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It was supposed to be a handsome entourage of the ‘Raavan’ team. The three principal players Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vikram were to accompany Mani Ratnam to the Venice Film Festival where he is to receive the very prestigious Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival on 6th September. [...]

Post the box office duds like Raavan and Kites that starred Bollywood biggies like Abhishek Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan respectively, the two have lost their ‘pricy status’ so to speak! According to a buzz, it has been found that, both Abhishek and Hrithik, who’ve been two of the most sought-after Bollywood male stars, have sort [...]

A. R. Rahman’s international career which has taken off in a big way after Slumdog Millionaire, keeps encountering snags, thanks to long-pending assignments back home. According to sources Rahman has to keep interrupting his international plans to be home for various pending assignments. The harried composer is now seriously thinking of putting all home-made assignments [...]

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Hollywood actress Kate Winslet will be seen together very soon. However, the two actresses are not to be seen in a movie but for cosmetics commercial. The two ladies will come together in Italy to shoot for the advertisement of L’Oreal. The latest release of Aishwarya Raavan may not [...]

The occasion was announcement of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 4’ with Amitabh Bachchan as its host. However, even Bachchan knew beforehand that he won’t be asked questions about the show alone. Plenty of water has flown before Big B arrived in the KBC 4 boat. Despite repeated denial by Sony and Siddharth Basu, the truth remains [...]

If not for anything else, a (miniscule) section of audience concerned about the industry and trade were wondering if the nostalgic value attached to the ‘Krantiveer – The Revolution’, sequel to commercial hit of the mid-90s, ‘Krantiveer’ (Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia), would help the film gain some eye balls at the least. However, this was [...]

Raavan has been a gruelling experience for you? Why just me? Everyone in the film has gone through an equal amount of hardships to create a film we all believe in. There we were, getting drenched in the rain, and Mani Ratnam , Santosh Sivan . ..everyone was there facing the weather. We were all [...]

When ‘Raavan’ opened to below average houses on Friday, it was mauled by the audience as well as the critics and showed no improvement over the weekend, it was certain that this Mani Ratnam film won’t even become a respectable disaster like ‘Kites’. Respectable? Because ‘Kites’, despite all its negatives and nothing much to write [...]

Till just a few days back, the industry was smiling with the blockbuster success of ‘Rajneeti’. However, the smiles have vanished all over again with ‘Raavan’ turning out to be disaster at the box office. Wait, before we delve into the box office fate of the film, let’s also talk about the film by itself. [...]

What does Abishek Bachchan have that the senior Bachchan doesn’t? Three films with the movie making maverick, Mani Ratnam, that’s what! And it has begun to rankle the Big B. He has been urging Mani to fill that valuable lacuna in his repertoire. Laughs Abhishek, “Pa keeps pulling my leg and Mani’s about it. He [...]