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Archive for July, 2008

It’s a force that powerfully pervades our lives, rivets our collective imagination and subtly yet surely influences how we dress, talk, the way we love – even think. And, just below the surface of Bollywood’s seemingly monolith structure, made up of so many powerful people, is a definite pecking order. DNA After Hours delved deep [...]

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Veteran filmmaker and owner of Minerva cinema, FC Mehra, passed away on July 29 at Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai. He was 85.
Mehra had a massive heart attack and was admitted to the hospital, where he breathed his last at 11.30 pm IST. His funeral was held in the morning on July 30.
Mehra produced more than 17 [...]

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Amir Khan, clearly, has emerged as the biggest brand in the film industry today. Although his popularity has been consistent over the last two decades, his recent work behind the camera and the quality of films produced under his banner — Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par and Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na — have made him [...]

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The actor is turning restaurateur with a lounge-cum-dining bar in New Delhi. Called Lap (which stands for Lounge and Party), the place opens this November.
Arjun is starting out in Delhi because that’s where he started his modelling career. There are plans of setting up Lap in Mumbai next year.
Old idea
Says Arjun, “It’s not an idea [...]

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It seems ShahRukh Khan started the trend and others are happy following it with glee.
Some time back ShahRukh Khan was seen waist down in a bathtub full of roses as he gave the world of advertisement a new definition by facilitating a role reversal of sorts. Instead of a woman endorsing a beauty soap, something [...]

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He’s inarguably at the top. But from here, so far as Sonu Niigaam goes, the road goes just one way — up
You have turned choosy as promised 18 months ago. So which are your films to come?
I am singing worthier songs, hopefully. I have sung some fabulous songs for Sajid-Wajid in God Tussi Great Ho [...]

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Certain TV shows in the past have carved a niche for themselves and entered the realms of timelessness. Zee Studio started its Old School Hour last year and has found plenty of takers for The Wonder Years, Full House, Who’s The Boss, Doogie Howser, Dawson’s Creek and The X-Files.
Seinfeld, the sitcom that ended in 1998, [...]

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Recently, Aamir Khan was startled by the questions asked to him by some 9th standard students. All that the kids wanted to know on meeting him was about the Shah Rukh-Salman spat that took place during Katrina Kaif’s birthday party.What’s surprising is that the students couldn’t think of asking Aamir anything else!
On Friday, Aamir was [...]

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Viveck Vaswani is a happy man. His Dulha Mil Gaya, which has been in the making for around 1 and half years now, is fast nearing the finishing mark. The film would be more than 90% through this week as a marathon 20 day schedule comes to a close. In fact in the days gone [...]

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We go in slightly a different direction for this week’s best scene feature and actually do not analyze a traditional scene at all but a scene with an intro to a song. It is one of the most iconic scenes of any Bollywood film and rates very highly on the best scene scale. We are [...]

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