The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) announced few days back about the launch of the Dubai Film Market. The new initiative is in accordance with DIFF's commitment to raising the visibility of world cinema with an emphasis on Arab, Asian and African filmmakers and stimulating…

This week witnessed multiple releases in Bollywood with variety of genre to suit every audience taste.However, there are different perceptions about such releases since few think that dumping all the movies at a particular time may cause confusion among the movie goers and other…

For all the film watchers who loved the simple yet extremely effective and well made comedy films like 'Bheja Fry' and 'Mixed Doubles', another one to provide the same kind of emotions and feelings is on its way.The movie is titled as 'Hulla' and…

First weekend performance of latest releaseIn the Friday gone by, three distinct films had released - PHOONK (horror), MAAN GAYE MUGHALL-E-AZAM (comedy) and MUMBAI MERI JAAN (social). As pointed out in this very column last week, PHOONK was always the front runner and credit…

Tahaan, a film by Santosh Sivan, launched its music on 26th Aug 08, at Cinemax, Versova, in the presence of he captain of the ship who is also a well known cinematographer. The director addressed his thanks to the media present there and his team,…

'RUSLAAN', the film revolving around train blasts in Mumbai on July 11th 2006 , has completed its shoot with the last schedule at Hazi Ali Shrine on August 20, 2008. Team has shot a song sequence at Hazi Ali. Song 'Maula Mere Maula' is sung…

Bengali beauty Rituparna Sengupta has a lot going for her in Kolkata, like her many critically acclaimed films. One of them is 'Swarger Nichey Manush' which was nominated for the Osian Film Festival in the best film category.The ravishing girl recently went to Delhi…

Terrorism has become a global phenomenon after the 9/11 attacks in US and other Madrid, London and Bali bombings. In India, almost each every state came under the terrorist scanner and permanent alert is given for the public to be aware of terrorist mode of…

PHOONK has taken a huge opening at the box office. With near 100% collections all over and continuing to go strong show after show, the film has given Ram Gopal Varma yet another success this year after SARKAR RAJ. Ramu talks:"Any filmmaker primarily wants…

First weekend performance of latest releaseYASH RAJ FILMS finally have a success in their hands. After four back to back flops (LAAGA CHUNARI MEIN DAAG, AAJA NACHLE, TASHAN, THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC) which boasted of big names like Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit,…