Tell of Two Woods The Telugu film industry, that was rocking for last so many years is now seems to face music. The Tollywood seems to have been entangled in the time wrap of its own heydays. This biggest industry of Andhra Pradesh has been facing hard days for some time now and going by its present performance, it will be futile to hope that Telugu films prove to be a treat for our eyes in the year 2007. There are a number of films slated for...

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Bollywood 'Dhoom' in Germany

Bollywood cruises in GermanyThat Bollywood is crossing new frontiers in geographic terms is nothing of a news now. But that it has created a much frenzy outside India is certainly a thing to be applauded. That frenzy at this point of time is evident much in Germany. The country will witness a gala show in about a month's time to celebrate the life Bollywood-way.In Germany, many people know Bollywood through television only. And for Germans, Bollywood...

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Needed : Indian lesson for StalloneIt happens now and then. Especially in moviedom. Stars who are accustomed to arclights can not breathe `out of focus.' They try to prove the world that they can still grab the focus of the public. Many a stars and superstars have fallen prey to this attitude and some have really been sussessful in the endeavour. An actor after carving a larger than life image for himself, is assigned a measured time as his careerspan...

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Figuring out the beauty ...It was in the month of September that the issue of skinny models first cropped up. As an Indian, who is brought on the ‘Aestheticism’ of Kamasutra, I always abhored these models. I always liked the models who have on their body right curves at the right place. That’s why when a buxom actress like Kate Winslet speaks against such models, it must assume some significance.Oscar-nominated Kate Winslet has said that she refused...

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Why Amitabh is Big B

Big B's Bindass BolHindi film superstar Amitabh Bachchan is known as Big B in India. It has something to do with his stature as the most successful actor in Hindi filmdom. As a man who has ruled Bollywood without any challenge for more than a decade, whose name spells profit for distributors and who have proved time and again, what length he can to achieve his goals, he deserves the title the fans and industry people have given to him. But it is...

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Billa makes a French Bang It seems that Rajnikant’s magic is only spreading by each passing day. His 'Muthu' captivated the imaginations of Japanese audience. A certain French film, which is yet to be released, ‘Pret moi toi main’ features Rajnikant’s fight scene in Muthu. The scene is featured for 150 seconds where the main heoine of the film watches this clip. Then she tells her friend, “This is Muthu, a must watch Indian movie.”Now it is the...

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Maestro’s sublime actKudos to Illayaraja. The maestro has done again what people in film industry are seldom expected to do. The man who has mesmerized generatios with his sweet voice has shown that he can stand for his convictions when it matters.Music director Ilayaraja and director Gnanarajasekaran shared an excellent rapport. Ilayaraja’s works in Moga Mul and Bharathy, both directed by Gnanarajasekaran, won several accolades.Obviously Gnanarajasekaran...

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A Dubious FeatSometime ago while commenting upon an UNI story I had written, that dubbed films diminish enjoyment of a particular film. The better option will be to have subtitles instead. Those were my personal opinions and they did not required to be corroborated. On the contrary, I was aware of the fact that a large number of audienc go for such films. Particularly enjoyed from this lot are action movies! Now this fact is proved by a recent report...

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To make or to remake… (Second part of the story The Remakes-Same Old Story)Regional films coming to Bollywood screen and vice versa have acquired such a proportion that attempts to make a catalog of it have been already shelved. Sheer number of such projects is so huge that anybody trying to keep a record of it might feel ridiculous. A large number of films in such category have been represented in fairly good manner. An exception here or there will...

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An UNI storyPanaji : Watching Indian films is not at all a problem for the French as they do not want these films to be dubbed in their own language, according Serge Sobczynski, in charge of the 'Cinema du Monde'(Cinema of the World) section of the Cannes Film Festival. ''The French want to enjoy the original sound of Indian languages, so as to get a real feel of the work,'' he said. Mr Sobczynski is here at the of India International Film Festival to select Indian films for Cannes 2007 which would celebrate India's 60th independence day during...

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The Remakes-Same Old StoryBOLLYWOOD has now entered a new age -The Age of Remakes. See the hype over Don, starring Shahrukh Khan, which is a remake of old movie of the same name, starring Superstar Amitabh Bachchan. Another remake, which saw the darkness of the cinema halls, was Umrao Jaan, with Aishwarya Rai playing the role that Rekha did years ago. ‘Don’ was not the first film that was remade with Shahrukh as the main protagonist. It was Devdas...

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Actors in politics…in South Korea too!Forget NTR, MGR and Jayalalitha...forget even Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Khanna or Sunil Dutt…Now even South Korea has a film star in the Government.It is not only in India that film artists dangle in politics and make a career out of it. A country as large as USA had a president in Ronald Regan who was a popular star before he confronted his Democrat Party opponents and became the President. The US even now has...

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Pune fast becoming PollywoodPune : The city of pensioners has long become city of IT peoples. And now Pune is emerging as a rival to its neighboring city Mumbai. Yes, the Mayanagari of Mumbai is slowly but steadily moving to Pune and the trend is limited not only to Bollywood but to Hollywood and Kollywood also.The month long sojourn by Brangelina for the shooting of ‘A Mighty Heart’ has put Pune on global entertainment map. In the frenzy and hype...

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Pakistan is a stage for this Pune drama group

Pune : The Two-way diplomacy for strengthening Indo-Pak relations has taken roots in cultural arena. City of Pune is also contributing to this process in its own way. A drama group from here has received an invitation to perform in Pakistan for consecutive third time and what’s more, the group is going to stage a Marathi play there this month. ‘Raabta’, an Urdu drama group will perform in Lahore for third time in a row. “Portrait’, a play written by Ratnakar Matkari will be staged on the occasion of a Drama Festival. The festival is organized every...

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L'Inde un hub de film ? Pas encore ?

L'Inde un hub de film ? Pas encore ? Tandis que l'Inde se vante de la deuxième plus grande industrie de film dans le monde, elle a également une présence croyable des chiquenaudes de Hollywood ces derniers temps. Estime le projet qui d'ici 2025, les plus grandes assistances au monde sera en Chine et en Inde. L'Inde, avec une tradition film-allante vieille d'un siècle est le marché de rapide-croissance en Asie, représentant 73% des admissions Asie-Pacifiques. Ce montre une capacité prometteuse d'émerger comme grand hub dans l'arène de divertissement...

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