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Spielberg planning Kashmir film: Report
MUMBAI: US director Steven Spielberg is planning to produce a film set partly on the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, a report said Tuesday. Spielberg, who is...
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Future of cinema, Amitabh's talking points with Spielberg
MUMBAI: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s meeting with acclaimed Hollywood film-maker Steven Spielberg, whom he calls an “institution”, was one full of talks on the state of Indian cinema and the...
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I really don’t interfere in the film, says Anil Kapoor
MUMBAI: Actor-turned-producer Anil Kapoor has quite a few films under his belt, and says he stays true to the script given by the writer. He never tries to change or meddle with it. “You have to be...
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Bipasha says nobody watches art films
KOLKATA: Observing that art films have no takers, popular Bollywood actor Bipasha Basu has decided to stick to entertaining roles in mainstream cinema. The 34-year-old tried her luck with art films as...
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Race 2 bags record earnings at Pakistani box office
KARACHI: Call it luck or mere good timing, but multi-starrer flick Race 2 has managed to generate Rs100 million in revenues in about six weeks of running — the highest for any film so far in...
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Kareena says marriage is ‘not a crime’ for an actor
MUMBAI: Actor Kareena Kapoor, who married actor Saif Ali Khan last year, says getting married is not a crime for an actor and believes that personal and professional aspects of life must not be mixed...
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Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby to open Cannes festival
LONDON: Australian director Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will open the 2013 Cannes film festival, the world’s most important cinema showcase, organisers said on Tuesday. The adaptation of F Scott...
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Did you know? Horror flick Siyaah hits theaters March 15
Pakistani horror flick Siyaah will be screened at select cinemas in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad on March 15. Siyaah, which revolves around the use of black magic, has been directed by Asfar Jafri...
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Why limit ourselves to the '1000 crore' club, asks KJo
MUMBAI: The INR10 billion mark for a blockbuster may seem like a distant dream right now, but it is not impossible, says film-maker Karan Johar. “The figure of INR10 billion is aspirational at the...
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Conflict of interest?: Future censor board chairman cuts a controversial figure
LAHORE: Veteran actor and producer Rashid Khwaja seems set to become the chairman of the censor board, following Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s directives to appoint him to the position earlier...
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Movie review: ‘All I Want Is Everything’ leaves you asking for more
Released under the PVR Director’s rare banner, All I Want Is Everything is probably inspired by Farhan Akthar’s film Dil Chahta Hai, but unlike Dil Chahta Hai, this one is a low budget chick-film,...
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I am open to doing TV: Arshad Warsi
NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi is quite active on the big screen playing a variety of roles, but says he is is also keen to be seen on the small screen. After playing a communist in Zila...
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Lamha: the moment of self-discovery
Lamha (Seedlings) was screened in London after its first Pakistani screening in Lahore. Just like it did at the New York International Film Festival, Seedlings left the audience enthralled with...
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Siyaah: Far from perfect but a win for Pakistani cinema
KARACHI: Exorcism is perhaps the most cliché theme in the genre of horror film-making. The stories usually start with a few unfortunate events leading to confusion between scientific and religious...
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Bollywood misuses character actors: Irrfan Khan
NEW DEHLI: He believes his unique choice of work made it tough for film-makers to “fit” him in a “box”. But acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan genuinely feels Hindi cinema needs to pay attention and give...
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Madhubala, Waheeda reference points for Sonakshi in Lootera
MUMBAI: Her period drama Lootera is set in the ‘50s and to play her role perfectly, actor Sonakshi Sinha has taken yesteryear’s actors Madhubala and Waheeda Rehman as her reference points. While many...
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With Chambaili, a colony of workers gets a facelift
LAHORE: Who would have thought that the simple lives of workers in a colony owned by Pakistan Railways would change with the shooting of one film? When Chambaili was filmed in October last year,...
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Movie review: Wreck-It Ralph - video game villains
Don’t be put off by the trailers: the movie is very accessible, even to those who know nothing about video games. Wreck-It Ralph is the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), the bad guy in the arcade game...
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Ajay turns multilingual for Himmatwala
NEW DEHLI: Actor Ajay Devgn will be seen speaking in five languages in his forthcoming movie Himmatwala. The actor will speak the various languages during an action scene in the remake film of 1983...
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Disney’s Oz keeps magic spell on movie box office
NEW YORK: Walt Disney Company’s Oz the Great and Powerful worked more box office magic in its second weekend, following up its strong debut a week earlier with $42.2 million in US and Canadian ticket...
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