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“As a result, even though a teacher presents all the needed material in a lecture, he or she might need to change or supplement the way she presents that information to the student with dyslexia”

Amir Khan starrer Bollywood film Tarey Zameen Par, which revolves round an eight-year-old boy suffering from mental disorder called dyslexia, has attracted praise in Pakistan too, where schools and college ... via AndhraNews

“The ordinance gives the government the power to grant exemption from any provision. We found Taare Zameen Par to be educative and informative - in short, an outstanding movie”

Front Page > Story Taare to twinkle in Pak - 'INFORMATIVE' AAMIR FILM GETS UNIQUE NOD SUDESHNA BANERJEE Calcutta, March 30: Pakistanis will laugh and cry with Ishant Awasthi, the dyslexic boy in Taare Zameen ... via The Telegraph

“The ordinance gives the government the power to grant exemption from any provision. We found Taare Zameen Par to be educative and informative - in short, an outstanding movie”

Front Page > Story Taare to twinkle in Pak - 'INFORMATIVE' AAMIR FILM GETS UNIQUE NOD SUDESHNA BANERJEE Calcutta, March 30: Pakistanis will laugh and cry with Ishant Awasthi, the dyslexic boy in Taare Zameen ... via The Telegraph

“Water". A: Yes, the West, like any market, is ready to accept a well-made film that sweeps you away. However, I think the song-and-dance drama will always be our beloved cinema, not so much the Western mainstream's cup of tea. Q: "The Namesake”

By Subhash K. Jha. Mumbai, March 31 : US-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, who has just been honoured as the Person of the Year 2007 by a leading ethnic Indian paper in the US, says the West is now ready to ... via Newkerala.com

“Water". A: Yes, the West, like any market, is ready to accept a well-made film that sweeps you away. However, I think the song-and-dance drama will always be our beloved cinema, not so much the Western mainstream's cup of tea. Q: "The Namesake”

By Subhash K. Jha. Mumbai, March 31 : US-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, who has just been honoured as the Person of the Year 2007 by a leading ethnic Indian paper in the US, says the West is now ready to ... via Newkerala.com

“So, the whole idea is a long dream and I hope it gets fulfilled”

New Delhi: Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, who owns an Indian Premier League cricket team, will give a year's time to the new venture and if it doesn't work for him, it will be back to films fulltime. via The Hindu

“We at SRVC, in the course of our research, found that visually challenged people have some special talents which many normal sighted people don't have and which need to be recognised and developed”

By Aroonim Bhuyan, Dubai, March 30 : Just over four years ago, Benny used to eke out a living as a musician playing the guitar as a church choir member in Kochi once a week. via Newkerala.com

“We at SRVC, in the course of our research, found that visually challenged people have some special talents which many normal sighted people don't have and which need to be recognised and developed”

By Aroonim Bhuyan, Dubai, March 30 : Just over four years ago, Benny used to eke out a living as a musician playing the guitar as a church choir member in Kochi once a week. via Newkerala.com

“I'm really enjoying the reality show. There is so much positive energy”

She is one of the most talented actresses in Bollywood, but Kajol, who graces the screen after a gap of two years in her home production U, Me Aur Hum , says her priority is her family. via Sify

“Though both official and pirated DVDs were available, Welcome did very good business. This shows that the market is receptive”

NEW DELHI: Bollywood has found a new territory - across the border. When the curtain goes up on Taare Zameen Par in Pakistan this April, the Indian movie industry would have notched up its fourth release in ... via South Asian Media Net

“India is a free country and we have the right to freedom of speech and expression. I abide and respect the Constitution. Beyond this I have nothing to say”

Posted online: Friday , March 28, 2008 at 04:03:15 Updated: Friday , March 28, 2008 at 04:26:17 Mumbai, March 28: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan refused to be drawn into a controversy over the MNS ... via Express India

“Elizabeth", told IANS. "Steve and I are good friends. We've been working on the script extensively. It's a &200-million project, probably the most expensive film I've made and will ever make”

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, March 27 : Internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is all set to direct a $200-million Hollywood fantasy-epic for Warner Brothers titled "Larklight". "I was in LA ... via Newkerala.com

“The media and entertainment industry in India is an industry of the future and is growing at the rate of 18 percent. If we can stop piracy, the industry will grow even faster and employ more workers.”

