February, 2009

A self-proclaimed fan of A.R. Rahman, Trisha said that she has never bothered about the storyline if it had music by the Mozart of Madras. She disclosed that for Ayudha Ezhuthu and Enakku 20 Unakku 18, she blindly gave call sheets when told that Rahman will be composing the music.

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Naanum Kodeeshwaran, the Tamil version of multiple Oscar award-winner Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, will hit the screens on Today with 100 prints across Tamil Nadu, its distributors Falcon Films said in a press statement on Thursday.Actors Silambarasan, Radha Ravi and ace singer-actor S.P. Balasubramanian have lent their voices to the characters played by Dev Patel, Irrfan Khan and Anil Kapoor respectively. Continue

Dev Patel , the lead star of multiple Oscar-winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is planning to appear on the real ’Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?’ show along with director Danny Boyle in a bid raise money for street children. The 18-year-old Patel played a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal in the rags-to-riches story which depicts the extraordinary journey of the protagonist from oblivion to fame and fortune as he goes on to win USD 20 million on the Indian version of ’Who wants to Be A Millionaire?’.

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When it comes to international pop princess Kylie Minogue, even Sanjay Dutt, who is a seemingly loyal husband and an emerging MP, goes weak in the knees. The actor, who had reportedly been giving a tough time to filmmakers for his upcoming flick ‘Blue’, couldn’t control his excitement on hearing Kylie’s association with the flick as he became readily available for the shoot.

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After just a film or two, young film stars are charging the earth for endorsing brands.Slumdog Millionaire ’s Freida Pinto, who is believed to have bagged a role in Woody Allen’s next, may see her brand endorsement fee rise nearly four-fold to nearly Rs 1.5 crore from a mere Rs 40 lakh that she charged earlier. Genelia D’Souza and Imraan Khan, who starred in the hit Jaane Tu Ya Jane Na, and Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone, the cornerstones of Pepsi’s Youngistaan campaign, are already demanding between Rs 1 crore and Rs 4 crore.

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’Jai Ho’ has won an Oscar for A.R. Rahman and Gulzar, hence making India proud. While the entire country is singing the song and Sukhwinder Singh, the man who originally sung the number behind the mike, is basking in its glory as well, there is a man who is missing out on all the action. He goes by the name of Vijay Prakash, who is incidentally one of the four singers that were roped in by A.R. Rahman for the song, the other two being Tanvi Shah and Mahalaxmi Iyer.

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There have been many, many crowds in Andhra Pradesh over the years that will have turned up to gawk at and applaud Chiranjeevi. And the number of such gatherings will only have increased since he finally decided that electoral politics was, after all, a suitable destination for a filmstar of his magnitude. But even given the number and variety of these rallies, the one he addressed on Lal Bahadur Nagar in Hyderabad should be considered exceptional.For one, while there was, as usual, a giant cut-out dominating this Southern political rally Continue

The lean and lanky Kangna Ranaut is no more we mean, she is putting on additional effort to put on weight and it is all showing up at the right places at the right time, the actress who is doing a Telugu film with Prabhas says that the Telugu audience will like her for her new avatar.

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Namitha, the Gujarathi bombshell who has made Chennai her abode, will soon be stretching her vocal chords to lip sync for the Malayalam dialogues. She is recently roped in for a Malayalam movie directed by Pramod Pappan. Surprisingly, the usually cash-strapped Malayalam industry seems to be liberal with her paycheck.

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After the fabulous Oscar night and the Governor’s ball, it is a Kollywood bash for A R Rahman.A grand red carpet welcome is due for the Mozart of Madras when he lands in Chennai airport on February 28th. Industry veterans Ilayaraja, Jesudas, K Balachander and S.P. Balasubramaniam are likely to be present in this mega event arranged to honour the maestro.

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While Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar run has made many Indians proud, the tourist industry here has voiced resentment over the "failure" of the film’s producers to cut "factually incorrect" portrayal of foreigners’ shoes being stolen at Taj Mahal, and touts harassing tourists. The scenes being objected to are the ones that show two child actors Continue

`Slumdog Millionaire` actor Irrfan Khan , who’s riding high on the Oscar success of the film, is up for a part in the movie version of “Life of Pi,” according to reports. Ang Lee is being lined up to adapt the novel into a Hollywood movie. Continue

A.R.Rahman just couldn’t have had it better. While he is on an all time high courtesy the Oscars, he is all set to put the listeners on an all-time high, by having none other than Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue to sing for his forthcoming film Blue. For the uninitiated, this film stars the dashing Akshay Kumar, dynamic Sanjay Dutt, suave Zayed Khan, along with the lovely ladies Katrina Kaif and Lara Dutta!

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Yes, Slumdog Millionaire bridged the gap between East and West, and back home Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is doing the same thing, what with her Pink Panther stint. Well, the film that’s set to release soon is quite the topic of convo these days, and people are dying to know if Ash has a prominent role in it, or is it really a blink-and miss kinda thing.

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