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After doing a double whammy at Cannes 2015, Masaan comes to Indian theatres on July 24th 2015! Produced by Drishyam Films, Phantom, Sikhya Entertainment, MACASSAR films), and directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, we’ve written enough about Masaan by now for you to know about it, so here’s making it easy for both of us in case you don’t –
For Masaan trailer and photos go here
For the Cannes buzz and two awards go here
For the standing ovation video go here
Blow our minds Neeraj Ghaywan!
We have no sympathy for anyone – Rahul Mahajan or Dimpy Ganguly. They deserve each other. Or how else do you explain the fact that someone participated in a swayamvar to marry Rahul Mahajan. Its Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Weird are the ways of the world!
Since the whole world is googling them and are creating Eiffel Towers on our blog stats page, we felt bit guilty that we haven’t put a post on their latest controversy. So, here it is…The Story of Dopey & Dimpy in pictures…put the cursor on the pic for our captions!
And as the joke goes…wondering what Rahul Mahajan is singing now….
Give me some sunshine…..give me some rain,
Give me another wife that I can beat up once again….
Slumdog Millionaire is still scoring and how! The Mozart of Madras has scored again! And its again a double score for A R Rahman. He was nominated in two categories for the music of Slumdog Millionaire and he scored both the Grammy Awards!
Rahman won the first Grammy in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture Category before his Jai Ho won in the Best Song Written for Motion Picture Category moments later. Jai Ho is credited to Gulzar, A.R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah, songwriters (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash).
The other nominations in the Best Compilation Soundtrack category included Steve Jordan for Cadillac Records, Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, and the producers of Twilight and True Blood.
In the Best Song Category, the other nominations were The Climb” (From Hannah Montana: The Movie) – Miley Cyrus, Decode (From Twilight) – Paramore, Once in a Lifetime (From Cadillac Records) – Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen’s “The Wrestler” (From The Wrestler). How we were hoping against hope that The Wrestler gets it this time beacuse it surely is more deserving. And at the Oscars, it was not even nominated! But then, may be it was all written.
BTW, if you are still not bored of the so called Jai Ho dance, click the play button and enjoy!
Is Studio18 going the Sundance 2010 way ? Seems so.
Yes, even before you get to see Raj Kumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots on Youtube, Chandan Arora’s Striker is all set for its YouTube debut on February 5th, 2010.
And this is going to be first bollywood film to do so, if you dont count Sudhir Mishra’s Tera Kya Hoga Johnny which got leaked out even before its release.
BUT, before you get too excited, here is the bad news! Its NOT for desis! In the USA, Striker will be available for rent on YouTube. Outside the US, Striker be available for free on Studio18’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/studio18. Woohoo! The movie will be not be available for the YouTube traffic originating from India. But once anyone gets it for free, how difficult will be to pass it around!
Striker is directed by Chandan Arora, produced by Studio18 and stars Siddharth Narayan, Padampriya Anupam Kher, Aditya Panscholi and Vidya Malavade.
Yes, its official. And it was expected. Indian’s official entry to this year’s Oscar Award in the Foreign Language Film Category was Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory. Sixty five films had originally qualified in the category.
The nine films which have been shortlisted for the next round are…
Argentina – El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Director – Juan Jose Campanella)
Australia – Samson & Delilah (Warwick Thornton )
Bulgaria – The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner (Stephan Komandarev )
France – Un Prophète – (Jacques Audiard )
Germany – The White Ribbon – ( Michael Haneke )
Israel – Ajami – ( Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani )
Kazakhstan – Kelin – (Ermek Tursunov )
The Netherlands – Winter in Wartime – ( Martin Koolhoven )
Peru – The Milk of Sorrow – ( Claudia Llosa )
Out of the nine films, five will make the final cut for the nomination which will be announced on February 2nd, 2010. And the Academy Awards will be presented on March 7th, 2010.
BTW, Harishchandrachi Factory is releasing on 29th January. And do watch the film. The early reviews and the buzz from the festivals has been quite positive so far. The film is directed by Paresh Mokashi who has been doing theatre since last twenty years. Harishchandrachi Factory is Mokashi’s debut film.
The film traces the obstacles and hurdles faced by Dhundiraj Phalke (Dada Saheb Phalke), also known as the father of Indian cinema,while he was making the first Indian film Raja Harishchandra in 1913. And here is the theatrical trailer of the film…
For more details about the film/director/promos, click on the website link http://harishchandrachifactory.com/ .
We could not believe the news when we heard it. We quickly checked the calendar. No, its not april fools day. Its for real – Actor Shiney Ahuja has been accused of rape!
Shiney’s maid has accused him of rape and has registered a complaint with Oshiwara Police Station. Mumbai Police has taken Shiney in custody and will present him at the court on monday
Shiney is married to Anu Ahuja and has a daughter. But his wife mostly stays outside India because of her work.
We knew that the actor has a roving eye and it wasn’t all well between him and his wife but Shiney raping his maid, thats too extreme to believe! According to initial reports it was sex with consent but later on the maid turned against him.
Blame it on our sick sense of humour but we could not stop wondering what Shiney Ahuja realised after commiting the crime – Sins! Sins! Sins!
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