Mumbai, March 27: The Indian entertainment industry annually loses over $4 billion to piracy, leading to the loss of about 800,000 jobs, according to a report by audit firm Ernst and Young India. via Newkerala.com

“I make the kind of films I do because I believe in them even though I have no idea whether they would go down well with the audience. I think all filmmakers set out to work on their films because they are passionate about them”

Vidhu Vinod Chopra, producer of the hit Munna Bhai films, says it is not possible for filmmakers to predetermine what kind of movies will be popular with audiences. via Hindustan Times

“I did a reading with Rishi uncle for the film, and I was simply stunned. He's that good. Imtiaz's film will be a departure for me”

It may take yesteryear lover boy Rishi Kapoor and his son Ranbir some time to showcase their talent together. via Sify

“Trying to build an entertainment business in China is simply too hard.”

Almost a century after film pioneer Dadasaheb Phalke made 'Raja Harishchandra' in 1913, the Indian cinema and entertainment industry has spread its wings worldwide - not just winning accolades from its widely ... via Nerve News

“The entire industry seemed to be there, either holidaying or working. Bangkok is a fun spot and at the same time very work-oriented. I shot for my comedy Dhoom Dhadaka in Bangkok. Now I'm back here for holiday.”

Tuesday, 25 March , 2008, 13:03 Last Updated: Tuesday, 25 March , 2008, 13:45 Mumbai: Bangkok is beckoning Bollywood. via Sify

From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 05:00 PM IST Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi will inaugurate FICCI-Frames 2008, a global convention on the business of entertainment, here ... via India eNews

“Deep end"? That sounds disparaging! "Swirling circle of speculation and controversies”

Doting father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan feels 'bahurani' Aishwarya Rai, a celebrity in her own right, fits perfectly in Bollywood's most glamorous household. via Sify

Bangalore, Mar 23: An Indian boy who is also the world's youngest director of a professional feature film wins international accolade for his film on street children. via Daily India

“I've heard their stories thousands of times. Every time I go somewhere, anywhere lunch, they're all Latins. The service people, the valet parking, all these people who work really hard they all know me! I'm delighted to hear their stories.”

Mexican actress Kate del Castillo didn't get recognized much by the tony denizens of Beverly Hills during her visit to promote her film 'Under the Same Moon,' but she made the maids, doormen and other ... via Asbury Park Press Online

“I'm waiting for all my family members to be in town so we can see Aamir's film ('Taare...). Jaya was attending parliament. Abhishek is in Miami and Ash (Aishwarya Rai) too will be away. Once we're all together, we'll watch Aamir's film.”

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, March 22 : A Bollywood cold war ended when Aamir Khan dropped in for a chat with Amitabh Bachchan. via Newkerala.com

“Babul". Music director Ravindra Jain, one of the most renowned composers of the 1970s who churned out hits like "Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se", "Chitchor”

By Shweta Thakur, New Delhi, March 22 : Actress-MP Hema Malini, who once ruled Bollywood as its 'Dream Girl' and is known to live life on her own terms, is all set to launch a 15-minute dance video against ... via Newkerala.com

“Aitraaz', we had Priyanka Chopra lusting after her employee under her husband's nose. In 'Humraaz', Amisha Patel plotted with lover-boy Akshaye Khanna to marry and disinherit hubby Bobby Deol. And of course in 'Baazigar”

Film: 'Race'; Cast: Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy; Director: Abbas-Mustan; Rating: ** Glamour, a ritzy gorgeousness and hedonism runs across 'Race' like a ... via India eNews

“It was my first full-length feature. We had no money, no time, and people told me I was crazy to even try”

Mexican film director Patricia Riggen faced so many challenges making her new film, "Under The Same Moon," that she almost gave up, but it is good for audiences and for Riggen that she persevered. via Reuters

“It's a lovely film. You will laugh and at the end I am sure you will be crying. It is a lovely roller coaster, lots of fun and entertainment and then its very emotional at the end”

Mumbai, Mar 21: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has unveiled the first promo for his upcoming movie 'Bhoothnath' here recently. via Daily India

“The Man', and an international venture titled 'Hanuman”

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is all set to turn producer with a big budget action-comedy film. via India Gazette

“I am more curious to see the audience reaction. Its totally entertaining film. It's got all the elements in it, but its slightly more edgy.”

