A R Rahman gets 3 Oscar Nominations for Slumdog Millionaire
Everyone had high expectations from A R Rahman at the Oscars after he became the first Indian to win a Golden Globe award for his Background Score in Slumdog Millionaire. But not only has A R Rahman got an Academy Award Nomination but he has got 3 nominations at the Oscars with Best Music (Score) for Slumdog Millionaire, Best Music (song) for Jai Ho song of Slumdog Millionaire and Best Music (song) for O Saya song of Slumdog Millionaire. He has a very high chance of winning in both the categories. He has already won the Background Score at the ...
Oscar Nomination for reknowned Bollywood lyricist Gulzar
Gulzar is regarded by many as probably Hindi cinema's best lyricist till date and he has penned lyrics for many Bollywood films for the last four decades. Gulzarji has already won many awards in India (including 11 Filmfare awards) but his talent has now been internationally recognized as he has been nominated at the Oscars for the Song "Jai Ho" of Slumdog Millionaire. He wrote the lyrics of the song while A R Rahman composed the music (with whom he shares the nomination) and Sukhwinder Singh sung it. As we all know Sampooran Singh Gulzar or Gulzar as he is ...
Kerela sound mixer Resul Pookutty makes it to the Oscars
Resul Pookutty who is a sound mixer from Kerela has made it to the Oscars with an Academy Award Nomination for Sound Mixing for the movie Slumdog Millionaire. He shares this nominations with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke for the same movie. Resul Pokutty has been a lesser known figure even in India (technicians in Bollywood movie hardly get any limelight :( ) but has been behind the sound of many Bollywood films like Ghajini, Saawariya, Gandhi My Father, Black, Bluffmaster, Dus Kahaniyan, Zinda and many others. He had won the Zee Cine Awards for Best Audiography for the ...
Slumdog Millionaire gets 10 Oscar Nominations
After an incredible show at the Golden Globes with four Golden Globes to its name, Slumdog Millionaire seems all set to sweep the Oscars too. The movie has now picked 10 Oscar nominations which is just next to the Hollywood biggie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with 13 nominations. However, most critics accept that Slumdog Millionaire's chances at winning more Oscars are quite high as compared to Benjamin Button due to its great overall performance. The nominations were announced hours before the Indian premiere of the move in Mumbai. The whole of Slumdog crew were thrilled at the Oscar ...
Mumbai Marathon 2009
John Abraham, Arjun Rampal, Vidya Balan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri, Tusshar Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Bikram Saluja and other Bollywood stars participated in the Mumbai Marathon 2009 running for various charities, NGOs and for a safer Mumbai. The Mumbai Marathon had people from all walks of life including businessman like Anil Ambani and sportsman like Anil Kumble. People from all fields participated in the Marathon exactly nine weeks after the dreaded Mumbai attacks on 26 November last year showing the resilience of a great city like Mumbai.
Chandni Chowk to China fails heavily at the box office
Chandni Chowk to China has proved one thing for sure. Mere publicity and star power in a movie cannot result in the success of a Bollywood movie. Akshay Kumar had left no stones unturned in the publicity of his movie Chandni Chowk to China which released last week. This was the first Indian movie to be produced by Warner Bros which is one of the top Hollywood production houses. The movie had a superstar in Akshay Kumar who had delievered successive hits for the last two years and had a big upcoming actress in Deepika Padukone whose was going through ...
Amitabh Bachchan denies criticizing Slumdog Millionaire
There has been a lot of negative remarks lately in India about Slumdog Millionaire which mainly started after Amitabh Bachchan supposedly said that the movie had projected India as a "third world dirty underbelly" in his blog. But Big B has come out in the open and denied making any such comments on the movie. Amitabh said that the comments on his blog criticising the movie were made by others and not him. He said that he had just put up negative and positive opinions from other people about the movie just to generate a debate and nothing else. Amitabh ...
Delhi 6 music launch at Indian Idol
The music launch of upcoming movie Delhi 6 featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor was held at the sets of reality show Indian Idol 4. The director of the movie Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (of Rang De Basanti fame), Sonam Kapoor and lyricist Prashun Joshi came to the sets of the TV show to promote their movie and launch the music of their movie. The songs of the movie are already topping the charts and the music of this awesome album is given by A R Rahman. Rehmanji has again shown his great talent by making a fusion of east and ...
Rajnikanth will romance Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in a glass chamber in Endhiran
Rajnikanth, the South Indian superstar is busy in the shooting of his next movie "Endhiran" with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as his female co-star. Rajnikanth is extremely popular in the South and his last movie Shivaji was a huge hit not only in the south but had a very good response all over India and abroad. This movie Endhiran is another huge budget movie and is mainly a science fiction film. The director S Shankar has now got a glass chamber-like structure created in order to shoot a song from the movie. Sources say that it took almost two weeks for ...
Defamation case against Anil Kapoor and A R Rahman
Anil Kapoor and A R Rahman have been getting accolades worldwide due to the performance and music in their movie Slumdog Millionaire. However, it seems that they are facing a few problems in their own country with many people opposing the film saying it has depicted the wrong face of India. I have seen the movie and I guarantee that the movie does not depict India in the wrong manner. Danny Boyle, the director of the movie is a very noble person at heart and he would never even think of degrading India or any country for that matter. But ...
