Hindi Cinema News
The latest Hindi film industry headlines, updates and announcements.
Rahman: reaching new heights
The music wizard, who made India proud, turns 41 today (January 6). The gifted musician, son of musician R.K. Shekhar, has reached incredible heights at this young age. Consider these facts: His first ever movie album 'Roja' was listed in Time magazine's "Top 10 Movie Soundtracks
Jan 6, 2008
Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai on fire
Fire broke out yesterday at 2am on the sets of Ravi Chopra's Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai . The film which stars Govinda , Tabu and Lara Dutta has suffered a heavy loss of costumes and other equipments. BR films confirm that the losses have amounted to Rs 1.5 crore. More than the moneta
Jan 5, 2008
Farhan Rock on!
Ace director Farhan Akhtar is all set to rock this year. Besides a successful stint last year with Don as director and Honeymoon Travels as producer, Farhan makes his debut this year as an actor and singer. Besides playing the lead in Rock on , Farhan lends his voice to a few tra
Jan 5, 2008
Salman joins the bandwagon at Tussauds
Salman Khan is all set to join the bandwagon of stars 'Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwariya Rai and Shahrukh Khan whose wax figures have already been unveiled at Madame Tussaud's museum at Marylebone, London. Salman's waxwork is said to be placed just a few metres away from that of Aishw
Jan 5, 2008
"I haven't met Shahid for months" - Amrita Rao
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 actor is being drag
Jan 5, 2008
Mallika throws MGMEA completion party
Mallika Sherawat has always made headlines for one reason or another. Her first film for the year 2008 'Maan Gaye Mughall E Azam' is all set for a mid year release. Even though Mallika is doing her best not to be a part of any controversy she is always been written about by the m
Jan 5, 2008
Harsh Chhaya cuts a DVD for his gay role in FASHION
Madhur Bhandarkar finds his gay for Fashion? Well not literally! But veteran actor Harsh Chhaya is to been soon seeing playing a gay fashion designer in Madhur Bhandarkar's upcoming Fashion. Harsh who is known to experimental with his roles now will be seen for the first time pla
Jan 5, 2008
Akshay's great line up in 2008
Producers are bullish on Akshay as there is a guaranteed return on investment. His new price of 22 crore is considered to be justified too as he has got huge and formidable releases in the future, starting with Yashraj's TASHAN. Others to follow in 2008 would be Warner brothers b
Jan 5, 2008
Box office analysis-January 04 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest release Animation films are not working in India. Well, just about. After a flash in the form of HANUMAN which made some waves two years back, there has been a splurge of animation films in the form of KRISHNA, BAL GANESHA, MY FRIEND GANESHA et
Jan 4, 2008
Akshay pays 26 crores in taxes
2007 surely seems to belong to Akshay Kumar as he has been reported as the highest Bollywood tax payer of the year. The actor has paid a whopping Rs. 26 crores ($6.5million) this year in taxes as he has signed a couple of big budget projects. Last year, Hrithik Roshan was the #1
Jan 4, 2008
"My date is none other than my beautiful mom" - Siddharth
Well New Year parties may well be over but our very own TV host Siddharth Kannan of Santa and Banta News Unlimited is still in the party mood it seems. The man is busy painting his hometown Bangalore red with his good friend/ singer Jimmy Felix from the band Aasma where he had go
Jan 4, 2008
Deepshika out for more challenging roles
Renowned actress Deepshika who was last seen in Partner as Salman's sister has taken a stand to do more quality work. Besides anchoring Kuch Ghap Hai Kuch Sach Hai for GEO TV and working on few other soaps, she has two films set for release this year-Dhoom Dhadaka and Pranali. Th
Jan 4, 2008
Overconfident Ajay-Santoshi
With the release of Halla Bol just around the corner neither Ajay nor Santoshi seem to be worried about the promotion of the film. Ajay seems to be highly engrossed in the promotion of Rohit Shetty's Sunday and his directorial venture U, Me aur Hum. Santoshi on the other hand has
Jan 4, 2008
Sushmita turns director
Now Shushmita Sen too seems to have gone the Aamir Khan way. Sushmita has been highly impressed by the script of Rani Laxmibai that she too wants to put on the directorial hat. The film is being produced by Sushmita's production house Tantra Entertainment and Sush has been highly
Jan 4, 2008
TZP opens better than CDI in US
Aamir Khan's directorial debut Taare Zameen Par ("TZP") being distributed by UTV Motion Pictures in the overseas market, has opened to standing ovations and great reviews by critics and audiences worldwide. TZP has collected more than USD 1.45 million alone in the US & Middle Eas
Jan 4, 2008
Akshays towering professionalism
In an era where bollywood actors have become completely negligent about their reporting time on the sets , they ought to learn a lesson or two from Akshay Kumar. Akshay's roaring success at the box office with movies such as Welcome and Hey Baby hasn't allowed him to take a step
Jan 3, 2008
Dimple staging a comeback
The year 2007 saw the return of many bollywood icons such as Dharamendra, Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna. Dharmendra indeed made the most successful comeback of 2007 with hits like Metro, Apne, Johnny Gadar while Jeetendra with Jhalak Dhiklaja and Vinod Khanna with a soap on 9x didn'
Jan 3, 2008
Akshay Kumar A one man industry?
Akshay Kumar is undoubtedly turning out to be the biggest star in the industry. Trade Pundits acknowledge that he is a One Man Industry on his own. "Akshay is running his own parallel industry. His box office record is impeccable. You cannot even call him the numero uno because h
Jan 3, 2008