MUMBAI: The grand premiere of Bollywood's latest mystery thriller Race was held in Mumbai last evening. via Newindpress

“Yes, I am doing a Yash Raj film with John Abraham. Neil Mukesh is also in the film. I think the best if they (producers) speak about the film. It is a completely different genre and not something I have done before.”

Katrina Kaif, who gave the maximum hits among all Bollywood actresses last year, says she is having a ball doing commercial films and has no plans to venture into 'serious' cinema right now. via India eNews

“The animation and gaming market in India is about to explode and this partnership will explore every new idea that exists or can be developed”

Indian animation major DQ Entertainment and Bollywood player Pritish Nandy Communications have pacted to develop and produce six movies over three years. via Variety

“My family has been doing this for at least 100 years. My forefathers did it, my grandfather, my father”

Devendra Sharma can only remember, not quite replicate, the awe he felt on a night some three decades ago when his father transfixed an entire village with song. via Contra Costa Times

“I play this woman called Maya. It's about realising one's dreams, quite a female-oriented role. Randeep is such a fabulous actor. I think he was awesome in 'Darna Zaroori Hai'.”

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, March 20 : Raima Sen, who played the female lead in the dubbed Bengali release "Anuranan", feels the film would've been better off being subtitled in English rather than being dubbed ... via Newkerala.com

“Shiva', have been released by T-Series. The company had also made payments for the same and had also made advance payments for forthcoming films by Verma”

From correspondents in India, 09:32 PM IST Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma has landed himself once again in a controversy as leading music company T-Series has filed a case of extortion, cheating and fraud ... via India eNews

“He is bigger than any icon there. He has girls swooning over him and his fan following is bigger than any Hollywood megastar. South Africans just love him”

Mumbai, March 19 : In South Africa, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has woven a hypnotic web among the natives, says a business honcho from the country who is visiting India's commercial capital. via Newkerala.com

“In English movies you look at life as it is and present it on screen in the same manner. In Bollywood reality goes out of window. And I cannot write a formal film. A normal Bollywood film is beyond me”

Britain-based novelist and scriptwriter Farrukh Dhondy has been roped in to pen a Bollywood thriller for Parvez Damania's newly launched production company and says it won't be a typical masala film because ... via Hindustan Times

Terrible news about English filmmaker Anthony Minghella's death . Some criticized him for the high-gloss of his pictures, but really that just seemed emblematic of a certain admirable style, a visual elegance ... via Gawker

“We are excited on the Mirchi Movies Story Hunt initiative. Three top story ideas will be converted into screenplays and might be made into feature films.”

Would you like to script a film? Do you have engaging stories to tell? If yes, then the Mirchi Movies story hunt could help you make it big in Bollywood. via India Gazette

“India is a very comfortable place for us because we have already made a niche here. So why would anyone want to go and struggle there? I don't want to go and struggle. I have gone through my struggle”

By Arpana, New Delhi, March 14 : With films like "Corporate", "Omkara" and "Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal", it has taken the unconventional looking Bipasha Basu about seven years to carve a niche for herself in ... via Newkerala.com

“The story is unique, and if the situations were different, the songs have to be different. This is the first time I have worked with Adnan Sami and I have enjoyed it”

Mumbai , Mar 12: The Red Lounge in Cinemax Versova in Mumbai today hosted the music launch of the Bollywood film "Shaurya". 'Shaurya' is a story of justice, honour, faith, courage and friendship. via Daily India

Karachi News.Net Wednesday 12th March, 2008 Mumbai, Mar 12 : The music album of the Pakistan film 'Khuda Ke Liye' was released in Mumbai on Tuesday. via Karachi News.Net

“He has come up with new sound and catchy tunes which are sure to become big hits”

March 17, 2008 1:40:31 PM IST Bollywood Trade News Network The most awaited movie of the year 2008, DASAVATHARAM's audio is to be released by non other than Jackie Chan on April 2. Audiences are keen to see ... via Glamsham.com

“I think it will happen organically. The form of Indian cinema is very dear to me and by retaining the same form I would like to entertain the international audience”

Sunday, 16 March , 2008, 11:52 Last Updated: Sunday, 16 March , 2008, 11:55 Exuding confidence that Indian filmmakers can win over western audiences if they aim to do so, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan says ... via Sify

“Amitabh is just being modest. Humility is important and it comes from knowing that you have achieved a lot but there is so much more to achieve. And the icons know that.”

