Mahesh Bhatt’s coming release, Gangster based on crime and love has so far been in controversy because many thinks that the movie has been inspired from gangster Abu Salem’ life but Bhatt has denied allegations saying that the movie is a work of pure fiction.

So what actually is Gangster all about? Gangster is the story of an underworld character who falls in love with a bar girl and puts his life at stake to keep her with him. It is a triangular love story starring Shiny Ahuja - playing the title role of gangster, Kangna playing his love lady and Emran Hashmi is someone whom Kangna falls in love with. According to Mahesh Bhatt, Gangster is not a story of the underworld, but of the human heart in conflict with itself… A story of love and betrayal.

The love story of Daya (Shiney Ahuja) and Simran (Kangana Ranaut) was aberrant. They loved each other even though away from one another, they loved each other although they are dissimilar, they loved each other despite forces want to break them apart and they loved each other despite the fact that Daya was a criminal. (more…)

Akbar Khan whose Mughal romance ‘Taj Mahal - An Eternal Love Story’ is soon going to become the first Indian film in 41 years to be released in Pakistan, got full support of film industry bigwigs in a recent industry meet called by Khan just after his famous spat with veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra at the F.I.C.C.I. Frames Convention.

Yash Chopra has delibrately ignored to mention Khan’s film at the event and then chose to make it a platform for the propagation of his banner and his film ‘Veer Zaara’.

Important People like Mahesh Bhatt, Shyam Shroff, Pahlaj Nihalani (President of AMPTPP), Ratan Jain, Vikas Mohan, Sanjay Khan, Shashi Ranjan and Aditya Bhattacharya came to pledge their support towards Akbar Khan. Khan of course chose the occasion to snub Chopra for his narrow-minded outlook. (more…)

Versatile actor Paresh Rawal is fed up doing mostly comic roles and want filmmakers to offer him serious roles. He is also upset with the poor state of comedy in Bollywood and thinks it is heading towards doom.

You have yet another comic release coming up.

I have just returned from shooting for Ahmed Khan's 'Fool and Final', which is another caper. I'm seriously fed up. I won't touch anything dubious. But 'Malamaal Weekly' was enjoyable. The flavour is not farcical. It's not just a comedy, or a family film or a thriller. The pleasure of working with Omji (Om Puri) in an entire film is rare. It gave me a chance to rejuvenate myself as an actor. I am his fan. It's very rare to come across actors who aren't selfish.

But your director, Priyadarshan said there was healthy rivalry between you and Om?

Oh yes, it was great fun improvising between the two of us, and to see who would get the last word in. There are only a few people in the film industry that I admire as actors and human beings. Omji is one of them. He is such a sweetheart. (more…)

Actor Irrfan Khan who was trained from NSD (National School of Drama) had to bear a long frustrating struggle to make his place in Bollywood till his outstanding performances in ‘Haasil’ and ‘Maqbool’ came to light. Now he is scaling bigger challenger by acting in prestigious assignments like Mira Nair’s ‘Namesake’and Naseeruddin Shah’s ‘Yun Hota To Kya Hota’. Recently some foreign film magazines and noted filmmaker Ashutosh Gowarikar refered to him as Hindi cinema’s latest Sex God. He talks about it and his films.

How do you feel been refered to as Hindi cinema's latest Sex God?

I wonder how true that is, I can just smile over it. Such glorification fulfills my basic human need to be known and to be accorded due importance. But then, I am well aware of the fact that these tags and titles are for a while and I cannot depend on them for a lifelong. I take it as a moment of glory in my life. (more…)

Sonu is a youth icon among singing aspirants.

I had not noticed this development until two to three years ago when Shaan told me that many of the songs that the contestants sang on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa were mine. Now, when I’m a judge on Indian Idol I do realise that the contestants tend sing my difficult songs like ‘Tera jadoo chal gaya’, ‘Zindagi maut na ban jaye’ and ‘Satrangi re’. I’ve now begun to realise that good work always reaches people’s hearts. So I just do my work. As a singer I’m far from perfect and maybe I’ll never get there, but there is no harm in trying. I am 32 and hope to do a lot as a human and a singer in the years to come. (more…)

Mahesh Bhatt (Murder, Kalyug) is introducing his 21-year-old son Rahul in the film industry and he has completed the power packed script of the film titled ‘Suicide Bomber’. The movie explores the mind-set and motivations of a would-be suicide bomber.

Bhatt confirmed, “I have finalized the name, it will be called simply ‘Suicide Bomber’. He wants to cast new faces in his film and is still finalizing the rest of the crew. Despite its grave story line the film will be laced with touching song and dance sequences which are very much part of Bhatt’s films.

Based loosely on the events of the London subway bombings the movie will begin filming in London in July and then shift its location to Kashmir. The film centers on a British-born boy who pulls out of a suicide mission and then flees to India, his mother’s homeland, where he begins to question his mission and the killing of innocent people. (more…)

Teesri Aankh deals with the subject of hidden cameras and how it causes chaos in people’s life. It’s good that director Harry Baweja tried to make a film on the growing pornography and sting operations. But the outcome is nothing to boast of and seems a million times downer if compared from Mahesh Bhatt’s brilliantly made Kalyug that also explored similar subject. The story has so many loopholes and inadequately handled scenes. What ever funds film would be able to cash in, will be through Sunny Deol’s reappearance after a long gap.

ACP Arjun Singh (Sunny Deol) is cracking down on a pornographic racket run by Sudama Pandey (Mukesh Rishi) from London. He runs a racket all over up to India through his trusted henchmen Dinesh (Mukesh Tiwari) and Dinesh (Murli Sharma). These baddies plant hidden cameras in girl’s hostel, changing rooms of shopping malls, honeymoon bedrooms of hotels and blackmail these women to such a degree that fall prey to their ultimate trap - porn movies. (more…)