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Rowdy party!

o ver rs 100 crore at the box office, and still going strong – so why shouldn’t the cast and crew of Rowdy Rathore celebrate in rowdy style? Black was the colour for the lead pair as akshay Kumar wore a black shirt and Sonakshi Sinha sizzled in a short black dress.

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who has produced the movie, and Siddharth roy Kapoor of UTV motion Pictures were also part of the party.

director Prabhu deva, whose Wanted was also a runaway hit was thrilled with the results of the movie saying, “I am very happy that both my films crossed the rs.100 crore mark. Now I am scared of making my third film as people’s expectations have increased.”

But the fans of Rowdy Rathore may well be pleased to hear that the rowdy team are looking at a sequel or prequel, but discussions are yet to take off and indeed, were being discussed at the party, as hinted by Siddharth roy Kapoor.

For young Sonakshi Sinha, Rowdy Rathore is just her second film and her second hit after Dabangg, and she is absolutely ecstatic about the success of both films. “I want all my films to do well, so I keep my fingers crossed,” she said. directed by Prabhu deva, Rowdy Rathore is a remake of the 2006 Telugu hit Vikramarkudu starring ravi Teja. It marked akshay’s comeback to action after seven years. and what a comeback!

Good luck to the winning team of rowdy rathores!

Joker jodi

Exciting news for akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha fans, who enjoyed their performance in Rowdy Rathore. Shirish Kunder’s Joker will star the pair, but unfortunately in 2d, as the business heads backing the movie have scrapped plans to release it in 3d, considering the fate of recent 3d films at the box office. Some recent 3d films in hindi include RA.One, Don 2: The King Is Back and Dangerous Ishq, but they didn’t make the expected impact on the audience. akshay plays a character who returns to his hometown - a place that’s so remote that it’s not even on the map. But a sequence of events puts the little town not just on the country’s map, but makes it the focus of the entire globe. The story also involves aliens. So will the Joker jodi be as successful as their last rowdy release? Well, let’s wait and see!

Items galore for Rani!

When rani mukherji does something, you can be assured that she’ll go all out to do a great job. So is it really surprising that in anurag Kashyap’s Aiyya, she is doing not just one, but three hot item numbers?

“The film is a mixture of reality and dream and rani will be seen doing three item songs in her dream in the film. amit Trivedi has composed six songs for the film and three of them will be rani’s item songs,” said Sachin Kundalkar, director of Aiyya apparently the movie is about a woman who finds a man desirable because he smells good. rani plays a marathi girl in the movie and is paired opposite southern star Prithvi raj. The director says it is a fresh pairing. a group of 13 members of The Empress Fanpage met the actress recently on the sets of dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, which she is judging, to present her the star certificate by Star Foundation which reads: “a celestial body in the sky above has been named in honour of madhuri dixit-Nene and is officially located in the constellation orion.”

Bollywood diva madhuri dixit has pulled off a first, thanks to her loyal and somewhat astronomical (literally) fans. The Choli Ke Peeche actress now has a star in the orion constellation named after her, tweeted the star recently. So now she is truly a shining star.

For madhuri, it has been a glorious journey since she debuted with Abodh in 1984 and received wider public recognition with hits like Tezaab in 1988 and 1989 release Ram Lakhan. Big hits followed like Saajan, Dil, Beta, Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Dil To Pagal Hai, launching her to irrevocable stardom.

The 45-year-old has won five Filmfare awards and holds the record for receiving a maximum number of best actress nominations at the Filmfare awards. In 2008, she was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, by the government of India.

In 1999, the actress married Shriram madhav Nene, a cardiovascular surgeon and relocated to the US. after a sabbatical for almost a decade, madhuri has now shifted base back to mumbai, along with her husband and two sons. madhuri now has Vishal Bhardwaj’s Dedh Ishqiya and anubhav Sinha’s Gulab Gang in her kitty, with more to follow for sure. So all the best to this shining star, may her career never wane!

