Smita Kudva, who trained under legendary filmmaker Satjayit Ray and assisted Ismail Merchant, is making her debut as a feature film director with 'Magic Loom Girl', the filming for which will commence early next year.Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, who composes music for the film,…

Sad, but true.After making a disastrous debut in 'Pyaasa' years back where she starred opposite Aftab Shivdasani, her Bollywood career moved nowhere. Some aborted projects and a 'Katputtli' later she has now set her sights on Bhojpuri films. She makes her debut there with…

One of the biggest ever successes on the Hindi non-film album scene, Himesh Reshammiya's 'Aap Ka Surroor' has completed 50 weeks at the music stands.The album had arrived in January last year and still boasts of consistent sales all over. Starting with the opening…

Abhishek Bachchan speaks on GURU:"On face value GURU is the story of Gurukant Desai who is the protagonist of the film which I play. It is the life story of this one character.. we meet him at the age from 15 to 16 till…

6. Raksha Mistry - Hasnain Hyderabadwala - The KillerBhatts have been known to market their films aggressively, especially when newcomers are at the helm of direction. While directors like Anurag Basu and Mohit Suri have gained from the smart strategy adopted by Bhatts in…

Just like any other year, even 2006 saw a number of first time directors trying to make their presence felt in the Bollywood film making scene. A super successful year only helped the cause as number of directors showed potential and promised an extended outing…

If you are starting a new publication, then write something bad about a popular celebrity. For, there can't be a better advertisement than that. Once it is talked about, you shall automatically be talked about. Well, a national newspaper employed this strategy when they began…

Arshad Warsi has a sense of humour. And he is intelligent too. He displayed his witty one liners while grilling Editor in chief of Aaj Tak news channel Prabhu Chawla on the occasion of completion of three hundred episodes of the notoriously popular show 'Seedhi…

As the release date of January 12 comes close, Mani Ratnam talks about his film GURU."If you are ambitious, if you have dreams, India is the place for you - today. But it wasn't like this always. After independence, we were a huge nation,…

Originality has seldom been Bollywood's forte. So it doesn't come as a surprise to learn that the concept of Vinod Pande's forthcoming film 'Red Swastik', starring Sherlyn Chopra in the lead, bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Hollywood's most controversial and initially banned movie…