Indian pop singer Mika Singh has said he is working on a film based on his life charting his early days of struggle to emerging as one of the most popular playback singers in Bollywood. "The story is being put together," he said, disclosing that it would be directed by Shashanka Ghosh of the 2009 comedy Quick Gun Murugan fame. Mika, who started as a singer 13 years ago after leaving his brother Daler Mehndi's band as a guitarist, said the story would cover his journey to becoming a popular singe...

Recent film awards show how old walls - between art and commercial, action and social, male and female - are crumbling. Whatever caused the changes, our movies are more exciting than ever A sex symbol whose ambition and cleavage can't be contained by any ordinary blouse. A schoolteacher fascinated by the contents of a boy's lunchbox. Filthy young men reaching for orange juice to wash after natural functions. Clean young men grappling with parents and lovers while swimming into sunlit seas and ...

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Gali Gali Chor Haye (Hindi, 2012) Theatrical Trailer Calcutta, Feb 4, 2012 (Washington Bangla Radio) Relatively small films, with pertinent and gripping story-lines, have always found favor among the discerning moviegoers. Last year, films like ‘Shor In The City’ and ‘Stanley Ka Dabba’, while not big money-spinners in themselves, had managed to garner considerable critical acclaim. Of course, it is almost always imperative for such movies to have a talented direct...

Zeenews BureauNew Delhi: Sunny Leone is gearing up for her Bollywood debut and is leaving no stones unturned to make a splash in the Tinsel Town with her sizzling hot avatar in ‘Jism 2’.She is not only taking audio lessons to sharpen her spoken Hindi but is also busy working out to get fitter. Talking about how hard she is working for her role in Mahesh Bhatt’s film, Sunny tweeted, “At the gym working on getting fit for @jism2. Lots of sexy scenes in the movie! Hehe(sic).”Her ...

Do not to divide the movie industry based on regions, urges multilingual actress Shriya Saran and requests people to refer to filmdom as Indian cinema. "I feel films can be used as cultural instincts, so let's call it Indian cinema... Dividing it in north, south, east and west will cause nusance and it will divide the industry. We are one big family and let's be like that," Shriya told IANS. The 29-year-old has worked in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada ...

Like us on Facebook After her success, Amy's university friends back in England found it hard to understand how she had become such a huge Bollywood sensation. She added, "Some of them think I am crazy. For me, this has been a dream come true." Amy was discovered in 2010 by an Indian director who offered her a part in a film set in the 1940s British Raj. But for the starlet, whose face draws crowds in India, the contrast between her life in Chennai and her life back in th...

Reel life, they say, is a reflection of real life. For some reason, the Indian cinema has dealt with reality in its own unique way as it has evolved as a major force in past six decades. Let me take you back in history before talking about the so-called new cinema of new Bollywood. During the two world wars, when our soldiers were dying in Europe and Africa, we were making films about mythology. But things began to change in 1947. The trauma of Partition was so big that it overhadowed the opt...