Shekhar Suman says CC2C worst film ever made
Shekhar Suman has minced no words in lambasting Akshay Kumar's recent movie Chandni Chowk to China. He not only said that he wasted his money in the movie but also said that Chandni Chowk to China is the worst film ever made in Indian history. He added that the film is not only disappointing and amateurish but offends one’s sensibility as well. He also said that January 16 (the day the film released) should be declared National Mourning in India, as it’s the day cinema died. He also said that Singh Is Kinng was illogical too, but it was at ...
Lottery music release
Abhijeet Sawant's debut film Lottery recently had its music launch which was attended by Abhijeet as well as the two leading ladies in the movie Rucha Gujrathi and Manisha Kelkar. Abhijeet is better known as the winner of Indian Idol 1 while Rucha Gujrati is better known as a television actress with roles in TV shows Bhabhi and Kkusum. The movie Lottery is also directed by well known televison director Hemant Prabhu and the music is given by Sanjay Pathak. The movie is said to be a romantic thriller but it might also turn out to be a musical to ...
Chandni Chowk to China movie review
Far below my expectations! Absolutely horrible! I had a lot of expectations from Chandni Chowk to China and I can say that I am highly disappointed. Akshay Kumar told Amitabh Bachchan during the London premiere that leave your brains at home. He also told recently in the movie's promotion that all movie viewers should leave their brains at home while watching this movie and should watch it like a cartoon film. I just thought it was a joke and certainly this movie would be quite good with all the hype around it. But after watching the movie I would like ...
Shilpa Shetty to go bald and beautiful for Desire
The bold and beautiful Shilpa Shetty has decided to go bald and beautiful now. Would she still look that beautiful without her tress of hair? But it has been announced that Shilpa Shetty will have to let go of her lovely hair for sometime for her role in her upcoming movie "The Desire". The movie is an Indo-Chinese joint venture and it will be directed by National award winning Malayalam director R. Sarath. It is believed that Shilpa Shetty will shave off her hair for the movie when shooting will start in Kerela this week. It is said to be ...
Akshay Kumar in hot air balloon
Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone descended from a hot air balloon at Ambience mall in Gurgaon infront of a large gathering of people to promote their movie Chandni Chowk to China. There were thousands of Akshay fans waiting in the mall to get a glimpse of their superstar. Both Akshay and Deepika are said to have enjoyed the air balloon act very much. Akshay said I came here sometime back too. At that time about 100-200 people came to see me. And today, I see almost 5,000 people here. I am so overwhelmed. I have no words to say or ...
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A R Rahman gets 3 Oscar Nominations for Slumdog Millionaire
Everyone had high expectations from A R Rahman at the Oscars after he became the first Indian to win a Golden Globe award for his Background Score in Slumdog Millionaire. But not only has A R Rahman got an Academy Award Nomination but he has got 3 nominations at the Oscars with Best Music (Score) for Slumdog Millionaire, Best Music (song) for Jai Ho... Read more
Oscar Nomination for reknowned Bollywood lyricist Gulzar
Gulzar is regarded by many as probably Hindi cinema’s best lyricist till date and he has penned lyrics for many Bollywood films for the last four decades. Gulzarji has already won many awards in India (including 11 Filmfare awards) but his talent has now been internationally recognized as he has been nominated at the Oscars for the Song “Jai... Read more
Kerela sound mixer Resul Pookutty makes it to the Oscars
Resul Pookutty who is a sound mixer from Kerela has made it to the Oscars with an Academy Award Nomination for Sound Mixing for the movie Slumdog Millionaire. He shares this nominations with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke for the same movie. Resul Pokutty has been a lesser known figure even in India (technicians in Bollywood movie hardly get any limelight... Read more
Slumdog Millionaire gets 10 Oscar Nominations
After an incredible show at the Golden Globes with four Golden Globes to its name, Slumdog Millionaire seems all set to sweep the Oscars too. The movie has now picked 10 Oscar nominations which is just next to the Hollywood biggie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with 13 nominations. However, most critics accept that Slumdog Millionaire’s... Read more
Chandni Chowk to China fails heavily at the box office
Chandni Chowk to China has proved one thing for sure. Mere publicity and star power in a movie cannot result in the success of a Bollywood movie. Akshay Kumar had left no stones unturned in the publicity of his movie Chandni Chowk to China which released last week. This was the first Indian movie to be produced by Warner Bros which is one of the top... Read more
Amitabh Bachchan denies criticizing Slumdog Millionaire
There has been a lot of negative remarks lately in India about Slumdog Millionaire which mainly started after Amitabh Bachchan supposedly said that the movie had projected India as a “third world dirty underbelly” in his blog. But Big B has come out in the open and denied making any such comments on the movie. Amitabh said that the comments... Read more
Rajnikanth will romance Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in a glass chamber in Endhiran
Rajnikanth, the South Indian superstar is busy in the shooting of his next movie “Endhiran” with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as his female co-star. Rajnikanth is extremely popular in the South and his last movie Shivaji was a huge hit not only in the south but had a very good response all over India and abroad. This movie Endhiran is another... Read more
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