Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra believes that screenplay is about subtexts and moments, never about camera movements. “For me, a screenplay is never written. It is always rewritten, and rewritten and rewritten. A lot of times you mistake a story as a screenplay. I don’t think it’s that,” the Rang De Basanti (2006) filmmaker said while … Read more
While filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly recently announced that the idea of his next film Jyeshtha Putra struck him while watching late filmmaker and cultural icon Rituparno Ghosh closely during his father’s death, filmmaker Pratim Gupta has claimed that story was jointly conceived and written by him and Ghosh. Ganguly had also said that Ghosh had himself … Read more
National award-winning film Paddayi is shot in a rare dialect of Tulu spoken by merely 2-3 lakh people, mainly the fishing community called Mogaveeras. Director Abhaya Simha, who was born and brought up in Mangaluru, wrote the script and dialogue in Kannada, but hired a dialect coach despite knowing Tulu, as the Mogaveeras speak a … Read more
Public relations manager Meghna is having a day from hell. She gets involved in a traffic accident with Siddhanth Kapoor’s character who promptly steals her mobile phone and takes off. Harried Meghna takes the help of a bystander (Akshay Oberoi) and finds herself entangled in a web with a hitman in pursuit, a sniper and … Read more
Marathi cinema has been hailed as pioneering a new movement in content rich and diverse cinema. Riteish Deshmukh though is walking the path of a very commercial and entertaining version, and quite well. In the trailer of Aditya Sarpotdar’s Mauli, the actor takes on a role that carries shades of Salman Khan’s Dabangg cop with … Read more
For the first time in his 26-year-old film career, Shah Rukh Khan will be seen playing a dwarf in Aanand L Rai’s Zero, which also stars Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif. There were reports suggesting Rai first considered casting Salman Khan to play the lead character. When asked about this during an interview, the director … Read more
The 12th Asia Pacific Screen awards (APSA) were given out today at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) in Brisbane, Australia. The awards ceremony was hosted by Australian actress Sofie Formica and New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis. Five Indian films were nominated alongside films produced from the Asia-Pacific region. They included Nandita Das’s Manto … Read more
The 49th International Film Festival of India honoured veteran screenwriter Salim Khan with a Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to Indian cinema. Khan, 83, could not make it for the event. Second son and actor-producer-director Arbaaz Khan received the award on his behalf. Before calling Arbaaz Khan on stage, veteran actor Kabir Khan narrated a … Read more
The Malayalam film director has said that there is no market for Indian Panorama films these days. He was speaking at a press conference during the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), in Goa, on 23 November. Jayaraj’s film Bhayanakam was screened in the feature section of Indian Panorama at the festival. The film … Read more
Siddharth Roy Kapur has added yet another story to his growing slate of projects for Roy Kapur Films. The producer has purchased the rights to the story of Rajaram Tiwari, Kumbh Mela’s ‘lost and found’ man. Tiwari owes his nickname, Bhule Bhatke Tiwari, to his charitable act of reuniting families separated during the crowded Kumbh … Read more