HABIB FAIZAL – A MAVERICK FILMZAADA!
His films are the perfect blend of entertainment in a real world depiction with attention to the minutest details. His dialogues resonate with the topical spoken word of current day India. When Habib Faisal directs, the world watches the drama unfold, with as much enthusiasm as a child unwrapping a gift. He is indeed one of India’s finest filmmaker.We talk to this most unassuming bundle house of...
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UMA DA CUNHA- TAKING INDIAN CINEMA TO THE GLOBE
True independent cinema from India is her passion, but what really differentiates Uma Da Cunha, is the zeal and fire with which she has taken her knowledge and love for Indian cinema, and boldly gone to all the corners of the globe with it. If 2012 is the year Indian cinema is making a big comeback globally and in Cannes, it is largely due to the untiring efforts of Uma, who has spent a lifetime...
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SUSHANT SINGH – “YOU DON’T HAVE THE FIRE TO BE AN ACTOR.”
The words of his guru, Ebrahim Alkazi, resonated loud and clear, in 1994, to a young man standing on career crossroads and looking for advice. At that moment, in that instance that young man gave way to Sushant Singh, one of the finest and versatile actors to grace the screen in India. From his first electrifying performance, as the antagonist in RGV’s JUNGLE, an actor had arrived. Here we talk...
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Ishaqzaade – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Aditya Chopra DIRECTOR – Habib Faisal WRITER – Habib Faisal CAST – Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra MUSIC – Amit Trivedi Last year, Habib Faisal sprung on the Bollywood scene with the refreshing joie-di-vivre of ‘Do Dooni Chaar’ and ‘Band, Bajaa, Baaraat’. It explored the lesser-explored middle-class with an intuitive honesty, charm and a lot of heart. He brings the same...
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The Forest – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ashvin Kumar, Judith James DIRECTOR – Ashvin Kumar WRITER – Ashvin Kumar CAST – Javed Jaffrey, Nandana Sen, Ankur Vikal MUSIC – Matt Robertson As suspense thrillers go, The Forest is as simple as it can get. There’s a man-eating leopard on the prowl and caught in the situation are Pritam, Radha, Abhishek, Arjun and Bhola Ram. But for them, it really isn’t as simple as it seems....
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Dangerous Ishq – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Reliance Entertainment DIRECTOR – Vikram Bhatt WRITER – Amin Hajee CAST – Karishma Kapoor, Jimmy Shergill, Rajneesh Duggal, MUSIC – Himesh Reshammiya The intrigue of past life phenomena has enough power to catch popular attention and Brian Weiss’ widely-read ‘Many Lives Many Masters’ proved it beyond doubt some years ago. Past life phenomena became a household concept in...
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Shahid Kapoor to Host the 13th IIFA Awards in Singapore
May, 7th 2012: Actor, Shahid Kapoor is set to win the hearts of over 800 million viewers across the world as he hosts his first IIFA Awards, in Singapore next month. A ‘Friend of IIFA’, Shahid has previously performed at IIFA in Singapore (2004) and Amsterdam (2005). The Videocon IIFA Weekend will be hosted in the Lion City of Singapore from the 7th to the 9th of June, this year. Known...
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FILM – Hugo
PRODUCER – Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese DIRECTOR – Martin Scorsese WRITER – John Logan (screenplay), Brian Selznick (book) CAST – Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz MUSIC – Howard Shore The magic of movies is perhaps best understood by lovers, those who immerse in their dreams coming alive and the ones who passionately create those dreams. In an epic...
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Safe – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Lawrence Bender, Dana Brunetti, Joseph Zolfo (Co-producer) DIRECTOR – Boaz Yakin WRITER – Boaz Yakin CAST – Jason Statham, Catherine Chan and Chris Sarandon MUSIC – Mark Mothersbaugh Jason Statham’s doing what he does best. In a gut-busting, gun-fight riddled, action-packed flick he bashes up bad guys galore, and this time he is fighting the Triads (East-Asian mafia), the Russian...
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Fatso – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Pritish Nandy, Rangita Nandy DIRECTOR – Rajat Kapoor WRITER – Rajat Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla CAST – Ranvir Shorey, Gul Panag, Purab Kohli, Neil Bhoopalam, Gunjan Bakshi MUSIC – Sagar Desai The flux of the class-divided world we live in, probably has had the most impact on urban relationships. Its attendant problems of peer pressure, importance of physical beauty, shifting friendships,...
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