Bollywood star AMITABH BACHCHAN finds his status as an icon in his home country "embarrassing". The actor has been honoured by columnist and film critic Anil Dharker, who has named him one of India's top 20 ... via PR-inside.com

“I think 'Jodhaa Akbar' was commercially viable from the start. Not a single critic questioned Gowariker for making the film. The promos weren't that good. But in five-six places in the film we stood up and clapped.”

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, March 14: After doing back-to-back comedies last year, it looks like Bollywood's star Akshay Kumar is hell bent on making 2008 his year of actioners. via Newkerala.com

“My brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken”

Can you turn a torture film into an intellectual thesis film simply by putting quotation marks around it?

Funny Games is an art house Hostel -- it mistakes self-consciousness for intelligence.

In Michael Haneke's American remake of his own 1997 Austrian film, a pair of young psychopaths, Paul (Michael Pitt) and Peter (Brady Corbett), seize control of a haute-bourgeois couple's waterfront getaway home. (Haneke shot the film in deluxe spots around Long Island, N.Y.)

The duo bets the husband and wife, Ann (Naomi Watts) and George ( Tim Roth ), that the whole family -- including a little boy, Georgie, played by Devon Gearhart -- will be dead the next morning. Read more

“Richard Gere is free to enter the country. This is the end of the matter.”

Actor Richard Gere attends the New York premiere of 'I'm Not There' presented by The Cinema Society and Hogan at the Chelsea West Cinemas on November 13, 2007 in New York City. via MyFOX11

“I am happy that the festival regulars and delegates attending the 10th International Film Festival, Mumbai, have liked the programming this year. This is the greatest award for me as the festival director.”

Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor jokes with lyricist Gulzar as Kapoor's wife Neetu looks on after the MAMI awards ceremony MUMBAI: Dharmendra and Rishi Kapoor, two of Bollywood's most popular stars of yesteryears, ... via Gulf Times

Harry Potter was the center of seven novels, but he’ll star in eight films. The final book in the wildly successful series will be made into two films, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.

“We are completely opposite. The only similarity is that we are both Khans”

MUMBAI: After his 'rivalry' with Amitabh Bachchan hogged headlines, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan is now involved in a repartee with screen idol Aamir Khan. via The Times of India

“Taal'. Then the moment, 'Yaadein”

Bollywood showman Subhash Ghai is puzzled with reports that more than 'The Devil's Own', his recent release 'Black and amp; White' seems to replicate Joseph Costelo's 'The War Within', where a closet terrorist ... via India eNews

“I nailed it the first time, so why mess around with superficial changes?”

In 1997, Austrian director Michael Haneke made the deeply unsettling meta-thriller Funny Games . via Salt Lake City Weekly

“Rihaee', Ketan Mehta's 'Mirch Masala', Shyam Benegal's 'Zubeida”

In Balu Mahendra's 'Sadma' and Shashilal Nair's 'Grahan', Sridevi and Manisha Koirala played women who surrendered to men, almost regressing to being children. via New Delhi News.Net

“Jamal's charming personality, warm spirit, wonderful sense of humor and beautiful smile”

Directed by George Tillman Jr. , it goes into production this month and is set for release in January. via The Movie Blog

“That's the best part of acting. I've been directing actors for a long time. How many times do you see actors like that, even just a second or something?”

Ang Lee opened up a new world of tolerance and compassion for gay cowboys with "Brokeback Mountain." For his next act, the filmmaker helped take the pornography sting out of Hollywood's NC-17 rating, which is ... via Slam Sports

“We have only heard that MNS has started its own cine workers' association. Beyond that, we know nothing about it. So it will not be proper to comment on it on the basis of media reports”

Mumbai, March 11 : Members of the Bollywood film fraternity say they do not know much about the new cine workers' association to be launched by Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena , with some stressing ... via Newkerala.com

Tuesday, 11 March , 2008, 10:44 Last Updated: Tuesday, 11 March , 2008, 11:36 Farah Khan's second directorial venture Om Shanti Om has swept the fifth Annual Central European Bollywood Awards . via Sify

