Indian cinema has produced something spectacular. And it's not from Bollywood.
Hundreds
of miles from Mumbai, the hub of the nation's Hindi-language movie
industry, a South Indian director has attempted a battle epic that
critics say has successfully blended local folklore with Hollywood's
technological grandeur."Baahubali: The
Beginning," directed by Telugu-language filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli, is
also billed as India's most expensive film ever.Latest estimates show
the budget of the two-part movie neared $40 million, according to movie
website IMDb.
That
figure may seem small in comparison to many Hollywood productions, but
it's unparalleled in India, where costs for its highest-budget movies
rarely touch $25 million.A
day after its nationwide release in Telugu and several other Indian
languages, "Baahubali" -- meaning "Strong Man" in Hindi -- has attracted
rave reviews.
"You
can see S.S. Rajamouli's varied influences in places: James
Cameron-like dreamy vistas of hill, waterfall and greenery, Ang Lee's
flying-through-the-air-acrobatics, Peter Jackson's
stretching-out-for-miles crowded battlefields, J.R.R. Tolkien's
plug-ugly trolls who talk in guttural tongues," she wrote.
Special
effects-laden "Baahubali" is built on a traditional Indian "good vs.
evil" plot -- a lost prince rediscovers his blue-blooded roots and sets
himself out to reclaim his kingdom from the usurper.
"Spanning
generations, going back and forth between the present and the past,
alternating between vastly contrasting landscapes, it's an ambitious
work from a visionary filmmaker who skilfully blends a tale of old
school palace politics with modern VFX (visual effects) to deliver a
consistently watchable blockbuster," wrote Rajeev Masand, the
entertainment editor of CNN-IBN, CNN's India affiliate.
"Baahubali"
was almost three years in making, according to IMDb; it took 200 days
to construct all its sets on a 200-acre lot, the film site says.
The
film was shot in locations including the mountains of Bulgaria, the
forests of Mahabaleshwar in western India and a sprawling film city in
the southern part of the country, according to IMDb.
"Rajamouli has delivered a gigantic masterpiece in technical terms," said another film critic, Bobby Singh.
One of the most successful filmmakers of Telugu cinema, 41-year-old Rajamouli has won national acclaim for many of his movies.
His
most recent hit was "Eega" ("Fly"), originally released in Telugu, the
native language of the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana. It told the fictional story of a man reborn as a fly to take
revenge on his killers.
"Rajamouli is indeed a visual storyteller," said Masand in his review of the director's latest film.
The 160-minute Baahubali ends in a cliffhanger, with a sequel expected next year.
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The
first stills from Deepak Tijori’s ‘Do Lafzon Ki Kahani' starring
Randeep Hooda and Kajal Agarwal are out! The pictures show the couple
romancing in an open bus while touring Kuala Lumpur. - See more at:
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Bobby Brown and wife Alicia Etheredge welcomed a baby girl on Saturday, July 11, a source tells PEOPLE.
Etheredge was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles on Friday and induced on Saturday, according to Entertainment Tonight, who was the first to report the news.
The couple, who were married in 2012, are also parents to 5-year-old Cassius. This marks the sixth child for the “My Prerogative” singer.
Brown and members of Bobbi Kristina’s family have been by her bedside at her Atlanta-area care facility. The 46-year-old singer has been slowly returning to work and making concert appearances. Last Saturday, on the Fourth of July, he performed in Atlanta but got emotional, occasionally hugging loved ones and saying he was “in a different zone right now.” Brown returned to Etheredge’s side in Los Angeles after the concert
New season, new look!
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On Saturday, the only breaking news Josh Elliott and Liz Cho were interested in was their own.The two anchors – Elliott, 44, reports for NBC Sports and Cho, 44, for ABC – said "I do" in front of a small gathering of friends and family during an intimate ceremony in Montecito, California, on Saturday. This is the second marriage for both.
The ceremony took place in front of 70 close friends and family members in the garden of Villa Sevillano private estate with views of the sparkling Pacific Ocean in the background. The bride wore a rose petal-hued Ramona Kaveza silk gown, the groom a blue suit by Zegna and their friend and colleague Sam Champion served as their lighthearted officiant.
"It's going to be a great beautiful weekend in a great beautiful, place that means everything to us, with people that are just the fabric of our lives," Elliott told PEOPLE ahead of the event. And the loving support couldn't have come at a better time: Elliott's mom suddenly died just three weeks ago after going into septic shock.
