After celebrating her birthday yesterday, Kriti Sanon launched Velvet Case today. The newbie in Bollywood celebrated her birthday with her close friends and father as she doesn’t like to party. She will join the Dilwale crew soon again and is excited about the film. The reason Kriti will share screen-space with the iconic pairing of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, and is paired opposite Varun Dhawan in Dilwale. But, she will have a few days before she can actually work with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, as she mentions, “I haven’t shot with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol yet. I will start shooting with them in August and I am really excited about it. I am just waiting to shoot with them, it’s really going to be good.”
The Dilwale actress has been on a roll after debuting in Heropanti last year. Now we all know that Kriti was in demand amongst her friends after they learned that the actress was working with the King Of Romance. In fact, she was flooded with requests from her buddies who were dying to meet Shah Rukh Khan. Now that she will be on the Dilwale sets and finally working alongside SRK, she can possibly impress her besties with some cool selfies and a few personalised autographs from the superstar himself
It is always exciting to see the battle
of two big movies take on each other at the box office. This time around
Christmas, we will get to see the mouth-watering clash between
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali, one of the
India’s finest directors. The movies in question are Rohit Shetty’s
romantic action Dilwale and SLB’s historic Bajirao Mastani. Well, we all know know what happened the last time these two clashed at the box office (Remember SRK’s Om Shanti Om vs SLB’s Saawariya
in 2007). But this time around, one expects the real war to be between
Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone (who plays titular role of Mastani).
Deepika has been one of Shah Rukh’s successful leading ladies but looks
like she might end up being the collateral damage with the upcoming
clash! Also Read: Dilwale: Shah Rukh Khan & Varun Dhawan’s action packed sequence for Rohit Shetty film!
Deepika Padukone got her big break in
Bollywood, India’s charismatic Hindi cinema industry and answer to
West’s Hollywood opposite none other than the King of Romance – Shah
Rukh Khan in 2007 release Om Shanti Om. She played King Khan’s kohl-eyed, delicate and beautiful Dream Girl
in Farah Khan’s magnum opus. The movie, which was a Diwali release not
only became a blockbuster in Deepika’s career but one of the best ever
for the industry. But eight years down the line, Deepika could well be
in line of fire, something her ex-beau Ranbir Kapoor had to face when he dared to challenge Shah Rukh with his debut movie Saawariya!
Well, this time around Deepika and her rumoured boyfriend Ranveer Singh
will be challenging the King Khan. We can only wish them all the luck
in the world. Still, we think why Sanjay Leela Bhansali should avoid Bajirao Mastani clashing with Shah Rukh Khan’s Dilwale.
Kalam, who was delivering a lecture to the student of IIM Shillong, collapsed in the middle of his speech. He was immediately rushed to a nearby Bethany hospital where he was put on oxygen mask. However, the doctors failed to revive him and declared him dead. The director of the hospital inform a leading daily that Kalam had no pulse or BP when he was brought in.
Aamir Khan-starrer “PK” is set to become the highest income-earning Indian movie in China where Bollywood films are gaining in popularity and its songs can be heard even in ringtones.
Following its release across 4,500 screens in China on May 22, “PK” made more than 120 million yuan (around $20 million) — and it remains a hit.“It’s all set to become the highest income-earning Indian movie in the Chinese box office history,” a Chinese trade analyst told IANS.Jimy Wangtso, director-general of the government information office of the Tibet Autonomous Region, said the craze for Indian movies dated back to the days of the classic “Awara”.“Awara” (The Tramp), a 1951 Hindi film, was a runaway hit in China — and in Russia too.
“I still love to see this movie and to tap on its title song,” said Jimy.The Chinese movie market is sized at $4.8 billion, second only to the US, and grew 34 percent in 2014. China produced over 600 films in 2014.
“Like ‘3 Idiots’, ‘PK’ did a roaring business in China,” Indian journalist Atul Aneja, who is based here, told IANS. The Chinese, he said, have special love for Indian movies, soaps and songs.Hindi songs have invaded China too. Transcending languate barriers, they make their presence felt in mobile ringtones and at functions.
When this IANS correspondent visited the Beijing Experimental School in Lhasa, a big screen at the entrance showcased students swaying to the “Chaiyya chaiyyaa” lyrics from Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Hindi film “Dil Se..”.Government officials in Lhasa say that Indian films, dubbed in Mandarin, get released simultaneously in the city with the mainland.
Tibet, which abounds in virgin nature as well as historical and cultural sites, has four cinemas, with tickets ranging from 40 to 60 yuan for a show. Every Tuesday, the cinemas offer 50 percent discount on tickets.
Tourist guide Wangmu, accompanying the visiting Indian journalists in Lhasa, started singing “Hum tere bin ab reh nahi sakte” from “Aashiqui 2″.Even though she didn’t know Hindi, she understands the lyrics of the song.
Another Indian living here said that war movies and family operas were a hit on Chinese television.
He added: “The youth here is as stressed as in India. The parents want their children to see family sagas.”
Indian movie buff Zou Yuheng in Beijing said he had seen several Hindi movies with English and Chinese subtitles on the internet.Youku.com and tudou.com are best video websites, while iQIYI.com is the best for mobile video service providers in China.
On July 3, iQIYI released the full series of its self-produced TV show “The Lost Tomb” to paid subscribers.
In order to watch the full series, a huge number of users downloaded the iQIYI app and purchased the subscription service, with the number of user clicks on “The Lost Tomb” episodes surpassing 160 million within five minutes following the release, says the company.PricewaterhouseCoopers study “India Entertainment and Media Outlook 2014″ says the global cinema business is resilient.
The boom in film production and cinema going in China (now the largest market for film after the US), Russia, India and Brazil will ensure that this spike continues.A Xinhua report quoting Wang Fenglin, vice president of the Chinese Film Producers Association, said home-made films accounted for 51.4 percent of the market. The rest were imported.He said the Chinese film market would overtake the US to become the largest in the world within three years as the numbers of screens and revenues are growing by 30 percent annually.A joint statement between India and China during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China on May 15 emphasized the need to increase services trade in films.Eros International, a company in the Indian film entertainment industry, then announced one of its first projects to co-produce with Chinese Film Corp the film “Tang Xuan Zang”, starring China’s most popular actor Huang Xiaoming.
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A Bangladeshi court today barred mobile phone users from using film songs from India and other nations in the sub-continent as ringtones or welcome tunes, in a ruling likely to affect the country's 121 million subscribers.
The High Court directed "abstention" from the use of songs and tunes from Hindi movies, Indian Bangla movies and movies from any other country in the Indian subcontinent as Value Added Services (VAS) of theThe bench of justices Farah Mahbub and Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo issued the order with a rule after hearing a writ petition.
Petitioner's lawyer Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury said the court issued the rule asking as to why the use of these songs and tunes as VAS offered by mobile operators should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries of culture, information, home and law ministries, BTRC chairman and all mobile operators in the country were asked to reply within four weeks, he said.
Music Industries Owners Association President AKM Arifur Rahman and General Secretary SK Shahed Ali filed the writ petition in June.
Following the order, Mr Chowdhury said: "Import policy bars the import of Indian or sub-continental films to Bangladesh. That is why songs of those (films) can't be used as welcome tune or ringtone."
The total number of mobile phone subscriptions in Bangladesh stood at over 121 million in January this year, according to data available on the website of Bangladesh
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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:
http://www.mid-day.com/articles/first-look-randeep-hooda-kajal-agarwal-in-do-lafzon-ki-kahani/16366193#sthash.zz0yo9ss.dpuf
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