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Not many are aware that DHOONDTE REH JAOGE was to be produced by Sanjay Khan’s daughter Farah Khan initially, with ad film-maker Prahlad Kakkar making his directorial debut. Also, the movie was called FLOP [yeah, that was the title at that point of time]. “I was merely the writer of the film then,” Umesh Shukla, director of DHOONDTE REH JAOGE, reveals.
However, things didn’t work out for some reason and Umesh, who was so charged with the script, decided to direct it himself. UTV decided to produce the film eventually. Was roping the two super funsters – Paresh Rawal and Johny Lever – tough, since he was a fresher as far as direction was concerned [although he had penned the script of FOOL N FINAL and BACHKE REHNA RE BABA]? “It wasn’t tough! Pareshbhai is my friend, philosopher and guide. I continue to pen and direct his plays to this date. It was easy convincing Johnybhai too. We had grown up watching his plays at Bhaidas Hall and we connected instantly,” Umesh says.Read More Read More

Bollywood star Anil Kapoor is all geared up to attend the gala Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles Feb 22, but his actress daughter Sonam won’t be able to accompany him as the release of her film “Delhi-6″ will keep her busy in India.Read More Read More

Viveck Vaswani is unperturbed that Shah Rukh Khan’s shoulder surgery would result in change of release plans for his much awaited Dulha Mil Gaya. While he is (obviously) concerned about the well being of his star-of-the-show, he is making a brisk progress on the post production of the film which has already seen 95% of the principal shoot being through.Read More Read More

Contrary to reports that Shah Rukh Khan’s shoulder would’ve healed on its own if he didn’t have to do serious stunts right away, the actor’s shoulder needed immediate and urgent repairing.Read More Read More

Mumbai: As the Bollywood biggies are gearing up for the much
anticipated Filmfare Awards ceremony, Shah Rukh seems to have already
scored over Aamir going by the nominations list.
Believe it or not, Shah Rukh’s ‘Rab Ne’ has received as much as 8
nominations, leaving behind 8-pack Aamir’s much-appreciated ‘Ghajini’,
which has bagged a total of 6 nominations. Although ‘Ghajini’ was
announced the biggest grosser of 2008 scoring over Akshay Kumar’s
superhit ‘Singh is Kinng’, it has now been overtaken by SRK’s ‘Rab Ne
Bana Di Jodi’.Read More Read More

Mumbai: Rakeysh Mehra’s ‘Delhi-6’ is all set to hit cinema
screens, but according to the latest revelation, the much awaited film
will be Abhishek Bachchan’s most silent film till date. It has been
stated that Junior B barely has a total of 11 dialogues in the film.Read More Read More

London: It’s raining awards for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. After sweeping a whopping 10 Oscar nominations, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has added yet another series of gongs to its bag full of trophies. The award-winning flick picked up a smashing seven honours at the Brit Awards on Wednesday.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the film has already dominated the prestigious international awards like the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and is being seen as a potential winner for the Oscars. At the award ceremony last night, ‘Slumdog’ bagged awards in seven leading categories, including Best Director for Boyle and also for Best Picture.
A rag to riches story of a boy from the slums, who strikes gold after he wins on the money minting show ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’, has won a multitude of awards in almost every category that one can think of.
Based on a novel ‘Q&A’ by Indian author Vikas Swarup, the film stars Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Anil Kapoor in the roles.Read More Read More