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Disick and Kardashian, 36, reportedly called off their 10-year relationship after photos of Disick canoodling with his ex-girlfriend Chloe Bartoli in the South of France surfaced late last month.
Since then, other images of the troubled reality star with other women and drugs have also emerged, leading sources to tell Us Weekly that the problems go well beyond the trip to France
Arrow's going to be looking a lot different when it returns this fall for season four...because Oliver Queen's (Stephen Amell) going to be rocking some seriously epic new threads!
That's right, gone is the Dark Archer getup (which, we'll be honest, we're a little sad to see go so soon), as well as the original Arrow outfit we've become so used to seeing the vigilante wear on the CW's superhero drama. The cast and showrunners revealed during the big Warner Brothers/DC Comics TV panel at Comic-Con that Oliver is getting a suit upgrade, and we've got your first look at the hardcore new costume.
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"From the studio that inexplicably sewed his f--king mouth shut the first time…"
And with that amazing intro video, Deadpool descended on Hall H. When the lights came up, Ryan Reynolds himself was onstage and the audience lost its mind.
"Looks like it's time to make the f--king chimichangas," Reynolds said after the applause died down. Deadpool's Hall H panel was one of the most anticipated of Comic-Con weekend, and the fans welcomed the cast with open arms.
But first, Ryan could not stop doing his movie trailer voice from the intro video.
"I do it all the time. It drives my wife nuts," he said when he finally stopped.
We're sure Blake Lively finds other ways to love you, sir
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If you did, it was most likely in response to Outlander's Sam Heughan finally living up to his word at the Outlander Comic-Con panel by dressing up as a Colin O'Donoghue-style pirate, eyeliner and all.
A couple of months ago, Heughan and Once Upon A Time's Colin O'Donoghue were the final two guys in E! Online's Alpha Male Madness tournament, and the two of them made a promise on Twitter: Whoever won would give their fans the pleasure of seeing them dress up as the other, meaning Colin in a kilt and Sam decked out in guyliner.
Sam eventually took home the prize, and had yet to make good on his promise...until today.
Of course, it helped that E!'s own Kristin Dos Santos was moderating the panel, and happened to bring a full pirate costume and a stick of eyeliner to make the stunt even easier. His costar, Caitriona Balfe, was on hand to apply the eyeliner, and the result was nothing short of incredible, as you can see above.
Honestly, we've never been happier, and it didn't hurt that the rest of the panel was positively laden with juicy Outlander scoop, hilarious moments, and whiskey, of course.
From
her wedding venue at London’s Kensington Palace to her gorgeous
Valentino gown, not to mention her billionaire groom James Rothschild, Nicky Hilton’s wedding on Friday was almost perfect — but it didn’t go off without a hitch.
The
fashion designer, 31, experienced a minor style snafu while making her
way to her nuptials when her delicate wedding veil got caught underneath
a car tire. Granted, it was a tire belonging to a Bentley, but a car
tire nonetheless.
Though
we’re sure she was freaking out on the inside, Nicky appeared to remain
calm while waiting for helpful onlookers to free her lacy headpiece.
(She’s a hotel heiress, so she knows how to handle these types of
situations.) Once the problem was remedied, she and her father, Richard,
hopped into the luxury vehicle and continued en route to the wedding
venue where she would exchange vows with an heir to one of Europe’s most
prestigious banking families. That’s how the Hiltons roll.
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After Harrison Ford brought down the house at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens panel on Friday,
he offered some words of advice to the younger members of the cast who
are just embarking on their journey to a galaxy far, far away. “It’s too
late for them,” said Ford (you can watch video of the interview
above). “Life as they knew it is no longer possible.” He recounted
a “serious conversation” he’d had with Daisy Ridley, who plays young
heroine Rey (and Han Solo’s seat mate in the Millennium Falcon according
to the new behind-the-scenes footage.)
“I said, ‘Your life will change,” he remembered. “You’ll be by turns
happy and delighted and employed. And then you’ll wonder what the hell
happened every once in awhile.”
An
obviously reflective Ford went on with some thoughts that seem to sum
up the central challenge of his legendary career: “The natural state of
the actor is to observe life around them. And now you have to figure out
how to do that when all anybody’s looking at is you.”