“There are no immediate plans for a second run only because Shilpa is going to be busy with announced and unannounced films, endorsements and other assignments chalked out till mid-2009”

Shilpa Shetty has denied reports that she has been booted out from the second run of her successful West End musical, Miss Bollywood . via Sify

"10,000 BC," a widely ridiculed prehistoric action movie boasting a menagerie of exotic beasts, trampled the competition at box offices around the world. via I4U Future Technology News

Each director will make an hour-long film about a sports topic close to his or her heart. via Hollywood.com

10,000 BC recalls the likes of Mad Max or Stargate - films that had comparatively little going for them in terms of star power or trailer accessibility, who performed reasonably well at the box office on the wings of word-of-mouth, but that found true audiences after their theatrical runs. The only known quantity here is Roland Emmerich, whose previous flicks Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow betrayed his zeal for big-budget, CGI-laden blockbusters. Here we lack any known thespians whatsoever (although Steven Strait is a hottie), and the prehistoric setting offers little in the way of comfortable expectations for audiences. 10,000 BC is, therefore, a hard sell - but for those who gamble on it, it actually delivers an entertaining couple of hours.

George Clooney and his "Oceans" gang have nothing on the working class bank robbers in The Bank Job. Sure Clooney’s crew may slickly sophisticated and high-tech in their entertaining Las Vegas heists, but the crime depicted in Roger Donaldson’s caper drama had repercussions well beyond the booty these criminals take from a London vault in 1971. Who would have thought that dirty pictures of a British royal could create such a fuss?

Screwball comedy - the Depression-era genre often concerned with madcap heiresses and their crazy ways - gets new life in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, the period comedy starring Frances McDormand as the title character, a prim matron, and Amy Adams as a gold-digging actress (with the improbable name of Delysia Lafosse) who employs her as a social secretary.

“He is a talented and charismatic actor, and I am excited that he will bring Christopher's character to life”

Biggie is coming to the big screen. Fox Searchlight has hired Jamal Woolard, a Brooklyn-based rapper, to play late rap icon Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., in its upcoming biopic "Notorious." Derek ... via Dose

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 10:02 PM IST The Supreme Court Tuesday lifted the ban on screening Bollywood film 'Jodhaa Akbar' in Uttar Pradesh and some towns of Uttarakhand and Haryana following a ... via India eNews

“The huge success of the movie shows what happens when you combine UK and Indian artistic talent. This is a natural synergy which creates something special.”

UK'S FIRST BOLLYWOOD ACTING SCHOOL TO BE SET UP IN LONDON Caption: The first UK Bollywood acting school is to be set up in London later this year, organisers have... The first UK Bollywood acting school is to ... via ContactMusic.com

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party Co-Chairman Asif Zardari has shot down a proposal by Benazir Bhutto's closest aide Naheed Khan and her sister to make a Bollywood film on her life, directed by famous director ... via Gulf Times

After sitting on a shelf for nearly two years, distributor Summit Entertainment, finally unveils this modern-day fairy tale about a girl named Penelope(duh),played by Christina Ricci, who was born with the face of a pig. After living her life in the shadows, she becomes an unlikely celebrity when the public finally sees her face. Does this long lurking-about have something to do with being a dog (or more appropriately, a pig in a frilly frock), or instead a matter of the producers not knowing how to market such a prickly porcine picture? A little of both, it would seem.

Times sure have changed in the 19 years since Harrison Ford last donned the signature fedora of thrill-seeking archaeologist Indiana Jones. The viral spread of the trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is proof of that. The trailer for the May 22 release has drawn highly enthusiastic responses in theaters. But it may have had its biggest impact online, on a younger audience that may not think of Ford, 65, as equal to today’s spry action heroes.

“As part of our company's policy, we are now taking the initiative to support good cinema and independent filmmakers, making their productions available on home video”

Aishwarya Rai has been offered the role of Yashodhara, wife of prince Siddhartha, in an English-Hindi bilingual film called Buddha being made by a Paris-based Indian filmmaker. via Sify

“I felt him to be busy but not stressed.”

As Farah Khan's 'Om Shanti Om' releases on DVD, complete with a 16-page booklet that gives an insight into the cast and crew of the movie that has come to be known as 'OSO', I caught up with one of the stars of ... via Nerve News