The New Year, new beginnings also means rewarding the achievers of the year gone by.2008's first film awards brings a cheers for Life in a Metro directed by the maverick Anurag Basu and helps bring in the New Year to celebrate the year with…

Amrita Rao is in shock at the current spate of controversies surrounding her. Recently a Mumbai tabloid reported that she was spotted with Shahid Kapur and his family watching a film at a suburban multiplex. Shahid of course has already denied the story as the…

Music director Lalit Pandit (of the erstwhile Jatin-Lalit duo) faced the camera for a feature film this week. So did lyricist Javed Akhtar and singer Alka Yagnik, he participated in the shooting of director Madhurita Anand's Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye.Lalit Pandit, Javed Akhtar…

Actor Govinda seems to be unfurling quite a family tree of film denizens. Within two years of his debut in films with Love '86 (1986) , his brother Kirti Kumar turned producer-director with Hatya (1988) after having sung for his brother in his third release…

After a terrific outing in BHEJA FRY, the entertaining pairing of Ranvir Shorey and Vinay Pathak would be back with AAJA NACHLE.Both the actors have made quite an impression in each of their television outings together. Even on big screen they have been a…

Vishesh Films didn't quite have a productive 2007 with a sensitive DHOKHA turning out to be a box office disaster and the much hyped (and extremely well made) AWARAPAN also unable to match the hype as far as the box office returns were concerned.Meanwhile…

Javed Ali got the pleasant shock of his life when he recently recorded a song for the film "Jab We Met"'.. After his recording was over he learnt that Sonu Nigam had also sung the same song. Not many know that Javed Ali admirers voice…

Bobby Deol can be seen in an interesting role in director Samir Karnik's film 'Nanhe Jaisalmer'. He is playing the character of himself, that is, actor Bobby Deol in the film. Director Samir Karnik had made his debut with the film 'Kyun...? Ho Gaya Na'…

First weekend performance of latest releaseHow much I have been proved wrong! All this while I had a strong belief (even reflected in last week's column) that whatever be the eventual box office status of RAM GOPAL VARMA KI AAG, the least it would…

First weekend performance of latest releaseThe way Sajid Nadiadwala had gone all out in promoting HEYY BABYY, it was quite obvious by the time Friday arrived that the film would embark on a very good opening. The film looked good not just from the…