She may not have hit it big in hindi films but she did a pretty good job in southern films and on TV

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Kundalkar is over the moon, as he’s been wanting to work with rani for years. Luckily the script excited her, and rani came on board. The Bengali beauty had to undergo language training to perfect arathi girl, but this was cakewalk for the hardworking actress, who ended up being a complete arathi girl on the sets. rani, last seen No One Killed Jessica, will be in a completely different avatar for this film, and it seems promising. The film will usserah, around the last rani’s fans can relax and enjoy the wait, because when the film releases, it’s sure to sizzle!

From real to reel: Reality inspires more Bollywood films

anya Surve’s death in a gunfight, “bikini killer” charles Sobhraj’s audacious jailbreak or the bloody 26/11 mumbai terror attack, real-life incidents are finding their way on to reel, spurring Indian cinema’s gradual move towards more realistic cinema.

Filmmakers like ram Gopal Varma, anurag Kashyap’s two-part series Gangs of Wasseypur spotlight on the coal and scrap trade mafia in Wasseypur in Jharkhand, and Zoa morani-Imran Zahid-starrer Marksheet attempts to uncover the scams in India’s education sector. acclaimed filmmaker who has presented a hard-hitting account of corruption in the Indian political system in Shanghai is glad to see people opening up to “alternative cinema”.

Sonu Sood and Naseeruddin Shah in prominent roles.

Sonu believes the increased number of crimes has propelled the use of reallife incidents in film scripts.

“There were times when people were making films on real subjects and real cinema, but later it faded out. Lately there is a lot of movement in our society, whether it is crime, scams; so filmmakers get more reasons or incidents to make films,” said Sonu.

“People are running short of subjects, they don’t have thousands of subjects; so they hunt for those topics and things that happen around us and they make films on these,” he added.

Filmmaker Kumar is planning to bring Sobhraj’s 1986 Tihar jailbreak saga on celluloid in Jailbreak director Vivek a Buddha in Traffic Jam based on true incidents.

In the meantime, a number of filmmakers are toying with the idea of making a film on much publicised Bhanwari devi case of a nurse, who had illicit relations with a government minister, was abducted and murdered.

The films come as a difference from the regular Bollywood fare.

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n alternative has opened up. Earlier people wanted an alternative, but it wasn’t there. Now because of multiplexes, new studios and more money, because of economic liberalisation, people are willing to make fresh films,” Banerjee said. dds actress Neha dhupia, “It is nice to see that we have some breakthrough directors who have come forward and are willing to make such films. What’s even better is that they have the who have the money and people who have the No One Killed Jessica, Not A Love Story, Ragini Khelein Hum Jee Rakta Charitra have also been inspired by incidents.

welcome move forward impressive variety of real-life cinema, in addition to Bollywood’s commercial charisma.

Gangs of Wasseypur nurag Kashyap decided to treat himself and mazing humility in these materialistic times. “So got my first vehicle that I bought ahindra XUV, super and 100 percent Indian. Proud,” Kashyap

The filmmaker, who is known for making critically acclaimed movies revealed that it took him nearly two decades f course, he could afford it thanks to the release of his new film which is about the coal and scrap trade mafia in Wasseypur in Jharkhand. It features an ensemble cast anoj Bajpai, hadda. was screened at the just-concluded 2012 Sydney Film Festival independently-curated, non-competitive annes International Film Festival. The movie is making waves within the industry, for its gritty, realistic and hard-hitting take on the coal mafia. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but certainly nurag, and he lka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu in assan lka Yagnik and assan’s death marked MehDI haSSan

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Mohit wins a double pass to new hindi film Shanghai an end of an epoch in the subcontinent’s music history, they said. No one will ever be able to fill the vacuum created by his demise. alka said she had grown up listening to his ballads and was in love with his songs Dono jahan teri mohabbat main har kay and Woh ja raha hay koi. The India-born singer died of breathing complications at a private nursing home in Karachi June 13. hassan, who has a huge fan following around the world, had been suffering from lung, chest and urinary tract ailments for the past many years. The singers had gone to Pakistan to attend the last rites of the legendary singer but could not do so, as they could not obtain a security clearance.