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The Stoneman Murders – a cover up job exposed!

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

The Stoneman Murders – The film asks some straight questions and exposes the rot in the system that allowed for the cover up of a crime of such magnitude that let the killer go scot free Bobby Bedi, the famed producer of the internationally acclaimed Bandit Queen is back with yet another hard hitting film [...]

Is Luck by Chance another Om Shanti Om?

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

Is Luck by Chance another Om Shanti Om in the making? Around two dozen Bollywood actors and actresses would be visible in this Farhan Akhtar film being directed by his sister Zoya Akhtar. The film has among others the likes of Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, the two hottest Bollywood faces.
Om Shanti Om, a [...]

Eros International targets March release for Aa Dekhen Zara

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

Eros International is targetting a March release window for its film Aa Dekhen Zara, which was earlier called Freeze.
The film has been directed by debutant Jehangir Surti, and stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Rahul Dev and Sophie Choudhry.
Speaking to Businessofcinme.com director Surti says, “The film is a romantic thriller with a very contemporary subject. [...]

Zoya Akhtar Directing Farhan, Hrithik Roshan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

We have seen Bollywood New Star Farhan Akhtar weave his magic into cinema. Now, it’s the turn of his older sister Zoya Akhtar.
Her directorial debut Luck By Chance looks very promising, and stars a host of actors leading with Farhan and Konkona Sen Sharma. Zoya Akhtar tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf more about the film on [...]

It is ‘Luck By Chance’ vs ‘Victory’ on Box Office

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

Indians are passionate about two things, Cricket and Bollywood. What will happen when both thing clash on silver screens. Yes, we are talking about Manmohan Shetty’s ‘Victory’ and Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Luck by Chance’.
Both the movies have debutant directors. ‘Victory’ is directed by Ajitpal Mangat and ‘Luck by Chance’ is directed by Zoya Akhtar.
The two films [...]

John Abraham in Anurag Kashyap’s new film

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

It seems that John Abraham is unconcerned about a certain super flop called ‘No Smoking’, for he is filming another film by the same director Anurag Kashyap. But we aren’t complaining, ‘No Smoking’ was a masterpiece, and the only reason it flopped was because only a few folks understood it.
Anurag is a reformed man. Gone [...]

Victory Review

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

The film is about a youngster’s rise and fall to superstardom in cricket and his rise once again.
A father nurses a dream for his son that he gains victory in the world of cricket. His son realises his dream but fame gets into his head and he loses sense of discipline. Thus begins his downfall.
But [...]

Movie Review: Victory

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Jasbir Kaur

‘Victory ‘couldn’t make an impact like a sports film. The film appears unrealistic that has no lovely dialogues like ‘Chak De India’s – hockey mein chakke nahee hote …’etc. The story goes like ‘Fashion’ where a player is dumped from cricket team after he reaches the peak and in the movie he struggles to get [...]

Preview: Will Lady Luck smile on ‘Luck By Chance’?

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

Brother-sister duo – actor Farhan and director Zoya come together to woo the audience this Friday with their film ‘Luck By Chance’, which boasts of a constellations of 20 prominent and interesting faces from Bollywood involved in the narrative. The film looks young, trendy and different – reason enough to pull the crowd to theatres. [...]

Movie Review : Luck By Chance

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

Vikram Jaisingh (Farhan) comes down to Bollywood town Mumbai from Delhi to become a star. At his fellow struggler friend’s house he meets Sona (Konkona) for the first time. Sona too has dreams in her eyes of becoming a lead actress in an A grade film. For the past three years till then she has [...]