As if you could ever forget the image of Kardashian’s bare bum on the cover of Paper magazine last November. All the oil, the gloves, the glass brimming with champagne balanced on her backside… it was far from your typical celebrity magazine spread
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Capo, a rapper associated with Chief Keef's Glo Gang was shot dead today in the South Side of Chicago.Law enforcement sources tell TMZ the shooting took place around 2 PM and the victim was hit in the back and hip. The 22-year-old was rushed to a local hospital where he later died. We're told when the suspects were fleeing, they hit a baby stroller with their vehicle and also killed a 13-month-old boy.
A disturbing video is floating around online showing Capo in a pool of blood on the sidewalk just minutes after the shooting. We're told police currently have two suspects in custody.
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Here's a 22-year-old version of the fresh-faced Beatles drummer posing with his boy band back in 1962 (left) and 53 years later ... the iconic Brit -- who celebrated his 75th birthday earlier this week -- at a Hollywood party just this month
Move over, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), there's a new Flash in town. Actually, the original Flash is coming to town! After teasing his introduction in the season one finale, The Flash is officially introducing Jay Garrick when it returns for its second season. And at the WBTV Presents a Night of DC Entertainment event at Comic-Con on Saturday night, it was revealed that Masters of Sex's Teddy Sears will be taking on the iconic DC Comics role.
"Having Jay Garrick come onto the show was one of our earliest ideas. It is so exciting, as we rush into season two, that we finally get to bring the Crimson Comet to life," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said in a statement. "We couldn't imagine anyone more suited to play the original Flash than Teddy.
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Congratulations are in order for Jennie Garth!
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alumna got married to David Abrams Saturday night outside of Los Angeles, Garth's rep confirmed to E! News. "It was the perfect night," the pair shared with People. "We are so happy to have our family and friends surrounding us on this special occasion!"
Just two months ago, E! News sat down with the mother-of-three where we dished about all things related to weddings. When asked if her three children with ex-husband Peter Facinelli would be a part of the special day, Garth's answer was an absolute yes!
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TIGER SHERROF will be seen romancing Shraddha Kapoor in Sabbir Khan's Baaghi,
Tiger Shroff, who was last seen in the music video of the Atif Aslam track 'Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon', is now preparing for two films simultaneously. While he will be seen romancing Shraddha Kapoor in Sabbir Khan's Baaghi, Tiger will be paired opposite Jacqueline Fernandez in Remo D'Souza's The Flying Jat. Remo D'Souza who is riding high on the success of ABCD 2 will be soon flying to Bangkok along with the cast and crew for shooting the film but the 'superhero' of the film, Tiger Shroff, will be flying to the Thailand capital a week before the schedule. The actor will apparently undergo a seven day training program for his action sequences in the film. Says a source, "Tiger has to go through a hardcore training to play a superhero in the film. Tiger will fly to Bangkok for the intense training for what he calls the role of a lifetime. While he is already known for his physique and fitness levels, the young actor hopes to push the bar with this one. A special trainer has been appointed to train Tiger while in Bangkok. His look will completely be under wraps and even the rest of the cast and crew will see it only once they start shooting for the film.
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Actors Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar’s duet in the recently- released movie, Dil Dhadakne Do, got music lovers swinging. The duo was cast as a pair in the film. And it looks like PeeCee and Farhan are not an exception to the rule, but are actually a part of a growing trend in Bollywood — that of on-screen lead pairs doing playback singing as well.
Actors Alia Bhatt and Fawad Khan will reportedly sing for filmmaker Shakun Batra’s next, while The Rock On! sequel is said to have a duet by actors Shraddha Kapoor and Farhan.
So does having popular actors singing duets guarantee a chartbuster? “Well, their popularity does contribute to making the song seem more real as the actors sing in their own voices,” says composer Ehsaan Noorani, who was one of the composers of Dil Dhadakne Do. However he is quick to point out, “Even though we had actors singing the song, they were singers for us and we had to take the exact approach as we would with any singer.” Singer Adnan Sami thinks that a lead pair singing their own songs is of immense value. “There is nothing more authentic and beautiful than the actors singing the songs themselves. In fact, that is how it should be,” he says.
However, film critic Omar Qureshi says that the popularity of the song depends on the music of a song, and stars singing it does not mean a popular track is in the making. “If the track is good, then people will like it. Else, you can get the entire industry to sing the song, but it won’t help. Sometimes, the novelty value of an actor singing for the first time creates a buzz. But beyond that, there is no guarantee that the song will do well,” says Qureshi.
Singer Sona Mahapatra feels that an actor should take to singing their own songs, only if they are truly capable.“Everyone has the right to sing. But it should be done professionally, just following a fad is a big no,” she says.
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