In Bollywood, sports-based films have never had too many takers. Over the years, only a few such movies, like Awwal Number (1990), Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Lagaan (2001) and Chak De! India (2007), have managed to hit the big screen. But the last few years have witnessed a shift, with films like Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (BMB; 2013) and Mary…
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India’s first ever holistic handbook on preparing for a career in acting Audition Room: the casting myth buster and what to expect in Mumbai’s Filmy Town For a career in acting, an aspirant works tremendously on his physique, on his looks, learning the dance steps, acting skills and those lucky ones in the metros, join acting schools, but the question…
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If one goes by Aditya’s new avatar for ‘Fitoor’, one can surely start believing that, flaunting six- or eight-pack abs for a film have become passe . Aditya Roy Kapur has taken a different route to showcase a well-toned physique in his next- ‘Fitoor’. He has opted for body sculpting. “Aditya has always had an athletic physique, but for ‘Fitoor’,…
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Mumbai, 30 Sept 2015 There are lakhs of aspiring actors, singers, writers, dancers, music composers, art directors and other technicians who come to their El Dorado, Mumbai to somehow try their luck in Bollywood. However its only a handful who actually end up landing a role in films or in any other department in our Hindi films.However Hollywood &…
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Nandita Das, Manav Kaul and Saurabh Shukla let go off their fee for the remake of the cult film Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai. In Return the director Soumitra Ranade makes them partners on the film Mumbai, September 23, 2015: Nandita Das, Manav Kaul and Saurabh Shukla, who play the lead roles in the remake of the cult…
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After directing films like Bend It Like Beckham and Bride & Prejudice based on English backgrounds, Gurinder Chadha is now all set to make another English film based on Indian characters. The Viceroy House is a period love story set in India in the 1940s and has the lovely actress Huma Qureshi in the lead. Well, Gurvindher Chadha is…
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The year in retrospect – for the entertainment industry, in the smaller towns and cities and elections in the Hindi heartland provided a boost. In 2014, with general elections, the news business is likely to have a good year. Radio too, had a good year with better long term prospects. The government disappointed again on Phase III licensing – which…
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2014- Creative, dreamy but restless; so Rest Less! With elections in India just around, all eyes are on 2014. What does it have in store? With the change of digits in the calendar, will the New Year bring in a change too? 2013 {6, Venus} did augur well for Bollywood and women, as predicted, what with a few bills being…
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Its’ not just marriages, if Bollywood is to be believed then ‘heaven’ even has its’ own casting agents, making casting calls for movies to be shot on Earth. How else would one explain the chosen few, who never stand in a single audition line, yet get ‘discovered’ purely by chance and launched in films, that go on to make them…
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