First weekend performance of latest releaseIf there was anything consistent about Friday's release 'Umar', it was the utterly negative reviews it received. It was hard to find any good word about this movie about senior citizens and constant comparison with 'Baghban' further resulted in…

'Make hay while the sun shines' - this saying must be on the top of the minds of the makers of 'Humko Deewana Kar Gaye', especially the T-Series bosses. Otherwise how else could one describe the surprise creation of a new title song of the…

Vidya Balan after signing a good number of serious and classic films is now going to be doing a comedy film with Deepa Mehta who recently was in the news for her film Water. Incidentally Deepa also has not done too many comedies in the…

Talk of filmmakers trying to break the mould and come up with something altogether new, different and interesting.International VJ turned producer/director Luke Kenny is one such man who is looking at the doing the same with the release of his crossover film '13th Floor'.…

What started off a small movie has suddenly started becoming bigger and better with superstar Salman Khan's presence in the film.We are talking about Saawan Kumar's 'Saawan - The Love Season' that has Salman Khan in en extended appearance and is hogging away all…

Recently at the Zee cine awards, the Best Lyrics award went to the film Kalyug's number Jiya Dhadak Dhadak. Now comes the controversial part of the story. The person nominated for this number was Sayeed Quadri. Now a person from Pakistan Asim Raza has claimed…

Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) 's 8th Annual International Film Festival will kick start at Imax Wadala from the 23rd March 2006 and will go on for a span of 7 days till 30th March 2006.It is during the span of these seven…

Films like Zinda have triggered a new trend for filmmakers. The trend is to have a remix video of either the most popular number of the film or the title track of the film done for promotional purposes. The recent one to join the league…

Pancham introduced the twin track effect in 'Baharon Ke Sapne', which he later used to create the mesmerizing 'Qatra Qatra Miltee Hai' [Ijaazat] and a few more songs.He also pioneered the use of electronic organ in Indian Films with the song 'O Mere Sona…

OSCAR HISTORYOscar? LandmarkIn the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel - The attendance was 250 and tickets cost $10. It was a long banquet, filled with speeches, but presentation of the statuettes took only five minutes. Break in the TraditionThere have…