Murali, Basil Joseph had expressed his keen interest in superhero dramas and it was being said that the filmmaker was working on a sequel to this highly-acclaimed Tovino Thomas starrer. Later, rumours suggested that the filmmaker is looking at directing a superhero drama inspired by the Indian superhero Shaktimaan with Ranveer Singh. Now, latest reports have hinted at Wamiqa Gabbi playing the leading lady in this entertainer. Sources claim that the Baby John actress is the frontrunner in the race A Mid-day report opened up about this latest development in the Shaktimaan-inspired film as it reportedly quoted a source saying, “While discussions are still ongoing, the potential pairing of Wamiqa and Ranveer in Basil’s film would bring a fresh dynamic to a project that’s been in development for five years”. It is being said that the film is currently in the pre-production stage and that Basil Joseph has been holding multiple meetings with Ranveer to...

Alison Lester’s 90s bestseller now has a big-screen adaptation from the director of The Dry, featuring 10 animated adventures by 10 different artists Two and a half hours south-east of Melbourne, in Walkerville South, lies one of Australia’s most beloved beaches. For the last 35 years it has enchanted children as the setting of Alison Lester ’s bestselling picture book, Magic Beach – so, when it came to a film adaptation, an on-location shoot was a no-brainer. “It casts a spell over you down there,” says the film’s director, Robert Connolly. While he was filming a scene, he recalls, one of the producer, Kate Laurie, “tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘that way’. We spun the camera around … and a pod of dolphins passed.” Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/lKY1sRS via IFTTT

Bollywood fans have reason to celebrate as popular actress Tabu returns to horror-comedy genre after her much loved stint in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2. She has joined the cast of Akshay Kumar starrer Bhooth Bangla. The film marks the reunion of Akshay Kumar with Priyadarshan after 14 years and the actor had shared his excitement by posting about it on social media in September. Now, on Sunday, Tabu too took to the platform to announce her association with the entertainer. Tabu kicks off shoot schedule of Bhoot Bangla Earlier Akshay Kumar had taken to social media to announce that Paresh Rawal too will be a part of the upcoming entertainer. Now, as Tabu joined the star cast, the actress excitedly shared this news with her social media fam by dropping a photo of the clapperboard along with a caption that read, “Hum yahan bandh hain.” Reports suggest that the team is currently in Jaipur shooting for the film and they were also joined by the popular actress for this schedule. Meanwhile Tabu, wh...

There’s an intriguing chemistry between the actor and the charming O’Shea Jackson Jr in another brash yet hugely entertaining Heat-aping thriller Aside from numbering among its fans the esteemed German arthouse stalwart Christian Petzold , 2018’s cops-and-robbbers potboiler Den of Thieves made a name for itself by doing a far more convincing impression of Michael Mann’s cinema than the many that have tried. Its daunting two-hour-twenty length leavened by the most playful, unpredictable performance of Gerard Butler’s career, it earned every one of those minutes on merit of its scrupulously detail-oriented approach to the heist, with a focus on the nitty-gritty of process that made Mann’s masterpiece Heat both credible and engrossing. The magic-hour moments of pensiveness on a pristine Angeleno beach may have laid the homage on a little thick, but first-time feature director Christian Gudegast had the moves to back it up, his muscular film-making style serving the pleasures of its genr...

Best known for his roles in films as well as television, veteran actor Tiku Talsania reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest on Friday, January 10. News18 Showsha have shared this news along with details that he was immediately rushed to the hospital in Andheri, suburban Mumbai. According to certain reports, the senior actor was watching a Gujarati film at PVR Andheri on Friday when he felt uneasy. His health worsened after he started heavily vomiting during the show and was immediately rushed to the nearby Kokilaben Ambani hospital in a wheelchair, later in the night. The family members of the veteran actor including actress-daughter Shikha Talsani have not yet confirmed details and are yet to share any update on his health. For the unversed, actor Tiku Talsania recently played a key role in the Rajkummar Rao, Triptii Dimri starrer Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Vala Video, in which he essayed the character of Rao as well as Mallika Sherawat’s father. Recently, Tiku Talsania made news when he reve...

The iconic Annapurna Studios has scripted history again by launching India’s first Dolby certified post-production facility for cinema and home, which was unveiled by the globally renowned filmmaker S S Rajamouli in the presence of the celebrated actor Nagarjuna Akkineni, Vice Chairman of Annapurna Studios. Launched in collaboration with Dolby, the state-of-the-art facility aims to redefine the audio-visual standards of Indian filmmaking, ensuring cinematic experiences that meet global benchmarks. Interestingly, Rajamouli’s Academy-award-winning RRR (2022) — special footage of which was also played at the grand event — was the first-ever Indian film to be released in Dolby Cinema, making this a landmark moment for the Indian film industry. Speaking at the momentous occasion held at Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad, S S Rajamouli shared, "During the time of RRR, when we wanted to grade the film in Dolby Vision, we had to travel all the way to Germany. It was a bit dishear...

The writer-director of A Real Pain and co-stars Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe talk about being overcome by generational trauma while making Oscar season’s funniest film Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are in complete agreement. People being more open about everyday anguish is a good thing. Absolutely. One hundred per cent. Not them, though. They will continue to button up. “I know my pain is unexceptional,” says Eisenberg, words clattering out of him like a runaway train, “so I don’t feel the need to burden everybody with it. I have OCD and general anxiety disorder and bad things happen to me, but I’ll never talk about them because I don’t want that kind of attention.” Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/gVDrwKJ via IFTTT

The businessman with a heart takes on crooked payday lenders in this predictable sequel that gets by on its heartfelt performances It won no prizes for subtlety, but cheerful, victory-of-the-underdog comedy Bank of Dave featured a stonking lead performance by Rory Kinnear as Dave Fishwick. He’s the Burnley businessman who made millions selling vans then took a stand against fatcat bankers by opening his own community bank, the Bank of Dave, in 2011. Now Kinnear is back for a sequel, this time taking on crooked payday lenders . Like the first film, Bank of Dave 2 is predictable and cliché-ridden but gets by on likable, heartfelt performances, and the knowledge that in real life some of this stuff actually happened. The film picks up two years after the original. The “Bank of Dave” on the high street in Burnley is still going strong – lending to ordinary people who struggle to secure loans from bigger banks. Dave is outraged to discover the sharp practices of payday lenders targeting...