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New Delhi, Emaciated farmers ploughing the fields, parched fields, scheming land sharks, broken down huts – these may reflect the reality of many Indian villages, but seldom get captured in Bollywood films. Audiences prefer an escape from the hard life of rural, agrarian India on screen, while filmmakers resort to idyllic, picture postcard landscapes in films [...]

Mumbai, Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, who recently shared screen space with international stars Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards and Brandon Routh in “Kambakkht Ishq”, says he has no plans of heading to Hollywood. “Why go to Hollywood when Hollywood is coming to Bollywood? I’m happy doing my work here as of now,” Akshay told IANS. Now that [...]

Chennai, Southern actress Trisha describes her entry into Bollywood as dream debut and thanks her mentor, filmmaker Priyadarshan, who launched her in Tamil movies with “Lesa Lesa” seven years ago, for now introducing her to Hindi films as well. Priyan has signed Trisha for the Hindi movie “Khatta Meetha” opposite Bollywood star Akshay Kumar. “My [...]

Mumbai, As 2009 moves into its second half, the Bollywood box office can look back at just a handful of success stories. While a film producers’ strike resulted in a virtual drought of movies for two whole months, the poor quality of the few that were released didn’t help either. From January to June, about [...]

Mumbai, Bollywood can’t stop talking about the Delhi High Court’s landmark judgement that has decriminalised gay sex. From Shatrughan Sinha to Sushmita Sen, all say the verdict was long due and celebrates an individual’s right to choose. And they all feel lesbians, gays and transgenders can finally live freely without fear. Shatrughan Sinha: Old rusty laws [...]

New Delhi, Hollywood films have been the inspiration for many of the Hindi film industry’s biggest hits. Right from cult classics like “Baazi” (1951) to “Sholay” (1975) and “Baazigar” (1993) – and even “Ghajini” (2008) – all have some western movie as the stimulus. The Hollywood influence is evident in some of the forthcoming biggies like [...]

Macau, Gay themes in Bollywood are well out of the closet, if the many comic acts and sexual innuendos at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) here Saturday night were anything to go by. With a number of quips about gay relationships by hosts Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh the order of the day, Abhishek [...]

Macau, Rome, Milan, Florence and Venice – with locales as exotic as these, the Italian tourism board is trying to woo Bollywood filmmakers here at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) to come, visit and shoot their films in Italy. If the locations in Italy are shown through Bollywood films, it will be a “long-term investment” [...]

New Delhi, Citing racial attacks on Indians in Australia, Bollywood’s biggest labour union, Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE), has banned its members from working Down Under. “We prefer to call it a non-cooperation movement because we feel what is happening in Australia is painful and shameful. The Australian government is just not taking adequate [...]

New Delhi, Mohit Suri, director of “Raaz – The Mystery Continues”, denies that entry into Bollywood is restricted to those with godfathers and says there is huge scope for newcomers to prove their talent. “There is a huge scope for newcomers in Bollywood. I strongly believe that it is not only those related to a filmmaker [...]