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New Delhi, The idea to cast Amitabh Bachchan as Abhishek’s son in “Paa” struck filmmaker R. Balakrishnan when he watched the father-son duo together and observed a high level of maturity in the latter’s behaviour. “My main aim was not to make a film on progeria. My main motive behind making ‘Paa’ was to reverse the [...]

Kuala Lumpur, (BollywoodWorld.com) A Malaysian state hopes to hold a concert next month by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan who had promised to shoot the film “Happy New Year” in the country. Malacca state conferred the award of Datuk, akin to British knighthood, on Khan last December. It hopes he will keep his promise to shoot [...]

Mumbai, Their grandfathers were best friends, their fathers enjoy great camaraderie and Neil Nitin Mukesh says he and Ranbir Kapoor are pals too. But he also admits that there is healthy rivalry between them. “Ranbir and I are of course competitors. But there’s no negative rivalry between us. Our respective fathers (Nitin Mukesh and Rishi [...]

New Delhi, Indian Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says he and his daughter Pooja are the only Indian artists invited by the Pope who is meeting artists across the globe in the Vatican City to discuss global peace. The father-daughter duo will join 500 others artists at the Sistine chapel Nov 21. “It is true that Pooja and [...]

Mumbai, Former Bollywood actress and designer Simple Kapadia died here on her 51st birthday after battling cancer for three years. Dimple Kapadia, her elder sister, was by her side when she took her last breath Tuesday. She was cremated Wednesday. “Apart from her family members Dimple, Twinkle, Rinkie and Akshay Kumar, other friends like Sunny [...]

Mumbai, (BollywoodWorld.com) A city court Wednesday ruled that film maker Madhur Bhandarkar will stand trial for allegedly raping model-turned-actress Priti Jain, five years after her complaint to the police. The court’s ruling came after it held that the first information report (FIR) Priti Jain filed against Bhandarkar was not false, as he had contended, Priti’s counsel [...]

New Delhi, (BollywoodWorld.com) Bollywood actors Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan will be honoured at the ongoing 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) 2009. The duo will be honoured along with model-turned-actor Arfie Lamba, among the stars of the multiple Oscar-award winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire” at the fest that commenced Tuesday, according to the official website of [...]

Mumbai, (BollywoodWorld.com) Bollywood producer-actor Suniel Shetty is elated at winning the best actor award at the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) in New York for his performance in “Red Alert – The War Within” – a movie that deals with the Maoists – and says he is inspired to do better work. “Winning an award [...]

New Delhi, (BollywoodWorld.com) Who says acting is easy? Not when you have to carry a boy weighing 45 kgs on your shoulders. Just ask actress vidya Balan, who had to go through the exercise for her film “Paa” — and ended up falling. “In a scene, Vidya had to shoot with a child who is [...]

New Delhi, (BollywoodWorld.com) Known for her ethnic Indian wear, the iconic Ritu Kumar has been around in the fashion industry for 40 years. Yet she has not designed for any mainstream Bollywood movie, the reason being she has neither the time nor the patience. “The way things are in Bollywood, I don’t think I have the [...]