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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 57 Views
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“Ishqiya’ grosses over Rs. 14 crore domestic in just three days. Produced by Shemaroo Entertainment, Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures, India Theatrical and distributed by Boney Kapoor’s BSK Network and Entertainment Private Limited, “Ishqiya’, has grossed over Rs. 14 crore at the domestic box office in the first weekend of its release.
In just three days, the gross box office collections of the film in India have crossed Rs. 15 Crore on 522 screens. Friday morning shows opened with 40-60 percent in key areas like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune , Bangalore and evening settled down to 65-70 percent with average occupancy cultivating first day gross box office of Rs. 3.85 crore, with glowing reviews ranging from 3-4 star ratings and strong word-of-mouth from audience Saturday showed an impressive jump of 25-30 percent and settle down to Rs. 5 Crore, Sunday showed further jump of 30 percent compare to Friday and 8-10 percent compare to Saturday, garnered further Rs. 5.40 crore cultivating to cumulative an astounding opening weekend collection of more than Rs. 14 Crore gross box office. Read the rest of this entry »
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Monday, February 1st, 2010 3 Views
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Indian music maestro A.R Rahman has bagged two awards at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony held at Los Angeles.
The double Oscar winning composer was honoured for his compositions in Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches film “Slumdog Millionaire”, getting the awards for best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture and “Jai ho” being the best motion picture song. Rahman shares the Grammy with lyricist Gulzar who penned “Jai ho”.
“This is insane, god is great again,” Rahman said as he accepted his second award.
“Jai ho” has been sung by Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash and Rahman himself. This is the first time Rahman has been nominated for a Grammy. He joins other Indian music greats like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Zakir Jussain, Vikku Vinayak and Vishvamohan Bhatt who have won a Grammy in the past. Read the rest of this entry »
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Friday, January 29th, 2010 30 Views
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Movie Name: Rann
Directed by: Ram Gopal Varma
Produced by: Madhu Mantena, Sheetal Vinod Talwar
Written by: Rohit G. Banawlikar
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Sudeep, Ritesh Deshmukh, Paresh Rawal
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Editing by: Nipun Gupta
Release on: January 29, 2010
Rann Movie Review: 4/5
Rann Movie Review:
An ethical news channel head, Vijay Harshvardhan Malik (Amitabh Bachchan) is facing TRP issues. Not willing to compromise with his principals while running his channel India 24X7, he is forever beaten by a rival channel Headlines 24 run by his one time protégé Amrish Kakkar (Mohnish Behl). Cub reporter Purab Shastri (Ritesh) idolizes Malik and is the new recruit in India 24X7. Malik’s son Jai (Sudeep) is a complete opposite of his father and wants to run the news channel like a business. Jai is frustrated and neck deep in debt with Headlines 24 consistently robbing their new show ideas. Malik’s son in law business magnet Navin Shankhaliya lures Jai into a dangerous plot hatched by wily politician Mohan Pandey (Rawal). Malik trusting his son, unknowingly becomes a part of this treacherous game. Pandey succeeds in toppling the government and India 24X7 becomes the no.1 channel. But what happens after Purab suspects a conspiracy in all this forms the rest of the film. Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 13 Views
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Music maestro Ilaiyaraaja and the Oscar award winner, The Mozart of Madras A.R Rahman were conferred with Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian awards..
Composers A.R. Rahman, who shone at the Oscars last year with his double golden statuette win, and Ilaiyaraaja have been honoured with the Padma Bhushan, the nation’s third highest civilian award, on the eve of Republic Day.
Rahman, who started his career in 1992 with Mani Ratnam’s Tamil film “Roja”, made his debut in Bollywood with the hit soundtrack in Ram Gopal Varma’s blockbuster movie “Rangeela”.
Some of his hit numbers are “Chaiyyan Chaiyyan”, “Roobaroo”, “Tere bina”, “Jai ho” and “Masakali” and “Kabhi kabhi Aditi”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 64 Views
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Salman Khan’s much ambitious period drama “Veer” has fallen flat at the box office despite having an extended weekend for business, thanks to Republic Day. The movie has not gone beyond an average 45 percent occupancy over the initial weekend.
Released last Friday, the film was a solo release, but has failed to attract masses.
‘Veer’ is an average movie. While the constant on Friday and Saturday was only 44 percent occupancy, it dropped to 39 percent on Sunday and has been on an average only 43 percent over the initial weekend,” Amit Awasthi, manager (programming and operations) of Spice Cinemas at Noida. Read the rest of this entry »
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